When
the hidden Helicarrier rose into the air over Ephraim, West Virginia, Kate Tolifson
threw her brother U.S. Agent John Walker overboard. As he plummeted to Earth,
his mind went back to the disastrous event in Puerto Rico when he was assigned
to clear some protesters from a beach and accidentally triggered a riot. The
government dispatched their Active Denial System to fire a heat ray at the
protesters and, to protect them, Walker hurled his shield and destroyed the
valuable weapon. For this he was fired by his superior (and lover) Valerie Cooper.
Now Cooper contacts him and they puzzle out that Kate disabled the “missing”
fuel cell to remove its containment field and exposure to the cell turned her
hair purple and drove her mad. Then Walker hits the ground, protected by his
shield which is now ruined….
The
new U.S. Agent, April Manning a/k/a Saint, kneels before his master, Morrie
Watanbe, who has no idea who Manning is. We see a flashback to an incident in
Brazil, where a group of martial arts students fight armed soldiers at a
lighthouse on a beach. Manning was the sole survivor and Morrie was one of the
three masters overseeing the exercise. Manning defends his beating of Lemar
“Battle Star” Hoskins because of his strong ideas about what a Black man should
be. As he walks off, Manning shrinks as his super soldier drug wears off. His
pilot warns him not to take another dose too soon but he does….
Cooper
does not know who the new U.S. Agent is, as she is no longer in charge of the
program but suspects some fat cat political donor bought the rights to create
his own superhero. And that Kate, wanting to emulate her big brother, got some
of the new serum from him. We see in flashbacks that this is what did happen, Manning
persuading a Senator to allow him to uncover what is being hidden in Ephraim;
Kate became his lover so that she could gain power too and take action against
the rural hicks she hates so much….
Walker
discovers the badly beaten Lemar and tells Morrie to fly him to a trauma center
while he goes to stop Kate and the new U.S. Agent. The latter, powered up once
more, lands on the Helicarrier to find Kate. Walker, having hitched a ride on a
crop duster, shoots at Manning but then his plane is destroyed by a giant
saurian monster that was buried beneath the Helicarrier….