“The Blitzkrieg Button” is episode four of season one of Marvel’s Agent Carter.
In the previous episode, “Time and Tide”, Peggy and Jarvis found a boat that had Howard Stark’s stolen inventions on it. Jarvis called in an anonymous tip to the SSR with the location. Peggy had beaten up the man guarding the yacht and Agent Krzeminski was killed, along with this man, by an unknown person. This was just after the man Peggy attacked told Krzeminski about the woman who attacked him had an English accent. Chief Dooley is blaming Howard Stark for Krzeminski’s death, saying that Krzeminski would still be with them, whether or not Stark pulled the trigger himself
This episode opens with a meeting between three men. Two of the men have another three on guard; the third is Jarvis. Jarvis is paying them $50K for smuggling an item into the country. At which point the other two ask for another $100K. And one pulls a gun on Jarvis to enforce this.
Meanwhile, the three guards are all taken out by Peggy. Jarvis tells the other two that he can’t agree to extortion; one disagrees, saying it is a shakedown, not extortion. Jarvis pushes a button on his briefcase and, saying that there is another $50K inside, passes it over. When the briefcase is opened, a cloud of gas comes out and Peggy takes out the two remaining men.
Jarvis wants to check that the smuggled package is okay. The package is Howard Stark. Stark was not surprised that the men of Otto Mink, the greedy black market smuggler he paid to get him into the country, tried getting more money. The three head to one of Stark’s homes, with Stark chatting and saying he will explain everything when they arrive, but before they get there Peggy recognises two SSR agents watching it. Stark is surprised, because he says that this is his least known property (although it does sound like more than a few woman know of it).
Carter tells Howard that the SSR blame him for Krzeminski’s death and are out for blood. They will find all of his places. Stark wants to know where he can hide then, and Peggy reluctantly takes him to her females-only hotel, The Griffith. Which Howards is, perhaps not unsurprisingly given it’s lived in only by women, familiar with. He asks Peggy how Miriam is.
At the SSR, Chief Dooley has been looking into the case of the dead Russians. He has got the U.S. intelligence report of the battle in which they were supposedly killed. Unfortunately, every word has been redacted. Plus the general who signed it died a month ago. Thompson suggests sending a report to their enemies using the typewriter communicator they found. Dooley says he has another way.
A Colonel Ernst Mueller, a Nazi who supposedly was there when the Russians were wiped out, is due to be executed in two days in Nuremberg. Dooley has just enough time to get there, so he’s going and leaving Thompson in charge.
As Peggy smuggles Stark into The Griffith, she encounter Miriam, fortunately not with Stark around, and has to endure a lecture. Miriam is concerned about Peggy, thinking that he behaviour seems unbecoming in a lady. Stark wants to know what inventions of his the SSR recovered, so he can work out which are still at large. The techs are struggling to work out what they do, and one comments that Stark is either an ignoramus or a genius. Peggy suggests both. There is one particular invention, the titular Blitzkrieg Button, that Stark wants retrieving from the SSR.
Agent Sousa is following up on the anonymous tip to see if he can find out who called it in. He may be getting closer to Peggy, even if he doesn’t realise it yet. Howard avails himself of some of The Griffith’s young women whilst he’s there, and also manages to seriously annoy Peggy on another matter. Otto Mink, who seems to have some inventions of his own, is also looking for Stark, but this reveals an unusual twist. And Stan Lee makes one of his cameos.