Valediction

Valediction is the eighth and final episode of the first season of the television series Agent Carter.

Synopsis
Peggy faces the full fury of Leviathan, as Howard Stark makes his return in the explosive season finale of Marvel's Agent Carter.

Plot
It is the one year anniversary of and the citizens of New York City plan to have an extravagant celebration in Times Square.

Meanwhile, Strategic Scientific Reserve Agents Peggy Carter, Jack Thompson and Daniel Sousa are called by the New York City Police Department to help to investigate the deaths in the cinema theater. Sousa discovers the canister of the gas that caused forty-seven people to kill each other and accidentally inhales it. He attacks Thompson and slaps Carter before being knocked unconscious. When he awakens, Sousa does not have a clear memory of what he has done; Carter explains to him what happened.

Carter questions the motives of Johann Fennhoff as Howard Stark reveals what happened at the Battle of Finow. It is decided that he will be bait to make the doctor appear. Things do not go as planned as Stark is kidnapped anyway.

Fennhoff has decided that victory over Stark is not killing him for his brother's death; victory is to have Stark deploy the Midnight Oil over Times Square and watch as the city is destroyed. Just as Stark begins to fly a plane, Carter's team arrives.

Carter fights Dottie Underwood and each woman is pushed to her limit; no clear victory is made, as Carter kicks Underwood through a window, but the assassin escapes.

Sousa and Thompson go to capture Fennhoff; he takes Thompson by surprise and knocks him out. When Sousa enters the scene, Fennhoff uses his powers on him, telling him to kill Thompson with his drawn gun. Sousa pistol-whips Fennhoff as he removes his earplugs.

Carter is on the radio talking to Stark; if she cannot break his trance before he reaches New York to deploy the gas, Edwin Jarvis has orders to shoot Stark down. Stark tells Carter that his greatest victory was the creation of Captain America; he was going to bring Rogers home. Carter knew that that was the trance talking, but with calm persistence, she was not going to listen again as another loved one died. Carter told Stark to follow her as she let Steve Rogers go. He listened.

After Johann Fennhoff's Campaign was quelled, Carter received a standing ovation from her colleagues in the SSR. However, Thompson received the credit from the President. Carter decided that she no longer sought the approval of others to validate who she was.

Sousa overcame his shyness and asked Carter on a date. She took a raincheck, but smiled as she thought about it.

As a reward, Carter was given by Stark a place to stay. Carter chose Angie Martinelli to be her housemate. Carter took the blood of Steve Rogers and said goodbye by pouring it out into the water under the Brooklyn Bridge.

Doctor Fennhoff was muzzled so that he could not speak. He was placed in a cell where his cellmate told him that victory eluded them, but now they have time to think and plan. The prisoner asked Fennhoff to write down how his power worked. He introduced himself as Arnim Zola.

Cast
Main Cast:
 * Hayley Atwell as Agent Peggy Carter
 * James D'Arcy as Edwin Jarvis
 * Chad Michael Murray as Agent Jack Thompson
 * Enver Gjokaj as Agent Daniel Sousa

Guest Stars:
 * Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark
 * Lyndsy Fonseca as Angie Martinelli
 * Ralph Brown as Doctor Ivchenko
 * Bridget Regan as Dottie Underwood
 * Glenn Taranto as Detective Prendergast
 * John Prosky as Senator Walt Cooper
 * Toby Jones as Arnim Zola
 * DaJuan Johnson as Officer Pike
 * Ralph Garman as Radio Announcer
 * Erin Torpey as Betty Carver (radio actor)
 * Walker Roach as Captain America (radio actor)
 * Patrick Robert Smith as Agent Butch Wallace
 * Kevin Ashworth as Agent Fisher
 * Alex Daniels as Mechanic
 * Matt Raimo as Reporter #1
 * Ward Roberts as Reporter #2
 * Gerald Webb as Gary Tower
 * Christopher Poehls as Ground Crewman
 * Unknown voice actor as Agent Comden

Locations

 * New York City, New York
 * New York Bell Company Office
 * New York City Hall
 * Howard Stark's Warehouse
 * Howard Stark's Mansion (mentioned)
 * Times Square (mentioned)
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 * Finow, Germany (mentioned)
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 * Finow, Germany (mentioned)
 * Japan (mentioned)
 * Russia (mentioned)
 * Japan (mentioned)
 * Russia (mentioned)

Events

 * Johann Fennhoff's Campaign
 * Battle of Finow (mentioned)
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Items

 * Midnight Oil
 * Bulletproof Vest
 * Blitzkrieg Button
 * Captain America's Shield (hallucination)

Vehicles

 * Dolly
 * Mrs. Virginia
 * Valkyrie (mentioned)

Organizations

 * Strategic Scientific Reserve
 * Leviathan
 * New York City Police Department
 * Stark Industries
 * HYDRA
 * United States Armed Forces
 * Soviet Armed Forces

Mentioned

 * Project Rebirth
 * Captain America
 * Ray Krzeminski
 * Roger Dooley
 * General John McGinnis
 * Leet Brannis (photogragh)
 * Sasha Demidov (photograph)
 * Harry S. Truman

Trivia

 * The song that played at the end of the episode while Peggy Carter poured away the last sample of Captain America's blood is The Way You Look Tonight by Bing Crosby.