Då var det endast 1.5 km kvar på denna utmaning och de sista utmärkelserna kom på morgonen.

Steve receives reports of a scientist who is doing research into the Super-Soldier Serum that changed his life long ago. Jacob Erskine, grandson of Professor Erskine, seems to have reignited his grandfather’s research and is now looking to sell it to foreign agents. 

With this information in hand, Super-Soldier infiltrates a gala organized by Jacob and discovers more than one suspicious thing. First of all, his guards seem to have been given the serum, but they are unstable. Second, and perhaps more curious, Jacob’s wife is the spitting image of Cynthia Glass, Steve’s lover from WWII, who sacrificed her life for him. Things don’t become clearer even when Steve and Erskine come face to face. The scientist tells Super-Soldier that he has been doing research into the serum, but he is looking at curing cancer. When faced with allegations of selling it to nefarious agents, Erskine hints at a corporate takeover orchestrated by his head of security. Before they can finish their conversation, Erskine collapses. He has been shot by a sniper! His last words ring in Steve’s ears: “Protect my wife.”

With this information, Steve follows Anita Erskine to her beach house, where he finds the unsettling truth: This is all Machinesmith’s plan! Anita is nothing but an android created to attract Steve. Before he can react, Machinesmith activates a device that neutralizes Steve Rogers’s Super-Soldier Serum, rendering him just as frail as he was all those years ago before joining the army!

The Super Hero might not have the serum or Captain America costume, but he still has all the training and skills he honed over the years, and he uses them to escape. Next, he gains the trust of Anita, who knows how to reactivate the serum and where to find Machinesmith. 

After he regains his superhuman strength, Steve crashes the auction where Machinesmith is trying to sell the Super-Soldier Serum to terrorists from around the world. The Super Villain is particularly hard to defeat because his consciousness can jump from device to device in an instant. After all devices have been destroyed or disconnected, Machinesmith makes a final jump: into Anita! Just as Cynthia sacrificed herself many years ago, so does Anita, changing her programming to trap and destroy Machinesmith. 

Machinesmith’s plans seem to have been spoiled, but after inspecting the Super-Soldier Serum, Steve Rogers realizes it is a useless counterfeit, making him think there is more to this plan than he was led to believe. . . .