—Power ManOffice didn't look right. So I redecorated.
Appearing in "Squeeze"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Captain Hero ("Bobby Wright") (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Sally McRae (Mentioned)
- I.R.S. (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Sol
- Earth
- North America
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Financial District
- Park Avenue
- Midtown
- Russel's Hotel (First appearance)
- Malcolm & Smith Brokerage Offices
- Manhattan
- New York City
- Washington, D.C. (Mentioned)
- New York
- United States of America
- North America
- Earth
Synopsis for "Squeeze"
Gordy, an agent of S.M.I.L.E. is relaying to a group of other agents about the Heroes for Hire and their recent success in combating Control 7 due to their unlikely chemistry. He proposes a plan to have them sign a contract with a corporation that Control 7 has a beef with so that the Heroes for Hire will deal with them and looks to force their hand by making their Heroes for Hire business dealings increasingly difficult.
After Gordy fails to convince Power Man and Iron Fist to take care of Control 7 for him, Power Man returns to the offices of Heroes for Hire to discover numerous instances of government grievances against them. He goes upstairs angrily and busts in to their office to discover Jeryn Hogarth trying to make a lucrative deal with CCI, the corporation Gordy had wanted to use in his ploy, but Cage and Rand are both highly skeptical. Control 7 suddenly smashes into the office and begins a brief assault on the group before fleeing, encouraging Power Man to call Gordy on the precise schedule that he had predicted. Gordy tells his fellow S.M.I.L.E. agents that Power Man and Iron Fist will deal with Control 7 that night.
At the offices of Malcolm & Smith, Control 7 operatives break in after posing as Con Edison repairmen to the security guard. They work the computer banks to get into the company's accounting records but are confronted by Iron Fist and Power Man, having been disguised as the oblivious security guard and feigned being knocked out when Control 7 had broken in. Despite dealing with most of the operatives, two of them flee with the disks containing the valuable information they had broken in to retrieve until the sudden appearance of Gordy who finishes the job.
Later, Power Man and Iron Fist, sitting in their respective domiciles, each receive an identical letter appearing to have come from the other and confessing a desire to sign with CCI, a ploy confirmed to Gordy by his second in command. Gordy goes to a rundown hotel where he has been staying and looks at a picture of a woman and young child including a note from "Elaine" about having had enough and asking him to not try to find them.