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"Now is Not the End" is the first episode of the first 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 goes undercover to try and clear the name of her old friend, Howard Stark, and is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), sharing continuity with the films of the franchise. The episode was written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely and directed by Louis D'Esposito. The episode had been written by Markus and McFeely by January 2014, with the episode being officially ordered in May 2014. Hayley Atwell reprises her role as Carter from the film series, and is joined by regular cast members James D'Arcy, Chad Michael Murray, Enver Gjokaj, and Shea Whigham. Dominic Cooper guest stars as Stark, also reprising his film role, while Costa Ronin portrays the younger version of another film character, Anton Vanko. The episode contains several other connections to the films, including the use of archive footage from ''The First Avenger'' depicting Chris Evans as Steve Rogers / Captain America. Costume designer Giovanna Ottobre-Melton and visual effects companies Industrial Light & Magic and Base FX worked on creating an authentic period setting for the episode, set in a fictionalized 1940s New York. "Now is Not the End" originally aired on ABC on January 6, 2015, and according to Nielsen Media Research, was watched by 6.91 million viewers. The episode received praise from critics, especially the performances of Atwell and D'Arcy, the period setting, and its relative independence from the rest of the MCU. ==Plot== A year after the apparent death of the love of her life, Steve Rogers, Agent Peggy Carter is working for the Strategic Scientific Reserve (S.S.R.) in 1946 New York, where she is stuck doing administrative work while her sexist male colleagues carry out all of the field assignments. The latest case at the S.S.R. is the hunt for Howard Stark, who has been branded a traitor for selling weapons-grade technology to U.S. enemies, and is now in hiding. Stark covertly meets with Carter, an old friend from World War II, one night and asks her to help clear his name. He gives her the services of his butler, Edwin Jarvis, and explains that one of his "bad babies", the formula for molecular nitramene, is about to be sold somewhere in New York. At the S.S.R., Carter learns from the crippled war veteran Agent Daniel Sousa that the chauvinistic and promotion-seeking Agent Jack Thompson is following a lead on club owner Spider Raymond, who is looking to fence Stark's inventions. Raymond indeed sells the formula to the silent Leet Brannis. Infiltrating the club in disguise, Carter breaks into Raymond's safe and realizes that the formula has already been turned into a weapon. By the time Thompson gets there, Raymond is dead, killed by a man in a green suit, who follows Carter back to her apartment, and kills her roommate Colleen, before Carter pushes him out a window. Carter notices that he has a scar on his neck where his voice box once was. After attempting to comfort her, Jarvis takes Carter to see Dr. Anton Vanko at Stark Industries, who examines the weapon and deduces that it was created at a Roxxon Oil refinery, where Carter finds Brannis mass producing the nitramine weapons. Brannis also has a scar where his voice box once was, and by holding an electronic device to it, he is able to communicate with her. He warns Carter that "Leviathan" is coming, and then drops one of the bombs, giving her 30 seconds to escape. The subsequent implosion destroys the building, but Carter and Jarvis manage to get away safely, as does Brannis with a truck full of nitramene bombs. Later, Jarvis calls Stark to assure him that Carter is an excellent choice, who likely does not have any suspicions. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Now is Not the End」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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