Marvel's The Punisher

- Please state your full name. - Frank Castle.

And you confirm that the statement

you are about to give has not been coerced.

That no amnesty or immunity for any crimes you've committed...

- Jesus Christ. - ...have been offered or implied

- in exchange for your testimony. - Wow...

- Gotta cover your ass, huh, Madani? - Answer the question.

No deals. No guarantees.

- Mr. Castle... - Yeah?

You served many years as a Marine Force Recon?

I did.

But that isn't where you served your last mission?

No. I was part of a covert CIA operation. It was called Cerberus.

And what was the aim of Cerberus?

Mission Cerberus was to apprehend, interrogate,

assassinate high-value targets in Afghanistan.

There is no official record of any such mission.

Come on, Madani, you know why that is.

Why would you ask me that?

Look, I need it on tape.

Okay. The reason why you haven't heard of it

is 'cause the whole thing was illegal.

It's a private death squad funded by smuggling heroin out of Kandahar. Good?

Okay, and who was running the show?

Colonel Schoonover, Colonel Morty Bennett and your guy, Carson Wolf. All deceased.

- You killed them? - I did.

Well, not Bennett. His, uh... his friends did that.

I guess you could say I put a target on his back.

Target for who?

The man in charge.

William J. Rawlins.

Head of covert operations, CIA. Whole thing was his baby.

Anyone else involved?

Yeah.

There was a marine.

Billy Russo.

Think I have some more shit you already knew, right, Madani?

It's okay.

Leo, you're safe.

What about Mom and Zach?

Yeah, we're all working on that.

It's gonna be okay.

How do you know?

I'm gonna make sure.

What happened, Dad?

We thought you were dead. We had a funeral.

I know.

- Everything people said about... - I know, I know.

I was trying to protect you, and I know...

I know that it doesn't feel like that right now, and I...

I did a lousy job.

But I'm gonna make everything all right.

Okay?

You're going away again, aren't you? You and Pete.

You're going to go and do something. I don't want you to go.

We gotta go get Mom and your brother.

What if you don't?

Please state your full name.

I'm sorry. Let me just stop you right there, Agent Madani.

I... This isn't gonna be some by-the-book Q and A, okay?

I think, fundamentally, you and I, we want the same things.

We want the same people in custody, but...

that's not my priority.

My priority is my family.

My wife. My son.

You help me get 'em back, I'll give you what you want.

- Yeah, what do I want? - You want evidence

proving William Rawlins killed Ahmad Zubair.

You want a video.

A video that I already sent you, which you carelessly managed to lose.

- A video that already got me killed once. - Killed by who?

You want that video so that Frank Castle can point at himself on the screen

and then point at William Rawlins and then say, "That's your guy."

And then you want justice...

'cause you haven't figured out that there is no such thing yet.

- You don't believe in justice? - No, I did.

I did. You were it.

You and the system.

I've learned different.

Good men have died trying to expose this thing. They believed.

Well, I believe the only way to get these assholes is to become like them.

No, I don't believe that.

You will.

In the end.

I want my family safe.

Help me get them back, and I'll give you everything you need.

Not before.

One of your targets was Ahmad Zubair.

Yes, he was.

So what happened to him?

Look, Rawlins gives us a name.

We go, we find him.

We dragged him out of his house in front of his kids.

His wife was screaming.

Same thing we did to a bunch of other guys.

Is that what you want to hear, Madani?

- Zubair was tortured. - That's right.

- And then killed? - Yeah.

- And you witnessed all of this? - I did.

- Rawlins gave the order? - Yeah.

Look, Madani, it's all on that tape, okay? Him, me, all of us.

It damns us all.

Rawlins gave the order. Did Billy Russo pull the trigger?

No, he did not.

I did.

You killed him?

Yes, I did.

Like I said, it damned us all.

- They're late. - Nah, they're here.

They're watching us.

Yeah? Why don't they just shoot us where we stand?

Who knows? Maybe they already...

- Zach and Sarah, they... - No.

If they wanted to kill us, we'd be dead, David.

Shit you pulled with the computers, it's working.

Same on them as it worked on me. It bought us leverage.

- It's good. - Yeah.

- It's a goddamn death sentence. - No.

Hey, look, no second thoughts, okay? You just...

You quiet your mind.

You don't have to do this.

I'm not gonna let anything happen to your wife and son. I'm just not.

So whatever happens here, we stick to the plan, okay?

- Okay. - We stick to the plan. Yeah?

Yeah. Just, um...

I gotta tell you, Frank, you know... I know I can be difficult.

What you're doing for my family, I'm not gonna forget that.

They're here.

When you see them, you keep it together, yeah?

Let's do it.

- Oh, shit. - Easy.

Easy, David.

Easy. Remember the plan.

Baby...

Mom, it's Dad!

It's Dad!

- Um... - It's okay.

That is just for show. You hear me?

It's for show. They're not gonna do a damn thing.

Just to make sure we behave.

David...

Yeah?

So it's real simple.

You and Lieberman get in the van.

You do anything else, the happy family turns into a bonfire.

Um,

the fact that I'm standing here without a bullet in my head

means you didn't get too far with those computers, right?

Well, we both got things we want here.

So let's get through this nice and smooth.

No tricks. Start walking.

Sounds good.

Move!

David?

Easy.

Stay calm.

- Dad? - David?

You keep it together, David. Keep walking.

David...

It's okay. Just keep walking. It's okay.

- Easy. - David...

Shit.

- Police! - Shit!

- Get him! - In the van, now! Move!

Move! Move! Move!

No! No! Go!

Go!

Go! Go!

- Get off... Get off of me! - Get down!

I need them both! Get Lieberman!

- Come here! Come here. - Let's go!

Come here!

- Come here! - All right. Get out of there.

- No! - Take him down!

- Shit! - No! No!

Get inside! Go, now! Get inside!

Shit!

- No! - Get down!

I said get the hell out of there!

David! No!

Get in the car!

No! No!

Welcome back.

Nice place you got here.

It looks better since I decorated with your guys.

- Well, there are always more guys. - Mmm.

Somebody always wants to get paid.

I guess you'd be the expert on that, wouldn't you, Bill?

All those poor bastards that we strung up back in the day...

You know, I never really thought to myself...

"But for the Grace of God go I." Well... you, in this case.

Ticktock, Bill, huh? Ticktock.

What was Homeland doing there?

I don't know. Nothing to do with me.

Hmm.

- Am I supposed to believe that? - I don't give a shit what you believe.

Uh, I don't know.

Maybe Lieberman... Maybe he... Maybe he...

He set it up behind my back. Why don't you go ask him? Okay?

What do you think, Billy?