Valerie Cooper calls Lemar Hoskins, the former Battle Star, and pressures him into a
mission to bring in his former partner, the rogue U.S. Agent …
…who
stops by Cooper’s office to ask why they recruited his sister Kate. Cooper
claims that Kate Tolifson approached them, emulating her heroic big brother.
She also takes him to task for befriending the people of Ephraim, West
Virginia. We also learn why Walker was fired as U S Agent: he led a group of
law enforcement officers to confront a band of peaceful anti-nuke protestors on
a beach in Puerto Rico. He received an order to clear them out in time for the
national news; his gestures were misinterpreted and everything turned violent.
During this, Walker has been thinking about Kate’s dying her hair blonde; when
he saw her it was lavender and he concludes that exposure to the chemical waste
from the missing fuel cell could have turned it lavender and heads out….
April Manning, the new U.S. Agent, recalls a day many years ago when he had a
confrontation with a pair of young Black men with their pants hanging down and
lectured them on the real racism being the men’s being “morally broken and
defeated.” They attacked him and he beat them up. Now, he is Kate’s lover and
they are plotting their next move….
Lemar
is on the scene and April and he fight, with the new U.S. Agent scolding Lemar
for so easily settling for the role of John Walker’s sidekick when he was a
better choice for the lead role, beating Lemar to a pulp and breaking his arm.
Then Walker arrives at the Virago planet and finds Kate’s teammates dead and
Kate hits the switch which reals the Virago building was concealing a SHIELD
Helicarrier which rises into the air, hurling John Walker to the ground. U.S.
Agent Manning then bows to his real master… Morrie Watanabe….