Falcon and Winter Soldier Recap: Ahead of Finale, Sam Struggles With Shield's Legacy — Plus, Zemo's Fate Revealed TVLine 3 hrs ago This week on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Sam and Bucky reclaimed Steve Rogers’ shield — only to then grapple with just how complicated its legacy is. Plus, Zemo’s fate is revealed. In the season’s penultimate episode (and the longest thus far), titled “Truth,” NuCap retreats to a warehouse after bludgeoning Matias to death in the plaza, where past conversations with the late Lemar swirl through his head. When Sam and Bucky catch up to him, Walker stands by “what I had to do,” conflating Matias with Lemar’s actual killer. Mistaking the talk-down for a power grab, Walker spoils for a fight, and it is a pretty brutal one, where at different times he looks poised to slay either of his opponents with his shield,… yet both times is (barely) stopped. Bucky is KO’d at one point, and Sam has a wing ripped off, but in the end, Sam is able to use the force of his jetpack to wrest the shield free from NuCap’s hands. Bucky picks up the shield, then lobs it at Sam with more than a bit of lingering disapproval at what led them to all this in the first place.