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[Pierce is holding another virtual meeting with the World Security Council]

Alexander Pierce: Nick Fury was murdered in cold blood. To any reasonable person, that would make him a martyr, not a traitor.

Councilman Rockwell: You know what makes him a traitor? Hiring a mercenary to hijack his own ship.

Councilman Singh: Nick Fury used your friendship to coerce this council into delaying Project Insight. A project he knew would expose his own illegal operations. At best, he lied to you. At worst...

Alexander Pierce: Are you calling for my resignation? I've got a pen and paper right here.

Councilwoman Hawley: That discussion can be tabled for a later time.

Alexander Pierce: But you do want to have a discussion.

Councilman Rockwell: We've already had it, Mr. Secretary. This council moves to immediately reactivate Project Insight. If you want to say something snappy, now would be a good time.

[Steve and Natasha go to the mall disguised as a civilian couple]

Natasha Romanoff: First rule of going on the run is, don't run, walk.

Many aurors nod in agreement.

Steve Rogers: If I run in these shoes, they're gonna fall off. [they go to a Mac store to use one of their computers]

Natasha Romanoff: The drive has a Level Six homing program, so as soon as we boot up SHIELD will know exactly where we are.

Steve Rogers: How much time do we have?

Natasha Romanoff: Uh... about nine minutes from... [she pops the flash drive into a MacBook Pro] Now. [we see several SHIELD vehicles heading their way] Fury was right about that ship, somebody's trying to hide something. This drive is protected by some sort of AI, it keeps rewriting itself to counter my commands.

Steve Rogers: Can you override it?

Natasha Romanoff: The person who developed this is slightly smarter than me. Slightly. [Rumlow and his team pull up outside the mall and head inside] [back at the Mac store, Steve and Natasha continue to try and find out what's on the flash drive] I'm gonna try running a tracer. This is a program that SHIELD developed to track hostile malware, so if we can't read the file, maybe we can find out where it came from.

Apple Employee: Can I help you guys with anything?

Natasha Romanoff: Oh, no. My fiancé was just helping me with some honeymoon destinations.

Bucky snickers before saying, "I'm gonna hold this over your head for a long time, Steve."

"You hold a lot of things over my head, Buck." Steve shakes his head.

Steve Rogers: Right! We're getting married.

Apple Employee: Congratulations. Where are you guys thinking about going? [Steve looks at the monitor and sees the signal traced to somewhere in New Jersey]

Steve Rogers: New Jersey.

Apple Employee: Oh. [the employee looks at Steve for a moment] I have the exact same glasses.

Natasha Romanoff: Wow, you two are practically twins.

Apple Employee: Yeah, I wish. Specimen. Uh... if you guys need anything, I've been Aaron.

Steve Rogers: Thank you. [as Rumlow and his team are in the mall looking for Steve and Natasha] You said nine minutes, come on.

Natasha Romanoff: Shh, relax. Got it. [they find the signal is coming from Wheaton, NJ] You know it?