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Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) Best Quotes

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Starring: Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Redford, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Cobie Smulders, Frank Grillo, Emily VanCamp, Hayley Atwell, Toby Jones, Callan Mulvey, Jenny Agutter, Bernard White, Dale Coffman, Chin Han, Garry Shandling, Georges St-Pierre

OUR RATING: ★★★★☆

Story:

MCU superhero action adventure sequel directed by Anthony and Joe Russo. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) follows Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) on his emotional journey to adjusting to life in the 21st Century. He becomes disillusioned with his job working for SHIELD and when Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) comes under attack by the fabled Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan), Steve becomes entangled in a mystery and uncovers a horrifying conspiracy that may endanger the world.

 

Our Favorite Quotes:

'The world has changed and none of us can go back. All we can do is our best, and sometimes the best that we can do is to start over.' - Peggy Carter (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) Click To Tweet

 

Best Quotes

 

Steve Rogers: [to Sam as he’s jogging past him] On your left.


 

Sam Wilson: [as Steve is about to jog past him] Don’t say it! Don’t you say it!
Steve Rogers: On your left!
Sam Wilson: Come on!


 

Steve Rogers: Need a medic?
Sam Wilson: I need a new set of lungs. Dude, you just ran like thirteen miles in thirty minutes.
Steve Rogers: I guess I got a late start.
Sam Wilson: Oh, really? You should be ashamed of yourself. You should take another lap. Did you just take it? I assumed you just took it.


 

Steve Rogers: Steve Rogers.
Sam Wilson: I kind of put that together. Must have freaked you out, coming home after the whole defrosting thing.
Steve Rogers: It takes some getting used to.


 

Sam Wilson: You must miss the good old days, huh?
Steve Rogers: Well, things aren’t so bad. Food’s a lot better. We used to boil everything. No polio is good. Internet, so helpful. I’ve been reading that a lot, trying to catch up.
Sam Wilson: Marvin Gaye, 1972, “Trouble Man” soundtrack. Everything you’ve missed jammed into one album.
Steve Rogers: [as he gets his small notebook] I’ll put it on the list.


 

Natasha Romanoff: [as she drives up to Sam and Steve] Hey, fellas. Either one of you know where the Smithsonian is? I’m here to pick up a fossil.
Steve Rogers: That‘s hilarious.


 

Steve Rogers: [as he gets into Natasha’s car] You can’t run everywhere.
Sam Wilson: No, you can’t.


 

Brock Rumlow: The target is a mobile satellite launch platform, The Lemurian Star. They was sending up their last payload when pirates took them, ninety-three minutes ago.
Steve Rogers: Any demands?
Brock Rumlow: Billion and a half.
Steve Rogers: Why so steep?
Brock Rumlow: Because it SHIELD’s.
Steve Rogers: So it’s not off-course. It’s trespassing.
Natasha Romanoff: I’m sure they have a good reason.
Steve Rogers: You know, I’m getting a little tired of being Fury’s janitor.
Natasha Romanoff: Relax. It’s not that complicated.


 

Natasha Romanoff: [as they’re getting ready to dive off the jet] Did you do anything fun Saturday night?
Steve Rogers: Well, all the guys from my barbershop quartet are dead, so, no, not really.
Brock Rumlow: [over radio] Coming up by the drop zone, Cap.
Natasha Romanoff: You know, if you ask Kristen out, from Statistics, she’ll probably say yes.
Steve Rogers: That’s why I don’t ask.
Natasha Romanoff: Too shy, or too scared?
Steve Rogers: Too busy!
STRIKE Agent: [as Steve jumps out of the jet] Was he wearing a parachute?
Brock Rumlow: No. No, he wasn’t.

 

'The truth is a matter of circumstances. It's not all things to all people, all the time.' - Natasha Romanoff (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) Click To Tweet

 

Natasha Romanoff: What about the nurse that lives across the hall from you? She seems kind of nice.
Steve Rogers: Secure the engine room, then find me a date.
Natasha Romanoff: I’m multitasking.


 

Georges Batroc: [in French] I thought that you were more than just a shield.
Steve Rogers: [in French, puts the shield on his back and takes off his mask] Let’s see.
[they start fighting again]


 

Steve Rogers: What are you doing?
Natasha Romanoff: Backing up the hard drive. It’s a good habit to get into.
Steve Rogers: Rumlow needed your help. What the hell are you doing here? You’re saving SHIELD Intel.
Natasha Romanoff: Whatever I can get my hands on.
Steve Rogers: Our mission is to rescue hostages.
Natasha Romanoff: No. That’s your mission. And you’ve done it beautifully.
Steve Rogers: You just jeopardized this whole operation.
Natasha Romanoff: I think that’s overstating things.
Natasha Romanoff: [as Bartoc throws a grenade at them and Steve deflects it] Okay. That one’s on me.
Steve Rogers: You’re damn right.


 

Steve Rogers: You just can’t stop yourself from lying, can you?
Nick Fury: I didn’t lie. Agent Romanoff had a different mission than yours.
Steve Rogers: Which you didn’t feel obliged to share.
Nick Fury: I’m not obliged to do anything.


 

Steve Rogers: Those hostages could’ve died, Nick.
Nick Fury: I sent the greatest soldier in history to make sure that didn’t happen.
Steve Rogers: Soldiers trust each other. That’s what makes it an army. Not a bunch of guys running around and shooting guns.
Nick Fury: The last time I trusted someone, I lost an eye.

 

'Society is at a tipping point between order and chaos.' - Alexander Pierce (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) Click To Tweet

 

Nick Fury: Look, I didn’t want you doing anything you weren’t comfortable with. Agent Romanoff is comfortable with everything.
Steve Rogers: I can’t lead a mission when the people I’m leading have missions of their own.
Nick Fury: It’s called compartmentalization. Nobody spills the secrets because nobody knows them all.
Steve Rogers: Except you.
Nick Fury: You’re wrong about me. I do share. I’m nice like that.


 

Steve Rogers: [as they’re in the elevator] You know, they used to play music.
Nick Fury: Yeah. My grandfather operated one of these things for forty years. My granddad worked in a nice building. He got good tips. He’d walk home every night, a roll of ones stuffed in his lunch bag. He’d say, “Hi.” People would say “Hi” back. Time went on, the neighborhood got rougher. He’d say, “Hi.” They’d say, “Keep on stepping.” Granddad got to gripping that lunch bag a little tighter.
Steve Rogers: Did he ever get mugged?
Nick Fury: Every week some punk would say, “What’s in the bag?”
Steve Rogers: What would he do?
Nick Fury: He’d show them. A bunch of crumpled ones and loaded .22 Magnum. Yeah. Granddad loved people. But he didn’t trust them very much.


 

Nick Fury: The satellites can read a terrorist’s DNA before he steps outside his spider hole. We’re going to neutralize a lot of threats before they even happen.
Steve Rogers: I thought the punishment usually came after the crime.
Nick Fury: We can’t afford to wait that long.
Steve Rogers: Who’s “we”?
Nick Fury: After New York, I convinced the World Security Council we needed a quantum surge in threat analysis. For once, we’re way ahead of the curve.
Steve Rogers: By holding a gun at everyone on Earth and calling it protection.


 

Nick Fury: You know, I read those SSR files. “Greatest generation?” You guys did some nasty stuff.
Steve Rogers: Yeah, we compromised. Sometimes in ways that made us not sleep so well. But we did it so the people could be free. This isn’t freedom. This is fear.
Nick Fury: SHIELD takes the world as it is, not as we’d like it to be. And it’s getting damn near past time for you to get with that program, Cap.
Steve Rogers: Don’t hold your breath.

 

'To build a really better world sometimes means having to tear the old one down.' - Alexander Pierce (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) Click To Tweet

 

Peggy Carter: [as Steve watches and older looking Peggy Carter being interviewed] That was a difficult winter. A blizzard had trapped half our battalion behind the German line. Steve, Captain Rogers, he fought his way through a HYDRA blockade that had pinned our allies down for months. He saved over a thousand men. Including the man who would become my husband, as it turned out. Even after he died, Steve was still changing my life.


 

Steve Rogers: [visiting a sick Peggy, as he looks at her family photos] You should be proud of yourself, Peggy.
Peggy Carter: I have lived a life. My only regret is that you didn’t get to live yours.


 

Peggy Carter: What is it?
Steve Rogers: For as long as I can remember, I just wanted to do what was right. I guess I’m not quite sure what that is anymore. And I thought I could throw myself back in and follow orders, serve. It’s just not the same.
Peggy Carter: You’re always so dramatic. Look, you saved the world. We rather mucked it up.
Steve Rogers: You didn’t. Knowing that you helped found SHIELD is half the reason I stay.
Peggy Carter: The world has changed, and none of us can go back. All we can do is our best. And sometimes the best that we can do is to start over.


 

Peggy Carter: Steve.
Steve Rogers: Yeah.
Peggy Carter: You’re alive! You came back.
Steve Rogers: Yeah, Peggy.
Peggy Carter: It’s been so long. So long.
Steve Rogers: Well, I couldn’t leave my best girl. Not when she owes me a dance.

 

'First rule of going on the run is, don't run, walk.' - Natasha Romanoff (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) Click To Tweet

 

Alexander Pierce: I work forty floors away and it takes a hijacking for you to visit?
Nick Fury: Well, a nuclear war would do it too.


 

Nick Fury: I’m here to ask a favor. I want you to call for a vote. Project insight has to be delayed.
Alexander Pierce: Nick, that’s not a favor, that’s a subcommittee hearing. A long one.
Nick Fury: It could be nothing. It probably is nothing. I just need time to make sure it’s nothing.
Alexander Pierce: But what if it’s something?
Nick Fury: Then we’ll both be damn glad those Helicarriers aren’t in the air.
Alexander Pierce: Fine. But you got to get Iron Man to stop by my niece’s birthday party.
Nick Fury: Thank you, sir.
Alexander Pierce: And not just a flyby. He’s got to mingle.


 

Sam Wilson: [at the VA meeting] Some stuff you leave there. Other stuff you bring back. It’s our job to figure out how to carry it. Is it going to be in a big suitcase, or in a little man-purse? It’s up to you.


 

Sam Wilson: [at the VA meeting] Look who it is, the running man.
Steve Rogers: Caught the last few minutes. It’s pretty intense.
Sam Wilson: Yeah, brother, we all got the same problems. Guilt, regret.


 

Steve Rogers: But you’re happy now, back in the world?
Sam Wilson: Hey, the number of people giving me orders is down to about zero. So, hell, yeah. You thinking about getting out?
Steve Rogers: No. I don’t know. To be honest, I don’t know what I would do with myself if I did.
Sam Wilson: Ultimate fighting? It’s just a great idea off the top of my head. But seriously, you could do whatever you want to do. What makes you happy?
Steve Rogers: I don’t know.


 

Nick Fury: [to the cops staring at him at the traffic lights] Want to see my lease?


 

Fury Car: [as Fury’s car is being attacked by mercenaries] Warning. Window integrity compromised.
Nick Fury: You think?


 

Nick Fury: [as the mercenaries are chasing him] Get me Agent Hill.
Fury’s Car: Communications array damaged.
Nick Fury: Well, what’s not damaged?
Fury’s Car: Air conditioning is fully operational.

 

'It's kind of hard to trust someone, when you don't know who that someone really is.' - Steve Rogers (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) Click To Tweet

 

Steve Rogers: [runs into his neighbor, Sharon, as he’s going to his apartment] Hey, if you want, you’re welcome to use my machine. Might be cheaper than the one in the basement.
Sharon Carter: Oh, yeah? What’s it cost?
Steve Rogers: A cup of coffee?
Sharon Carter: Thank you, but I already have a load in downstairs, and you really don’t want my scrubs in your machine. I just finished orientation in the infectious diseases ward, so.
Steve Rogers: Ah, well, I’ll keep my distance.
Sharon Carter: Well, hopefully not too far.


 

Steve Rogers: [finds Fury in his apartment] I don’t remember giving you a key.
Nick Fury: You really think I’d need one? My wife kicked me out.
Steve Rogers: Didn’t know you were married.
Nick Fury: There are a lot of things you don’t about me.
Steve Rogers: I know, Nick. That’s the problem.


 

Nick Fury: [holds up the message on his phone, “ears everywhere”] I’m sorry to have do this, but I had no place else to crash.
Steve Rogers: [Fury holds up another message, “SHIELD compromised”] Who else knows about your wife?
Nick Fury: [Fury shows him another message, “You and me”] Just my friends.
Steve Rogers: Is that what we are?
Nick Fury: That’s up to you.
Nick Fury: [suddenly Fury gets shot, gives Steve a flash drive] Don’t trust anyone.


 

Sharon Carter: Captain, I’m Agent 13 of SHIELD Special Service.
Steve Rogers: Kate?
Sharon Carter: I’m assigned to protect you.
Steve Rogers: On whose order?
Sharon Carter: [referring to the injured Fury] His.

 

'Soldiers trust each other. That's what makes it an army. Not a bunch of guys running around and shooting guns.' - Steve Rogers (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) Click To Tweet

 

Natasha Romanoff: Tell me about the shooter.
Steve Rogers: He’s fast. Strong. He had a metal arm.
Natasha Romanoff: Ballistics?
Maria Hill: Three slugs. No rifling. Completely untraceable.
Natasha Romanoff: Soviet made?
Maria Hill: Yeah.


 

Natasha Romanoff: [after Fury seemingly dies] Why was Fury in your apartment?
Steve Rogers: I don’t know.
Brock Rumlow: Captain, they want you back at SHIELD.
Steve Rogers: Yeah, give me a second.
Brock Rumlow: They want you now.
Steve Rogers: Okay.
Natasha Romanoff: You’re a terrible liar.


 

Sharon Carter: [at SHIELD HQ] Captain Rogers.
Steve Rogers: Neighbor.

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Alexander 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.
Steve Rogers: So you gave him a promotion.
Alexander Pierce: I’ve never had any cause to regret it.


 

Alexander Pierce: 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?


 

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


 

Alexander Pierce: [to Steve] 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.


 

Alexander Pierce: 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 going to ask again. Why was he there?
Steve Rogers: He told me not to trust anyone.
Alexander Pierce: I wonder if that included him.
Steve Rogers: I’m sorry. Those were his last words.


 

Alexander Pierce: Captain, somebody murdered my friend, and I’m going to find out why. Anyone gets in my way, they’re going to regret it. Anyone.
Steve Rogers: Understood.


 

Steve Rogers: [in the elevator surrounded by agents] Before we get started, does anyone want to get out?


 

Brock Rumlow: [after Steve knocks down the agents] Woh, big guy. I just want you to know, Cap, this ain’t personal.
Steve Rogers: [after he knocks out Rumlow] It kind of feels personal.


 

STRIKE Agent: Give it up, Rogers! Get that door open! You have nowhere to go!
Jasper Sitwell: [as Steve jumps through the elevator window] Are you kidding me?


 

Sharon Carter: With all due respect, ih SHIELD is conducting a manhunt for Captain America, we deserve to know why.
Alexander Pierce: Because he lied to us. 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.


 

Steve Rogers: [after Natasha takes the flash drive from the vending machine] 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.


 

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.
Steve Rogers: So he’s a ghost story.


 

Natasha Romanoff: Five years ago, I was escorting a nuclear engineer out of Iran. Somebody shot at 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.
Natasha Romanoff: [shows him the bullet wound on the side of her stomach] A Soviet slug. No rifling. Bye-bye, bikinis.
Steve Rogers: Yeah, I bet you look terrible in them now.
Natasha Romanoff: Going after him is a dead end. I know, I’ve tried. Like you said, he’s a ghost story.
Steve Rogers: [takes the flash drive from her] Well, let’s find out what the ghost wants.


 

Natasha Romanoff: [as they’re going through the mall] First rule of going on the run is, don’t run, walk.
Steve Rogers: If I run in these shoes, they’re going to fall off.


 

Natasha Romanoff: 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.


 

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 Rogers: [looks at the monitor and sees the signal traced to New Jersey] New Jersey.
Apple Employee: Oh.


 

Apple Employee: [to Steve] I have the exact same glasses.
Natasha Romanoff: Wow, you two are practically twins.
Apple Employee: Yeah, I wish. Specimen. If you guys need anything, I’ve been Aaron.


 

Natasha Romanoff: [as two agents are coming straight towards them] 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]


 

Natasha Romanoff:  Kiss me.
Steve Rogers: What?
Natasha Romanoff: Public displays of affection make people very uncomfortable.
Steve Rogers: Yes, they do.
Natasha Romanoff: [after she kisses Steve making Rumlow look away] You still uncomfortable?
Steve Rogers: It’s not exactly the word I would use.


 

Natasha Romanoff: Where did Captain America learn how to steal a car?
Steve Rogers: Nazi Germany. And we’re borrowing. Take your 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: 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.


 

Natasha Romanoff: Nobody special, though?
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 Romanoff: Well, there’s a chance you might be in the wrong business, Rogers.


 

Steve Rogers: [referring to the abandoned military base] This is it?
Natasha Romanoff: The file came from these coordinates.
Steve Rogers: So did I.


 

Natasha Romanoff: [as they enter the building] This is SHIELD.
Steve Rogers: Maybe where it started.
Natasha Romanoff: [referring to the portraits of Howard Stark, Peggy, and Col. Phillips] There’s Stark’s father.
Steve Rogers: Howard.
Natasha Romanoff: Who’s the girl?


 

Natasha Romanoff: [as the old computer cranks up] Shall we play a game? It’s from a movie that…
Steve Rogers: Yeah, I saw it.


 

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.
Natasha Romanoff: [the computer shows an old photo of Dr. Arnim Zola] 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.


 

Dr. Arnim Zola: 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 databanks. 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. 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.


 

Dr. Arnim Zola: 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.
Natasha Romanoff: That’s impossible. SHIELD would have stopped you.
Dr. Arnim Zola: Accidents will happen. 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.


 

Natasha Romanoff: Steve, we got a bogey. Short-range ballistic. Thirty seconds, tops.
Steve Rogers: Who fired it?
Natasha Romanoff: SHIELD.
Dr. Arnim Zola: I am afraid I have been stalling, Captain. Admit it, it’s better this way. We are, both of us, out of time.


 

Alexander Pierce: [to the Winter Soldier] Want some milk?


 

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 Wilson: Not everyone.


 

Steve Rogers: What’s going on?
Natasha Romanoff: When I first joined SHIELD, I thought it 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.
Steve Rogers: There’s a chance you might be in the wrong business.


 

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, now you be honest with me, would you trust me to do it?
Steve Rogers: I would now. And I’m always honest.
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.


 

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.


 

Steve Rogers: I thought you said you’re a pilot.
Sam Wilson: I never said a 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.


 

Jasper Sitwell: [over phone] Who is this?
Sam Wilson: The good looking guy in the sunglasses, your ten o’clock.
Sam Wilson: [looks around but doesn’t see him] Your other ten o’clock. There you go.
Jasper Sitwell: What do you want?
Sam Wilson: You’re going to go around the corner to your right. There’s a grey car, two spaces down. You and I are going to take a ride.
Jasper Sitwell: And why would I do that?
Sam Wilson: Because that tie looks really expensive, and I’d hate to mess it up.
[Sitwell looks down and sees a small red light from the gun being pointed at him]


 

Jasper Sitwell: [Steve forces him to the edge of the rooftop] Is this little display meant to insinuate that you can throw me off the roof? Because it’s really not your style, Rogers.
Steve Rogers: You’re right. It’s not. It’s hers.
Natasha Romanoff: [she kicks Sitwell off the roof] Oh, wait. What about that girl from Accounting, Laura…?
Steve Rogers: Lillian. Lip piercing, right?
Natasha Romanoff: Yeah, she’s cute.
Steve Rogers: Yeah, I’m not ready for that.
[suddenly, Sam, in his Falcon suit, flies up holding Sitwell and throws him down on the roof]


 

Jasper Sitwell: Zola’s algorithm is a program for choosing Insight’s targets!
Steve Rogers: What targets?
Jasper Sitwell: You! A TV anchor in Cairo, the Undersecretary of Defense, a high school valedictorian in Iowa city. Bruce Banner, Stephen Strange. Anyone who’s a threat to HYDRA! Now, or in the future.
Steve Rogers: The Future? How could it know?
Jasper Sitwell: How could it not? The 21st century is a digital book. Zola taught HYDRA how to read it. Your bank records, medical histories, voting patterns, e-mails, phone calls, your damn SAT scores! Zola’s algorithm evaluates peoples past to predict their future.
Steve Rogers: And what then?
Jasper Sitwell: Oh, my God. Pierce is going to kill me.
Steve Rogers: What then?!
Jasper Sitwell: Then the Insight Helicarriers scratch people off the list. A few millions at a time.


 

Jasper Sitwell: HYDRA doesn’t like leaks.
Sam Wilson: Then why don’t you try sticking a cork in it?


 

Steve Rogers: [as the Winter Soldier is fighting him] Bucky?
Bucky Barnes: Who the hell is Bucky?


 

Steve Rogers: It was him. He looked right at me like he didn’t even know me.
Sam Wilson: How is that even possible? It was like seventy years ago.
Steve Rogers: Zola. Bucky’s whole unit was captured in ’43. Zola experimented on him. Whatever he did, it helped Bucky survive the fall. They must have found him.
Natasha Romanoff: None of that’s your fault, Steve.
Steve Rogers: Even when I had nothing, I had Bucky.


 

Maria Hill: [as she takes off the HYDRA helmet] That thing was squeezing my brain.
Maria Hill: [referring to Sam] Who’s this guy?


 

Doctor: [referring to the wounded Natasha] Let me take her!
Maria Hill: She’ll wants to see him first.
Nick Fury: [as Hill takes them to Fury] About damn time.


 

Nick Fury: Lacerated spinal column, cracked sternum, shattered collarbone, perforated liver, and one hell of a headache.
Doctor: Don’t forget your collapsed lung.
Nick Fury: Oh, let’s not forget that. Otherwise, I’m good.
Natasha Romanoff: They cut you open. Your heart stopped.
Nick Fury: Tetrodotoxin B. Slows the pulse to one beat a minute. Banner developed it for stress. Didn’t work so great for him, but we found a use for it.
Steve Rogers: Why all the secrecy? Why not just tell us?
Maria Hill: Any attempt on the Director’s life had to look successful.
Nick Fury: Can’t kill you if you’re already dead. Besides, I wasn’t sure who to trust.


 

Dr. Arnim Zola: [Bucky has flashback to after he’s picked up by Hydra agents]The procedure has already started.
Dr. Arnim Zola: [after he amputates Bucky’s left arm and replaces it with a metal arm] You are to be the new fist of HYDRA.
Dr. Arnim Zola: [to his men] Put him on ice.


 

Bucky Barnes: The man on the bridge. Who was he?
Alexander Pierce: You met him earlier this week on another assignment.
Bucky Barnes: I knew him.
Alexander Pierce: Your work has been a gift to mankind. You shaped the century. And I need you to do it one more time. Society is at a tipping point between order and chaos. And tomorrow morning we’re going to give it a push. But if you don’t do your part, I can’t do mine, and HYDRA can’t give the world the freedom it deserves.
Bucky Barnes: But I knew him.
Alexander Pierce: [to the scientists] Prep him.
Scientist #1: He’s been out of cryo freeze too long.
Alexander Pierce: Then wipe him and start over.


 

Nick Fury: [referring to Pierce] This man declined the Nobel Peace Prize. He said peace wasn’t an achievement, it was a responsibility. See, it’s stuff like this that gives me trust issues.
Natasha Romanoff: We have to stop the launch.
Nick Fury: I don’t think the Council’s accepting my calls anymore.


 

Steve Rogers: We’re not salvaging anything. We’re not just taking down the carriers, Nick. We’re taking down SHIELD.
Nick Fury: SHIELD had nothing to do with it.
Steve Rogers: You gave me this mission. This is how it ends. SHIELD’s been compromised, you’ve said so yourself. HYDRA grew right under your nose and nobody noticed.
Nick Fury: Why do you think we’re meeting in this cave? I noticed.
Steve Rogers: And how many paid the price before you did?


 

Nick Fury: Look, I didn’t know about Barnes.
Steve Rogers: Even if you have, would you have told me? Or would you have compartmentalized that too? SHIELD, HYDRA, it all goes.
Maria Hill: He’s right.
Sam Wilson: [to Fury] Don’t look at me. I do what he does, just slower.
Nick Fury: Well, it looks like you’re giving the orders now, Captain.


 

Steve Rogers: [flashback, after Steve’s mother’s funeral] Thank you, Buck, but I can get by on my own.
Bucky Barnes: The thing is, you don’t have to. I’m with you till the end of the line, pal.


 

Sam Wilson: [referring to Bucky] He’s going to be there, you know.
Steve Rogers: I know.
Sam Wilson: Look, whoever he used to be, and the guy he is now, I don’t think he’s the kind you save. He’s the kind you stop.
Steve Rogers: I don’t know if I could do that.
Sam Wilson: Well, he might not give you a choice. He doesn’t know you.
Steve Rogers: He will.


 

Steve Rogers: Gear up. It’s time.
Sam Wilson: You going to wear that?
Steve Rogers: No. If you’re going to fight a war, you got to wear a uniform.
Smithsonian Guard: [later, as a Smithsonian Museum guard (Stan Lee) notices the Captain America WWII uniform gone] Oh, man. I am so fired!


 

Steve Rogers: Attention, all SHIELD agents. This is Steve Rogers. You’ve heard a lot about me over the last few days. Some of you were even ordered to hunt me down. But I think it’s time you know the truth. SHIELD is not what we thought it was. It’s been taken over by HYDRA. Alexander Pierce is their leader. The STRIKE and Insight crew are HYDRA as well. I don’t know how many more, but I know they’re in the building. They could be standing right next to you. They almost have what they want. Absolute control. They shot Nick Fury. And it won’t end there. If you launch those Helicarriers today, HYDRA will be able to kill anyone that stands in their way, unless we stop them. I know I’m asking a lot. But the price of freedom is high. It always has been. And it’s a price I’m willing to pay. And if I’m the only one, then so be it. But I’m willing to bet I’m not.
Sam Wilson: [as Steve finishes his speech] Did you write that down first, or was it off the top of your head?


 

Brock Rumlow: Is there a problem?
SHIELD Tech: I’m sorry, sir. I’m not going to launch those ships. Captain’s orders.
Brock Rumlow: [points his gun at the tech’s head] Move away from your station.
Sharon Carter: [points her gun at Rumlow] Like he said!
Sharon Carter: [then all the SHIELD agents draw their weapons] Captain’s orders.
Brock Rumlow: You picked the wrong side, Agent.
Sharon Carter: Depends on where you’re standing.


 

Sam Wilson: Hey, Cap, how do we know the good guys from the bad guys?
Steve Rogers: If they’re shooting at you, they’re bad.


 

Sam Wilson: [as Hydra agents are shooting at them] Hey, Cap, I found those bad guys you were talking about.
Steve Rogers: You okay?
Sam Wilson: I’m not dead yet.


 

Alexander Pierce: Let me ask you a question. What if Pakistan marched into Mumbai tomorrow, and you knew that they were going to drag your daughters into a soccer stadium for execution, and you could just stop it, with a flick of a switch. Would you? Wouldn’t you all?
Councilman Singh: Not if it was your switch.


 

Natasha Romanoff: [to Pierce, as she takes off her Hawley face mask] I’m sorry. Did I step on your moment?


 

Alexander Pierce: She’s disabling security protocols and dumping all the secrets onto the Internet.
Natasha Romanoff: Including HYDRA’s.
Alexander Pierce: And SHIELD’s. If you do this, non of your past is going to remain hidden. Are you sure you’re ready for the world to see you as you really are?
Natasha Romanoff: Are you?


 

Alexander Pierce: Disabling the encryption is an executive order. It takes two Alpha Level members.
Natasha Romanoff: Don’t worry, company’s coming.
Alexander Pierce: [as Fury enters the building] Did you get my flowers? I’m glad you’re here, Nick.
Nick Fury: Really? Because I thought you had me killed.
Alexander Pierce: You know how the game works.
Nick Fury: So why make me head of SHIELD?
Alexander Pierce: Because you’re the best, and the most ruthless person I ever met.
Nick Fury: I did what I did to protect people.


 

Alexander Pierce: Our enemies are your enemies, Nick. Disorder. War. It’s just a matter of time before a dirty bomb goes off in Moscow, or an EMP fries Chicago. Diplomacy? A holding action, Nick. A band-aid. And you know where I learned that? Bogota. You didn’t ask. You just did what had to be done. I can bring order to the lives of seven billion people by sacrificing twenty million. It’s the next step, Nick, if you have the courage to take it.
Nick Fury: No, I have the courage not to.


 

Alexander Pierce: You don’t you think we wiped your clearance from the system?
Nick Fury: I know you erased my password. Probably deleted my retinal scan. But if you want to stay ahead of me, Mr. Secretary, you need to keep both eyes open.
[removes his eyepatch]


 

Sam Wilson: [as he’s flying himself and Steve onto the Helicarrier] You know, you’re a lot heavier than you look.
Steve Rogers: I had a big breakfast.


 

Steve Rogers: [inside the Helicarrier Steve is confronted by Bucky] People are going to die, Buck. I can’t let that happen. Please, don’t make me do this.
[throws his shield at Bucky and they start battling each other]


 

Brock Rumlow: This is going to hurt. There are no prisoners with HYDRA. Just order. And order only comes through pain. You ready for yours?
Sam Wilson: Man, shut the hell up.


 

Alexander Pierce: [as the Helicarriers are firing at each other] What a waste.
Natasha Romanoff: So, you still on the fence about Roger’s chances?
Alexander Pierce: Time to go, Councilwoman. This way, come on. You’re going to fly me out of here.


 

Nick Fury: You know, there was a time I would have taken a bullet for you.
Alexander Pierce: You already did. You will again, when it’s useful.


 

Sam Wilson: [as he jumps out the window and onto the chopper] 41st floor! 41st!
Nick Fury: It’s not like they put the floor numbers on the outside of the building!


 

Steve Rogers: You know me.
Bucky Barnes: No, I don’t!
Steve Rogers: Bucky, you’ve known me your whole life. Your name is James Buchanan Barnes.
Bucky Barnes: [hits Steve again] Shut up!
Steve Rogers: [takes off his mask and drops his shield] I’m not going to fight you. You’re my friend.
Bucky Barnes: [punches Steve repeatedly] You’re my mission. You’re my mission!
Steve Rogers: Then finish it. Because I’m with you to the end of the line.


 

Committee Member: Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
Natasha Romanoff: I do.
Committee General: Why haven’t we yet heard from Captain Rogers?
Natasha Romanoff: I don’t know what there is left for him to say. I think the wreck in the middle of the Potomac made his point fairly eloquently.
Committee General: Well, he could explain how this country is expected to maintain its national security now that he and you have laid waste our intelligence apparatus.
Natasha Romanoff: HYDRA was selling you lies, not intelligence.
Committee General: Many of which you seem to have had a personal hand in telling.


 

Scudder: Agent, you should know that there are some on this committee who feel, given your service record, both for this country and against it, that you belong in a penitentiary, not mouthing off on Capitol Hill.
Natasha Romanoff: You’re not going to put me in a prison. You’re not going to put any of us in a prison. You know why?
Scudder: Do enlighten us.
Natasha Romanoff: Because you need us. Yes, the world is a vulnerable place, and yes, we helped make it that way. But we’re also the ones best qualified to defend it. So, if you want to arrest me, arrest me. You’ll know where to find me.


 

Nick Fury: [as he meets Steve and Sam at his own grave] So, you’ve experienced this sort of things before?
Steve Rogers: You get used to it.
[we see Fury’s gravestone which bears the epitaph “The path of the righteous man. Ezekiel 25:17”]


 

Nick Fury: [referring to his own grave] Anybody asks for me, tell them they can find me, right here.
Natasha Romanoff: [as Fury leaves] You should be honored. That’s about as close as he gets to saying thank you.
Steve Rogers: Not going with him?
Natasha Romanoff: No.
Steve Rogers: Not staying here?
Natasha Romanoff: I blew all my covers. I got to go figure out a new one.
Steve Rogers: That might take a while.
Natasha Romanoff: I’m counting on it.


 

Natasha Romanoff: [as she hands Steve a file] That thing you asked for, I called in a few favors from Kiev. Will you do me a favor? Call that nurse.
Steve Rogers: She’s not a nurse.
Natasha Romanoff: And you’re not a SHIELD agent.
Steve Rogers: What was her name again?
Natasha Romanoff: Sharon. She’s nice.


 

Natasha Romanoff: Be careful, Steve. You might not want to pull on that thread.
Sam Wilson: [as Steve opens the file about Bucky] You’re going after him.
Steve Rogers: You don’t have to come with me.
Sam Wilson: I know. When do we start?


 

HYDRA Scientist: [mid-credits lines] It’s over. Fury has released everything to the public.
Baron Wolfgang von Strucker: Everything he knows about.
HYDRA Scientist: Herr Strucker, if they get word of our work here, if they find out we serve HYDRA…
Baron Wolfgang von Strucker: HYDRA. SHIELD. Two sides of a coin that’s no longer currency. What we have is worth more than any of them ever knew. We’ve only scratched the surface and already, there are other facilities doing HYDRA’s good work around the world. We’ll feed them to Captain America and his colorful friends, and keep them off our scent.
HYDRA Scientist: What about the volunteers?
Baron Wolfgang von Strucker: The dead will be buried so deep their own ghosts won’t be able to find them.
HYDRA Scientist: And the survivors?
Baron Wolfgang von Strucker: [we see Pietro and Wanda in glass cells exhibiting their powers] The twins. Sooner or later, they will meet the twins. It’s not a world of spies anymore. Not even a world of heroes. This is the age of miracles, Doctor. There’s nothing more horrifying than a miracle.

 


 

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