The disabled dirigible carrying Pat and the rest of the aides is brought to a crash landing in the plaza of the United Nations Building. They look up to see the villains’ craft with the kidnapped Monk reach the Lord of Lightning’s floating platform. There, Secretary of State Shaw (revealed last issue to be the chief villain) explains to Monk that he has been kidnapped as "payment" for the information provided about Doc Savage and he is being taken to the Crime College, which Monk has never heard of, because they need an expert in brain chemistry. Shaw uses an electrified sword to torture Monk while explaining his scheme: he is a member of a secret society of American power brokers who rose to prominence during the War and are now resentful that the public is trusting in adventure heroes like Doc Savage and Batman to protect them. The society has therefore contrived to frame Doc for the recent destruction in New York in order to discredit him….
In the Aegean Sea, the man who slew a Greek millionaire and his guest aboard a yacht has been captured and is brought before his victim’s brother, billionaire Nikos Eurystheus. Eurystheus brushes off the man’s threats and discovers a lobotomy scar on his head. He then snaps the killer’s neck and orders an autopsy to uncover his secrets….
Back on the platform, Shaw orders his crew to prepare the lighting weapon to destroy the UN. Meanwhile, upstairs on the platform, the thug who shot Doc Savage reveals that he deliberately grazed the hero’s skull, since he wanted to continue their battle (interrupted in issue 2). Doc defeats him in a couple of punches and the thug, knocked overboard, chooses to fall to his death rather than be rescued by Doc. The Man of Bronze frees Monk and they set out to sabotage the ship’s generators but they are intercepted by guards, who open fire on them, preventing the heroes from reaching the controls. Shaw gives the order to fire the weapon but to everyone’s surprise the generator shorts out, causing a fire aboard the platform. The explanation: Long Tom has arrived and shut down the capacitor, though he fears his wife will leave him when she learns he left her side to help his friends. Shaw appears and attacks Doc with one of his electrified harpoons, while his guards take on Monk and Long Tom. Renny, piloting the other dirigible, rams the platform, causing the harpoon to recoil and impale Shaw with a devastating charge. Doc tells his assembled team that while the events of this night may be over, they will have to go underground to root out the conspirators against them, and give people a reason to believe in them again.