- Howard Stark: What the hell do you think of me?
- Peggy Carter: I think you're a man out for his own gain no matter who you're charging. You are constantly finding holes to slither your way into in the hope of finding loose change, only to cry when you're bitten by another snake. You're a man who says "I love you" whilst looking over a woman's shoulder into the mirror. Steve Rogers dedicated his mind, his body, his life to the SSR and to this country, not to your bank account. I made the same pledge, but I'm not as good as Steve was. I forgot my pledge running around for you like a corporate spy. So thank you, Howard, for reminding me who Steve was and what I aspire to be. For all I know, you did steal your inventions.
- Peggy Carter: Get in.
- Howard Stark: What? I hate small spaces. What if the chain snaps and I fall to my death?
- Peggy Carter: Don't worry. I'll never reveal that Howard Stark's dead body is lying rotting in the bottom of a dumbwaiter shaft.
- Howard Stark: [Howard asked Peggy to steal one of his inventions from the SSR lab] You get it?
- Peggy Carter: What's in the vial?
- Howard Stark: What vial?
- Peggy Carter: *What* is in the vial?
- Howard Stark: You opened it. You know how, uh, dangerous that could be
- Peggy Carter: What's in the vial, Howard?
- Howard Stark: Okay, you're angry.
- Peggy Carter: I'm not angry. I'm just curious. What's in the vial?
- Howard Stark: You know. We both know.
- Peggy Carter: I don't. Tell me.
- Howard Stark: Steve Rogers' blood.
- [Peggy slugs Howard]
- Edwin Jarvis: Mr. Stark respects you, Miss Carter. As do I. Is there anyone else alive who holds you in such high esteem?
- Peggy Carter: I can trust the actions of men who don't respect me more than those who do. At least when they ask for something, they mean it.
- Peggy Carter: How goes the research on the Stark inventions?
- Alex Doobin: Ah.
- [See two lab techs trying to put out a fire]
- Alex Doobin: It's been a bit of a challenge.
- [Holds up a device]
- Alex Doobin: Do you see this switch? Every time that I push this switch, I get a shock that runs right up my arm and into my skull. But do you see any other switch?
- Peggy Carter: I do not.
- Alex Doobin: Do you remember that, uh, I used to wear glasses?
- Peggy Carter: Of course.
- Alex Doobin: It melted the glasses right off of my face. Now, is that the intended purpose, I don't know. But Howard Stark is either an ignoramus or a genius.
- Peggy Carter: Most likely both.
- Miriam Fry: Miss Carter, of all the women in this establishment, you are the one for whom I am the most worried.
- Peggy Carter: Oh, what a dismaying sentiment.
- Miriam Fry: Well, the hours you keep seem less that of a woman gainfully employed as a telephone operator and more that of one who frequents taxi dance halls.
- Peggy Carter: Uh, I was just doing my laundry.
- Miriam Fry: Do you know how many intruders I have caught inside that very dumbwaiter, attempting to soil the honor of some young lady?
- Peggy Carter: I am certain that many a woman owes her virtue to your watchful eye.
- Daniel Sousa: [In the interrogation room] So, I walk into this diner. This isn't a joke. I walk into this diner, and everybody starts clapping. And I look around at first, confused, and then I realize, oh, they're clapping for me, in my dress uniform, 'cause I served and came back alive, like you.
- Frank: You and me ain't nothing alike.
- Daniel Sousa: So, I pretended to curtsy. Played it off as a joke, and then I'm working on my meal. I look up. I see another G.I. walk in. So, I put down my fork, put down my knife, get ready to clap. And nobody else does a thing. Silence. That's when I realized they weren't clapping for me. They were clapping for this
- [Points to his leg]
- Daniel Sousa: and this
- [holds up his crutch]
- Daniel Sousa: . Clapping because I make them feel guilty, and they want to feel good. You think because I'm wearing a suit and I got a clean shave, we're different? We're not. We're both people nobody cares about.
- Frank: [sighs] No one clapped when I came home. One guy was sleeping with my wife. Another took my job at the mill. We all got sad stories. I still don't talk to cops, even pathetic ones.
- [Sousa sighs, and leaves the room]
- Jack Thompson: I'd clap, but I don't want to hurt your feelings.
- Peggy Carter: [Peggy is looking for Stark] Howard!
- [Hears giggling behind a door, knocks]
- Lorraine: Yes? You just woke me.
- Howard Stark: [Pops up behind her] Not to worry. This is my cousin Peggy. Peggy, Lorraine.
- Lorraine: Don't you think your cousin looks just like Howard Stark?
- Peggy Carter: My cousin is a lot shorter.
- Howard Stark: And much better-looking!
- Angie Martinelli: These rolls keep for three days. Four if it's cold and you put them out on the windowsill.
- Peggy Carter: Oh, glad to hear it. I don't often steal food.
- Angie Martinelli: Are you kidding? Carol once fit a whole chicken down her sweater.
- Carol: My mom knit a special chicken pocket.
- Vera: Gloria's got a compartment in her pocketbook that can fit a cup of gravy.
- Dottie Underwood: [Checks] Well, would you look at that?... Could you make me one of those that holds pickles?
- Howard Stark: I grew up on the lower East Side. My father sold fruit. My mother sewed shirtwaists for a factory. Let me tell you, you don't get to climb the American ladder without picking up some bad habits on the way. There's a ceiling for certain types of people based on how much money your parents have, your social class, your religion, your sex. And the only way to break through that ceiling sometimes is to lie, so that's my natural instinct to lie. I shouldn't have lied to you. For that, trust me, I am truly sorry.
- Peggy Carter: [Developing film] She seems... uninhibited.
- Howard Stark: The first 10 or so might not be suitable for your eyes.
- Edwin Jarvis: $50,000 American That was our understanding.
- Large Smuggler: $50,000 was for the delivery. The extra $100,000's for us to keep our traps shut. And I got three guys outside that agree with me.
- Edwin Jarvis: [Stuttering] Now, I-I-I'm sorry, but I-I-I can't agree to such... Pardon my language... Extortion.
- Large Smuggler: It's not "extrorshing", This is a shakedown! You could hand me the money, or he could hand me the money.
- Edwin Jarvis: Very well. I have a further $50,000 in here. It's all I have. Take it or leave it.
- Large Smuggler: [to his henchman] Count it.
- Edwin Jarvis: Sorry, you're counting the ransom in front of me?
- Large Smuggler: Our boss is a very precise man.
- Edwin Jarvis: Your manners never cease to disappoint.
- Jack Thompson: Something you learn in war: Not every battle you win is a notch on your belt.
- Daniel Sousa: The way I hear you fought, I'm surprised there's any belt left to notch.
- Jack Thompson: Just doing what needed to be done.
- Daniel Sousa: Didn't we all?
- Dottie Underwood: Well, hey, mister, are you lost?
- Otto Mink: Young woman, return to your room.
- Dottie Underwood: Are are you looking for Peggy?
- Otto Mink: [Pulls out a gun] Return to your room, please.
- Dottie Underwood: Is that pistol an automatic?
- [Mink is confused]
- Dottie Underwood: I want that.
- [Dottie attacks him]
- Howard Stark: [Cheerily talking to Peggy and Jarvis] So, how are you two getting along? Peggy tried Anna's goulash? Peggy, Jarvis know you can do 107 one-armed pushups?
- Peggy Carter: Howard, you came back to New York City risking notice from every American intelligence agency.
- Howard Stark: Hmm.
- [Shrugs]
- Peggy Carter: WHY?
- Howard Stark: Let's get back to my place. We'll have some Sherry. I'll explain everything.
- Peggy Carter: [Sees something out the window] Stop the car.
- Edwin Jarvis: The residence is only a block away. What's the matter?
- Peggy Carter: See that man waiting for the bus? That's Agent Yauch. You see that Sedan parked by the fire hydrant? That is Agent Henry. Make a left.
- [They turn]
- Howard Stark: [sighs] That was my least-known property. A dummy corporation holds the lease.
- Edwin Jarvis: And another dummy corporation owns that company.
- Howard Stark: The only people who know about that penthouse besides me and Jarvis are Lana Turner, Jane Russell...
- Peggy Carter: [Cuts him off] Russell You do realize that my work colleague Ray Krzeminski was killed while you were out gallivanting?
- Howard Stark: I was not *gallivanting*.
- Peggy Carter: The SSR blames you, and they're out for blood. We must assume they're about to uncover all of your residences, your bank accounts, your corporations. So perhaps turning up unexpectedly was not your best plan.
- Howard Stark: So, where can I hide?
- Peggy Carter: [Thinks for a moment] God, help me. Take a right up ahead.
- Howard Stark: [They stop in front of Peggy's home] Ah. The Griffith. How's Miriam?
- Jack Thompson: Gather 'round. Come on. Okay, who here knows what Ray Krzeminski's middle name was?
- Daniel Sousa: Walter.
- Jack Thompson: That's right. Walter. Ray Walter Krzeminski. And who knows what the most important part of Agent Ray Walter Krzeminski's name was? Hmm?
- Agent Yauch: [Nervous] W-Walter?
- Jack Thompson: No. *Agent*. Just like all of us. Now, Chief Dooley's gone to break a lead in the Stark case. And while he's gone, I'm in charge. And while I'm in charge, none of you will be resting. So pick up your phones, make kissy noises to your wives, 'cause we're not going home until we start cracking heads. And if you get tired, remember how important your names are *Agents*.
- Roger Dooley: Cyanide. You get a painless death, and nobody gets the satisfaction of watching you hang. Now, tell me what happened in the battle of Finow.
- Colonel Ernst Mueller: There was no battle of Finow.
- Roger Dooley: Because you Nazis ambushed the Russians at night.
- Colonel Ernst Mueller: No German fought any Russian at Finow. What we found can only be described as a massacre. Bodies piled high and ripped apart. Whoever attacked them was long gone.
- Otto Mink: I said $150,000.
- Large Smuggler: Mr. Mink, we were hoodwinked. Jarvis he didn't come by himself. He brought a girl.
- [Mink looks at him]
- Large Smuggler: A-and five guys!