Better Angels (Agent Carter)

"Better Angels"

Agent Carter episode

Episode no.

Season 2
Episode 3

Directed by

David Platt

Written by

Jose Molina

Produced by

Tara Butters
Michele Fazekas
Chris Dingess

Featured music

"A String of Pearls"
by Glenn Miller

Cinematography by

Edward J. Pei

Original air date

January 26, 2016

Running time

42 minutes

Guest appearance(s)

Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark
Wynn Everett as Whitney Frost
Reggie Austin as Jason Wilkes
Currie Graham as Calvin Chadwick
Chris Browning as Rufus Hunt
John Balma as Torrance
Kurtwood Smith as Vernon Masters
Randy Sklar as Kenneth
Rey Valentin as Vega
Walker Roach as "Kid Colt" actor

Episode chronology

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"A View in the Dark"

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"Smoke & Mirrors"

List of Agent Carter episodes

"Better Angels" is the third episode of the second season of the American television series Agent Carter, inspired by the films Captain America: The First Avenger and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and the Marvel One-Shot short film also titled Agent Carter. It features the Marvel Comics character Peggy Carter as she falls deeper into a strange conspiracy, and is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), sharing continuity with the films of the franchise. The episode was written by Jose Molina and directed by David Platt.

Hayley Atwell reprises her role as Carter from the film series, and is joined by regular cast members James D'Arcy, Chad Michael Murray, and Enver Gjokaj.

"Better Angels" originally aired on ABC on January 26, 2016, and according to Nielsen Media Research, was watched by 2.90 million viewers.

At Frost's behest, Chadwick frames Wilkes as a communist spy who had infiltrated Isodyne and destroyed the facility. Thompson comes to Los Angeles to 'clean-up' the situation at the invitation of Masters, sending Carter back to New York when she enlists the help of Howard Stark to investigate the Arena Club—whose membership pin was borne by the Council agents—but is unable to prove that the Council has blackmailed Chadwick's senatorial competitor into dropping out of the race. Carter 'misses' her flight, and after unsuccessfully confronting Frost, is attacked by Council hitman Rufus Hunt, barely fending him off. Investigating a gravitational anomaly around Carter, Stark discovers Wilkes is alive but temporarily invisible and non-corporeal, and goes in search of his mentor for help in restoring Wilkes' body. Frost absorbs her film director with newly discovered Zero Matter abilities, and Masters introduces Thompson to Chadwick to celebrate the latter's now guaranteed-senatorship, convincing Thompson that Carter was right.

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