Stephen McFeely - The Winter Soldier: The True S.H.I.E.L.D. lyrics

[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. ALEXANDER PIERCE: But you do want to have a discussion. COUNCILMAN ROCKWELL: I'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] 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] NATASHA ROMANOFF: The drive has a level six homing program, so as soon as we boot up S.H.I.E.L.D. will know exactly where we are. 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 S.H.I.E.L.D. 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] NATASHA ROMANOFF: I'm gonna try running a tracer. This is a program that S.H.I.E.L.D. developed to track hostile malware, so if we can't read the file, maybe we can find out where it came from. APPLE EMPLOYEE: Can I help you guys with anything? NATASHA ROMANOFF: Oh, no. My fiancé was just helping me with some honeymoon destinations. STEVE ROGERS: Right! We're getting married. 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 gla**es. NATASHA ROMANOFF: Wow, you two are practically twins. APPLE EMPLOYEE: Yeah, I wish. Specimen. Uh... if you guys need anything, I'm 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. Steve looks with nostalgia] 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? 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. S.H.I.E.L.D. AGENT #2: Negative on three. S.H.I.E.L.D. AGENT #3: Negative on two. BROCK RUMLOW: Scan 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. 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? 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, of 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. STEVE ROGERS: Well, it kind of sounds like that's what you're saying. 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. 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] NATASHA ROMANOFF: Well, there's a chance you might be in the wrong business, Rogers. No, I didn't. I just wondered how much practice you had. STEVE ROGERS: I 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. [the two pull up to outside an abandoned military base where the signal led them to] 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] 1940's SOLDIER: 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 from 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 S.H.I.E.L.D. office] NATASHA ROMANOFF: This is S.H.I.E.L.D. 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 ma**ive book shelf] STEVE ROGERS: If you 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... STEVE ROGERS: Yeah, I saw it. [suddenly they hear an accented voice speaking] Dr. ARNIM ZOLA: Rogers, Steven. Born, 1918. Romanoff, Natalia Alianovna. Born, 1984. [they see an old camera moving above them as it an*lyzes them] 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. STEVE ROGERS: How did you get here? Dr. ARNIM ZOLA: Invited. NATASHA ROMANOFF: It was Operation Paperclip after World War II. S.H.I.E.L.D. recruited German scientists with strategic values. 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 S.H.I.E.L.D. 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, S.H.I.E.L.D. was founded and I was recruited. The new HYDRA grew. A beautiful parasite inside S.H.I.E.L.D. For seventy years HYDRA has been secretly feeding crisis, reaping war. And when history did not cooperate, history was changed. NATASHA ROMANOFF: That's impossible, S.H.I.E.L.D. would have stopped you. Dr. ARNIM ZOLA: Accidents will happen. [the computer screen shows them HYDRA had k**ed Howard and Maria Stark making it look like a car accident along with the recent d**h 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 d**h amounts to the same as your life; a zero sum. [in anger Steve suddenly smashes the computer screen] As I was saying... What's on this drive? 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. 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. Dr. ARNIM ZOLA: I am afraid I have been stalling, Captain. [suddenly the doors starts to close, Steve tries stops it by throwing his shield in between it but he's too late] 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 whole and protects them with his shield, he them manages to get them out from under the building rubble just as S.T.R.I.K.E. agents arrive to roam the area for them] BROCK RUMLOW: Call in the a**et. [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 gla** of milk and goes over to join the Winter Soldier at the table] They already cost me Zola. I want confirmed d**h 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] ALEXANDER PIERCE: Oh, Renata. I wish you would have knocked. [Pierce picks up the gun from the table and shoots and k**s her]