"Death Before Dishonor!"
Dugan is desperate and shattered when he thinks Fury is killed in a fire-bombing attack by A.I.M., only to discover it was a Life Model Decoy that got "killed".
But the A.I.M. prisoners he wanted interrogated were killed, which frustrates Fury-- who, along with Dum Dum and Jasper, realize their movements are under video-surveillance by the enemy!
Meanwhile, Count Royale and his A.I.M. cohorts are amazed at how advanced and convincing S.H.I.E.L.D.'s L.M.D.s are, far more advanced than their own chemical androids, and determine to steal one.
Fury gets angrier by the minute, and chews out a scientist testing a "tri-di-roentgen hand gun" (capable of making any object transparent), and Jasper, who blew a hole in the ceiling of his cabin trying to find a security gap.
Fury realizes he's stepped on a lot of V.I.P.'s toes, but determines he'll play this game his own way. While Fury submits to a "trial", at which Jasper gives the most damning "evidence", a squad of A.I.M. men break into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s underground base to steal an L.M.D.
Just as Royale realizes Fury knew about the surveillance cameras, Fury stuns the crowd by shattering a viewport and leaping thru it to his apparent death! But he parachutes to safety, and is met on the ground by Dugan-- ready to take on A.I.M....