“Agent Carter”, Ep 1.05, “The Iron Ceiling” gives Peggy a real mission
“The Iron Ceiling” is the episode Agent Carter has been building to all season, and the kind of hour it needs most at this point in its run, now that the show’s world is mostly established. The episode more than makes up for the minimal forward momentum in the Howard Stark/Leviathan quadrants, with increasing character depth and backstories for multiple auxiliary players that until now have been given short shrift. A big problem that the show needs to work around is that everyone besides Howard, and maybe Jarvis, exists only to support Peggy or expand on her as a character. Some headway is made with this during the team’s trip to Russia to intercept the transfer of blueprints between Leviathon and a mystery seller who the SSR is led to believe is Stark. It’s only enough to hint at what the show is capable of doing rather than completely break down the walls between Peggy and her icy coworkers, but a hint of steady character building at this stage is worth much more than an endless stream of exposition about secret organizations and deadly weapons.