Snafu

Snafu is the seventh episode of the first season of the television series Agent Carter.

Synopsis
Peggy is cornered and more vulnerable than ever as Leviathan makes their move against her. As the SSR zeroes in on Howard Stark, they may pay the ultimate price as they find their true enemy is closer than they realized.

Plot
In Russia, 1943, Doctor Fennhoff was a different man; he read silently books like "The Tragic Life of Doctor Faustus" and helped in any way he could with keeping men from feeling pain.

In 1946, the doctor is now called Ivchenko and wanted a Howard Stark invention labelled by the Strategic Scientific Reserve as Item 17.

To that end, he had Roger Dooley under his thrall so that he could observe the interrogation of Peggy Carter. Carter was interrogated by three different styles: Daniel Sousa, who used friendship; Chief Dooley, who used fatherly disappointment; and Jack Thompson, who cited betrayal from Howard Stark. Ivchenko watched with amazement as Carter calculated each man's speech with an appropriate response. When Thompson questioned why he was watching the interviews, Ivchenko chose to leave than cause a confrontation.

Ivchenko communicated with Dottie Underwood who was stationed across the street in the Dentist Office of Seth Honicky. He told her to get ready for evaculation using Morse Code; however, Carter and Edwin Jarvis, who tried to help her with a false confession he forged with Howard Stark's name, caught him signaling. Dooley told Ivchenko to close the window but, as he did, he saw Thompson and Sousa leading agents across the street. He knew he had to escalate his plans. Ivchenko took control of Dooley and had him clear the lab of Alex Doobin. They found Item 17; as an extra boon, Ivchenko found an Explosive Vest, about which he had heard stories. Dooley allowed the manipulator to leave the New York Bell Company uncontested.

Meanwhile, Underwood fought her way pass Sousa and the agents and retrieved Ivchenko in a car. She told him that they had been discovered; Ivchenko was calm, telling his accomplice that the SSR will be too busy to pursue them. He told her that Item 17 needed to be tested, so she took it to a movie theater in a baby carriage that she had earlier purchased and released its contents. The patrons killed one another. Dooley awakened from the dream that Ivchenko gave him; he was strapped in the Explosive Vest with no way of escaping. Roger Dooley jumped from a window as the vest exploded. The pain that Ivchenko caused the SSR made him their number one priority.

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
 * Shea Whigham as Chief Roger Dooley

Guest Stars:
 * Ralph Brown as Doctor Ivchenko
 * Bridget Regan as Dottie Underwood
 * Lesley Boone as Rose
 * Sarah Bloom as Loretta Dooley
 * Pawel Szajda as Ovechkin
 * Kevin Cotteleer as Alex Doobin
 * Rob Locke as Surgeon
 * Travis Johns as Agent Corcoran
 * Lincoln Melcher as Emmett Dooley
 * Madonna Cacciatore as Ovechkin’s Mom
 * Lisa Pescherine as Female Salesclerk
 * Diana Gettinger as Movie Usherette
 * Mary Beth Manning as Woman
 * Chris Palermo as Middle-Aged Man
 * Sandra Gimpel as Elderly Woman

Locations

 * Russia
 * New York City, New York
 * New York Bell Company Office
 * Seth Honicky's Dentist Office
 * La Martinique (mentioned)
 * Roxxon Refinery (mentioned)
 * Finow, Germany (mentioned)
 * Greenland (mentioned)
 * Teterboro, New Jersey (mentioned)

Items

 * Blitzkrieg Button
 * Item 17
 * Explosive Vest
 * Nitramene (mentioned)
 * Super Soldier Serum (mentioned)

Vehicles

 * The Heartbreak (mentioned)

Organizations

 * Strategic Scientific Reserve
 * New York Bell Company
 * Leviathan
 * Stark Industries (mentioned)
 * Roxxon Oil Corporation (mentioned)

Mentioned

 * Spider Raymond
 * Sheldon McFee
 * Frank
 * Howard Stark
 * Leet Brannis
 * Ray Krzeminski
 * Yauch
 * Captain America
 * Eva
 * Seth Honicky

Trivia

 * SNAFU is a military slang acronym meaning "Situation Normal: All Fucked Up."
 * Some of the movies playing at the movie theatre included The "F" Stands for Freedom (a reference to the line uttered by the imprint Captain America: "Do you think this letter on my head stands for France?"), Grey was the Night, and Hot Lead Alley.