[In a HYDRA lab in a very mountainous region]
Johann Schmidt: Are you ready, Dr. Zola?
Dr. Arnim Zola: My machine requires the most delicate calibration. Forgive me if I seem overcautious.
Johann Schmidt: And are you certain that those conductors of yours can withstand the energy surge long enough for a transference?
Dr. Arnim Zola: With this artifact, I am certain of nothing. I fear it may not work at all.
[Schmidt inserts the Tesseract carefully into the machine. Zola starts it up.]
Dr. Arnim Zola: Twenty percent. Forty. Sixty. Stabilising at 70%.
Johann Schmidt: [takes over the controls] I have not come all this way for safety, Doctor. [He turns the controls up to maximum and blue light flitters through the room.]
Dr. Arnim Zola: What is that?
[after successfully collecting the power from the glowing Tesseract using Zola's machine]
Johann Schmidt: I must congratulate you, Arnim. Your designs do not disappoint. Though they may require some slight reinforcement.
Dr. Arnim Zola: The exchange is stable. Amazing! The energy we have just collected could power my design, all my designs. This will change the war.
Johann Schmidt: Dr. Zola, this will change the world.
[At a US training camp. Steve stands in line with others.]
Officer: [off-screen to other soldiers training] Ready, exercise!
Peggy Carter: Recruits, attention! Gentlemen, I'm Agent Carter. I supervise all operations for this division.
Gilmore Hodge: What's with the accent, Queen Victoria? Thought I was signing up for the U.S. Army.
Peggy Carter: What's your name, soldier?
Gilmore Hodge: Gilmore Hodge, your Majesty.
Peggy Carter: Step forward, Hodge.
[Hodge steps forward, smirking]
Peggy Carter: Put your right foot forward.
Gilmore Hodge: Mmm… We gonna wrassle? Cause I got a few moves I know you'll like.
[suddenly Peggy punches him hard in the face]
[ drives up]
Col. Chester Phillips: Agent Carter.
Peggy Carter: Colonel Phillips.
Col. Chester Phillips: I see you're breaking in the candidates. That's good! [to Hodge] Get your ass up out of that dirt and stand in that line at attention 'til somebody comes tells you what to do.
Gilmore Hodge: [he gets back up] Yes, sir.
Col. Chester Phillips: [addressing the new army recruits] General Patton has said that wars are fought with weapons but they are won by men. We are going to win this war because we have the best men… [he sees me and continues talking] And because they're gonna get better. Much better. The Strategic Scientific Reserve is an Allied effort made up of the best minds in the free world. Our goal is to create the best army in history. But every army starts with one man. At the end of this week we will choose that man. He will be the first in a new breed of super-soldiers. [While Phillips talk we see scenes of me unpacking and training where he fails to keep up and gets bullied by the others.]
Sergeant Duffy: pax! Get that rifle out of the mud!
Col. Chester Phillips: And they, will personally escort Adolf Hitler to the gates of Hell.
[then we see James and some other trainees running up to a waiting Peggy and a flagpole]
Sergeant Duffy: Pick up the pace, ladies! Let's go! Double time! Come on! Faster! Faster! Move! Move! [they arrive at the flag pole] Squad, halt! That flag means we're only at the halfway point. First man to bring it to me gets a ride back with Agent Carter. Move, move!
Soldiers: Come on! Get up there!
Sergeant Duffy: [the soldier try to climb up the pole to no avail] If that's all you got, this army's in trouble! Get up there, Hodge! Come on! Get up there! Nobody's got that flag in 17 years! Now fall back into line! Come on, fall in! Let's go! Get back into formation! Rice! I said fall in! [I'm pulls a pin out at the bottom of the pole causing it to fall over.]
Me: [as he gives the flag to Sergeant Duffy] Thank you, sir. [He climbs into the car and they drive away.]
[The soldiers are doing push-ups.]
Peggy Carter: Faster, ladies! Come on. My grandmother has more life in her, God rest her soul. Move it!
Col. Chester Phillips: [walking besides Erskine] You're not really thinking about picking Rogers, are you?
Dr. Abraham Erskine: I am more than just thinking about it. He is the clear choice.
Col. Chester Phillips: When you brought a ninety-pound asthmatic onto my army base, I let it slide. I thought, what the hell? Maybe he'll be useful to you, like a gerbil. I never thought you'd pick him
[referring to me]
Peggy Carter: [as Phillips and Erskine arrive she commands the soldiers:] Up.
Col. Chester Phillips: You stick a needle in that kids arm and it's gonna go right through him. [watching mestruggling whilst training with the other new recruits]
Peggy Carter: Come on, girls.
Col. Chester Phillips: Look at that. He's making me cry.
Dr. Abraham Erskine: I am looking for qualities beyond the physical.
Col. Chester Phillips: Do you know how long it took to set up this project?
Dr. Abraham Erskine: Yeah, I know.
Col. Chester Phillips: All the groveling I had to do in front of Senator What's-His-Name's committees?
Dr. Abraham Erskine: Brandt. Yes, I know. I am well aware of your efforts.
Col. Chester Phillips: Then throw me a bone. Hodge passed every test we gave him. He's big, he's fast, he obeys orders. He's a soldier.
Dr. Abraham Erskine: He's a bully.
Col. Chester Phillips: You don't win wars with niceness, doctor. [he takes a hand grenade] You win war with guts. [he throws the grenade at where the new recruits are training] Grenade!
[all the soldiers move away quickly but me jumps on top of it covering it with his body]
Me: Get away! Get back! [waits for the grenade to go off but nothing happens]
Officer: It was a dummy grenade. All clear. Back in formation.
[ me looks at Phillips and Erskine]
Me: Is this is a test?
[Erskine looks at Phillips as to confirm his point about choosing me]
Col. Chester Phillips: He's still skinny.
Me: oh boy!
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