Agent Carter - 'Bridge and Tunnel'

Before big screen TVs, people had to make their own entertainment.

Continuing the search for Howard Stark's 'bad babies', Peggy Carter tracks down the milk truck used to steal the molecular nitramene, at the same time continuing to assist her fellow agents with their investigations into Stark's assumed activities, including the destruction of Roxxon Oil's refinery.

On a more personal level, Carter is looking for a new place after the murder of her roommate. She is offered a luxurious apartment - one of Howard Stark's - by Jarvis and a room in a hotel for respectable single women by her waitress friend Angie, ultimately choosing the latter, although she is concerned that her work could get Angie - or indeed Jarvis - killed.

Tracing the nitramene and the man who stole it - named as Leet Brannis - Carter and Jarvis are attacked by the second scar-throated man on the orders of the mysterious 'Leviathan'. Brannis is killed and the nitramene destroyed, and the SSR retrieve the key to Stark's apartment and the license plate of his car from the two blast sites.

The miniseries format is working well for Agent Carter, maintaining the sort of tight focus that we saw in Daredevil, instead of the sagging filler episodes of Agents of SHIELD. Peggy Carter is delightfully badass, but also canny and adaptable, as seen when she swipes a lab coat from Stark's roleplaying wardrobe to masquerade as a health inspector and inspect the milk company's vehicles. The scar-throated assassin (aka the Man in Green, apparently*) is a truly sinister henchvillain, with his utter ruthlessness, his enforced silence and neat little cue cards, and his magic typewriter conveying orders from an unseen superior with a biblical name. Although as yet the SSR agents feel a little underutilised, with the exception of the big dumb one, they rise above the level of mere strawmen for the sexism of the era, which was their place in the short (which was okay, because it was a short and a short can stand some strawmen for shorthand in a way that wears in a series.)

* I'm colourblind, so I have to take that on trust