SPOILER WARNING: This article contains spoilers for "Captain America: Sam Wilson" #13, which is on sale now.


Yep, wherever Sam Wilson now goes, he now turns the area around him into a densely monitored and surveilled area -- thus allowing him to keep track of the Americops and have evidence of their wrongdoing.

Captain America: Sam Wilson #13 interior art by Daniel Acuna
"Captain America: Sam Wilson" #13 interior art by Daniel Acuna

But that wasn't the only major reveal in the issue. The chapter concludes with a flashback to the previous issue when U.S. Agent was hired to take on Sam Wilson. We now see the rest of that scene, revealing that John Walker initially turned the mission down. He only accepted it when a new player entered the conversation: Steve Rogers.

Captain America: Sam Wilson #13 interior art by Daniel Acuna
"Captain America: Sam Wilson" #13 interior art by Daniel Acuna

It turns out that yes, the original Captain America asked John Walker to take the shield back from Sam Wilson. Of course, this is the current Steve Rogers that's had his mind reconstructed by a Cosmic Cube into thinking that he is -- and has always been -- a HYDRA agent. We just saw in this week's "Captain America: Steve Rogers" book that HYDRA Cap is a master manipulator; this issue proves that Rogers is also manipulating matters in Sam Wilson's book, setting Rogers and Wilson on a collision course.

"Captain America: Sam Wilson" #14 arrives in stores on October 19.