[First Lines]
Young Pym:
[walks into a S.H.I.E.L.D. Office in 1989, where Howard Stark, Peggy Carter, and Mitchell Carson are sitting]
Stark!
Howard Stark:
[mutters]
He doesn't seem happy. Hello, Hank! You're supposed to be in Moscow.
Young Pym:
I took a detour...
[slams a remade Pym Particle on the table]
Young Pym:
... through your defense lab.
Peggy Carter:
Tell me that isn't what I think it is.
Young Pym:
That depends if you think it's a poor attempt to replicate my work. Even for this group, that takes nerve.
Mitchell Carson:
You were instructed to go to Russia. May I remind you, Dr. Pym, that you're a soldier...
Young Pym:
I'm a scientist.
Howard Stark:
Then act like one! The Pym Particle is the most revolutionary science ever developed. Help us put it to good use.
Young Pym:
I let you turn me into your errand boy, and now you try to steal my research?
Mitchell Carson:
If only you'd protected Janet with such ferocity, Dr. Pym.
Young Pym:
Ah...
[slams Carson's face into his desk, bloodying his nose]
Peggy Carter:
[holds Pym back]
Easy, Hank!
Young Pym:
[points at Carson]
You mention my wife again, and I'll show you ferocity.
Howard Stark:
[to Carson after he looks at him]
Don't look at me, you said it.
Young Pym:
I formally tender my resignation.
Howard Stark:
We don't except it. Formally. Hank, we need you. The Pym Particle is a miracle. Please. Don't let your past determine the future.
Young Pym:
As long as I am alive, nobody will ever get that formula.
[leaves]
Mitchell Carson:
We shouldn't let him leave the building.
Peggy Carter:
You've already lied to him, now you want to go to war with him?
Mitchell Carson:
Yes! Our scientists haven't come close to replicating his work.
Howard Stark:
He just kicked your ***, full-size. You really want to find out what it's like when you can't see him coming? I've known Hank Pym for a long time, he's no security risk. Unless we make him one.
