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BUDAPEST

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BUDAPEST

"Budapest!"

"Are we really gonna find out what happened in Budapest?"

(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT ON SPEAKERS)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(BELL DINGING)

(ELEVATOR RUMBLING)

(SIGHS)

Yelena: (MUFFLED) I know you're out there.

Ania is stunned, she'll see Yelena again...?

Ania: I know you know I'm out here.

Yelena: Then why are you skulking about like it's a minefield?

Ania: 'Cause I don't know if I can trust you.

Yelena: (CHUCKLES) Funny, I was going to say the same thing.

Everyone chuckles a bit

Ania: So, we gonna talk like grown-ups? [Ania an Yelena point their guns at each other]

Yelena: Is that what we are? Put it down before I make you.

Ania: You put yours down. [Yelena stumbles] Watch your step.

(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)

[ANIA AND YELENA START FIGHTING]

"How common, start fighting with your sister after years of not seeing each other."

Natasha: Stay down. Stay down. Stay down.

(YELLS)

(BOTH GRUNTING)

Natasha: Stop. (STRAINING)

Yelena: (SPEAKS RUSSIAN) Truce

(GASPING)

(PANTING)

Ania: (SPEAKS RUSSIAN) You've grown up.

Yelena: (SPEAKS RUSSIAN) No shit.

Ania: (IN ENGLISH) You had to come to Budapest, didn't you?

Yelena: I came here because I thought you wouldn't. But since you're here, what bullet does that? [She points at the wall]

"Arrows, not bullets" Clint says

Ania: Not bullets. Arrows.

Yelena: Ah, right.

Ania: If you didn't think I'd come here, why'd you send me this?

Yelena: You brought it back here?

Ania: I'm not here trying to be your friend, but you need to tell me what that is.

Yelena: It's a synthetic gas. The counteragent to chemical subjugation. The gas immunizes the brain's neuropathways from external manipulation.

Ania: Maybe in English next time?

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