The Blitzkrieg Button

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of Stark Industries. Mar -Vell. Right. Oh, we're

doing this again. Remind me, what happened? In

case you forgot. Cover the phones. Gotta making

crazy dangerous stuff and losing it. Howard.

Yeah. Way to go, Stark. Make sure you learn from

this lesson and don't teach your son to do the

same thing. You're not. Watch where you're going,

eh? Agent Carter. I like that it almost has that

Captain America tune. Yeah. It's very close.

I got a package for you right here. My Tommy

gun. No. Oh. Feels like the loudest place you

could have possibly thrown that. $1 ,000 bills.

Check for a mark. Yeah, we learned that trick.

Give him a ball goal. Give him the old silver

mane. Uh -oh. Okay. That's not how balls are

supposed to work. Wow. Okay. Silhouette. That's

a really cool shot. That sucks. Jimmy. Jimmy,

live it alive. Jimmy's having a bad day. Oh.

Is that a brick? Oh. Oh, well, we should have

known. Yeah. Pardon my language. He said extortion

the weirdest way ever. It's not extortion. It's

a shakedown. Oh, that's good. Who's your boss?

Tell us. Oh. What did the five fingers say to

the face? Well, Jarvis, make her open the door.

Right. What a gentleman. Yeah. He's just in there

playing pool. Yeah, I dig it. I don't want sherry.

I want schnapps and rhubarb pie. Yeah, Sherry

is not good. I'm with you. He was gallivanting.

Yeah. He's a Stark. Look at his mustache. He's

gallivanting. Yeah. Starks don't do anything

but gallivant. Gallivant. What a great show.

That was a show? Yeah. You ever watch Gallivant?

No. Go check it out. It's a musical. Oh. Oh.

Oh, dude, we should watch the Rogers musical.

No, what's up with that flap? You know, I don't

even like that you called it a flap. That flap

also needs some WD -40. What's with everything

so squeaky around here? Seems like it's a common

theme. Oh, she's sneaking him into the impenetrable.

Shaft. No records. Oh my. Oh, man. So will the

honor. Who I know musically. Yes. What is she

talking about? Why is her hair like that? Yeah.

She's impenetrable. Yeah, she is. Not by choice,

though. Well. Very informative Do it Oh, I thought

that was a skull for a second, but that wouldn't

have made sense. So, yeah. Heaven wishful thinking.

Yep. Gizmos. Hmm. Oh, well, that's a choice.

Yeah. What a thing to say with a tie that looks

like that, too. Talk to me with your tie like

that. Yeah. Not even cocking his hat. No. Oh,

my God. It's putting off Umbridge vibes. Yeah.

Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Got her. Why are you up? Go to

bed. Great. You're a bag. You're judging me.

That is the best. Yeah, yeah. Definitely a Stark.

He just goes in there and just lays one down

real quick. That's hilarious. Well, she got lipstick

like that on at 6 a .m. Listen, best not to question

the official stories. I have some questions.

The massage, the massage, the breaky army. Nine

thousand. A pin. Talk to your buddy, Pim. Yeah.

That's how that would have been a cool tie in.

Right. Opportunity. Mm hmm. Wow, man. Inspiring.

Yeah. I'm ready to go to war for that guy, I

tell you. Yeah. Anything he asks. Wow. He's almost

better than the chief. Yeah. They should kiss.

That man just pooped a little. A little bit.

The guy with the flame retardant sleeves is the

one not handling the thing. Perfect. We can hear

the shutter click. Right. Yes. Yeah. I was going

to say one of us. We got blue flame now. Keeps

changing color. It bothers me a lot that you

can hear the shutter click. Yeah, it's pretty

bad. Like that's just to make us as viewers less

confused. That's dumb. And if not, everyone else

should be able to hear it too. Yeah. Yeah. I'm

taking like 20 bucks back then. I'm going to

be a millionaire. Extortion all over the place

over here. Police. Whoa. Oh. Seuss is not joking

with his little crutch. I know. Wow. Escalate,

escalate. Oh, well, that's cool. That's a pretty

cool little weapon. Oh, man. Where does that

thing hold its rounds at, I wonder? You know

what? Let's don't question this. Yeah, we don't

ask questions like that. Yeah, this is superhero

magic. That's right. He's across the hall, canoodling.

Different door. This guy. Oh, she's judging.

It's a good one, man. He attacked me, to be fair.

Yeah, right. Assault. He just started. You got

to make sure your inventions work, right? Yep.

You need Pepto. Yes, that's the go -to. Hey,

Pepto Bismol. Fondue. Yeah. I mean, fondue is

good. Both ways. Fair, fair. Yes. I was going

to say. That's very true. You want to feel good?

Clap for me. Speak for yourself, buddy. Okay.

You're just not a nice guy, sir. Then he talked

all that shit about how that wasn't going to

work and then sat there and watched. Yeah. I

don't know if that logic tracks. Yeah, it could

just be being difficult. Yeah, I mean. Oh, that

feels pretty good. Get one of those rolls. What

is happening? I don't know. And they're eating.

Why would they not be able to just take food

back anyway? Right. Yeah, it looks like they're

pretty well fed. Yeah. Having to sneak away from

food for the place that feeds them. Now they're

all hiding guys in their brooms. Yeah, well,

they probably are. But Howard's through the whole

upper floor already. Impenetrable. No, he's penetrable

-dom. Where did he get those developed at? CBS?

In her red room. The film was small, though.

That doesn't matter. I mean, you ever used film

to develop pictures? No. And this. How did you

make that? I'm I'm confused with stuff. Yeah,

I'm he didn't know it was going to be that thing.

So how does he have that? Yeah, he's got a 3D

printer in his suitcase. You just been sitting

down there this whole time? Not really. Well,

there's that guy. Yeah, this guy's... His haircut

bothers me. I don't like this guy's face. Feet

on the desk again. I know. Eating on the desk

and putting your feet on the desk, man, has no

culture. Oh, those noises he's making. Yep. Yep.

Marvel and food. Here we go again. Oh, boy. Could

not care less about the food. He said that was

scotch. That man's just pounding it. Well, you

know. Different strokes. Give me that wet bandaid.

No, we're in a different place now. Yeah, yeah,

yeah. Gone to Germany. Oh, yeah, yeah. He's interviewing

the Nazi. Oh, yeah. He made it. Oh boy. Leave

the jokes to us, pal. Oh man. He thinks he's

funny though. He does. It's got a whole routine.

Nothing. Oh, well, I hope not. That's a that's

a Nazi. It's interesting. Yeah. Interesting choices

there, sir. Yeah. Nope. You have a tail, Jarvis.

Yeah, pretty hard one. Yeah, grab it. Don't go

playing cards, brother. Well, no, that's something

different. Agreed. Oh, that's your escape? Yeah.

I'll help you escape. I keep these in my watch.

Huh. Ambiguous morals. Oh. Yeah, that's why you're

here. Oh. Now give me that. Bye. You need to

wash it down. There's some water over there.

Get stuck in your throat. Make the whole experience

unpleasant. What the? That's so messed up. Oh,

boy. Oh, man, that's awful. That man's going

to have minty fresh breath when he's hanging.

Yeah, that's wild. Harsh. But it's a Nazi. I

mean, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He deserves

it. Okay. Breaking and entering. Perfect 3D printed

replica. Does it go off without a hitch? Of course

it doesn't. I love how they don't even attempt.

It's just sitting there. What? You don't know

what? What are you doing? Push me. Oh, no. Oh,

no. Oh. What is that, I wonder? Looks like blood.

But whose? Whose blood? Howard, whose blood do

you have in that little ball? Stealth. Clubs

are pretty good. Truth. Is there a whole burger

on the table there? Yeah. Yeah. He was just eating

it. Yeah. Yeah, rub it in, bro. Yeah. Give me

that cheeseburger. Yeah. Can you eat that? Or

was there a homeless man touching it? Yeah, it's

the homeless man cheeseburger. So just that guy

looks like he's got a limit in his mouth all

the time. He does. Part of the casting direction.

That's my secret, Captain. Duh. I'm not mad.

I'm disappointed. That's right. Steve's blood.

There it is. Yeah, that's what it was. Oh, nice.

Yeah, that felt super soldiery. Mm -hmm. You

may not. But my flowers. Look on his face. Look

at his face. Wow. I need you to calm down. Yeah.

A kid like me. The 40s. Still true. Yeah. Yeah.

A modern commentary from Howard Stark. Mm -hmm.

The richest son of a bitch we know. I wonder

what would happen if Morbius drank Steve's blood.

Ooh. What if? Yeah, dude, that would be a what

if I would watch. I mean, we'll watch them all.

A fair amount. Oh, my. She is an excellent actress.

Don't worry. Oh, this guy's going to find Howard

and not her. Yeah. Yeah, it's just going through

the duct work. Luckily, all ducks are big enough

for a full grown man to go through. Obviously.

Yeah. We've seen it many, many times. Yeah, correct.

Lee, that's the world's creepiest guy. Mm hmm.

She's got scary eyes. She does. Oh, yeah. Definitely

Red Room material. Yeah, that's what I said.

Absolutely. You nailed it. You absolutely nailed

it. Pew, pew, pew. Man. So she's going to have

that gun moving forward. Yeah. I dig it. A club

sandwich, for example. Shoeshine. Talking about

a shiner. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's our first

cameo. No. No, there wasn't one. There was one

in Captain America. You're right. I'm sorry.

It's their second cameo. No. Still pretty good.

Absolutely. That's great. Always good to see

Stan the man. That's right. Chinese. I know that

arm. Yeah. He's going to go like dye your hair.

Get a marker and color it in. Color it in. Now

there it is. Oh, man. So good. Make me a writer.

Telling you, Marvel, we're here. We're here.

Marvel, hire me. Pick me. Pick me. I give him

a breath mint. I do, Franco, for your forehead.

Bob Hope! Good one. i drank it all already this

guy is uh dude his reaction priceless it's so

good oh to crank it it's important that this

is loud right now because something's about to

happen i would imagine so Okay. How are you doing?

That's where she hid her spider suit. She's like

checking herself out in the mirror with a new

weapon. Yeah. That's where she's hiding Steve's

blood. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Goodbye, Steve. I keep

my boyfriend on my wall. Oh, yeah. Norman Bates.

Yeah, well, that's it. Yeah, that's something.

Dude, that guy's reactions. That guy is hilarious.

Oh, man. A fun deep dive awaits. We'll see you

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Snark Industries podcast. I'm John. And I'm Remy.

And we invite you to join us as we work our way

through every Marvel TV show, movie, and crossover.

Meaning if there's a Marvel character on screen,

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order of their setting. By the time we're done,

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timeline of the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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and enjoy this episode of Stark Industries. Hello,

ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Snark

Industries Deep Dive. We just got finished watching

the Blitzkrieg Button, Season 1, Episode 4 of

Agent Carter. John, why don't you go ahead and

tell us what that was about? Absolutely. We start

out with Jarvis seemingly doing some kind of

deal. with this shady individual and he's like

haggling for more money and the guy's trying

to take whatever this is. And it's not really

super clear what's happening, but it's because

they're actually there for a different reason.

And we have kind of Peggy sort of secret agenting,

call that Agent Carter, around this railway area,

knocking out the different goons and ultimately

maybe saving Jarvis because it looked like that

one guy was ready to start shooting. Yeah, doing

so. And ultimately what they're there for, what

they're looking for is this rail car that's got

something in it, question mark. And we find out

very quickly that that something is actually

Howard, who smuggled himself back into the country

via railway. Yeah, and he's got a. Something.

He's got a pool table and he's playing music

in there. And I don't know if they know how acoustics

works, but that's not it. So he's able to kind

of hang out in there and just be kind of cool.

But they find him there. And after the previous

episode where we have this big deal about the

woman sneaking a man upstairs and getting thrown

out, Peggy tries her hand at the same tactic

by taking Howard back to her women's only hotel,

the place that she lives. And puts him in a dumbwaiter

for laundry and has this very awkward scene where

the proprietor of this establishment sort of,

you know, confronts her and says, you know, basically,

yeah, basically reiterating the purity culture

that she's living by, et cetera, et cetera. And

as they get up to the floor where Peggy's apartment

is or room or whatever, however you want to call

it, you know, she says, oh, don't forget your

laundry. And we think that Howard's going to

be in there and she opens it and it is just a

bag of something. So enough, passable enough

to be laundry. And it turns out somehow in that

time, as they were going up that dumbwaiter and

the other two were walking up the stairs, Howard

found a woman to go in, you know. touch butts

with which does check out for his character and

uh stark's gonna do what stark's gonna do stark

stark be starking i've always said that that's

right that's right uh you know so we have uh

you know we have this kind of happening so you

know ultimately this uh saves him from being

caught by this, like I said, this woman that's

in charge. Of course, we have the big scene of

Peggy, you know, eye rolling. Oh, you know, I

can't believe it. But hey, it'll make sense.

All these women are touch starved for sure. You

know, the one man and it just happens to be,

you know, who is portrayed as being this charismatic,

you know, ladies man, which, you know, passes

down generation to generation as we'll find out

later. So anyway, he's kind of hidden in there

and he wants to kind of see. After all of this

stuff has been recovered in the previous episode

from the boat, the heartbreaker, Howard wants

to know what stuff is there. And so he gets Peggy

this camera pin to go and sort of take stock,

take inventory of what is there at the SSR being

sort of investigated by the different scientists

there. And she's able to do that kind of making

small talk with one of the scientists as she,

you know. does the pin and weird ankles. And

we had a discussion and I'm going to call back

to it again because it's crazy work about the

shutter clicks every time she takes one and nobody

notices. I'm going to hope that that's just there

for, so, you know, they are assuming that we

as viewers are dumb and, you know, need help

understanding that she's taking pictures because

otherwise that's a comforting assumption. That's

a pretty, that's a pretty big problem that is

just glossed over if not, because that thing

was loud. So she takes pictures, takes them back.

You know, we have this kind of funny scene where

she's looking at the film, this little very thin

film strip. And the first several are nudes of

other women. What does he say? For my eyes only?

Yeah, something like that. So ultimately, we

know she's got a darkroom in her place there.

She's used it before. And so he uses that area

to develop some of these pictures. Ultimately,

she when she gets back from wherever she's been

for the day and he's done so, you know, he shows

her what is the most problematic thing that they

have. And it's something that he calls the Blitzkrieg

button, which he describes as this like blackout

machine that can take New York off the grid and

everything, so to speak. And she, you know, how

do we turn it off? And he's only I can because,

you know, that's. How these things work, of course.

And so he just so happened in his back pocket

to have a replica of this exact blitzkrieg button

that he is going to take and swap out for the

real one and bring the real one back to him.

OK, so we have the stage set for what the mission

is. You know, we definitely don't want this blitzkrieg

button in the wrong hands. You know, blacking

out the city, that all sounds terrible. If that

was what's really going on, which they heavy,

heavy handedly show. Is something strange as

Peggy's writing to this place to do so Jarvis

is in the car and he's talking to her and has

the most legendary tell. I think I've ever seen

when someone's lying, he's grabbing and yanking

on his ear. I mean, almost pulling it off his

head, which is just wild work. And so she's kind

of suspicious of what's going on because of that.

And we, as the audience, of course are like,

well, okay. And, and everything. So. She gets

there. She, you know, she makes the switch and

everything else. And with this tell from Jarvis

and maybe just, you know, I mean, I think that

she could have just leaned in on her abilities

as an agent. She's a very capable individual

already to kind of suspect Howard is sus, you

know. But anyway, she gets the, you know, the

kind of go ahead from Jarvis in doing this. So

she decides to press the button herself. And

thankfully, it wasn't what Howard said, because

otherwise this would have been a very different

episode. But she opens it up and inside is a

vial of blood that appears to be unmarked. So

we don't really know what it is. And I won't

spoil it here until we get to it in the synopsis.

But we all knew what it was immediately, right?

Like, I don't think anyone was really confused

about what this is or why. So, you know, she

kind of, I don't know. And definitely thinks

it's weird. She goes back to her place to confront

Howard about this. And, you know, ultimately

they have a big to do, a scuffle here within.

Meanwhile, there is, you know, this these goons

from the original scene that had been sort of

taken out, not killed, but taken out by Peggy.

Go back and are talking to this man who we've

not seen before. This very. I mean, if there

was ever a Nazi looking dude, that's a Nazi looking

dude, you know, and everything else is sitting

there. And, you know, he's trying to convince

this guy that they can go back and do it again.

You know, that this woman was, you know, there

that that messed things up and they didn't know.

And so this guy reaches down and brings out this

Gatling pistol, which, you know, defies all physics

and logic. But that's how things do. It was pretty

cool. It was very cool. So I'm not mad about

it in that sense that he blows these goons away.

And decides to take matters into his own hands.

And he goes and ends up sort of arriving at the

place where Peggy lives. Talks to the proprietor

who, you know, can I go upstairs and deliver

these flowers? And she's like, no, no man upstairs.

Which, I mean, checks out. At least she's consistent.

And so the man leaves. And so as all this is

happening, we kind of have this scene where he

also sneaks in and gets into the upstairs park.

Clearly doing some sort of assassination mission.

And as it turns out, and funny enough, as she

was introduced in a previous episode, Peggy's

neighbor pokes her head out of the door as this

would -be assassin is about to go into Peggy's

place and ends up doing some acrobatic leg throwing.

moves and kills the guy. It was funny because

in the previous episode or whenever when she

was first introduced, I was like, she looks like

she's somebody. Both of us were like, no, something's

wrong with her. She talked about ballet and I

even made the joke about the red room. And her

being a widow. Yeah, you did. And the move, I

mean, is spot on for that. So I don't know if

that's what they're going for, but man, it is

in line with what it would be. But she kills

the guy, drags him into her place, takes his

little Gatling pistol. So not clear what her

motivations are yet at this point, but that does

happen. Howard's thrown out and Peggy decides

to knock a hole in the wall to stick this blood,

which we do get confirmation in her fight is

Steve's. Spoiler. We already knew that. It was

very obvious whose it was. Why else would Howard

care so much? But he does confirm it. She sticks

it in the wall of her place and boards it up.

All right. Now, set all that to the side. We've

got a whole other arc that's happening in the

background. OK, so Chief Dooley of the SSR has

a meeting with a survivor of some sort of massacre.

This condemned Nazi colonel. And so he decides

to load up in a plane, fly out there and go talk

to this guy, figure out what's going on. Not

exactly sure all this ties in, but I think he

thinks and we think that it's somehow part of

everything that's happening. You know, the strange

killings, everything else that's kind of. sort

of been running through this story perhaps leviathan

question mark we don't really know it's not super

clear yet but they're but they're flirting with

it so he flies out there to talk to this guy

uh and they have a conversation and and at first

this this nazi is not really wanting to say much

and shocking yeah and so uh chief julie really

in a in a pretty a pretty remarkable way i've

not really liked his character thus far he's

been kind of this male chauvinistic pig. But

he does make a good thing here. He reaches into

his watch compartment, which I didn't know existed

until today, and basically brings out these little

pills and says, yeah, that's true. That's true.

If I was a spy, perhaps I'd have watch compartments.

He brings out this little pill and is like, hey,

listen, in the next few days, you're going to

die by hanging. It's a slow, agonizing death.

Everyone gets to sit and watch you. The last

one I saw like this took 23 minutes or something

like that. that. He said, but I can offer you

an easy out. This is a cyanide pill. You tell

me what happened. I'll give you this. And this

Nazi ultimately decides that's worth it. And

so he kind of gives this story of, you know,

basically that the Germans didn't kill anyone

at this big massacre at Finnau, you know, but

the Russian soldiers there were killed by something,

some kind of. Beast, maybe question mark. It's

not super clear, but he knows that he didn't

do anything. It just kind of some evidence of

something big happening, kind of stomping through

there. So that's interesting. And he gives him

this pill so that he can kill himself and walks

down the hallway. And we're like, man, that was

a heck of a move. And then he reaches back into

his watch compartment and takes another one out

and gives to a girl that's walking with him and

says, breath mint? And hilarity ensued as he

had just fooled this Nazi. So good. Yeah, so

good. I mean, anyone else, I wouldn't be laughing.

Right. Yeah, but a Nazi. Yeah, we can all laugh

at Nazis. I think that's a safe thing to laugh

at. I think you're absolutely right. Yeah. You

know, that's kind of happening on the background.

He arrives back stateside. And ultimately, as

this episode wraps up, a typewriter that had

been commandeered from some of their searches.

And we'd seen before kind of this self -typing

typewriter that sends messages back and forth

between these agents of this Leviathan network

begins typing out a message on its own. And that

kind of sets us up for whatever's to happen next.

And, you know, the curtains fall at that point.

Yeah. Kind of a lot of things happening in this

episode, to be honest. But that's the nuts and

bolts of it in terms of breaking down how it

fits into the MCU. You know, we're going to do

a lot of repetition here in Agent Carter outside

of her herself, you know, and being an integral

part of Steve's story and everything else and

getting her own thing, which is cool in its own

right, because this is. Correct me if I'm wrong.

This is universe proper. Right. This is one nine

nine nine nine. That's correct. Yeah. Yeah. OK.

Yes. Some number of nines. So there are five

nines. Yeah. Five nines. Yeah. One nine to the

fifth. OK. So anyway, nine nine nine. Yeah. It's

a mouthful. So, you know, getting her own story

and everything else, which is really cool in

the, you know, the actual we'll call sacred timeline.

Right. I think is ultimately how we look at it.

Yes. is really neat but you know the story itself

obviously is kind of standing alone i don't think

it has or at least not yet for future projects

what happened here in the show uh has any real

major bearing on what happened elsewhere that

at least that we've seen so far right I know

you've watched these episodes before. I have

not. So these are all new for me. Yeah, but it's

been a decade or so. So I don't know. So, right.

So, you know, perhaps it does later some more

actual tie -ins. But in terms of this episode

specifically, outside of Peggy herself and her

story, not really. Yeah. That being said, why

don't you talk to us and go through some, you

know, comic origins and things like that and

some Easter eggs. Yeah, so real quick, just to

toss it out, I do love that the Agent Carter

show is dealing with the fallout of Captain America's

death. I really appreciate that they are addressing

what happened to the vials of his blood. Because

in this episode, we do find out that there are

12 vials in existence. Stark has one. The government

has the other 11. I'm going to guess that there's

probably more to it than that. But like you said,

I don't think it reaches outside of this show.

So but it is cool to see that fall out because,

you know, that kind of stuff still existed. And

so it's it's neat to see the cleanup kind of

it's like Agents of S .H .I .E .L .D. did a similar

thing. They did cleanup missions for the larger

properties. And I kind of I kind of appreciate

seeing the smaller end of the story. That's very

true. And I definitely think in its own right,

you know, to your point that I mean, that I would

say that's an Easter egg in its own right, because

we all know that. You know, there have been numerous

attempts to replicate Erskine's formula and everything

else. And so to see that, I mean, you're exactly

right. And I didn't mention that in the synopsis.

Perhaps I should have. You have the 12 vials,

the 11 other vials that the government, the government

has kind of important. Yeah. To recreate the

project for sure. And everything else. So, yeah,

that is definitely a good call out. Right. As

far as comic book roots are concerned, the hunt

for Captain America's blood is a. Pretty big

sticking point in the comics as well. It is not

an uncommon theme to come across in Captain America

comics. But to continue that seeing Howard Stark

as the ladies man and losing weaponry. And I

mean, this is this is Tony 1 .0. I mean, we're

really getting the basis of Tony's character

from Howard. So, you know, the flawed father,

the. We haven't gotten the alcoholic side of

it, which is kind of shocking. He seems like

the type that would, but they just haven't dipped

into that. But there's very much a template for

the Tony Stark that we will see, especially with

Iron Man being the first MCU proper film in 2008.

The entire storyline was based around his weaponry

being in the wrong hands. Right. So this is essentially

templating exactly that. idea over and over again

we're going to see stark technologies end up

in the wrong hands i mean think of the times

we've seen that in the mcu so this is very much

kind of kind of the start of it in the temporal

sense certainly didn't start it in the mcu because

that was 2008 and and beyond but it it kind of

lays down that that groundwork for his his tech

to consistently go missing it is a constant theme

both in the comics and the movies be theming

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And as you mentioned, we met

our new friend and I might recommend reading

some Red Room comics. I might recommend dipping

into Black Widow Deadly Origin one through four

from 2010. Just for reasons. For reasons, of

course. I also wanted to throw out that we got

our first TV cameo from Mr. Stanley, which is

fantastic. We saw him in Captain America. This

is our second Stanley sighting. So fun little

Easter egg there. Also, and finally, I want to

point out the I'm going to mispronounce this

word. Nuremberg, I believe, is the way it's pronounced.

The Nuremberg trials actually happened in October

of 1946. So this is actually a few months ahead.

We're because this this is taking place in April.

So the timing. Granted, we are in a different

universe, so things can certainly slide around.

But in our world, those trials happen in October.

So he's about, what, six, seven months early

to go visit this gentleman in his jail cell.

Interesting, but again, not a flaw necessarily

because, again, we're in a different universe.

Timelines can slide. We didn't have a Captain

America, so that could change things. Absolutely.

He bumped those up six months. I've always said

that. Yeah, yeah. Him being there, you know,

might have changed a thing or two. But as far

as comic origins and recommend reading and technical

details and all that jazz, that's what I found.

But overall, what did you think of this episode?

Yeah, so I did like this episode. I like the

moving parts and everything. I did like tying

in Steve. the aftermath of Captain America. That's

really cool. I like to see this female assassin,

maybe Red Room. We don't know yet. I'm not going

to look forward. I like to be surprised with

you all in real time. So definitely in that vibe,

though. So really cool to kind of see that happen,

this guy with the awesome Gatling pistol, which

just... Made bullets appear out of thin air.

Maybe it works like Mass Effect where it shaves

off little metal. Yeah, yeah. Who knows what

it is, but it's definitely very cool. I did like

it. There's a couple of major issues that I have

that we discuss in the synopsis and everything

in terms of, you know, how we're just happening

to have this exact replica of the Blitzkrieg.

You know, maybe perhaps. We can give him credit

as he is a genius in his own right, of course,

that he knew that that's what he was looking

for from the get -go and just wanted to confirm

that it was there. So he had that because he

knew that's the one thing that he wanted to switch.

If he bought the entire train with a pool table

and everything, he could have packed one. Yeah,

we'll give him the benefit of the doubt. I don't

know how much I super love that he was just in

a train car, listening to music, playing pool,

and not being discovered by anyone. You know,

that's not really how that works. So, you know,

there's some there's some things. But at the

same time, you know, you have to suspend a little

bit of your your belief in reality when you're

watching these type of things. So it's not overly

problematic. But when I look at it, I'm just

like, you know, like a little annoying. Yeah.

A little annoying, you know, a little annoying,

you know, or the, you know, you have this, this

guy who goes up this dub waiter and somehow in

the time it took Peggy to walk up, literally

just walk up the steps, he's already in bed with

someone like that. I mean, that's. I mean, I

get it. He's a Stark, but that is still wild

work. I was going to say, hey, are you a Stark?

Yeah, that is wild work. You don't know? Yeah.

No, I did like this episode overall. There's

a couple of things. And, you know, we've already

talked about that. This show has done a lot of

those. And I don't think we've seen a whole ton

of that, at least thus far in our journey here

on Stark Industries, in terms of, you know, sort

of physics defying. You know, we've had some

animation, of course, those kind of follow different

rules. But, you know, we've had we've had several

things that have happened in Agent Carter already

that have kind of, you know, well, that's just

not real, which is fine. It's obviously something

they're embracing and doing and everything else.

It doesn't retract from the show for me overall.

It just is a little odd. I guess in seeing it

in live action, you know, is, you know, these

normal human beings jumping on car roofs that

are in full tilt, you know, driving down the

road and just gripping it. Like, it's like, well,

you know, in reality, your whole arm would be

yanked out a socket and you'd be rolling along

with gravel. But I digress. So, but yeah, overall,

I like the show, this episode. I'm enjoying the

show so far. I'm really digging all the things

that they're doing in terms of, as we discussed,

Cap and... Leviathan and bringing in some of

these stories that aren't otherwise touched.

So yeah. Yeah. Plus one for me. How about yourself?

Yeah, I'd agree. You mentioned Leviathan and

I really appreciate because Leviathan is a thing

from the comics. And I really appreciate that.

We're, we're getting a snapshot of it before

it falls. We get, we get at least a little bit

of its involvement because we, we all know Hydra.

We all know shield. That's. not old news and

it's always exciting to see those those stories

but to have the third player and to have it come

to fruition in some some sort of cinematic sense

is a lot of fun so it's it's it's cool to see

those i'm really enjoying the as i said the aftermath

of uh of captain america passing and what would

happen like If we realistically thought about

it, that would be one of the hottest commodities

on this planet. So the fact that there are 11

of those floating out there is terrifying. So

I'm really curious to see how they're going to

address that, because like I said, I haven't

seen this show since it aired, which was in 2015.

So 11 years, 11 plus years. So I'm looking forward

to seeing where this goes. I remember little

snapshots of it and I remember some characters

and oh, yeah, that person's a bad guy. That person's

a good guy. But. Beyond that, it's like I have

no idea what's coming. So it's fun to rediscover

it. Yeah, a little bit. So it's fun to rediscover

it. And I love Jarvis' character. I love his

relationship with his wife and the way they're

portraying him as a character. I know we mentioned

it in the last deep dive, but I appreciate seeing

the butler that the Jarvis that we know in the

MCU came from. I appreciate that they're actually

giving him his own character instead of just

the voice that becomes vision, which I love,

of course. But this is such a vital part of the

the comics. And I just I love Jarvis. So we've

definitely touched on that before in terms of

Jarvis. And I do agree with you. And, you know,

I'm sure we'll say it again before this series

is done. But I'm digging everything that Jarvis

is doing, minus one very important thing. And

that's that he yanks his ear off his head when

he lies. Yeah, that was that was something else.

But hey, you know, you got to give them something.

Yes, they had to make it a little too obvious.

But yeah, it's the shutter click thing. They're

really spoon feeding us. So we know that we're

not confused, man. You know, it's a commentary

on the American education system, perhaps that

they have to dumb it down that bad for everybody.

Yeah, I guess that's where we're leaving it.

And it's sad. But folks, we will see you in the

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