Film guide · 2021
The whole film, start to finish, told scene by scene in words. Read this and you'll know everything that happens.
Contains every spoiler, up to the ending.
On a military mission, Sam flies after terrorist Batroc's aircraft and rescues a hostage.
Sam donates Steve's shield to a museum, saying it belongs to Steve.
In therapy, Bucky tries to make amends to the people he hurt while brainwashed. He befriends the father of a young man he once killed, but can't bring himself to tell him.
In Louisiana, Sam tries to help his sister Sarah save the family boat, but the bank won't give them a loan.
On TV, the government unveils a new Captain America. Holding the shield is a soldier Sam doesn't know: John Walker.
Sam and Bucky chase the Flag Smashers in Germany. Fighting on top of trucks, they realize their foes all have super strength. Walker joins in, but they're outmatched.
Bucky takes Sam to see an old man, Isaiah, a Black soldier secretly given the serum long ago, then imprisoned and experimented on for 30 years.
To find out where the serum came from, Bucky suggests asking the imprisoned Zemo for help.
Bucky breaks Zemo out of prison, and the three travel on Zemo's private jet.
In the criminal haven of Madripoor, they go undercover to find the serum's source, and run into Sharon Carter, now a fugitive.
They find the doctor who recreated the serum, but Zemo shoots him.
The Wakandan warrior Ayo arrives, hunting for Zemo.
Karli's group is fighting for people displaced when the vanished returned. Sam thinks they might be able to talk.
Zemo destroys nearly all the remaining serum, but one vial ends up in Walker's hands.
Walker takes the serum. When his partner is killed, he kills a man with the shield in front of a crowd. Images of him holding the bloody shield spread worldwide.
Sam and Bucky fight Walker and take the shield back. Walker is stripped of the title.
Sam talks with Isaiah again, who insists the country will never accept a Black Captain America.
Back home, Sam fixes the family boat with neighbors' help and practices with the shield. Bucky brings him a case from Wakanda.
A mysterious woman named Valentina visits Walker with a job offer.
Karli's group attacks a council meeting in New York. Sam arrives with the shield, wearing a new suit and wings made in Wakanda.
Sam saves hostages being carried off by helicopter.
Sam tries to reach Karli, but she's shot and killed, by Sharon.
Sam speaks to the press and officials, urging them to listen to the people.
Bucky finally tells the grieving father the truth. Sam has Isaiah honored at the museum and celebrates with his family as the boat sets out.
Pardoned, Sharon returns to government work. But secretly, she's the Power Broker, ruler of the underworld.