After episode three The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is pretty much done with introductions as audiences already got at least a general outlook on every character’s motivations. The last to get this treatment were Baron Zemo and Sharon Carter, who were pretty much gone since Captain America: Civil War, but are now poised to be big players by the time the series wraps up.

While John Walker and the Flag-Smashers stand to be The Falcon and the Winter Soldier's main antagonists in the fourth episode, the show’s leading men Sam and Bucky are really the only ones on which viewers have any sort of real-life perspective outside of their superhero line of work. In Bucky’s case is the still underexplored story of a man struggling to live with PTSD; while over on Sam’s side is the everyday life problems of a family in modern America.

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At the start of the series Sam is clearly divided into three different facets: first is Falcon who’s out on the field carrying out missions all over over the world, which are detached from the supernatural threats the Avengers tend to face; then comes the Captain America prospect, still tied to Steve Rogers shield, James Rhodes and Bucky; and lastly there's Sam Wilson the Black man who can’t even get a loan to rescue his family’s failing business because apparently being vanished for five years doesn’t do wonders for one’s credit score.

It’s clear for Sam that his family plays a part when deciding whether or to not take Captain America’s shield, because he still feels a little bit guilty over not being there for his sister Sarah when she took care of the family’s fishing boat and he was away at the Air Force or even when Sarah became a widow and was forced to raise her two children on her own and Sam was blipped away at the time.

This is something Sam, much like Bucky, is trying to make amends for since the very start and it’s the reason why he now wants to help his sister in the first place, even if being an Avenger still leaves him kind of broke. Oddly enough, the problems Sam Wilson the brother and uncle faces are actually not too foreign to the Flag-Smashers he fights against when dressed as the Falcon, with the only difference being his still relatively privileged economic wellbeing in a richer country versus the latter’s refugee status.

Whereas Sam doesn’t have access to credit, the people the Flag-Smashers promise to take care of a lack of basic supplies like food and medicine. In this regard when the two finally confront each other properly, it’s likely the Falcon will be able to see the shades of grey that lie behind Karli Morgenthau’s group and his own life back home in a world where even the brightest heroes sometimes can't catch a break, no matter how many androids, aliens and wizards they may have helped save the planet from.

Despite being an exemplary Avenger in society’s eyes, Sam is reminded by his family’s own struggles that there are problems that can’t be solved by superheroes, a point his new sidekick Baron Zemo is pretty good at driving home. This further highlighted by him confronting Isaiah Bradley, the black Captain America that was not only shunned by the US government but even imprisoned and tortured for the sake of weaponizing him, something that so happens to be the very genesis of the threat he and Bucky are facing at the moment.

Surprisingly Disney and Marvel Studios chose to keep some political and social commentary at the front of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier's storyline, something that seems like the proper way to go as a way to the Captain America franchise's status as the one that flirts with more anti-establishment ideas, or in better cases just the though hat superheroes like Steve Rogers are no supposed to blindly carry out whatever mission their superior's might ask of them without any further thought, another area where John Walker is very different from Rogers and Wilson.

In some of the trailers and previews shared by Marvel Studios so far, there are at least a couple of scenes where Sam and Bucky can be seen back at the Falcon’s hometown of Delacroix, Louisiana where they’ll surely be heading back to as part of the show resolution stage. Bucky can be seen playing around with Sam’ nephews and the kids even get pretty close to Captain America’s shield when Sam's not practicing with it.

Perhaps those shots are there to remind everyone that while the Falcon is on the other side of the world fighting for his life in Madripoor, Sam Wilson’ mind is somehow back at Delacroix, Louisiana wondering how he’s gonna get that loan Sarah needs.

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