SNAFU

Peggy Carter sits on the wrong side of the glass. Daniel Sousa has built a case against her brick by brick. Photographs, witnesses, and three dead men: Spider Raymond, Leet Brannis, and Ray Krzeminski. Jack Thompson turns up the heat, and Peggy gives him nothing. Watching from the corner is Dr. Ivchenko, the gentle Russian the SSR pulled out of a Leviathan cell. A memory of the war tells something of the man. In a field hospital, a young doctor once walked a wounded soldier through an amputation using nothing but his voice. That voice is now being used as a weapon. Edwin Jarvis strolls in with a signed confession from Howard Stark forged in his own hand, and it buys him nothing but a seat next to Peggy. From the interrogation room, Peggy sees Ivchenko sending a message across the street. She stops holding out. She confesses her own secret investigation, then lays the last vial of Steve Rogers' blood on the table to prove her word is worth something.

Roger Dooley believes her, but a moment too late. Ivchenko has already found the cracks in the chief: the missed dinners, the marriage slipping away. The doctor pours himself into that grief and takes the man's mind. Dooley walks into the SSR lab with Ivchenko and they carry out 'Item 17' and a suspicious vest. The rest of the SSR finds the Chief wearing this prototype in his office. It turns out to be a self-heating vest with a fatal flaw that makes it extremely unstable. The team finds that it cannot be pried off and the clock seems to be ticking toward an explosion. Burning alive, Dooley orders his agents clear with a borrowed gun and throws himself through a window. He explodes before even coming near the ground dying so the room behind him can live. Ivchenko slips away with his prize and finds Dottie waiting. In a packed cinema, they crack the canister hidden inside a recently purchased baby carriage. Item 17 fills the dark movie theater and the audience tears itself to shreds until no one is left standing.