Hawkeye returns to his old workplace, the Carson Carnival, answering a cryptic request for help from current owner Marcy Carson. Investigating, Hawkeye rescues Marcy from thugs armed with high-tech weapons, noticing along the way that the Marcy he remembers as the obnoxious tomboy daughter of his former boss “Old Man Carson” has grown into a beautiful woman. Marcy explains how the carnival has been secretly taken over by the super-criminal Taskmaster, who is using her show as a mobile recruiting centre for his criminal henchman-training business. Taskmaster forces Hawkeye’s surrender by taking Marcy hostage, then tries to feed the archer to a lion; but Avengers ally Ant-Man is attending the carnival as Scott Lang, and after spending a wad of cash to keep his daughter Cassie occupied on her favorite carnival ride, he rescues Hawkeye. The heroic duo rout Taskmaster and subdue his army of thugs with Marcy’s aid, but Taskmaster himself escapes while his foes are busy trying to stop a human cannonball dummy loaded with high explosives before it can blow up the big top. Though they fail to halt the dummy’s launch, Hawkeye fi res an arrow into it with Ant-Man as a passenger, and Ant-Man defuses the bomb just before it lands. Hawkeye’s fellow Avengers help arrest Taskmaster’s men, and Scott Lang finds his daughter Cassie, tired out but still eager to ride some more tomorrow.