- Peggy faces the full fury of Leviathan, as Howard Stark makes his return.
- The Captain America radio program continues, with "Betty Carver" playing the breathless, ditzy lover.
Peggy Cater and Agents Thompson and Sousa arrive at the movie theater where Item 17 was released and see corpses covered in scratches and claw marks inflicted by their fellow movie goers. Sousa finds the baby carriage and poison container and manages to accidentally gas himself. When Thompson checks on him, Sousa attacks him, then Peggy, and shows no signs of stopping until a cop knocks him out.
Dr. Ivchenko and Dottie are pulled over by a police officer after she accidentally blows through a light. She does her best sweet innocent woman routine and the cop is about to let them go when he hears a description of their car broadcast on the radio. Dottie pulls a gun on him.
Sousa wakes up chained to a hospital bed. He remembers wanting to kill everyone. Ivchenko has ten canisters. Peggy suggests Ivchenko has a specific target in mind. Then the target strides in: Howard Stark.
Thompson quickly arrests him. Stark brought files on the Battle of Finau and explains that the gas was supposed to be "Midnight Oil" to keep soldiers awake for days at a time but it failed and caused psychosis intead. His lab was raided on the order of General McGuinness and used on the Russians at Finau. Stark explains that it causes asphyxiation, which explains the laryngotomies on Leet Brannis and his cohort. The files also reveal that Ivchenko is really Johann Fenhoff, a psychiatrist with a specialty in hypnosis.
Stark volunteers himself as bait.
Dottie and Ivchenko are in the middle of stealing a plane when they hear that Stark is back in town and will be giving a speech on the steps of city hall.
Back at SSR, Peggy suggests to Stark that he's taking an unnecessary risk, but he feels responsible for everything that has happened. As he's getting his own design of body armor from the lab, he swipes the orb wit Steve Rogers' blood in it.
The next day on the steps of city hall, Agent Thompson declares that all charges against Stark have been dropped. Thompson bites back his bile as Stark feeds him lines calling him a hero. Peggy scans the crowd for Dottie but sees nothing until the shots start coming. Jarvis hustles Stark into the waiting police car, but it speeds off without Jarvis. The driver is the policeman who pulled over Dottie, clearly under Ivchenko's hypnosis.
Peggy and Thompson find the shooting from across the street was being done by an unmanned rifle that wasn't even aimed at Stark. They realize it was a diversion moments before they hear the broadcast about Stark being kidnapped.
Knowing grabbing Stark had to be a last minute plan, Peggy and Thompson realize it's VE Day and Dottie and Ivchenko are going to hit Times Square.
Meanwhile, the cops find the hypnotized policeman dead.
In a car with Stark, Dottie reminds Stark that they spent a weekend together not too long ago.
The SSR agents get word that the bad guys are leaving the city and wonder why. Jarvis suggests they might be heading for one of Stark's own planes to deploy the gas. The SSR thought they confiscated everything, but he has more.
6 Months Ago
Stark shows off his toys -- planes and cars -- to Dottie, bragging that some of the planes fly themselves.
Meanwhile back in the present, Dottie beats on Stark as he fails to remember her name. Fenhoff describes the ravages of Stark's Midnight Oil on his comrades, saying revenge has been his singular focus. Stark asks that they leave innocent people out of it, but Fenhoff says he plans to make Stark suffer. He begins hypnotizing Stark, taking him back to the time that holds his greatest shame.
Stark sees himself on an icy tundra, with a pilot telling him he thinks they found Captain America's plane. Stark sees Peggy holding Captain America's shield, asking him to bring him home.
Peggy and the SSR agents pull up just as Stark is taking off into the night. Peggy goes to the radio room to try to talk Stark down. Because Thompson and Sousa can't fly, Jarvis volunteers to fly the plane that might have to shoot him down if Peggy fails. He knows Stark would want to be stopped.
Peggy finds Dottie and Fenhoff in the radio room. She gets Dottie to drop her gun, but Dottie fights back. Peggy tries to get to the radio as Dottie goes after her with a baseball bat. Dottie wails on Peggy and gets her down on a couch in the room overlooking the hangar. But Peggy stands up and delivers a firm shove, pushing Dottie out the window and onto the wing of a plane below.
Agents Thompson and Sousa go after Fenhoff, mindful that if he starts talking, they're dead.
Peggy radios Stark, trying to reach him through the fantasy Fenhoff has planted in his head. He thinks he's flying in the icy wildnerness toward Stark's plane.
In the hangar, Fenhoff gets the drop on Thompson and knocks him out. Sousa pulls his gun from across the hangar and crutches toward Fenhoff as he tries to reach Sousa, playing on his role as an outsider and unrequited feelings for Peggy. As Sousa reaches Fenhoff, he tells Sousa to turn his gun on Thompson instead. Thompson wakes up in time to get nervous as Sousa aims at him.
But then Sousa knocks Fenhoff out with his gun instead, and takes the cotton out of his ears.
With only one mile to go in the air until they reach land, Jarvis catches up with Stark and radios Peggy asking if he should shoot. Peggy desperately tries to get through to Stark, saying that Steve Rogers is dead and even though they both loved him, they have to move on. She tells Stark he's the one person in the world who believes in her and she doesn't want to lose him.
Stark suddenly wonders what he's doing flying a plane to Manhattan. Peggy calls off Jarvis and they both turn around.
When Peggy leaves the radio room, she's surprised to see only a trail of blood on the plane wing where Dottie landed.
Sousa and Thompson take Fenhoff into custody -- bound and gagged.
Peggy tells Stark and Jarvis that Dottie got away and "I doubt we've seen the last of her."
Stark finally remembers her name was Ida.
The next day, Peggy arrives at SSR to a round of applause from her male colleagues. Senator Walt Cooper strides in and congratulates Agent Thompson -- and only Thompson - on a job well done. The President wants to thank Thompson himself.
Souse seethes, but Peggy says that she knows her own value and no one else's opinion matters. Sousa screws up his courage to ask Peggy out for a drink after work, but she says "another time" and that she has to meet a friend.
Later, Jarvis shows Peggy Carter and Angie Martinelli to one of Stark's "smaller" (six bedroom, eight bath) residences, which Stark is offering to them rent free, given the incidents at Angie's work and residence.
Jarvis admits to Peggy that he's looking forward to returning to some of his other duties, beginning with a complete overhaul of the kitchen spices. But he offers his services to Peggy, should she ever need them again.
Stark is trying to negotiate the return of his things from the SSR -- with plans to destroy them all. He doesn't believe any government can be trusted with those inventions. Jarvis gives Peggy the vial of Captain America's blood. Jarvis explains that Stark is under the impression the vial was lost when he was under Fenhoff's control.
"I am quite certain there is only one person in the world who knows what to do with this: You, Ms. Carter," Jarvis says.
Later, Peggy goes to the Brooklyn Bridge and pours the blood out into the river below as tears stream down her face. "Bye, my darling," she says.
Meanwhile, Fenhoff is lead to his jail cell, wearing a metal Hannibal Lecter mask to keep him from speaking.
A voice greets him in the dark, saying he's familiar with Fenhoff's work and hopes they can collaborate. He offers up a pencil and paper. It's Dr. Arnim Zola (Toby Jones), the Hydra scientist who helped the Red Skull harness the Tesseract's power and other dastardly anti-Captain America deeds.
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