back at SHIELD, Steve is brought to Pierce who is talking to Agent 13.

Alexander Pierce: For whatever it's worth, you did your best

"Clearly she didn't" 

Sharon Carter: Thank you, sir. [as she turns to leave she sees Steve] Captain Rogers. 

Steve Rogers: Neighbor.

Alexander Pierce: Ah, Captain. I'm Alexander Pierce.

Steve Rogers: Sir, it's an honor. [they shake hands]

"Is it though?" 

"No it isn't"

Alexander Pierce: The honor is mine, Captain. My father served in the 101st. Come on in. [they enter Pierce's office where he shows Steve an old photo of Fury with Pierce] That photo was taken five years after Nick and I met. When I was at State Department in Bogota. ELN rebels took the embassy, and security got me out, but the rebels took hostages. Nick was deputy chief for the SHIELD station there. And he comes to me with a plan. He wants to storm the building through the sewers. I said, "No, we'll negotiate." Turned out the ELN didn't negotiate, so they put out a kill order. They stormed the basement, and what did they find? They find it empty. Nick had ignored my direct order and carried out an unauthorized military operation on foreign soil. He saved the lives of a dozen political officers, including my daughter.

"I didn't pay attention to anything he just said. Do you think it's important???" 

"Oh Ronald"

Steve Rogers: So you gave him a promotion.

Alexander Pierce: I've never had any cause to regret it. Captain, why was Nick in your apartment last night?

Steve Rogers: I don't know.

Alexander Pierce: You know it was bugged?

Steve Rogers: I did, because Nick told me.

Alexander Pierce: Did he tell you he was the one who bugged it? I want you to see something. [he brings up footage of Batroc being interrogated]

SHIELD Agent: Who hired you, Batroc?

Steve Rogers: Is that live?

Alexander Pierce: Yeah, they picked him up last night in a not-so-safe house in Algiers.

Steve Rogers: Are you saying he's a suspect? Assassination isn't Batroc's line.

"Your still questioning stuff??" 

Alexander Pierce: No, it's more complicated than that. Batroc was hired anonymously to attack the Lemurian Star and he was contacted by e-mail and paid by wire transfer. And then the money was run through seventeen fictitious accounts, the last one going to a holding company that was registered to a Jacob Veech.

Steve Rogers: Am I supposed to know who that is? [he hands Steve the file]

Alexander Pierce: Not likely. Veech died six years ago. His last address was 14-35 Elmhurst Drive. When I first met Nick his mother lived at 14-37.

Steve Rogers: Are you saying Fury hired the pirates? Why?

"Please tell me you didn't believe him" 

Alexander Pierce: The prevailing theory was that the hijacking was a cover for the acquisition and sale of classified intelligence. The sale went sour and that led to Nick's death.

Steve Rogers: If you really knew Nick Fury you'd know that's not true.

Alexander Pierce: Why do you think we're talking? See, I took a seat on the Council not because I wanted to but because Nick asked me to, because we were both realists. We knew that despite all the diplomacy and the handshaking and the rhetoric, that to build a really better world sometimes means having to tear the old one down. And that makes enemies. Those people that call you dirty because you got the guts to stick your hands in the mud and try to build something better. And the idea that those people could be happy today, makes me really, really angry. [he hesitates a moment] Captain, you were the last one to see Nick alive. I don't think that's an accident, and I don't think you do either. So I'm gonna ask again, why was he there?

"Dude he doesn't know" 

"He's just repeating himself at this point" 

Steve Rogers: He told me not to trust anyone.

Alexander Pierce: I wonder if that included him. [Steve pauses a moment before replying]

Steve Rogers: I'm sorry. Those were his last words. Excuse me. [Steve picks up his shield, places it on his back and starts to make his out of the office]

Alexander Pierce: Captain. [Steve stops and looks at Pierce] Somebody murdered my friend and I'm gonna find out why. Anyone gets in my way, they're gonna regret it. Anyone.

Steve Rogers: Understood. [Steve turns and leaves]

Steve Rogers: [after he leaves Pierce's office he steps into the elevator] Operations control.

SHIELD Computer: Confirmed. [just as the elevator doors are about to close Rumlow steps in with two STRIKE agents]

"Oh I remember this" Steve says. 

"Oh my god is this when you jumped out off the elevator" Nat asked. 

"You did WHAT" Bucky asked. 

"I can explain" 

"No he can't" 

"No I can't"

Brock Rumlow: Keep all STRIKE personnel on site.

STRIKE Agent #1: Understood.

STRIKE Agent #2: Yes, sir.

Brock Rumlow: Forensics.

SHIELD Computer: Confirmed.

Brock Rumlow: Cap.

Steve Rogers: Rumlow. [the elevator doors close and they start riding down]

Brock Rumlow: Evidence Response found some fibres on the roof they want us to see. You want me to get the tac-team ready?

Steve Rogers: No, lets wait and see what it is first.

Brock Rumlow: Right. [Steve notices one of the agents touching his weapon suspiciously] [the elevator stops and more SHIELD and STRIKE agents enter]

"This isn't gonna end well" 

SHIELD Agent #1: What's the status so far?

SHIELD Agent #2: Administrations level.

SHIELD Computer: Confirmed.

SHIELD Agent #2: [to Steve] Excuse me.

Brock Rumlow: [to Steve] I'm sorry about what happened with Fury. Messed up, what happened to him.

Steve Rogers: Thank you. [feeling something is off, Steve looks at the agents in the elevator and notices one of them is sweating, then the elevator stops and more agents enter]

"Oh great, there's more of them" 

STRIKE Agent #3: Records.

SHIELD Computer: Confirmed. [as the elevator doors close Steve realizes he's been surrounded by agents]

Steve Rogers: Before we get started, does anyone want to get out? [there's a moment's pause before suddenly one of the agents turns and uses an electric rod to give Steve a shock, the others grab him and try to strap his wrists with magnetic cuffs, Steve manages to knock some of them down but one cuff remains, then Rumlow uses his rod to give Steve a shock] [as Steve is being attacked we see Sitwell in a controls room watching them from a monitor]

"Oh my fucking god!" 

"Don't say it!" 

"Language!!!" 

"Come on guys!" 

Jasper Sitwell: Mobilize STRIKE units, 25th floor. [Steve manages free himself from the magnetic cuff and knock all the agents down, he turns to Rumlow]

Brock Rumlow: Whoa, big guy. I just want you to know, Cap, this ain't personal. [Rumlow then goes to attack Steve with his electric rod but Steve manages to defend himself and eventually knocks Rumlow out]

Steve Rogers: It kind of feels personal. [Steve picks up his shield then opens the elevator doors, but he's faced by a team of STRIKE agents pointing their weapons at him]

"How do you manage to get yourself in dangerous situations every five seconds" Bucky says. 

25th Floor STRIKE Agent: Drop the shield! Put your hands in the air! [Steve uses his shield to break off the elevator wires which sends the elevator down, as he forces the doors open he sees more STRIKE agents approaching him, he closes the door and looks for a way out]

STRIKE Agent: Give it up, Rogers! Get that door open! You have nowhere to go! [Steve breaks through the glass in the elevator and plummets down to finally hit the ground floor, from his monitor Sitwell watches in shock as Steve gets up and starts running off]

"HOW ARE YOU PERFECTLY OK????" 

"I think I just had a minor heart attack" 

"You don't have a heart Theo" 

"Shut up Pansy!" 

Jasper Sitwell: Are you kidding me? [ordering the STRIKE team] He's headed for the garage. Lock down the bridge! [Steve rides out of the SHIELD garage on his motorcycle, evading the obstacles laid out but then a Quinjet emerges ahead of him]

Quinjet Pilot: Stand down, Captain Rogers. Stand down. [the Quinjet lowers its machine gun] Repeat, stand down. [as Steve doesn't stop they start shooting at him, Steve throws his shield into the propellers to jam it, giving him an opportunity to hop onto it and do more damage to the jet with his shield before jumping off as the jet goes crashing down and he escapes]

Jasper Sitwell: [to the SHIELD agents] Eyes here. [everyone, including Agent 13, looks at Sitwell] Whatever your op is, bury it. This is Level One. Contact DOT. All traffic lights in the district go red. Shut all runways at BWI, IAD and Reagan. All security cameras in the city go through this monitor, right here. Scan all open sources. Phones, computers, PDAs, whatever. If someone tweets about this guy, I want to know about it.

Sharon Carter: With all due respect, If SHIELD is conducting a manhunt for Captain America, we deserve to know why.

Alexander Pierce: Because he lied to us. [Pierce enters the room] Captain Rogers has information regarding the death of Director Fury, he refused to share it. As difficult as this is to accept, Captain America is a fugitive from SHIELD.

"Bullshit"

"Language" 

"I give up" 

disguised as a civilian dressed in a hoody, Steve goes back to the hospital to retrieve the flash drive from the vending machine but sees it's gone, then Natasha appears behind him chewing some gum, in anger Steve pushes her into a room

"Geez cap keep it in your pants, your a fugitive" Clint says. 

Steve Rogers: Where is it?

Natasha Romanoff: Safe.

Steve Rogers: Do better!

Natasha Romanoff: Where did you get it?

Steve Rogers: Why would I tell you?

Natasha Romanoff: Fury gave it to you. Why?

Steve Rogers: What's on it?

Natasha Romanoff: I don't know.

Steve Rogers: Stop lying!

Natasha Romanoff: I only act like I know everything, Rogers.

Steve Rogers: I bet you knew Fury hired the pirates, didn't you?

Natasha Romanoff: Well, it makes sense. The ship was dirty, Fury needed a way in, so do you.

Steve Rogers: I'm not gonna ask you again.

Natasha Romanoff: I know who killed Fury. Most of the intelligence community doesn't believe he exists, the ones who do call him the Winter Soldier. He's credited with over two dozen assassinations in the last fifty years.

Bucky shifted in his seat. 

Steve Rogers: So he's a ghost story.

"Clearly not anymore" 

Natasha Romanoff: 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. [she pulls up her shirt to show him the scar on the side of her stomach] Soviet slug, no rifling. Bye-bye bikinis.

"I'm-" Bucky started to say, 

"God, please don't appologize or I'll shoot you" Nat interuppted him. 

Steve Rogers: Yeah, I bet you look terrible in them now. [there's a hit of a smile from Natasha]

Natasha Romanoff: Going after him is a dead end. I know, I've tried. [Natasha holds up the flash drive] Like you said, he's a ghost story. [Steve takes the flash drive from her]

Steve Rogers: Well, let's find out what the ghost wants.

Pierce is holding another virtual meeting with the World Security Council]

Alexander Pierce: Nick Fury was murdered in cold blood. To any reasonable person, that would make him a martyr, not a traitor.

Councilman Rockwell: You know what makes him a traitor? Hiring a mercenary to hijack his own ship.

Councilman Singh: 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...

Alexander Pierce: Are you calling for my resignation? I've got a pen and paper right here.

Councilwoman Hawley: That discussion can be tabled for a later time.

"So they want a discussion" 

Alexander Pierce: But you do want to have a discussion.

Councilman Rockwell: 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.

[Steve and Natasha go to the mall disguised as a civilian couple]

"Steve you gotta stop using the same disguise, it's horrible" 

Natasha Romanoff: First rule of going on the run is, don't run, walk.

Steve Rogers: If I run in these shoes, they're gonna fall off. [they go to a Mac store to use one of their computers]

"Old man!" 

Natasha Romanoff: The drive has a Level Six homing program, so as soon as we boot up SHIELD will know exactly where we are.

Steve Rogers: How much time do we have?

Natasha Romanoff: Uh...about nine minutes from... [she pops the flash drive into a MacBook Pro] Now. [we see several SHIELD vehicles heading their way] 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.

Steve Rogers: Can you override it?

Natasha Romanoff: The person who developed this is slightly smarter than me. Slightly. [Rumlow and his team pull up outside the mall and head inside] [back at the Mac store, Steve and Natasha continue to try and find out what's on the flash drive] I'm gonna try running a tracer. This is a program that SHIELD developed to track hostile malware, so if we can't read the file, maybe we can find out where it came from.

Apple Employee: Can I help you guys with anything?

Natasha Romanoff: Oh, no. My fiancé was just helping me with some honeymoon destinations

"Bet you liked that, didn't you" Clint and Tony teased, which got them a smack at the back of their heads from Natasha.

Steve Rogers: Right! We're getting married.

"You are so awkward" 

Apple Employee: Congratulations. Where do you guys thinking about going? [Steve looks at the monitor and sees the signal traced to somewhere in New Jersey]

Steve Rogers: New Jersey.

Apple Employee: Oh. [the employee looks at Steve for a moment] I have the exact same glasses.

Natasha Romanoff: Wow, you two are practically twins.

The great hall laughs at that. 

Apple Employee: Yeah, I wish. Specimen. Uh...if you guys need anything, I've been Aaron.

Steve Rogers: Thank you. [as Rumlow and his team are in the mall looking for Steve and Natasha] You said nine minutes, come on.

Natasha Romanoff: Shh, relax. Got it. [they find the signal is coming from Wheaton, NJ] You know it?

Steve Rogers: I used to. Let's go. [Steve pulls the flash drive from the computer and they walk out of the store] Standard tac-team. Two behind, to across, two coming straight at us. If they make us, I'll engage, you hit the south escalator to the metro. [as two agents are coming straight towards them]

Natasha Romanoff: Shut up and put your arm around me, laugh at something I said.

Steve Rogers: What?

"Rule number 1. You never ask questions when your undercover" 

Natasha Romanoff: Do it! [Steve quickly puts his arm around Natasha and laughs] [inside the Mac store one of the agents looks around]

Jack Rollins: Negative at the source.

Brock Rumlow: Give me a floor rundown.

SHIELD Agent #2: Negative on three.

SHIELD Agent #3: Negative on two.

Brock Rumlow: Snake the upper levels, work down to me. [as they are going down the escalator Natasha spots Rumlow on the escalator next to them going up, she turns to Steve]

Natasha Romanoff: Kiss me.

"Both of you, keep it in your pants! This is a serious mission" 

Steve Rogers: What?

Natasha Romanoff: Public displays of affection make people very uncomfortable.

Steve Rogers: Yes, they do. [she quickly pulls down Steve's head and kisses him making Rumlow look away as he goes past them on the escalator]

Natasha Romanoff: You still uncomfortable?

Steve Rogers: It's not exactly the word I would use.

as they drive to New Jersey]

Natasha Romanoff: Where did Captain America learn how to steal a car?

Lily shakes her head in dissapointment.

Steve Rogers: Nazi Germany.

Natasha Romanoff: Mm.

Steve Rogers: And we're borrowing. Take your feet off the dash. [Natasha takes her feet off the dash]

Natasha Romanoff: Alright, I have a question for you, oh, 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?

Steve Rogers: What?

Natasha Romanoff: Was that your first kiss since 1945?

Steve Rogers: That bad, huh?

Natasha Romanoff: I didn't say that.

"Nat liked it" 

"Shut up Katniss" 

Steve Rogers: Well, it kind of sounds like that's what you're saying.

Natasha Romanoff: No, I didn't. I just wondered how much practice you've had.

Steve Rogers: You don't need practice.

Natasha Romanoff: Everybody needs practice.

Steve Rogers: It was not my first kiss since 1945. I'm ninety-five, I'm not dead.

Natasha Romanoff: Nobody special, though? [Steve chuckles]

Steve Rogers: Believe it or not, it's kind of hard to find someone with shared life experience.

Steve and Nat smile at each other. 

Natasha Romanoff: Well, that's alright, you just make something up.

Steve Rogers: What, like you?

Natasha Romanoff: I don't know. The truth is a matter of circumstances, it's not all things to all people all the time. And neither am I.

Steve Rogers: That's a tough way to live.

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

Steve Rogers: You know, it's kind of hard to trust someone when you don't know who that someone really is.

Natasha Romanoff: Yeah. Who do you want me to be?

Steve Rogers: How about a friend? [Natasha laughs softly]

"A friend, my ass" 

Natasha Romanoff: Well, there's a chance you might be in the wrong business, Rogers.

the two pull up to outside an abandoned military base where the signal led them to]

Steve Rogers: This is it.

Natasha Romanoff: The file came from these coordinates.

Steve Rogers: So did I. [later that night as they walk around the base trying to pinpoint where the signal came from] This camp is where I was trained.

Natasha Romanoff: Changed much?

Steve Rogers: A little. [Steve has a brief visions of his former, smaller self running past him as he's getting trained with other soldiers]

Sergeant Duffy: Pick up the pace, ladies! Let's go! Let's go! Double time! Come on Rogers, move it! [his former self stops and stares at Steve as he is now] Come on! Fall in! Rogers! I said fall in! [present Steve watches nostalgically as the former Steve runs off]

Natasha Romanoff: This is a dead end. Zero heat signature, zero waves, not even radio. Whoever wrote the file must have used a router to throw people off. [Steve notices a building ahead of them] What is it? [as they walk over to the building]

Steve Rogers: Army regulations forbid storing ammunition within five hundred yards of the barracks. This building is in the wrong place. [Steve opens the lock with his shield and they enter inside, when they turn on the lights they notice it's a SHIELD office]

Natasha Romanoff: This is SHIELD.

Steve Rogers: Maybe where it started. [they enter a room where they find old framed portraits of Howard Stark, Peggy and Col. Chester Phillips]

Natasha Romanoff: There's Stark's father.

Steve Rogers: Howard.

Natasha Romanoff: Who's the girl? [Steve doesn't reply and turns away to walk further down the room and stops by a massive book shelf]

"Are you jealous?" 

Steve Rogers: If you're already working in a secret office... [he pushes the books shelf and slides open to reveal an elevator behind it] Why do you need to hide the elevator? [they go down the elevator which takes them to a room with old looking computers]

Natasha Romanoff: This can't be the data-point, this technology is ancient. [suddenly Natasha notices a small flash drive port, she places the flash drive in it which then activates the ancient computer in the room]

Computer: Initiate system? [Natasha types using the keyboard]

Natasha Romanoff: Y-E-S, spells yes. [Natasha smiles as the old computer starts to cranks up] "Shall we play a game?" [to Steve] It's from a movie that...

People laugh at Nat trying to awkwardly explain a refrence. 

Steve Rogers: Yeah, I saw it. [suddenly they hear an accented voice speaking]

Dr. Arnim Zola: Rogers, Steven. Born, 1918. Potter, Iris. Born, 1984. [they see an old camera moving above them as it analyzes them]

Natasha's brows furrow and Steve sends her a questioning look.

"You knew who you were! You never thought to find us!!" Lily yelled. 

"will you calm the fucking hell down" Nat rolled her eyes.

"Hey! Don't talk to your mother like that" James says. 

"Don't call her that" Nat says. 

Natasha Romanoff: It's some kind of a recording.

Dr. Arnim Zola: I am not a recording, Fräulein. I may not be the man I was when the Captain took me prisoner in 1945, but I am. [the computer screen shows an old photo of Dr. Arnim Zola]

Natasha Romanoff: Do you know this thing?

Steve Rogers: Arnim Zola was a German scientist who worked for the Red Skull. He's been dead for years.

Dr. Arnim Zola: 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 two hundred thousand feet of data banks. You are standing in my brain.

"How is that possible" 

Steve Rogers: How did you get here?

Dr. Arnim Zola: Invited.

Natasha Romanoff: It was Operation Paperclip after World War II. SHIELD recruited German scientists with strategic value.

Dr. Arnim Zola: They thought I could help their cause. I also helped my own.

Steve Rogers: HYDRA died with the Red Skull.

Dr. Arnim Zola: Cut off one head, two more shall take its place.

Steve Rogers: Prove it.

Dr. Arnim Zola: Accessing archive. [the computer screen shows them old footage of Johann Schmidt/Red Skull, of the how the original SHIELD founders] 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, SHIELD was founded and I was recruited. The new HYDRA grew. A beautiful parasite inside SHIELD. For seventy years HYDRA has been secretly feeding crisis, reaping war. And when history did not cooperate, history was changed.

"He lost me at accessing" 

Natasha Romanoff: That's impossible, SHIELD would have stopped you.

Dr. Arnim Zola: Accidents will happen. [the computer screen shows them HYDRA had killed Howard and Maria Stark making it look like a car accident along with the recent death of Fury] HYDRA created a world so chaotic that humanity is finally ready to sacrifice its freedom to gain its security. Once the purification process is complete, HYDRA's new world order will arise. We won, Captain. Your death amounts to the same as your Life; a zero sum. [in anger Steve suddenly smashes the computer screen] As I was saying...

Steve Rogers: What's on this drive?

Dr. Arnim Zola: Project Insight requires insight. So I wrote an algorithm.

Natasha Romanoff: What kind of algorithm? What does it do?

Dr. Arnim Zola: The answer to your question is fascinating. Unfortunately, you shall be too dead to hear it. [suddenly the doors starts to close, Steve tries stops it by throwing his shield in between it but he's too late]

"Oh crap, can't you guys go 5 minutes without someone trying to kill you" 

Natasha Romanoff: Steve, we got a bogey. Short range ballistic. 30 seconds tops.

Steve Rogers: Who fired it?

Natasha Romanoff: S.H.I.E.L.D.

"the fuck"

"Language!" 

Dr. Arnim Zola: I am afraid I have been stalling, Captain. Admit it, it's better this way. We're both of us...out of time. [Steve notices a small opening on the ground, he throws the metal door aside and just as the place explodes he throws himself and Natasha into the hole and protects them with his shield, he then manages to get them out from under the building rubble just as STRIKE agents arrive to roam the area for them]

Brock Rumlow: [As he notices a footprint in the dust] Call in the asset.

[at his home, Pierce goes to his kitchen to get a drink when he sees the Winter Soldier sat behind behind him with his gun on the table when his housekeeper calls out]

Renata: I'm going to go, Mr. Pierce. You need anything before I leave?

Alexander Pierce: No. Uh...it's fine, Renata, you can go home.

Renata: Okay, night-night.

Alexander Pierce: Good night. [Renata leaves] Want some milk? [the Winter Soldier doesn't reply] The timetable has moved. Our window is limited. Two targets, Level Six. [he pours himself a glass of milk and goes over to join the Winter Soldier at the table] They already cost me Zola. I want confirmed death in ten hours. [just then Renata interrupts them as she enters the kitchen]

Renata: Sorry, Mr. Pierce, I...I forgot my phone. [she notices the Winter Soldier]

"Oh no"

"I have a bad feeling about this" 

Alexander Pierce: Oh, Renata. I wish you would have knocked. [Pierce picks up the gun from the table and shoots and kills her]

[returning home from his morning run Sam hears a knock at his door, he opens the door to see Steve and Natasha]

Sam Wilson: Hey, man.

Steve Rogers: I'm sorry about this. We need a place to lay low.

Natasha Romanoff: Everyone we know is trying to kill us. [Sam pauses a moment before replying]

"That's tough" 

Sam Wilson: Not everyone. [Sam let's them enter, later as Steve and Natasha are cleaning up, Steve notices Natasha looking sad and thoughtful]

Steve Rogers: You okay?

Natasha Romanoff: Yeah.

Steve Rogers: What's going on?

Natasha Romanoff: When I first joined SHIELD, I thought I was going straight. But I guess I just traded in the KGB for HYDRA. I thought I knew whose lies I was telling, but...I guess I can't tell the difference anymore. Also about the name thing. 

Steve Rogers: There's a chance you might be in the wrong business. [Natasha smiles faintly]

Natasha Romanoff: I owe you.

Steve Rogers: It's okay.

Natasha Romanoff: If it was the other way around, and it was down to me to save your life, and you be honest with me, would you trust me to do it?

Steve Rogers: I would now. And I'm always honest.

"You guys are way too cute" 

Natasha Romanoff: Well, you seem pretty chipper for someone who just found out they died for nothing.

Steve Rogers: Well, I guess I just like to know who I'm fighting.

Sam Wilson: [to Steve and Natasha] I made breakfast. If you guys...eat that sort of thing. [later as they are sat in Sam's kitchen]

"You just had to ruin their moment" 

Natasha Romanoff: So, the question is: who in SHIELD could launch a domestic missile strike?

Steve Rogers: Pierce.

Natasha Romanoff: Who happens to be sitting on top of the most secure building in the world.

Steve Rogers: But he's not working alone, Zola's algorithm was on the Lemurian Star.

Natasha Romanoff: So was Jasper Sitwell.

"Stop saying Jasper. I think of Twilight everytime" Peter says and the Avengers shake their heads fondly at him. 

Steve Rogers: So, the real question is: how do the two most wanted people in Washington kidnap a SHIELD officer in broad daylight?

Sam Wilson: The answer is: you don't. [Sam drops a file in front of Steve]

Steve Rogers: What's this?

Sam Wilson: Call it a resume. [Natasha picks up a photo of Sam with his para-rescue team]

Natasha Romanoff: Is this Bakhmala? The Khalid Khandil mission, that was you. [to Steve] You didn't say he was a para-rescue. [looking at the photo of Sam with his colleague]

Steve Rogers: Is this Riley?

Sam Wilson: Yeah.

Natasha Romanoff: I heard they couldn't bring in the choppers because of the RPGs. What did you use, a stealth chute?

Sam Wilson: No. These. [he hands Steve the file, Steve opens it and reads it]

Steve Rogers: I thought you said you were a pilot.

Sam Wilson: I never said pilot.

Steve Rogers: I can't ask you to do this, Sam. You got out for a good reason.

Sam Wilson: Dude, Captain America needs my help. There's no better reason to get back in.

People cheer at that and Sam smirks and Bucky nudges him with his metal arm, but that doesn't affect Sam. 

Steve Rogers: Where can we get our hands on one of these things?

Sam Wilson: The last one is at Fort Meade, behind three guarded gates and a twelve-inch steel wall. [Steve looks at Natasha who shrugs her shoulders]

Steve Rogers: Shouldn't be a problem. [Steve throws down the file on the table and we see that it's a classified military project called Falcon]

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I'm sorry it took so long to get this chapter out. This is the longest chapter I've done. It's like 4700 words long. Hope you liked it!!