Stationed at the San Francisco Bureau, FBI Agent Jimmy Woo was assigned to watch over Scott Lang’s house arrest after Scott made a deal with Homeland Security following his capture in Germany for aiding and abetting Steve Rogers - and subsequently getting broken out of the Raft by Rogers.
Jimmy supervised Scott’s two-year sentence, making sure he never left the house or made contact with the fugitives Hank Pym and Hope van Dyne. Toward the end of the two years, Scott’s foot, and house arrest ankle sensor, accidentally broke through his front gate fence while he was playing an elaborate heist game with his daughter Cassie.
Jimmy and his team of agents swooped in to check the entire house, even though it had been an obvious accident. Jimmy explained to Cassie that he had to follow the rules now matter what because the crime her father committed was serious. Scott complained, but Jimmy seemed more interested in the close-up magic that Scott had taught himself to entertain Cassie.
Jimmy, on a tip that Hank Pym and Hope van Dyne had been spotted at a local university, interviewed Professor Bill Foster about his past relationship with Hank. At the same time, a fellow agent, Stoltz, was on the payroll of criminal Sonny Burch, who himself was looking for Hank Pym’s secret laboratory. Stoltz told Jimmy that Scott was out of his house and when Jimmy went to check, Stoltz took some agents to arrest Hank and Hope after being told where to find them by Sonny.
When Jimmy arrived at Scott’s house, Cassie was already there. She knew her dad wasn’t home, and that there was a giant ant acting as his body double, so she tried to stall Jimmy by telling him that Scott was seriously ill, and vomiting a lot. The news gave Jimmy pause, but he raced up the stairs to check anyhow. The brief stalling tactic was enough to give Scott time to slip back in the house and make it seem like he’d never left.
After a crazy and chaotic chase through the streets of San Francisco between Scott, Hope, Sonny Burch’s gang, and a former S.H.I.E.L.D. operative named Ghost, Jimmy cornered what he thought to be a giant Scott Lang, in the Ant-Man costume, leaning up against a building. It turned out to just be an empty suit, causing Jimmy to race back to Scott’s house to see if he’d broken the rules. Scott was, in fact, home, and drumming away on his drum kit. Scott was set free, his sentence served, while Jimmy entertained the idea of maybe hanging out with Scott as friends.
