The Blitzkrieg Button in Marvel’s Agent Carter

Episode 4 – The Blitzkrieg Button

In the opening scene of the halfway point of the Agent Carter series, Jarvis is trying to haggle in a negotiation with two smugglers. The smugglers have three others on the look out who are all stealthily taken down by Peggy. When Jarvis and Peggy open the smuggled goods, a spritely Howard Stark appears.

The trio leaves together and set off to Stark’s house but Peggy catches Agents stationed in the neighborhood and suggests Jarvis take her and Stark to The Griffith. Peggy struggles to get Howard inside under the watchful eye of Miriam, the ever-imposing facilitator.

The episode shifts to Chief Dooley reading the skim content of an army intelligence report to Agent Thompson. The conversation shifts to the confiscated typewriter where Thompson suggests they write a message to whoever is on the other end. Dooley discusses the Battle of Finnau during the war, a battle where the Nazis were able to overtake the Russians.

Turning back to Peggy’s struggle with sneaking in Howard, Howard helps along by climbing out of the dumbwaiter before Miriam reaches it and finds himself in one of Peggy’s neighbors rooms. How he does that we just won’t ever know. Once Peggy gets him inside her apartment, Howard confides in her that he came back because he needs to see what weapons the SSR has recovered of his. He whips out a pen with picture-taking abilities and lends it to Peggy to use for documentation.

Welcome back, Mr. Stark.

The next day at the SSR office, Thompson takes control telling the other agents that Chief Dooley is out on an assignment to make a break in the Stark case. This leaves Thompson in charge who puts Peggy on lunch duty.

Taking this opportunity to visit the science division, Peggy drums up a friendly conversation with the scientist to distract him while she takes pictures of the cache.

Agent Sousa takes on an individual assignment to fingerprint the public phone used by Jarvis to make the call about the Heartbreaker. Sousa comes upon two homeless men and asks them if they had seen anything happen the night before. One of the homeless men disrespects Sousa’s disability, to which he is given a good beat down and taken in for questioning by Sousa.

The episode turns back to the two smugglers in the beginning of the episode who had tried extorting Jarvis. They are taking to a man named Mr. Mink, and Mr. Mink gathers that Peggy was there as well. He kills both the smugglers with an earlier model automatic pistol.

They see me rollin’ – they hatin’…

It is the same game as Peggy returns to her apartment to find Howard missing, but he is only down the hall with another of Peggy’s neighbors. Occurring simultaneously, Sousa brings the man in to interrogate, telling Thompson he knows this guy saw something. He makes some progress on the man but gets no information, yet.

Howard and Peggy develop the pictures and come to the conclusion that all of them have been retrieved. However, Howard insists Peggy must get one of the weapons back as if it is activated it can send New York City into a blackout for years. He hands her a replica to replace it with. He calls the weapon The Blitzkrieg Button.

Sousa continues trying to get information out of the man until Thompson interrupts. He brings into the interrogation room scotch and a hamburger, and offers it to the man if he gives them information. The man agrees and divulges that he saw a well-dressed man and a brunette woman at the wharf that night.

The episode shifts to focus on Chief Dooley who enters Nuremburg Prison and visits the cell of a Nazi colonel. The colonel is expected the be hung soon and Dooley offers him a cyanide pill to make his death less painful if he divulges about the two presumably dead Russians the SSR had encountered as well as what happened at the Battle of Finnau. The prisoner says the Battle of Finnau doesn’t actually exist, when he arrived there it was a massacre.

The Blitzkrieg Button

Peggy had an uncomfortable Jarvis drive her to the SSR to do the weapons swap. She overhears Thompson talking about Howard’s female accomplices, but continues on to the lab. The switch is done easily, and Peggy brings it into a closet. She flips the switch and the lights don’t go out, instead the metal ball opens and a vial of liquid reveals itself.

Before leaving the SSR she encounters Thompson. Agent Thompson berates her because of her gender. Peggy leaves and returns to her apartment. She confronts Howard about his lie about the weapon and he tells her she already knows what the vial is. It is Steve Rogers’ blood.

In between this scene is a brief one of Mr. Mink bringing flowers to Miriam’s desk and asks her if he can deliver them to Peggy. Miriam says he can’t and before taking down his information he disappears.

Peggy is fuming mad at Howard and tells him he needs to leave by the time she returns. She leaves her apartment once again.

Mr. Mink is seen walking up to Peggy’s door, but just as he is about to enter, Peggy’s new neighbor Dorothy (Dottie) steps outside hers. She notices Mr. Minks gun and takes it in a way that is very Red Room/Black Widow style. Yelena Belova perhaps?

Peggy has left the apartment and goes on a walk with Jarvis, who she says is a terrible liar as well. Jarvis and her split and he takes a seat at a shoeshine stand next to Howard. Next to Howard is a cameo appearance of Stan Lee, who asks to borrow Howard’s newspaper for the sports section. Bless you Generalissimo.

Back at the SSR, Sousa is working as Dooley arrives. Thompson discovers Howard Stark’s name on a document that shows him landing in Finnau a day after the supposed Battle of Finnau.

Peggy returns to her apartment and blasts music while making a hole in her wall. Dottie is seen in the room over admiring the automatic pistol with Mr. Mink laying on the floor, motionless. Peggy stores Steve Rogers’ blood in the wall and covers it up.

The ending scene shows Dooley working alone in his office when the confiscated typewriter begins typing a message. Guess we will have to wait until next week’s episode, which features the Howling Commandoes as well to see the message.

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