01x10 - Peggy Carter

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

ROMANOFF: This is S.H.I.E.L.D.

ROGERS: Maybe where it started.

ROMANOFF: Hmm.

And there's Stark's father.

ROGERS: Howard.

Who's the girl?

Gentlemen, I am Agent Carter.

I supervise all operations for this division.

SOLDIER: What's with the accent,

Queen Victoria?

Thought I was signing up

for the U.S. Army.

- What's your name, soldier?

- Gilmore Hodge, Your Majesty.

CARTER: Step forward, Hodge.

HODGE: Mm. We gonna wrassle?

'Cause I got a few moves

I know you'll like.

[CHUCKLES]

Our goal is to create the first

in a new breed of super-soldier.

- Faster, ladies! Come on.

- [GRUNTS]

You win wars with guts.

- Grenade!

- [SOLDIERS WHIMPER]

ROGERS: Get away!

SOLDIER: It was a dummy grenade.

BOY: Hey, Ronnie. Get the ball!

ROGERS: I don't know

why you'd want to join the Army

if you were a beautiful dame.

Or a A woman.

An agent. Not a dame.

You are beautiful, but

You have no idea

how to talk to a woman, do you?

This is the longest conversation I've had.

Women aren't lining up

to dance with a guy they might step on.

You must have danced.

Well, asking a woman to dance

always seemed so terrifying.

And the past few years, it just

didn't seem to matter that much.

I figured I'd wait.

For what?

The right partner.

STARK: We may dim half the lights in Brooklyn,

but we are ready.

ERSKINE: Five,

four

[EXHALES]

three,

- two

- [BREATHING HEAVILY]

one.

[INHALES SHARPLY]

ERSKINE: Now, Mr. Stark.

PEGGY: How do you feel?

[PANTING]

Taller.

Oh.

Um

You look taller.

[CROWD EXCLAIMS]

MAN: Oh, no.

- As of today, the SSR is being retasked.

- CARTER: Colonel?

We are taking the fight to Hydra.

Pack your bags, Agent Carter.

The Hydra camp is tucked between

these two mountain ranges.

It's a factory of some kind.

[GRUNTING]

- Let's hear it for Captain America!

- [SOLDIERS CHEERING]

CARTER: Howard has

equipment for you to try.

What do you think?

The women of America,

they owe you their thanks.

Yes, I think it works.

We barely got out alive,

and you want us to go back?

I see your top squad is prepping for duty.

You don't like music?

I do, actually.

I might even,

when this is all over, go dancing.

[CHUCKLES]

What are we waiting for?

The right partner.

PHILLIPS: Hydra's last base is here,

in the Alps.

SOLDIER: Watch your back! Move it!

ROGERS: You're late.

- Weren't you about to

- Right.

[TIRES SCREECH]

Get in!

CARTER: Wait!

Go get him.

I'm not kissing you!

- [GRUNTS]

- [ENGINE REVS]

[GRUNTING]

[ENGINE WHIRRING]

ROGERS: There's not gonna be a safe landing.

But I can try and force it down.

I'll get Howard, he'll know what to do.

ROGERS: There's not enough time.

It's moving too fast

and heading for New York.

I'm gonna need a rain check on that dance.

[SOBBING]

All right.

A week, next Saturday, at the Stork Club.

You got it.

CARTER: 8:00 on the dot.

Don't you dare be late. Understood?

You know, I still don't know how to dance.

I'll show you how.

Just be there.

ROGERS: Peggy?

CARTER: Steve?

Steve?

[ALARM BUZZING]

PHILLIPS: We have a locked position on Zodiac.

[MAN GRUNTING]

[YELLING]

Help!

[MAN GROANS]

- [PEGGY GRUNTS]

- [MAN GROANS]

STARK: I have orders for Agent Carter.

If this is about last night, rest assured

she will be properly disciplined.

Tell her she'll be running

S.H.I.E.L.D. with me.

FURY: You've been asleep, Cap.

For almost 70 years.

- You gonna be okay?

- ROGERS: Yeah, I just

I had a date.

SHARON: Margaret Carter was known

to most as a founder of S.H.I.E.L.D.

I asked her once how she managed

to master diplomacy and espionage

in a time when no one wanted to see

a woman succeed at either.

She said, compromise where you can.

Where you can't, don't.

ROGERS: Be proud of yourself, Peggy.

CARTER: Well, I have lived a life.

My only regret is that

you didn't get to live yours.

You were meant for more than this.

You told me I was meant

for more than this.

- Did you mean that?

- Every word.

CARTER: The world has changed

and none of us can go back.

Gonna miss you, buddy.

ROGERS: I couldn't leave my best girl.

Not when she owes me a dance.

You ready, Cap?

You bet.

[SOFT JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING]