We are now half way through the series and as we progress further into “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” each episode it seems to get better and better.

The episode starts with an ad for the Global Repatriation Council (GRC), which have been numerously mentioned in latest episodes. Their job is to help all the blip people and everyone else go back to how everything was before the snap. The Flag Smashers make them seem like the villain because they’re putting people into camps rather than really helping them get back onto their feet. The reason the Flag Smashers stole the super soldier serum was to help the displaced people. John Walker then shows up to Germany to find out more about the Flag Smashers and the guy who was hiding them in his café last episode. Walker gets mad that he’s not getting any information out of the guy and throughout the episode gets angrier.

A student from Roosevelt commented on Walker’s anger saying, “Steve would know how to keep his temper.”

Over in Berlin, Bucky and Sam visit Zemo in his prison. Bucky then gets the opportunity to talk to Zemo alone. Zemo tries speaking the Hydra control words to Bucky, but knows that he was deprogrammed.

Bucky then hypothetically explains to Sam how Zemo could escape while the audience then sees him do exactly what Bucky is saying. Zemo then brings them to his family’s private warehouse where he keeps his classic cars from WWII which is just a reference to his classic comic book costume. Zemo explains what his day job was before the movie, “Civil War,” he basically was to hunt Hydra who were trying to recreate the super soldier serum.

Zemo then takes them to Madripoor to meet a character called Selby. Madripoor is no man’s place, where outlaws turn to because there aren’t any laws. Zemo explains that he is super rich, because he was royalty in Sokovia. Zemo then steals Bucky’s book of names, which we do find out is the same book Steve was writing things to catch up on in “Captain America: Winter Soldier.”

They finally end up in Madripoor and each of them end up in a disguise. Zemo has Bucky play the Winter Soldier which means he has to look unapproachable and do whatever Zemo tells him to do, almost robotic. Sam is disguised as a character from the comics known as the Smiling Tiger who showed up a lot in the X-Men comic books, as well as in Madripoor in the comics. The three end up in a club looking for Selby, Bucky has to do Winter Soldier things, beat up a bunch of Power Broker men. All they got from Selby is the name William Nagel before she died.

William Nagel is a comic book reference, he was introduced in the Isaiah Bradley backstory comic book, who was the person that the US Military started the Weapon X program to reengineer the super soldier serum after Cap went into the ice and used a different name under the name, Dr. Reinstien. We did see this name back in the Hulk movie when Thunderbolt Ross gave the super soldier serum to the Abomination.

An anonymous watcher of the show commented on this scene stating, “It’s nice that they’re revisiting the older movies, especially since the Hulk movie was somewhat forgotten.”

Just when Sam’s sister calls him and everything goes sideways, Selby is shot dead, the three escape and run into Sharron Carter. We then find out what happened to Sharron after “Civil War.” She said that while the government pardoned all of team Captain America, she did not get a pardon, so she’s been hiding out from the US in Madripoor operating as a black market dealer.

Chelle comments Sharon’s appearance, “a little too convenient for her to be there and know that Sam and Bucky were in trouble.”

They strike a deal, if she helps them, Sam will try to get her pardoned so she can return home to her family. Zemo, Bucky, and Sam then go find Nagel and try to get information out of him. Nagel then explains his backstory, saying the first people to bring him in were the Hydra Winter Soldier people and after Hydra fell, the CIA contacted him to bring him in and start the Weapons Plus program with Thunderbolt Ross. Even though Nagel reverse engineered the formula, he took a step further and perfect it to make it more subtle.

Anonymous added, “this means that you wouldn’t need the machine that Steve had to use and it wouldn’t make a person bigger, just stronger and faster.”

Nagel was then later contacted by the Power Broker to fund his research, which is how he ended up in Madripoor and how the Flag Smashers stole the serums. Zemo then kills Nagel so that he can’t make any more serum. The three then get attacked by Power Broker men.

We then jump to the Flag Smashers who talk about the Power Broker coming for them and how now that Nagel is dead, the Power Broker wouldn’t be a threat to them anymore. They then raid the GRC and try to say that the GRC is just as bad as they are.

We end the episode with Bucky picking up Kimoyo Beads to then Ayo showing up looking for Zemo.