Off in the distance, his wife Laura (Linda Cardellini) picnics with their two sons.
In the blink of an eye, his daughter vanishes.
Barton calls out to his wife, but no one answers.
It’s grim work, and it’s corroding his soul worse than anything else he’s ever done.
you’re able to read the changes to his personality on the surface.
He has a full sleeve tattoo on his left arm, topped by the leering face of a skull.
Hawkeye is marking people for death, but he’s also marking himself.
It’s the opposite of her journey from coldblooded assassin to hero and defender of the right.
““Natasha, you know what I’ve done.
“Maybe you should.”
She reminds him of how he reached out to spare her once upon a time.
“You didn’t.”
Did he fight hard enough to go over the edge?
The trade is irreversible.
Black Widow is gone.
He pays the ultimate price for that, just as Natasha Romanoff did.
Hawkeye gets a loving reunion with his wife and children.
“That we did it.”
“She knows,” says Wanda, who is still grieving the death of The Vision.
“They both do.”
It’s not enough to fill the void now left in their lives.
But it’s better than nothing at all.
