After his parents die, after Barney, after the circus, after everyone has left him behind, this is the moment when an aimless Clint Barton might turn to crime or join the army or become a vigilante and so embark on a journey that will lead him to SHIELD and the Avengers. But he doesn't, because a woman catches his eye and he has nothing better to do right now, he's drifting and directionless, and he finds himself following her. And that might lead him straight into a life of crime, or trouble, or a sting, or something else entirely. And eventually it might lead him to SHIELD and the Avengers after all, but it's a whole different kind of journey.