Respect | S. Rogers [1]

25 | THE RIFT

Agent Carter 2x10

July 1947
SSR Facility, Los Angeles

With Manfredi's help, they knew that Whitney Frost was working on a formula to create an explosion that would ensure the opening of the rift. Rosemary concluded that her suspicions had been correct, the explosion hadn't happened yet but it would soon. 

Obsessed as Whitney was with destroying the world around her, Rosemary had to say she was impressed with the woman. Whitney was a genius, too bad she chose the wrong way to demonstrate it.

The world needed changing, but with her ways, there would be no world left to change.

They were going to open the rift to lure Frost and use Howard's gamma cannon to eliminate the zero matter, not before eliminating the one inside her. 

Peggy and Chief Sousa had arrived hours ago from taking pictures of Whitney's work, after infiltrating her private room with the help of Manfredi. Instead of wasting time thinking of an equation themselves, they had stolen it, since according to Stark that's how all successful scientists achieve greatness, they steal other smarter people's research.

"I have to agree with Dr Samberly. It's terrible," Dr Wilkes told Howard.

"Thank you, sir."

"Have they determined what Whitney's designed?" Peggy asked Mr Jarvis and Rose who had been watching the scientists and Mr Stark debate on the matter, or more likely, show off their wits and prove which one of them had the bigger brain.

Were all scientists and inventors this egocentric?

"Show of hands. Who here has invented a hovercar?" Howard questioned challengingly, raising his hand. "Nope? Nobody? I win."

"It didn't even work!" Dr Wilkes protested.

"The second one did."

"As we suspected, it's a machine that cuts a fissure between our world and the zero matter dimension. The conversation has now turned to naming rights." Jarvis summarised quietly to Carter.

"Priorities right?" added Rose.

"Have you lot got nothing better do?" asked Peggy loudly.

"The Shears of God. It's a great name. Right Jarvis?" Howard opened his arms.

"Patently ridiculous, sir."

"Ah, who asked you?"

"Gentlemen, will it work?" Agent Carter asked seriously.

"It's incredibly complex. She's describing two different four-dimensional space-times," Stark explained. "One for our universe, one for the zero matter world. This design is a machine that connects the two. If she weren't a homicidal maniac, I'd be in love."