Age of Ultron Question

[elrhiarhodan]

So, saw Avengers: Age of Ultron on Saturday and generally liked it (although a little less that the first Avengers movie and a LOT less than Winter Soldier). But one thing keeps making me scratch my head.



How did the Eastern European baddies get a hold of Loki's scepter? The last person who had possession of it was Natasha, when she stuck it into the Tesseract-generated portal. How did it get from her hands (and by extension, the Avengers' hands) into a Hydra scientist's?

Seems like a serious continuity flaw. Amongst others.

Comments

[adrian_chan]

She turned the scepter over to SHIELD; SHIELD was infiltrated by HYDRA; HYDRA destroyed SHIELD; HYDRA got the scepter.

Strucker used to work for "SHIELD".

[elrhiarhodan]

Thank you!