Easter Sunday in Centerville: the terrorist have taken hostages in church because of the local industry, a munitions factory. Outside, Captain America is confronted by four Arab children, each with a transmitter broadcasting the message of terrorist leader al-Tariq. The villain reveals that these children have prosthetic limbs replacing those lost to American mines and cluster bombs. Swarmed by the kids, Cap sees that one is a suicide bomber; he hurls the others to safety, surprising them with his concern for their safety. Cap discovers that the dead child has a CATtag. Telling the remaining children that he is not the enemy, nor are the hostages, he heads to the rescue.
As the clock ticks down for the detonation of the bombs, Cap races to where al-Tariq is being interviewed by TV reporter Jessica Seldon and attempting to justify the attack. Cap drops the terrorist leader with his thrown shield, and stops him from triggering the detonator. Tariq suddenly dies, as revealed by his CATtag. Captain America addresses the TV camera and tells the terrorists he doesn’t see war, he sees hate, and hate blindly holds a nation accountable for the actions of one man. "America didn’t kill Faysal al-Tariq…I did." Then, on live television, he unmasks….