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That is the equivalent of John Walker promising to torture her this issue, and then next issue randomly deciding not to torture her after all. Of course, that would be anti-climactic.

But there are many ways to resolve this without torture actually happening. Maybe Cap and Walker get into a fight over it, and this turns out to be part of Sin's real plot to cause discord. Maybe Walker is playing a psychological game to trick her. Maybe he's going to torture her, but then Steve makes a big speech about blah blah blah that's not the American way, whatever, and it's super inspiring and helps them save the day.

There are countless ways for heroes to escape a deathtrap. They can break out. The deathtrap could turn out to be a ruse as part of some larger plan. They could appeal to the villain's better nature and talk their way out. Some of these ideas are more compelling than others. But what you're saying is, they introduced the possibility of torture, so they should have torture or it's a waste of time. This is the equivalent of saying, they introduced the possibility of death, so they should have the hero die or it's a waste of time. It makes no sense.