1946-4-25 CE | Watch Party | Agent Carter: The Iron Ceiling (S1E5)

Got a theory, thought, or just want to say some Marvelous? Drop a voicemail! You may just hear it on a future episode! In 1937, a Soviet academy trains young girls to kill, chaining them to their beds each night and teaching them English through Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. A sparring match between two friends ends with one snapping the other's neck. Nine years later, that killer lives next door to Peggy Carter as the sweet and curious Dottie Underwood. Over breakfast at the L&L Automat, Dottie knocks Peggy's purse to the floor and quietly pockets her apartment key. At the SSR, Peggy cracks the Leviathan typewriter message after a codebreaker from Arlington comes up empty. The coordinates point to Belarus, where Howard Stark is supposedly selling weapons to Leviathan. Chief Dooley sends Thompson, Li, and Ramirez to make the arrest, and Peggy earns her seat by calling in the Howling Commandos. While she changes in the men's locker room, Sousa spots bullet wounds on her shoulder that match his mystery blonde. Dum Dum Dugan meets the team with Happy Sam Sawyer, Junior Juniper, and Pinky Pinkerton in tow. Around the fire, Thompson tells the tale of how he earned his Navy Cross. Inside the compound, the team finds a classroom playing cartoons laced with subliminal messages. A lone girl stabs Dugan, kills Juniper, and vanishes. Deeper in, they free two captives, the engineer Nikola and Dr. Ivchenko, forced to build weapons from stolen Stark designs. Leviathan soldiers open fire, Li goes down, and Thompson freezes. Nikola takes Sawyer hostage to bargain for his freedom, and Ivchenko shoots him dead. Dugan blasts through a wall, and Peggy drags Thompson out with the rest. Ivchenko chooses to return to America with the SSR. On the flight home, Thompson admits the Japanese soldiers he killed were surrendering and that he buried their white flag. Back in New York, Dooley digs into Stark's past at Finow and leaves Jarvis his card. Dottie searches Peggy's room at the Griffith, studies her photos of Stark's technology, and practices being Peggy in the mirror. Dooley congratulates Peggy, and Thompson invites her out for drinks with the boys. Sousa declines to join them, staring at the photo of the blonde as she leaves. Dottie handcuffs herself to her bed and goes to sleep. Dive in further at https://www.snarkindustriespod.com/episodes/agent-carter-s1e5-the-iron-ceiling Join the conversation at https://discord.gg/mJBCuxffF5