She couldn't help the smile, shaking her head. "At least you're honest about it," she said. Really, she had enough agents who were just as bad about changing their minds on following orders, and then swaggering around if they were proven right or blustering that it wasn't their fault when they were wrong. She was pretty sure Dick knew how to swagger, conceptually, but it was impossible to imagine him doing so as anything besides a dance move.
He was much more likely to bounce, anyways, so much that after he yanked the popcorn out and came around to look at the tablet, she had to look twice to confirm that he was in fact doing so while right side up, and with both feet on the floor. "Do they not feed you?" she had to ask. There had to be better than popcorn left in a drawer. Of course, that might mean daring the fridges in the labs, which didn't always have their contents well-labeled.
"And the international part will take doing and some dancing through the red tape," Maria murmured as she examined the results, poking at the uploaded image, adjusting features to see if maybe someone had just had some plastic surgery and now wasn't quite hitting a high enough match point to be counted. She nodded at Dick's assessment, and her fingers stilled again before playing over the sides, bringing up the databases of known enemy agents. "He's hiding. Sure, there are people who are like that, who go through life without making contact with anyone if they aren't forced to, but those aren't people who have had a purged ID. HYDRA has all kinds of sleeper agents - those who go through a normal life without blowing up buildings until called on, but who still can't get out of the organization. Not a great retirement plan, HYDRA," she added with a shrug. "AIM, well, that would fit with the pharmaceutical testing, but AIM would also be bored by it, and have a science experiment running on the side.
"Question is still who recognized him - one of theirs punishing a traitor, or one of ours taking down an enemy agent," she added thoughtfully.