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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
STRATEGIC HOMELAND INTERVENTION, ENFORCEMENT, AND LOGISTICS DIVISION
AUDIO TRANSCRIPT
SUPERVISING AGENT
NICK FURY
AGENT IN CHARGE OF INTERROGATION
BROCK RUMLOW
SUPERVISORY AGENT
RICK MOFFER
SUBJECT
CLINT BARTON
AKA HAWKEYE
DATE
MAY 7 2012
TIME
9:02 AM
LOCATION
TRISKELION
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R. MOFFER: Agent Barton, (clears throat) do you know why we’re all here today?
C. BARTON: Sure do.
RM: Why don’t you tell us why that is?
CB: SHIELD thinks I’m a liability and wants to see if taking me out is the right move.
B. RUMLOW: What do you think, Barton?
CB: (laughs) I think trying to use enhanced interrogation techniques on someone who’s trained to overcome them is not gonna go as well as you want it to.
BR: So you do think you’re a liability.
CB: I think SHIELD is going to think whatever they want to think and I’m not gonna change any minds regardless of what I say. But, no, I’m not a liability. Never have been, never will be.
(papers shuffling)
RM: Agent Barton, I have here reports of your actions under the alien Loki. You caused thousands in property damage and harmed government agents.
CB: Sure I did.
RM: You spent the last two days under direct supervision of SHIELD authorized and trained psychologists and psychiatrists to determine if the brainwashing had been successfully removed. Do you know what the ultimate determination is?
CB: No, no one’s told me yet.
RM: It is impossible to determine. This conclusion can only mean one thing.
BR: You’re a liability.
CB: I was a liability before Loki fucked around with my head. You know how many demerits and letters I got in my files? Few dozen of them at this point. Coulson always kept me on. You know why?
RM: Why is that, Agent Barton?
CB: Because I’m good at my job and I always get it done. Sure, I piss off some foreign nationals or delegates or whatever, but at the end of the day, I get shit done.
RM: Your past actions are being taken into account, Agent Barton. You have served your government well these past seventeen years. But you have proven before to not have SHIELD’s interests at heart. You are a rogue agent, Agent Barton.
(AUDIO CUTS AT 9:05
AUDIO RESUMES AT 9:07)
N. FURY: (over intercom) None of that. Rumlow, sit down.
CB: Fuckin’ asshole, you know that?
(chair scraping)
CB: I was involved with the task force that helped train agents to withstand interrogation techniques, Rumlow. You’re not gonna--
(AUDIO CUTS AT 9:08
AUDIO RESUMES AT 9:09)
RM: For the record, Agent Brock Rumlow has left the interrogation room and will be joining Agent Fury in the observation room. Now, to continue, Agent Barton. I apologize for my colleague's behavior. Do you believe you are a liability to the United States government?
CB: I believe I was kidnapped by an alien and forced through magical means to work for him through mind control. I was kidnapped from a government building that was under supervision of the agency I was working for. Shouldn’t I have been safe?
RM: You immediately turned against SHIELD.
(bang)
(chair scraping)
CB: I was brainwashed! I didn’t have a choice!
RM: Please sit down, Agent Barton. (pause) Thank you. Our psychologists were unable to verify the fact that you had been mind controlled at all, Agent Barton.
CB: What the fuck.
RM: In being unable to determine whether or not you are still being mind controlled, it was determined it is not possible at all to determine if you were mind controlled to begin with. Is that clear?
CB: So, what, SHIELD believes I did all that? Out of my own free will?
RM: Unless you convince me otherwise, then yes, we do, Agent Barton.
CB: (sighs)
(SILENCE)
NF: (over intercom) I believe Loki mind controlled you, Barton, but there’s no way to prove that.
CB: There’s no video cameras, nothin’?
NF: (over intercom) The building was blown up.
CB: Look, Loki had that Scepter, right? He held it to my chest and said, You have heart, and then it was like...it was like there was a hand inside my brain. Like someone else was controlling me.
(papers shuffling)
RM: That is not the experience Erik Selvig reported.
CB: What’d he say?
RM: Quote, ‘It felt like I was watching myself do what Loki told me to do. I had some measure of control and was able to put a failsafe into the device that used the Tesseract to open a portal to space.’ End quote.
CB: How is that any different than what I said?
RM: This is to account for any reducancies, Agent Barton. If you were mind controlled, why would you not have the same experience as Erik Selvig?
(silence)
RM: Agent Barton?
NF: (over intercom) Barton, you need to answer the question.
(silence)
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TIME
9:15 AM