Brooding over losing Jacqueline
Falsworth to Captain America, the Human Torch flies around in the
London night pondering a nagging bit of memory: what did Professor
Gold mean by his cry “everything that happens from this moment
forward is [their] responsibility?” He flies to the Tower of London
and persuades the guards to let him in to talk to Gold. Interviewing
the Professor, Torch learns that Gold, born Goldstein, is Jewish and
that he was forced to aid the Nazis by the threat that they would
kill his brother Jacob, a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto. Torch offers
to rescue Jacob and heads off to contact the other Invaders. After
Torch relates what he learned, Sub-Mariner offers his flagship for
the flight to Poland. Jacqueline Falsworth reveals her new persona:
the superheroine Spitfire, who can move at super-speed, leaving a
flaming trail behind her. She demonstrates that she is fit to join
the team on their mission by zipping around and confusing the guys,
including Bucky and Toro. They accept her and she leaves with the
blessing of her father Lord Falsworth/Union Jack....
Arriving in Warsaw, the Invaders locate
Jacob Goldstein who refuses to leave, believing that patient
submission to the will of God is the only safe course, after all the
story of the Golem that saved the Jews of Prague was only a legend
(this is called foreshadowing). Nazi troops arrive in tanks and the
heroes proceed to smash them to pieces—until they threaten to
slaughter the civilians, then the Invaders surrender and are gassed
into unconsciousness. Jacob Goldstein realizes he has been blind to
the evil around him and he is determined to fight back....