Captain America: Civil War Page #2

individual like Wanda Maximoff have...

to operate in Nigeri...?

It's my fault.

That's not true.

Turn the TV back on.

They're being very specific.

I should've clocked that bomb vest

long before you had to deal with it.

Rumlow said "Bucky"...

and all of a sudden

I was a 16-year-old kid again,

in Brooklyn.

And people died.

It's on me.

It's on both of us.

This job...

We try to save as many people as we can.

Sometimes that doesn't mean everybody.

But if we can't find a way

to live with that...

then next time...

maybe nobody gets saved.

Vis! We talked about this.

Yes, but the door was open

so I assumed that...

Captain Rogers wished to know

when Mr Stark was arriving.

Thank you. We'll be right down.

I'll use the door.

Oh, and apparently, he's brought a guest.

We know who it is?

The Secretary of State.

Five years ago...

I had a heart attack...

and dropped right in

the middle of my backswing.

Turned out it was the best

round of my life...

because after 13 hours

of surgery and a triple bypass...

I found something 40 years

in the Army had never taught me.

Perspective.

The world owes the Avengers

an unpayable debt.

You have fought for us...

protected us, risked your lives...

but while a great many people

see you as heroes...

there are some...

who would prefer the word "vigilantes."

What word would you use, Mr Secretary?

How about "dangerous"?

What would you call a group

of US-based, enhanced individuals...

who routinely ignore sovereign borders...

and inflict their will

wherever they choose...

and who, frankly, seem unconcerned

about what they leave behind?

New York.

Washington, D.C.

Sokovia.

Lagos.

Okay. That's enough.

For the past four years,

you've operated with unlimited power...

and no supervision.

That's an arrangement the governments

of the world can no longer tolerate.

But I think we have a solution.

The Sokovia Accords.

Approved by 117 countries...

it states that the Avengers

shall no longer be a private organisation.

Instead...

they'll operate under the supervision

of a United Nations panel...

only when and if that panel

deems it necessary.

The Avengers were formed to

make the world a safer place.

I feel we've done that.

Tell me, Captain, do you know

where Thor and Banner are right now?

If I misplaced a couple of

30 megaton nukes...

you can bet there'd be consequences.

Compromise. Reassurance.

That's how the world works.

Believe me, this is the middle ground.

So, there are contingencies.

Three days from now,

the UN meets in Vienna...

to ratify the Accords.

Talk it over.

And if we come

to a decision you don't like?

Then you retire.

Hello?

Is this your car out front?

I jumped the kerb.

Maybe we could...

take care of it ourselves.

If you wanna call the cops,

that's okay, too...

- I guess.

- No.

No cops.

Thank you.

You have kept your looks, Colonel.

Congratulations.

"Mission report. December 16, 1991."

Who are you?

My name is Zemo.

I will repeat my question.

Mission report, December 16, 1991.

How did you find me?

When S.H.I.E.L.D. fell...

Black Widow released

HYDRA files to the public.

Millions of pages. Much of it encrypted.

Not easy to decipher.

But, I have experience.

And patience.

A man can do anything if he has those.

What do you want?

Mission report.

December 16.

Go... to... hell!

HYDRA deserves its place on the ash heap.

So your death would not bother me.

But I'd have to use this book...

and other bloodier methods

to find what I need.

I don't look forward to that.

You'd only be dying for...

your pride.

Hail HYDRA.

Secretary Ross has

a Congressional Medal of Honour...

which is one more than you have.

So let's say we agree to this thing.

How long is it gonna be before they

LoJack us like a bunch of common criminals?

117 countries want to sign this.

117, Sam, and you're just like,

"No, that's cool. We got it."

How long are you going to play both sides?

I have an equation.

Oh, this will clear it up.

In the eight years since Mr Stark

announced himself as Iron Man...

the number of known enhanced persons

has grown exponentially.

During the same period...

the number of potentially

world-ending events

has risen at a commensurate rate.

Are you saying it's our fault?

I'm saying there may be a causality.

Our very strength invites challenge.

Challenge incites conflict.

And conflict...

breeds catastrophe.

Oversight...

Oversight is not an idea that

can be dismissed out of hand.

Boom.

Tony.

You are being uncharacteristically

non-hyperverbal.

It's because he's already

made up his mind.

Boy, you know me so well.

Actually, I'm nursing

an electromagnetic headache.

That's what's going on, Cap.

It's just pain.

It's discomfort.

Who's putting coffee grounds

in the disposal?

Am I running a bed and breakfast

for a biker gang?

Oh, that's Charles Spencer, by the way.

He's a great kid.

Computer engineering degree, 3.6 GPA...

had a floor-level gig

at Intel planned for the fall.

But first, he wanted to put

a few miles on his soul...

before he parked it

behind a desk. See the world.

Maybe be of service.

Charlie didn't want to go to Vegas or

Fort Lauderdale, which is what I would do.

He didn't go to Paris or Amsterdam,

which sounds fun.

He decided to spend his summer building

sustainable housing for the poor.

Guess where. Sokovia.

He wanted to make a difference, I suppose.

We won't know because we dropped

a building on him while we were kicking ass.

There's no decision-making process here.

We need to be put in check!

Whatever form that takes, I'm game.

If we can't accept limitations,

if we're boundary-less...

we're no better than the bad guys.

Tony, someone dies on your watch,

you don't give up.

Who said we're giving up?

We are if we're not

taking responsibility for our actions.

This document just shifts the blame.

I'm sorry, Steve.

That is dangerously arrogant.

This is the United Nations

we're talking about.

It's not the World Security Council,

it's not S.H.I.E.L.D., it's not HYDRA.

No, but it's run by people

with agendas, and agendas change.

That's good. That's why I'm here.

When I realised what my weapons

were capable of in the wrong hands...

I shut it down and stopped manufacturing.

Tony, you chose to do that.

If we sign this, we surrender

our right to choose.

What if this panel sends us somewhere

we don't think we should go?

What if there is somewhere we need

to go and they don't let us?

We may not be perfect,

but the safest hands are still our own.

If we don't do this now,

it's gonna be done to us later.

That's the fact. That won't be pretty.

You're saying they'll come for me.

We would protect you.

Maybe Tony's right.

If we have one hand on the wheel,

we can still steer. If we take it off...

Aren't you the same woman who told the

government to kiss her ass a few years ago?

I'm just reading the terrain.

We have made some very public mistakes.

We need to win their trust back.

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