This season, “Agent Carter” heads west, to Los Angeles — its own world by comparison to Washington, yet also sure to attract some otherworldly events — which will likely lead to shifts in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Last season, we saw Agent Carter say goodbye to Captain America. For however long this series continues, it will apparently go on with Agent Carter thinking that the love of her life is dead. She’s moved on. Which means new opportunities for love interest

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Being sent west gives Agent Carter an opportunity to eagerly reconnect with Daniel Sousa (Enver Gjokaj), the agent who never let his disability make him feel like any less of a soldier in the fight against evil. Plus, he was obviously quite found of Carter.

At the end of last season, Sousa asked Carter out for drinks, but Agent Carter declined. She was just beginning to accept that she’d never see Captain America again. (We know, of course, that she sees him again in the movies, but she’s toward the end of her life while his journey as an Avenger is just beginning.)

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As this season kicks out, we’ll see Agent Carter asking Sousa out to drinks once she gets to California (Sousa is the new chief out west), but now he’s the one declining. Has he moved on? Either way, Sousa does a poor job of hiding his lingering feelings for Agent Carter.

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That provides an opportunity for the slightly silly/yet smooth Jason Wilkes (Reggie Austin) to move in quickly to try to win Peggy’s affections. With Sousa seemingly unavailable, Wilkes’s advances are not immediately denied. But Wilkes is a big brain at a secretive organization that is working with some out-of-this-world materials, so Carter is playing and working/investigating at the same time. Agents, after all, must be able to multitask.

The flirtatious pairing of Agent Carter and Wilkes is also an interracial one, and there are moments that address race relations in the World War II era.

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Opposition, too, comes from all angles. Peggy deals with the jealousy of Agent Jack Thompson (who received all the credit for all of Agent Carter’s hard work last season, and is responsible for sending Carter out west). She’s also looking into some happenings that seem to be from another dimension (something that could connect this season to multiple Marvel movies, now that the MCU extends past Earth).

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Amid all the workplace and (possible) space drama, the element that continues to be “Agent Carter’s” best asset is the platonic duo of Atwell and her co-star/fellow Brit, James D’Arcy who returns as Edwin Jarvis. Carter and Jarvis remain linked by their loyalty to Howard Stark (played by Dominic Cooper, who doesn’t make an appearance in this first episod — no telling whether he’ll show up later).