 felt personal before striking at him with his Taser Rod, managing to get two hits in against Rogers.
Finally, Rogers managed to land a hard strike against Rumlow before throwing him into the ceiling and knocking him out, noting that this attack did feel personal. As Rogers then attempted to find a way out of the building to avoid arrest, he discovered more STRIKE agents were coming having been sent by Jasper Sitwell. Seemingly trapped, Rogers found that the only clear way out he could find was to jump out of the elevator before he could be captured by STRIKE.
Realizing that Sitwell and Pierce had sent agents onto every floor to recapture him, Rogers finally threw himself out of the elevator and fell several floors onto the ground below, using his Shield to absorb to impact. While the horrified S.H.I.E.L.D. looked on, Rogers managed to get back to his feet, despite being in considerable pain and then continued attempting to escape, all while Sitwell watched all of this unfolding on his monitors and ordered that Rogers be stopped.
With little time left to spare in his escape as Sitwell had just ordered that the Triskelion be locked down, Rogers had managed to get to and drove away on the back of his Motorcycle, successfully escaping a roadblock set up for him. However, as Rogers rode straight down the bridge, he discovered that Sitwell had sent a Quinjet to stop him. Rogers had remained unintimidated however and instead continued riding straight towards the Quinjet, avoiding all of its gunfire.
"I'm not gonna ask you again."
"I know who killed Fury. Most of the intelligence community does not believe he exists, the ones who do call him the Winter Soldier. He's credited with over two dozen assassinations."
Having successfully escaped from the Triskelion ambush, but aware that Jasper Sitwell's agents were hunting him, the now disguised Rogers arrived later into the hospital where he noticed that the USB was gone from where he had hidden it inside of a vending machine. As Rogers was looking for the USB, Natasha Romanoff appeared behind him, revealing that she had managed to already take it.
Pushing her inside an empty room, Rogers aggressively questioned where the USB was, while Romanoff questioned why Nick Fury had given it to Rogers. Upon being told that Fury hired Georges Batroc to Hijack the Lemurian Star, Romanoff confessed to knowing who killed Fury. Romanoff told Rogers that the masked man was an assassin known as the Winter Soldier, credited with several assassinations in the last fifty years, and she had encountered him once before.
Despite the high risk levels, the pair came to believe that they could still trust each other as Rogers and Romanoff both put on a quick disguise, with Rogers complaining about his shoes being too big for him, and went out in public looking for answers regarding what was happening. While Romanoff gave Rogers tips on going undercover, they then went to a Apple Store and used the USB in a laptop to see if they could find any valuable information to be found on it.
While Romanoff hacked into the computer to access the USB drive, they were greeted by Aaron who enthusiastically offered to help them but Romanoff managed to politely move him away by pretending to be Rogers' fiancé. With Rogers keeping an eye on the time as they knew S.H.I.E.L.D. would be able to track down their USB, Romanoff eventually tracked the location where their USB could be unlocked down to New Jersey, with Rogers insisting that they leave.
"Arnim Zola was a German scientist who worked for the Red Skull. He’s been dead for years."
"First correction, I am Swiss. Second, look around you. I have never been more alive."
Having gotten away from Brock Rumlow's STRIKE team just in time, Rogers and Natasha Romanoff then stole a car and drove towards New Jersey. As they drove along, Romanoff questioned where Rogers had previously learned to steal a car as he answered during World War II. Romanoff had then teased Rogers about if that had been his first kiss since the 1940s, which he firmly insisted it was not.
During their drive, Rogers and Romanoff began discussing how she managed to hide her true self for so long, resulting in Rogers still not having a clear idea of who she was despite all of their time working together in both S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers. When Romanoff had questioned who Rogers wanted her to be, he just told her to be his friend, which Romanoff smiled at and advised that Rogers might be in the wrong business if he was actually looking for friends.
When they eventually arrived at the location, Rogers had realized that they were at Camp Lehigh, the old training camp where he had once trained during World War II before undergoing Project Rebirth. While they walked around the base, Rogers thought back to his days of training as Michael Duffy pushed him during running exercises, which the skinnier Rogers had struggled with. Eventually, Rogers spotted an ammunition hut in the wrong place and went to investigate.
Inside they found a S.H.I.E.L.D. secret storage room which had been clearly left untouched for decades, with photographs on these walls featuring Howard Stark as well as Colonel Chester Phillips, as Rogers was asked by Romanoff who Peggy Carter was upon seeing another photograph of her as well. Moving downstairs inside the facility, they full of old computers inside a S.H.I.E.L.D. office. There, they found a more modern looking USB slot and they put the USB inside.
The computers powered up as a voice appeared from the computer which recognized Rogers and Romanoff, before noting that he and Rogers had met back in 1945 before Captain America had previously managed to capture him during World War II. Rogers quickly realized that the voice was that of Red Skull's scientist Arnim Zola, as Zola revealed that his consciousness had been put into a computer before his death in 1972, allowing his own mind to continue living on.
As Rogers listened on in horror, Zola explained to them how he had been recruited by Operation Paperclip after World War II's end, and from his new position as apart of S.H.I.E.L.D., he was able to quietly rebuild HYDRA within the United States. Rogers refused to believe this, but Zola accessed his data files and explained how they changed strategies following the War and began tricking the entire world into surrendering their own freedoms through decades of their careful manipulation.
While Zola explained that he had been working on an algorithm that HYDRA wanted, he told them that some of the deaths of S.H.I.E.L.D. leaders had been due to HYDRA, showing them a picture of Howard Stark, implying that his fatal car crash might not have been a sudden accident and instead caused by Winter Soldier, as was the death of Nick Fury, leading to this world willing to accept Project Insight to gain peace of mind, claiming this was HYDRA's ultimate victory.

"I never said a pilot."
"I can't ask you to do this, Sam. You got out for a good reason."
Having managed to get away from Camp Lehigh's destruction just in time, Rogers and Natasha Romanoff then went to seek refuge. With just a few people they felt they could trust left, Rogers brought them to the home of Sam Wilson. Not wasting any time, Rogers apologized to Wilson and explained that they were looking for somewhere to hide out, before Romanoff noted that everyone they knew was trying to kill them, before Wilson allowed them to come in.
As they got cleaned up, Rogers spoke to Romanoff and asked if she was okay following what they had learned about S.H.I.E.L.D. and all that had been going on behind the scenes. Romanoff noted how she had thought she was fighting the good fight by joining S.H.I.E.L.D., but now felt she had just traded the KGB for HYDRA, commenting on how she had now struggled to understand who exactly she had been lying for and whether she had been fighting for the wrong side.
Romanoff noted how Rogers had saved her life and questioned if it had been the other way around, would Rogers have ever trusted Romanoff to save his life, to which he answered that he felt he could following this conversation. Lightening the mood, Romanoff joked that Rogers seemed chipper for the man who just recently learnt he had died for nothing following World War II's conclusion before they were then interrupted by Wilson inviting them to breakfast.
"Tell me about Zola's algorithm."
"What were you doing on the Lemurian Star?"
"I was throwing up, I get seasick."
The team then traveled back to Washington, D.C. in order to corner and talk to Agent Jasper Sitwell, following their recent discovery that he had been secretly working for HYDRA all along. While Sitwell had just finished his private meeting with Senator Stern, who just before saying goodbye whispered Hail HYDRA to Sitwell as his sign of loyalty, leaving Sitwell alone. Taking advantage of Sitwell being on his own, Sam Wilson then personally called up Sitwell and forced him up on the roof of a tall building nearby their location, under the threat of Sitwell being shot at by a sniper if he attempted to disobey.
Together with Natasha Romanoff, Rogers had managed to get Sitwell onto the roof and demanded that he tell them everything he knew about Arnim Zola's algorithm, although Sitwell denied all knowledge, also denying he had been onboard the Lemur