Line #23 Recap/AgentCarterS1E7SNAFU


1	Peggy Carter has been arrested by her SSR colleagues, and former friends verbally spar in their attempt to learn the truth. Meanwhile, Leviathan prepares the last few steps in securing what they need for their unknown plan.
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6	* TheBadGuyWins: Dr. Fennhoff / "Ivchenko" brainwashes Dooley with ease, gets his hands on [[MacGuffin Item 17]], escapes along with "Dottie" and murders Dooley by hypnotically forcing him into wearing an exploding vest. Both Leviathan agents then field-test Item 17 in a crowded movie theater, which turns out to generate a HatePlague that causes everyone inside to turn on each other in an orgy of violence.
7	* BaitTheDog: Faustus helps Dooley reconnect with his wife. And then kills him.
8	* BatmanGambit: Jarvis prepares a fake confession from Howard Stark in hopes that the SSR will receive Stark's confession of guilt in exchange for letting Jarvis and Peggy go. Unfortunately, it doesn't work out; Dooley isn't ready to believe the confession is real, and demands confirmation from the real Stark by the end of the hour.
9	* BrokenPedestal: Sousa's faith in Peggy is seriously broken, to the point that he's ready to believe she killed her own coworker Krzeminski. Gradually, [[RebuiltPedestal his faith returns as her claims start to show themselves true.]]
10	* CaneFu: Dottie gets thwacked a few times by Sousa's crutch in their fight.
11	* CassandraTruth: At first Peggy isn't believed regarding the claims of her good intentions and of Dottie's malevolent ones. As she comes fully clean, the SSR sees she has more to lose by revealing the truth and so decide to take her claims seriously.
12	* CallBack: A cross-series one. Item 17 was one of the HYDRA items captured and boxed up by the Howling Commandos during the raid on Dr. Reinhardt's lair on ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''.
13	* DeadlyEuphemism:
14	** At the store, Dottie, pretending to be pregnant, asks for a pink blanket (implying a girl). The store lady responds Dottie's moving quickly since she doesn't look pregnant. Dottie responds: "It's happening sooner than you think", of course not meaning her "pregnancy".
15	** There is Ivchenko's habit of ordering his pawns to do "one more thing", i.e. killing themselves.
16	* DestinationDefenestration: Dooley self-inflicted this in his HeroicSacrifice.
17	* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Peggy has a rare moment of it when she and Jarvis use the table they're handcuffed to as a battering ram on the room's one-way mirror... then remember they're ''still'' handcuffed to the table so this does no good at all.
18	* DownerEnding: The bad guys sail closer to their EvilPlan and DaChief dies.
19	* DramaticIrony: [[TheMole Dr. Ivchenko]], remarks behind the one-way mirror that Peggy is a pathological liar after she says that "someone else" [[note]]which the audience knows is Ivchenko himself[[/note]] is pulling Dottie's strings.
20	* EveryoneKnowsMorse: Peggy has good reason to know morse; she served in an active war zone. Jarvis has somewhat less justification.
21	* EyeScream: At least one person during the Item 17 testing has their eyes gouged out.
22	* FakePregnancy: Dottie pretends to be pregnant as a reason to buy a baby carriage, which is used to transport Item 17 to a theater.
23	* GoneHorriblyRight: Howard Stark tried building an armored vest designed to keep the wearer warm against the coldest winter. He ended up with a heating vest so powerful it roasts the wearer alive... if it doesn't explode first.
24	* HandicappedBadass: Agent Daniel Sousa. Holding your own against a ''Black Widow'' with only one good leg and a crutch is no easy feat. He doesn't defeat her, but he does manage to deter her long enough for him to escape.
25	* HatePlague: What the gas from [[MacGuffin Item 17]] generates. It's potent enough to get an entire movie theatre full of innocent bystanders to turn against each other, leaving no survivors.
26	* HeroicSacrifice: Chief Dooley is tricked into wearing an explosive vest, threatening to blow up the whole SSR office. After finding there's no way to get it off without it exploding sooner, Dooley chooses to throw himself out a window so as to get all his employees and collateral civilians out of its lethal blast radius.
27	* IdiotBall: Despite Thompson's instructions for all of the agents to [[CombatPragmatist shoot to kill]] upon encountering "Dottie", most of them don't do anything of the sort. Sousa goes for the kill shot ''immediately'' after seeing that Thompson is not exaggerating.
28	* MadeOfExplodium: The heat vest Dooley gets locked in, which Fennhoff put on him so as to turn him into an unwilling suicide bomber. The agents and scientists try anything they can to get it off him, but anything they suggest just risks it exploding faster.
29	* MadonnaWhoreComplex: Peggy's diagnosis is that this is Sousa's particular brand of sexism. Once the pedestal he had her on broke, he assumed it was because Howard Stark seduced her.
30	-->'''Peggy:''' The girl on the pedestal, transformed into some daft whore.
31	* MundaneUtility: In the opening flashback, Ivchenko is shown using his hypnotic skills to allow surgeons to safely operate on the wounded without anesthesia.
32	* MythologyGag: Dr. Fennhoff / Ivchenko is introduced in a flashback reading ''[[Theatre/DoctorFaustus The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus]]'', which is where his character's codename comes from.
33	* NeverASelfMadeWoman: The men of the SSR have always believed that Peggy only had a job with them because she was supposedly sleeping with Captain America, so it's no surprise that they believe the only reason she would turn on them is because she's sleeping with Howard Stark.
34	* OhCrap:
35	** Dr. Fennhoff gets a very worried look on his face when he sees SSR agents heading into the building across the street, having been tipped off about Dottie.
36	** Jarvis gets a major one when he sees [[MadeOfExplodium what Dooley is wearing.]]
37	* LeParkour: When Dottie needs to make lobby, and ''fast'', she springs between the outside railings of the central staircase. Just about all the SSR agents are too stunned to take a shot at her. By the time they get a bead on her, it's too late. Note that this is before Parkour was invented, hence why Sousa has no idea how to describe what is going on except to say that she is going down the stairs very fast.
38	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Without her job to worry about, Peggy takes the opportunity to lay into the rest of SSR for the sexism she's suffered, and for their far worse transgression of [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking shoddy police work]].
39	* TheReveal: The first scene of the episode reveals Dr. Ivchenko's true identity: his real name is Johann Fennhoff, known in the comics-verse as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Faustus_(comics) Doctor Faustus]].
40	* ShoutOut: [[http://marvel.com/files/podcasts/mcom_this_week_carter_7.mp3 According to the episode's writer,]] Private Ovechkin is named for Alexander Ovechkin, the current captain of the Washington Capitals.
41	* SoftGlass: Averted with Dooley's heroic sacrifice. He swipes Thompson's sidearm beforehand to fracture the window as he's running. This is also averted for the agents inside the office after Dooley explodes. We see at least one soaking blood from a head wound in the aftermath.
42	* SpottingTheThread: Twice Fennhoff's subjects notice something briefly off about their illusionary world.
43	** Private Ovechkin, imagining he's back in a meadow with his mom, spots a hospital bed with a patient nearby, but Fennhoff tells him not to pay attention to it and it vanishes.
44	** When imagining himself in his home at dinner, Dooley tells Fennhoff to get away from the window like he did before. For a moment the wall looks like the one from the SSR office, but Fennhoff distracting Dooley's causes it to change back to the home's wall shortly after.
45	* TranslationConvention: During the flashback to Russia in 1943, everyone speaks English with a thick accent. Heck, Fenhoff is even reading Faust in English.
46	* WouldNotHitAGirl: When they investigate the building across the street, this is [[WouldHitAGirl averted]] with Thompson (who has experience against an incompletely trained Black Widow and dreads an encounter with a fully trained one) and Sousa (who becomes the first to ''survive'' a throw-down with Dottie), but many of the other agents hesitate to fire on Dottie. One pays the price for his mistake with his life.

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