"Completely wiped the floor with us, for starters," Yelena says, a little bit wryly. "You argued with Valentina, after we retreated. I don't know what about, because there wasn't any audio along with the footage, but she apparently decided she didn't have as much control as she thought she would. One of the things the O.X.E scientists did was implant something in your head that would let them take you down if the trials did work - and if you can stomach being in the labs long enough to run some scans, we should really check to make sure it was a one-use thing and didn't have any redundancies before you get in the same room with her or any of her people."

She pauses a moment, weighing whether or not to try to catch his gaze, and opts to let him keep that little bit of distance. "Do you remember what happened in the vault, when you touched my hand?"