[Rogers and Romanoff have booted up an old computer in an abandoned WWII S.H.I.E.L.D base for information]Computer: Rogers, Steven. Born, 1918. Romanoff, Natalia Alianovna. Born, 1984.[They see an old camera moving above them as it analyzes them]Natasha Romanoff: It's some kind of a recording.Computer: I am not a recording, FrÃ¤ulein. I may not be the man I was when the Captain took me prisoner in 1945, but I am. [the computer screen shows an old photo of Dr. Arnim Zola]Natasha Romanoff: Do you know this thing?Steve Rogers: Arnim Zola was a German scientist who worked for the Red Skull. He's been dead for years.Dr. Arnim Zola: First correction, I am Swiss. Second, look around you. I have never been more alive. In 1972, I received a terminal diagnosis. Science could not save my body. My mind, however, that was worth saving, on two hundred thousand feet of data banks. You are standing in my brain.Steve Rogers: How did you get here?Dr. Arnim Zola: Invited.Natasha Romanoff: It was Operation Paperclip after World War II. S.H.I.E.L.D recruited German scientists with strategic values.Dr. Arnim Zola: They thought I could help their cause. I also helped my own.Steve Rogers: HYDRA died with the Red Skull.Dr. Arnim Zola: Cut off one head, two more shall take its place.Steve Rogers: Prove it.Dr. Arnim Zola: Accessing archive. [The computer screen shows them old footage of the Red Skull and the original S.H.I.E.L.D founders] HYDRA was founded on the belief that humanity could not be trusted with its own freedom. What we did not realize was that if you try to take that freedom, they resist. The war taught us much. Humanity needed to surrender its freedom willingly. After the war, S.H.I.E.L.D was founded and I was recruited. The new HYDRA grew. A beautiful parasite inside S.H.I.E.LD. For seventy years, HYDRA has been secretly feeding crisis, reaping war. And when history did not cooperate, history was changed. [The computer screen shows field reports with photos of the Winter Soldier, carrying out top-level assassinations for HYDRA]Natasha Romanoff: That's impossible, S.H.I.E.L.D would have stopped you.Dr. Arnim Zola: Accidents will happen. [The computer screen shows them HYDRA had killed Howard and Maria Stark making it look like a car accident, along with the recent death of Fury] HYDRA created a world so chaotic that humanity is finally ready to sacrifice its freedom to gain its security. Once the purification process is complete, HYDRA's new world order will arise. We won, Captain. Your death amounts to the same as your Life; a zero sum. [In anger Steve suddenly smashes the computer screen. Zola's face reappears on another] As I was saying...Steve Rogers: What's on this drive?Dr. Arnim Zola: Project Insight requires insight. So I wrote an algorithm.Natasha Romanoff: What kind of algorithm? What does it do?Dr. Arnim Zola: The answer to your question is fascinating. Unfortunately, you shall be too dead to hear it.

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