George stood and walked over towards his map of the world. Barnes stayed seated, but kept his eyes on him as he crossed the room. George placed a thumb on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula.

"This is Yemen and late last night, HYDRA attacked Yemen with SHIELD resources."

He explained the details of the operation that went bad. The drone strike -- he spent a few minutes explaining drones to Barnes, but he grasped concept well enough since it was an unmanned plane that he and Rogers blew up all those years ago -- that was intended for members of a radical terrorist organization instead killed high-ranking members of the Yemeni military.

"The dossier I read this afternoon indicates that Yemen is in a very delicate political situation. The president is fast losing allies, the ones that were killed were among the few he had left. With them gone, anti-establishment forces in the military may be able to stage a coup. All drone flights have been cancelled, and the Yemeni government is working with us to keep a lid on the whole fiasco. We believe HYDRA to be behind this because of the message that was sent to SHIELD headquarters just moments after the attack."

George let Barnes watch the video footage and the message that followed. From behind his desk, George pressed on with the briefing.

"The source of the digital takeover of the drone, what they call hacking now, was traced to the Indian Ocean, a few hundred miles off the coast of Indonesia. Satellite tracking has linked the hacking to this man."

George slid a photo across the desk to Barnes. The grainy surveillance photo showed a man in an expensive sharkskin suit with a red bandana covering the top half of his face.

"He goes by the name Tiger Shark. He is a pirate and smuggler responsible for nearly all the black market trade that goes through the Indian Ocean. He has no visible ties to HYDRA, but it's not too much of a stretch to imagine him as being in bed with that lot. This photo is the only one we have of him, and it comes to us from Vauxhall Cross, my old stomping grounds. The photo is at least five years old. Tiger Shark is highly dangerous and wanted for a laundry list of international crimes. Your mission is a very simple one: fly to Jakarta and find Tiger Shark and bring him in."

There was a second, unseen objective that George needed to accomplish. But that was his own mission, something he could only do alone. But his mission dove-tailed into Barnes. While he was in Asia, fighting pirates, George would be back here working from his end.

"A SHIELD contact will meet you in Jakarta when you land and help you achieve your mission. Any questions, James?"