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"The Iron Ceiling" is the fifth 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 on a mission to infiltrate a Leviathan military complex with the Howling Commandos, 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 Peter Leto. 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. Neal McDonough guest stars as Dum Dum Dugan, also reprising his role from the films, the leader of the Howling Commandos. Though no other Howling Commandos from the films appear, due to scheduling issues, the episode does introduce new Commandos to the MCU based on existing comics characters. The episode also introduces the origins of the Black Widow program, which plays a significant part in several MCU films. "The Iron Ceiling" originally aired on ABC on February 3, 2015, and according to Nielsen Media Research, was watched by 4.20 million viewers. ==Plot== In 1937 Russia, young girls are trained as merciless assassins to infiltrate America. Each night they are hand cuffed to their beds, a practice that one such girl, "Dottie Underwood", still carries out in 1946 as she lives incognito as the new neighbor of Strategic Scientific Reserve (S.S.R.) agent Peggy Carter. Before Carter leaves for work one morning, Underwood manages to steal the key to her apartment. At the S.S.R., a high level cryptographer is struggling to decode a message received on a confiscated Russian typewriter with a long-range transmitter. Carter uses her cryptography skills and knowledge of Russian to decode the message herself, and finds map coordinates leading to a Soviet military complex. The message suggests that at this complex Howard Stark, who the S.S.R. have been hunting, will be selling weapons to Leviathan, which Chief Roger Dooley explains is a covert Russian organization. Dooley tasks Agents Thompson, Ramirez, and Li to meet up with a tactical unit and infiltrate the complex to cut off the exchange and arrest Stark for treason. Carter convinces Dooley to allow her to go if she can get the 107th Regiment to assist as their tactical unit, which she does, having fought with them as a friend during World War II. As they are preparing to leave, Thompson tricks Agent Sousa into walking in on Carter as she is dressing, creating an awkward and embarrassing moment for them both. Before he leaves her be, Sousa notices two bullet holes on Carter's shoulder. Thompson. Carter, Ramirez, and Li fly to the Russian border where they meet up with several members of the 107th: Dum Dum Dugan, Happy Sam Sawyer, Junior Juniper, and Pinky Pinkerton, a group that Juniper has nicknamed the "Howling Commandos". On their way to the complex, Carter and Dugan share some bourbon (from her private stash) and reminisce about their war days, fighting alongside their friend (and Carter's great love) Steve Rogers, while also noting that they are most likely headed into a trap. Later, the whole group share war stories, and Carter convinces Thompson to tell them about how he earned the Navy Cross – he had fallen asleep on watch in the Pacific during the War, and had awoken to find Japanese soldiers filling the camp. He killed them all before there were any American casualties, and before some of his comrades had even woken up. Infiltrating the complex, the group finds the boarding school where Dottie was trained, and discover supposed children's films filled with subliminal messaging. They come across a lone young girl, who Dugan approaches. She at first seems innocent, but reveals that Carter and Dugan were indeed correct about this being a trap when she stabs Dugan in the chest and shoots Juniper dead, before escaping. Looking to escape oncoming Leviathan soldiers, the surviving members of the group carry on into the complex and come across a two prisoners: a brilliant engineer who has been tasked with creating weapons from Leviathan based on stolen Stark designs; and his psychiatrist, who attempts to keep him sane while he does it. The group continues, taking the prisoners with them, but they are all soon cornered by the soldiers, and Agent Li is killed in the firefight. The engineer, Nikola, tries to negotiate with the survivors, putting Sawyer's life on the line, so his psychiatrist, Dr. Ivchenko, kills him. Dugan blows a hole in the wall for the group to escape through, and Carter holds the enemy off to help the others escape when Thompson freezes up under fire. Back at the plane, the S.S.R. agents and Howling Commandos part ways. Ivchenko decides to go with the agents back to America, willing to help them fight Leviathan in any way he can. On the flight home, Thompson explains why he froze up: fighting now makes him feel guilty because of what really happened in the War – the Japanese soldiers had been carrying a white flag, but Thompson noticed this after he had already killed them all. He buried the flag to hide what he had done, and his comrades believed him to be a hero. While Carter is gone, Underwood searches her room and comes across photographs of the Stark weapons that the S.S.R. have confiscated. She takes one of the photographs with her, otherwise leaving the room exactly as she found it. Dooley meets with an old friend of his, a journalist who had investigated the Battle of Finow, as Dooley is doing, and too had discovered that the Russian soldiers were massacred before the Germans even arrived, and that Stark had been involved in some sort of cover up. Dooley learns that Stark had gotten into a fight with a General John McGuinness, but over what is unknown (Dooley approaches Stark's butler Edwin Jarvis for answers, but Jarvis tells him nothing), and McGuinness has recently died while Stark has broken ties with the military. Sousa meanwhile searches through photographs of a woman who has been interfering with the Stark investigation. Though her face is not captured, Sousa can see that she has the same two bullet holes on her shoulder, and realizes that Carter is most likely a traitor. 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「The Iron Ceiling」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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