Last episode re:Cap, Then, we have Cap Walker bust in with Battlestar to arrest Zemo. The Dora Milaje arrive for Zemo, Bucky and Sam get involved so the Dora Milaje don’t kill Cap Walker and Battlestar. Ayo is able to easily disable the Winter Soldier’s arm! Cap Walker gets his shield caught by a Vibrarium spear. They find Zemo has escaped. Karli threatens Sarah, Sam’s sister, how she is able to learn about Sam’s personal details makes me think it was Dr. Raynor All Along! Sam has Sarah go into hiding. Falcon and the Winter Soldier meet with Karli. Sharon detects Cap Walker and warns Sam. Cap Walker finds Battlestar captured by the Flag Smashers. The battle begins with Cap Walker, Falcon sees that Cap Walker can bend an iron bar, he has taken the serum! The Winter Soldier and Falcon join the fight, Falcon is handy with just his wings. Karli kicks Battlestar into a pillar and kills him! Cap Walker doesn’t take this well. Karli runs. Cap Walker goes after Nico and bashes him with the shield outside in the square and brings down the shield killing him in front of everyone in the square recording the murder with their cell phones! Cap Walker sees the people and we end with a shot with him and the bloody shield, the image that shook the MCU! Who Will Wield the Shield?
Cap Walker is running, images of his murder flash in his eyes, he enters a warehouse and screams! Cap Walker and words of Lemar echo in his mind. Falcon and the Winter Soldier enter the warehouse. Sam says Cap Walker has to give him the shield. Cap Walker then thinks they just after the shield. It gets into a fight. Cap Walker is able to knock down Winter Soldier and his cyborg arm is disabled. The Falcon takes on Cap Walker, but his wings are ripped apart as Cap Walker screams, “I am Captain America!” Several times, he tries to bring the shield down in the killing blow against Nico. Falcon helps Winter Soldier and uses his rockets to break Cap Walker’s arm taking the shield! Cap Walker still tries to get back the shield, but the Falcon and Winter Soldier combo is too much for him! The Winter Soldier drops the bloody shield by Sam and walks away. Sam starts to wipe the blood from the shield.
Sam informs Bucky that the Flag Smashers are being arrested by the GRC. Torres arrives and Sam asks Bucky if he is going after Zemo. He looks at the broken wings. Sam takes the shield and leaves his wings behind. Washington, D.C., John Walker looks at the protestors as he is stripped of the Captain America title. The senator does not give him a court martial and Walker begins to scream at him. He is dishonorably discharged. His wife, Olivia (Gabrielle Byndloss) watches in the audience. She was introduced in Walker's debut, "The Star Spangled Man." Walker walks away, later his wife says he has to meet with Lemar’s parents, a mysterious woman walks up to them. It is Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus). This is actually a character who was a member of S.H.I.E.L.D. in the comics and first appeared in Strange Tales #159 (1967). She was played by Lisa Rinna in the Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (1998) tv movie. She has a streak of purple, in the comics, it is a distinctive white streak, but this works. Dreyfus is perfect, she just walks in playing a character I’ve been waiting for since Nick Fury showed up in Iron Man (2008), she is a love interest for Fury, his wife?, and steals the show! She knows all about Walker and mentions that his best choice is answering her phone call, love it!
The Shield, Summer of Heroes Showcase, Disney’s California Adventure, 2017, photo by the author.
We move back to the empy Latvian courtyard, Karli and her followers look around, Dovich finds the notice that it was closed by the GRC. She tells them that it is time. At a lakeside memorial to his family in Sokovia, Zemo pays his respects, he is met by Bucky who shows him his gun. Zemo tries to explain that Karli has gotten even more radicalized. Bucky holds up the gun, but the chamber is empty! His cyborg hand drops the bullets as the Dora Milaje walk up! Zemo is taken away to the Raft as Ayo tells White Wolf that he should not show up in Wakanda. As Ayo is about to walk away, Bucky asks for another favor. Night, Baltimore, Maryland, Sam walks up to Elijah who is playing basketball. Elijah sends him to see his grandfather. Sam has the shield in the bag! He takes it to the backyard where Isaiah is watering his plants. Isaiah says he doesn’t want the shield. Sam says he wants to understand. Isaiah brings up the famous Red Tails and the crosses burned on their lawns when they returned.
Sam is going to take the best parts of Captain America and also bring in the forgotten parts of this country to make the ultimate Captain America! This is something that the comic books had tried with the new Captain America, but it didn't stick, it's back to Steve Rogers. It was great that Sam Wilson was Captain America, but the comics needed story like The Falcon and the Winter Soldier to prove Sam is Cap. This is the future of the MCU, we are moving from the past, I don't want to see Chris Evans as Steve Rogers, but it would be nice. Later, Isaiah shows Sam the picture of his wife who died while he was imprisoned. He explains that he was told the serum was a tetanus shot and that his fellow soldiers who got the injection were captured. The order was made to destroy their prisoner camp. Isaiah freed them, but they later died, and then he shows Sam his scars and the 30 years of experimenting on him.
A nurse covered for Isaiah declaring him dead, Valentina? She gave him all of the letters from his wife kept from him. Isaiah says he would be dead if his existence was revealed. This is very powerful. I’m glad there is an episode instead of a cameo for Isaiah. He says they will never allow a black Captain America, I think he’s wrong. Sam walks out of Isaiah’s house with the shield. He calls Sarah on his phone and tells her he’s coming home. In New Orleans, Sam works with his nephews fixing a fishing net. He tells Sarah is there to reflect and help with the boat when the buyer gave up on it. Sam is going to pull an It’s A Wonderful Life with Sarah helping everyone in the neighborhood. Bucky shows up and this is a true partnership with Bucky helping Sam and his family. He has a case from Wakanda, I think this is not just wings, maybe a vibranium-laced suit? Don’t miss the mid-credits scene! This episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier in bringing in most of the characters and defining what it is to be Captain America!
Five Red Wings out of Five!
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