Avengers: Age of Ultron

Who Killed Strucker?

Back in Sokovia, the twins meet with Ultron in an empty church. WANDA MAXIMOFF "Talk. And if you are wasting our time...". ULTRON "Did you know this church is in the exact center of the city? The elders decreed it so that everyone could be equally close to God. I like that. The geometry of belief". Ultron is sat in a chair facing away from them, a cloth draped over him. "You're wondering why you can't look inside my head". WANDA MAXIMOFF "Sometimes it's hard. But sooner or later, every man shows himself". 

Ultron stands and faces them, revealing his new body. Wanda briefly looks shocked. ULTRON "Oh, I'm sure they do. But you needed something more than a man. That's why you let Stark take the scepter". WANDA MAXIMOFF "I didn't expect...But I saw Stark's fear, I knew it would control him, make him, make him self-destruct". ULTRON "Everyone creates the thing they dread. Men of peace create engines of war, invaders create avengers, people create...smaller people? Uh...children! I lost the word there. Children. Designed to supplant them, to help them...end". WANDA MAXIMOFF "Is that why you've come? To end the Avengers?". ULTRON "I've come to save the world. But also... yeah".

In the Sokovia base, ULTRON "We'll move out right away. This is a start, but there's something we need to begin the real work". WANDA MAXIMOFF, referring to Ultron's bots, "All of these are...". ULTRON "Me. I have what the Avengers never will. Harmony. They're discordant, disconnected. Stark's already got them turning on each other. ANd when you get inside the rest of their heads...". PIETRO MAXIMOFF "Everyone's plan is not to kill them". ULTRON "And make them martyrs? You need patience. Need to see the big picture". PIETRO MAXIMOFF "I don't see the big picture, I have a little picture. I take it out and look at it every day". ULTRON "You lost your parents in the bombings. I've seen the records". PIETRO MAXIMOFF "The records are not the picture". WANDA MAXIMOFF "Pietro". ULTRON "No, please". PIETRO MAXIMOFF "We were ten years old, having dinner, the four of us. When the first shell hits, two floors below, it makes a hole in the floor. It's big. Our parents go in, and the whole building starts coming apart. I grab her, roll under the bed, and the second shell hits. But, it doesn't go off. It just... sits there in the rubble, three feet from our faces. And on the side of the shell is painted one word...". WANDA MAXIMOFF "Stark". PIETRO MAXIMOFF "We were trapped for two days". WANDA MAXIMOFF "Every effort to save us, every shift in the bricks, I think, 'This will set it off. We wait for two days for Tony Stark to kill us". PIETRO MAXIMOFF "I know what they are". ULTRON "I wondered why only you two survived Strucker's experiments. Now I don't. We will make it right". To Pietro, "You and I can hurt them". To Wanda, "But you will tear them apart, from the inside". 

Back at the Avengers headquarters, MARIA HILL "He's all over the globe. Robotics lab, weapons facilities, jet propulsion labs, reports of a metal man, or men, coming in and emptying the place". STEVE ROGERS "Fatalities?". MARIA HILL "Only when engaged. Mostly guys left in a fugue state going on about old memories, worst fears, and something too fast to see". STEVE ROGERS "Maximoffs. Well, that makes sense he'd go to them they have someone in common". MARIA HILL "Not anymore". She hands Steve a tablet showing a photo of Strucker's dead body with the word PEACE written in blood on the wall next to him. 

ALEX REID, Alex is talking on her cell phone, "That's a negative. I answer to you. Yes, ma'am". Steve interrupts her. STEVE ROGERS "Alex, we might need something". ALEX REID "Gotta go". STEVE ROGERS "Who was that?". ALEX REID "Mom".

After Steve has gathered the rest of the team he shows them the photo of Strucker's body. TONY STARK "What's this?". STEVE ROGERS "A message. Ultron killed Strucker". TONY STARK "And he did a Banksy at the crime scene, just for us". NATASHA ROMANOFF "This is a smokescreen. Why send a message when you've just given a speech?". STEVE ROGERS "Strucker knew something that Ultron wanted us to miss". NATASHA ROMANOFF "Yeah, I bet he... (looks at the computer monitor) Yep. Everything we had on Strucker has been erased". TONY STARK "Not everything". The team goes through the physical files they have on Strucker.