Agent Carter
The war is over and almost everyone has experienced a loss. Agent Peggy Carter has lost the love of her life. To top it off, when billionaire Howard Stark is accused of Treason, he secretly employs her to clear his name. With the help of Stark's butler, she embarks on a whimsical journey full of deceit, murder and controversy with a side of wise-cracking roommates.
- Metascore73
- 2015-2016
- 2 seasons
- ABC
- Action & Adventure, Suspense, Drama, Science Fiction
- TV-PG
The war is over and almost everyone has experienced a loss. Agent Peggy Carter has lost the love of her life. To top it off, when billionaire Howard Stark is accused of Treason, he secretly employs her to clear his name. With the help of Stark's butler, she embarks on a whimsical journey full of deceit, murder and controversy with a side of wise-cracking roommates.
Season 2 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2016
Episode 1
The Lady in the Lake
Tue, Jan 19, 2016 42 mins
Carter captures Dottie who was trying to rob a bank. While questioning her, the new Chief of the SSR Thompson tells her, she's going to LA. It seems like Sousa, who is now the West Coast Chief, has a case and needs help. The case is a woman who is found dead in a lake that was frozen during a heat wave. She meets with Jarvis. She does some investigating and thinks what happened might have to do with something that a corporation in energy research is doing. She goes there and a brilliant scientist tries to help her.
Episode 2
A View in the Dark
Tue, Jan 19, 2016 42 mins
Peggy Carter deepens her investigation into Isodyne Energy, discovering a dark conspiracy involving the mysterious Council of Nine and a highly dangerous, cosmic substance known as Zero Matter. Seeking answers, Peggy forms an alliance with Isodyne scientist Dr. Jason Wilkes, but their secret breakthrough is interrupted when the company's true mastermind, movie star Whitney Frost, orchestrates a deadly ambush. A desperate struggle over the Zero Matter triggers a massive explosion, causing Dr. Wilkes to vanish into thin air and exposing Whitney Frost to the volatile substance. Meanwhile, Peggy must navigate escalating romantic and professional tensions as Chief Daniel Sousa tries to protect her from the far-reaching influence of the Council.
Episode 3
Better Angels
Tue, Jan 26, 2016 43 mins
Peggy Carter discovers that Dr. Jason Wilkes survived the Isodyne explosion but is trapped in an intangible, invisible state due to the Zero Matter. She enlists the help of a returning Howard Stark, who uses his scientific genius and eccentric Hollywood resources to help Wilkes become temporarily visible again. Meanwhile, Peggy attempts to expose the shadowy Council of Nine by infiltrating the exclusive Arena Club, but her unauthorized investigation is heavily hindered by the sudden arrival of SSR Chief Jack Thompson. At the same time, movie star Whitney Frost realizes that the Zero Matter has given her the terrifying power to absorb living matter, leading her to brutally test her new abilities on her abusive director.
Episode 4
Smoke & Mirrors
Tue, Feb 2, 2016 43 mins
Through a series of parallel flashbacks, the early lives of Peggy Carter and Whitney Frost are revealed, contrasting Peggy's journey into the British intelligence service with Whitney's tragic youth as an overlooked scientific genius. In the present day, Peggy, Edwin Jarvis, and Daniel Sousa execute a chaotic and daring heist to kidnap Whitney's husband, Calvin Chadwick, attempting to break the Council of Nine's conspiracy through interrogation. However, the mission takes a dangerous turn when Whitney utilizes her terrifying Zero Matter powers to violently protect her secrets, forcing a confrontation that permanently alters the power dynamic between her and the SSR.
Episode 5
The Atomic Job
Tue, Feb 9, 2016 42 mins
Peggy Carter races against time after discovering that Whitney Frost plans to steal atomic weapons from a high-security military facility to replicate the Zero Matter explosion. Gathering a specialized team consisting of Edwin Jarvis, Daniel Sousa, and Rose Roberts, Peggy orchestrates a chaotic and daring infiltration to infiltrate the facility and defuse the nuclear threat. The mission reaches a dangerous climax when Peggy faces Whitney Frost in a brutal, face-to-face confrontation, resulting in Peggy sustaining a severe, life-threatening injury after falling onto a metal rebar, forcing her team to make a desperate escape to save her life.
Episode 6
Life of the Party
Tue, Feb 16, 2016 43 mins
Unable to go undercover due to her severe injury, Peggy Carter orchestrates a daring prison break to recruit her arch-nemesis, Black Widow assassin Dottie Underwood, to infiltrate an exclusive Council of Nine gala. Handled by a terrified Edwin Jarvis, Dottie successfully steals a sample of Zero Matter from a high-security vault, but she inadvertently witnesses a terrifying coup where Whitney Frost uses her cosmic powers to absorb members of the Council and seize absolute control. As the SSR closes in, the mission falls apart, resulting in Dottie being captured by Whitney Frost and her forces, while a phase-shifted Dr. Jason Wilkes begins to lose his physical anchor to reality entirely.
Episode 7
Monsters
Tue, Feb 16, 2016 43 mins
Peggy Carter and Edwin Jarvis track down Whitney Frost's secret location to rescue a captured Dottie Underwood, who is being brutally interrogated about the SSR's knowledge of Zero Matter. Meanwhile, Whitney Frost uses her dark abilities to force Dr. Jason Wilkes into helping her stabilize the volatile substance, exploiting his increasingly fragile physical state. Although Peggy and Jarvis successfully breach the facility and extract Dottie, the mission ends in absolute tragedy when Whitney Frost shoots Ana Jarvis. As Ana is rushed to the hospital in critical condition, the devastating personal cost of the conspiracy sets Peggy and a heartbroken Jarvis on a fierce path of vengeance.
Episode 8
The Edge of Mystery
Tue, Feb 23, 2016 43 mins
Peggy Carter and a grief-stricken Edwin Jarvis travel to a desolate desert location to exchange the core components of the Rift Generator for the kidnapped Dr. Jason Wilkes. However, the exchange takes a dangerous turn when a desperate Wilkes betrays Peggy, revealing that he has willingly allied with Whitney Frost in exchange for a cure to his intangible state. As Whitney Frost successfully triggers a massive new Rift to absorb the pure Zero Matter, Jarvis lets his thirst for vengeance blind him, attempting to assassinate Frost in retaliation for his wife's shooting. The shot fails to kill her, resulting in Jarvis and Peggy being stranded and captured in the desert while Frost's power reaches a terrifying new peak.
Episode 9
A Little Song and Dance
Tue, Feb 23, 2016 42 mins
After a vivid musical dream sequence, Peggy Carter and Edwin Jarvis break free from captivity in the desert and race back to Los Angeles to stop Whitney Frost. Meanwhile, a desperate Dr. Jason Wilkes is forced by Frost to build a machine capable of siphoning the remaining Zero Matter, but he secretly plans to use it against her. As the SSR orchestrates a dangerous ambush at a remote facility to drain Frost's powers, the mission falls into chaos when Chief Jack Thompson betrays the team to protect his own career. The tense stand-off ends in disaster when a volatile Wilkes loses total control of the Zero Matter within him, triggering a massive, devastating explosion that threatens to consume everyone inside the facility.
Episode 10
Hollywood Ending
Tue, Mar 1, 2016 41 mins
Peggy Carter and her allies execute a desperate plan to save a volatile Dr. Jason Wilkes and strip a completely unhinged Whitney Frost of her devastating Zero Matter powers. Enlisting the scientific genius of Howard Stark, the team constructs a massive Rift Generator on a Hollywood studio lot, successfully opening a final gateway to siphon the cosmic substance away from Earth. After defeating Frost and stabilizing Wilkes, the team celebrates their hard-earned victory, culminating in Peggy choosing to stay in Los Angeles to pursue a romantic relationship with Daniel Sousa. However, the triumph is cut short in the final moments when a mysterious assassin shoots SSR Chief Jack Thompson and steals a classified file regarding Peggy's past.
