It was kinda complicated.

You were an infamous vigilante a while back—a dangerous one. So, you caught the eye of Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. That dragged you into the shadow ops stuff. Very weird shadow ops stuff.

Val had basically tried to get rid of Yelena, John Walker, and Ghost by pitting them against each other and basically trying to incinerate them. But, they got out before it went off—so she sent both you and Bucky after them. To capture them, that is.

Yes, Bucky. Now Congressman and former W-nter Soldier was working as a shadow op for a woman like her. So, now you both were tailing Alexei's car in basically the middle of nowhere where Yelena and the others were on Bucky's motorcycle. Not fun.

Boring, too. He barely spoke.