Things I think about while waiting on my cough meds to knock me out:
If Ross and crew wanted to find where Steve & Bucky went they probably would go directly to Sam for the information.
They probably wouldn’t ask nicely.
Sam is ready to be waterboarded by the time Tony shows up
Tony’s reactor shot didn’t even hit Sam in the face so why was he banged up there? The bruising doesn’t look hand shaped either (from Bucky’s throw)
anD FURTHERMORE.
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Sam was not only the first answer, he was the ONLY answer.
Place yourself in the $1500 Ferragamo brogues of one Mr. Thaddeus Ross. Wealthy powerful politician who thinks he has the world spinning on his finger until Mr. Tall Blonde+Handsome and Mr. Tall Brown+Beefy manage to destroy an airport and drop off the map!
So now you look like a goddamn doof because the team that remained on radar KNEW they were going to get arrested. It was a sacrifice tactic and goddamn it it worked! So the best thing to do would be to make the sacrifice pointless and get Steve + Bucky thrown into the RAFT too so everything can go back to your original plan (which I have a theory about AS WELL! *evil cackle*)
So here’s what you know:
Tony is useless and unreachable until the Colonel is stabilized.
There is an EXTREMELY limited time frame with which to capture Steve & Bucky before they are completely untraceable.
Other than Wanda, your captured persons all have tool based skills, and are no more powerful than your average to high-skill human operative.
That means they’re breakable with good old fashioned hard work, determination, and the absence of law in international waters! Woo!
So you’ve solved the problem of whether you’re going to torture your captives without trial. Whew. That took maybe 30 seconds. Now, where to start?
Here’s what you know:
You don’t have time, so you need to start with the one who’s likely to know the most. Steve Rogers is a tactical genius but he’s not very good at witholding information. Sam Wilson is the obvious choice.
You’re in an underwater prison that’s definitely not on the books as far as the MCU international public is concerned. If it gets out that THIS is where they disappeared the heroes to, there might be some public backlash that will ruin The Plan ™
No privacy/firewall is foolproof. You’ve got yourselves a Guantanamo Raft situation. If and when documentation of your gruesome and highly illegal information gathering tactics are ever released to the public, they must have content that will cause the public to say ‘They were doing what they have to in order to keep us safe’
You must eliminate the sob story. You have less than a few hours.
Two of your captives have families with children.
One of your captives looks physically fragile and has really big soulful eyes.
Your men are willing to extract information but they aren’t HYDRA, there is a chance of sympathy with the fragile feminine inmate.
The process of elimination leaves one captive, no children or partners, no frail waifish wiles.
The obvious choice is Sam Wilson.
If pictures or video documentation of their extraction methods are leaked, historically non-white inmates have been met with far less sympathy or media attention.
Sam Wilson is the obvious choice.
In fact, Sam Wilson might be the only choice. This decision was probably made and passed on to the guards before the team was arrested.
To be perfectly honest, Sam probably knew that this was a risk when he made that plan.
After all he faced a similar risk for 2 years as a black dude tracking secret super-mega-nazi cells and a potentially non-responsive supersoldier on his own so…
Anyway you can blame @steveandsam for me posting this addendum because I was just gonna keep it inside.
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