Captain America: The Winter Soldier opens with Steve Rogers bonding with a fellow soldier on the running track. The soldier introduces himself as Sam Wilson who will later become Falcon. Some time has passed since the events of Avengers Assemble and we find a Steve Rogers who is adjusting to the new world. Now working for SHIELD Cap literally jumps right into action on a mission to rescue SHIELD agents being held hostage on a boat. Along with Romanoff Cap fights his way through the terrorsist but Romanoff seems to be on a mission of her own to acquire SHIELD information.

Nick Fury explains SHIELD's latest plan, project insight, where three helicarriers will be launched to monitor the world continuously so that any threats can quickly be removed. Rogers, the ever moral character he is disagrees with the idea describing it as 'holding a gun to the world'.

A big theme in this movie is trust. Rogers is struggling to know who to trust and what the right thing to do is. Fury reveals some of his back story here stating that the last person he trusted someone he lost an eye. He also regales us with a story about how his grandfather did not trust people, despite liking them.

Fury has trust issues of his own and after discovering that his superiors are hiding something he is quickly attacked in a great car chase scene. Fury escapes for now but is eventually assassinated by The Winter Soldier, an assassin controlled by Hydra for fifty years carrying out over two dozen kills. Before he is killed he brings Rogers in on the secret advising him to trust no one. The sequel documents the fall of SHIELD to Hydra. It is discovered that Hydra have been operating within SHIELD for years and have been pulling the strings in the background.

Rogers is brought in by Fury's superior officer and ally Alexander Pierce where he questions the titular hero on the last words of Nick Fury. Cap, taking Fury's advice reveals nothing but clearly Pierce has a hidden agenda and orders SHIELD agents to apprehend Rogers before he leaves the headquarters. Cap fights his way out in a brilliant elevator fight scene and also destroys a SHIELD quinjet single handedly escaping to retrieve a data stick previously given to him by Fury. Cap runs in to Black Widow who is keen to find out what the big secret is.

Now on the run Cap and Romanoff are led to a military base where Rogers was originally trained. This is the base where supposedly SHIELD began. A secret room reveals a computer which holds the brain of Dr. Arnim Zola, a Hydra scientist that worked with Red Skull during World War 2. Rogers captured Zola in the first movie and we discover that Zola died in 1972 but not before having his mind downloaded on to a computer. Zola reveals Hydras plans for a new world order and to remove any threat posed to the evil organisation. Project insight is actually a Hydra plan to remove a significant portion of the worlds population so that they can gain control and choose who they want to survive the new world order (sound familiar?!)

After recruiting Sam Wilson aka Falcon, the three heroes track down Jasper Sitwell who confirms Hydras plans to remove any threats to their plan. Threats such as Bruce Banner and Steve Strange. Easter egg or cannon? I think we know the answer to that (see Doctor Strange news).

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