The Agent Carter season finale airs tomorrow night, so here’s our laundry list of demands hopes for what the episode will hold.
Of course, our collective fandom fingers are crossed that Agent Carter will be renewed for a second season. (We want it so badly, we wrote a poem about it.) In the meantime, here are our top seven hopes for Agent Carter season 1, episode 8.
Peggy vs. Dottie
In one corner stands Peggy Carter, a one-woman smash machine who’ll use everything from staplers to her high-heeled shoes to take down even the burliest opponent. In the other waits Dottie Underwood, alias unknown, a brutal Russian assassin trained from childhood to kill friends, innocent bystanders, and anyone who gets in her way.
Agent Carter has been leading up to this clash of the titans for weeks, and we can’t wait to see Peggy and Dottie throw down. Step aside Ultimate Fighting Champion; this one ends in blood.
Mrs. Jarvis!
Anna Jarvis has been a source of mystery and humor in Agent Carter since the beginning, and we’d be flat-out lying if we said we didn’t want to know more about her.
Ideally, we’d love to see Jarvis’s previously off-screen wife in the flesh. But barring that, we hope the Agent Carter season finale gives us at least one more hilarious conversation between Anna and the butler. After all, Jarvis risked life and limb for this lady – we deserve to know what makes her so amazing!
A hint about Peggy’s husband
It is a truth universally acknowledged that people are maybe a little too eager to set Peggy up with a man. (After all, isn’t Peggy’s picture under the “Strong, independent woman” entry in the dictionary?) Still, the shippers gonna ship (ship, ship, ship, ship) and it’s understandable that people are curious who Peggy comes to love after Steve.
Fans have been debating the merits of Sousa and Thompson as potential spouses (for Peggy, not each other) since the premiere. Will one of these really become Mr. Carter? Or has Agent Carter upped it’s own red herring game? Inquiring minds want to know, show!
More Angie
Peggy’s perky, supportive gal-pal Angie is a treat to watch every time she’s onscreen. Unfortunately, “not enough Angie” ranks among our few beefs with Agent Carter, and we want the finale to remedy that.
The two had a warm farewell just before Peggy was nabbed by the S.S.R., but since Peggy is now sticking around in New York to save the world, we see no reason why the two friends shouldn’t meet up again. It can even be after Peggy saves the world, we’re not picky.
Apologies for Peggy
Sure, it’s been great to see Thompson’s stoic nods of respect for Peggy. Sure, it’s been fun to see Sousa regain his faith in the object of his affection and suspicion.
But let’s not kid ourselves: Peggy has been treated like toilet paper by the men of the S.S.R., and we want a formal apology. The audience – and Peggy – deserve to hear these shmoes admit that they were wrong, and promise to treat her like the exemplary agent she is.
And if there’s a little outright groveling, well, we won’t complain.
The dawn of Hydra
Hydra’s infiltration in the early days of S.H.I.E.L.D. was a hot topic in the fan-speculation phase of Agent Carter. But the series, drawing fans into the reality of the still-functional S.S.R., Russian terrorists, and Howard’s psychotic inventions, seems to have largely silenced the subject for now.
That doesn’t mean that Hydra itself is quiet, though. We know all too well that it’s just a matter of time until the nefarious organization starts laying its eggs in Peggy’s good work; heck, they may already be burrowing into the S.S.R.
Hydra is still a major concern in the modern-day action of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. So what better way to salute the return of that series (and add a dark note to the Agent Carter season finale) than giving us a glimpse of the people responsible for planting the original poison into S.H.I.E.L.D.’s heart?
Captain America!
You may say we’re dreamers, but we totally don’t care. An hour of interaction between Peggy and Steve Rogers in Captain America: The First Avenger is simply not enough. Movie star, shmovie star; we want to see Chris Evans on Agent Carter.
Make Steve a hallucination. Make him a memory. Hell, make him an astral projection – if Agent Carter sells it, we’ll buy it. In bulk.
Agent Carter season 1 finale, “Valediction,” airs tomorrow night at 9:00 p.m. on ABC.