Captain America: The Winter Soldier Page #4

I know who killed Fury.

Most of the intelligence community

doesn't believe he exists.

The ones that do

call him the Winter Soldier.

He's credited with over

two dozen assassinations

in the last 50 years.

So he's a ghost story.

Five years ago, I was escorting

a nuclear engineer out of Iran.

Somebody shot out

my tires near Odessa.

We lost control,

went straight over a cliff.

I pulled us out.

But the Winter Soldier was there.

I was covering my engineer

so he shot him

straight through me.

Soviet slug.

No rifling. Bye-bye, bikinis.

Yeah, I bet you look terrible

in them now.

Going after him is a dead end.

I know, I've tried.

Like you said, he's a ghost story.

Well, let's find out

what the ghost wants.

Nick Fury was murdered

in cold blood.

To any reasonable person,

that would make him a martyr,

not a traitor.

You know what makes him a traitor?

Hiring a mercenary

to hijack his own ship.

Nick Fury used your friendship

to coerce this Council

into delaying Project Insight.

A project he knew would expose

his own illegal operations.

At best, he lied to you.

At worst...

Are you calling for my resignation?

I've got a pen and

paper right here.

That discussion can be tabled

for a later time.

But you do want to

have a discussion?

We've already had

it, Mr. Secretary.

This Council moves to

immediately reactivate Project Insight.

If you want to say something snappy,

now would be a good time.

First rule of going on the run

is don't run, walk.

If I run in these shoes,

they're gonna fall off.

The drive has a Level Six homing

program, so as soon as we boot up

S.H.I.E.L.D. will know

exactly where we are.

How much time will we have?

About nine minutes from

now.

Fury was right about that ship.

Somebody's trying

to hide something.

This drive is protected

by some sort of AI.

It keeps rewriting itself

to counter my commands.

Can you override it?

The person who developed this

is slightly smarter than me.

Slightly.

I'm gonna try running a tracer.

This is a program

that S.H.I.E.L.D. developed

to track hostile malware,

so if we can't read the file,

maybe we can find out

where it came from.

Can I help you guys with anything?

No. My fianc was just helping me

with some honeymoon destinations.

Right. We're getting married.

Congratulations. Where are

you guys thinking about going?

New Jersey.

I have the exact same glasses.

Wow, you two are practically twins.

Yeah, I wish.

Specimen.

If you guys need anything,

I've been Aaron.

Thank you.

- You said nine minutes. Come on.

- Relax.

Got it.

You know it?

I used to. Let's go.

Standard tac team.

Two behind, two across,

and two coming straight at us.

If they make us, I'll engage,

you hit the south escalator to the metro.

Shut up and put your arm around me.

Laugh at something I said.

- What?

- Do it.

Negative at the source.

Give me a floor rundown.

Negative on three.

Negative on two.

Snake the upper levels.

Work down to me.

- Kiss me.

- What?

Public displays of affection

make people very uncomfortable.

Yes, they do.

You still uncomfortable?

It's not exactly the

word I would use.

Where did Captain America

learn how to steal a car?

Nazi Germany.

And we're borrowing.

Take your feet off the dash.

All right, I have a question for you,

which you do not have to answer.

I feel like, if you

don't answer it though,

- you're kind of answering it, you know.

- What?

Was that your first

kiss since 1945?

- That bad, huh?

- I didn't say that.

Well, it kind of sounds like

that's what you're saying.

No, I didn't.

I just wondered

how much practice you've had.

- You don't need practice.

- Everybody needs practice.

It was not my first

kiss since 1945.

I'm 95, I'm not dead.

Nobody special, though?

Believe it or not,

it's kind of hard

to find someone with

shared life experience.

Well, that's all right.

You just make something up.

- What, like you?

- I don't know.

The truth is a matter

of circumstance.

It's not all things to all people,

all the time.

Neither am I.

That's a tough way to live.

It's a good way not to die, though.

You know, it's kind of hard

to trust someone,

when you don't know

who that someone really is.

Yeah.

Who do you want me to be?

How about a friend?

Well, there's a chance you might be

in the wrong business, Rogers.

This is it.

The file came from

these coordinates.

So did I.

This camp is where I was trained.

Change much?

A little.

Pick up the pace, ladies!

Let's go! Let's go!

Double time!

Come on, Rogers, move it!

Come on, fall in!

Rogers!

I said fall in!

This is a dead end.

Zero heat signatures,

zero waves, not even radio.

Whoever wrote the file must

have used a router to throw people off.

What is it?

Army regulations

forbid storing munitions

within 500 yards of the barracks.

This building is in

the wrong place.

This is S.H.I.E.L.D.

Maybe where it started.

And there's Stark's father.

Howard.

Who's the girl?

If you're already working

in a secret office,

why do you need to

hide the elevator?

This can't be the data point.

This technology is ancient.

Y-E-S spells yes.

Shall we play a game?

- It's from a movie that was really...

- I know, I saw it.

Rogers, Steven,

born 1918.

Romanoff, Natalia Alianovna,

born 1984.

It's some kind of recording.

I am not a recording, Fraulein.

I may not be the man I was

when the Captain took

me prisoner in 1945.

But I am.

You know this thing?

You know this thing?

Arnim Zola was a German scientist

who worked for the Red Skull.

He's been dead for years.

First correction, I am Swiss.

Second, look around you.

I have never been more alive.

In 1972, I received a

terminal diagnosis.

Science could not save my body.

My mind, however,

that was worth saving,

on 200,000 feet of databanks.

You are standing in my brain.

- How did you get here?

- Invited.

It was Operation Paperclip

after World War II.

S.H.I.E.L.D. recruited German

scientists with strategic value.

They thought I could

help their cause.

I also helped my own.

HYDRA died With the Red Skull.

Cut off one head,

two more shall take its place.

Prove it.

Accessing archive.

HYDRA was founded on

the belief that humanity

could not be trusted

with its own freedom.

What we did not realize was

that if you try

to take that freedom, they resist.

The war taught us much.

Humanity needed to surrender

its freedom willingly.

After the war,

S.H.I.E.L.D. was founded,

and I was recruited.

The new HYDRA grew.

A beautiful parasite

inside S.H.I.E.L.D.

For 70 years,

HYDRA has been secretly

feeding crisis, reaping war,

and when history did not cooperate,

history was changed.

That's impossible. S.H.I.E.L.D.

would have stopped you.

Accidents will happen.

HYDRA created a world so chaotic

that humanity is finally ready

to sacrifice its freedom

to gain its security.

Once a purification process

is complete,

HYDRA'S new world order will arise.

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