In a lonely grieving state he pours himself into Spider-Man's crime fighting and becomes a trusted hero to the City, with a hotline to the Police and a list of defeated wronguns.
When an unknown actor tries to break in to the Dept. of Damage Control by seemingly possessing bystanders, Spider-Man manages to save the day, just. No thanks to Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal) who has his own particular way of dealing with things.
He delivers some final words from Caleb he was asked to pass on and when he goes to leave, mother Laura (Sheila Kelley) insists he stay at least one night.
One night turns into several and he begins to have a positive effect on the family's fortunes. Even Paula's initially sceptical daughter Anna (Maika Monroe) begins to warm to this handsome macho stranger.
No good will come of this.
CW: some action movie violence
Frustrated at recycling stock sounds, the director of "Co-ed Frenzy" sends Jack out to try and record some more environmental sounds.
While recording in a park late in the evening he witnesses an incident where a car suffers the titular 'blow out' and goes over a bridge into an ornamental lake.
Jack dives into the lake and rescues a young woman, Sally (Nancy Allen) from the rapidly sinking car but fails to rescue the driver.
Later in hospital he finds out the driver was a prominent Congressman tipped for a run at the Presidency. The Congressman's aide persuades a reluctant Jack to pretend that Sally was never there in order to prevent a scandal. Reviewing the tape he had running when the car went over the bridge, Jack concludes something more sinister happened and tries to get people to listen.
No good will come of this.
Now a young man working in a very progressive HR department, Adam still yearns for the life he knew as a child and searches for the Sword of Power. He makes no secret of this and recounts his stories to anyone he can: obviously this makes him be seen as something of a weirdo.
One day the sword is found and almost as soon as he touches it this brings Eternia back into his life.
It is the first case of its kind.
Kelly-Anne doesn't need to do this, she lives a high end but austere lifestyle funded by modelling and high stakes games of online poker. She has highly automated her life and is slightly paranoid about surveillance. Kelly-Anne is well versed in OSINT and the information economy of the dark web so is seemingly doing this to avoid identification.
The case is a sensational media circus and Chevalier has "fans" who protest his innocence. Kelly-Anne befriends one of these, Clémentine (Laurie Babin) who is also sleeping near the court.
CW: reference to and audio from torture/snuff videos with upsetting themes of sexualised crimes including murder
When he passes away suddenly and his son Bradley (Dylan O'Brien) takes over this is immediately canned and he gives the role to one of his golf bros in the Sales dept. He needs a "people person".
The company is relying Linda's expertise for a complicated business negotiation so she joins the crowd of executives on the company jet to Thailand. Bradley lured her on board with a 'second chance' at promotion but plans to let her go straight after this.
When the plane ditches and only Linda and an injured Bradley make it to a small tropical island her outdoorsy hobbies and obsession with the TV show Survivor puts her very much in charge.
No good will come of this.
CW: bloody violence, mutilation, bush tucker vileness
In another ward, young Romanian immigrant Alexandria (Catinca Untaru) is recovering in a partial body cast, she too has had a fall, but is able to move around. Alexandria starts to explore the hospital and get up to mischief out of boredom and a degree of naivete.
When she wanders into Roy's ward he starts to regale her with an epic tale of a group of heroes who are intent on revenge against evil Governor Odious, who has wronged them all.
Roy parcels out bits of the tale each day. For each piece he asks her to do him a favour: something he can't manage in his newly paraplegic state.
No good will come of this
CW: suicidal ideation
These rules occasionally include human sacrifice and Grace is chucked into a to-the-death game of hide and seek on her wedding night.
Unexpectedly Grace wins, killing the whole Le Domas family, but now this opens up a seat at the table of the global cabal of Satanists. Mr Le Bail's rules say she must contest for this.
CW: bloody violence throughout