Agent Carter episodes 4-6 review

It's both barely begun and nearly over, let's dig into Marvel's Agent Carter and take a look at the moves the SSR and Leviathan make

The Blitzkrieg Button

And by now we’ve reached the half-way point, and it’s a point to the men of the SSR as they follow their own leads and get a different picture of the coming Leviathan threat, it seems now they have pieces Peggy does not.

No points whatsoever to Howard Stark, who came back to a city where he’s a wanted man, and ends up sending Peggy after a sample of Captain America’s blood whilst making her believe it was something far more deadly. Whether or not Stark was serious about what he could do with it, or whether he was planning to pursue his own interests (or what is likely a mixture of both) it was not necessary to lie to her and his background about his childhood didn’t make it much easier to swallow.

Peggy is something of the in-between. Taking Howard to hide in somewhere with a strict no-men policy is daft! (To be honest, so is the no men policy, god I wish that landlady would meet with some sort of accident, preferably painful, and slow) but she still uses her intuition and recovers the blood successfully

So, to our male characters, whose names I’ve never bothered to remember, so I’m gonna call them leader, jerk and handicap from here on in (apologies to all handicaps out there, but I can’t think of a better name) so leader heads to interrogate a former Nazi and finds out that the battle that supposedly killed our two leviathan assailants actually never happened, when the Germans arrived the massacre had already taken place.

Question, did he give the guard a cyanide pill claiming it was a breath mint to tie up loose ends, or did he give trick the Nazi by the saying the  breath mint was a cyanide pill? Meanwhile Jerk takes charge and handicap interrogates a witness to the tip made last week, which as we know was made by Peggy herself.

We also have the guy with the spinny revolver, and his assailants, incompetantmcdeaddeads 1 and 2. Aside from providing the only action scene at the episode at the beginning, they were actually pretty boring.

Rating 8/10

The Iron Ceiling

Peggy Carter and a couple of SSR agents team up with the Howling Commandos to infiltrate a Russian Base said to be something to do with a secret weapon that Howard Stark is involved in. Of course he isn’t, but that’s by-the-by.

So, our head, whose name I can’t be bothered to remember, because really Agent Carter steals this show. OK, this is ridiculous, I’m looking this up on Wikipedia, one moment

……….

……

…

Roger Dooley. OK, I’ll try and remember that. Anyway, Roger is reluctant to let Carter on a mission, not because he doesn’t think she’s capable, but because he doesn’t want to be held responsible for killing a woman if she dies. That’s sort of better, a bit…

Anyway, he lets her go when she manages to get the Howling Commandos to meet them and in his own search for answers leads him back to Jarvis. He’s told that Howard Stark got into a fight with a soldier, and Stark dropped military contracts, so the manhunt may well be politically motivated. Roger gives Jarvis a phone number for Stark to call to tell the truth (which is something he’s not very good at)

Meanwhile, it’s discovered that Leviathan are training young teenage girls to do things, including Peggy’s neighbour, who ransacks her flat, and steals a photo? Oh come on, there’s a vial of Captain America’s blood in that room, figured you’d be smart enough to figure that out… whatever your name is?

So, great action, some fight choreography at the beginning which would look better if they weren’t constantly cutting away to something else, and… Enver discovers, after looking at a birthmark/puncture wound on Peggy’s back that she is the person wearing the wig in the photos from episode 1.

This was a great episode of the series, we got some likeable aspects to the male characters, and the plot progresses (they’ve got a lot to wrap up, and only 3 more episodes to finish this)

Rating 8.5/10

A sin to err

Well, if the SSR doesn’t want to remain 10 steps behind Leviathan, they actually need to accept Howard Stark is innocent, and swiftly too, there’s only 2 episodes left of the show. (Assuming it doesn’t get a season 2, if it does, I want it to move past the woman prejudice thing, have her as the one of the founding members of S.H.I.E.L.D.)

Anyway, so we certainly get a glimpse of "no-one is who they appear", as our friendly Doctor who Peggy rescued last week turns out to be a hypnotist with his ring? Yeah, suspension of disbelief is something of an issue, ah well…

Anyway, so after discovering the Peggy was indeed the woman in the photo, Enver goes to verify that he was the woman who beat up that guy in the premiere. Believing that Peggy is a traitor, they begin a manhunt for her, with Jarvis caught in the crossfire.

After a chase that displays the skill of Carter, the acting abilities of Lyndsay and the ruthlessness of Dottie (who might well be a lesbian given the way she kissed Carter in that scene) and no skill whatsoever from the boys, Carter is caught, and brought for questioning.

Was that questioning scene really necessary? She was caught… That would’ve been a good enough cliffhanger, and I don’t think her being dragged and locked into the interrogation room added any impact to it.

What a weird title. A sin to err… What does that even mean? Anyway, since only Dooley has access to the weapon, he is the target of our Psychiatrist, after he made his first victim walk into a disturbingly funny scene where he walks into traffic.

So, it’s all coming together, and I can’t wait to see where it goes

Rating 8/10

For more reviews click here

Images used in this review are from Marvel's Agent Carter and belong to their respective owners. All images in this review are subject to fair use.