[Zemo sits in a hotel room. He reads from Karpov's red book.]
Helmut Zemo: Возвращение на Родину. Возвращение на Родину. Один. Один. Грузовой вагон… Грузовой вагон. Грузов- ([subtitled] Homecoming. One. One. Fright Car.) [Knocking at the door. He puts the book in a drawer and goes to the door. He reaches for a gun tucked in the back of his trouser and cocks it.]
German Innkeeper: Herr Müller, ich habe Ihr Frühstück. ([subtitled] Mr. Müller. I have your breakfast.) [Zemo opens the door.]
Helmut Zemo: Ich konnte es schon von weitem riechen. Danke. ([subtitled] I could smell it before I opened the door. Thank you.)
German Innkeeper: Speck und schwarzer Kaffe. Wieder. Ich kann Ihnen auch was anderes machen, wenn Sie das möchten. ([subtitled] Side of bacon and black coffee. Again. I can make you something different, if you like.)
Helmut Zemo: Bitte sehr, das ist wunderbar. ([subtitled] It's okay. This is wonderful.)
German Innkeeper: Ich stell es dann mal hier hin… ([subtitled] I'll put this on your . . .)
Helmut Zemo: Nein, nein. Das geht schon. Ich mach das. Vielen Dank, Frau Leiber. ([subtitled] No, no. It's okay. I can manage. Thank you Mrs. Leiber.) [Zemo closes the door. In the room is a large device with a cage at the bottom and a drum of coppered wire on top.]
[Bucharest. Steve is in civvies at a fruit store. He buys some plums!]
Steve Rogers: [talking to the vendor in Romanian] ([assumed translation] How are they? Are they good? Give me six, thank you.[2])
[In a black cap and casual jacket Steve walks along scanning around. Across the street he spots a twenty-something vender at a news-stand watching him. Steve glances away, then looks back at the vender who's still watching him. The vender runs from his kiosk. Steve goes over and picks up a paper. On the front page there are surveillance-photos of a man and the head line: 'Winter Soldier cautat pentru Bombardmentul din Viena'. Steve glances around tensely.]
[In her dark blue, armored suit with her shield on her arm Peggy is in a small apartment. She looks around, there's a mattress with disheveled covers and various bits of cheap looking furniture. The kitchen and bedroom are in the same room. Peggy finds a notebook on top of the fridge. She picks it up and opens it. There are tabs of varying colors sticking out from amongst the pages.]
Sam Wilson: [on radio] Heads up, Cap. German Special Forces, approaching from the south.
Peggy Carter: Understood. [Steve's standing behind Peggy. Peggy slowly turns around to face him.] Do you know me?
Steve Rogers: [Steve stares at her.] You're Peggy. I read about you in a museum.
Sam Wilson: They've set the perimeter.
Peggy Carter: I know you're nervous. And you have plenty of reason to be. But you're lying.
Steve Rogers: I wasn't in Vienna. I don't do that anymore.
Sam Wilson: They're entering the building.
Peggy Carter: Well, the people who think you did are coming here now. And they're not planning on taking you alive.
Steve Rogers: That's smart. Good strategy.
Sam Wilson: They're on the roof. I'm compromised.
[Armed cops run upstairs.]
Peggy Carter: This doesn't have end in a fight, Steve.
[Outside the door a cop readies a battering ram.]
Steve Rogers: It always ends in a fight.
Sam Wilson: 5 seconds.
Peggy Carter: You pulled me from the river. Why?
Steve Rogers: I don't know.
Sam Wilson: 3 seconds!
Peggy Carter: Yes, you do.
Sam Wilson: Breach! Breach! Breach! [A grenade crashes through the window. Steve kicks it to Peggy, and she smothers it with her shield.]
GSG-9 Soldier: Schieß die Tür auf! (Shoot the door!) [The cop slams the battering ram against the door. Steve shields himself with the mattress against an attack from the window. He blocks the door with a table as cops swing in on cables. Peggy pulls the rug from under a policeman, sending him flying. Steve slams another policeman into the wall.]
Peggy Carter: Steve, stop! You're gonna kill someone.
Steve Rogers: [Steve slams Peggy down and punches a hole in the floor.] I'm not gonna kill anyone.
[Steve grabs a backpack from under the floorboards and throws it out of the window. Steve and Peggy get behind Peggy's shield to avoid gunfire. Steve shoves Peggy and she knocks a cop over. Steve holds up his metal hand and repells bullets, then slams a cop into shelves. Steve picks up a large cement brick and slams it into a cop. Peggy fights a cop on the balcony. A cop shoots around the door outside. Steve punches through the wall beside he door. He lays into the cops. A cop descends through a sky-light on a zip wire. Steve grabs the cop's gun and slams him into the wall. Steve bashes a couple of cops with the battering ram. More of the police team hurry up the stairwell. Steve jumps on the zip-line-guy and swings down a level.]
GSG-9 Soldier: Der Verdächtige ist ausgebrochen. Er ist am östlichen Treppenschacht. ([subtitled] Suspect has broken containment! He's headed down the east stairwell!)
[Peggy grabs the radio and crushes it. Peggy jumps down a level as Steve keeps punching the cops. Steve tosses one of them over the railing and Peggy catches him, stopping the cop from falling. She looks at Steve wearily.]
Peggy Carter: Be careful, please.
[Peggy throws the cop up onto the landing. Steve breaks a banister and swings down on it. Peggy hurls a cop over her shoulders. Steve lays into yet more cops and takes them out. A cop aims at Steve and Peggy knocks the gun from his hands with her shield which sticks in the wall. Steve leaps down the stairwell and catches onto a railing. Peggy pulls her shield out of the wall. Steve climbs up then runs along a corridor and leaps off a balcony. He tumbles onto the lower roof of the neighboring building where he finds where his backpack. he picks it up and runs.]
[A muscular man clad entirely in black, Black Panther, slams into Steve from behind, knocking him down. He has a full face mask with pointed ears. He extends his fingers and sharp claws pop out. He attacks Steve with sweeping kicks and slashes. Steve fights back but is kicked into a wall. Black Panther swipes his claws and spins gracefully. Steve narrowly avoids being slashed, he holds up a metal bar to protect himself.]
[Peggy looks down at them as Falcon swoops from the sky.]
Peggy Carter: Sam, southwest rooftop.
Sam Wilson: Who the hell's the other guy?
Peggy Carter: About to find out.
[Peggy leaps from the balcony down onto the neighboring building as a chopper flies up. Black Panther lunges at Steve with his claws, but Steve grabs his wrists. A soldier fires a machine gun from the chopper. The ammo bounces off Black Panther's armored suit.]
Peggy Carter: Sam.
Sam Wilson: Got him. [Sam flies down and shoves the chopper off course. Then swoops towards street level.]
[Steve breaks free from his attacker, slings his bag on his back, runs and jumps down a level. Black Panther slides down the wall using his claws for traction. Steve lands at street level and the chase continues. Peggy follows and lands rolling along the ground. Gunfire from the chopper tears up the sidewalk. Steve jumps down through an opening and lands in an underpass, he runs through the traffic. Black Panther and Captain Britain drops down and chases after Steve. A Special Forces Vehicle pursues them.]
GSG-9 Driver: Stand down! Stand down! [The vehicle closes in, blue lights flashing. Peggy leaps onto the vehicle and splinters the windshield. The driver stops, Peggy yanks him from the vehicle and kicks the windshield out, then drives off.]
[Steve runs over the top of a speeding car, outpacing it. Black Panther is a few cars behind, keeping pace with Steve. he leaps on the back of the 4x4 that Peggy's driving. Peggy swerves from side to side, trying to throw him off.]
Peggy Carter: Sam, I can't shake this guy.
Sam Wilson: Right behind you.
[Several police cars join the chase. Peggy side-swipes another car and drives on.]
[Up ahead Steve reaches a fork in the road and faces oncoming traffic. He leaps over a barrier. Peggy drives through the barrier.]
[A motorbike speeds towards Steve. Steve grabs the handlebar and spins the bike around in mid air, throwing the rider off. Steve gets on the bike and rides away sending cars careering out of the way. Peggy keeps on Steve's tail with Black Panther holding onto the back of the 4x4. They all rocket through another underpass. Sam flies into the underpass. Black Panther leaps off the front of the 4x4 onto Steve's motorbike. Steve flings him over his head and the bike leans down on its side. Steve kicks his assailant away, straightens up and rides on. Black Panther catches a ride on Falcon's leg. Sam tries to kick Black Panther away. Steve throws a sticky bomb and blows up the roof at the end of the underpass, bringing down tons of rubble. Black Panther leaps off from Falcon and throws Steve off the motorbike. Peggy swerves the 4x4 through the rubble, leaps out and pulls Black Panther away from Steve. Peggy stands, facing sleek and muscular Black Panther. Armed police arrive and surround them, guns aimed. War Machine leaps down from above and raises both hands.]
James Rhodes: Stand down, now. [Steve stands beside Peggy who puts her shield on her back.] Congratulations, Cap. You're a criminal. [Police move in and force Steve to his knees. Black Panther raises his hands. A cop moves Peggy's arms behind her back. Black Panther retracts his claws and pulls off his mask revealing his face. It's T'Challa. Peggy and Rhodes look curious.]
GSG-9 Soldier: Wie lautet der Befehl? (What's the order?)
James Rhodes: Your highness. [Steve's hauled flat on the ground.]
[Avengers HQ. Vision follows a recipe.]
Vision: 'A pinch of paprika.' A pinch. [He adds a pinch. Wanda strolls in.]
Wanda Maximoff: Is that paprikash?
Vision: I thought it might . . . lift your spirits.
Wanda Maximoff: [She chuckles, stirs the ingredients in the pan with a spoon. She lifts the spoon to her lips, blows and has a taste. She smiles.] Spirits lifted.
Vision: In my defense, I haven't actually ever . . . eaten anything before, so . . .
Wanda Maximoff: May I?
Vision: Please. Wanda?
Wanda Maximoff: Hmm.
Vision: No one dislikes you, Wanda. [She frowns curiously.]
Wanda Maximoff: Thanks.
Vision: Oh, you're welcome. No, it's a . . . involuntary response in their amygdala. They can't help but be afraid of you.
Wanda Maximoff: Are you?
Vision: My amygdala is synthetic, so . . . [Wanda laughs.]
Wanda Maximoff: I used to think of myself one way. But after this . . . [her fingers glow.] I am something else. I'm still me, I think, but . . . that's not what everyone else sees.
Vision: [He touches the mind stone in his forehead.] Do you know, I don't know what this is? [It glows.] Not really. I know it's not of this world, that it powered Loki's staff, gave you your abilities, but . . . its true nature is a mystery. And yet, it is part of me.
Wanda Maximoff: Are you afraid of it?
Vision: I wish to understand it. The more I do, the less it controls me. One day . . . who knows? I may even control it.
Wanda Maximoff: [Wanda looks at the food.] I don't know what's in this but it is not paprika. I'm gonna go to the store. I'll be back in 20 minutes.
Vision: Alternatively, we could order a pizza?
Wanda Maximoff: Vision, are you not letting me leave?
Vision: [He blocks her way.] It is a question of safety.
Wanda Maximoff: I can protect myself.
Vision: [He holds her arm.] Not yours. Mr. Stark would like to avoid the possibility of another public incident. Until the Accords are on a . . . more secured foundation.
Wanda Maximoff: And what do you want?
Vision: For people to see you . . . as I do. [She looks at him gravely.]
[Berlin, day. Traffic rolls around the victory column. Police convoy drives beside the river Spree. Amidst the convoy is a gray armed truck. Inside Steve wears restraints inside a prison pod. Three armed guards sit on the other side of the glass-walled pod. A police motorbike stops traffic and a van driver looks affronted. The convoy turns a corner onto a bridge across the river. In an SUV T'Challa sits in front of Peggy who sits in front of Sam.]
Sam Wilson: So, you like cats?
Peggy Carter: Sam.
Sam Wilson: What? Dude shows up dressed like a cat and you don't wanna know more?
Peggy Carter: Your suit . . . it's Vibranium?
T'Challa: [T'Challas eyes narrow as he glances sideways.] The Black Panther has been the protector of Wakanda for generations. A mantle, passed from warrior to warrior. And now, because your friend murdered my father, I also wear the mantle of king. So, I ask you . . . as both warrior and king . . . how long do you think you can keep your friend safe from me? [Peggy is stony faced as the convoy heads underground.]
[In a light gray walled bunker Steve's pod is carried away by a forklift. Nearby Peggy gets out of the SUV and glances across at Steve who doesn't spot her. With Sam and T'Challa Peggy approaches Patrick who's standing with a diminutive, gray-head man.]
Peggy Carter: What's going to happen to him?
Everett Ross: Same thing that ought to happen to you. Psychological evaluation and extradition.
Patrick Barnes: This is Everett Ross, Deputy Task Force Commander.
Peggy Carter: What about our lawyer?
Everett Ross: Lawyer. That's funny. See their weapons are placed in lockup. Oh, we'll write you a receipt.
Sam Wilson: I better not look out the window and see anybody flying around in that. [As they go Peggy looks back and catches Steve's eye.]
[On a covered sky walk.]
Everett Ross: You'll be provided with an office instead of a cell. Now, do me a favor, stay in it?
T'Challa: I don't intend on going anywhere.
Natasha Romanoff: For the record, this is what making things worse looks like.
Peggy Carter: He's alive.
Tony Stark: [on his phone] No. Romania was not Accords-sanctioned. And, Colonel Rhodes is supervising cleanup.
Natasha Romanoff: Try not to break anything while we fix this.
Tony Stark: [still on the phone.] Consequences? You bet there'll be consequences. Obviously you can quote me on that 'cause I just said it. Anything else? Thank you, sir.
Peggy Carter: 'Consequences'?
Tony Stark: Secretary Ross wants you both prosecuted. Had to give him something.
Peggy Carter: I'm not getting that shield back, am I?
Natasha Romanoff: Technically, it's the government's property. Wings, too.
Sam Wilson: That's cold.
Tony Stark: Warmer than jail.
[At a power station surrounded by trees the van with the driver who was affronted by the police convoy pulls up by the open gate. Scowling he puts the parking break on and picks up a clip board.]
Delivery Truck Driver: Das kann nicht richtig sein. Was zum Teufel? (This can't be right. What the hell?)
[In a secured chamber a guard connects a pipe to Steve's prison pod. The lights inside dim for a moment.]
[Tony finds Peggy in a glass-walled office overlooking the control room.]
Tony Stark: Hey, you wanna see something cool? I pulled something from Dad's archives. Felt timely. [Tony shows her two pens in a black presentation box.] FDR signed the Lend-Lease bill with these in 1941. Provided support to the Allies when they needed it most.
Peggy Carter: Some would say it brought our countries closer to war.
Tony Stark: See? If not for these, you wouldn't be here. I'm trying to . . . what do you call it? That's an olive branch. Is that what you call it?
Peggy Carter: Is Pepper here? I didn't see her.
Tony Stark: We're kinda . . . well, not kinda . . .
Peggy Carter: Pregnant?
Tony Stark: No. Definitely not. We're taking a break. It's nobody's fault.
Peggy Carter: I'm so sorry, Tony. I didn't know.
Tony Stark: A few years ago, I almost lost her, so I trashed all my suits. Then, we had to mop up HYDRA . . . and then Ultron. My fault. And then, and then, and then, I never stopped. Because the truth is I don't wanna stop. I don't wanna lose her. I thought maybe the Accords could split the difference. [Tony stands up and paces.] In her defense, I'm a handful. Yet, Dad was a pain in the ass, but he and Mom always made it work.
Peggy Carter: You know, I'm glad Howard got married. I only knew him when he was young and single.
Tony Stark: Oh, really? You two knew each other? He never mentioned that. Maybe only a thousand times. God, I hated you.
Peggy Carter: I don't mean to make things difficult.
Tony Stark: I know, because you're a very polite person.
Peggy Carter: If I see something going wrong, I can't ignore it. Sometimes I wish I could.
Tony Stark: No, you don't.
Peggy Carter: [Peggy smiles thinly.] No, I don't. Sometimes . . .
Tony Stark: We have our differences, but I don't wanna see you gone. We need you, Cap. So far, nothing's happened that can't be undone, if you sign. We can make the last 24 hours legit. Rogers gets transferred to an American psych-center . . . instead of a Wakandan prison.
Peggy Carter: [Peggy frowns thoughtfully and picks up one of the fountain pens. She stands up and paces, then turns to Tony. In the control room beyond there are multiple screens on the walls.] I'm not saying it's impossible, but there would have to be safeguards.
Tony Stark: Sure. Once we put out the PR fire, those documents can be amended. I'd file a motion to have you and Wanda reinstated . . .
Peggy Carter: Wanda? What about Wanda?
Tony Stark: She's fine. She's confined to the compound, currently. Vision's keeping her company.
Peggy Carter: Oh God, Tony! Every time. Every time I think you see things the right way . . .
Tony Stark: What? It's a 100 acres with a lap pool. It's got a screening room. There's worse ways to protect people.
Peggy Carter: Protection? Is that how you see this? This is protection? It's internment, Tony.
Tony Stark: She's not a US citizen.
Peggy Carter: Oh, come on, Tony.
Tony Stark: And they don't grant visas to weapons of mass destruction.
Peggy Carter: She's a kid!
Tony Stark: GIVE ME A BREAK! I'm doing what has to be done . . . to stave off something worse.
Peggy Carter: [Peggy nods faintly.] You keep telling yourself that. [She puts the pen down.] I wouldn't want to damage an heirloom. [She leaves the office and rueful Tony watches Steve on one of the control room's screens.]
Helmut Zemo: [The evaluator sits at a desk facing Steve's pod. Inside Steve's still restrained.] Hello, Mr. Rogers. I've been sent by the United Nations to evaluate you. Do you mind if I sit? Your first name is Steve?
Patrick Barnes: [In an office with Sam and Peggy.] The receipt for your gear.
Sam Wilson: 'Bird costume'? Come on.
Patrick Barnes: I didn't write it. [Patrick pushes a button witch stops the restriction on the audio from Steve's evaluation.]
Helmut Zemo: I'm not here to judge you. I just want to ask you a few questions. Do you know where you are, Steve? I can't help you if you don't talk to me, Steve.
Steve Rogers: I don't want your help.
[At the power station. The van driver honks and looks impatient watching the custodian's hut's front door.]
Delivery Truck Driver: Hallo? ([subtitled] Hello?) [The custodian comes outside and the driver comes out of his van.] Hey. Ich hab eine große für dich. ([subtitled] Hey. I have a big one for you.) [He opens the van's back doors and removes a large wooden crate.] Ja. Okay, hier unterzeichnen. (Okay. Here. Just sign here.)
Custodian: Hier? (Here?)
Delivery Truck Driver: Ja. (Yeah.) [The custodian signs for the crate.]
[At the UN-bunker Peggy studies the blurry photograph of the man who bombed the congress in Vienna.]
Peggy Carter: Why would the Task Force release this photo to begin with?
Patrick Barnes: Get the word out, involve as many eyes as we can?
Peggy Carter: Right. It's a good way to flush a guy out of hiding. Set off a bomb, get your picture taken. Get seven billion people looking for the Winter Soldier.
Patrick Barnes: You're saying someone framed him to find him.
Sam Wilson: Peggy, we looked for the guy for two years and found nothing.
Peggy Carter: We didn't bomb the UN. That turns a lot of heads.
Patrick Barnes: Yeah, but that doesn't guarantee that whoever framed him would get him. It guarantees that we would. [Patrick's gaze falls on the evaluator in the screen, his eyes narrow.]
Peggy Carter: [Peggy frowns and looks around.] Yeah.
Helmut Zemo: [In the secure chamber.] Tell me, Steve. You've seen a great deal, haven't you?
Steve Rogers: I don't want to talk about it.
Helmut Zemo: You fear that… if you open your mouth, the horrors might never stop. Don't worry. [Zemo gets a message on his screen: 'message inbox:1' touches it 'status: package delivered'.] We only have to talk about one.
[At the power station the custodian opens the crate. Finding Zemo's large device inside, he looks confused. The driver is at the back door of his van.]
Custodian: Hey, was ist das? (Hey. What is this?)
Delivery Truck Driver: Ich weiß es nicht. (I don't know.)
[The device erupts. A bubble of energy engulfs the power station and sparks fly. In the city traffic lights fail. In the bunker the lights go out.]
Everett Ross: Great. Come on, guys, get me eyes on Rogers. Go.
Tony Stark: FRIDAY, get me the source of that outage.
Patrick Barnes: [In the office.] Sub-level 5, east wing. [T'Challa spots Peggy and Sam bolting.]
[In Steve's pod.]
Steve Rogers: What the hell is this?
Helmut Zemo: Why don't we discuss your home? Not Romania. Certainly not Brooklyn, no. I mean, your real home. [Zemo removes his glasses then walks towards Steve reading from the red book by torchlight.] Желание. ([subtitled] Longing.)
Steve Rogers: [Steve shuts his eyes.] No. [Steve's head snaps back.]
Helmut Zemo: Ржавый. ([subtitled] Rusted.)
Steve Rogers: Stop.
Helmut Zemo: Семнадцать. ([subtitled] Seventeen.)
Steve Rogers: [Steve's metal arm trembles in its restraint.] Stop. [He sneers angrily.]
Helmut Zemo: Рассвет. ([subtitled] Daybreak.)
[Steve screams, clenches his fist and rips free of his restraints.]
Helmut Zemo: Печь. ([subtitled] Furnace.) Девять. ([subtitled] Nine.)
[Steve thumps the inside of the pod.]
Helmut Zemo: Добросердечный. ([subtitled] Benign.)
[Steve punches harder.]
Helmut Zemo: Возвращение на Родину. ([subtitled] Homecoming.) Один. ([subtitled:] One.) Грузовой вагон. ([subtitled] Freight car.)
[Steve batteres the front of the pod with his metal fist and the glass screen flies clear. Zemo slowly rounds the pod with the book and the torch in hand. he stands before Steve who straightens, a dark frown on his face.]
Helmut Zemo: Солдат? ([subtitled] Soldier?)
Steve Rogers: Я готов отвечать. ([subtitled] Ready to comply.)
Helmut Zemo: Mission report. December 16, 1991.
[Peggy and Sam arrive outside the chamber. Red emergency lights flash all around. There are many agents slumped on the floor. All of them out cold.]
Helmut Zemo: Help me. Help.
Peggy Carter: [Peggy finds Zemo in a heap inside the chamber.] Get up. [she grabs Zemo and shoves him against the wall.] Who are you? What do you want?
Helmut Zemo: To see an empire fall.
[As Sam enters Steve swings his fist which smashes through the wall as Sam ducks. Steve grabs him by the jaw and throws him at the open pod. Peggy lurches into the fight and lands a punch which Steve barely feels. Steve kicks and punches Peggy out of the chamber. A punch from Steve goes through the elevator door. Peggy blocks the next one but the power of Steve's fist sends Peggy tumbling into the darkened elevator shaft.]
[In the chamber Sam comes around and spots Zemo looking down the elevator shaft.]
Man on PA #1: Der Ostflügel ist kompromittiert. Ich wiederhole: Der Ostflügel ist kompromittiert. (The east wing is compromised. I repeat: the east wing is compromised.)
Sam Wilson: Hey.
[Zemo bolts, Sam rises. At the bottom of the shaft Peggy pushes herself off the floor.]
[In the control room.]
Everett Ross: Evac all civilians. Get me a perimeter around the building, and gunships in the air.
Natasha Romanoff: Please tell me you brought a suit.
Tony Stark: Sure did. It's a lovely Tom Ford, three-piece, two-button. I'm an active-duty non-combatant.
Patrick Barnes: Follow me. [Patrick runs past Tony and Natasha.]
[Sam chases Zemo up a stair well.]
[Peggy starts to climb the elevator shaft.]
[Steve stalks through the building's ground floor. He batters two guards. With tech-glasses on Tony takes cover behind a pillar.]
Natasha Romanoff: [on radio:] We're in position.
[Tony taps a wrist-control which becomes his Iron Man-glove. He zaps Steve with a stun-burst before Steve can shoot a guard. Tony rushes him, firing again. Steve ducks the blast then trades blows with Tony, firing the gun. Tony has the Iron Man-glove over the barrel, blocking the bullet. He pulls the gun barrel loose then Steve smacks him backwards. Patrick rushes Steve, then Natasha rushes Steve. They both land kicks and punches, then Steve flips Patrick head over heels. He smashes onto a table then Natasha leaps on Steve, legs around his neck. He slams her onto another table and grabs her throat.]
Natasha Romanoff: You could at least recognize me.
[T'Challa comes from nowhere and kicks Steve off Natasha. He fights with Steve, landing lightning fast kicks and some punches. Steve gets a counter punch in and T'Challa falls, but quickly recovers. Steve hurries up some stairs. T'Challa leaps the levels and vaults a railing, landing in front of Steve. Limber T'Challa spin-kicks and grabs Steve's metal arm which he tries to twist then looks worried as he realizes it isn't going to work. He throws Steve backwards and keeps hold as they both tumble down the stairs. They resume fighting on the small landing and a leg sweep sends Steve over the railing. T'Challa leaps down after him but finds the wide reception empty. He scans around.]
[Outside staff flee the building en masse. Sam is among them and quickly spots something on the ground. He picks it up.]
Sam Wilson: Damn it. [he looks around the wide courtyard and scowls.]
[Steve's on the rooftop helipad. He marches up to a blue chopper and pulls the lock off the door. he gets in the pilot seat. Peggy rushes outside and sprints toward the rising chopper. She leaps and grabs the landing gear. Muscles bulging Peggy pulls hard and the chopper struggles to gain height. Peggy's feet kick for traction then she gets them flat on the helipad. The chopper drags her onto the weak looking mesh framing the helipad. Peggy grabs the railing with one hand and clings to the landing gear with the other. She grits her teeth and her neck strains with the incredible effort. Steve glowers from inside the chopper then throws the joystick left and the chopper's nose slams into the edge of the helipad. The rotor-blades are smashed to pieces and Peggy ducks as the tail swings around. The chopper lies twisted on the mesh at the edge of the pad. Peggy rises beside the canopy. Steve's arm smashes through the glass and growling he grabs Peggy's throat. The chopper starts to list over the edge. The tail breaks off and falls into the river below. Steve keeps hold of Peggy as the whole vehicle drops and slams into the river. The impact seems to knock Steve out cold and he lets go of Peggy. The body of the chopper sinks quickly to the riverbed along with other debris. Peggy surfaces with Steve in her arms.]
[At an airport Zemo listens to a phone message.:]
Zemo's Wife: He asked me again if you were going to be there. I said I wasn't sure. You should've seen his little face. Just try, okay? I'm going to bed. I love you.
[Frowning Zemo ends the call. A TV news report is playing nearby:]
News anchor #5: Steve Rogers, der mit dem Bombenanschlag auf die UN in Wien in Verbindung gebracht wird, ist heute aus der Haft entflohen. Ebenfalls vermisst werden die Avengers Captain Peggy Carter und Sam Wilson. ([subtitled:] Steve Rogers, the suspect in the UN Vienna bombing escaped custody today. Also missing Avenger Captain Peggy Carter and Sam Wilson.)
[Zemo eyes the TV screen. He stands in line at a departures gate. The screen above the gate reads: 'Gate 06 | Berlin Flughafen | AEM2103 | 14:10 | Moskau/Moscow']
[In a huge abandoned warehouse Steve comes to with his metallic left arm clamped in a huge industrial vice. Peggy peers through a gap at a chopper flying overhead. Sam's over by Steve.]
Sam Wilson: Hey, Cap! [Peggy goes over to join Sam by Steve who sits with his arm in the vice. They stare at him.]
Steve Rogers: Peggy.
Peggy Carter: Which Steve am I talking to?
Steve Rogers: The one that owes you a dance. The one that saw you throw weights into a wall when you got pissed.
Peggy Carter: I guess you are my Steve after all.
Sam Wilson: Just like that, we're suppose to be cool?
Steve Rogers: What did I do?
Peggy Carter: Enough.
Steve Rogers: I knew this would happen. Everything HYDRA put inside me is still there. All he had to do was say the goddamn words.
Peggy Carter: Who is he?
Steve Rogers: I don't know.
Peggy Carter: People are dead. The bombing, the setup. The doctor did all that just to get 10 minutes with you. I need you to do better than "I don't know."
Steve Rogers: He wanted to know about Siberia. Where I was kept. He wanted to know exactly where.
Peggy Carter: Why would he need to know that?
Steve Rogers: Because I'm not the only Winter Soldier.
[1991, at night Steve rides alongside the car and somehow causes the car to crash. He circles back, pulls up and climbs off the motorbike. he's filmed on CCTV as he approaches the car's trunk. He janks it open, breaking the lock. Inside he opens a metal case which contains five clear drip bags filled with bright blue fluid.]
[Four young men and a young woman sit up in hospital beds. The blue fluid is fed intravenously into their arms. The drip bags hang on stands beside them. They're all fit and muscular. One man, Josef, flexes a huge biceps. Josef is screaming, dragged into a cell and left on a bed.]
Josef / Super Soldier #1: It hurts! [He struggles in leather bindings. A viewing slot is closed.]
[Karpov is sitting at a desk in a corridor, making notes and listening. Karpov opens the door to a lab and switches on the light. Josef is sitting on a bed. He looks up at Karpov.]
[Steve and Josef fight each other in a barred chamber. The four others who were given the blue liquid are there. Josef kicks with enormous power, sending Steve flying. Watching Karpov folds his arms.
Vasily Karpov: Очень хорошо, Иосиф. ([subtitled] Good work.)
[A medic takes Josef's pulse and Josef slams him onto the floor. A soldier clubs Josef onto the back with no effect. Karpov gets behind Steve and aims a gun.]
Vasily Karpov: Солдат, вытащи меня отсюда! ([subtitled] Get me out of here.)
[Josef and the other four Winter Soldiers effortlessly dispatch a squad of Soldiers. Steve escorts covering Karpov from the barred chamber, batting guards aside.]
Peggy Carter: Who were they?
Steve Rogers: Their most elite death squad. More kills than anyone in HYDRA history. And that was before the serum.
Sam Wilson: They all turn out like you?
Steve Rogers: Worse.
Peggy Carter: The doctor, could he control them?
Steve Rogers: Enough.
Peggy Carter: He said he wanted to see an empire fall.
Steve Rogers: With these guys he could do it. They speak 30 languages, can hide in plain sight, infiltrate, assassinate, destabilize, They can take a whole country down in one night. You'd never see them coming.
Sam Wilson: [Sam steps up to Peggy.] This would have been a lot easier a week ago.
Peggy Carter: If we call Tony . . .
Sam Wilson: No, he won't believe us.
Peggy Carter: Even if he did . . .
Sam Wilson: Who knows if the Accords would let him help.
Peggy Carter: We're on our own.
Sam Wilson: Maybe not. I know a guy.
Helmut Zemo: Возвращение на Родину. Возвращение на Родину. Один. Один. Грузовой вагон… Грузовой вагон. Грузов- ([subtitled] Homecoming. One. One. Fright Car.) [Knocking at the door. He puts the book in a drawer and goes to the door. He reaches for a gun tucked in the back of his trouser and cocks it.]
German Innkeeper: Herr Müller, ich habe Ihr Frühstück. ([subtitled] Mr. Müller. I have your breakfast.) [Zemo opens the door.]
Helmut Zemo: Ich konnte es schon von weitem riechen. Danke. ([subtitled] I could smell it before I opened the door. Thank you.)
German Innkeeper: Speck und schwarzer Kaffe. Wieder. Ich kann Ihnen auch was anderes machen, wenn Sie das möchten. ([subtitled] Side of bacon and black coffee. Again. I can make you something different, if you like.)
Helmut Zemo: Bitte sehr, das ist wunderbar. ([subtitled] It's okay. This is wonderful.)
German Innkeeper: Ich stell es dann mal hier hin… ([subtitled] I'll put this on your . . .)
Helmut Zemo: Nein, nein. Das geht schon. Ich mach das. Vielen Dank, Frau Leiber. ([subtitled] No, no. It's okay. I can manage. Thank you Mrs. Leiber.) [Zemo closes the door. In the room is a large device with a cage at the bottom and a drum of coppered wire on top.]
[Bucharest. Steve is in civvies at a fruit store. He buys some plums!]
Steve Rogers: [talking to the vendor in Romanian] ([assumed translation] How are they? Are they good? Give me six, thank you.[2])
[In a black cap and casual jacket Steve walks along scanning around. Across the street he spots a twenty-something vender at a news-stand watching him. Steve glances away, then looks back at the vender who's still watching him. The vender runs from his kiosk. Steve goes over and picks up a paper. On the front page there are surveillance-photos of a man and the head line: 'Winter Soldier cautat pentru Bombardmentul din Viena'. Steve glances around tensely.]
[In her dark blue, armored suit with her shield on her arm Peggy is in a small apartment. She looks around, there's a mattress with disheveled covers and various bits of cheap looking furniture. The kitchen and bedroom are in the same room. Peggy finds a notebook on top of the fridge. She picks it up and opens it. There are tabs of varying colors sticking out from amongst the pages.]
Sam Wilson: [on radio] Heads up, Cap. German Special Forces, approaching from the south.
Peggy Carter: Understood. [Steve's standing behind Peggy. Peggy slowly turns around to face him.] Do you know me?
Steve Rogers: [Steve stares at her.] You're Peggy. I read about you in a museum.
Sam Wilson: They've set the perimeter.
Peggy Carter: I know you're nervous. And you have plenty of reason to be. But you're lying.
Steve Rogers: I wasn't in Vienna. I don't do that anymore.
Sam Wilson: They're entering the building.
Peggy Carter: Well, the people who think you did are coming here now. And they're not planning on taking you alive.
Steve Rogers: That's smart. Good strategy.
Sam Wilson: They're on the roof. I'm compromised.
[Armed cops run upstairs.]
Peggy Carter: This doesn't have end in a fight, Steve.
[Outside the door a cop readies a battering ram.]
Steve Rogers: It always ends in a fight.
Sam Wilson: 5 seconds.
Peggy Carter: You pulled me from the river. Why?
Steve Rogers: I don't know.
Sam Wilson: 3 seconds!
Peggy Carter: Yes, you do.
Sam Wilson: Breach! Breach! Breach! [A grenade crashes through the window. Steve kicks it to Peggy, and she smothers it with her shield.]
GSG-9 Soldier: Schieß die Tür auf! (Shoot the door!) [The cop slams the battering ram against the door. Steve shields himself with the mattress against an attack from the window. He blocks the door with a table as cops swing in on cables. Peggy pulls the rug from under a policeman, sending him flying. Steve slams another policeman into the wall.]
Peggy Carter: Steve, stop! You're gonna kill someone.
Steve Rogers: [Steve slams Peggy down and punches a hole in the floor.] I'm not gonna kill anyone.
[Steve grabs a backpack from under the floorboards and throws it out of the window. Steve and Peggy get behind Peggy's shield to avoid gunfire. Steve shoves Peggy and she knocks a cop over. Steve holds up his metal hand and repells bullets, then slams a cop into shelves. Steve picks up a large cement brick and slams it into a cop. Peggy fights a cop on the balcony. A cop shoots around the door outside. Steve punches through the wall beside he door. He lays into the cops. A cop descends through a sky-light on a zip wire. Steve grabs the cop's gun and slams him into the wall. Steve bashes a couple of cops with the battering ram. More of the police team hurry up the stairwell. Steve jumps on the zip-line-guy and swings down a level.]
GSG-9 Soldier: Der Verdächtige ist ausgebrochen. Er ist am östlichen Treppenschacht. ([subtitled] Suspect has broken containment! He's headed down the east stairwell!)
[Peggy grabs the radio and crushes it. Peggy jumps down a level as Steve keeps punching the cops. Steve tosses one of them over the railing and Peggy catches him, stopping the cop from falling. She looks at Steve wearily.]
Peggy Carter: Be careful, please.
[Peggy throws the cop up onto the landing. Steve breaks a banister and swings down on it. Peggy hurls a cop over her shoulders. Steve lays into yet more cops and takes them out. A cop aims at Steve and Peggy knocks the gun from his hands with her shield which sticks in the wall. Steve leaps down the stairwell and catches onto a railing. Peggy pulls her shield out of the wall. Steve climbs up then runs along a corridor and leaps off a balcony. He tumbles onto the lower roof of the neighboring building where he finds where his backpack. he picks it up and runs.]
[A muscular man clad entirely in black, Black Panther, slams into Steve from behind, knocking him down. He has a full face mask with pointed ears. He extends his fingers and sharp claws pop out. He attacks Steve with sweeping kicks and slashes. Steve fights back but is kicked into a wall. Black Panther swipes his claws and spins gracefully. Steve narrowly avoids being slashed, he holds up a metal bar to protect himself.]
[Peggy looks down at them as Falcon swoops from the sky.]
Peggy Carter: Sam, southwest rooftop.
Sam Wilson: Who the hell's the other guy?
Peggy Carter: About to find out.
[Peggy leaps from the balcony down onto the neighboring building as a chopper flies up. Black Panther lunges at Steve with his claws, but Steve grabs his wrists. A soldier fires a machine gun from the chopper. The ammo bounces off Black Panther's armored suit.]
Peggy Carter: Sam.
Sam Wilson: Got him. [Sam flies down and shoves the chopper off course. Then swoops towards street level.]
[Steve breaks free from his attacker, slings his bag on his back, runs and jumps down a level. Black Panther slides down the wall using his claws for traction. Steve lands at street level and the chase continues. Peggy follows and lands rolling along the ground. Gunfire from the chopper tears up the sidewalk. Steve jumps down through an opening and lands in an underpass, he runs through the traffic. Black Panther and Captain Britain drops down and chases after Steve. A Special Forces Vehicle pursues them.]
GSG-9 Driver: Stand down! Stand down! [The vehicle closes in, blue lights flashing. Peggy leaps onto the vehicle and splinters the windshield. The driver stops, Peggy yanks him from the vehicle and kicks the windshield out, then drives off.]
[Steve runs over the top of a speeding car, outpacing it. Black Panther is a few cars behind, keeping pace with Steve. he leaps on the back of the 4x4 that Peggy's driving. Peggy swerves from side to side, trying to throw him off.]
Peggy Carter: Sam, I can't shake this guy.
Sam Wilson: Right behind you.
[Several police cars join the chase. Peggy side-swipes another car and drives on.]
[Up ahead Steve reaches a fork in the road and faces oncoming traffic. He leaps over a barrier. Peggy drives through the barrier.]
[A motorbike speeds towards Steve. Steve grabs the handlebar and spins the bike around in mid air, throwing the rider off. Steve gets on the bike and rides away sending cars careering out of the way. Peggy keeps on Steve's tail with Black Panther holding onto the back of the 4x4. They all rocket through another underpass. Sam flies into the underpass. Black Panther leaps off the front of the 4x4 onto Steve's motorbike. Steve flings him over his head and the bike leans down on its side. Steve kicks his assailant away, straightens up and rides on. Black Panther catches a ride on Falcon's leg. Sam tries to kick Black Panther away. Steve throws a sticky bomb and blows up the roof at the end of the underpass, bringing down tons of rubble. Black Panther leaps off from Falcon and throws Steve off the motorbike. Peggy swerves the 4x4 through the rubble, leaps out and pulls Black Panther away from Steve. Peggy stands, facing sleek and muscular Black Panther. Armed police arrive and surround them, guns aimed. War Machine leaps down from above and raises both hands.]
James Rhodes: Stand down, now. [Steve stands beside Peggy who puts her shield on her back.] Congratulations, Cap. You're a criminal. [Police move in and force Steve to his knees. Black Panther raises his hands. A cop moves Peggy's arms behind her back. Black Panther retracts his claws and pulls off his mask revealing his face. It's T'Challa. Peggy and Rhodes look curious.]
GSG-9 Soldier: Wie lautet der Befehl? (What's the order?)
James Rhodes: Your highness. [Steve's hauled flat on the ground.]
[Avengers HQ. Vision follows a recipe.]
Vision: 'A pinch of paprika.' A pinch. [He adds a pinch. Wanda strolls in.]
Wanda Maximoff: Is that paprikash?
Vision: I thought it might . . . lift your spirits.
Wanda Maximoff: [She chuckles, stirs the ingredients in the pan with a spoon. She lifts the spoon to her lips, blows and has a taste. She smiles.] Spirits lifted.
Vision: In my defense, I haven't actually ever . . . eaten anything before, so . . .
Wanda Maximoff: May I?
Vision: Please. Wanda?
Wanda Maximoff: Hmm.
Vision: No one dislikes you, Wanda. [She frowns curiously.]
Wanda Maximoff: Thanks.
Vision: Oh, you're welcome. No, it's a . . . involuntary response in their amygdala. They can't help but be afraid of you.
Wanda Maximoff: Are you?
Vision: My amygdala is synthetic, so . . . [Wanda laughs.]
Wanda Maximoff: I used to think of myself one way. But after this . . . [her fingers glow.] I am something else. I'm still me, I think, but . . . that's not what everyone else sees.
Vision: [He touches the mind stone in his forehead.] Do you know, I don't know what this is? [It glows.] Not really. I know it's not of this world, that it powered Loki's staff, gave you your abilities, but . . . its true nature is a mystery. And yet, it is part of me.
Wanda Maximoff: Are you afraid of it?
Vision: I wish to understand it. The more I do, the less it controls me. One day . . . who knows? I may even control it.
Wanda Maximoff: [Wanda looks at the food.] I don't know what's in this but it is not paprika. I'm gonna go to the store. I'll be back in 20 minutes.
Vision: Alternatively, we could order a pizza?
Wanda Maximoff: Vision, are you not letting me leave?
Vision: [He blocks her way.] It is a question of safety.
Wanda Maximoff: I can protect myself.
Vision: [He holds her arm.] Not yours. Mr. Stark would like to avoid the possibility of another public incident. Until the Accords are on a . . . more secured foundation.
Wanda Maximoff: And what do you want?
Vision: For people to see you . . . as I do. [She looks at him gravely.]
[Berlin, day. Traffic rolls around the victory column. Police convoy drives beside the river Spree. Amidst the convoy is a gray armed truck. Inside Steve wears restraints inside a prison pod. Three armed guards sit on the other side of the glass-walled pod. A police motorbike stops traffic and a van driver looks affronted. The convoy turns a corner onto a bridge across the river. In an SUV T'Challa sits in front of Peggy who sits in front of Sam.]
Sam Wilson: So, you like cats?
Peggy Carter: Sam.
Sam Wilson: What? Dude shows up dressed like a cat and you don't wanna know more?
Peggy Carter: Your suit . . . it's Vibranium?
T'Challa: [T'Challas eyes narrow as he glances sideways.] The Black Panther has been the protector of Wakanda for generations. A mantle, passed from warrior to warrior. And now, because your friend murdered my father, I also wear the mantle of king. So, I ask you . . . as both warrior and king . . . how long do you think you can keep your friend safe from me? [Peggy is stony faced as the convoy heads underground.]
[In a light gray walled bunker Steve's pod is carried away by a forklift. Nearby Peggy gets out of the SUV and glances across at Steve who doesn't spot her. With Sam and T'Challa Peggy approaches Patrick who's standing with a diminutive, gray-head man.]
Peggy Carter: What's going to happen to him?
Everett Ross: Same thing that ought to happen to you. Psychological evaluation and extradition.
Patrick Barnes: This is Everett Ross, Deputy Task Force Commander.
Peggy Carter: What about our lawyer?
Everett Ross: Lawyer. That's funny. See their weapons are placed in lockup. Oh, we'll write you a receipt.
Sam Wilson: I better not look out the window and see anybody flying around in that. [As they go Peggy looks back and catches Steve's eye.]
[On a covered sky walk.]
Everett Ross: You'll be provided with an office instead of a cell. Now, do me a favor, stay in it?
T'Challa: I don't intend on going anywhere.
Natasha Romanoff: For the record, this is what making things worse looks like.
Peggy Carter: He's alive.
Tony Stark: [on his phone] No. Romania was not Accords-sanctioned. And, Colonel Rhodes is supervising cleanup.
Natasha Romanoff: Try not to break anything while we fix this.
Tony Stark: [still on the phone.] Consequences? You bet there'll be consequences. Obviously you can quote me on that 'cause I just said it. Anything else? Thank you, sir.
Peggy Carter: 'Consequences'?
Tony Stark: Secretary Ross wants you both prosecuted. Had to give him something.
Peggy Carter: I'm not getting that shield back, am I?
Natasha Romanoff: Technically, it's the government's property. Wings, too.
Sam Wilson: That's cold.
Tony Stark: Warmer than jail.
[At a power station surrounded by trees the van with the driver who was affronted by the police convoy pulls up by the open gate. Scowling he puts the parking break on and picks up a clip board.]
Delivery Truck Driver: Das kann nicht richtig sein. Was zum Teufel? (This can't be right. What the hell?)
[In a secured chamber a guard connects a pipe to Steve's prison pod. The lights inside dim for a moment.]
[Tony finds Peggy in a glass-walled office overlooking the control room.]
Tony Stark: Hey, you wanna see something cool? I pulled something from Dad's archives. Felt timely. [Tony shows her two pens in a black presentation box.] FDR signed the Lend-Lease bill with these in 1941. Provided support to the Allies when they needed it most.
Peggy Carter: Some would say it brought our countries closer to war.
Tony Stark: See? If not for these, you wouldn't be here. I'm trying to . . . what do you call it? That's an olive branch. Is that what you call it?
Peggy Carter: Is Pepper here? I didn't see her.
Tony Stark: We're kinda . . . well, not kinda . . .
Peggy Carter: Pregnant?
Tony Stark: No. Definitely not. We're taking a break. It's nobody's fault.
Peggy Carter: I'm so sorry, Tony. I didn't know.
Tony Stark: A few years ago, I almost lost her, so I trashed all my suits. Then, we had to mop up HYDRA . . . and then Ultron. My fault. And then, and then, and then, I never stopped. Because the truth is I don't wanna stop. I don't wanna lose her. I thought maybe the Accords could split the difference. [Tony stands up and paces.] In her defense, I'm a handful. Yet, Dad was a pain in the ass, but he and Mom always made it work.
Peggy Carter: You know, I'm glad Howard got married. I only knew him when he was young and single.
Tony Stark: Oh, really? You two knew each other? He never mentioned that. Maybe only a thousand times. God, I hated you.
Peggy Carter: I don't mean to make things difficult.
Tony Stark: I know, because you're a very polite person.
Peggy Carter: If I see something going wrong, I can't ignore it. Sometimes I wish I could.
Tony Stark: No, you don't.
Peggy Carter: [Peggy smiles thinly.] No, I don't. Sometimes . . .
Tony Stark: We have our differences, but I don't wanna see you gone. We need you, Cap. So far, nothing's happened that can't be undone, if you sign. We can make the last 24 hours legit. Rogers gets transferred to an American psych-center . . . instead of a Wakandan prison.
Peggy Carter: [Peggy frowns thoughtfully and picks up one of the fountain pens. She stands up and paces, then turns to Tony. In the control room beyond there are multiple screens on the walls.] I'm not saying it's impossible, but there would have to be safeguards.
Tony Stark: Sure. Once we put out the PR fire, those documents can be amended. I'd file a motion to have you and Wanda reinstated . . .
Peggy Carter: Wanda? What about Wanda?
Tony Stark: She's fine. She's confined to the compound, currently. Vision's keeping her company.
Peggy Carter: Oh God, Tony! Every time. Every time I think you see things the right way . . .
Tony Stark: What? It's a 100 acres with a lap pool. It's got a screening room. There's worse ways to protect people.
Peggy Carter: Protection? Is that how you see this? This is protection? It's internment, Tony.
Tony Stark: She's not a US citizen.
Peggy Carter: Oh, come on, Tony.
Tony Stark: And they don't grant visas to weapons of mass destruction.
Peggy Carter: She's a kid!
Tony Stark: GIVE ME A BREAK! I'm doing what has to be done . . . to stave off something worse.
Peggy Carter: [Peggy nods faintly.] You keep telling yourself that. [She puts the pen down.] I wouldn't want to damage an heirloom. [She leaves the office and rueful Tony watches Steve on one of the control room's screens.]
Helmut Zemo: [The evaluator sits at a desk facing Steve's pod. Inside Steve's still restrained.] Hello, Mr. Rogers. I've been sent by the United Nations to evaluate you. Do you mind if I sit? Your first name is Steve?
Patrick Barnes: [In an office with Sam and Peggy.] The receipt for your gear.
Sam Wilson: 'Bird costume'? Come on.
Patrick Barnes: I didn't write it. [Patrick pushes a button witch stops the restriction on the audio from Steve's evaluation.]
Helmut Zemo: I'm not here to judge you. I just want to ask you a few questions. Do you know where you are, Steve? I can't help you if you don't talk to me, Steve.
Steve Rogers: I don't want your help.
[At the power station. The van driver honks and looks impatient watching the custodian's hut's front door.]
Delivery Truck Driver: Hallo? ([subtitled] Hello?) [The custodian comes outside and the driver comes out of his van.] Hey. Ich hab eine große für dich. ([subtitled] Hey. I have a big one for you.) [He opens the van's back doors and removes a large wooden crate.] Ja. Okay, hier unterzeichnen. (Okay. Here. Just sign here.)
Custodian: Hier? (Here?)
Delivery Truck Driver: Ja. (Yeah.) [The custodian signs for the crate.]
[At the UN-bunker Peggy studies the blurry photograph of the man who bombed the congress in Vienna.]
Peggy Carter: Why would the Task Force release this photo to begin with?
Patrick Barnes: Get the word out, involve as many eyes as we can?
Peggy Carter: Right. It's a good way to flush a guy out of hiding. Set off a bomb, get your picture taken. Get seven billion people looking for the Winter Soldier.
Patrick Barnes: You're saying someone framed him to find him.
Sam Wilson: Peggy, we looked for the guy for two years and found nothing.
Peggy Carter: We didn't bomb the UN. That turns a lot of heads.
Patrick Barnes: Yeah, but that doesn't guarantee that whoever framed him would get him. It guarantees that we would. [Patrick's gaze falls on the evaluator in the screen, his eyes narrow.]
Peggy Carter: [Peggy frowns and looks around.] Yeah.
Helmut Zemo: [In the secure chamber.] Tell me, Steve. You've seen a great deal, haven't you?
Steve Rogers: I don't want to talk about it.
Helmut Zemo: You fear that… if you open your mouth, the horrors might never stop. Don't worry. [Zemo gets a message on his screen: 'message inbox:1' touches it 'status: package delivered'.] We only have to talk about one.
[At the power station the custodian opens the crate. Finding Zemo's large device inside, he looks confused. The driver is at the back door of his van.]
Custodian: Hey, was ist das? (Hey. What is this?)
Delivery Truck Driver: Ich weiß es nicht. (I don't know.)
[The device erupts. A bubble of energy engulfs the power station and sparks fly. In the city traffic lights fail. In the bunker the lights go out.]
Everett Ross: Great. Come on, guys, get me eyes on Rogers. Go.
Tony Stark: FRIDAY, get me the source of that outage.
Patrick Barnes: [In the office.] Sub-level 5, east wing. [T'Challa spots Peggy and Sam bolting.]
[In Steve's pod.]
Steve Rogers: What the hell is this?
Helmut Zemo: Why don't we discuss your home? Not Romania. Certainly not Brooklyn, no. I mean, your real home. [Zemo removes his glasses then walks towards Steve reading from the red book by torchlight.] Желание. ([subtitled] Longing.)
Steve Rogers: [Steve shuts his eyes.] No. [Steve's head snaps back.]
Helmut Zemo: Ржавый. ([subtitled] Rusted.)
Steve Rogers: Stop.
Helmut Zemo: Семнадцать. ([subtitled] Seventeen.)
Steve Rogers: [Steve's metal arm trembles in its restraint.] Stop. [He sneers angrily.]
Helmut Zemo: Рассвет. ([subtitled] Daybreak.)
[Steve screams, clenches his fist and rips free of his restraints.]
Helmut Zemo: Печь. ([subtitled] Furnace.) Девять. ([subtitled] Nine.)
[Steve thumps the inside of the pod.]
Helmut Zemo: Добросердечный. ([subtitled] Benign.)
[Steve punches harder.]
Helmut Zemo: Возвращение на Родину. ([subtitled] Homecoming.) Один. ([subtitled:] One.) Грузовой вагон. ([subtitled] Freight car.)
[Steve batteres the front of the pod with his metal fist and the glass screen flies clear. Zemo slowly rounds the pod with the book and the torch in hand. he stands before Steve who straightens, a dark frown on his face.]
Helmut Zemo: Солдат? ([subtitled] Soldier?)
Steve Rogers: Я готов отвечать. ([subtitled] Ready to comply.)
Helmut Zemo: Mission report. December 16, 1991.
[Peggy and Sam arrive outside the chamber. Red emergency lights flash all around. There are many agents slumped on the floor. All of them out cold.]
Helmut Zemo: Help me. Help.
Peggy Carter: [Peggy finds Zemo in a heap inside the chamber.] Get up. [she grabs Zemo and shoves him against the wall.] Who are you? What do you want?
Helmut Zemo: To see an empire fall.
[As Sam enters Steve swings his fist which smashes through the wall as Sam ducks. Steve grabs him by the jaw and throws him at the open pod. Peggy lurches into the fight and lands a punch which Steve barely feels. Steve kicks and punches Peggy out of the chamber. A punch from Steve goes through the elevator door. Peggy blocks the next one but the power of Steve's fist sends Peggy tumbling into the darkened elevator shaft.]
[In the chamber Sam comes around and spots Zemo looking down the elevator shaft.]
Man on PA #1: Der Ostflügel ist kompromittiert. Ich wiederhole: Der Ostflügel ist kompromittiert. (The east wing is compromised. I repeat: the east wing is compromised.)
Sam Wilson: Hey.
[Zemo bolts, Sam rises. At the bottom of the shaft Peggy pushes herself off the floor.]
[In the control room.]
Everett Ross: Evac all civilians. Get me a perimeter around the building, and gunships in the air.
Natasha Romanoff: Please tell me you brought a suit.
Tony Stark: Sure did. It's a lovely Tom Ford, three-piece, two-button. I'm an active-duty non-combatant.
Patrick Barnes: Follow me. [Patrick runs past Tony and Natasha.]
[Sam chases Zemo up a stair well.]
[Peggy starts to climb the elevator shaft.]
[Steve stalks through the building's ground floor. He batters two guards. With tech-glasses on Tony takes cover behind a pillar.]
Natasha Romanoff: [on radio:] We're in position.
[Tony taps a wrist-control which becomes his Iron Man-glove. He zaps Steve with a stun-burst before Steve can shoot a guard. Tony rushes him, firing again. Steve ducks the blast then trades blows with Tony, firing the gun. Tony has the Iron Man-glove over the barrel, blocking the bullet. He pulls the gun barrel loose then Steve smacks him backwards. Patrick rushes Steve, then Natasha rushes Steve. They both land kicks and punches, then Steve flips Patrick head over heels. He smashes onto a table then Natasha leaps on Steve, legs around his neck. He slams her onto another table and grabs her throat.]
Natasha Romanoff: You could at least recognize me.
[T'Challa comes from nowhere and kicks Steve off Natasha. He fights with Steve, landing lightning fast kicks and some punches. Steve gets a counter punch in and T'Challa falls, but quickly recovers. Steve hurries up some stairs. T'Challa leaps the levels and vaults a railing, landing in front of Steve. Limber T'Challa spin-kicks and grabs Steve's metal arm which he tries to twist then looks worried as he realizes it isn't going to work. He throws Steve backwards and keeps hold as they both tumble down the stairs. They resume fighting on the small landing and a leg sweep sends Steve over the railing. T'Challa leaps down after him but finds the wide reception empty. He scans around.]
[Outside staff flee the building en masse. Sam is among them and quickly spots something on the ground. He picks it up.]
Sam Wilson: Damn it. [he looks around the wide courtyard and scowls.]
[Steve's on the rooftop helipad. He marches up to a blue chopper and pulls the lock off the door. he gets in the pilot seat. Peggy rushes outside and sprints toward the rising chopper. She leaps and grabs the landing gear. Muscles bulging Peggy pulls hard and the chopper struggles to gain height. Peggy's feet kick for traction then she gets them flat on the helipad. The chopper drags her onto the weak looking mesh framing the helipad. Peggy grabs the railing with one hand and clings to the landing gear with the other. She grits her teeth and her neck strains with the incredible effort. Steve glowers from inside the chopper then throws the joystick left and the chopper's nose slams into the edge of the helipad. The rotor-blades are smashed to pieces and Peggy ducks as the tail swings around. The chopper lies twisted on the mesh at the edge of the pad. Peggy rises beside the canopy. Steve's arm smashes through the glass and growling he grabs Peggy's throat. The chopper starts to list over the edge. The tail breaks off and falls into the river below. Steve keeps hold of Peggy as the whole vehicle drops and slams into the river. The impact seems to knock Steve out cold and he lets go of Peggy. The body of the chopper sinks quickly to the riverbed along with other debris. Peggy surfaces with Steve in her arms.]
[At an airport Zemo listens to a phone message.:]
Zemo's Wife: He asked me again if you were going to be there. I said I wasn't sure. You should've seen his little face. Just try, okay? I'm going to bed. I love you.
[Frowning Zemo ends the call. A TV news report is playing nearby:]
News anchor #5: Steve Rogers, der mit dem Bombenanschlag auf die UN in Wien in Verbindung gebracht wird, ist heute aus der Haft entflohen. Ebenfalls vermisst werden die Avengers Captain Peggy Carter und Sam Wilson. ([subtitled:] Steve Rogers, the suspect in the UN Vienna bombing escaped custody today. Also missing Avenger Captain Peggy Carter and Sam Wilson.)
[Zemo eyes the TV screen. He stands in line at a departures gate. The screen above the gate reads: 'Gate 06 | Berlin Flughafen | AEM2103 | 14:10 | Moskau/Moscow']
[In a huge abandoned warehouse Steve comes to with his metallic left arm clamped in a huge industrial vice. Peggy peers through a gap at a chopper flying overhead. Sam's over by Steve.]
Sam Wilson: Hey, Cap! [Peggy goes over to join Sam by Steve who sits with his arm in the vice. They stare at him.]
Steve Rogers: Peggy.
Peggy Carter: Which Steve am I talking to?
Steve Rogers: The one that owes you a dance. The one that saw you throw weights into a wall when you got pissed.
Peggy Carter: I guess you are my Steve after all.
Sam Wilson: Just like that, we're suppose to be cool?
Steve Rogers: What did I do?
Peggy Carter: Enough.
Steve Rogers: I knew this would happen. Everything HYDRA put inside me is still there. All he had to do was say the goddamn words.
Peggy Carter: Who is he?
Steve Rogers: I don't know.
Peggy Carter: People are dead. The bombing, the setup. The doctor did all that just to get 10 minutes with you. I need you to do better than "I don't know."
Steve Rogers: He wanted to know about Siberia. Where I was kept. He wanted to know exactly where.
Peggy Carter: Why would he need to know that?
Steve Rogers: Because I'm not the only Winter Soldier.
[1991, at night Steve rides alongside the car and somehow causes the car to crash. He circles back, pulls up and climbs off the motorbike. he's filmed on CCTV as he approaches the car's trunk. He janks it open, breaking the lock. Inside he opens a metal case which contains five clear drip bags filled with bright blue fluid.]
[Four young men and a young woman sit up in hospital beds. The blue fluid is fed intravenously into their arms. The drip bags hang on stands beside them. They're all fit and muscular. One man, Josef, flexes a huge biceps. Josef is screaming, dragged into a cell and left on a bed.]
Josef / Super Soldier #1: It hurts! [He struggles in leather bindings. A viewing slot is closed.]
[Karpov is sitting at a desk in a corridor, making notes and listening. Karpov opens the door to a lab and switches on the light. Josef is sitting on a bed. He looks up at Karpov.]
[Steve and Josef fight each other in a barred chamber. The four others who were given the blue liquid are there. Josef kicks with enormous power, sending Steve flying. Watching Karpov folds his arms.
Vasily Karpov: Очень хорошо, Иосиф. ([subtitled] Good work.)
[A medic takes Josef's pulse and Josef slams him onto the floor. A soldier clubs Josef onto the back with no effect. Karpov gets behind Steve and aims a gun.]
Vasily Karpov: Солдат, вытащи меня отсюда! ([subtitled] Get me out of here.)
[Josef and the other four Winter Soldiers effortlessly dispatch a squad of Soldiers. Steve escorts covering Karpov from the barred chamber, batting guards aside.]
Peggy Carter: Who were they?
Steve Rogers: Their most elite death squad. More kills than anyone in HYDRA history. And that was before the serum.
Sam Wilson: They all turn out like you?
Steve Rogers: Worse.
Peggy Carter: The doctor, could he control them?
Steve Rogers: Enough.
Peggy Carter: He said he wanted to see an empire fall.
Steve Rogers: With these guys he could do it. They speak 30 languages, can hide in plain sight, infiltrate, assassinate, destabilize, They can take a whole country down in one night. You'd never see them coming.
Sam Wilson: [Sam steps up to Peggy.] This would have been a lot easier a week ago.
Peggy Carter: If we call Tony . . .
Sam Wilson: No, he won't believe us.
Peggy Carter: Even if he did . . .
Sam Wilson: Who knows if the Accords would let him help.
Peggy Carter: We're on our own.
Sam Wilson: Maybe not. I know a guy.
Secretary Ross: I don't suppose you have any idea where they are?
Tony Stark: We will. GSG-9's got the borders covered. Recon's flying 24/7. They'll get a hit. We'll handle it.
Secretary Ross: You don't get it, Stark. It's not yours to handle. It's clear you can't be objective. I'm putting Special Ops on this.
Natasha Romanoff: What happens when the shooting starts? What, do you kill Peggy Carter?
Secretary Ross: If we're provoked. Rogers would've been eliminated in Romania if it wasn't for Carter. There are dead people who would be alive now. Feel free to check my math.
Tony Stark: All due respect, you're not going to solve this with boys in bullets, Ross. You gotta let us bring them in.
Secretary Ross: How would that end any differently from the last time?
Tony Stark: Because this time, I won't be wearing loafers and a silk shirt. 72 hours, guaranteed.
Secretary Ross: 36 hours. Rogers. Carter. Wilson.
Tony Stark: Thank you, sir. [Tony slumps, exhaling.] My left arm is numb, is that normal?
Natasha Romanoff: [She pats him on the shoulder.] You alright?
Tony Stark: Always. [He has a massive black eye and a cut on his brow.] 36 hours, jeez.
Natasha Romanoff: We're seriously understaffed.
Tony Stark: Oh, yeah. It'd be great if we had a Hulk right about now. Any shot?
Natasha Romanoff: No. You really think he'd be on our side?
Tony Stark: No.
Natasha Romanoff: I have an idea.
Tony Stark: Me too. Where's yours?
Natasha Romanoff: Downstairs. Where's yours? [Tony smiles slightly.]
[Queens, New York. Peter Parker walks out of an elevator holding a DVD-player and with a backpack on his shoulder. He walks into an apartment where his Aunt May is sitting on the couch with Tony Stark.]
Peter Parker: Hey, May.
May Parker: Mmm. Hey. How was school today?
Peter Parker: Okay. This crazy car was parked outside . . . [Peter sees Tony and his eyes widen.]
Tony Stark: Oh, Mr. Parker.
Peter Parker: Um . . . [He takes out his earphones.] What-what are you doing . . .? Hey! Uh, I'm-I'm-I'm Peter.
Tony Stark: Tony.
Peter Parker: What are . . .what are you-what are you-what are you doing here?
Tony Stark: It's about time we met. You've been getting my e-mails, right?
Peter Parker: Yeah. Yeah.
Tony Stark: Right?
Peter Parker: Regarding the . . .
May Parker: You didn't tell me about the grant.
Peter Parker: About the grant.
Tony Stark: The September Foundation.
Peter Parker: Right.
Tony Stark: Yeah. Remember when you applied?
Peter Parker: Yeah.
Tony Stark: I approved, so now we're in business.
May Parker: You didn't tell me anything. What's up with that? You keeping secrets from me now?
Peter Parker: Why, I just, I just . . . I just know how much you love surprises, so I thought I would let you know . . . wh . . . anyway, what did I apply for?
Tony Stark: That's what I'm here to hash out.
Peter Parker: Okay. Hash, hash out, okay.
Tony Stark: It's so hard for me to believe that she's someone's aunt.
May Parker: Yeah, well, we come in all shapes and sizes, you know?
Tony Stark: This walnut date loaf is exceptional.
Peter Parker: Let me just stop you there.
Tony Stark: Yeah?
Peter Parker: Is this grant, like, got money involved or whatever? No?
Tony Stark: Yeah.
Peter Parker: Yeah?
Tony Stark: It's pretty well funded.
Peter Parker: Wow.
Tony Stark: Look who you're talking to. Can I have 5 minutes with him?
May Parker: Sure.
Tony Stark: [In Peter's bedroom Tony bolts the door and spits out the walnut loaf.] As walnut date loaves go, that wasn't bad. [He notices Peter's collection of old computers.] Whoa, what do we have here? Retro tech, huh? Thrift store? Salvation Army?
Peter Parker: Uh, the garbage, actually.
Tony Stark: You're a dumpster diver.
Peter Parker: Yeah, I was . . . anyway, look, um, I definitely did not apply for your grant.
Tony Stark: Ah-ah! Me first.
Peter Parker: Okay.
Tony Stark: Quick question of the rhetorical variety. [He pulls out his phone which projects a video of Peter Parker in his Spider-Man outfit.] That's you, right?
Peter Parker: Um, no. What do you. What do you mean?
Tony Stark: Yeah. Look at you go. Wow! Nice catch. 3,000 pounds, 40 miles an hour. That's not easy. You got mad skills.
Peter Parker: That's all- That's all on YouTube, though, right? I mean, that's where you found that? Because you know that's all fake. It's all done on the computer.
Tony Stark: Mm-Hmm.
Peter Parker: It's like that video. What is it?
Tony Stark: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah . . . oh, you mean like those UFOs over Phoenix?
Peter Parker: Exactly.
Tony Stark: Oh, what have we here?
Peter Parker: [Peter hides his Spider-Man suit.] Uh . . . that's a . . .
Tony Stark: So. You're the . . . Spider . . . ling. Crime-fighting Spider . . .you're Spider-Boy?
Peter Parker: [Peter folds his arms petulantly.] S . . . Spider-Man.
Tony Stark: Not in that onesie, you're not.
Peter Parker: It's not a onesie. [Tony picks up the suit.] I don't believe this. I was actually having a real good day today, you know, Mr. Stark. Didn't miss my train, this perfectly good DVD player was just sitting there and . . . Algebra test. Nailed it!
Tony Stark: Who else knows? Anybody?
Peter Parker: Nobody.
Tony Stark: Not even your . . . unusually attractive aunt?
Peter Parker: No. No, no. No, no. If she knew, she would freak out. And when she freaks out, I freak out.
Tony Stark: You know what I think is really cool? This webbing. That tensile strength is off the charts. Who manufactured that?
Peter Parker: I did.
Tony Stark: Climbing the walls, how you doing that? Adhesive gloves?
Peter Parker: It's a long story. I was uh . . .
Tony Stark: Lordy! Can you even see in these?
Peter Parker: Yes. Yes, I can! I can. I can-I can see in those. Okay? It's just that… when whatever happened, happened . . . it's like my senses have been dialed to 11. There's way too much input, so . . . they just kinda help me focus.
Tony Stark: You're in dire need of an upgrade. Systemic, top to bottom. 100-point restoration. That's why I'm here. [Peter sits on his bed and looks at Tony.] Why you doing this? I gotta know. What's your MO? What gets you outta that twin bed in the morning?
Peter Parker: Because . . . [he fiddles with his fingers] because l've been me my whole life, and l've had these powers for 6 months.
Tony Stark: Mm-Hmm.
Peter Parker: I read books, I build computers . . . and-and yeah. I would love to play football. But I couldn't then so I shouldn't now.
Tony Stark: Sure, because you're different.
Peter Parker: Exactly. But I can't tell anybody that, so I'm not. When you can do the things that I can, but you don't . . . [Tony leans closer.] and then the bad things happen . . . they happen because of you.
Tony Stark: [he looks affected by Peter's words.] So you wanna look out for the little guy? You wanna do your part? Make the world a better place, all that, right?
Peter Parker: Yeah. Yeah just looking out . . . for the little guy. That's-that's what it is.
Tony Stark: [He slowly steps over to Peter whose leg is stretched out on the bed. Tony looks down at it.] I'm gonna sit here, so you move the leg. [Peter moves along. Tony sits beside him and raises his hand. He hesitantly clasps Peter's shoulder.] You got a passport?
Peter Parker: Uh, no. I don't even have a driver's license.
Tony Stark: You ever been to Germany?
Peter Parker: No.
Tony Stark: Oh, you'll love it.
Peter Parker: I can't go to Germany!
Tony Stark: Why?
Peter Parker: I got . . . homework.
Tony Stark: I'm gonna pretend you didn't say that.
Peter Parker: I'm-I'm being serious! I can't just drop out of school!
Tony Stark: Might be a little dangerous. Better tell Aunt Hottie I'm taking you on a field trip.
Peter Parker: [He webs Tony's hand to the door.] Don't tell Aunt May.
Tony Stark: Alright, Spider-Man. [They share an earnest look before Tony returns to his usual attitude.] Get me out of this.
Peter Parker: Sorry, I'll get the . . .