In this episode, Matthew, Pete, Kyle, and Rob dig into minutes 36 through 40 of Captain America: The Winter Soldier — a stretch of film that begins with Nick Fury executing the world's least effective covert communication strategy and ends with three people standing over his body, contemplating whether a man who has spent his entire career refusing to trust anyone somehow pre-arranged a team of sympathetic doctors to fake his death using a drug called Tetrodotoxin-B. He did. The doctor is Joe Russo. The MCU Wiki has receipts.
Along the way, the hosts debate whether the Russos were right to include the Winter Soldier in the assassination sequence at all — their original position was that having the franchise's most feared operative fail his first on-screen mission was bad for his brand, which is a reasonable concern until you consider that the alternative is Nick Fury getting shot by nobody in particular, which does not have the same energy. They also examine whether Steve Rogers throwing his shield at a man standing on the edge of a twelve-story roof constitutes attempted murder or just optimistic physics, and discover that the Winter Soldier's gun has no rifling whatsoever, which means he is, technically, firing a musket, which means one of the MCU's most feared assassins is operating at roughly the technological level of Yorktown, and somehow that makes him more terrifying.
Also: Nick Fury is married to a Skrull. These show notes do not have enough room to explain this adequately. Please just listen to the episode.
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