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Agent Carter · Season 1 · Episode 2

Bridge and Tunnel

Dooley Sheldon and Thompson Blinded
Case File
Podcast Release
Oct 1, 2026
Media Release
January 6, 2016
In-Universe
April 17, 1946
Reality
Era
Captain America Nexus
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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

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Characters in the Episode

Leet Brannis

Milestone: Killed by Sasha Demidov

Leviathan defector who stole Stark's weapons; dies warning of Leviathan

Sasha Demidov

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

In-Universe Date

April 17, 1946 – April 19, 1946 Confidence: Reasoned
Defense

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 and Hugh Jones

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.

Leviathan

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.

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.