Agent Peggy Carter is relegated to a desk job and frustrated at her male boss and comrades' sexist dismissal of her place in the SSR. Ordered to work late one night, Carter gets an alert that the villain Zodiac has been spotted and decides to take care of it herself.
Acting
Hayley Atwell's eye-roll could power a small city.
Production
Period-perfect SSR offices, gloriously analog.
Director
Louis D'Esposito
Hayley Atwell
Peggy Carter
Bradley Whitford
John Flynn
Dominic Cooper
Howard Stark
Neal McDonough
Timothy 'Dum Dum' Dugan
Chris Evans
Steve Rogers / Captain America (archive footage)
Shane Black
Disembodied Voice (voice)
Greg Haines
Agent Johnson
Jon Barinholtz
Analyst
Tim Trobec
Hefty Guard
Sarah Schreiber
Poolside Girl #2
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This short directly greenlit the Agent Carter TV series after fan demand proved Peggy's popularity. The MCU's first female-led anything, buried as a DVD extra.
Shane Black's voice cameo as the 'Disembodied Voice' was his reward for directing Iron Man 3 — and his only MCU acting credit.
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