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WATCHER: <i>Time.</i>

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<i>Space.</i>

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<i>Reality.</i>

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<i>It's more than a linear path.</i>

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<i>It's a prism of endless possibility,</i>

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<i>where a single choice</i>
<i>can branch out into infinite realities,</i>

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<i>creating alternate worlds</i>
<i>from the ones you know.</i>

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<i>I am the Watcher.</i>

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<i>I am your guide</i>
<i>through these vast new realities.</i>

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<i>Follow me and ponder the question...</i>

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<i>"What if?"</i>

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There was an idea
to bring together a group of--

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ROMANOFF: Remarkable people?

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To see if they could
become something more?

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I know. I've heard the speech.

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Then you realize what's at stake.

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Which is why I'm surprised you'd wanna bet

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the future
of the Avengers Initiative on that.

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Stark may be eccentric,
but he's got potential.

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What he's got is a hangover.

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Did I ever tell you about this one time

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I actually recruited a Russian assassin
to join my American covert ops team?

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Vaguely rings a bell.

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Then you should know,
I'm not afraid of a big swing.

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Sir, I'm going
to have to ask you to exit the donut.

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I told you I don't wanna join
your super-secret boyband.

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No, no, no. See, I remember,
you do everything yourself.

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-How's that working out for you?
-I've been worse.

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You've become a problem,
a problem I have to deal with.

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Contrary to your belief,
you are not the center of my universe.

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-STARK: I get it.
-Hit him.

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(SCREAMS) God. What'd she just do to me?

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What did we just do for you?

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That's lithium dioxide.
It's gonna take the edge off.

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It's not a cure,
it just abates the symptoms?

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Stark! You okay?

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(COUGHS, GROANS)

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-FURY: Stark!
-ROMANOFF: Tony. Tony!

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He's dead.

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WATCHER: <i>Humanity, so eager,</i>
<i>so willing to face the impossible,</i>

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<i>yet blind to the bigger picture.</i>

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<i>Inside one week, three strange</i>
<i>and separate stories unfolded.</i>

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<i>A genius battled</i>
<i>his demons both inside and out,</i>

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<i>while the world</i>
<i>met the monster hiding in the man.</i>

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<i>And a godly prince fell to Earth.</i>

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<i>I am the Watcher.</i>

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<i>And where humans see chaos,</i>

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<i>I see the crucible that would transform</i>

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<i>this collection of individuals</i>
<i>into a team of heroes.</i>

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<i>At least, that's how things</i>
<i>played out in one universe.</i>

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<i>But in this one...</i>

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Sir, we found it.

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Kind of in the middle
of something here, Coulson.

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COULSON: <i>Not sure it can wait, sir.</i>
<i>Locals are getting curious.</i>

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Set up a perimeter
and tell the team I'm en route.

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I may not have been a fan of Tony Stark,
but I didn't kill him.

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Save your spin for Pierce.

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He wants you in New York
first thing for questioning.

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Wanna give us a minute?

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This wasn't me.

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I know that,
but S.H.I.E.L.D. has protocols,

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so my hands, like yours, are tied.

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-You know these won't hold me.
-Oh, I'm counting on it.

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Someone inside S.H.I.E.L.D.
compromised Stark's antidote.

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I need someone on the outside
to find out who.

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Sure you wanna take
another big swing on me, boss?

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Safest bet I'll ever make.

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Wow. So serious.

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Maybe we should get some tunes going.

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Lighten the mood.

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(SCOFFS)

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You guys are no fun.
Here. Mind holding these for me?

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Of course. Uh... What?

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(ALL GROANING)

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I never did get what he sees in her.

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Sure, she can land a punch,
but only 'cause people don't expect it.

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(ALL GROANING)

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What? Stop! Stop the truck!

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(TIRES SCREECHING)

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No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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Oh! Come on!

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(THUNDER RUMBLING)

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(METAL DETECTOR WHIRRING)

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BARTON: Best we can tell, it's extremely
powerful and not from around here.

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Electromagnetic, neutron,
vita radiations, all off the charts.

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-(GUARD GROANS)
-(THUDS)

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(THUNDER RUMBLING)

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Well, that doesn't sound ominous at all.

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It's been happening all night.

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The artifact has a bit of an attitude.

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Also, no one can lift it.

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Not even Jackson and he does CrossFit.

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Something that powerful goes missing,
someone always comes looking.

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We just have to cross our fingers
that someone is an ally.

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So, what's the move?

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Same as always.
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

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We got a man down. Sound the alarms.

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-(ALARM BLARING)
-(MEN SHOUTING)

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I think the worst just got here.

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FURY: Coulson, talk to me.

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We got a perimeter breach.
Multiple agents down and...

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(GUARD 1 GROANING)

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Whoa.

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I got visual on the intruder.

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He's a Caucasian male,
mid-twenties with...

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really great hair.

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Excuse me?

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COULSON: <i>It's an accurate description.</i>
<i>Sir, he's gorgeous.</i>

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-I need eyes in the sky. Barton.
-BARTON: <i>Already on it.</i>

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He's making a move on the hammer.

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One shot, one kill, sir.
Just say the word.

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FURY: <i>Hold your fire. I wanna see this.</i>

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(SIGHS)

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Whoa. Coulson wasn't lying
about the hair. That's nice.

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Fury, now or never.

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-(THOR GRUNTS)
-FURY: <i>Hold your--</i>

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<i>Damn it, Barton. I told you to stand down.</i>

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I did! Wasn't me! I didn't shoot!

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GUARD 2: Drop your weapon!

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I swear, I didn't shoot.

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Your arrow would indicate otherwise.

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This doesn't make any sense.
I don't slip. I don't misfire.

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-What's the word on our intruder?
-Dead.

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And if his blood samples
are to be believed,

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he's almost a thousand years old
and not of this world.

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First Stark, now Muscle Beach.

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That's two high value S.H.I.E.L.D. targets
killed by our own agents inside 24 hours.

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-Barton's sticking to his story?
-He's pretty bent out of shape.

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-Won't talk to anyone.
-He'll talk to me.

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(TRILLING)

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Wake up, Sleeping Beauty.

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Barton.

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(FURY GRUNTS)

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Barton. Coulson, get a medic.

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How could this... Who did you let in here?

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-No one.
-COULSON: No one.

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Stay with me. Stay with me.

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We're running a tox screen
to see if it was a cyanide capsule.

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Barton had a wife and kids.

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If he was gonna go,
it wouldn't be willingly.

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You think he was murdered.

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If I had to guess, my money
is on the same someone who killed Stark.

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But Barton
was in a locked cell under observation.

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There was no sign of struggle,
no entry wounds.

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It's weird, but I also have a space corpse

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that looks like a Chippendales dancer
rotting on the next table over.

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(SNIFFS)

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Oh, wow.

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Even while rotting,
he smells like lavender.

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Really? (SNIFFING)

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Mmm.

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Still, there's not a lot
connecting a billionaire playboy

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and a S.H.I.E.L.D. assassin,
unless you have any ideas.

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There was an idea.

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(SNIFFING)

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Dr. Ross.
Not sure if you remember me, but--

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(SIGHS) Oh, I remember.

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And I'll tell you
the same thing I told you

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the last time
S.H.I.E.L.D. came poking around.

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I haven't seen him.

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I'm not here about the green guy.

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His name is Dr. Bruce Banner.
And I'm in a rush, Agent Romanoff.

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I'm here about Tony Stark.
I believe he was murdered.

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What? By whom?

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Me. Or at least someone's trying
to make it look that way, using this.

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So, why did you come to me?

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You're an expert in the tactical
applications of cellular biology.

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There are plenty of others.
Why did you really come here?

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I need to keep this
off S.H.I.E.L.D.'s radar

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and you seem to have
some experience in that department.

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Mmm. Well, your injector's clean

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and there's no traces
of lethal pathogens of any kind.

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Then what killed him?

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BETTY: Whatever it was,
it wasn't biological.

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Your antidote didn't even
make it out of the syringe.

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It looks to me like a tiny projectile
of some kind was fired from the needle.

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You're thinking nanotech?

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I'm a biologist, not a ballistics expert.

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And I believe we're done here.

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Huh. You got a side job, Dr. Ross?

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What? I don't know. I...

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A student must have left it there.

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-(CHUCKLES)
-(CELL PHONE RINGING)

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FURY: <i>I got bad news and worse news.</i>

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<i>-You in a secure location?</i>
-Not currently.

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FURY: <i>Barton's dead.</i>

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(INHALES DEEPLY)

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FURY: <i>I know what he meant to you.</i>

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(SIGHS)

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Who do I kill?

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FURY: Looks like his
and Stark's murders are connected.

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-ROMANOFF: <i>By what?</i>
-FURY: The Avengers Initiative.

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Seems our killer
is going after the candidates.

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ROMANOFF: <i>If someone wanted</i>
<i>to kneecap S.H.I.E.L.D.,</i>

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<i>that's a good place to start.</i>

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Who else is on the list?

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FURY: <i>That's the thing.</i>
<i>Bruce Banner and you.</i>

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ROMANOFF: Under different circumstances,
I'd be flattered. So would Clint.

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FURY: <i>You need to get yourself to ground.</i>
<i>But first, find Banner.</i>

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Funny thing, boss. Think I already have.

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I... I'm sorry,
but I can't let you in there.

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Move, or I'll make you move.

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No need for violence, Agent Romanoff.

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That's probably not gonna work out.
For anyone.

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What? What is it?

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We need to go. Now.

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(HELICOPTER BLADES HOVERING)

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(MUSIC PLAYING OVER CAR STEREO)

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(CELL PHONE RINGING)

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FURY: <i>What's your 20, Coulson?</i>

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Coffee run. Needed a breather.

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Got you a double macchiato.
Just how you like it.

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(RUMBLING)

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What the...

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Director, sensors are reporting
a massive energy surge.

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-Seems like it came out of nowhere.
-What are you seeing, Coulson?

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A meteorological phenomenon of some kind.

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Oh, boy. Whatever it is,
it came with bogeys.

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-They look like they're from Earth?
-COULSON: <i>Maybe Middle-earth?</i>

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Go get 'em, boss.

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Looking for directions, sir?
Because you seem to have lost your way.

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(CHUCKLES) You would do best
to kneel before a god.

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We don't really do that here.
No matter who or what you are.

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-I am Loki, Crown Prince of Asgard.
-(CELL PHONE RINGING)

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The rightful king of Jotun--

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-(CLEARS THROAT) Jotunheim. And God of M--
-(CELL PHONE CONTINUES RINGING)

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Mischief. Are you gonna take that?
I'm in the middle of something.

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Damn it, Fury! Pick up.

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Hey, I'm telling you, it's safer
for everyone if I fend for myself.

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-I sort of can't die.
-Then I guess you're in luck.

231
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Look alive, people.

232
00:14:35,125 --> 00:14:38,666
I want strike teams locked, loaded,
and ready to move in on my mark.

233
00:14:38,750 --> 00:14:40,333
(CELL PHONE RINGING)

234
00:14:40,416 --> 00:14:41,958
I'm a little busy here, Widow.

235
00:14:42,041 --> 00:14:43,833
ROMANOFF: <i>Oh, good.</i>
<i>We'll start a support group.</i>

236
00:14:43,916 --> 00:14:47,333
I've got General Ross,
a dozen snipers and a few tanks.

237
00:14:47,416 --> 00:14:49,416
-What are you dealing with?
-FURY: <i>Space Vikings.</i>

238
00:14:49,500 --> 00:14:52,000
-Show-off.
-FURY: <i>Handle it, then get to ground.</i>

239
00:14:52,083 --> 00:14:53,250
-(CELL PHONE BEEPS)
-(GROANS)

240
00:14:53,333 --> 00:14:54,375
Lady trouble?

241
00:14:54,458 --> 00:14:57,583
Well, what exactly is it
that brought you here, Mr. Loki?

242
00:14:57,666 --> 00:14:59,000
Vengeance.

243
00:14:59,083 --> 00:15:04,416
An agent of this planet murdered
Thor Odinson, the Crown Prince of Asgard.

244
00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,291
Natasha Romanoff, agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

245
00:15:07,375 --> 00:15:11,000
I have Bruce Banner in my custody.
You need to stand down.

246
00:15:11,625 --> 00:15:13,000
(GROANS)

247
00:15:13,083 --> 00:15:15,875
-Hey, hey! Don't shoot!
-Who the hell opened fire?

248
00:15:15,958 --> 00:15:17,125
SOLDIER 3: <i>Not us, sir.</i>

249
00:15:17,208 --> 00:15:19,541
Bruce! It's okay. We're okay, right?

250
00:15:19,625 --> 00:15:21,708
I'll get you out of this.
I swear on my life.

251
00:15:21,791 --> 00:15:25,875
Director Fury, you fail to comprehend
the enormity of the situation.

252
00:15:25,958 --> 00:15:27,958
Oh, I'm comprehending, all right.

253
00:15:30,041 --> 00:15:34,708
Agent Romanoff, I think you might
be better off getting out of here.

254
00:15:34,791 --> 00:15:37,750
Which is why I have to ask,
what's in the box?

255
00:15:37,833 --> 00:15:39,125
Ooh.

256
00:15:39,208 --> 00:15:41,458
Such insolence will not be tolerated.

257
00:15:41,541 --> 00:15:44,958
And your planet
will be taken as retribution.

258
00:15:45,041 --> 00:15:46,958
(BANNER GROANING)

259
00:15:55,375 --> 00:15:56,916
(ROARS)

260
00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:58,666
-Take it down!
-(GUNS FIRING)

261
00:16:07,416 --> 00:16:08,458
(HULK ROARING)

262
00:16:10,500 --> 00:16:12,458
(ALL SCREAMING)

263
00:16:16,541 --> 00:16:17,541
(HULK GRUNTING)

264
00:16:21,750 --> 00:16:22,750
(ALL SCREAMING)

265
00:16:26,083 --> 00:16:27,083
(ROARS)

266
00:16:31,500 --> 00:16:32,500
(ROARS)

267
00:16:32,583 --> 00:16:34,708
Oh, you want some of this? Come on!

268
00:16:34,791 --> 00:16:38,041
Father! No! Stop! Stop, please!

269
00:16:39,041 --> 00:16:41,625
-(MAN SCREAMING)
-(SOBBING) Stop!

270
00:16:42,708 --> 00:16:46,041
-There's nothing you can do.
-That's my father. He'll listen to me.

271
00:16:46,125 --> 00:16:48,083
The General
isn't the one who started this.

272
00:16:48,166 --> 00:16:49,625
(GASPING)

273
00:16:49,708 --> 00:16:50,833
Then who did?

274
00:16:53,583 --> 00:16:54,583
(GRUNTING)

275
00:16:57,333 --> 00:16:58,500
Bruce!

276
00:17:00,833 --> 00:17:02,083
Bruce!

277
00:17:10,958 --> 00:17:13,708
(SOBBING) No. No, no, no. Bruce.

278
00:17:13,791 --> 00:17:18,125
But he can't die. He can't die.

279
00:17:19,791 --> 00:17:21,166
He can't.

280
00:17:26,833 --> 00:17:32,083
Declaring war on this planet
will not bring your prince back!

281
00:17:32,166 --> 00:17:33,291
SIF: Wait.

282
00:17:33,375 --> 00:17:37,166
He's not wrong.
The All-Father would want us to listen.

283
00:17:40,250 --> 00:17:42,083
We have the same enemy here.

284
00:17:42,166 --> 00:17:45,208
The person who killed your brother
also killed two of my people.

285
00:17:45,291 --> 00:17:48,291
Good people.
We should be working together.

286
00:17:48,375 --> 00:17:50,500
We are not allies.

287
00:17:50,583 --> 00:17:52,458
Then let me help you.

288
00:17:52,541 --> 00:17:55,083
I promise,
when I find your brother's killer,

289
00:17:55,166 --> 00:17:57,833
you will have your pound of flesh.

290
00:17:57,916 --> 00:18:00,166
What a fascinating choice of words.

291
00:18:01,166 --> 00:18:04,250
But I shall require the entire corpse.

292
00:18:05,083 --> 00:18:06,333
You need to give me time.

293
00:18:10,458 --> 00:18:11,500
Very well.

294
00:18:11,583 --> 00:18:16,750
You have until the next rise of Midgard's
sun to deliver my brother's assassin,

295
00:18:16,833 --> 00:18:21,000
or I will reduce
this planet to ash and ice.

296
00:18:33,291 --> 00:18:35,333
COULSON: (OVER PHONE)
<i>Why do you need my password?</i>

297
00:18:35,458 --> 00:18:38,250
ROMANOFF: (SIGHS) I need to get
into the Avengers Initiative files,

298
00:18:38,333 --> 00:18:42,041
but I'm locked out of the system
and wanted for murder.

299
00:18:42,125 --> 00:18:44,000
COULSON: <i>I'm not telling you</i>
<i>my password, Romanoff.</i>

300
00:18:44,083 --> 00:18:45,958
-ROMANOFF: Why not?
-COULSON: <i>Because I'm not.</i>

301
00:18:46,041 --> 00:18:48,875
ROMANOFF: Coulson.
Clint was your friend, too.

302
00:18:50,666 --> 00:18:56,291
(SIGHS) <i>Hashtag-Steve-Steve-Steve-</i>
<i>I-heart-Steve-0-7-0-4.</i>

303
00:18:56,375 --> 00:18:57,416
Wow.

304
00:18:57,500 --> 00:18:59,125
-Good one, Coulson.
<i>-What?</i>

305
00:18:59,208 --> 00:19:01,375
No, nothing. That's great. Thank you.

306
00:19:04,458 --> 00:19:05,458
(INHALES DEEPLY)

307
00:19:28,666 --> 00:19:31,375
Huh. How did a woman
who died two years ago

308
00:19:31,458 --> 00:19:33,125
access the database yesterday?

309
00:19:39,333 --> 00:19:44,541
You won't win. Not against me.
Not against S.H.I.E.L.D.

310
00:19:45,541 --> 00:19:46,791
(GROANING)

311
00:19:52,958 --> 00:19:55,208
FURY: <i>You found me. You know what to do.</i>

312
00:19:55,291 --> 00:19:57,208
(ALL GROANING)

313
00:20:03,750 --> 00:20:06,333
Fury, it's Hope! It's all about Hope!

314
00:20:06,416 --> 00:20:07,625
(SCREAMS)

315
00:20:22,625 --> 00:20:25,125
ROMANOFF: (OVER PHONE)
<i>It's Hope! It's all about Hope!</i>

316
00:20:30,625 --> 00:20:32,875
<i>It's Hope! It's all about Hope!</i>

317
00:20:35,083 --> 00:20:37,666
<i>It's Hope! It's all about Hope!</i>

318
00:20:38,375 --> 00:20:39,916
COULSON: Four hours to sunup, sir.

319
00:20:40,833 --> 00:20:42,625
I haven't forgotten.

320
00:20:42,708 --> 00:20:46,250
Sir, I understand that this
Prince Loki situation is the very reason

321
00:20:46,333 --> 00:20:48,291
you proposed the Avengers Initiative

322
00:20:48,375 --> 00:20:51,583
for a group of remarkable individuals
to fight the battles we can't.

323
00:20:51,666 --> 00:20:52,750
I wrote the speech.

324
00:20:53,875 --> 00:20:55,583
There's still one name left, sir.

325
00:20:57,166 --> 00:20:58,208
Yours.

326
00:21:03,625 --> 00:21:05,416
I'm not the only Avenger left.

327
00:21:08,750 --> 00:21:10,125
What?

328
00:21:19,708 --> 00:21:22,083
COULSON: Is that a beeper from the '90s?

329
00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:24,583
Also our last hope.

330
00:21:25,875 --> 00:21:30,666
"Hope. It's all about Hope."

331
00:21:31,583 --> 00:21:33,416
(CHUCKLES) Widow.

332
00:21:37,041 --> 00:21:38,791
COULSON: Boss?

333
00:21:39,958 --> 00:21:42,541
-Where are you going?
-Not sure.

334
00:21:42,625 --> 00:21:46,250
Either make a pact
with a god or deal with a devil.

335
00:22:08,500 --> 00:22:09,833
You got a name, soldier?

336
00:22:13,791 --> 00:22:15,333
I'm here to see your boss.

337
00:22:35,333 --> 00:22:37,750
If it isn't Hank Pym.

338
00:22:37,833 --> 00:22:43,625
HANK: The balls you have to come here
and stand over her grave.

339
00:22:43,708 --> 00:22:44,958
Oh, don't worry about her.

340
00:22:45,041 --> 00:22:47,625
I doubt she'd mind,
considering she's dead.

341
00:22:47,708 --> 00:22:51,166
She died because S.H.I.E.L.D. killed her.

342
00:22:51,916 --> 00:22:53,375
She died because of you.

343
00:22:53,458 --> 00:22:58,958
Agent Hope Van Dyne was killed
on a mission outside Odessa, Ukraine.

344
00:22:59,041 --> 00:23:00,291
Agent?

345
00:23:00,375 --> 00:23:03,375
She was my daughter! My little girl.

346
00:23:03,958 --> 00:23:06,750
She missed her mother
and you exploited that!

347
00:23:06,833 --> 00:23:08,750
Her mother was an agent?

348
00:23:08,833 --> 00:23:11,583
Don't play the fool with me, Fury.

349
00:23:11,666 --> 00:23:17,500
You filled her head with nonsense about
protecting humanity and saving the world.

350
00:23:17,583 --> 00:23:21,625
You just left out how she died
the same way her mother did,

351
00:23:21,708 --> 00:23:23,666
doing S.H.I.E.L.D.'s dirty work!

352
00:23:23,750 --> 00:23:28,625
And that gave you
permission to murder them?

353
00:23:28,708 --> 00:23:33,000
Anthony Stark? Clint Barton?
Bruce Banner? Natasha Romanoff?

354
00:23:33,083 --> 00:23:36,083
You took everything from me.

355
00:23:39,083 --> 00:23:41,166
<i>I wanted you to hurt.</i>

356
00:23:42,875 --> 00:23:46,833
<i>To witness everything</i>
<i>you've ever worked for...</i>

357
00:23:48,833 --> 00:23:50,416
<i>fought for...</i>

358
00:23:53,208 --> 00:23:54,666
<i>hoped for...</i>

359
00:23:57,708 --> 00:23:59,083
<i>die.</i>

360
00:23:59,666 --> 00:24:02,166
And what of Thor, Prince of Asgard?

361
00:24:02,250 --> 00:24:05,833
Goldilocks? You would have
recruited him in a heartbeat.

362
00:24:05,916 --> 00:24:09,250
Sold him some malarkey about being a hero.

363
00:24:09,333 --> 00:24:12,708
That's what you do.
What S.H.I.E.L.D. has always done.

364
00:24:12,791 --> 00:24:14,625
Find others to fight your battles.

365
00:24:14,708 --> 00:24:17,416
That's it?
You murdered him because you could?

366
00:24:17,500 --> 00:24:21,125
His death was a favor.
Yours will be a triumph.

367
00:24:34,791 --> 00:24:36,250
What the...

368
00:24:36,333 --> 00:24:39,875
You're still pretty spry
for a guy with a corner office.

369
00:24:48,958 --> 00:24:50,750
You never cared about Hope.

370
00:24:50,833 --> 00:24:52,750
I don't give a damn about any of them.

371
00:24:52,833 --> 00:24:54,333
-(FURY LAUGHS)
-(GRUNTS)

372
00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:03,708
Fury! Come on.

373
00:25:03,791 --> 00:25:07,625
You're supposed to be a killer?
Well, come on, then. Kill me.

374
00:25:10,375 --> 00:25:11,833
-(GASPS)
-Ooh.

375
00:25:14,291 --> 00:25:16,375
HANK: How are you...

376
00:25:16,458 --> 00:25:19,041
-(FURY LAUGHING)
-Stop moving, Fury.

377
00:25:19,125 --> 00:25:21,125
What are you doing? Let's go--

378
00:25:21,208 --> 00:25:23,875
It's like you're everywhere. Aah!

379
00:25:25,958 --> 00:25:27,208
(GRUNTS)

380
00:25:37,583 --> 00:25:39,166
(ALL LAUGHING)

381
00:25:51,208 --> 00:25:53,916
Uh, what's with the goth kid?

382
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,416
Hello. Trickster God. Hi.

383
00:25:56,500 --> 00:25:58,791
S.H.I.E.L.D. is people,

384
00:25:58,875 --> 00:26:02,541
people willing to give their lives
for something greater than themselves

385
00:26:02,625 --> 00:26:06,458
to save the world from men like you.

386
00:26:09,500 --> 00:26:14,375
Agent Hope Van Dyne understood that
and she will never be forgotten.

387
00:26:14,958 --> 00:26:17,458
Then you honor her.

388
00:26:19,708 --> 00:26:21,250
Then honor her.

389
00:26:22,208 --> 00:26:25,375
Well, this was
an absolute pleasure, Director Fury.

390
00:26:25,458 --> 00:26:28,166
Good. Now take your hammer
and get off my planet.

391
00:26:28,250 --> 00:26:31,500
(CHUCKLES) About that,
we should be allies.

392
00:26:31,583 --> 00:26:33,500
You know, I've just had an idea.

393
00:26:33,583 --> 00:26:36,833
I was thinking I might extend
my stay here on Midgard.

394
00:26:37,500 --> 00:26:39,000
For how long?

395
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,000
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)

396
00:26:52,125 --> 00:26:54,750
Good evening, my loyal subjects.

397
00:26:55,333 --> 00:26:58,750
It is with great pride
that I stand before you today

398
00:26:58,833 --> 00:27:01,416
to announce that in just one day's time,

399
00:27:01,500 --> 00:27:05,083
the nations of Earth
have put aside their differences

400
00:27:05,166 --> 00:27:08,416
and united under my command.

401
00:27:08,500 --> 00:27:12,416
<i>It's the unspoken truth of humanity</i>
<i>that you crave subjugation.</i>

402
00:27:12,500 --> 00:27:17,000
<i>The bright lure of freedom hobbles you,</i>
<i>diminishes your life's joy.</i>

403
00:27:17,083 --> 00:27:20,291
<i>You were made to be ruled.</i>

404
00:27:20,875 --> 00:27:27,125
So I have come
to help you fulfill your destiny.

405
00:27:33,416 --> 00:27:36,458
The Avengers fell
before they had a chance to rise.

406
00:27:36,541 --> 00:27:38,000
May they rest in peace.

407
00:27:38,083 --> 00:27:40,083
They can, but we won't.

408
00:27:41,208 --> 00:27:44,666
The Avengers were always
meant to be more than a team.

409
00:27:44,750 --> 00:27:46,291
They were an idea,

410
00:27:46,375 --> 00:27:52,333
the affirmation of humanity's need
to believe that in our darkest hour,

411
00:27:52,916 --> 00:27:55,583
we will find our heroes.

412
00:27:59,541 --> 00:28:03,666
<i>I believe that in this universe,</i>
<i>as in every other, hope never dies.</i>

413
00:28:05,833 --> 00:28:09,833
<i>As long as someone keeps</i>
<i>their good eye on the bigger picture.</i>

414
00:28:11,625 --> 00:28:12,833
Welcome back, Captain.

415
00:28:15,875 --> 00:28:17,541
So where's the fight?

416
00:28:18,666 --> 00:28:20,666
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)