- Peggy may be in more trouble than usual when fugitive Howard Stark suddenly returns for mysterious reasons. And Chief Dooley chases a new clue all the way to Europe that threatens to destroy Peggy's future at the SSR.
- Howard Stark returns and meets with Carter. He asks her to get one of his devices that the SSR has saying if it's activated it could have devastating effects. Dooley goes to see a Nazi scheduled to be executed to ask about Finnow which is something that has links to Stark. The man who brought Stark into the country wants "his full payment" which is actually he wants more money so he seeks out the one who helped Stark, Carter.—rcs0411@yahoo.com
- All season, Agent Peggy Carter has been working secretly under the noses of her SSR colleagues to clear the name of her good friend Howard Stark. In "The Blitzkrieg Button," the playboy inventor and presumed traitor returns to New York to retrieve one of his inventions, and instead ends up alienating the only real ally he has. (Well, other than Jarvis. Does a multi-purpose butler count?)
Peggy Carter's belief in herself and her own convictions in the face of sexism and constant marginalization at work is one of her defining traits, and when it is shaken she stays true to form. She does not wilt, she roars. A taken-for-granted Agent Carter should be fun to see in the coming weeks.
Her kindred spirit at SSR, Agent Sousa, also tries to prove himself under the taunting of his colleagues and comes away with a win that feels, to him, more like a loss. But he nevertheless gets one step closer to uncovering the covert work Peggy has been doing under her chauvinistic coworkers' noses.
Meanwhile, Chief Roger Dooley takes a trip to Germany to get answers about their twice dead Russians, leaving Agent Thompson to bark lunch orders at "Marge" and never let Peggy forget the uphill battle she's fighting.
As Howard Stark hides out at Peggy's apartment, making kissy friends with her neighbors, one "girl" is revealed to be much more than she seems. That'll teach us to think single women of the era are only looking for a man -- exactly the kind of mentality that Agent Carter is butting heads with every day.
**** Jarvis conducts a transaction with representatives of the smuggler Mr. Mink. As he does, the three men standing guard are taken out by Peggy Carter. Seeing her approach, Jarvis hands over the second briefcase when the goons try to extort him. ("This ain't extrortion, it's a shakedown," one protests.) He opens it and a gas is released, knocking the Mink goons out.
Peggy and Jarvis go to retrieve their package -- a luxury shipping container housing Howard Stark.
They drive back to Stark's penthouse, owned by a shell company of a shell company, but Peggy sees SSR surveillance parked outside. Instead, they head to the Griffith, Peggy's boarding house. "How's Miriam?" Stark asks.
Peggy sneaks him in through the basement and up the dumb waiter. Miriam finds Peggy in the laundry and escorts her to her room.
At SSR, Chief Roger Dooley prepares to leave for Germanay to talk to Ernst Mueller, a Nazi war criminal who is scheduled to be executed in two days. He was at the battle where the dead Russians supposedly previously died and Dooley wants answers. He leaves Agent Thompson in charge.
Up on Peggy's floor, after a lecture from Miriam about how she protects women's virtue, Miriam directs Peggy to open the dumbwaiter to retrieve her laundry. Peggy is relieved Howard isn't inside. Peggy finds him canoodling in one of her neighbor's rooms.
Back in her room, Stark is planning to leave for Rio in three days. He wants to know which of his inventions the SSR has so he can determine which are still on the black market. He gives Peggy a camera pen to take in to work.
Peggy reports to work on no night's sleep and Thompson is laying down the law. Sousa leaves to pull prints from the pay phone where the anonymous call about the boat came from -- the call Jarvis made. Peggy gets to take lunch orders.
She uses the assignment as cover to head to the lab and snap pen photos of everything the lab guys are testing.
At the dock, Sousa tries to get information from two homeless men. When one of them gives him resistance, Sousa cuffs him.
Mr. Mink's two goons try to defend showing up with no money and tell him a woman named "Peggy" met up with Jarvis and took his money. Mink kills them both.
Peggy returns home to give him her photos and has to drag him out of another neighbor's bedroom.
At SSR, Thompson mocks Sousa when he returns with the homeless man.
Peggy and Stark develop her pen film in her room. Angie knocks to summon Peggy for dinner.
At SSR, Sousa tries to relate to the homeless man as a veteran but he gets shutdown. Thompson watches the interview and tells Sousa to let him go, but Sousa insists the man saw something.
Peggy returns to her room with smuggled food. Stark tells her all of his inventions are at SSR, but he needs her to steal one back. All of his inventions can cause large scale destruction but none are active, except one, the Blitzkrieg button. A single push of a button on a small orb will shutdown the entire electrical grid for years. He gives her a mock-up to swap out.
Jarvis picks up Peggy outside her place, as Mr. Mink watches them both.
Back in interrogation, Sousa tries again with the homeless man, but Thompson interrupts. He makes himself at home, putting his feet up with a hamburger and a bottle of Scotch. Sousa thinks Thompson is messing with him until he offers the booze to the homeless man in return for information. He immediately tells them about a fancy dressed man and a brunette on the boat. Sousa stews at Thompsons success and Thompson chides him: "Not everyone came back from the war wanting a hug."
Nuremburg Prison, Germany
Dooley meets with Nazi colonel Mueller and shows him pictures of the two dead Russians. He offers to help Mueller escape if he tells him about the battle where the Russians supposedly died.
In New York, Jarvis drives Peggy but he's acting squirrely. She asks Jarvis what would happen if she pushed the button on the Blitzkrieg device and sees him nervously tug his ear.
Back in Germany, Dooley offers Mueller a cyanide pill to save him the torture of hanging. Mueller says there was no battle, but instead the Nazis came upon a massacre. Dooley gives him the pill.
Then outside the cell, Dooley pops one -- they're breath mints.
Back in New York, Peggy sneaks into the SSR and swaps out the Blitzkrieg device from the lab. But her curiosity gets the better of her. She flips the switch. The lights stay on and the orb pops open, revealing a vial of red liquid inside.
Peggy ducks into the interview room to hide from her coworkers but finds slightly drunk Thompson instead. He asks her why she works there and tells her the sad truth that no man will ever consider her an equal.
Back outside her apartment, Mr. Mink watches Peggy return and notices a flower delivery van outside. Inside, Peggy demands Stark tell her what's in the blood, even though he says she knows. When he says it's Steve Rogers' blood, she decks him.
Mink comes into the Griffith to deliver flowers to Peggy, saying he loves her. He watches Miriam write down Peggy's room number, then leaves.
Up in Peggy's room, Peggy is furious with Stark for lying to her. "You don't get to use my reaction to your lies as a reason for your lies!" she says when he complains about her decking him. He says he was only trying to protect her, which is, of course, patronizing. He explains his natural instinct for lying, but apologizes.
He has the vial from working on Project Rebirth that turned Steve into Captain America. The government got 11 vials, he got one. The government is almost through their supply and he knew he'd never get his back. He says it could be the answer to curing innumerable diseases, but she accuses him of only wanting it for profit. She lays into him, allowing her to act as his corporate spy. She storms off, telling him to be gone when she returns.
Meanwhile, Mink sneaks into the Griffith and heads for her room. When Peggy's neighbor Dottie sees Mink in the hallway, he draws a gun on him. She in unfazed, saying only that she wants his gun. Then she scales the walls like a ninja and in one move, snaps his neck with her legs.
On the street, Jarvis admits to Peggy that he knew and regrets his part. When she leaves, Jarvis sits next to Stark at shoe shine stand and blames him for taking Peggy for granted, saying the whole thing stinks. (An old man asks to borrow Stark's sports section -- Stan Lee cameo alert!)
At SSR, Sousa stares at the photo of the mystery blonde from the nightclub then starts coloring the blonde hair in brown.
Dooley returns to the office. Thompson reports that one day after the non-battle a plane landed at the nearby airport. Howard Stark was one of the passengers. Dooley smells conspiracy.
Back at the Griffith, Peggy cranks up her radio and starts hammering away at the plaster in her walls. Next door, with Mr. Mink dead under her bed, Dottie admires her new weapondry. Peggy hides the Blitzkrieg device with Steve's blood inside in her wall behind a painting.
At SSR, Dooley is reviewing the files when suddenly the long-range typewriter starts tapping away.
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