Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury and Don Cheadle’s Col. James Rhodes are meeting at Berners Tavern in London, with Rhodes’ security man and a bartender the only others in the room. The two men have had very little contact recently, and the tension between them is palpable. We won’t get into the details of the crisis, but suffice to say the talk turns tough and deep.
“We owe each other,” says Fury. “Men who look like us don’t get promoted because of who our daddies know. Every ounce of power we wrestle from the vise grasp of the mediocre [people] who run this world was earned in blood …”
