was founded after World War II, HYDRA secretly operated within their ranks. They activate a supercomputer containing the preserved consciousness of Arnim Zola, who reveals that when S.H.I.E.L.D. underground base within an abandoned U.S. Hunted by the agency, Rogers meets with Romanoff, and using data in the flash drive they discover an old S.H.I.E.L.D. When Rogers withholds Fury's information, Pierce brands him a fugitive. The next day, Rogers is summoned by senior S.H.I.E.L.D. Fury appears to die in surgery, and Hill recovers the body. Rogers gives chase, and his neighbor reveals herself as S.H.I.E.L.D. Fury escapes and sneaks into Rogers' apartment, but after handing Rogers a USB flash drive he is gunned down by the Winter Soldier. A mysterious assassin called the Winter Soldier blows up Fury's SUV. Later, Fury is denied access to information on Operation: Insight, and on his way to rendezvous with Maria Hill he is ambushed by assailants disguised as police officers. Rogers later visits the elderly Peggy Carter at a nursing home. At S.H.I.E.L.D.'s headquarters, the Triskelion', Nick Fury introduces Rogers to Operation: Insight, three Helicarriers linked to spy satellites and designed to pre-emptively eliminate threats. vessel from Algerian pirates led by Georges Batroc.Īboard, he discovers fellow agent Natasha Romanoff extracting data from the ship's computers, making him question whether he should trust S.H.I.E.L.D. After meeting and befriending war veteran and PTSD counsellor Sam Wilson on a morning jog, Rogers is called to help save a S.H.I.E.L.D. and continues to work for espionage agency S.H.I.E.L.D., but struggles to adapt to contemporary society. Two years after the events of The Avengers, Steve Rogers lives in Washington, D.C.