New York endures a heat wave, skyrocketing crime rates and increasingly erratic behavior from appliances and other inanimate objects as demonic forces animate them. Unemployed since the Avengers broke up, Edwin Jarvis runs an errand for his mother. Jarvis saves Glory Garsen from a malfunctioning subway train, then leads passengers to safety after the train stops dead, using physical force to secure the cooperation of some panicky and aggressive riders. A grateful Glory kisses Jarvis, but the fl ustered Edwin politely departs. After saving a mother and child from some falling bricks with Peter Parker’s aid, Jarvis sees a possessed payphone strangling a customer. Jarvis rescues him by placating the phone with coins, then uses it to call the Captain to investigate this strange crisis. The Captain receives the message, destroying a computer after it attacks him. When possessed cars try to crush Glory (who had taken a romantic interest in Edwin and followed him), Edwin saves her again by “wounding” one of the cars, breaking its taillight. The damaged car transforms into a robot and nearly kills Jarvis, who is saved when the Captain subdues the robot. Jarvis subtly suggests the Captain should reassemble the Avengers to address the demonic crisis, and the Captain, apparently agreeing, departs. Glumly noting Glory’s excitement over meeting the Captain, Jarvis nearly slips away from her again, but Glory insists that Edwin walk her home, and Jarvis gladly agrees.