Agent Carter · Season 1 · Episode 2
Bridge and Tunnel
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Some people have short -term memory loss. This
is important for them. Leviathan is coming. Oh
yeah, it took the bumper. Yeah. Man, I could
have been one of those back in the day. Do the
radio announcements like that. Yeah. You'd be
that guy right there on the web. Hell yeah. Oh,
he's got a little train whistle. Yeah. Hell yeah,
he does. Yeah, let's go. Man, I had one of those
growing up. Me too. Wow, she said krauts. Oh,
man. He's beating his meat. Beating his meat.
Oh, man. That's upside down. I can't read that.
She's looking for a department. No, I know. I
figured. The last one someone got killed in.
You think you know a guy. Right. I'm glad that
Angie the waitress is such an integral part of
this storyline. Two episodes in a row. He was
fighting with Farva last time. That's right.
Hmm. Fair. Oh, man. Just in case you forgot,
she's dead. Right. Right. Wow, look how uneven
that record player is. I know. I don't like watching
people eat. You must not like Brad Pitt movies.
Well, you know, you might have shattered some
kind of glass ceiling for me here. I don't think
I've seen him eating, but now. Oh, my God. I'll
notice it. Every single movie he's eating. Sorry
about that. What is she doing? Flopping on the
bed. Yeah. You're not flopping. She's bent over.
Oh, Jarvis. It does look like a remarkably small
bed, though. Like short. They didn't have those
California Kings back in the day. Oh, man. I
love my Cal King. Oh, boy. Hmm. Hey, of the two
of you, he's the only one that's not over this.
That's fair. Oh man, you gotta learn how to type.
Giving him that one finger business. That's terrible.
Take ages. Well, he's gonna mail that bad boy,
so it's gonna take ages regardless of how he
types it up. That's fair. I guess there's really
no rush. Well, maybe not. Seems that they're
communicating. After watching you flop around
on the bed like that, shall we go get some fondue?
Yeah, no joke. You imagine years and years down
the line, Cap comes back and finds out not that
they are sleeping together, but they found out
that they slept together and Jarvis's voice is
still around. And I feel like there would be
some tension. I feel like one of these days we'll
have a we'll have a breakdown of how that story
went. Maybe. Perhaps, perhaps. Chris Evans needs
some money. Jarvis is nice and loyal to his lady.
That's right. He's not the type. Yeah, he's not
the one being suggestive, bent over the bed.
I'm sticking with that. Oh, this guy's getting
stabbed. I hate it when that happens. Well, you
were talking about Spider. Yeah. Yeah. I would
totally trust a guy named Spider. No, his handwriting
is pretty messy handwriting. Could have been
a doctor. Okay. Oh. He's going one at a time,
huh? Oh, man. The wife or whatever is already
dead. Mm -hmm. Oh, man. I'll bet they wanted
that to land on her head. How many takes do you
think they took? Like, fine, we'll just let it
fall on the floor. I remember my first time throwing
a rag on somebody's face. Oh, she's cosplaying.
I'd be pretty excited if I found cheese. You
kick that tire. Is it a Geiger? It's a nitrate
sensor. Yeah, but it's similar to a Geiger. Vitare.
Vitare. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Sheldon. She's kicking
the tire. It's totally magnets. Nobody knows
how they work. That was gravity. Okay. You would.
You tell him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Grab a crowbar.
Jeez, there's got to be a better way. All the
resources those guys have. There's got to be
a better way. Uncle Bob. His real name's Robert.
Oh, you won. She just picked your winning horse,
man. Uh -oh. Well, maybe not. Pictures back in
the day weren't great. Right. What's he doing?
Just half out. Nobody pulls a picture half out.
I know. Yeah, I hate that. That was silly. Build
some dramatic tension and pull this photo. He's
like, oh, I got to go right this second. I can't
go and just look at this picture real quick.
Yeah, surprised he didn't show the blonde hair
on the edge. Here's spy. Do spy stuff. Well,
she's going to do spy stuff. She's a cheese inspector.
You're not paying attention at all. I guess I'm
not. I guess I'm not. Oh, she hit the no trace
button. That's the original private internet
window. Yeah, the VPN. That's a heck of a commute.
Yeah. With these fuel prices. Yeah, right back
then. Cheap. How close is New York to Jersey?
It depends on where. New York's a very big state.
That's totally fair. New York City. Oh, yeah.
I guess it depends a little bit there, too. I
don't know exactly where the edge of New York
City that they're talking about. Well, because
it depends on where in New Jersey to the edge
of New Jersey to the edge of New York is not
far. It's just a waterway. OK. OK, so that's
what I was wondering. I've been to New York once,
so I was just never Jersey. I don't know the
geography over there. And that's fair. If I ever
got super rich, I want a giant letter of my name
right behind me. Yeah. What is that? Who does
that? That guy. Yeah. Sounds familiar. Yeah.
We've seen that before. The drawer. Get your
feet off your desk. Especially with your shoes
on, at least. Yeah. Disgusting. Yeah. Don't worry,
this is about to broach the subject. Oh, wow.
Get out. Yeah, you're welcome. No. Here to stay.
That's the type of quality content you can expect.
Oh, man. It's the abrupt going under the desk
business. Oh, OK. All right. Cut it. He doesn't
care. He's eating his PB and J. Be louder. Jesus.
She works in an office setting. Why is she getting
startled by every phone ringing? Oh, man. That
could be worse timing. That's more suspicious
than anything else she could have done. Are you
kidding me? That was fantastic. Make him think
he's losing his goddamn mind. Oh, man. Go check
out your blonde man. He's not gonna. It's not
time for that yet. Wow. Oh man, that was excellent
delivery. Aren't you supposed to point it at
yourself, not like a wand? This is the first
onset of TSA. Yeah, see, she wasn't even pointing
at herself. Now that she is. No, maybe not. It's
her watch. It's just her watch. What on earth?
Crazy. Oh, Nana's watch. You're unbelievable.
Oh, wow. They're checking everywhere, if you
know what I mean. That man's assistant looks
so bored. I would be. They're just sitting there
watching this happen. I know. See, she should
have kept her watch on and just kind of pointed
it at her watch when she wanted to get somebody
in trouble. Oh, no, there's that guy. You got
the neuralyzer treatment. Van. Oh, he's got a
good bad guy name. Mm hmm. My name is Van Aert.
That. We couldn't have like two lines or something.
Right. How do you know? Oh, well. Yeah, running
makes you seem real innocent. I love how calm
she is about it. Oh, man. Go file some stuff.
Can I have my bag back? Yeah, just take it. Now
that you've completely busted everything in it.
This is a weird interrogation tactic. Yeah. Let's
play musical chairs. Oh, man. One of them bites.
Nobody's fighting for that chair. There's always
a bigger fish. No. Yeah, that smile was super
comforting. Yeah. Why is there a carrot and a
stick on the table? I'm so curious. He's not
even mentioned anything. He hasn't addressed
them once. Yeah. Like, I understand the metaphor
of a carrot and a stick. Yeah. But. I mean, just
to lay them there. It's kind of wild. He's going
to eat it. He's going to take a bite. He left
him the stick. Take a big old bite when he says
something. Ah. Oh. Oh, no, he didn't. Looks like
he's about to. Well, that one's just been sitting
on that weird interrogation table, so I don't
know. That's fair. Oh. That's say, where's that
carrot going then? Hey, oh. They're not. Man,
putting a stick like that in somebody's mouth
and then taking a swing at them, I feel like
I would accidentally catch my fist on that and
just make myself bleed, guaranteed. Well, that's
why you're not in charge of interrogating people.
That's true. That's going to be your new best
friend. That's very small. That's not bad for
New York, though. You're missing a lot, Angie.
Angie? The last friend I had got killed. Yeah,
you don't want to live near me. People tend to
end up with bullets in their head. And sticks
in their mouth. And sticks in their mouth. And
carrots near them. And carrots for places. Mr.
Jarvis. Angie's jelly. Oh, that's way too close
to that guy's mouth. Wow. Dude, I want to be
a Foley artist back then. That'd been fun. Yeah.
Slapping the meat, slamming doors. Slapping the
meat, man. Oh, wait. Well, calm down. They're
really leaning heavy into it this episode. I
can't help myself. No, you're absolutely right.
What, are you biting it in half? Yeah, well,
what am I to do with this? Yeah, how did that
stick break? And why is this fool speaking normally,
by the way? Maybe he has a twin brother. Does
he have that scar? No, I think that was a different
guy. We'll have to look. All right. Yeah, yeah,
I'll buy it. Because that's the guy that got
the neuralyzer treatment before the explosion.
There's another dead guy. I could have sworn
that was the... Oh, yeah. See? Bolt in the head.
This guy's kind of got an M .O. He does. He missed
all the heads again. Really great aim with a
gun. Not so much with a handkerchief. Period.
Good use of punctuation. It's important. Otherwise,
they'd be sitting on the other side. And... That's
actually why they started using the word stop
at the end of sentences, because periods were
confusing in Morse. Fun fact. Is that true? That
is true. Huh. The more you know. Yeah. Morse
didn't have a punctuation point, so they would
use stop to... So they do. So they do not just
say and. Uh -huh. And then? No and then. No and
then. Oh, there's the truck. Yeah. All the way
out in New Jersey or just next door in New Jersey.
Oh, that's not milk. That is certainly not milk.
Milk does not glow like that. And if it does,
might be expired. Of evil. Oh, this is this is
a very well -designed scene. I love that. Oh,
you miss him. Well, yeah, obviously. That's a
very big man. Maybe something better than a dairy
truck next time. See, that's the guy. Okay. All
right. Fair enough. I'll take my check in the
mail. People got to start listening first, man.
Yes. That's a big man to fetch. Give me some
protection level information. Jeez. Yeah. So
was that just. Open the entire time glowing.
Guess so. Just sitting there. Jarvis is definitely
not getting some sort of radiation poisoning
back there, right? Shoot straight up, Jarvis.
Just. I mean, the gun's pointing the right way.
Yeah. Pointing and goes into the other guy. Oh.
See that? That was a foolish way to do that.
There you go. There you go. They're going to
pass it. You're going to want to see this. That
exact scenario is the reason that Fedora should
have never went away. There he goes. That chair
is small and he's very big. He needs to just
throw himself back and break it. That's a good
way to hurt your arms, though. Some shoulder
damage. Yeah, he's running for his life. I don't
think he's worried about shoulder damage or he
shouldn't be. At least he got a nice place to
sit. Chair pants. Oh, that was pretty slick.
Oh, geez. Oh, whoopsie. Did they get him out
of the chair? They must. Not quite. It was some
dame. Try me. Yeah. Oh. He's got a knife. They
need to work together. I mean, Jarvis could just
pump the brakes one good time and that guy would
be in the street. Yeah. No, I really enjoy shooting
people in the head, so you need to. See, they
said one of those things could take like an entire
city block. Oh, it's OK. OK, I thought it was
going off a cliff like into a canyons like I
don't feel like that's going to do us. Yep. Holy.
I think they're still going to go. Yep. And what's
going to happen to all that water? This is all
gone. Oh, man. And this is how the Grand Canyon
was formed. That's another one of those movie
tropes where everyone can just tuck and roll
out of a car and be perfectly OK. Dude, right.
I mean, she's. Looks a little worse for where
she also had a battle with frickin. Fair, fair.
Mr. Can't aim a rag on the top of the roof, so.
Mr. Can't aim a rag. I like that. I think that's
his official name. His little voice thing is
broken. I can't talk. Oh, that's cute. It's a
little heart. He loves you. Yeah. Now kiss. Oh,
it's not a heart. Oh, maybe not. Maybe not. I
thought he was going to just write no. Help us.
No. He dies. Bye. I mean, you guys were driving
down the road for like. A good solid 10 minutes
there. Yeah. That's a hike to get back. We're
going to have to really hoof it. The coppers
are coming. Where was that light coming from?
That shadow was massive. The camera. It's like
there was a flashlight lying on the side of the
road. You can't shoot night scenes without some
inexplicable light sources or else we wouldn't
know what was going on. How do you know that?
She's wearing heels. Well, not that not the woman.
She was with him till he died. Oh, yeah. No,
that I don't know. Hotel California 424. I'll
bet that's a comic reference or something. Zippers.
yeah a little bit awkward hand placement Mm -hmm.
Oh, did he? Tell me more. Yes, ma 'am. I know.
I'm laying some knowledge on you here, lady.
We like that music. Yeah. Oh, God. That got me.
That was a good one. Oh. No, she seems pleasant.
Yeah. Oh, well. That was the right answer. Apparently.
How does Sarah live there? Yeah, I know. As I
hear it. Yeah, she likes fondue. Word on the
street is. Madam Fry. What a name. Oh, they found
it. They got the pictures out finally. For all
this time, they got around to it. That would
sense his presence. You probably also see money
in your mouth. Oh, I know. Oh, man. Look at that
weird mark on her arm. Oh, these guys again.
Yeah. Yeah. Here we go. Slapping the meat. Oh,
man, please. He's got his crowbar. He's got his
crowbar. They've really not made a lot of progress
on that giant ball. Yeah. Oh, they've got a license
plate. There you are. Well, that's pretty small.
I mean, an entire area got blown up. Yeah. You
think there might have been cars in the parking
lot? Yeah. All right, y 'all. We will see you
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New York, 1946. In the immediate aftermath of the refinery explosion, Peggy Carter races to recover the truck of Stark's stolen singularity bombs before anyone connects the blast to her. Working both sides of her own agency, she digs through SSR intelligence for a lead, then borrows a set of disguises from Howard Stark's closet and poses as a city health inspector to trace a milk-delivery route down to a single missing truck and its driver, Sheldon McPhee. Between leads, waitress Angie tries to coax Peggy into moving in as a roommate, an offer Peggy keeps at arm's length while flashbacks to her murdered friend remind her why. In the background, the Leviathan assassin Sasha carries out his own coded hunt for the same devices, leaving bodies in his wake. Everyone arrives at McPhee's at once. Peggy subdues him, finds his truck packed with explosives, and she and Jarvis try to drive it clear as Sasha attacks and a double-crossing Leviathan operative complicates the fight. The clash ends with the truck and the assassin plunging into a lake in a massive explosion. At the ruined refinery, SSR agents sifting the debris pull a scorched bumper from the wreckage, Jarvis's license plate still attached, and a new trail opens.
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and enjoy this episode of Stark Industries. Hello,
ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to The Deep
Dive. We just got through watching Agent Carter
Season 1, Episode 2, Bridge and Tunnel. John,
you want to tell us what that was about? Yeah,
so we have a continuation of the story of Episode
1, which is sort of immediately the aftermath
of this explosion at the refinery. Agent Carter
is going to be trying to find this truck full
of explosives that got away from her. uh, in
the first episode. And she does so by sort of
utilizing her double agent status within the,
uh, the SSR itself and tries to figure out what's
going on. And ultimately knowing that it was
located in this milk truck is able to go undercover
by getting some, uh, disguises from Tony or not
Tony, excuse me, Howard's, uh, personal. wardrobe
of outfits for his women, which was a pretty
funny scene. And she kind of dresses up as a
city health inspector, goes undercover there
as well to try to figure out where this truck
is, who the driver is, etc. Ultimately finding
out that there's one truck that's missing. So
she knows where to go looking next. She gets
a name, but doesn't know exactly where to go.
Ends up eventually finding out that it is a...
place in New Jersey and that the driver uses
this to commute. In the meantime, we've got kind
of two other stories going on. We've got the
waitress, Angie, who was in the first episode,
who was back again, who was trying to convince
her to move in as a neighbor or perhaps even
as a roommate to her. And then we have sort of
these flashbacks that Peggy has with her friend
and roommate dying in episode one. Rough. Yeah,
rough. And so, you know, she's got this, oh,
the people that are closest to me always get
hurt kind of thing. And so she's kind of hesitant
and withdrawn from that idea in general. And
then we also have the Leviathan sort of things
happening in the background. We have this typewriter
sort of scenario between this assassin by the
name of Sasha. and some other Leviathan operatives
who is sort of sending him out to find these
things as well. And he's got a lot of murders
under his belt in the meantime, as he's trying
to locate everything in tandem with Peggy on
the other side. Eventually, however, they both
kind of do figure out where to go. They all sort
of convene at the same time at the house of this
driver, a guy by the name of Sheldon McPhee.
She beats him up and ties him to a chair. and
figures out very quickly that his truck is full
of the explosive devices. How about that? Shocker.
Yeah. And what ensues is she and Jarvis attempt
to start driving this away, and this Sasha assassin
gets there at the same time and tries to stop
them. Meanwhile, they also have the other Leviathan
agent who actually had double -crossed Leviathan
as well for some reason that's not really fully
explained. They kind of hint a little bit of
stuff. I think we'll get more on that later.
And ultimately, long story short, the battle
goes Agent Carter's way and the truck full of
explosives, as well as Sasha, the assassin, go
flying off into the lake and a big explosion
happens. In the meantime, the story kind of ends
as some of the other agents are working through
the wreckage of the refinery explosion, this
sort of ball of metal that happened as the singularity
kind of went off as part of the way these things
work. These these netramine bombs that they say
this sort of thing that I think just advantages
for this story. They go digging through it and
lo and behold, they find the long lost bumper
of Jarvis's car with a license plate on it. And
this is a big clue to what's going to happen
next. which I believe we even mentioned in the
watch party that it's not unlikely that there
wouldn't be cars around in this entire refinery
anyway. So I don't think it's a smoking gun,
but of course they're going to use it as such.
Sure. They touch on a few other things that end
up being super non -consequential to the overall
story. We got the other agents trying to figure
out who the woman was who killed Spider in episode
one and, you know, did everything else. And they
have these pictures and there's all these pictures
of. Peggy in disguise, but she never faces the
camera and it's all a big mystery. We've got
the agents also trying to find out, you know,
who this McPhee guy was and everything else as
well as, you know, they don't know that she's
doing an undercover and they're beating up, you
know, prisoners and sticking sticks in their
mouths and stuff. So we have all that kind of
happening in the background. And they have carrots
for some reason. Yeah, the carrot too that was
kind of strange. Not mentioned really at all.
And so, you know, we have these things kind of
happen in the background, but ultimately that's
not really consequential to the story at large.
the main points are kind of what i went over
already so how does this tie into the mcu you
know we're going to have kind of a an echo here
of sorts as this story is all going to kind of
be in the same vein because it's not different
stories it's not you know it's it's all kind
of one cohesive thing i believe so all of it's
going to kind of have a one cohesive tie -in
and that ultimately is going to be agent carter
herself which obviously was a big part in captain
america's story which obviously Still has some
repercussions down the line. We do get to see
some expansion on Jarvis lore, which I thought
was pretty cool, kind of fleshing him out as
a character and as a person. I do enjoy that,
kind of seeing that sort of growth, and especially
for, like I said, such a prominent character
who was, I thought, done justice in the way that
they had him rendered in Iron Man. But also,
this is really cool, too, kind of getting back
to the original roots of him being the actual
butler. All very interesting there. But outside
of that, I mean, not really a whole lot of tie
-ins in terms of the greater MCU in general.
Like I said, Leviathan's story is certainly in
the comics and stuff like that, but not really
elsewhere in the MCU that I've seen. Maybe they're
going to do more with it later, though at this
point, maybe not, question mark. So tough to
say for sure. But outside of, like I said, those
kind of overarching characters being part of
the main MCU continuous cycle. There's not a
whole lot of tie ins, but why don't you talk
to us a little bit about some comic book ties,
because I'm sure there's more of those here.
Yeah, a few. But similar to what you said, this
is going to be kind of a rinse repeat because
we're going through the same series. There are
going to be a lot of recurring characters, a
lot of recurring recurring comic mentions, yada,
yada, et cetera, et cetera. But there were a
couple of things that stood out to me this episode.
Of course, we've got the Roxxon Corporation,
which I mentioned last time. That is from the
Captain America comics started in. Number 180
in 1974. And there was also a mention of a law
firm, Goodman, Kurtzberg and Holloway, which
is a law firm that was introduced in She -Hulk
volume two, number one in 2004. So that's kind
of a fun Easter egg. Also a little bit deeper
on that named for Martin Goodman and Jack Kurtzberg,
which actually is Jack Kirby's birth name. So
kind of a fun little nod within a nod there.
That is neat. And then finally. Peggy Carter's
pseudonym Betty Carver is actually voiced by
the same person that plays Sue Storm in the Avengers
Earth's Mightiest Heroes cartoon. So that's kind
of cool. That is kind of cool. And then one final
Easter egg that I saw was or that I researched
rather was that a the Daisy Clover Dairy Farm
is a little nod to a 1965 film called Inside
Daisy Clover starring Natalie Wood. So somebody
was a fan and thought it would be a cute little
nod to that. But as far as comics and tie ins
go, that's all I really saw. I don't believe
there was anything else. But of course, if you
see anything else, folks. Let us know in the
discord. We will absolutely talk about it and
have a good conversation. Yeah. We're discovering
together. That's right. But John, what'd you
think? So, yeah, I mean, two episodes into the
agent Carter show, which as I said before, I've
not seen before this. So I'm kind of getting
to, to experience these for the first time in
real time, which is, it's been fun. I enjoyed
this episode as well. You know, like I said,
expansion of lore on Jarvis, you know, and kind
of, and everything else. I thought that the.
uh, sort of Captain America adventure show being
this sort of hilarious. Yeah. Just, just, just
really funny. You know, I mean, it's, it's definitely
got those, those kind of back in the day vibes
going for it and how they do things and everything
else. And seeing her kind of like just roll her
eyes in frustration at, you know, how, how they're
doing it, uh, was fun. You're keeping the story
moving along pretty good. I don't have an issue
with their pacing. Uh, I'm curious to know what
happens next. You know, I mean, this is all kind
of happening. Of course, we still have some of
the, The tropes that, you know, that all of I
think all film TV movies do. Sure. You know,
I think I mentioned in the watch party that jumping
out of a moving car and just tucking and rolling
and everyone being OK, being an example. Yeah.
and stuff like that. And, you know, just, you
know, things that, you know, the dramatic slowly
pulling the picture out of this envelope to see
if we know that the woman from episode one was
agent Carter. And then, but no, something happened.
So we put it back slowly and put it in the desk
drawer and lock it for some reason, you know,
like everything, everyone else has their stuff
sitting on their desk, but this guy, that envelope
is going under lock and key. So, you know, it's
just tropes like that that I'm just kind of sometimes
roll my eyes at and think like, man, there's
gotta be better ways to do stuff. But that's
not a detriment to the show and to the episode,
I don't think at all. It's just part and parcel
of how they do TV. But I said I enjoyed it. I
thought the action sequences were good. I thought
the story was good. And like I said, I'm curious
to see what happens next, which I think is the
mark of a good show when you want to watch the
next one. That does help. Yeah. How about yourself?
I enjoyed it. I thought it was a lot of fun.
I absolutely love Jarvis as a character. I think
he's hilarious. His reactions, the way he he's
portraying his character really make me chuckle.
So I'm I'm all for that ride. I've always liked
Haley Atwell as Carter. I think she's absolutely
perfect for the part. So seeing them together
is just a lot of fun. And everything you said
about the tropes, it's yes, it makes me roll
my eyes. But the fact that it's set so far in
the past, it kind of kind of works. It's kind
of cheesy and it's kind of fun. So. I'm on board.
I'm having a great time with it. And I like you.
I'm looking forward to more. Absolutely. And
I think ultimately to really put a main point
here, there's one thing that I want everyone
to take home from this. What was going on with
that carrot? I'm so curious. That's the discussion
we all need to have. And I look forward to having
it. That man should have taken a bite as he walked
out. I just don't understand. That was just I
don't either. But I mean, at least make it part
of the scene. It was just so he doesn't mention
the carrot at all. I mean, you put the carrot
before the stick. Like, I get it. Like, all right.
You know, he's just going to make this part of
it. He's going to make this part of the interrogation.
It's going to be awesome. Instead, he just grabs
the carrot and leaves. And the guy sticks a stick
in his mouth, starts punching him. OK, well,
you could probably just left the stick in there
or not had to stick at all. Yeah, but right.
Anyway. And then they break it somehow. Anyway.
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Snark Industries picks up the Agent Carter story right where the pilot left off, with Peggy chasing the truck of stolen explosives that slipped away in the refinery blast. The full plot gets walked through, from her double-agent maneuvering inside the SSR, to a disguise pulled from Howard Stark's wardrobe of women's outfits, to the undercover health-inspector routine that leads her to a missing milk truck and its driver in New Jersey. The threads running alongside get their due, with Angie pushing Peggy to move in, the flashbacks to her murdered roommate feeding a fear that everyone close to her gets hurt, and the Leviathan assassin Sasha working the same trail through a string of typewriter-coded murders. It all converges at Sheldon McPhee's house and ends with the truck and Sasha going into the lake in a fireball, while back at the refinery the SSR digs Jarvis's license plate out of the wreckage as their next lead. Personal thoughts land warm on both sides, with shared love for Jarvis and Hayley Atwell, agreement that the period cheese and well-worn TV tropes only add to the fun, and one lingering shared obsession: what exactly was the deal with that carrot in the interrogation scene?
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Synopsis
Dawn breaks over New York, and Peggy Carter is already working a case the Strategic Scientific Reserve does not know she has. A milk truck loaded with Howard Stark's molecular nitramene is loose somewhere in the city. Peggy talks her way into the Daisy Clover Dairy as a health inspector and shakes a name loose: Sheldon McFee, the driver, home sick out in Cedar Grove, New Jersey. The SSR is pulling the same thread from the opposite end. Roger Dooley sends Jack Thompson and Daniel Sousa to the smoking crater that used to be a Roxxon refinery, where oilman Hugh Jones cheerfully points the blame at his old friend and rival, Stark. Peggy spots the weapons scientist Miles Van Ert in the SSR's own building and quietly hands him over. Thompson beats McFee's address out of the man. The chase to the truck is on.
Peggy reaches Cedar Grove first, with Edwin Jarvis at the wheel against her explicit orders. A mute assassin in a green suit is hunting the same prize. He runs down Leet Brannis, the Leviathan defector who robbed Stark's vault, and Brannis gasps a warning as the fight spills onto the road: Leviathan is coming. The nitramene truck sails off an embankment and violently implodes into a lake, taking the stolen weapons down with it. Brannis scratches a strange symbol into the dirt with his last breath. Back in the city, Jarvis stitches Peggy up and tells her a plain truth, that no one carries the whole world on their own shoulders. Peggy thinks of the Steve she lost and finally lets someone in, taking the room Angie Martinelli offered at the Griffith. She believes she is finally safe. She is wrong. Ray Krzeminski has just found the license plate from Howard Stark's car in the Roxxon wreckage.
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
Kills in this episode: 1
SSR agent working the nitramene case off the books; moves into the Griffith
Roxxon president; Stark's estranged friend and romantic rival
Stark's butler; Peggy's wheelman and field backup
SSR agent; tortures Van Ert for McFee's location
SSR agent; honing in on the mysterious blonde
SSR chief; runs the Roxxon refinery investigation
Peggy's friend; talks her into the room at the Griffith
SSR agent; finds the plate on Stark's car in the closing beat
Milestone: Killed by Sasha Demidov
Leviathan defector who stole Stark's weapons; dies warning of Leviathan
The Griffith's iron-willed matron
Weapons scientist; arrested and broken by the SSR
Dairy driver whose commuter truck moved the nitramene
Milestone: Killed by Agent Peggy Carter Running the truck of Nitramene off a cliff with Sasha aboard
Kills in this episode: 1
The mute assassin in the green suit
The right hand man of Hugh Jones
In-Universe Date
This date was worked backward from the date being spoken onscreen in S1 E5&E8 and takes place over roughly 3 days.
Comic Roots
Where the episode's people and places come from on the page.
Roxxon Oil first surfaces in Captain America #180 (December 1974), by Steve Englehart and Sal Buscema, in the "Coming of the Nomad" run; Englehart named the conglomerate after Exxon, and the corrupt oil baron Hugh Jones debuts alongside it as company president. On the page Jones is a study in boardroom rot who eventually falls in with far stranger company. The show keeps the oily menace and reworks the man into Stark's estranged friend and jilted romantic rival, a lower-key villain who mostly wants his refinery avenged. Worth clocking that Roxxon is a deep MCU utility player, turning up again in Iron Man 2 and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.; this is one of its earliest chronological screen appearances.
The whispered threat here is not the comics' Leviathan in any real sense. That group, a Soviet-bloc answer to Hydra, does not appear until Dark Reign: The List - Secret Warriors #1 (2009), by Jonathan Hickman and Stefano Caselli, complete with a hundred thousand Cold War agents on ice. Agent Carter grabs the name and the Russian-espionage flavor, then builds its own post-war outfit from scratch. Same name, different beast.
Recommended Reading
Where to go next if the episode left you wanting more.
Introduces Roxxon Oil and its president Hugh Jones; the corporate-rot template the show lifts wholesale.
"Dark Reign: The List - Secret Warriors #1"
The comics' Leviathan, a Soviet counter-Hydra; useful for seeing exactly how much the show reinvents versus borrows.
Operation S.I.N.: Agent Carter
Peggy and Howard Stark running a period spy caper on the page; the closest the comics get to the show's Peggy-and-Stark chemistry.
The issue that names Peggy Carter, for her ground-floor comics roots.
The Snark File
Easter eggs, callbacks and technical tidbits.
The Captain America Adventure Program
A Roxxon-sponsored radio serial recasts Peggy as "Nurse Betty Carver," a battalion triage nurse whose entire function is getting tied up by Nazis and waiting for Cap to punch them out. A stark contrast to the 'real life' inspiration.
Russo
This hour is credited to Joseph V. Russo, billed on some listings simply as Joe Russo, and no, not that Joe Russo. The Joe Russo who co-directs the Avengers films with his brother Anthony is a different man entirely.
1946 Name-Drops
A rich episode for 1946 references: The agents bet over whether a nightclub photo caught Joe DiMaggio, freshly back in baseball for the 1946 season, Dooley rates his odds of taking Rita Hayworth home, and Benny Goodman plays on the radio.