Steve hears someone breaking into his apartment and hears his neighbor calling out to him

Sharon Carter:
Captain Rogers?

Steve sees her walking in with her gun pointed

Sharon Carter:
Captain, I'm Agent 13 of SHIELD Special Service.

Steve Rogers:
Kate?

"Wait what"

"I thought she was a nurse"

"Daminit Sharon" huffs out Tony snickering. Steve looks at Tony confused.

Sharon Carter:
I'm assigned to protect you.

Steve Rogers:
On whose order?

She notices Fury lying injured on the ground

Sharon Carter:
His.

She goes to Fury then contacts SHIELD through her radio.

Sharon Carter:
Foxtrot is down, he's unresponsive. I need EMTs.

SHIELD Agent:
Do you have a twenty on the shooter?

Steve notices the shooter though the window

Steve Rogers:
Tell him I'm in pursuit.

Steve smashes through his window and runs after the assassin, who is the same mysterious man that had exploded Fury's car, Steve chases him through an office building smashing through the walls, when he finally catches up with him on the roof he throws his shield at the assassin, but he catches it with one swift move, then throws it back to Steve and then jumps down the building and disappears.

Bucky looks at himself and shudders a bit. He wishes Reggie was here. Steve notices his friend's discomfort and gives him a pat on the shoulder, to which Bucky just nods at him.

Regulus goes to the hospital and meets up with Steve, they watch doctors operating on Fury

Regulus:
Is he gonna make it?

Steve Rogers:
I don't know.

Natasha Romanoff:
Tell me about the shooter.

Steve Rogers:
He's fast and strong. Had a metal arm.

Regulus fezzes. His breath is now heavier.

People who can read body language look at regulus confused and others who stare at bucks metal arm in fear.

Regulus:
Ballistics?

Maria Hill:
Three slugs, no rifling. Completely untraceable.

Regulus:
Soviet-made.

Maria Hill:
Yeah.

Suddenly they watch in shock as Fury's state

deteriorates

Male Nurse:
He's in V-tach.

Female Nurse:
Crash cart coming in.

Doctor:
Nurse, help me with the drape.

Male Nurse:
BP is dropping.

Doctor:
Defibrillator!

Steve, Regulus and Hill watch in shock as Fury is flatlining

Doctor:
I want you to charge him at one hundred.

Regulus:
Don't do this to me, Nick.

Doctor:
Stand back! Three, two, one. Clear!

Fury is given a shock with the defibrillator

Docter:
Pulse?

Male Nurse:
No pulse.

Doctor #1:
No pulse.

Doctor:
Okay. 200, please. Stand back! Three, two, one. Clear!

Fury is given another shock

Docter:
Give me epinephrine! Pulse?

Male Nurse:
Negative.

Regulus:
Don't do this to me, Nick. Don't do this to me.

The three watch the doctors as they continue to revive Fury but Fury is still showing as flatlining, Steve turns away as they finally call his time of death

Regulus:
I have to call Natahsa.

Regulus leaves with no emotion in his face.

Natasha gives Regulus' hand a squeeze. Regulus doesn't know what to feel. He doesn't know the man now but from what he can tell he meant much to future Regulus.

Doctor:

Female Nurse:
1:03, Doctor.

Doctor:
Time of death, 1:03 a.m.

Head bowed down in respect.

Steve looks down at the flash drive Fury had given him

Regulus and Steve are in a room where Fury's dead body has been laid out, Regulus is looking at Fury's body with tears running down his face, Hill joins them

No one had ever seen Regulus shed a tear, so this was new and surprising to them. Sirius remembered all those times when Regulus was still so young and would cry about everything. He remembered how he would always go to his brother for comfort. All he wanted to do was hug Regulus and tell him everything was going to be alright.

Maria Hill:
I need to take him.

Steve goes over to Regulus

Steve Rogers:
Regulus.

He doesn't respond, instead he tenderly touches Fury's head then turns and walks out, Steve follows him

Steve:
Regulus!

Regulus:
Why was Fury in your apartment?

Steve Rogers:
I don't know.

They are interrupted by Rumlow

Brock Rumlow:
Cap, they want you back at SHIELD.

Steve Rogers:
Yeah, give me a second.

Brock Rumlow:
They want you now.

Steve Rogers:
Okay.

"Oh shit they probably think he did it" said an older ravenclaw.

Steven turns to Regulus

Regulus:
You're a terrible liar.

He turns and walks off

Jasper Sitwell:
(on earpiece)
STRIKE team, escort Captain Rogers back to SHIELD immediately for questioning.

Brock Rumlow:
I told him.

Steve notices the vending machine next to him, we then see Steve walking towards Rumlow

Steve Rogers:
Let's go.

Brock Rumlow:
Yeah.
(To the agents)
STRIKE, move it out.

As they leave we see that Steve has hid the flash drive behind a pack of gums in the vending machine

"Steve." Regulus is now staring at the super soldier. Steve gives him a smile "yes :)" Regulus blinks once. Then again, "You did not leave a flash drive that has probably some serious shit in a vending machine." Steve only stares at Regulus before turning away.

Back at SHIELD, Steve is brought to Pierce who is talking to Agent 13

Alexander Pierce:
For whatever it's worth, you did your best.

Sharon Carter: T
hank you, sir.

As she turns to leave she sees Steve

Sharon Carter:
Captain Rogers.

Steve replies coldly as he walks towards Pierce

Steve Rogers:
Neighbor.

Alexander Pierce:
Ah, Captain. I'm Alexander Pierce.

Steve Rogers:
Sir, it's an honor.

They shake hands

Alexander Pierce:
The honor is mine, Captain. My father served in the 101st. Come on in.

They enter Pierce's office where he shows Steve an old photo of Fury with Pierce

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. Captain, why was Nick in your apartment last night?

"Oop"

Steve Rogers:
I don't know.

"Wrong answer"

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 doesn't reply obviously not knowing this information

Alexander Pierce:
I want you to see something.

He brings up footage of Batroc being interrogated

SHIELD Agent:

Steve Rogers:
Is that live?

Alexander Pierce:
Yeah, they picked him up last night in a not-so-safe house in Algiers.

Steve Rogers:
Are you saying he's a suspect? Assassination isn't Batroc's line.

Alexander Pierce:
No, it's more complicated than that. Batroc was hired anonymously to attack the Lemurian Star and he was contacted by e-mail and paid by wire transfer. And then the money was run through seventeen fictitious accounts, the last one going to a holding company that was registered to a Jacob Veech.

Steve Rogers:
Am I supposed to know who that is?

He hands Steve the file

Alexander Pierce:
Not likely. Veech died six years ago. His last address was 14-35 Elmhurst Drive. When I first met Nick his mother lived at 14-37.

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

Alexander Pierce:
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? 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.
(he hesitates a moment)
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 gonna ask again, why was he there?

Steve Rogers:
He told me not to trust anyone.

Alexander Pierce:
I wonder if that included him.

Steve pauses a moment before replying

Steve Rogers:
I'm sorry. Those were his last words. Excuse me.

Steve picks up his shield, places it on his back and starts to make his out of the office

Alexander Pierce:
Captain.

Steve stops and looks at Pierce

Alexander Pierce:
Somebody murdered my friend and I'm gonna find out why. Anyone gets in my way, they're gonna regret it. Anyone.

Steve rolls his eyes at Pierce. Bucky only looks at the screen with a look on his face.

Steve Rogers:
Understood.

Steve turns and leaves

After he leaves Pierce's office he steps into the elevator

Steve Rogers:
Operations control.

SHIELD Computer:
Confirmed.

Just as the elevator doors are about to close Rumlow steps in with two STRIKE agents

Brock Rumlow:
Keep all STRIKE personnel on site.

STRIKE Agent #1:
Understood.

STRIKE Agent #2:
Yes, sir.

Brock Rumlow:
Forensics.

SHIELD Computer:
Confirmed.

Brock Rumlow:
Cap.

Steve Rogers:
Rumlow.

The elevator doors close and they start riding down

Brock Rumlow:
Evidence Response found some fibres on the roof they want us to see. You want me to get the tac-team ready?

Steve Rogers:
No, lets wait and see what it is first.

Brock Rumlow:
Right.

Steve notices one of the agents touching his weapon suspiciously. The elevator stops and more SHIELD and STRIKE agents enter

"Well isn't that bloody suspicious?" says Barty, staring at the screen. Regulus without a beat response "they are there to arrest him" Barty looks at him surprised at how fast he was fast to spot that.

SHIELD Agent #1:
What's the status so far?

SHIELD Agent #2:
Administrations level.

SHIELD Computer:
Confirmed.

SHIELD Agent #2:
(to Steve)

Brock Rumlow:
(to Steve)
I'm sorry about what happened with Fury. Messed up, what happened to him.

Steve Rogers:
Thank you.

Feeling something is off, Steve looks at the agents in the elevator and notices one of them is sweating, then the elevator stops and more agents enter

STRIKE Agent #3:
Records.

SHIELD Computer:
Confirmed.

As the elevator doors close Steve realizes he's been surrounded by agents

Steve Rogers:
Before we get started, does anyone want to get out?

There's a moment's pause before suddenly one of the agents turns and uses an electric rod to give Steve a shock, the others grab him and try to strap his wrists with magnetic cuffs, Steve manages to knock some of them down but one cuff remains, then Rumlow uses his rod to give Steve a shock. As Steve is being attacked we see Sitwell in a controls room watching them from a monitor

Jasper Sitwell:
Mobilize STRIKE units, 25th floor.

Steve manages free himself from the magnetic cuff and knock all the agents down, he turns to Rumlow

Brock Rumlow:
Whoa, big guy. I just want you to know, Cap, this ain't personal.

Rumlow then goes to attack Steve with his electric rod but Steve manages to defend himself and eventually knocks Rumlow out

"That was personal"

Steve Rogers:
It kind of feels personal.

Steve picks up his shield then opens the elevator doors, but he's faced by a team of STRIKE agents pointing their weapons at him

25th Floor STRIKE Agent:
Drop the shield! Put your hands in the air!

Steve uses his shield to break off the elevator wires which sends the elevator down, as he forces the doors open he sees more STRIKE agents approaching him, he closes the door and looks for a way out

STRIKE Agent:
Give it up, Rogers! Get that door open! You have nowhere to go!

Steve breaks through the glass in the elevator and plummets down to finally hit the ground floor, from his monitor Sitwell watches in shock as Steve gets up and starts running off

Everyone looks at Steve in shock . Bucky only shakes his head. Did this idiot really jump out a window? Evan looks at Regulus with a sweet smile. "NO" responded Regulus with a serious face. They were not trying that out.

Jasper Sitwell:
Are you kidding me?
(ordering the STRIKE team)
He's headed for the garage. Lock down the bridge!

Steve rides out of the SHIELD garage on his motorcycle, evading the obstacles laid out but then a Quinjet emerges ahead of him

Quinjet Pilot:
Stand down, Captain Rogers. Stand down.

The Quinjet lowers its machine gun

Quinjet Pilot:
Repeat, stand down.

as Steve doesn't stop they start shooting at him, Steve throws his shield into the propellers to jam it, giving him an opportunity to hop onto it and do more damage to the jet with his shield before jumping off as the jet goes crashing down and he escapes

Jasper Sitwell:
(to the SHIELD agents)
Eyes here.

Everyone, including Agent 13, looks at Sitwell

Jasper Sitwell:
Whatever your op is, bury it. This is Level One. Contact DOT. All traffic lights in the district go red. Shut all runways at BWI, IAD and Reagan. All security cameras in the city go through this monitor, right here. Scan all open sources. Phones, computers, PDAs, whatever. If someone tweets about this guy, I want to know about it.

Sharon Carter:
With all due respect, If SHIELD is conducting a manhunt for Captain America, we deserve to know why.

Alexander Pierce:
Because he lied to us.

Pierce enters the room

Alexander Pierce:
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.

Disguised as a civilian dressed in a hoodie, Steve goes back to the hospital to retrieve the flash drive from the vending machine but sees it's gone,

Regulus gives Steve "i told you so" look. Steve only rolls his eyes. Everyone else is worried about where the flash drive could be.

-then Regulus appears behind him chewing some gum, in anger Steve pushes him into a room

Everyone lets out a breath of worriness. Of course Regulus had been the one to find it.

Steve Rogers:
Where is it?

Regulus:
Safe.

Steve Rogers:
Do better!

Regulus:
Where did you get it?

Steve Rogers:
Why would I tell you?

Regulus:
Fury gave it to you. Why?

Steve Rogers:
What's on it?

Regulus:
I don't know.

Steve Rogers:
Stop lying!

Regulus:
I only act like I know everything, Rogers.

Steve Rogers:
I bet you knew Fury hired the pirates, didn't you?

Regulus:
Well, it makes sense. The ship was dirty, Fury needed a way in, so do you.

Steve Rogers:
I'm not gonna ask you again.

Regulus:
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.

Regulus:
Five years ago I was escorting a nuclear engineer out of Iran, somebody shot out my tires near Odessa. We lost control, went straight over a cliff, I pulled us out, but the Winter Soldier

Bucky's breath hitches at that. He feels all the air inside him close more and more as Regulus speaks. He feels a hand touch his and his leg rub against his. He looks down to see both Regulugs and Natahsa. He calms down a bit more

-was there. I was covering my engineer, so he shot him straight through me.

He pulls up his shirt to show him the scar on the side of his stomach, along with a bullet hole and a range of scars, as if someone or something with sharp nails had been scratching it's nails along his body, almost as if they were trying to pull him