'Agent Carter' Closes Out Its Second Season With Old Friends, New Love and a Murder Mystery

While the penultimate episode of Agent Carter's stellar second season ended with an explosive bang, the finale closed with a muffled gunshot, leaving us with more questions than answers about Marvel's female-powered period piece.

Once mobster softie Joseph Manfredi (Ken Marino) saw that his lady love Whitney Frost (Wynn Everett) was on a terrifying, obsessive tear to open another rift after absorbing all of Dr. Wilks' zero matter, he joined forces with Agent Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) and Chief Daniel Sousa (Enver Gjokaj) to help steal her plans and send all of the zero matter back from whence it came.

Of course, the Strategic Scientific Reserve had some help from an old friend, as Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper) returned, offering to host the whole experiment on his Hollywood studio lot. The team's makeshift gamma cannon worked, blasting the zero matter from Whitney Frost's body into the rift, and thanks to some quick thinking by Mr. Jarvis (James D'Arcy), and Howard Stark's flying car, they were able to close the rift again without anyone being sucked in.

After that, the team tied up loose ends. Dr. Jason Wilkes (Reggie Austin), back in his corporeal form and finally free of zero matter, is going to work for Howard Stark on a secret new project he dreamed up on his trip to Peru. Whitney Frost sits nearly catatonic in a psych ward, fantasizing about regaining the power she felt when consumed by zero matter. Ana Jarvis (Lotte Verbeek) is released from the hospital, happy to be home and safe with her husband, though sad to see Peggy packed and ready to return to New York.

While the word is still out on whether or not Agent Carter will see a third season, the cliffhanger ending certainly has our hopes up. As we keep our fingers crossed, here are a few things we'd like to see from season three: