Surviving harsh brainwashing and prosthetic surgery at the hands of Hydra, Barnes emerges as The Winter Solider with a cybernetic arm and seemingly no memories of who he once was. Rogers attempts to track down the Hydra soldier after his colleague, Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), is pronounced dead after encountering the mysterious assassin. When Captain Rogers finally meets The Winter Soldier for the first time in an aggressive fight defending Black Widow, he learns Bucky never died on that mountainside and is convinced his friend needs to be saved, not destroyed.