Natasha | Steve
I'd think you of all people would have a problem with punishing someone for actions they haven't done. This Loki is not the same Loki we know, Steve.
No, there isn't any way to know. And I have to live with that for the rest of my life. As does Nick. He was lied to and betrayed, but not all people who worked at SHIELD were HYDRA. You know that - you send as much there. A mistake was made when SHIELD was created, thanks to Operation Paperclip, as Zola told us. Howard Stark and Peggy Carter trusted the wrong people and it caused HYDRA to gain foothold, but that doesn't mean that the reasons for SHIELD's existence don't still hold true. Fury is having Coulson rebuild it because he trusts Phil and he knows that Coulson will make the right decisions and do what needs to be done so that SHIELD will mean something good again; he started that by locking up Ward.
You still don't understand - there is no HYDRA in this world. He may have given you the locations of bases in our world, but that knowledge does nothing here. You can't tell me that if Garrett or Skye's father showed up in that graveyard, Ward won't immediately be willing to follow his orders. What he did to Loki does, in fact, suggest a probation; and you aren't following what it means. There will be no change to what he does and as I said, it revokes no freedoms of his; however, if he does something while performing his job duties that the three of us don't agree with, he'd be suspended, with possible immediate termination. Termination in the business sense, not in the killing him instantly sense.
The words have been "thrown around" because they're making another Captain America movie that is going to focus on the Civil War. And yes, a probation is different from registration - which I have not attempted to do in any way here but I don't disagree with.
That's correct; I have withheld information from you in the past. And I helped you bring down the HYDRA infected SHIELD. You know Fury - how could you not anticipate what he would want to do next?
This is about more than Ward, isn't it? What aren't you saying to me?