Aboard the Helicarrier, SHIELD acting-Director Maria Hill
finds all communications are down, preventing her from seeing what was
happening to the team of agents in the Brooklyn battle. A tech is able to route
a camera through one of the Iron Patriot drones…
…and they see the SHIELD team (Nick Fury Jr., Phil Coulson,
Iron Patriot, and Inhuman newcomer Sarah Garza) at the mercy of a cadaverous
bald man in a hospital gown surrounded by floating junk accusing them of
bringing the chaos to their neighborhood and assuring them they will pay. They
try to talk sense to him but the man is angry about regular people always being
harmed by the actions of the heroic types. A backup team arrives in a flying
car and the telekinetic hurls the car through a building, killing the agents.
Then the Junkman stops talking and falls from the sky. The SHIELD team seizes
the opportunity to retreat, seeking refuge in a relatively intact house. Fury
contacts Hill who has info on their assailant: Gavrel Achter, city sanitation
worker, also transformed by the Terrigen Bomb. Hill tells them to bring him in
alive but to kill him if they have to. Fury makes plans to draw him out as
Coulson waits upstairs in order to shoot him if the talk goes badly. Sarah and
Rhodey will wait with Coulson….
Fury offers the Junkman help but it is refused, the man
showing contempt for self-appointed heroes. He hurls a cloud of junk at Fury so
Coulson opens fire but the bullets bounce off a mental shield and the Junkman
hurls wreckage at Coulson. A car hits Sarah as the upper floor collapses and
she is suddenly glowing brightly and unharmed. Sarah seizes the Junkman,
telling him she never asked for his protection and suddenly…Nick Fury shoots
the Junkman in the head, killing him. Sarah is shocked and appalled but Fury
tells her they couldn’t take any chances….
Back aboard the Helicarrier, Maria Hill talks to Sarah,
offering her more training and a chance to master her power. But Sarah
declines, she doesn’t want to be a weapon, she knows killing the Junkman was
necessary but she doesn’t want to be the one making the decision. Hill
understands and promises to try to get her back in the tech department but
until then, Sarah will be confined to a cell….