Marvel’s Agent Carter: Wants And Desires In The Final Two Episodes

With only two episodes left in Marvel’s Agent Carter and the stakes ramped up to an eleven, there’s only so much that this show can give us with only eighty-odd minutes to spare. What do I want to see? Here’s just a quick list of some ideas I have.

1. An Agent Carter/Dottie Underwood Showdown

I feel as though this one is almost inevitable with how the last episode ended. With Dottie bringing about Peggy’s arrest and the fact that no one knows who Dottie really is, there will bound to be some sort of showdown with these two. Whether it’s with an interrogation table between them or down some dark alley in the middle of the night after Jarvis springs Peggy from SSR custody, Peggy and Dottie will go after each other.

And I want to see their fighting styles clash like no other. Seeing one of the original creations of the Black Widow program in action is something I didn’t think I needed until this show. The glimpses we’ve seen of Dottie haven’t been enough to do the program justice.

(Side-note: I wrote that comment about Jarvis springing Peggy before I saw this scene for the upcoming episode.)

2. An Agent Carter/SSR Jerk Agents Showdown

We got most of this in the last episode–set to a great Peggy Lee number!–with Jarvis helping Agent Carter escape out the back door. But it was several agents we haven’t seen before and Thompson and…if you want to count Sousa standing at the end of the alleyway and letting Agent Carter pass without challenging her, sure, go with that.

These men have been mistreating Agent Carter the entire series (rightly so with the whole 1940s stereotypical male/female roles), and it would feel so justified to watch her be able to slug them all in the face and knock them out. I know I felt that way when she knocked out Thompson. Can we get more of that, please?

3. In Fact, How About Just Agent Carter/Everyone Showdown?

Hand-to-hand fight scenes are where this series has shined. Every time Agent Carter goes in for a punch, I find myself cheering. Maybe it’s her fighting style, how brash and uncouth it really is. There’s no artistry or gracefulness about her moves like with Melinda May, and while I cheer every time we see May be a badass, there’s something visceral about Peggy’s fighting. It just brings me joy to watch her give people their comeuppance.

4. A Steve Rogers Flashback with New Footage

This has been my one big yet silly hope for this show: That we might get a Steve Rogers cameo in a flashback.

No, I don’t mean to footage from Captain America: The First Avenger, which we already got. I mean a casual mention by Peggy or Thompson or Sousa about Captain America, and Peggy getting lost in her own thoughts, shooting us into a flashback of the rainy European front, Peggy sitting at a table in a tent while she pours over maps and mutters under her breath how the plan surely can’t work, they’ve been trying to get through these enemy lines for months.

“Peggy, don’t you trust me?” asks Cap, and the camera pans over to Chris Evans in full Captain America gear. There’s a resounding cheer from houses all across America in response. “What’s the worst that could happen, my ride not showing up?”

In fact, they should have just had me write the scene for them. Tie in Agent Carter’s future husband’s rescue and we’re all set! (Are we all assuming that Sousa is her future husband? In which case, this would work out very well in the upcoming episode with the Sousa/Carter interrogation.)

5. Some 1940s Music That I Actually Know

That Peggy Lee song from this last episode aside, I want some 40s music that I actually know. This sounds like a weird request until I tell you that I love big band and swing. So much that I’m constantly listening to the 40s on 4 on SiriusXM when I’m in the car.

That being said, I want Benny Goodman. I want Tommy Dorsey. I want Glenn Miller, even if he disappeared in 1944. I want Johnny Mercer, and if Gotham can use “Ac-Cent-Tch-Ate the Positive,” why can’t Agent Carter use “Personality” or “Lulu’s Back In Town” or “My Sugar Is So Refined?!” I mean, I know not to expect any Frank Sinatra because I’m sure that’s expensive as all get-out, but wouldn’t it be cool to hear “East of the Sun (And West of the Moon)” playing softly in the background with an almost unidentifiable, young Frank Sinatra crooning alongside the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra?

…I just went down a rabbit hole there, didn’t I?

Besides, Agent Carter is theoretically taking place in 1946 and that Peggy Lee song from the previous episode came out in 1947. I CALL SHENANIGANS!!

6. Spider-Man Tie-In!

This one is completely in jest. Don’t take it seriously. Let’s just have fun, shall we?

With the announcement on Monday night that Sony and Marvel are sharing Spider-Man, there’s a lot of fan speculation as to what Marvel can and can’t do. The announcement came far too late for Agent Carter to utilize anything (if Sony would actually allow it), but let’s run with it.

If Agent Carter supposedly ends with the one-shot where Howard calls her up to start SHIELD, couldn’t we catch a glimpse of the Parkers–young teenagers at this point–being recruited as some of the first SHIELD agents. Didn’t The Amazing Spider-Man 2 allude to something along those lines? But then that brings those two Spider-Mans into the MCU, and I’m not sure if fans want that.

Heck, even if it’s just a billboard in Times Square for the up-and-coming company known as Oscorp! None of this will happen, but we can dream!

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Whatever these last two episodes of Agent Carter hold, we can be sure that they won’t leave us disappointed. Maybe wanting more (as in a second season), but definitely not disappointed.

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