EXT. SAN FRANCISCO, GOLDEN GATE PARK - DAY
Stone monuments loom in a park. A small crowd mills. Reveal
Scott looking over the monuments, lost.
TIME CUT:
Scott walks up to the obelisks. At the top, they read:
“THE VANISHED.”
Hundreds of names line the stones.
He scans the “L’s,” finally finding.
“SCOTT LANG.”
SCOTT LANG
What?
(realizing)
Cassie...
EXT. MAGGIE LANG’S HOUSE - DAY
A winded Scott races up the sidewalk toward his old house.
He leaps a bush, banging on the front door.
SCOTT LANG
Cassie! Cassie!
Soon, A teen girl opens the door, shocked. A very long beat.
CASSIE LANG
Dad?
SCOTT LANG
Peanut?
Scott wraps his arms around Cassie Lang (14), now five years
older than when he last saw her. She hugs him, crying.
CASSIE LANG
I thought you were gone.
SCOTT LANG
I’m sorry. I’m back...I’m
back...I’m back...�
EXT. AVENGERS COMPOUND, FRONT GATE - DAWN
Avengers Compound stands amidst overgrown grass. Rusty
chains lock the gate.
Faded signs warn:
“RESTRICTED AREA. KEEP OUT.”
INT. AVENGERS COMPOUND, LIVING AREA - NIGHT
NATASHA SITS SURROUNDED BY HOLO-SCREENS FEATURING CAROL
DANVERS, RHODEY, ROCKET AND NEBULA, AND OKOYE.
ROCKET (HOLO)
We boarded that “highly suspect
warship” Danvers pinged.
NATASHA
And?
NEBULA (HOLO)
It was an infectious garbage scow.
ROCKET (HOLO)
So thanks for the hot tip
CAROL DANVERS (HOLO)
You were closer.
ROCKET (HOLO)
And now we smell like garbage
NATASHA
(to Okoye)
You get a reading on those tremors?
OKOYE (HOLO)
Minor subduction in the African
plate.
NATASHA
Do we have a visual? How are you
handling it?
OKOYE (HOLO)
Nat. It was a mild earthquake. In
the ocean. We handle it by not
handling it.
Natasha looks burdened. Rhodey steps in.�
RHODEY (HOLO)
I can have NASA redirect a
satellite, do a sweep just to make
sure.
NATASHA
Thanks. Carol, you’re still coming
our way next month?
CAROL DANVERS (HOLO)
Not likely.
ROCKET (HOLO)
Getting another haircut?
CAROL DANVERS (HOLO)
Listen, fur-face, I’m covering a
lot of territory out here. The
things that have been happening on
Earth have been happening
everywhere else. On thousands of
planets. You might not see me for
a long time.
NATASHA
All right. Everybody keep keeping
their eyes open. This channel’s
always active. Anything goes
sideways, anyone makes trouble
where they shouldn’t, it comes
through me.
They ad lib their goodbyes as they sign off, except Rhodey.
NATASHA (CONT'D)
What’s up? Where are you?
RHODEY (HOLO)
Mexico. Got some news.
NATASHA
Okay...
RHODEY
Federalés found a room full of
bodies outside Juarez. Cartel
guys. Guns still in their pants.
NATASHA
Could be a rival hit
RHODEY
But it wasn’t. Same MO as Marseille. And Kiev.�
RHODEY (CONT'D)
21
(beat)
It’s definitely Barton.
She nods, grim, reluctantly accepting.
RHODEY (CONT'D)
What he’s done here...what he’s
been doing...I got to tell you,
part of me doesn’t want to find
him.
Natasha just stares a long beat.
NATASHA
Find out where’s he going next.
Rhodey nods, signing off. Natasha sits there, then crumples.
After a long beat...
STEVE (O.S.)
I’d offer to cook you dinner but
you seem sad enough already.
Natasha turns to see Steve in the doorway.
NATASHA
Come by to do your laundry?
STEVE
And see a friend.
NATASHA
Your friend’s fine.
STEVE
She leave the house today?
NATASHA
Nothing out there I particularly
want to see.
STEVE
I spotted a pod of whales coming
over the bridge.
NATASHA
(dubious)
In the Hudson.
STEVE
Fewer ships, cleaner water. Just
saying, there’s still a world out
ther�e.
NATASHA
If you’re about to tell me to look
on the bright side, I’m about to
hit you with a peanut butter
sandwich.
Steve relents, letting down his facade.
STEVE
Sorry. Force of habit.
NATASHA
I don’t know how you do it.
Steve bites into the uneaten half of her sandwich.
STEVE
I guess I don’t know how not to.
NATASHA
Me, neither.
After a long moment, Steve looks up at her, honest.
STEVE
I keep telling them, move on. Grow
past it. And some of them actually
do. But not us.
NATASHA
If I move on, who does this?
STEVE
Maybe it doesn’t need to be done.
Natasha takes that in. Steve is thinking of giving up. She
looks around at Avengers Compound.
NATASHA
I used to have nothing. Then I got
this. This job, this family. And
I was better because of it.
She chokes slightly, collecting herself.
NATASHA (CONT'D)
And even though they’re gone, I’m
still trying to be...better.
STEVE
I think we both need to get a life.
NATASHA
You first.�
They stare at each other a long, melancholy moment.
Then, We hear a ping.
Natasha swipes to a CCTV display:
SCOTT LANG’S FACE FILLS A SCREEN, LUIS’ VAN BEHIND HIM.
SCOTT LANG (ON SCREEN)
Hello? Is anyone home? This is,
uh, Scott Lang? We met a few years
ago. At the airport?
STEVE
This an old message?
NATASHA
(stunned)
It’s the front gate.
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