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Marvel’s Agent Carter Brainstorm Session – “Snafu”

By Christina Roberts

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With just one episode left in Marvel’s Agent Carter‘s first (and hopefully not only) season, I thought I might take us back to what I do for Agents of SHIELD: Brainstorm! Let’s take it back to the standard SHIELD format and have a little bit of fun.

Overarching Questions

1. How many loose plot threads will be wrapped up?

Actually, I’ll leave this answer up to James D’Arcy, aka Jarvis, in an interview with Comicbook.com:

"It has a VERY satisfying finish. Quite often, shows wrap up a season and they don’t address everything that was raised during it. This show will check off every box for every question you had during it. It’s exciting, fun and most of all, moving. Then, when it’s all over, there is a HUGE Easter egg for Marvel fans."

Since they only ever marketed this as somewhat of a “miniseries,” I didn’t anticipate more seasons, making it more along the lines of the one-shots they used to put on Blu-Rays, just in a longer format. But they would be silly not to have at least one little potential plot hanging open, especially since most fans are clamoring for a second season.

2. So what’s the huge Easter egg?

Define “huge.” Is it a nod at previous Marvel movies? Future Marvel movies? Here are a few of my theories off the top of my head:

  • Dr. Zola. We know he was recruited to help SHIELD build, give up Hydra secrets, etc., and it would be cool to see him in the hallway of the SSR or wherever they have him. In that same vein…
  • A young Alexander Pierce. I know it’s not possible to get a time machine and bring in a young Robert Redford. A lookalike? Definitely the cheaper option. Then again, is 1946 too early for Alexander Pierce to be joining the SSR/SHIELD?
  • A young Hank Pym. This one seems to make the most sense. With Ant-Man coming out this summer and a fair amount of secrecy around…well, pretty much everything in the movie, it would give fans something to chew on until July. It would definitely make me more excited, because I still don’t know how to feel about Ant-Man.
  • Glimpses of the Winter Soldier. In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Zola told Cap and Natasha Romanoff how much Hydra has influenced the last seventy years; the Winter Soldier had a hand in a fair amount of what Hydra did as well. Plus, Sebastian Stan was the Mad Hatter on Once Upon A Time, so it wouldn’t be terribly difficult to get him back on a TV show, even for fifteen seconds in the background.
  • Tommy Lee Jones. Hey, couldn’t he pop up as Colonel Phillips to give some backup to whatever Peggy and Stark are going to do with SHIELD?

If anyone else has other ideas, I’m all ears! I’m sure someone is cleverer than I and can come up with something that will probably be closer to the mark.

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Weekly Avengers Cameo

I’ve been stressing this one since the show’s first episode: Captain America. How hard is it to get Chris Evans for a thirty-second cameo?! (Probably very, since I’m not in the Hollywood industry and have no idea).

Obviously it would have to be in the form of a flashback. I already came up with one last week, but it didn’t come true. With Agent Carter turning over Steve’s blood in “Snafu,” a new flashback could be around another time she tried to keep Steve “safe.” Or what about a dream sequence? Where Peggy’s sitting in the SSR after things have calmed down and she’s been reinstated as an agent, and Steve walks in the front doors escorted by a parade of cops.

Of course, a dream sequence is kind of corny, especially since Agent Carter follows the MCU universe and we know he isn’t discovered until the 21st century. I, however, would love to see Peggy’s reaction to seeing Steve again.

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Fun Theory I’m Making Up Right Now

Daniel Sousa is actually an Inhuman. The Avengers has been on FX what feels like every night for the last three weeks, and if it’s on, I’m watching it. In its television premiere, I noticed Enver Gjokaj as a police officer during the Battle of New York (proof here in the form of a gifset). While that gifset has its own theory on how he’s in the movie seventy years after Agent Carter, I’d like to think that perhaps when this is all said and done with Leviathan and attacking Howard Stark’s legacy, the SSR uses a bit of Steve’s blood attempting to recreate the serum used to make Captain America.

While not exactly the same as GH-325, it could trigger some of the right areas of the genetic code and give him sort of the Wolverine slow-aging where he would have to move around from job to job before people noticed he looks the same as he did ten years ago.  Then it would make sense for him to still be in the line of duty, but this time as a police officer. And who wouldn’t be star-struck by Captain America leaping out of nowhere and telling you what to do?

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Weekly Webisode Idea

“Agent Carter and Edwin Jarvis Getting Out of Tight Spots.” I very much want them to have their own buddy cop comedy series. The fact that in this last episode, they shatter a pane of a two-way mirror to escape only to realize that they’re still handcuffed to the table.

Plus their comedic timing feeding off each other is darn near perfect.

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This miniseries has been better than I could have imagined, and I hope you guys feel the same way about it. It is, however, tougher to make educated guesses about things and appearances because it takes place in the past of the MCU and things are so set in stone. To find the niches where they can carve out their piece of MCU history has been an interesting experience.

And I’m dying to know what that huge Easter egg is going to be on Tuesday, February 24.

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