Quote:Kilroy wrote:Let's put it this way... You're an average American citizen, hanging out in the greater DC area, and you see something colorful drifting along in the Potomac or washed up on the shore. Upon further investigation, you see that it's an iconic piece of American history, one that your grandparents might have told you about or that you saw in your high school history books, and one you definitely saw in the news coverage of the Battle of New York. And it's just floating there. Maybe it's a prop or relics, but maybe not, and even if it is, it's gotta be worth something. So you grab it.
One thing I have been wondering since I saw the first trailer for this movie is whether an explanation will be given for Steve having his shield back since he let go of it during his fight with the Winter Soldier in that movie and it would have fallen into the Potomac river (like Steve himself did a little while later.) I know that there is a wiki page that states that the shield appears in the later hospital scene, but that doesn't say how it was recovered. I suppose that this might be considered too fiddly or minor though.
Maybe you take it to the cops. Maybe Tony Stark posts a reward (it'd be a thing he'd do). Maybe you're a good person and you try to take it to Walter Reed, and the Secret Service, or Homeland Security, or the FBI thank you for your service to the country and you get invited to meet the President and Captain America somewhere down the line and get a citation for doing your civic duty. Or maybe you're one of those mercenary types who tries to sell it on eBay, and you either get a fast sale to an anonymous buyer (that'd be the NSA or HSA, paying out of their operational budget for a National Treasure) or a visit from a few polite MIBs who advise you that it would be best if you hand the shield over and advise you to keep quiet about it, and maybe they pay you for your time. And if you hide it away, then it's likely that the trackers that SHIELD put in the thing to keep track of Cap (because they trust the guy, but they're not STUPID, especially with HYDRA in the mix) will result in a less polite group of MIBs showing up, and if you're lucky, it'll just look like a burglary, and not a robbery-homicide.
The point is, it's like the Liberty Bell getting misplaced. Someone's going to find it, and unless there's outright larceny going on, it'll get back in the hands of the right people fairly quickly.
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