This week: five minutes in which two spies almost have feelings, a man agrees to commit grand theft jetpack over breakfast, and a winged superhero is born. Also a robust, completely unsolicited defense of a 2012 smartphone, because apparently that is where we are now.
Pierce offers the Winter Soldier a glass of milk, shoots his housekeeper, and reveals he’s Hydra — and somehow that’s only the second-best twist in five minutes. Pete and Kyle break down the bunker-buster, the fade to black, and why the Winter Soldier is still barely in his own movie.
Three hosts walk into a Cold War bunker. A Swiss Nazi monologues from inside a TV. Somewhere, in the future, Tony Stark is having a very bad day and doesn’t know it yet.
Steve and Natasha stage the most consequential fake make-out in MCU history, then borrow a pickup truck to investigate a defunct army base where the SHIELD logo is just casually etched into a basement wall. Plus: the hosts cannot agree on who Natasha Romanoff should actually be kissing.
Cap goes full video-game on a Quinjet, Natasha reveals the scar under the ghost story, and Pierce runs the greatest “please don’t throw me in that briar patch” gambit in MCU history. Plus: Rob opens with 2,300 years of caltrop history, the crew plots to psychologically torture Kyle next week, and we discover why Demo Mode means this entire scene is a beautiful lie.
Alexander Pierce is having a terrible Tuesday. He’s just murdered his best government contact, his secret world-domination plan is humming along nicely, and now he has to stand in his own office and have a passive-aggressive standoff with the most morally uncomplicated man alive.
This week on Marvel Movie Minute, Nick Fury is dead — probably — and everyone who loved him is handling it. Meanwhile, Alexander Pierce would like five minutes of Steve’s time, which is definitely not suspicious at all.
This week, Nick Fury — director of SHIELD, the world’s most powerful intelligence organization — attempts to covertly warn Captain America of a massive conspiracy by turning off the lights, displaying a phone with the words “EARS EVERYWHERE” in approximately 96-point font, and then speaking out loud, twice, using his own name, six feet from the agents who are actively monitoring him. It is, to put it charitably, a choice.
Nick Fury attempts to go off the grid in Washington, DC, which is like trying to disappear at your own birthday party. Meanwhile, someone very dangerous is standing in the middle of the street, and he is in absolutely no hurry.
Five minutes, two scenes: Steve Rogers’ most honest conversation and Nick Fury’s worst commute. Kyle, Pete, and Matthew figure out why they’re making the same argument.