- "I conducted my own investigation because no one listens to me. I got away with it because no one looks at me. Because unless I have your reports, your coffee, or your lunch, I am invisible."
- âPeggy Carter
SNAFU is the seventh episode of the first season of the television series Agent Carter.
Synopsis[]
Peggy is cornered and more vulnerable than ever as Leviathan makes their move against her. As the SSR zeroes in on Howard Stark, they may pay the ultimate price as they find their true enemy is closer than they realized.
Plot[]
In Russia, 1943, Doctor Johann Fennhoff was a different man; he read books like "The Tragic Life of Doctor Faustus" and helped in any way he could with keeping men from feeling pain.
In 1946, the doctor is now called Ivchenko and wants a Howard Stark invention labelled by the Strategic Scientific Reserve as Item 17.
To that end, he has Roger Dooley under his thrall so that he can observe the interrogation of Peggy Carter. Carter is interrogated in three different styles: Daniel Sousa, who uses friendship; Chief Dooley, who uses fatherly disappointment; and Jack Thompson, who cites betrayal from Howard Stark. Ivchenko watches with amazement as Carter calculates each man's speech with an appropriate response. When Thompson questions why he is watching the interviews, Ivchenko chooses to leave than to cause a confrontation.
Ivchenko communicates with Dottie Underwood who is stationed across the street in the dentistry office of Seth Honicky. He tells her to get ready for evacuation by using Morse Code; however, Carter and Edwin Jarvis, who tried to help her with a false confession he forged with Howard Stark's name, catches him signaling. Dooley tells Ivchenko to close the window but, as he does, he sees Thompson and Sousa leading agents across the street. He knows he has to escalate his plans.
Ivchenko takes control of Dooley and has him clear the lab of Alex Doobin. They find Item 17; as an extra boon, Ivchenko finds a Stark Heat Vest, about which he had heard stories. Dooley allows the manipulator to leave the New York Bell Company uncontested.
Meanwhile, Underwood fights her way pass Sousa and the agents and retrieves Ivchenko in a car. She tells him that they have been discovered; Ivchenko is calm, telling his accomplice that the SSR will be too busy to pursue them. He tells her that Item 17 needs to be tested, so she takes it to a movie theater in a baby carriage that she had earlier purchased and releases its contents. The patrons kill one another.
Dooley awakens from the dream that Ivchenko gave him; he is strapped in the Stark Heat Vest with no way of escaping. Roger Dooley jumps from a window as the vest explodes. The pain that Ivchenko has caused the SSR makes him now their number one priority.
Cast[]
Main Cast:
- Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter
- James D'Arcy as Edwin Jarvis
- Chad Michael Murray as Jack Thompson
- Enver Gjokaj as Daniel Sousa
- Shea Whigham as Roger Dooley
Guest Stars:
- Ralph Brown as Doctor Johann Fennhoff
- Bridget Regan as Dottie Underwood
- Lesley Boone as Rose Roberts
- Sarah Bloom as Loretta Dooley
- Pawel Szajda as Ovechkin
- Kevin Cotteleer as Alex Doobin
- Travis Johns as Agent Corcoran
- Lincoln Melcher as Emmett Dooley
- Rob Locke as Surgeon
- Madonna Cacciatore as Ovechkin's Mom
- Lisa Pescherine as Female Salesclerk
- Diana Gettinger as Movie Usherette
- Mary Beth Manning as Woman
- Chris Palermo as Middle-Aged Man
- Sandra Gimpel as Elderly Woman
- Unknown Actress as Roger Dooley's Daughter (uncredited)
Appearances[]
Locations[]
- Russia
- New York City, New York
- New York Bell Company Office
- Seth Honicky's Dentistry Office
- Dooley Residence (illusion)
- La Martinique (mentioned)
- Roxxon Refinery (mentioned)
- Finow, Germany (mentioned)
- Greenland (mentioned)
- Teterboro, New Jersey (mentioned)
Events[]
- Johann Fennhoff's Revenge Plot
- Battle of Finow (mentioned)
Items[]
- Blitzkrieg Button
- Item 17
- Stark Heat Vest
- The "F" Stands for Freedom
- Grey was the Night
- Hot Lead Alley
- The Tragic Life of Doctor Faustus
- Nitramene (mentioned)
- Super Soldier Serum (mentioned)
Concepts[]
Vehicles[]
- The Heartbreak (mentioned)
Organizations[]
- Strategic Scientific Reserve
- Leviathan
- Stark Industries (mentioned)
- Roxxon Corporation (mentioned)
Mentioned[]
- Spider Raymond
- Sheldon McFee
- Frank
- Howard Stark
- Leet Brannis
- Ray Krzeminski
- Yauch
- Captain America
- Eva
- Seth Honicky
- James Cagney
- Casanova
Music[]
| Song title | Artist | Location(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Brahms' Lullaby | Johannes Brahms |
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| Around The Town | Ray Davies |
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Videos[]
Trivia[]
- SNAFU is a military slang acronym meaning "Situation Normal: All Fucked Up."
- Some of the movies playing at the movie theater included The "F" Stands for Freedom (a reference to the line uttered by the Ultimate Marvel imprint Captain America: "Do you think this letter on my head stands for France?"), Grey was the Night, and Hot Lead Alley.
- On Disney+ USA, this episode is titled "Snafu".
References[]
External Links[]
| Season One | Now is Not the End âą Bridge and Tunnel âą Time and Tide âą The Blitzkrieg Button âą The Iron Ceiling âą A Sin to Err âą SNAFU âą Valediction |
| Season Two | The Lady in the Lake âą A View in the Dark âą Better Angels âą Smoke & Mirrors âą The Atomic Job âą Life of the Party âą Monsters âą The Edge of Mystery âą A Little Song and Dance âą Hollywood Ending |