Beloved

Do I dare ask what calamity must have transpired

to bring you home to me?

How do you explain Mr. Fury's presence in Moscow?

They sent you to fire me?

I volunteered.

That mess that you created in Moscow that resulted in getting

one of our best people murdered?

You earned all this smoke, brother.

At the Council meeting,

I told you I had a plan for taking Earth as our own.

The heroes of Earth will react.

The only way we can counter that is to become super ourselves.

All of us.

Super Skrulls.

G'iah.

Run.

- Go on, turn around. No.

Are you a leader of Skrulls

or our worst enemy?

St. James Church, one hour.

As I was watching all the news coverage of those guys'

heroics over in the States, strangest thing,

I kept having this feeling

that someone I know had something to do with getting them all together.

And what if it was someone you know?

Wouldn't surprise me.

Why is that?

Because if he's the man I think he is, he has a powerful sense of righteousness.

He understands that the universe is a dangerous place.

That home is worth fighting for.

And that the weak are worth protecting.

Good book?

It's a collection of poems.

Raymond Carver.

- You familiar? - Nah. More of a history guy myself.

He's known for his brevity.

I mean, some of his poems are just three or four lines,

but they pack a punch.

Do you have a favorite?

It's called Late Fragment.

Hmm. How's it go?

Uh...

Actually, it's a conversation between two people.

You read the first line.

"And did you get what you wanted from this life,

"even so?"

"I did."

"And what did you want?"

"To call myself beloved,

"to feel myself beloved on the earth."

- Fury was fired a couple of days ago. - Fired?

How'd that happen?

President Ritson must have found out he was in Moscow.

President Ritson doesn't find out that the sun's come up

unless I brief him.

I fired Fury, okay?

No, I'm sorry, correction, I DDT'd that dude from the top rope.

Yeah, it was like Undertaker level. It was really impressive.

I don't understand. If it was you...

If it was Gravik, then why does he need me?

What Gravik needs, what Gravik doesn't need,

that's none of your concern.

I'm the one telling you to kill Fury.

I'll make it easy for you.

One of the two occupants of that lovely country manor of yours

is catching a bullet today.

You can flip a coin for all I care.

He's broken.

He's been broken ever since he came back from the Blip.

The old Fury, the one with power,

the one with ability, the one who was indispensable to us,

that Fury's gone.

Now this new one,

he'll be dead from exhaustion and defeat soon enough.

We don't need to kill him.

Priscilla.

You keep telling me what you're not gonna do,

I'm gonna show you what I am going to.

Now you enjoy this concert.

We have a problem.

Oh, yeah?

What's that?

Take a look around, G. There's a reason G'iah isn't here with us.

She's the mole.

I've already taken care of her.

Yes, sir.

Hey! Remember, we want them to think it's the Russians.

Make it big, loud, like the Russians would.

Yeah, that's cargo only.

Steady now.

I should never ever have forced you into this,

and I am so sorry.

I don't need your sorrow or pity for anything I did of my own free will.

The reason I'm with you now

is because with you, Dad...

It's the only answer to the question of where I belong.

The only thing that I need from you

is a plan.

Once and for all, Dad,

what is your plan for finding our people a home?

Because Gravik has already implemented his,

and it works.

Okay.

First, we take down the insurgency.

You, me, Fury.

Once that's done, we go to the President.

And we have a big bargaining chip.

And we tell him,

"Guess what? Just saved your planet. Now give me a little something in return."

And we wait and see what can happen next. All right?

And I believe that I can secure an amnesty

for the one million of us to remain.

Don't you want to live in your own skin?

Of course I do.

But we have to deal with reality.

G'iah, we're a people without a planet.

We depend on the goodwill of our hosts.

We just have to keep showing them who we are.

We just keep contributing, show them our hearts.

They will see us.

You are delusional.

That's not who we are.

And that is not who I've become.

G'iah.

G'iah!

- Didn't think you'd be home until later. - Surprise.

- Tea? - Sure, I'll take a cup.

What's the matter? Your fingers swell up?

You're not wearing your wedding ring.

Oh!

Came in the back way, slipped my mind.

Does that mean you're coming or going?

Going.

One of those "Fury, we need you at work" things.

- Know what I mean? - I know how it is.

Of all the dumbass, wrongheaded,

reckless things I've done in my life,

you are by far and away

the greatest mistake.

I lost all my reason to be your husband.

Ignored every signal in my head, heart and body

that screamed, "Stop!"

Even now, as I sit here,

knowing you plan to kill me with that pistol of yours,

I don't know that if I had a chance to do it over again,

that I'd do anything different.

Would you tell me the story? About how you

chose her?

Dr. Priscilla Davis had a congenital heart defect.

She was keeping it a secret.

Didn't want the people she loved gathered around for months,

watching her die in a hospital.

And I would visit her in her room almost every day towards the end,

and we became quite close.

But at some point,

I had to acknowledge the truth of

what I was actually doing there

- in the first place. - Which was?

Looking for someone who would slip your defenses.

Ah.

So you were playing the long game on me, even then.

Don't do that, Nick.

One day the doctor came in and told me that it would be just a matter of hours.

I decided to just come out and ask.

You asked if you could assume her life?

I asked if she wanted to fall in love.

She wanted to know how, of course.

And I told her about you.

She made me make her three promises.

One,

that I would bury her at sea, which I did.

Two,

that I would continue to be a daughter to her parents.