Flashback: The Orb tells Dr. Midas and his daughter Exterminatrix about his dreams of the Watcher’s home on the moon and they agree to help him loot the place to gain Uatu’s secrets….
Which leads to Orb now unleashing the power of the Watcher’s eye on the assembled heroes. Suddenly, they and several civilian bystanders are aware of traumatizing secrets which cause many to go mad or run off to investigate. Nick Fury, the only one unaffected, places The Orb under arrest, though he denies killing the Watcher….
Deep underground, Black Panther, Emma Frost, and Ant-Man have examined the dead monsters and found they had all been shot with the same type of Gamma-irradiated bullets as Uatu. In an alternate dimension, Punisher deduces that the dead alien there was shot from an incredible distance away; Dr. Strange asks for names of sharpshooters who could do that. In space, Gamora, Moon Knight, and Winter Soldier discover a trail of shell casings and follow it in their ship. Their mysterious boss is pleased with how things are turning out….
At Avengers Tower, Wolverine and Hulk are interrogating The Orb but he will only talk to Nick Fury. Captain America and Fury bring us up to date: Reed Richards theorizes that the Watcher’s eyes acted like storage devices and all of his memories were unleashed when one was unveiled. Half the team has dropped out to deal with the secrets. Even Cap has something he won’t talk about. So the question is, why is Nick Fury the only one who didn’t see anything?
The space team (Gamora, Moon Knight, and Winter Soldier) follow the trail of spent shell casings back to a desolate planet where, with a shock, they realize that the planet itself was the murder victim, one of the sentient ecosystems like Ego. As they go to report back to Earth, Gamora and Spector discover that Bucky is gone…then the ship is destroyed by an explosion…. As Nick Fury continues to ponder the Watcher’s secrets, Winter Soldier arrives there and shoots him down, then decapitates him with a machete. Finally Bucky seizes the eye….