Daniel Brühl credited as playing...
Zemo
- [Zemo sits on a rock, listening to his wife's last recorded message on his cellphone]
- Voice of Zemo's Wife: You should have seen his little face. Just try, okay? I'm going to bed. I love you.
- [T'Challa sneaks up behind Zemo. He places his helmet on the ground]
- T'Challa: I almost killed the wrong man.
- Zemo: Hardly an innocent one.
- [Zemo deletes the message]
- T'Challa: Is this all you wanted? To see them rip each other apart?
- Zemo: [quietly] My father lived outside the city. I thought we would be safe there. My son was excited. He could see the Iron Man from the car window. I told my wife "Don't worry. They're fighting in the city. We're miles from harm". And the dust cleared... and the screaming stopped... it took me two days until I found their bodies. My father... still holding my wife and son in his arms... and the Avengers?
- [Zemo shakes his head]
- Zemo: They went home.
- [Zemo smiles bitterly]
- Zemo: I knew I couldn't kill them. More powerful men than me have tried. But if I could get them to kill each other...
- [a flashback: Captain America fights Iron Man]
- Zemo: I'm sorry about your father. He seemed a good man, with a dutiful son.
- T'Challa: Vengeance has consumed you. It's consuming them. I'm done letting it consume me.
- [T'Challa retracts his claws]
- T'Challa: Justice will come soon enough.
- Zemo: [spitefully] Tell that to the dead.
- [Zemo places the gun under his chin and pulls the trigger. T'Challa grabs him and moves the gun away. The bullet misses]
- T'Challa: The living are not done with you yet.
- Zemo: Longing. Rusted. Seventeen. Daybreak. Furnace. Nine. Benign. Homecoming. One. Freight Car... Soldier?
- Bucky Barnes: ...Ready to comply.
- Zemo: An empire toppled by its enemies can rise again. But one which crumbles from within? That's dead... forever.
- Zemo: When S.H.I.E.L.D. fell, Black Widow released Hydra files to the public. Millions of pages. Much of it encrypted, not easy to decipher, but... I have experience... and patience. A man can do anything if he has those.
- Everett K. Ross: So how does it feel? To spend all that time, all that effort, and to see it fail so spectacularly?
- Zemo: Did it?
- Captain America: You're Sokovian. Is that what this is about?
- Zemo: Sokovia was a failed state long before you blew it to hell. No. I'm here because I made a promise.
- Captain America: You lost someone.
- Zemo: I lost everyone. And so will you.
- Zemo: HYDRA deserves its place on the ash heap. So your death would not bother me. But I'd have to use this book... and other bloodier methods to find what I need. I don't look forward to that. You'd only be dying for... your pride.
- Zemo: Tell me, Bucky. You've seen a great deal, haven't you?
- Bucky Barnes: I don't wanna talk about it.
- Zemo: You fear that if you open your mouth, the horrors might never stop. Don't worry. We only have to talk about one.
- Zemo: If it's any comfort, they died in their sleep. Did you really think I wanted more of you?
- Bucky Barnes: What the hell?
- Zemo: I'm grateful to them, though. They brought you here.
- [a light turns on, revealing Zemo; Cap throws his shield, but it rebounds back]
- Zemo: Please, Captain. The Soviets built this chamber to withstand the launch blast of UR-100 rockets.
- Iron Man: I'm betting I could beat that.
- Zemo: Oh, I'm sure you could, Mr. Stark. Given time. But then you'd never know why you came.
- Captain America: You killed innocent people in Vienna just to bring us here?