Film guide · 2014
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.
Morning in Washington. Steve keeps lapping a runner named Sam, calling out "On your left." Sam, a veteran, gets talking with him, and they hit it off.
Steve, Natasha and a strike team rescue hostages from a S.H.I.E.L.D. ship seized by pirates. But Natasha was secretly copying data from the ship's computers. Steve is angry about the hidden mission.
Fury shows Steve three new Helicarriers designed to find dangerous people anywhere in the world and eliminate them before they act. Steve objects: this isn't freedom, it's fear.
Steve visits an elderly Peggy. Her memory slips mid-conversation, and she's surprised all over again to see him alive.
Fury can't unlock the data Natasha retrieved and grows suspicious. On his way home, he's ambushed by fake police officers and a masked assassin with a metal arm.
Fury escapes and turns up in Steve's apartment. He hands Steve a flash drive and warns him to trust no one, then is shot through the wall. He dies on the operating table.
Senior official Alexander Pierce asks Steve about the drive. Steve won't tell him. In the elevator, the agents he's worked with attack him. He fights them all off and is declared a fugitive.
Steve and Natasha follow the drive to the camp where Steve trained in the war. Hidden underground, a computer holds the mind of Hydra scientist Arnim Zola.
Zola explains that after the war, Hydra grew in secret inside S.H.I.E.L.D. for decades. Project Insight will wipe out millions of people who might stand against Hydra. Then a missile hits the bunker.
The two escape and take shelter at Sam's house. Sam, who flew with a winged rig in the military, offers to help.
The three grab a Hydra officer and make him talk. Sam gets his wings and fights as the Falcon.
The masked assassin, the Winter Soldier, and his team attack their car. The battle spills from the highway into the streets.
In the fight with Steve, the assassin's mask comes off. It's Bucky, the best friend Steve thought was dead. When Steve calls his name, he answers, "Who the hell is Bucky?"
Steve's group is captured, then freed by Maria Hill. Meanwhile, in a Hydra lab, Bucky begins to remember Steve, and his memory is wiped again.
Hill takes them to a hideout where Fury is waiting, alive. He faked his death. Pierce is Hydra, and they plan to stop the Helicarriers.
Steve takes back his wartime uniform from a museum exhibit. At S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, he tells everyone about Hydra and asks them to stand with him.
Natasha, disguised as a council member, gets close to Pierce and dumps all of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s and Hydra's secrets onto the internet. Fury shoots Pierce.
Steve and Sam swap out the targeting chips on the Helicarriers. On the last one, Steve fights Bucky, gets shot, but finishes the job, and the three carriers destroy one another.
In the collapsing ship, Steve drops his shield and refuses to fight. "I'm with you till the end of the line." Bucky keeps hitting him, but when Steve falls into the river, Bucky pulls him out and leaves him on the shore.
S.H.I.E.L.D. is finished. Natasha testifies before Congress, Fury leaves his old identity behind and heads for Europe. Steve and Sam set off to find Bucky.
In a secret Hydra base, a man studies Loki's scepter. In the cells are twins with special powers.
Bucky stands in the museum, quietly looking at an exhibit about himself.