"You look taller."
[At a US training camp. Steve stands in line with others.]
Officer: [off-screen to other soldiers training] Ready, exercise!
“Ahh, extreme gym class.”
Peggy Carter: Recruits, attention! Gentlemen, I’m Agent Carter. I supervise all operations for this division.
“FUCK ITS PEGGY CARTER! I CAN’T BREATHE! DROWNING!”
“Guys, I think Liz is actually choking.”
Gilmore Hodge: What’s with the accent, Queen Victoria? Thought I was signing up for the U.S. Army.
“That boi is fucked.”
Peggy Carter: What’s your name, soldier?
Gilmore Hodge: Gilmore Hodge, your Majesty.
“Cough cough, somebody has a rapists name.”
“Your right, but you probably shouldn’t joke about that.”
Peggy Carter: Step forward, Hodge.
[Hodge steps forward, smirking]
Peggy Carter: Put your right foot forward.
Gilmore Hodge: Mmm… We gonna wrassle? Cause I got a few moves I know you’ll like.
“That's disgusting.”
[suddenly Peggy punches him hard in the face]
“Thats not. FEMDOM!
“ALL HAIL AGENT CARTER, QUEEN OF FEMDOM!”
[Col.Phillips drives up]
Col. Chester Phillips: Agent Carter.
Peggy Carter: Colonel Phillips.
“There's a power play of respect and unity and in these few seconds I’m proud to be an American.”
“No where else?”
“No where else.”
Col. Chester Phillips: I see you’re breaking in the candidates. That’s good! [to Hodge] Get your ass up out of that dirt and stand in that line at attention 'til somebody comes tells you what to do.
“Historical powerful female figures is my cocaine.”
“Thank God it’s not real cocaine.”
Gilmore Hodge: [he gets back up] Yes, sir.
Col. Chester Phillips: [addressing the new army recruits] General Patton has said that wars are fought with weapons but they are won by men. We are going to win this war because we have the best men… [he sees Rogers and continues talking]
“Looks like someone is judging a book by its cover.”
“I’m just done Abe. You’ve killed my spirit.”
And because they’re gonna get better. Much better. The Strategic Scientific Reserve is an Allied effort made up of the best minds in the free world. Our goal is to create the best army in history. But every army starts with one man. At the end of this week we will choose that man. He will be the first in a new breed of super-soldiers. [While Phillips talk we see scenes of Steve unpacking and training where he fails to keep up and gets bullied by the others.]
“HEY THAT’S BULLYING!”
“Thanks, I didn’t notice it before.”
Sergeant Duffy: Rogers! Get that rifle out of the mud!
Col. Chester Phillips: And they, will personally escort Adolf Hitler to the gates of Hell.
“Cap never did that, he has failed as an American.”
“Haven’t we all?”
[then we see Steve and some other trainees running up to a waiting Peggy and a flagpole]
Sergeant Duffy: Pick up the pace, ladies! Let’s go! Double time! Come on! Faster! Faster! Move! Move! [they arrive at the flag pole] Squad, halt! That flag means we’re only at the halfway point. First man to bring it to me gets a ride back with Agent Carter. Move, move!
Soldiers: Come on! Get up there!
Sergeant Duffy: [the soldier try to climb up the pole to no avail]
“Why don’t they just, you know, take out the pin holding up the flag?”
“Men.”
If that’s all you got, this army’s in trouble! Get up there, Hodge! Come on! Get up there! Nobody’s got that flag in 17 years!
“Wait, so no one has pulled out a fucking pin in seventeen years!?”
Now fall back into line! Come on, fall in! Let’s go! Get back into formation! Rogers! I said fall in! [Steve pulls a pin out at the bottom of the pole causing it to fall over.]
“Oh thank God at least one of the soldiers have common sense.”
Steve Rogers: [as he gives the flag to Sergeant Duffy] Thank you, sir. [He climbs into the car and they drive away.]
[The soldiers are doing push-ups.]
‘“I know he’s an asshole, but Hodge has got some fine muscles on him.”
“Abe, you and Samantha are going to kill me.”
“Like your one to speak, Ashlynn.”
“Can we just, you know, WATCH THE GODDAMNED MOVIE!?”
“Uh, no. Duh.”
Peggy Carter: Faster, ladies! Come on. My grandmother has more life in her, God rest her soul. Move it!
Col. Chester Phillips: [walking besides Erskine] You’re not really thinking about picking Rogers, are you?
“There he goes again, judging a book by its cover! Steve Rogers is more than his smol bean smexy looks! He has feelings you know!”
“Yeah, stop objectifying him!”
“You know what, I’m done. Abe, Samantha, I quit. They need a new babysitter.”
Dr. Abraham Erskine: I am more than just thinking about it. He is the clear choice.
Col. Chester Phillips: When you brought a ninety-pound asthmatic onto my army base, I let it slide. I thought, what the hell? Maybe he’ll be useful to you, like a gerbil. I never thought you’d pick him. [referring to Steve]
“What did we just say, sto-”
“SHUT UP ABE!”
Peggy Carter: [as Phillips and Erskine arrive she commands the soldiers:] Up.
Col. Chester Phillips: You stick a needle in that kids arm and it’s gonna go right through him. [watching Steve struggling whilst training with the other new recruits]
Peggy Carter: Come on, girls.
Col. Chester Phillips: Look at that. He’s making me cry.
Samantha wiggled her eyebrows. “Tears of passion?”
Dr. Abraham Erskine: I am looking for qualities beyond the physical.
Col. Chester Phillips: Do you know how long it took to set up this project?
Dr. Abraham Erskine: Yeah, I know.
Col. Chester Phillips: All the groveling I had to do in front of Senator What’s-His-Name’s committees?
“Sounds like school.”
Dr. Abraham Erskine: Brandt. Yes, I know. I am well aware of your efforts.
Col. Chester Phillips: Then throw me a bone. Hodge passed every test we gave him. He’s big, he’s fast, he obeys orders. He’s a soldier.
Dr. Abraham Erskine: He’s a bully.
Col. Chester Phillips: You don’t win wars with niceness, doctor. [he takes a hand grenade]
“Wait, what is he gonna do?”
You win war with guts. [he throws the grenade at where the new recruits are training] Grenade!
“Holy fuck!”
“Why the Hell would he do that!?”
“Thats super fucking dangerous, why?”
[all the soldiers move away quickly but Steve jumps on top of it covering it with his body]
“EVEN MORE FUCKING DANGEROUS!”
“WHAT THE HELL CAP?!”
“YOU CAN’T JUST PUT YOURSELF IN DANGER LIKE THAT!”
“FUCK!”
Steve Rogers: Get away! Get back! [waits for the grenade to go off but nothing happens]
Officer: It was a dummy grenade. All clear. Back in formation.
“Oh, it was just a dummy grenade! Not like you had soldiers fearing for their lives or anything, not at all.”
[Steve looks at Phillips and Erskine]
Steve Rogers: Is this is a test?
[Erskine looks at Phillips as to confirm his point about choosing Steve]
Col. Chester Phillips: He’s still skinny.
“THIS IS WHY YOU DON’T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER!
[later that night, Steve sits on his bunk reading. Erskine knocks on the door.]
Dr. Abraham Erskine: May I?
Steve Rogers: Yeah.
Dr. Abraham Erskine: Can’t sleep?
Steve Rogers: I got the jitters, I guess.
Dr. Abraham Erskine: [laughs] Me, too.
Steve Rogers: Can I ask you a question?
Dr. Abraham Erskine: Just one? [he sits down facing Steve]
Steve Rogers: Why me?
Michelle was also wondering that. If the serum was to enhance only the physical traits, then Hodge is the obvious choice. Even so, Rogers is a loose canon He’s kind of shit at following orders, if the flagpole was anything to go by. Plus he lack self-preservation instincts. He can’t just go off and get himself killed on the battlefield!
Dr. Abraham Erskine: I suppose that is the only question that matters. [He looks down at the bottle of schnapps he brought with him.] This is from Augsburg. My city. So many people forget that the first country that the Nazi’s invaded was their own.
“That’s……..surprisingly correct.”
“What do you mean Liz?”
“I mean that we don’t usually remember that the Germans were as much victims of the war as the Jewish.”
You know, after the last war the… my people struggled. They… they felt weak. They felt small. And then Hitler comes along with the marching and the big show and the flags and the… and the… [he waves his hand] And he… he hears of me, my work and he finds me. And he says, "You." He says, "You will make us strong." Well, I am not interested.
“Hey, same.”
“We should make a club of people not interested in working for narcissistic, genocidal, maniacs!”
So he sends the head of HYDRA, his research division. A brilliant scientist by the name of Johann Schmidt. Now, Schmidt is a member of the inner circle and he’s ambitious. He and Hitler share a passion for occult power and Teutonic myth. Hitler uses his fantasies to inspire his followers. But for Schmidt, it is not fantasy. For him, it is real.
“Hey guys?”
“What Samantha?”
“I think Schmidt’s a little insane.”
“Well no duh.”
He has become convinced that there is a great power hidden in the earth, left here by the Gods, waiting to be seized by a superior man. So when he hears about my formula and what it can do, he cannot resist.
[flashback of how Schmidt takes Erskine’s formula and injects himself with it]
“That’s also disgusting.”
“Seconded.”
Dr. Abraham Erskine: Schmidt must become that superior man.
Steve Rogers: Did it make him stronger?
Dr. Abraham Erskine: Yeah. But, there were other effects. The serum was not ready. But more important, the man. The serum amplifies everything that is inside. So, good becomes great. Bad becomes worse. This is why you were chosen. Because a strong man, who has known power all his life, will lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength, and knows compassion.
Steve Rogers: Thanks. I think.
“Thanks, I think.”
Dr. Abraham Erskine: [he pours 2 drinks] Whatever happens tomorrow, you must promise me one thing. That you will stay who you are. Not a perfect soldier, but a good man.
[Steve holds up his glass to toast]
Steve Rogers: To the little guys.
[just as Steve’s about to drink from his glass]
Dr. Abraham Erskine: No! No! Wait! Wait! What I am doing? No! You have a procedure tomorrow. No fluids.
[he pours the contents of Steve’s glass into his own]
“Sly Asshole.”
“The best kind of asshole.”
Steve Rogers: All right. We’ll drink it after.
Dr. Abraham Erskine: No! I don’t have procedure tomorrow. Drink it after? Drink it now!
The theatre erupted into laughter.
[At the Hydra facility, in Schmidt’s lab.]
Johann Schmidt: [he turns off the light] Is there something in particular you need? [An artist is painting Schmidt’s portrait in oil.]
Dr. Arnim Zola: I understand you found him.
Johann Schmidt: See for yourself. [Zola steps over to the table to find several surveillance photos of Dr. Erskine.] You disapprove.
Dr. Arnim Zola: I just don’t see why you need concern yourself. I can’t imagine he will succeed. [looking nervously at Schmidt] Again.
“Someone's trying to not lose his job.”
Johann Schmidt: His serum is the Allies’ only defence against this power we now possess. If we take it away from them, then our victory is assured.
Dr. Arnim Zola: Shall I give the order?
“Wait, what order?”
Johann Schmidt: It has been given.
Dr. Arnim Zola: Good. [he turns to go]
Johann Schmidt: Dr. Zola. [he turns on the lights] What do you think?
Dr. Arnim Zola: A masterpiece. [the artist looks relieved with Zola’s assessment]
“Cray-Cray.”
[Steve and Peggy whilst driving through Brooklyn]
Steve Rogers: I know this neighborhood. I got beat up in that alley. And that parking lot. And behind that diner.
“Ahh, the good ole days.”
Peggy Carter: Did you have something against running away?
Steve Rogers: You start running they’ll never let you stop. You stand up, push back. Can’t say no forever, right?
“That is a terrible life motto.”
“Very easy to get injured.”
“Fuck, maybe that’s why the Avengers need their own Goddamned hospital.”
Peggy Carter: I know a little of what that’s like. To have every door shut in your face.
Steve Rogers: I guess I just don’t why you’d wanna join the army if you’re a beautiful dame. Or a beautiful… a woman. An agent, not a dame! You are beautiful, but…
“Literally me.”
“SHUT UP SAMANTHA!”
Peggy Carter: You have no idea how to talk to a woman, do you?
Steve Rogers: This is the longest conversation I’ve had with one. Women aren’t exactly lining up to dance with a guy they might step on.
“Okay, that’s kind of cheap.”
“And the women of today haven’t changed.”
“Ouch, stop hitting me!”
Peggy Carter: You must have danced?
Steve Rogers: Well, asking a woman to dance always seems so terrifying. And the past few years just didn’t seem to matter that much. Figured I’d wait.
Peggy Carter: For what?
Steve Rogers: The right partner.
“I ship.”
“No way, Him and Bucky have way more chemistry.’
“Says you!”
[They pull up by an antiques shop and get out of the car.]
Peggy Carter: This way.
Steve Rogers: What are we doing here?
Peggy Carter: Follow me. [They go inside.]
Antique Store Owner: Wonderful weather this morning isn’t it?
Peggy Carter: Yes, but I always carry an umbrella.
[Peggy leads Steve into the hidden lab to Dr. Erskine and his team in a big circular room filled with machinery and a pod in the middle.]
“They made that cliche!??”
Dr. Abraham Erskine: Good morning. [he shakes Steve’s hand and sombody takes a photograph] Please, not now. [The photographer walks away, Steve looks at the pod] Are you ready? [Steve nods.] Good. Take off your shirt, your tie and your hat.
“Captain America was a twig.’
“It’s so much different seeing about it rather than hearing about it.”
[In the adjacent observation chamber filled with officials.]
Col. Chester Phillips: Senator Brandt, glad you could make it.
Senator Brandt: Why exactly am I in Brooklyn?
“Bitch.”
Col. Chester Phillips: We needed access to the city’s power grid. Of course, if you’d given me the generators I requisitioned…
“And tensions are rising!”
Senator Brandt: A lot of people are asking for funds, Colonel. [referring to his company] Oh, this is…
Heinz Kruger: Fred Clemson, State Department. [He shakes Phillips’ hand] If this project of yours comes through, we’d like to see it used for something other than headlines.
Senator Brandt: [looing down into the chamber at Steve] Jesus. Somebody get that kid a sandwich.
[In the chamber Steve has climbed into the pod and lain down.]
Dr. Abraham Erskine: Comfortable?
Steve Rogers: It’s a little big. You save me any of that schnapps?
Dr. Abraham Erskine: Not as much as I should have. Sorry. Next time. Mr. Stark, how are your levels?
“I keep confusing him with Tony Stark.”
“The one Penis Parker has his fake internship with?”
“Shut up Eugene!”
“Hey!” Yelled MJ, “knock it off losers!”
Howard Stark: Levels at 100%.
Dr. Abraham Erskine: Good.
Howard Stark: We may dim half the lights in Brooklyn, but we are ready as we’ll ever be.
Dr. Abraham Erskine: Agent Carter? Don’t you think you would be more comfortable in the booth?
Peggy Carter: Oh, yes. Of course. Sorry.
Dr. Abraham Erskine: Good. [He takes a microphone and taps it.] Do you hear me? is this on? [to the small group gathered to watch Steve being prepared to become a super-solider] Ladies and gentlemen, today we take not another step towards annihilation, but the first step on the path to peace. We begin with a series of micro injections into the subjects major muscle groups. The serum infusion will cause immediate cellular change. And then to stimulate growth, the subject will be saturated with Vita-Rays.
Everyone leaned towards the screen, this was how the Captain became the Captain! It was a scientific mystery, an anomaly that no one has figured out.
Steve Rogers: [after preliminary injection] That wasn’t so bad.
Dr. Abraham Erskine: That was penicillin.
“Ahh, foreshadowing to pain.”
Dr. Abraham Erskine: [to the others] Serum infusion beginning in five, four, three, two, one. [The serum is injected into Steve] Now, Mr. Stark. [Stark lowers a leaver, the pod moves upright and encloses Steve inside.] [knocking on the capsule that they’ve locked Steven in for the procedure to change him] Steven, can you hear me?
Steve Rogers: It’s probably too late to go to the bathroom, right?
“Mood.”
“Literally me.”
Dr. Abraham Erskine: [turns to Stark] We will proceed.
Howard Stark: [manages the controls] That’s ten percent. Twenty percent. Thirty. That’s 40 %.
SSR Doctor: Vital signs are normal.
Howard Stark: That’s 50 %. Sixty. Seventy.
[as Steve is screaming in pain as he is receiving the vita rays]
“Shit!”
“Oh my God.”
“Turn it off, turn it off!”
“The screen can’t hear you, dumbass.”
“I-I knOw that!”
Dr. Abraham Erskine: Steven!
Peggy Carter: Shut it down.
Dr. Abraham Erskine: Steven! [he knocks on the pod]
Peggy Carter: Shut it down!
Dr. Abraham Erskine: Kill the reactor, Mr. Stark! Turn it off! Kill it! Kill the reactor!
“Kill it!”
Steve Rogers: No! Don’t! I can do this!
“What is this little motherfucker trying to do?!”
Howard Stark: Eighty. Ninety. That’s 100 %. [Everything overloads until the reactor closes itself down.]
Dr. Abraham Erskine: Mr. Stark? [Stark opens the pod]
“Jesus Christ.’
“Fine piece of God.”
“My gaydar just spiked.”
“That is one fine looking man.”
[after being transformed into a super-soldier]
Dr. Abraham Erskine: Steven. Steven.
Col. Chester Phillips: The son of a bitch did it. [as everyone poors out of the observation chamber Kruger leaves a small, metal object like a cigarette case behind.]
“The fuck is that….?”
“Oh God, is this when……”
“I hope not.”
Steve Rogers: [As he stumbles out of the pod supported by Stark and Erskine] I did it.
Dr. Abraham Erskine: Yeah, yeah. I think we did it.
“You think?!”
Howard Stark: We actually did it.
Peggy Carter: How do you feel?
Steve Rogers: Taller.
Peggy Carter: You look taller.
“Ship, ship, ship!”
Col. Chester Phillips: How do you like Brooklyn now, Senator?
Senator Brandt: I can think of some folks in Berlin who are about to get very nervous. Congratulations, Doctor. [He shakes hands with Erskine.]
Dr. Abraham Erskine: Thank you, sir.
[Kruger detonates the bomb in the observation room and uses the confusion to steal the last vial of the serum.]
“Motherfucker.”
Dr. Abraham Erskine: Stop him! [Kruger shoots him and flees with Peggy chasing after him]
“No!’ Some of the more emotional girls had tears in their eyes.
[Steve kneels beside Erskine who points at Steve’s chest and dies.]
[Kruger shoots his way to a get-away-car but soon after he drives away, Peggy shoots the driver and the car crashes into a taxi so Kruger changes cars.]
“Damn son.”
Taxi Driver: What are you doing? Buddy, are you all right? Hey, this guy’s been shot!
[Kruger drives off in the taxi, straight towards Peggy. She shoots at him but he just ducks and keeps going. Steve shoves her out of the way.]
Peggy Carter. I had him!
Steve Rogers: Sorry! [he runs after the cab] [While chasing the car he loses control over his new power and crashes into a bridalwear store.] I’m sorry. [he runs out into a street full of cars] Whoa, whoa, whoa!
“Ever the gentleman, Steven Grant Rogers.”
[Steve catches up to Kruger’s car a the pier and causes him to lose control. Kruger gets out of the car and takes a young boy hostage.]
Mother: No! No! Not my son!
Young Boy: Stop it!
Mother: Don’t hurt him!
Heinz Kruger: Get back! [Kruger with the boy dangling in his arms runs away.]
Young Boy: Let me go!
Mother: Let go of my son! Don’t hurt him!
Steve Rogers: [as Kruger points a gun at the boy’s head.] Wait, don’t! Don’t! [Kruger points the gun at Steve and pulls the trigger, but the gun is empty. So instead he throws the boy into the water.] No! Don’t! [Kruger runs, Steve looks down at the boy.]
Young Boy: Go get him! I can swim!
“Thank God for small miracles.”
[Kruger tries to escape in a submarine, but Steve jumps into the water, breaks the window an pulls Kruger out back onto dry land. As they struggle further the vial breaks.]
Steve Rogers: Who the hell are you?
Heinz Kruger: The first of many. Cut off one head, two more shall take its place. Hail HYDRA! [he pops a fake tooth loose and swallows it, he starts to foam at the mouth and then die]
“Well, we are definitely fucked.”