Nick Fury Jr. is shown surveillance film of Hydra agents robbing
a bank and a confrontation with police. Suddenly, Captain America appears,
takes down the baddies with his shield and vanishes into the night. The footage
was supplied by Mayor Wilson Fisk and FBI rep Templehoff reminds Fury that Cap
is a fugitive from justice and so Fury is reluctantly determined to catch him….
After the fight with Hydra, Cap appears at Sharon Carter’s
apartment. She is worried that he doesn’t understand the gravity of the
situation insisting that the country doesn’t need Captain America right now but
Steve Rogers….
Nick Fury is suspicious that Wilson Fisk had film of Cap’s
battle with Hydra but not of his escape route. Fury sends his agents out of the
room and calls Winter Soldier on the phone, trying to persuade Bucky to tell
him where Steve Rogers is. Bucky responds and Fury writes it down…
…and we see that Bucky is with the mysterious Dryad who is
presiding over the interrogation of Baron Strucker with the help of SHIELD
psi-agents. Bucky suggests telling Steve what’s going on but Dryad declines….
In need of allies, Cap meets with the Daughters of Liberty
(Misty Knight, Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew), Invisible Woman, Mockingbird, Echo,
Toni Ho). They tell him that their group has been fighting for the American
dream since the dream was conceived. And Sharon notes that even if Captain
America is tarnished, the dream is eternal. Steve goes to a gallery where he
keeps all of his varied costumes; as he dons the uniform he wore when Bucky
Barnes was Captain America, Sharon notes that Captain America is dead but Steve
Rogers lives….
Epilogue: Sharon stops by the site where Dryad is
interrogating Strucker and we learn that Dryad is Peggy Carter, a young Peggy
Carter….