Agent Carter · Season 1 · Episode 1
Now Is Not the End
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of Stark Industries. Oh yeah. Oh, we haven't
seen that again. It's the third time we've seen
this. They're really hammering at home. Come
on, Steve. Do a barrel roll this time. Steve,
do a barrel roll. I still think he could. There
were other options. Yeah. But if they did any
of the other options and, you know. Imagine how
different everything. I know. I know. But still.
Supposed to be like super, super smart. Well,
now he's super, super frozen and she's super,
super making tea. I'm digging the music. I don't
know if I'd say I dig that music. Oh, come on.
Here we go with fondue again. Yeah, you fondue
it. Mm hmm. So this is basically a previously
on Agent Carter's life. Yeah. In case you missed
everything. Here it is. Here's some pantyhose.
In case you missed the movie that this spawned
from, the blockbuster. In case you missed the
red one shot, but we didn't. Oh, Murphy bid.
Salute. Canarsie. That's going to mean something
later. Yeah, that's her classic red carpet. It's
iconic. You're not a doctor. Yeah. Dr. Carter.
Shut up. Oh, man. Peg. She didn't hear that.
Come on. Pay attention. I know. She's cocking
and putting a gun away. Like, oh, nothing's happening.
Nothing to see here. Maybe do that in the car.
I'm just a regular girl. Or the office. I guess
it's a hat that's more iconic. Yeah. Unless she
wore a red coat at some point, too, though. Oh,
is that what it was? It was the hat? No, I thought
it was a coat. That's what it looked like. Jaywalking
everybody. Right. She didn't even look. I know.
God. He's lucky those cavemen didn't have any
Tommy guns. Yeah, she. Oh, man. Oh, she knows.
Yeah. And she's got a cocked. We know the cocked
hat means business. Yeah, that's right. Is that
big telephone? That same company. They're making
millions on these phones. Mm hmm. Followed or
been involved in. Aha. Let's see what you did
there. Aha. This looks familiar. It's going to
be a legacy of that. Yeah. Just like your father.
He's got a point. That's the most accurate representation
of how Congress asks people stuff that I've ever
seen. Seriously. I'm so grateful that we don't
have to sit around and wear suits like this all
the time to do just normal stuff. Oh, man. I.
I was watching I Love Lucy last night and they
were driving across the country in suits. It
was killing me. Hit him with a liaison. There's
another Brooklyn Nine -Nine actor. Oh, dude,
I didn't remember that he was in this. I like
that guy. Funny enough, he was also in the Avengers
movie. He was. A random cop. Your tie doesn't
even come all the way down to your pants. Be
quiet. Right. Got him. Oh, man. I like that.
See, why doesn't she just take that picture?
No, she wants the scrawny. That's a better picture
than the one she it's scrawny. Steve is silly.
Well, you do understand. Mm hmm. I don't think
she's supposed to be that. I didn't ask you to
sit down. Is you is and is you ain't. My baby.
That's some English. You got talent, kid. Wow.
Hey, it's Farva. Oh, man. Leader of Cola. Nice
to see what everyone's doing these days. I'm
also glad that that's not a thing anymore. Opening
up the little doors to get food. No. Oh. Yeah.
Yeah, I don't trust people enough for that. Yeah,
right. How many fingers have been stuck in that
pie? Mm hmm. Miss Carter? You're about to. Oh,
oh. Oh, man. Well. Knock that poor dude out.
What if he was just like trying to give her like
a beach getaway or something? Well, I mean. I
don't know where that foot was going. Probably
should have not driven directly at her like that.
Probably should have told your guy that we're
going to pick her up to say something a little
less creepy. You're coming with me. No. What
does that mean? Fondue. Touching butts. Oh. This
guy. You're not from here. Right. You're doing
it for king and country or something. Man, look
at the size of that car. Yeah. Well, the driver's
also got a bloody nose. Well, yeah. You shouldn't
have been so creepy. Yeah, that was very creepy.
Thank you. Oh, she punched Jarvis? Yeah, I'm
glad you didn't, jerk. I almost said, oh, it's
Jarvis, but I realized, oh, they don't know that.
Yeah. And then she punched Jarvis in the mouth.
Yeah, yeah. Oh. Oh, Peggy. man he just gets in
a speedboat and just starts burping away man
what a guy late mm -hmm don't be creepy should
you need us Oh, watch out. Telling somebody to
call you back in the day was so different, like
you had to be home or else, you know, right.
You miss me. Yeah. Yeah. Or yet, who knows? Ten
buck to. Especially before answering machines.
Yeah, right. You have a sweater vest on? Yep,
yep, yep. Web of lies. This just takes it. Right.
That guy's got mustard on his shirt. Both notice
that immediately. God. Animal. Clean yourself
up, you slob. God. That guy's got a murdery face.
Seriously. It's like we need to cast a murderer.
It's in the eyes. It's all in the eyes. Mm hmm.
And that jawline, man. It's sharp. Might as well
have a pointy mustache. Mustache. Beard. Well,
whatever is pointy. Long as it's pointy. Yeah.
You know, if the mustache is long enough, it
can be pointy. It's dastardly. Dastardly. Go
shopping. Oh, man. Oh, what'd you put in the
coffee? Yeah, you got mustard. You can go to
a cleaner's real quick. That's your issues, right?
He's got a very tall head. Wow. I assume he's
watching this. Send all hate mail to Remy at
Snark Podcast. Hey, but you know what? It works
for him. Oh, she's gone blonde. Wow. You look
like a lady that's ready to dance. Yeah. Oh,
did you see that dude spinning with his leg out?
He's going all in. Sometimes. Bro. Jesus. Just,
just do it. God damn. Give her the full once
over real fast. Poison Ivy. Wow. I'm going to
use that line. People were bold. She's using
her feminine wiles. What does that mean? Tell
you when you're older. I'm ready to be a man.
Man, imagine if your name were Spider. Yeah.
I'm changing mine officially. I like it. We're
supposed to do that yet. Performance issues,
not uncommon. No, that's a handy dandy little
thing. That's cool as hell. The Holy Grail. Crikey
O 'Reilly. I'm going to start saying that. Oh,
look, didn't he say a mount that size is enough
to level a city block? Nope. And not a little
one? Nope. One with avenues. Hmm. Oh, the original
hold music. Just puts it right in front of the
radio. That's not ideal. She's over here just
two -fingering it. Mm -hmm. Yeah, explosion.
Explosion? I've only got one question for you.
Oh. Yeah, she needs some fondue. Oh, man. Man,
those are some fat ties. Not only are they short,
but they're fat. Yeah, that was the, yeah. That
holster's sitting so low, it'd take him forever
to get it out of there. Yeah. I mean, I guess
when you've got fat ties that don't even touch
the bottom of your shirt, you don't care about
function. You know, one less piece of material.
He just taking a nap. Oh, man, he got stained.
Now you are, too. I hope he shows up later with
staples in his forehead. We need to do an in
-depth dive on how much force it takes to physically
knock somebody out. More than that. Call it Mythbusters.
Give or dance. Oh, man. Nope. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah. Huh? Huh? That man's whole life has changed.
Yeah. You had mustard on your shirt. Yeah, you're
not allowed to go anywhere. That guy doesn't
seem like a nice guy. He's got that very look.
I didn't realize the wig technology was so sophisticated
back then. I mean, that was seamless. I thought
she died. That was pretty good. 1946 Also, I
have a bomb in my purse. Yeah. Oh. I don't know
because she has everything she needs on that
one shelf right there. Hey. This is a highly
volatile explosive device. Everything you need
to defuse it will be in your kitchen. In your
kitchen. Oh, this feels like a bad idea. Right?
Watch me drive out to the docks and just hup
that thing out of the ocean. That's what I do.
Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Toil and treble, boil and bubble.
That's a little nerve wracking. She's got some
nice potpourri going in there. And this one's
for after. I'm either going to die or I need
a drink. Why not both? Oh, man. She was so nice.
Just laid out in her little Murphy bed. Man.
Hate it when that happens. Oh, man. He did that
bad guy thing where he got close enough with
his gun to be melee'd. Instead of just shooting
her. Every time. Oh, man. Her hair's going to
catch, man. I know. Shout out to Mike. Indiana
Jones. Oh, man. The window. Land on a car. Sound
like he landed on a car. Yeah. Oh, no, he landed
in nowhere. He teleported. Man, that's messed
up. Yeah, she was just there with the TV or whatever.
I mean, probably on her way out anyway, to be
fair, but. Not like that. You think she was that
sick? Jesus. I'm not a medical professional,
but I'm just writing on the wall. Oh, man. I
mean, come on. She didn't get Cap killed. Yeah,
it was his choice. He said that three times in
recent memory. Yeah, exactly. See, Jarvis's suit
isn't ridiculous. Mm hmm. Oh, she's dead because
of the guy that shot her in the head. Well, that's
also true. To be fair, we do not know how long
Jarvis's tie is. My headcanon is the correct
amount of length. Yeah, yeah, I'm with you. He
was the trendsetter. He changed it all. And occasionally
taking out the trash. That's actually when we
first meet Jarvis, too. That's fun. Vanco. That's
a name we know. It is. Plug. Mm -hmm. Yep, that's
another name we know. That's also familiar. Throwing
all the keywords in there. Project Rebirth. There
you go. Yeah. I'd love to look at all the labels
on all those boxes. Just stand there. Just stand
there in awe. Easter eggs everywhere. Oh, yeah,
I have that picture. He's back. So this is the
fourth time. Yeah. Repetition is the key to success.
Also to insanity. She's just. So where do you
know that guy from? Well, I don't know that guy.
I know that guy. I thought you said you knew
him. Oh. Oh, I know the guy with the mustard
on his shirt. He was another Brooklyn Nine -Nine
actor. Oh, okay. I thought you were talking about
this guy. His footlocker. Get it? Yeah. So you
say. That's great for someone who has all their
faculties, lady. Okay. Thought it was about to
shave with that for a second. Man. Typewriters.
Yeah. I'm old enough. Explain yourself. To where
that's how I learned how to type. OK. I mean.
Back in my day. Yes, it's true. So I learned
how to type. Had to push that stupid column over.
All that nonsense. I had one that I used to.
Well, I didn't have one, but my grandparents
had one when I was a wee ginger. But it's certainly
not how I learned to type. Yeah, man, looking
through Encyclopedia Britannica, typing up my
reports on typewriter. Different world. Oh, she
just... I mean, she had gloves. Oh, yeah. That's
all you need. That's right. No other parts of
your body touches any of that fence when you
go climbing over it. Nope. Rubber gloves or rubber
shoes. Hashtag stealth. Those were metal stairs.
I don't care how light footed you are. I know.
Wild to me how stealthy these people are without
being stealthy at all. It's every movie and TV
show ever made. Stealth is just unbelievably
over exaggerated. Feels like Jarvis doesn't quite
cut out for this. Oh, man. So anyways, I started
blasting. Yeah. I tell you one thing, he doesn't
know how to clear a room. Nope. He's holding
that thing down at his hip. Mm -hmm. Oh. Hypnotizer.
Neuralizer. No, not like that. Oh, that probably
would have worked too, though. Probably. Ooh.
Holy hell. Oh, man. He said, I dare you. Yeah.
Okay. Nope, he's a smoker. Well. Thin line there,
brother. That's not how that works. Leviathan.
Oh, no. Well, that's not good. It's time to go.
Luckily, they have plenty of time. Not a very
instant weapon of mass destruction. Yeah. I believe
you. But my Tommy gun don't. Oh, physics. Physics.
Your sound effect from now on. If something doesn't
work the way it's supposed to. I like it. That's
fair. Oh, there it is. Are they going to get
caught in the explosion and shoot out the flames?
Come on, give it to us. Oh, man, that thing's
hitting 30. They're flying. Oh. Oh, that's right.
It's like singularity. They said it was going
to be avenues. That's not an avenue. I mean.
I promise you I wouldn't be getting out of the
car to look at it for a minute. Hell no. What
if there's an aftershock or something? Yeah.
Angry blonde. Look at that camera satellite dish
up there. It's pretty good. Send it to the local
Walgreens, see if we can get a few prints. You
can't find the building. She's going to want
to get her hands on that. Warm milk. Yeah. Out
of the cabinet over there for sure. No. Means
big underwater creature. Go there. Oh, yeah.
Jarvis, the suit game is on point. I like it.
I'm marginally aroused. Oh, I think he is, too.
You got a little taste of adventure. Oh, Farva,
he's still there. Oh, kick him. Now she's going
to do something without a doubt. I mean, he was
out of line, but I'd be pretty upset if I got
powdered eggs at a restaurant, too. I mean, 1946,
man, what are you going to do? Get forked. Apparently.
Nice. Hey, now Jarvis. Sneaky, sneaky. Now Jarvis.
That's not what you're supposed to be doing.
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Grrr.
New York, 1946. Peggy Carter is back from the war and stuck behind a desk at the SSR, the only woman of consequence in a room full of men. When Howard Stark is publicly branded a traitor for selling dangerous weapons to enemies of the country, he tracks Peggy down, insists he was framed, and asks her to clear his name by working against her own agency. He leaves her his butler Jarvis and a warning: one of his stolen inventions is a compound capable of leveling city blocks. Peggy goes undercover to trace it, using poisoned lipstick to drop a shady dealer and recover one of the devices, then defuses it in her own bathroom while a silent intruder murders her roommate in the next room. She fights the killer and throws him from a window, only to find no body below. The trail leads Peggy and Jarvis to a warehouse stacked with the compounds, where a man bearing the same strange marking as her attacker invokes a group called Leviathan and dares her to act, knowing any move triggers a chain reaction. He drops a device that takes a full minute to arm, escaping with a van of explosives while Peggy and Jarvis barely clear the blast, setting the season's hunt in motion.
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Hello and welcome, fellow Marvel fans, to the
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and enjoy this episode of Stark Industries. Hello,
ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Deep
Dive. We just got finished watching Season 1,
Episode 1 of Agent Carter. John, you want to
tell us what that was about? Absolutely. So we
get to sort of pick up with Agent Carter post
-World War II, after the events of Captain America,
the first Avenger, where she is still with the
SSR and sort of relegated to a sort of secretary
-esque role within. Very clearly, kind of a running
theme from the beginning here is going to be
sort of this misogynistic breakdown that she's
going to be doing herself throughout the time.
She's really the only woman that's of relevance
there within the thing. There are some other
women in the show, but they don't really seem
to be tied in with the SSR specifically, that
I noticed at least. At the very least, if they
are, they are very secondary roles, even below
where she would be. We come to find out very
quickly that the main plot hook here, as we get
into the beginning of this series, is that Howard
Stark has been labeled as a traitor to the United
States by selling some weapons to enemies of
our great country, which he, of course, refutes,
but does end up coming and finding Peggy and
sort of pulling her to the side. with the clever
use and introduction of a fan favorite, at least
for me and Jarvis, though we don't know that
at the time, who immediately gets punched in
the nose because he says something very creepy,
inadvertently, I think, and sort of reveals to
Peggy that he did create a bunch of crazy weapons,
but he didn't knowingly sell them to anybody.
But he needs her help to try to clear his name
by effectively becoming a traitor herself. and
going behind the SSR's back to do so. So we kind
of get this set up very early that this is going
to be where she's sort of stepping outside of
where she is. And I think ultimately that will
lead to the end game where she is kind of put
into a position of leadership, which we know
eventually does happen because we have that fun
future sight of things that have already happened.
He sort of explains that he's created this compound
that's going to ultimately cause big singularity
type explosions that will level blocks and not
little streets either. Avenues. And decides to
try to run away and figure out some stuff on
his end and sends her and sort of gives her use
of Jarvis to sort of figure out what's going
on with this compound. Around his schedule. And
how it's getting around. Correct. Yeah. Around
Jarvis' schedule as he's got a wife who, as he
says, has her own needs and they're in bed by
eight o 'clock. So ultimately she kind of goes
undercover, finds this sort of dealer, high roller
kind of guy that's dealing in sort of some shady
stuff and is ultimately able to, by using a little
bit of poisoned lipstick and some womanly ways,
knock him out and sort of take one of these things,
goes back to her place and diffuses it. And while
she's diffusing this bomb effectively, we get
the introduction of another kind of mysterious
villain who comes in to her place, kills her
roommate, friend, confidant. Very unfortunate.
Yeah, very kind of sad. Sad way to vertigo. We
have this sort of emotional scene there. But
Agent Carter comes out. after diffusing this
thing in her bathroom, fights this guy, throws
him out of a window. You think it's all over,
but she looks out and he's not there. We do see
him later sort of sending a message via typewriter.
All very strange, but they sort of figure out
kind of where the next hit's going to be. And
then she and Jarvis goes to this... Roxanne.
Warehouse location. Yep, correct. And ultimately...
Long story short, is able to find this huge stash
of these bombs effectively. There's another man
here who's got a similar marking as the one that
she fought in her apartment and who sort of claims
to be affiliated with or perhaps a member of
or perhaps all of a group called Leviathan and
holds out one of these bombs and sort of a. come
and get me sort of way, knowing that if she does
anything to him, effectively it's going to cause
a chain reaction that's going to kill everybody
around there. And after a brief interaction,
he sort of drops this thing, which apparently
takes about 60 seconds to arm and detonate as
this sort of mist coalesces and fuses. And during
that time, he escapes with the van full of other
bombs, and she is able to, with the help of Jarvis,
get out of there. And sort of sets this up sort
of as a as a arc that's going to lead them down
this path of Leviathan, these bombs, clearing
Howard's name and all of this other stuff. We
hope. We hope. So we get that. And sort of that's
more or less where they wrap this episode up.
It's a lot of a lot of cliffhangers here, which
I think is good for a pilot for a series. I'd
say so. In terms of tie -ins with the MCU, it's
kind of the same thing that we've discussed before.
Obviously, Peggy is integral into Steve's story
in the MCU. We get to see some of these other,
obviously, Jarvis, Howard, a namesake that was
Jarvis specifically, a fan favorite of mine of
the Iron Man comics. before and was kind of redid
in a certain way for the MCU with him being sort
of an AI system, but now seeing sort of the core,
the butler, you know, and seeing Jarvis being
able to sort of do stuff and be part of this,
I thought was pretty neat. And that's obviously
a tie in with the greater MCU in general. Sure.
Yeah. And did have a direct parallel that we
called out in the watch party too, which I thought
was interesting about how, as he's introducing
himself, he's talking about sort of getting rid
of some of Stark's, unwanted morning afters.
And that's when we sort of meet Jarvis in the
Iron Man movie later as well. Of course, Pepper's
talking about doing it there, but it's just kind
of fun that it's a direct parallel there. Yeah.
But as far as MCU tie -ins goes, that's really
about it on episode one. I'm sure there will
be more things that sort of link this all together
in some way as we go forward that are going to
be in this same sort of vein. But I definitely
look forward to seeing more. These Easter eggs,
obviously Leviathan being a big one here that's
going to lead into hopefully some great things.
So why don't we take that opportunity to talk
some about the comic book tie -ins and things
like that? Yeah, so let's actually touch on Leviathan
since we're there. I'm not going to give too
much about it because I genuinely don't recall
how much is actually divulged in the show. But
to my knowledge, Leviathan was the third pillar.
So we had S .H .I .E .L .D., we had Hydra, and
then we had Leviathan. Obviously, Leviathan did
not survive. But it was a Soviet -born intelligence
agency similar to S .H .I .E .L .D. and HYDRA.
So that's all I'm going to say about it, just
in case we go deeper into it, and then we'll
talk about it further down the line. But as far
as comic polls are concerned, we had the Roxxon
Corporation, obviously. We met Vanko, which...
That name should ring a bell because we'll see
him later in the MCU when we will see his son
later. Yeah. Later in the MCU in Iron Man 2.
And then the the guy that was delivering the
the information via his trachea is I don't remember
what that thing's called. But yeah, his his character
name was Leet Brannis, which is kind of cool.
That is a deep cut reference to a Golden Age
comic. Winter Comics number four in 1942. He's
a simple gangster. So obviously he's being elevated
in this, but kind of cool poll just to drop a
name, something so out there like that. So that's
a little Easter egg for you. But there's also,
of course, the the Vita Ray was mentioned and
that that ties into Captain America's because
that's what activates the formula. A lot of little
scientific things like that thrown around. But
that was pretty much all I found. Of course,
there's. you know, inspiration of Stark from
Howard Hughes and things of that nature. But
as far as direct comic polls, I think that's
all I could, could pinpoint. So what'd you think
overall? So I enjoyed what we had here is very
cool. Like I said, to see a lot of names that
are familiar to just me being a fan of Marvel
in general, especially Jarvis. I can't, I'm fanboying
a little bit about that. This having been a show
that I'd never seen before, I knew it existed,
but never watched before. We're going through
this together with you all. I enjoyed the pilot,
but I will say that it was very clearly a pilot.
There's a lot of setup without a lot of finishing,
which leaves me sort of wanting to know more
before I can really draw any sort of conclusions
onto how much this arc is going to be something
that I'm going to like going forward. But for
what we have now, and this is a standalone sort
of introducing all of this, I will say that I
enjoyed it. And I will I'll follow up saying
the exact same thing. I absolutely loved it.
I think that Hayley Atwell as Carter is just
brilliant. And I'm so glad that she got the notoriety
enough to get this show because I remember watching
it. I remember enjoying it. I remember very little
of it. So I'm kind of watching it for the first
time again with you. Ultimately, I just I think
she's great in the role and I love Jarvis. So
just quick question. You didn't realize Jarvis
was in this at all? No, I had no idea. Oh, that's
so exciting. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah. Yeah. Ultimately,
you get a lot of fun characters, a lot of history,
a lot of background to stories we love. So I'm
here for it. Love it. I did want to briefly add
one more thing sort of to the back end of this
is a little outside of our normal. sort of cadence
here. But I think it's worth mentioning in this
deep dive format, as we're just coming away from,
and for those who have already listened to the
one shot, the timelines here and what happened
in this episode directly contradicts the things
that happened in the one shot where we have Howard
has come to her, given her sort of co -leadership
and shield already, taking her out of this sort
of menial. backseat life with all the men standing
around, you know, scoffing at her and things.
And we're back to that again here. Right. I have
looked to see some stuff and already of how this
can sort of be rectified long term. I don't think
we're there yet. And I don't want to do it now
before we actually get to that in the show as
we're going through it. But it is something to
note that for those of you that are listening,
as we are in temporal order, this may look a
little weird to you. And that's because it is
a little weird. I think one of the biggest things
to note on that is in doing this is the one shot
was actually made by Marvel themselves. And the
show is an ABC production. So when you have two
different and, you know, we'll see that some,
but usually it's not so, so directly juxtaposed
like this, but when you have two different places
making this content, I think you'll have more
of continuity errors than, you know, when you're
going through and it's one or it's the very least.
Intentionally ripping off the other. Yeah. But
as the time kind of comes where we see some ways
that we might could sort of make this jive, we'll
talk about it then. But I didn't want to just
take a quick note, a quick sidebar here and just
talk about that for those that are listening.
And I said, in order in temporal order, like
we are just to not be overly alarmed and we realize
it too. And maybe we'll get to the bottom of
this together. And we did mention it in the one
shot as well, but the one shot was made to kind
of test the waters of the fan interest in agent
Carter. So it did its job. And then they kind
of recreated the stories, kind of what I'm gathering
from it, whether that's true or not. I don't
know, but that, that seems to be the way it went
to me. Sure. They got the concept, they found
it held water, and then they kind of remade it
and ran with it. They read it at all. That's
what it feels like. That's kind of, I think that's
maybe the fairest way to look at it just on a
base level. that was sort of a, Hey, this is
what we're doing. And this is sort of the breakdown
of how we got from A to B in a more drawn out
sense. So, uh, and if you, if you said that could
be one of the ways we look at it too, but, uh,
yeah, I think, I think there's multiple ways
we can go around this, but, uh, it's still neat
that they both exist sort of in their own right.
Absolutely. Yeah. But, uh, yeah, with that, thank
you folks so much for listening and, uh, we cannot
wait for the next one. We'll see you then. Thank
you for joining us in this episode of the Snark
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Snark Industries steps into the Agent Carter pilot, picking Peggy up after the war as the SSR keeps her boxed into secretary work despite everything she is capable of. The full plot gets walked through, from Howard Stark being branded a traitor over weapons sold to enemies of the country, to his recruitment of Peggy and the introduction of Jarvis, to the undercover hunt for Stark's stolen singularity compounds. The hosts follow the thread through the poisoned-lipstick takedown, the murder of Peggy's roommate by a silent Leviathan operative, and the warehouse standoff that ends with a bomb dropped as a threat and a van of explosives escaping into the night. A real point of discussion is the continuity clash with the earlier Agent Carter one-shot, where Peggy had already been handed co-leadership of SHIELD, and the hosts work through why a Marvel-made short and an ABC-made series would contradict each other so directly. Personal thoughts land warm on both sides, with genuine fanboying over Jarvis, high praise for Hayley Atwell in the role, and a shared acknowledgment that this is very much a pilot: heavy on setup, light on payoff, and promising enough to carry them forward.
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Synopsis
New York, 1946. Peggy Carter works a desk job at the SSR. She is still grieving Steve Rogers, a year after his plane went down into the ice. Congress holds Howard Stark in contempt for selling weapons-grade technology to America's enemies. Stark disappears rather than answer for it. Dooley assigns Jack Thompson to hunt him down. Dooly and the rest of the office treat Peggy like a secretary instead of a fellow agent. Stark reaches out to Peggy in secret. He asks her to clear his name from the inside, claiming that thieves had emptied his private vault and started selling his most dangerous inventions on the black market. One formula, molecular nitramine, could level city blocks if it were ever built. Stark introduces Peggy to his butler, Edwin Jarvis. Then he leaves the country to chase down weapons already sold overseas.
Peggy infiltrates Spider Raymond's club to buy the nitramine formula before its buyer can close the deal. Thompson's own raid hits the same room minutes later. Peggy gets out with the formula prior to her team even being aware of her. That night, her roommate Colleen O'Brien is shot dead by an intruder hunting the same weapon. Peggy narrowly avoids the same fate. Jarvis walks her through neutralizing the glowing sample over the phone, reading from Stark's handwritten notes. Stark Industries scientist Anton Vanko traces its chemical signature to a Roxxon refinery. Peggy and Jarvis follow the trail to a mothballed weapons facility outside the city. An arms dealer holds Peggy at gunpoint there. He won't name the associate he only calls "green suit." He warns her that someone called Leviathan is coming, moments before the facility goes up (or 'in') around them. Peggy makes it home in time to run off a man harassing Angie Martinelli at the automat. Jarvis quietly reports back to Stark that Peggy was exactly the right choice.
Reality Designation
This story takes place in the main continuity: 199999
Reality numbers are Marvel's official designations.
Where a universe has no official number we follow the Marvel Database and use its Temporary Reality Number (TRN-1092). Where there is neither — official or temporary — at the time we watch it, we assign a Snark Industries number of our own (SI-001).
Characters in the Episode
Milestone: Meets Edwin Jarvis and takes her first 'off the books' mission from Howard Stark
SSR agent sidelined by the boys' club; goes undercover for Stark to recover his stolen tech.
Milestone: First partnership with Peggy Carter, becoming her off-book field ally.
Stark's butler and Peggy's after-hours field support; talks her through disarming the bomb.
SSR New York chief running the hunt for Stark.
Milestone: Handed to case to hunt Howard Stark
Lead agent on the Stark case; dismissive of Peggy.
Wounded-veteran agent who defends Peggy against the office.
Milestone: Framed as a traitor and declared a fugitive from Congress after his lead-lined vault of "bad babies" is robbed through the sewer.
Fugitive inventor branded a traitor; recruits Peggy to find the real thief.
Automat waitress and aspiring actress; Peggy's civilian friend.
Milestone: Killed by Sasha Demidov off-screen
Peggy's factory-worker roommate; murdered by the assassin hunting Peggy.
Milestone: Killed by Sasha Demidov
Nightclub owner and fence holding the Nitramene formula; killed for it.
Scarred smuggler running Stark's tech for Leviathan; names the threat before he dies.
Scientist who analyzes the alloy and flags its Vita radiation.
SSR agent; needles Peggy in the bullpen.
SSR switchboard agent fronting the operation.
Questions Stark on Capitol Hill in the newsreel.
The Roxxon scientist that barely escapes the Roxxon facility collapse.
Kills in this episode: 2
The Assassin that Kills Colleen and attempts to kill Agent Carter
In-Universe Dates
Flashback of Agent Carter attempting to stop Heinz Kruger on the day that Steve gets his Serum.
Flashback to Captain America: The First Avenger
2 Flashbacks:
- Howard flying the plane that delivers Cap to the the 107th, rescuing Bucky and the rest of the Commandos.
- Steve being shot at BY Agent Carter to 'test' his new shield.
Flashback to Captain America: The First Avenger
Multiple flashbacks to the Assault on The Red Skull's base, the Valkyrie going down, and the end of the conflict from Captain America: The First Avenger
Flashback to Captain America: The First Avenger
The season is consistently placed in 1946 across recap and reference sources, roughly a year after Steve Rogers' apparent death at the end of Captain America: The First Avenger. No on-screen date
This date was worked backward from the date being spoken onscreen in S1 E5&E8 and takes place over roughly 4 days.
Comic Roots
Where the episode's people and places come from on the page.
Peggy Carter began life on the page as a memory. She debuted unnamed in Tales of Suspense #75 (March 1966) and got her name and backstory in #77 (May 1966), both by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, cast as Steve Rogers' wartime sweetheart glimpsed only in flashback. The character who spends this outing running rings around a room full of men started out as a face Cap remembered fondly and little more. Everything the show hands her, the field craft, the sidearm, the standing, is adaptation building a lead out of a footnote.
Edwin Jarvis arrived in Tales of Suspense #59 (November 1964), also by Lee and Kirby, but as the Avengers' unflappable butler, not Howard Stark's. Planting him in 1946 as Stark's man is a neat bit of reassignment, seeding the loyal valet decades before the team he would actually serve ever assembled. Howard Stark himself is a retroactive figure in the comics, introduced in Iron Man #28 (1970) by Archie Goodwin, Don Heck, and Johnny Craig, the reveal that recast Tony from self-made genius to heir. The show borrows the name and the wealth and invents most of the rogue.
The villainy is stitched together from across Cold War Marvel. Leviathan, the shadow Brannis names with his last breath, first appeared in Dark Reign: The List, Secret Warriors (2009) by Jonathan Hickman and Stefano Caselli, conceived as a Soviet-bloc counterpart to Hydra. Anton Vanko, here a mild scientist reading Vita levels off an alloy, is on the page the original Crimson Dynamo from Tales of Suspense #46 (October 1963) by Stan Lee and Don Heck, a Soviet armored heavy rather than a lab technician. And Roxxon, whose refinery becomes a crater tonight, was first named in Captain America #180 (1974), a title writer Steve Englehart coined as a thinly veiled Exxon. Three eras of comics, folded quietly into one 1946 night.
Recommended Reading
Where to go next if the episode left you wanting more.
Peggy's first appearances, the wartime flashbacks that started her. Read these to see how little the comics gave her and how much the show built.
Peggy Carter and Howard Stark on a covert 1950s mission. The closest the comics ever come to the partnership this series runs on.
The debut of Leviathan, the organization whose name lands like a threat in the last minute of the night.
The issue that introduced Howard Stark and rewrote Tony's origin in the process.
The first appearance of Edwin Jarvis as the butler to The Avengers, not Stark specifically.
Anton Vanko, here a mild scientist reading Vita levels off an alloy, is on the page the original Crimson Dynamo
Roxxon, whose refinery becomes a crater tonight, was first named in this issue.
The Snark File
Easter eggs, callbacks and technical tidbits.
Project Rebirth
Peggy raids a box marked "Project Rebirth" and lifts a Vita-Ray detector that belonged to Dr. Erskine, wiring the night's chemistry straight back to the serum that made Cap. Anton Vanko then reads that same Vita radiation off the alloy, so Erskine's science is doing double duty.
Saturday at the Stork Club
The closing beat sets a dance "a week next Saturday at the Stork Club, eight o'clock," with a "don't you dare be late, just be there" exchange. That is the rain-check Steve promised Peggy at the very end of The First Avenger, the date neither of them ever got to keep.
Behind the Camera
Louis D'Esposito, co-president of Marvel Studios, directed, and the script is by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, the writers of The First Avenger.