Agent Carter (TV Series)

The Iron Ceiling (2015)

Chad Michael Murray: Jack Thompson

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Quotes 

• Peggy Carter : You all right?

  Jack Thompson : Yeah. You saved a lot of necks back there. You saved mine.

  Peggy Carter : Not bad for a code breaker.

  Jack Thompson : Pretty bad for the Navy Cross winner.

  Peggy Carter : Everybody freezes sometimes. You recovered. That's the most important thing.

  Jack Thompson : They were carrying a white flag. The soldiers that came into my camp in Okinawa. The ones I killed. They were coming to surrender. I just didn't realize it until it was too late. I buried the flag before anyone else saw it. Everybody thinks that I'm this guy that I never was. And every day, it gets harder and harder to live with.

  [pauses] 

  Jack Thompson : I've been trying to tell that story since I came home from war.

  Peggy Carter : You just did.

  [Thompson looks at her, seemingly vulnerable and grateful at the same time, realizing she is right] 

• Peggy Carter : This is the only changing room in the SSR. I need to change.

  Jack Thompson : Try the ladies' room.

  Peggy Carter : The ladies' room is downstairs in the lobby of the ad agency. I'd match rather suffer the musk of a men's locker room than have to change into tactical gear in a public restroom.

  [She enters the change room] 

  Jack Thompson : Pull up your skirts, boys.

  Agent Mike Li : Whoa! Geez, Carter, give a guy some warning!

  Peggy Carter : Oh, such fuss. Do none of you have sisters?

  Agent Rick Ramirez : They don't look like you.

• Peggy Carter : You see any abominable snowmen like the one in Tibet?

  Junior Juniper : I I never said, "a-abominable snowman".

  Pinky Pinkerton : In fairness, he did specify "yeti"

  Junior Juniper : Yeah.

  Dum-Dum Dugan : Sorry, it was a little hard to make out words in between all the sobbing.

  [They all laugh] 

  Junior Juniper : Shut up. It was scary.

  Jack Thompson : So, what is the difference between a yeti and an abominable snowman?

  Junior Juniper : One's real and one isn't.

• Peggy Carter : Why is Leviathan holding you prisoner?

  Dr. Ivchenko : The acquired some schemata in the black market A weapon they don't know how to build. They want us to build it for them.

  Peggy Carter : So you're engineers?

  Dr. Ivchenko : He is the engineer.

  [Jesters to the other prisoner] 

  Dr. Ivchenko : I serve as Nikola's terapevt - psychiatrist.

  Jack Thompson : So the Reds locked up a head doctor and a mad scientist to build a bomb. Sure, why not?

  Dr. Ivchenko : He is not mad! He is burdened. Look, he sees things in dimensions that we can only imagine. You look at a field of grass, you see pretty picture. He sees biology, phytochemistry. Keeping his gifts from overwhelming him... This requires discipline, stability. Since Leviathan took his family, stability does not come easy. I provide the discipline he needs.