Agent Carter Season 2 Episode 5: The Atomic Job Recap With Spoilers

Jason Wilkes wakes Peggy up in the middle of the night. He brings her back to the lab and show her the tissue sample from Jane Scott’s autopsy. When he gets close, the Zero Matter is drawn to him, and he’s drawn to it. The Zero Matter suddenly escapes the container and leaps into Wilkes. He becomes tangible for a moment and suddenly knows where Jane Scott’s body is.

Rose tells Peggy that the address is the county cold storage, owned by Thomas Gloucester, a friend of Calvin Chadwick and member of the Council of Nine. If the small sample of Zero Matter made Wilkes temporarily tangible, he wonders if Jane Scott’s body could cure him. Peggy says they’re going to steal the body.

Violet returns home late to find her door open. She grabs a baseball bat from the foyer, but finds a meal on the table and Sousa asleep on the couch. She wakes him and he apologizes for breaking in and nodding off. Sousa notices something missing from his pocket and goes rummaging through the couch. Violet goes to help him, but Sousa stops her. He begins professing his love, then becomes frustrated because he didn’t plan to ask her to marry him without the ring. She says yes anyway, and they keep searching.

Calvin Chadwick lies awake while Whitney Frost is sleeping next to him. He gets up and starts getting dressed, but suddenly Whitney is behind him and says she needs his help.

Jarvis helps Peggy up into a vent at the cold storage building, and Carter returns the favor. They find their way to the room above Jane Scott’s body, but Frost and Chadwick enter the room. Frost says it called her there and it wants to be let out. Chadwick opens the container. Frost touches the body and absorbs the Zero Matter from it. Her eyes turn black, and she says she needs an atomic bomb.

Back at Stark’s lab, Wilkes says Frost wants a bomb to replicate the original Zero Matter experiment. He says there are two remaining warheads made by Roxxon matching the one used in the original test. Jarvis says Stark’s corporate espionage against Roxxon has found a particularly impenetrable storage location that probably houses the warheads.

Frost tries to convince Chadwick that they need to steal the bombs, but he’s hesitant to steal from a member of the Council. She butters him up by telling him that the Zero Matter would give them more power and get him more recognition. He pulls away from her kiss, but asks about her plan.

Peggy arrives at the SSR office to find everyone celebrating Sousa’s engagement. She pulls him away and asks about disguises to sneak into Hugh Jones’ office at Roxxon. They bring some pie to the lab to help convince Dr. Samberly to let Peggy use a memory inhibitor.

Peggy disguises herself and sneaks into Jones’ secretary’s office. She starts searching when Jones shows up and starts flirting. She plays along until he leaves for lunch, then goes into Jones’ office. Just as Jones gets to the elevator he remembers Peggy’s face and runs back. Peggy uses the memory wipe and sends Jones back on his way to lunch. On his way down the hall, he remembers again. He heads back to the office, and is memory wiped again. Peggy sees a poster on the wall that says “the key to success is in you” and realizes that Jones must be wearing the key she’s searching for. She searches him, mind wiping him several more times, before finally finding the key in his belt buckle. She takes it and sneaks out.

Whitney takes Chadwick to see a mob boss named Joseph Manfredi at a restaurant. Manfredi and Frost were together about 10 years ago, and Manfredi isn’t pleased to see her on Chadwick’s arm. He flirts a bit, and then asks what they want. She offers him construction contracts in exchange for manpower to move some “equipment,” men who are good with their hands and discreet. Manfredi says he needs assurance that he and his associates won’t be featured in the newspaper. Manfredi calls over one of his men and then suddenly attacks him for “undressing Frost with his eyes,” pounding on him in plain view of the other customers.

Jarvis, Peggy, Sousa and Wilkes map out a plan to infiltrate the Roxxon storage building. Sousa will be tasked with disarming the bombs. Jarvis asks if the SSR can help, but Sousa says there’s no one they can trust entirely. Peggy thinks of Rose. Sousa is hesitant, but after seeing Rose handle one of their talent agency “clients,” he agrees to let her come on the mission.

Rose, Peggy, and Sousa go to the SSR lab to get some more equipment. They find a motion detector just as Dr. Samberly walks in on them. He takes the memory inhibitor and motion detector. Rose flirts with Samberly and convinces him to help, but he insists on coming along on the mission.

Peggy’s team drives up to the building in a blacked out car marked Civil War Antiques. The guards approach Samberly and Rose, who pretend to be a lost married couple. Samberly activates and tosses a device over the fence. The device goes off and electrifies the guards, incapacitating them. Peggy’s team notices that the guards are dressed well above their paygrade.

The team take the elevator down and an already unconscious guard is waiting for them when they find their floor. Sousa says Frost’s team must already be there, but they stick to the plan. They open the grid for the security system and unlock the doors. They spot a room with extra security and figure that must be what they’re looking for. Meanwhile, Frost’s team searches room by room. Samberly’s motion detector picks up movement, and Rose says she’ll take care of it. She start fighting one of the Maggia goons.

Peggy and the rest of the team find the bombs. Samberly tries to lock the doors to keep out approaching goons, but accidently locks Jarvis alone in the room with the bombs instead. Peggy tells Sousa to talk Jarvis through the disarmament while she deals with the Maggia.

Sousa starts talking Jarvis through the process while Peggy fights with one of Frost’s hired henchmen. Jarvis takes off the bomb hatch and sees the uranium rods. Rose shows back up, with the other goon’s knife in her hand. She boosts Samberly’s confidence in trying to open the door. Jarvis uses the tongs to life the first rod and place it in the case.

Peggy finishes off the thug and hears Frost. She finds her arguing with Chadwick. Peggy says the SSR can fix Whitney, but Frost doesn’t want to be fixed. Peggy punches Frost, and Frost is surprised by how little it hurts. Jarvis completes the extraction. Samberly gets the door open and they start making their getaway. Frost hears Sousa message to Peggy. Frost grabs Peggy and the Zero Matter begins to appear on Peggy’s arm. Peggy kicks herself away, but breaks the railing behind her and ends up hanging from her fingertips. Frost reaches down, but Peggy lets go. She lands with a piece of rebar sticking through her torso.

Jarvis and Sousa bring Peggy to Violet. Violet springs into action, giving Jarvis and Sousa instructions. Peggy insists on not going to a hospital.

Back at home, Frost tells Chadwick to talk to Jones. Chadwick is angry and refuses to go along with Frost’s plans. He begins talking down to Frost, buts she grabs onto him, pushes him back, and warns him to watch his tone.

Later, Violet walks in on Sousa and Peggy talking. Jarvis comes to take Peggy home. They leave, and Sousa thanks Violet, but she’s upset now that she realizes Sousa moved to L.A. to run from Peggy. She believes Sousa is in love with Peggy and he doesn’t deny it.

Once Frost is asleep, Chadwick calls an emergency meeting of the Council of Nine.

Jarvis tucks Peggy into bed and leaves. Peggy tells Wilkes that he wound hurts less than the pain she felt when Frost touched her. Wilkes says Zero Matter comes from a dark, painful place, but that he’ll explain more another night. For tonight, they decide to rest and listen to music. She turns on the radio, and Wilkes’ song is playing. Suddenly, Wilkes begins fading away.