The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

Lieutenant Torres:
You see these guys? These are the guys you gotta worry about. I've been stumbling onto their manifestos on message boards. Call themselves the Flag-Smashers.

Sam Wilson:
Is that a new thing? Bad guys give themselves bad names?

Torres:
There's a lot worse names than that one. But basically, they think that the world was better during The Blip. Trust me, it wasn't.

Sam:
Trust me. Every time something gets better for one group, it gets worse for another.

Sam:
[speaking at the Smithsonian] Steve represented the best in all of us. Courageous, righteous, hopeful. [looks at a poster of Captain America] And he mastered posing stoically. [audience laughs] The world has been forever changed. A few months ago, billions of people reappeared after five years away, sending the world into turmoil. We need new heroes. Ones suited for the times we're in. Symbols are nothing without the women and men that give them meaning. And this thing ... [picks up the shield and regards it] I don't know if there's ever been a greater symbol. But it's more about the man who propped it up, and he's gone. So today, we honor Steve's legacy. But also, we look to the future. Thank you, Captain America. But this belongs to you.

James Rhodes:
Crazy that nobody's gonna be carryin' the shield.

Sam:
Hey, we went for seventy years without anybody carryin' it when Steve was on ice. So, I think we'll be all right.

Rhodes:
That was a different time, Sam. [after a silence] I see you're gonna make me ask. Why didn't you take up the mantle?

Sam:
When Steve first told me about the shield, the first words I said were, "It feels like it belongs to someone else." That someone else is Steve.

Dr. Raynor:
Rule number two?

Bucky Barnes:
[mock-considering] What was rule number two?

Dr. Raynor:
Nobody gets hurt. It's a big one.

Bucky:
Then why isn't it rule number one?

Bucky:
All right, give me a break. I'm trying, okay? This isn't...[sighs] This is new for me. I didn't have a moment to deal with anything, you know? I had a little...calm in Wakanda. And other than that, I just went from one fight to another for ninety years.

Dr. Raynor:
So, now that you've stopped fighting, what do you want?

Bucky:
... Peace.

Dr. Raynor:
That is utter bullshit!

Bucky:
You're a terrible shrink.

Dr. Raynor:
[voice trembling] I was an excellent soldier, so I saw a lot of dead bodies, and I know how that can shut you down. And if you are alone, that is the quietest, most personal hell.

Leah:
You know how you call a guy whose wife died a "widower"? Or, if your parents die, you're an orphan. There's no word for someone whose kids die. Because it's the worst thing that could happen.

Sam:
You don't have to trust Redwing. But I'm gonna go see if he's right. 'Cause I have a feeling they (the Flag-Smashers) might be part of the Big Three.

Bucky:
What big three?

Sam:
The Big Three.

Bucky:
What Big Three?

Sam:
Androids, aliens and wizards.

Bucky:
That's not a thing.

Sam:
That's-that's definitely a thing.

Bucky:
No, it's not.

Sam:
Every time we fight, it's one of the three.

Bucky:
So who are you fighting now, Gandalf?

Sam:
Ev- How do you know about Gandalf?

Bucky:
I read The Hobbit. In 1937. When it first came out.

Sam:
So you see my point?

Bucky:
No. I don't. There are no wizards.

Sam:
Doctor Strange.

Bucky:
-- is a sorcerer.

Sam:
Ah-ah. [chuckles] A sorcerer is a wizard without a hat.

Lemar Hoskins:
I'm Battlestar. John's partner.

Bucky:
"Battlestar"? [yelling to the driver] Stop the car!

[The driver complies and pulls over at an intersection. Bucky gets out of the jeep and starts walking away.]

John Walker:
Look, I...I get it, okay? I get the attitude, I do. You didn't think that the shield was gonna end up here. I get it, Bucky. [to Sam] And I'm, I'm not trying to be Steve. I'm not trying to replace Steve. I'm just trying to be the best Captain America I can be. That's it. It'd be a whole lot easier if I had Cap's wingman on my side.

Sam:
[scoffs] It's always that last line. [gets out of the jeep and follows Bucky]

Kid:
Hey, it's Black Falcon! What's up?!

Sam:
Just Falcon, kid.

Kid:
No, no. My daddy told me it's Black Falcon.

Sam:
Is it because I'm black and I'm the Falcon?

Kid:
[subdued] Well, technically, I mean, yes.

Sam:
So are you, like, "Black Kid"?

[The kid rolls his eyes and looks away. Sam laughs.]

Sam:
[to the kid's friend, chuckling] I got him, right?

Kid:
[in good humor] Whatever, man.