"How?" he asks after a momen't silence, circling back around to the question his job would've had him lead with at last. He doesn't want to pry, doesn't want to make Steve feel any worse than he already does, but the story will have to be relayed eventually -- to Thrace, at the very least, if not the Times and the Council -- much as Bucky wishes that weren't the case.

"How did Dr. Tenenbaum die?"