The Avengers

The Tesseract has awakened.

It is on a little world, a human world.

They would wield its power,

but our ally knows its workings as they never will.

He is ready to lead

and our force, our Chitauri, will follow.

A world will be his.

The universe, yours.

And the humans, what can they do but burn?

All personnel,

the evacuation order has been confirmed.

How bad is it?

That's the problem, sir. We don't know.

Dr Selvig read an energy surge from the Tesseract four hours ago.

NASA didn't authorise Selvig to go to test phase.

He wasn't testing it. He wasn't even in the room.

Spontaneous event.

It just turned itself on?

Where are the energy levels now?

Climbing. When Selvig couldn't shut it down, we ordered evac.

How long to get everyone out?

Campus should be clear in the next half-hour.

Do better.

Sir, evacuation may be futile.

We should tell them to go back to sleep?

If we can't control the Tesseract's energy,

there may not be a minimum safe distance.

I need you to make sure

the Phase 2 prototypes are shipped out.

Sir, is that really a priority right now?

Until such time as the world ends,

we will act as though it intends to spin on.

Clear out the tech below.

Every piece of Phase 2 on a truck and gone.

Yes, sir.

With me.

Talk to me, Doctor.

Director.

Is there anything we know for certain?

The Tesseract is misbehaving.

- Is that supposed to be funny? - No, it's not funny at all.

The Tesseract is not only active, she's behaving.

I assume you pulled the plug.

She's an energy source.

We turn off the power, she turns it back on.

If she reaches peak level...

We prepared for this, Doctor. Harnessing energy from space.

But we don't have the harness.

My calculations are far from complete.

And she's throwing off interference, radiation.

Nothing harmful, low levels of gamma radiation.

That can be harmful.

Where's Agent Barton?

The Hawk?

Up in his nest, as usual.

Agent Barton, report.

I gave you this detail

so you could keep a close eye on things.

Well, I see better from a distance.

Have you seen anything that might set this thing off?

Doctor, it's spiking again.

No one's come or gone.

And Selvig's clean.

No contacts, no IMs.

If there was any tampering, sir, it wasn't at this end.

"At this end"?

Yeah, the Cube is a doorway to the other end of space, right?

Doors open from both sides.

Not yet.

Sir, please put down the spear.

You have heart.

Please don't.

I still need that.

This doesn't have to get any messier.

Of course it does.

I've come too far for anything else.

I am Loki, of Asgard

and I am burdened with glorious purpose.

Loki,

brother of Thor.

We have no quarrel with your people.

An ant has no quarrel with a boot.

Are you planning to step on us?

I come with glad tidings

of a world made free.

Free from what?

Freedom.

Freedom is life's great lie.

Once you accept that, in your heart,

you will know peace.

Yeah, you say "peace,"

I kind of think you mean the other thing.

Sir, Director Fury is stalling.

This place is about to blow

and drop a hundred feet of rock on us.

He means to bury us.

Like the pharaohs of old.

He's right. The portal is collapsing in on itself.

We've got maybe two minutes before this goes critical.

Well, then.

I need these vehicles.

- Who's that? - They didn't tell me.

Hill!

Do you copy?

Barton has turned.

They have the Tesseract! Shut them down!

Okay, let's go. No, leave it. Go!

We're clear upstairs, sir. You need to go.

Director?

Director Fury, do you copy?

The Tesseract is with a hostile force.

I have men down. Hill?

A lot of men still under.

I don't know how many survivors.

Sound a general call.

I want every living soul not working rescue

looking for that briefcase.

Roger that.

Coulson, get back to base. This is a Level Seven.

As of right now,

we are at war.

What do we do?

This is not how I wanted this evening to go.

I know how you wanted this evening to go.

Believe me

this is better.

Who are you working for?

Lermentov, yes?

Does he think

we have to go through him

to move our cargo?

I thought General Solohob is in charge of the export business.

Solohob

a bag man, a front.

Your outdated information betrays you.

The famous Black Widow

and she turns out to be simply another pretty face.

You really think I'm pretty?

Tell Lermentov we don't need him

to move the tanks.

Tell him he is out.

Well...

...you may have to write it down.

It's for her.

You listen carefully

You're at 1-14 Silensky Plaza, 3rd floor.

We have an F-22 exactly eight miles out.

Put the woman on the phone, or I will blow up the block

before you can make the lobby.

- We need you to come in. - Are you kidding? I'm working.

This takes precedence.

I'm in the middle of an interrogation.

This moron is giving me everything.

I don't give everything.

Look, you can't pull me out of this right now.

Natasha...

Barton's been compromised.

Let me put you on hold.

Where is Barton now?

- We don't know. - But he's alive?

We think so. I'll brief you on everything when you get back.

But first, we need you to talk to the big guy.

Coulson, you know that Stark trusts me about as far as he can throw me.

I've got Stark. You get the big guy.

Who are you?

Get out!

There is sickness here!

You're a doctor.

My father's not waking up!

He has a fever and he's moaning

but his eyes won't open.

Slow down.

My father...

Like them?

Please.

You should've got paid up front, Banner.

You know, for a man

who's supposed to be avoiding stress

you picked a hell of a place to settle.

Avoiding stress isn't the secret.

Then what is it? Yoga?

You brought me to the edge of the city. Smart.

I assume the whole place is surrounded.

Just you and me.

And your actress buddy?

Is she a spy, too? They start that young?

I did.

Who are you?

Natasha Romanoff.

Are you here to kill me, Ms Romanoff?

Because that's not going to work out for everyone.

No, of course not. I'm here on behalf of S.H.I.E.L.D.

S.H.I.E.L.D.

How did they find me?

We never lost you, Doctor.

We've kept our distance.

Even helped keep some other interested parties

off your scent.

Why?

Nick Fury seems to trust you.