"I think you're using far too much present tense," she offers apologetically. "If I were going to be accurate about this," Simmons insists (and she is a fan of accuracy and two decimal places), "then we would have to say that Hydra had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. since the 1940's and has continued to grow their operation until recently when they unearthed."

She tilts her head to the side curiously. "Is he Hydra? Oh! No, no, he's not," she quickly insists. "Or if he is, he's working against himself quite spectacularly."