With the help of the Irish Mafia, a black organization with power across the United States, Carter's investigation of Leviathan was countless times easier and faster than in the original plot.
And this was far beyond Howard Stark's expectations.
In fact, being wrongly accused of being a "traitor" was not a big deal to Howard.
From the beginning, as long as he attended the hearing honestly, there would not be any major problems.
The reason why it got to this point is actually just because he simply likes "challenge" and wants to rely on his own strength to find out the mastermind behind this incident.
In fact, at this time, Howard, after discussing with General Phillips, had basically established a plan to reorganize the Strategic Science Corps into S.H.I.E.L.D. As long as he showed some softness to Congress, the matter could be solved directly.
But obviously the conceited Howard didn't want to do that.
And the reason why Carter is involved is to test and promote her - after all, Peggy Carter is an Englishman, and without a big enough credit, it is difficult to promote her to a high position at once.
This is why at the end of the first episode of the original show, Jarvis is shown sitting in a car, looking at Peggy Carter passing by in the distance, and reporting to Howard Stark that Peggy Carter is the best choice.
And I think she will never be suspicious of this - although Jarvis in the series seems to be a somewhat dull gentleman, in fact, he was also an extremely outstanding British Army officer in his early years, and followed a general to fight.
In the whole world, just to save his current wife, the Jewish girl Anna, he forged a pass issued by his boss and was expelled from the military. After being rescued by Howard, he became Howard's housekeeper.
If we really talk about various military skills, I'm afraid he won't be much worse than Carter at all.
However, Josie's purpose in getting Dix involved in this matter was not just to help Carter.
But...
Midtown Manhattan, Near East Side, New York Continental Hotel.
This hotel was originally called the Pierre Hotel. It was built in 1930 and was one of the most luxurious hotels in New York. It was spotted by Josie six months ago and was acquired by the Continental Hotel Group, a subsidiary of Continental Bank.
One of the reasons why Qiao Xi likes this hotel is because of the world's most rigorous vault built underground in this hotel. The purpose of this vault is to provide "permanent safes" for guests here.
"Service - and in the 1970s in the original time and space, this vault also triggered a jewelry robbery that shocked the world.
But at this time, this situation is impossible to happen, because the vault has now become a secret base of the Ouroboros organization in New York - its internal structure is similar to that of the Winter Soldier Bucky in the movie Captain America 2.
The Hydra base in that city is similar.
It's just that the person being imprisoned in this base now is not Bucky, the Winter Soldier, but a blond woman who is dressed simply, but still has a sense of style.
This woman's name is Dottie Underwood.
Yes, it is one of the first-generation Black Widows who was full of love and love-hate entanglement with Peggy Carter in the original plot.
But now Dottie had just arrived in New York a few days ago and was preparing to lurk as a ballet dancer.
Then through an unfounded recruitment of ballet dancers, she fell directly into the hands of Ouroboros, who had already set up a net for her.
Although the Black Widow produced by Red House is very powerful, she was caught without any chance to resist in the face of numerous Ouroboros agents due to mental calculations and unintentional calculations, and was secretly escorted into the base.
Even after being sent in, she still doesn't know who caught her.
But looking at the guard in the distance who remained expressionless and silent no matter how provocative she was, as if he had no emotions, Dotty could basically conclude that the guard was not an official from the United States. How could he be trained in this decadent and degenerate country?
What about this almost cold-blooded guard?
But why did these people arrest her? How was she exposed?
He actually used the recruitment of ballet dancers to bait her. This clearly meant that he had already figured out everything about himself - is there a traitor at the top of the organization?
Or - is this another test set by the organization?
Just when Dottie was full of doubts, she heard the sound of the door opening in the distance.
Following the opening of heavily guarded metal doors and the clicking of high-heeled shoes, finally a slim green figure appeared outside the prison cell where Dottie was being held.
"..." Seeing the figure outside the door, Doty said nothing, but she couldn't help showing a hint of shock in her eyes.
Because she knew this person outside, Ophelia Sarkestein, the Viper Lady of the Austrian Ministry of the Interior.
Ophelia's identity, whether it is Ouroboros or Hydra, is a secret, and her more public identity is that of the Austrian intelligence agency and a senior official of the Austrian internal government.
The so-called Viper Lady is the title given to her by Claire Vaillant, one of the first-generation Black Widows and a senior intelligence officer of Furry Bear after several contacts.
In Claire Vaillant's words, the woman Ophelia is like a poisonous snake.
Although the title Lady Viper goes well with either Ouroboros or Hydra, Ophelia actually doesn't like this name.
But Ophelia was not polite, turned around and gave Claire Vaillant the title she heard from Josie - Black Widow.
Although Josie has always called the agents of the Red House, Wayan and Dottie, like Black Widow, this is actually just his inherent impression as a time traveler. In fact, the agents of the Red House during this period have not yet been called Black Widows.
title.
The agents who came out of the Red Room were called Black Widows, which actually only started when Dreykov was in power.
Now that he was doing this, Claire Vaillant took advantage of it first.
"...Call me Ms. Ophelia, Mrs. Viper? What a shameless title. It must have been given to me by that bitch Claire, right?" Just as Dotty was recalling all the information about Ophelia in her mind
, Ophelia spoke, and revealed Doty's thoughts in one sentence.
This allowed Doty to break through the defense directly.
"How do you know what I'm thinking?" Dottie said in disbelief.
"Haha, it's just a little trick. Wouldn't your boss, that Jonah Fenhoff, be able to do this?" Ophelia tilted her head and looked at Dottie with interest.
Jonah Fenhoff, the only normal survivor of the Nightlight Incident, is a master of mind control.
It is also for this reason that he was recruited as a senior member of Leviathan.
He has used this ability to control many people, but in the original plot, the character with the highest appearance rate who was hypnotized by him was none other than Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier.
As soon as Ophelia spoke, Dotty immediately lowered her head and stopped looking into Ophelia's eyes. At the same time, she began to think wildly in her mind. As one of the direct staff of Fenhoff in Leviathan, she certainly knew about this situation.
How to deal with it.
It's just a pity that Ophelia used some methods to enhance her psychic abilities that Qiao Xi got from Yuri. After long-term training, her psychic control abilities are no longer what they were before. Doty's little skills are of no use to her at all.
use.
"Don't bother, my dear, don't resist me... Come on, become a member of our great Ouroboros!" Looking at Dottie's appearance, Ophelia smiled slightly and said softly with her red lips.