01x08 - The Defection of Hawkeye

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THE MANDARIN: Breathtaking!

Tony Stark's new overland tanker
is an engineering masterpiece.

When I seize its payload,
I shall confiscate it, as well.

Unless Stark anticipated my interest
and substituted a worthless cargo.

Modok, what is the tanker carrying?

One thousand gallons
of liquefied Adamantium alloy,

as specified by Stark's
government contract, Mandarin.

A single coating gives base metal

the strength and durability
of Crono Steel.

THE MANDARIN: Lovely.

[CHUCKLES]

Its loss will bring lucrative defense work
to Justin Hammer at Stark's expense,

and the alloy will make
my robot forces so powerful

not even Iron Man will be able
to stand in my way!

Dreadknight!

DREADKNIGHT: Steady, Knightwing.
I have the tanker in sight, Mandarin.

THE MANDARIN: Whirlwind! Blizzard!

WHIRLWIND: I am ready!

BLIZZARD: As I am.

Stark's overland tanker will end
its journey here,

at Lobo Blanco Crossing.

[CHUCKLING]

Perfection. We cannot fail.

TONY: We're staying a half mile behind
the overland tanker, Jim.

If The Mandarin is planning a hijack,
we don't want to scare him off.

I think we got all that, Tone.

But you better turn down the rock

before you get ticketed
for noise pollution.

Sorry, Jim. The music's tuned
to the tanker's security alarm.

If the song changes,
then we'll know somethings wrong.

JIM: Holler if it does, babe.
Wanda, Century and I are standing by.

TONY: If The Mandarin shows up
in his elusive Sky Saucer,

we'll also need Hawkeye's eagle eye.

JIM: Nobody knows where
the wild Hawk goes,

but you told him you're gonna
need him, so he'll show up.

WHIRLWIND: Danger.
This road is slippery when wet.

BLIZZARD:
Too bad you forgot your tire chains.

MODOK: The robot tanker driver
is out of control. Yes! Yes! Yes!

THE MANDARIN: Hurry!
Siphon off the Adamantium alloy.

JULIA: The Mandarin's hit the tanker.

- Vehicle, armor up!
-ARMOR: Vehicle armoring.

Vehicle armoring sequence complete.

I wish I could change over like that,
but it'd probably trash my makeup.

- Armor up. Iron Man.
-ARMOR: Armoring.

Vehicle now on auto pilot.

Armoring complete.

IRON MAN: See you at the tanker. Eject!

Auto control, shift. Jim, it's party time.

I hear you. Hawkeye will just have
to meet us there.

Thrusters on.

THE MANDARIN:
Terminate the siphon operation

and prepare to commandeer
the tanker.

I only wanted a bit of the alloy on board
in case something went wrong.

Then congratulations are in order.
Something just did.

Iron Man!
I must notify his welcoming committee.

DREADKNIGHT: Knightwing.

Get set for a saw-toothed Wedgie.

Iron Man, behind you.

[DREADKNIGHT LAUGHING]

MODOK: Whirlwind, Blizzard, stop her.

Sorry, dorks, I'm not in the mood
for Whip N' Chill.

[WHIRLWIND SCREAMING]

BLIZZARD: Wait for me!

w*r MACHINE: Good thing you didn't
ask me to catch you later, huh, Tone?

IRON MAN: Let's get the tanker out
of that tractor beam.

Quickly, you cybernetic cipher!

We need altitude
before we can engage the warp drive.

Metallic meddlers. I give you oblivion!

MODOK: Three heads are better than
one, especially when they bring death.

Altitude, Modok! Climb! Climb!

DREADKNIGHT: Point, set, match.

[LAUGHING]

The overland tanker is ours!

SCARLET WITCH:
You need riding lessons, my pumpkin.

[SCARLET WITCH GIGGLES]

Make that falling lessons.

[CENTURY EXCLAIMS]

They're approaching warp speed.
We must stop them at once.

IRON MAN: Blast off the tractor beam
extrusion head. Hurry!

SPIDER WOMAN: It's not happening.

w*r MACHINE: We need
a sharpsh**ter. Where's Hawkeye?

IRON MAN: Century, no! It's too...

IRON MAN:
We've got to make the double play.

[IRON MAN GROANS]

w*r MACHINE: That was too close.

SCARLET WITCH:
If Hawkeye had been here,

we might have nailed The Mandarin,
too.

IRON MAN:
I'm sure he has an explanation.

Meanwhile, this test run proved
we need to tighten security

before we make our first tanker delivery
at midnight tomorrow.

Until then, I hope The Mandarin enjoys
his stolen alloy.

- I do not think so.
-Neither do I.

I wish I could see his face.

MODOK: Liquefied Adamantium alloy,
the mind boggles.

I think we should treat all our robots
with it at once.

Yes, Mandarin.
The sooner they're fortified,

the sooner we'll achieve
global domination.

[SIGHING WISTFULLY]

I would love to be master of London
in time for the Chelsea Flower Show.

THE MANDARIN: Don't award yourself
a knighthood just yet, my dear Justin.

We don't know if this alloy is genuine.

The hijack was too easy.

That California beach boy Hawkeye

would have been the logical one
to disable our tractor beam,

but he was nowhere in sight.

We've been had.
Iron Man wanted you to steal this gunk.

It turns a k*ller cyborg
into Bozo the Robot.

[AIR WHOOSHING]

Iron Man set us up to steal a false alloy,

but he surely did not intend for us
to get away

with Stark's overland tanker.

But if so, why wasn't Hawkeye there
to prevent it?

Hmm.

I have it! For some unknown reason,
Hawkeye failed in his duty.

[LAUGHING] And I will use that fact

to send Iron Man and his team
crashing down in flames.

TONY:
Whirlwind knew exactly where to hide.

So did that frozen turkey Blizzard.

And The Mandarin's g*ons
made the pass narrower

with concrete camouflaged as rock
so the tanker would get stuck,

while Dreadknight was waiting
in backup position,

with the accent on back.

The Mandarin's plan was extremely
well prepared, my precious Tony.

Then he had to know when and where
the tanker was going ahead of time.

- Have we been bugged?
-Two sweeps came up empty,

which means either The Mandarin
will soon have his own show

on the Psychic Network
or a member of our team tipped him off.

- Oh, come on, Jim.
-Really, Jimmy. That is absurd.

I cannot accept the premise
that one of us is a traitor.

HAWKEYE: Hey, what's shaking, g*ng?

Uh-oh. Looks like I missed
some pretty hairy action, huh?

Sorry about that.

"Sorry" doesn't cut it.
Where were you, Clint?

Tony told you to be there, my pearl,
and you never arrived.

Hey, I'm a grownup.
I don't owe anybody an explanation.

- Wrong, man.
-Same for you, Tony?

- You don't trust me, either?
-I trust you. We all do.

But you can help us
stay comfortable with that

if you'll just tell us
why you didn't show up when... Clint!

My business is my business.

TONY: Clint.
JULIA: That's not an answer.

WANDA: Come back.
CENTURY: You're making a mistake.

JIM: There!
That's when we needed marksmanship.

But then Hawkeye would've known that
and made a point of not being around

if he had a deal with The Mandarin.

I can't believe Clint betrayed us, Jim.

But something's going on with him,
and we'd better check it out

before the overland tanker
makes its real midnight run.

Julia, do you still have
your rubber-soled shoes

and Inspector Clouseau disguise kit?

[IN FRENCH ACCENT]
Our', oui, Inspector Dreyfus.

[IN NORMAL ACCENT]
Okay, look, I'll tail Clint.

I just hope I don't find anything nasty.

- Take my car.
-I may not come back.

JIM: Meanwhile, I'm gonna run
a background check

and review every action
Hawkeye's been in on since day one.

I brought him on board,

and if he's The Mandarin's mole,
I want to be the one to take him out.

- Cover Mode.
- ARMOR: Disguise preference?

Surprise me.

Cool! I've got him on Mulholland Drive.

TONY: Good work and good luck.

JULIA: Thanks, I hope I won't need any.

Uh-oh. He's taking evasive action.

He spotted this vehicle
and got me turned the wrong way.

- Do something.
- ARMOR: Doing something.

JULIA: Whoa!

- Thanks a lot.
- ARMOR: You're entirely welcome.

[THE MANDARIN SIGHS
CONTENTEDLY]

THE MANDARIN: I knew our
surveillance would bear fruit, Modok.

Now, why would Julia Carpenter,

Vice President of Research
and Development for Stark Enterprises,

shadow a young motorcycle rider
in a disguised vehicle?

This is California, remember?

I say it's because that young rider
must actually be Hawkeye.

Iron Man reported his unreliability
to Stark,

and Stark put her on his trail
to check him out.

It's the opportunity
I've been waiting for.

JULIA: I don't like
the looks of this, Tony.

Clint used every trick in the book
to make sure he wasn't followed,

and he ended up here at Hammer Hills,
as in Justin Hammer?

Hammer Hills is a big place, Julia.

Just being there doesn't make Clint
a double agent.

JULIA: He must've seen me.
I'll get back to you.

[PANTING]

Clint? I've lost him.
If Clint has nothing to hide,

why did he work so hard
to give me the slip?

I don't know. The Hawkeye's
never been easy to figure out.

Report back to base, Julia.
Over and out.

Thanks, puddy cats.

Help! I can't swim! Help!

Lady, are you all right? Are you sure?

[WOMAN PANTING]

Never better, Mr. Baywatch.

w*r MACHINE: Midnight.

Clint knows we've gotta deliver
the real Adamantium alloy tonight

to meet our government contract,
but he didn't show.

And nobody's heard from him
since I lost him at Hammer Hills.

Tony, I think that...

it still doesn't prove he's guilty
of anything more than weird behavior.

We've got a job to do. Thrusters on.

Let the tanker roll.

w*r MACHINE: I swept for bugs again,
Tone, and we're clean.

If The Mandarin's laying for us
this time,

it can mean only one thing,
Hawkeye's gone bad.

IRON MAN: Let's hope this run is short,
boring and uneventful. Move out.

MODOK: Homing devices, interlock.

THE MANDARIN: Brilliant, Modok.

[THE MANDARIN CHUCKLES]

James Rhodes can do
electronic sweeps

until disco comes back,

but he'll never find
your magnetic homing device.

Yes. It doesn't attach itself
to the overland tanker

until it exits Stark's facility.

Then it detaches
before the tanker returns to base.

So when Iron Man
and the rest of Stark's lackeys

again find us waiting for the tanker
on its secret route,

they will be forced to believe
that Hawkeye told us where to look.

[LAUGHING] And when their suspicions
turn them against one another,

we shall attack Iron Man's Armory itself
and destroy the base of his power!

w*r MACHINE: The Mandarin grabbed
the tanker. How'd he know its route?

Hawkeye's a traitor, man.

He sold us out! It's the only answer.

JUSTIN: I hope you're watching

this rather theatrical presentation
closely, my friend.

You're going to have to explain
how it happened

and why you weren't there to fight
side by side with your friends.

[CAMERA CLICKING]

[LAUGHING] But then,

I'm sure you'll think of something
when the time comes.

[CAMERA CLICKING]

w*r MACHINE: That dozer's got
the tanker between its teeth.

IRON MAN: We're not even slowing it
down, and it's heading for the ocean,

laying its own road as it goes.

CENTURY: It has undersea capability.

If it reaches the ocean,
we may not be able to save the tanker.

But we shall try.

w*r MACHINE:
We're going down the tubes, Tone!

That robot dozer's so tough,

The Mandarin didn't even bother
to send in backup.

IRON MAN: Back up. Jim!
That's it! Full power!

w*r MACHINE: Say What?

IRON MAN:
The dozer travels on the road it lays.

So we need to do a little road work.

We'll free the tanker
and complete the alloy delivery run

and then we've got to find Hawkeye
and see what this is really all about.

I already told you, I can't remember.

I spotted Julia on my tail
in Hammer Hills,

so I took off and...

And the next thing I know,

I'm sitting here with my friends
accusing me of selling out!

This is loco, man! You're all nuts!

That's what I'd have said
a few hours ago, Clint.

And then these were dropped off
by a reporter

from the Hard News television show.

I don't know anything
about these pictures. They're fakes.

Computer analysis says
they are genuine.

What were you doing at Hammer Hills
and why did you run from me?

You are concealing something
from us, Clint.

- I see it in your aura.
-No. Get out of my head.

I said I'm no traitor.
My word should be good enough.

We all want to believe you, Clint,
but actions speak louder than words,

your own actions.

When The Mandarin constructed
a duplicate Iron Man to start a plague,

it was up to you to stop him.

You cut it real close,
but in the end, you did.

Over and over again,
when the going got tough,

we looked around
and there you weren't.

But you always did seem to arrive
at the last instant,

if you showed up at all.

One thing for sure, you'll never win
the title of Mr. Dependability.

Time after time, you laid it on the line,

generally complaining
about something unimportant,

often late, and frequently taking offense
where none was intended.

All of which leads us
to one inescapable conclusion,

-you are a total pain in the butt.
-But you're no traitor.

The Mandarin clearly has some method
of tracking the overland tanker,

-but you're not part of it.
-I said I was clean all along.

- Take it easy.
-You're still a pain.

- But very nice.
-I never doubted you.

Yeah, jerko.

The Mandarin wants us to think
you're working for him.

And you're helping him make his case

by refusing to account
for your whereabouts.

Where were you
and what were you doing

when you should have been with us?

Hey, hey, that's my business,
you know?

- Don't start that again.
-JIM: Come on, talk, fool.

YOU 0W6 US an answer.

Okay, okay, okay.
Actually, it's no big deal.

See, I... What the...

ARMOR: Intruder alert. Intruder alert.

w*r MACHINE: Mandarin's g*ons
are coming at us from all sides.

THE MANDARIN:
Engage the tractor beam, Modok.

In the seconds it'll take them to realize
what's happening,

we'll scoop Iron Man's armor
out of its vault.

TONY: The Mandarin's making
an all out as*ault.

I'm sure he expected us to be so busy
questioning Hawkeye's loyalty

we'd be easy pickings.
Well, he was wrong.

Raise Armory shields.

An incredibly powerful
protective shield.

- The controls do not respond.
-Raise the canopy. I'll blast through!

HYPNOTIA: A force field. Look out!

BLIZZARD: That protective shield
threw Hypnotia and Blacklash.

Hurry, Gargoyle,
take evasive action at...

[BLIZZARD SCREAMING]

IRON MAN:
We don't want to be inhospitable,

so it's time to go out
and greet our guests in person.

Reverse shields!

[BLIZZARD SCREAMING]

BLIZZARD: We're being whirlpooled
into the ground.

IRON MAN: Thrusters on.

HAWKEYE: Yea-haw:!

[CENTURY EXCLAIMS]

He's reversed the magnetic field.
Summon the others for assistance.

MODOK: They've been clobbered.

And Iron Man and w*r Machine
are coming for us with reinforcements.

It's not possible.

They should now be
in complete disarray,

torturing Hawkeye
to make him confess.

MODOK: Hurry! They're almost on us.

THE MANDARIN:
We shall meet again, Iron Man.

IRON MAN: As The Mandarin said,
we'll meet again.

CLINT: Like I said, it's no big deal.

I mean, you found The Mandarin's
magnetic bug planted in the driveway,

so you know he didn't need me
to tell him

where to find the tanker, so...

Stop it. You brought us here to explain

why you didn't show up
for the tanker's test run. Now do it.

Clinton? I'm feeling much better.

I even got out the horseshoes
and lemonade.

Clinton?

[CHUCKLES] It's my grandpa,
Jackson Wiley.

[STAMMERING]
I kind of make sure he's okay here,

and, well, he was sick
a couple days ago, so...

Well... Hey, Grandpa,

I want you to meet
some friends of mine.

If Clint missed the action

because he was taking care
of his grandfather,

why didn't he just say so?

And let everybody think
he was a human being with feelings

-and all that messy stuff?
-Well, yes.

That just wouldn't be our Hawkeye,
Julia.

The guy is deep. Weird, but deep.

Mr. Wiley, I'm Tony Stark.

Clint has said such nice things
about you.

MR. WILEY: Clinton's a sweet boy,
Mr. Stark.

He doesn't want anyone to know,
but he can't fool me.

[MR. WILEY CHUCKLES]

Sweet.

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