The first 158 lines.
This is the promise.
While you work to keep my home safe,
Carol Danvers and I will find you a new one.
You're tellin' me there's a million Skrulls walking amongst us right now?
We need a single commander whose war power is total and unchecked.
Therefore, I nominate Gravik to the post of Skrull General.
Would you have loved me if I'd never changed?
If I'd been my true self?
You had another chance to kill Fury today, and you didn't take it.
What DNA did Gravik steal?
Only a few samples.
But he took those because he couldn't find what he was looking for.
What was he looking for?
Something he called "the Harvest."
I got a deal for you.
Bring it to me in person, I'll call the whole thing off.
And bring some iodide pills.
The reactor room can be a touch aggressive.
This is the first time you called this number in years.
I have dialed this number a million times.
This is just the first time I pressed send.
Oh. Well, that's cold consolation.
You sound far away. Are you?
Far enough to where it makes sense to keep going the way I'm going.
Know if you'll be coming back?
Um, I'll, uh... I'll let you go now.
You don't have to, if you don't want to, darling.
Take care of yourself.
Mr. President, we need to stay focused
on honing your response to the attack on your motorcade.
Respectfully, we still need time
to confirm that this was in fact an official Russian act.
President Vladimov has strenuously denied responsibility.
Oh, he's "strenuously denied it."
Then I guess we're all right then.
President Vladimov is a bald-faced liar
and I've got 30 dead Russians on a motorway to prove it.
We cannot rule out the possibility of a false flag attack.
Did you take a stupid pill with your breakfast this morning, Admiral?
What happened on that motorway was an all-out assault on our republic,
orchestrated by the Skrulls and the Russians
who are giving them safe haven.
Our commander-in-chief is still nursing internal injuries
from an assassination attempt
that he barely survived by the skin of his teeth.
So, unless you have some actual evidence
to back up this ridiculous false flag proposition,
I suggest you move on to doing what it is you were summoned here to do,
which is present the President of the United States
with his options for a military response to Russia.
Put it on the monitor.
What are we looking at here, Colonel Rhodes?
Real time satellite imagery, sir,
this is the Russian tanks taking positions on the Finland and Ukrainian borders.
Now, sir, if I may,
I've taken the liberty
to prepare a rough copy of your remarks to the nation.
The American people need to hear from you, sir.
They need your leadership.
They need to understand who's responsible for this.
And it's the Russians, 100%.
There's your proof right there.
Make the call, Mr. President.
Hello?
You have to get him out of there. - Who?
The President, you bloody idiot.
Fury's headed straight for you.
Fury? Why are we concerned about Fury? We got enough security for him.
For what? Target practice? Fury's lost it.
He wants Ritson stopped before the bomb is launched.
Move the President now.
Where is everybody?
Locked away.
Looks like it's just you and me, Fury.
All out of pills? That's a shame, ain't it?
No more protection for you. How about a drink instead?
Yeah, I wouldn't say no.
Here.
There you go.
To the last stand of the great Nick Fury.
Rhodey, what are you...
We're taking you to safety, Mr. President.
Hey. We're moving the President upstairs.
- What about the others? - Clear!
- Tell 'em to start hunting. - Copy that.
Sweep every floor. Lock down the elevators.
National security threat.
Bet you never would've thought your last 20 minutes on Earth
would be spent down here, having a drink with me.
You see these tremors?
They're natural at this level of exposure.
It's once the shaking gets above the elbow,
close to the heart, that's when you need to be concerned.
I look concerned?
Of course without the pills, the symptoms are gonna accelerate.
Fury, tell me you got a backup plan. Your little Avengers on standby?
What about that invisible cloak and shield?
You're too busy playing dress-up, using my skin like a costume.
A costume, Fury? Do you not recognize this skin?
Huh? This face.
This was the first human I killed.
And you know why I killed him?
I killed him because you told me to.
Oh, wow.
You don't even remember.
The first mission you sent me on.
You know, I was young. I tried my best.
I wanted to give everything to impress my hero.
You know, the one who promised us a home.
But this man...
This man, Fury, he had a wife. And he had children.
Yeah, all right, maybe he was a bit misguided.
But I killed him because of you.
I killed him and I killed so many more.
And everyone I killed took a little piece out of my heart.
- Well, you're not the only one. - No.
But I am the only one brave enough to admit it.
Talos was weak.
And we wandered in the shadows for 30 years because he was weak.
He turned a war people into a band of beggars and what,
I'm supposed to emulate that?
I'm supposed to be like Talos and put my trust in you?
You pimped us, Fury.
You put us out to work for you
and when you were done with us, you threw us away.
So, first, I'm gonna kill you.
And then I'm gonna take a flamethrower to humanity.
And just so I am absolutely clear about this, Fury...
You look at me. Look at me.
You did this.
All the bombs and the blackouts
and the massacres and the wildfires
and the imminent removal of humans from their habitat, that is all you!
The species you spent your entire adult life defending,
they were condemned to die
the day I realized you weren't a man of your word.
You know, Fury, you really should've kept your promise.
You're... You're right.
You're right, I failed you.
I failed you.
I knew within a few years of searching
that there was no other planet out there for you.
I knew the only way for me to keep my end of the bargain
was to build you a home here.
Why didn't you do it?
Because it's easier to save the lives of eight billion people
than it is to change their hearts and minds.
Even for Nick Fury?
Even for Nick Fury.
And then The Blip came.
You know,
the last thing I felt before I flaked off?
What's that?
Relief.
Relief that I didn't have to fight anymore.
That I finally had a way out.
- But you're right... - Clear the floor.
- Move! Move! - Clear the floor.
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