Crushed

Crushed is the second episode of the first season of Ms. Marvel.
==Synopsis==
Kamala and Bruno explore the source of her newfound powers just in time for a perilous adventure.
==Plot==
Kamala Khan walks into school feeling very confident in herself, she finally tells her teacher that her name is actually "Kamala" and not "Camelia". This feeling is interrupted when she walks into a New kid. After he walks away, she finds Bruno Carrelli and they realize that Zoe Zimmer used the New Jersey AvengerCon incident to boost her following on . Zimmer coins the knock off Captain Marvel as Night Light. She then announces she will be hosting a party to celebrate the fragility of life.
Khan and Carrelli walk backstage of the auditorium and Khan tries to make a fist with her bangle. They then test her powers and practice with it. Carrelli discovers that the power is actually coming from her own self. They try to decipher the symbols on the bangle and concludes it could be either in Arabic or Urdu. She soon is able to harden the light so that she could stand on it. Later, Khan and Nakia Bahadir sprint down the street to the Islamic Masjid of Jersey City and get ready despite being late. Abdullah runs their lecture and the two girls talk about how the woman's side of the mosque is very run down. Abdullah calls them out for talking. After the lecture, Bahadir finds out that somebody stole her shoes, the 22nd pair of shoes that have been stolen. Bahadir decides to run for Mosque Board to make a change.
When Khan returns home, she sees her mother and asks her if she could go to a party. Her mother surprisingly lets her. At the party, the see a kid who is about to jump off a dangerously high ledge. When he lands in the pool, Khan immediately falls in love with him, he introduces himself as Kamran. The police suddenly show up and they escape in his car. Feeling jealous, Carrelli reveals that Khan failed her driving test. He drops them off at Circle Q, but before they leave, Kamran asks for Khan's number.
Returning home, Khan dances around the house. She then gets a text from Kamran asking if she wants to get driving lessons from him. The next day in class, she notices something is wrong and sees that her nose is turning purple, like the light constructs from her bangle. Carrelli gets called into Gabe Wilson, Jr.'s office. Wilson excitedly tells him that he got into CalTech. However, Carrelli has second thoughts, so Wilson gives him a talk. Afterwards, Carrelli meets with Khan to start training again, but she tells him she is going on a date with Kamran instead. At a diner, they run into Khan's brother and his fiancée. Kamran disguises himself as their cousin who has grown up, Aamir falls for it.
At dinner, the Khan family eats with Aamir's fiancée, Tyesha Hillman. Yusuf tells the story of Muneeba's mother, Sana Ali, who got lost during , but managed to get back to the train just before it left the station. Kamala then suddenly had a vision from the bangle of a woman pointing at her. This causes her to pass out. Kamala then went alone to her room and called Ali, who tells her the bangle is from her mother, Aisha, who disappeared during partition. Suddenly, Yusef tried to open her door, but she closed it with her powers.
The next day, the family goes to . Bahadir asks Khan and Carrelli to spread pamphlets saying she is running for the board. Meanwhile, Zimmer gets called into United States Department of Damage Control and is tricked by P. Cleary, who uses her ego against her. He then tries to get her to admit that Night Light tried to kill her. Zimmer reveals that Night Light is Middle Eastern. Cleary tells Sadie Deever to search every temple, community center, and mosque.
During the festival, Hameed takes pictures from a ledge on his phone when he suddenly falls, only hanging by a curtain. Khan springs into action and puts on her Captain Marvel costume. Khan uses her constructs to step on them, like she practiced. She then saves Hameed, but gets another vision, causing her to lose her focus. Hameed starts falling, but she catches him with a construct under his feet, he then slowly slides to the ground. Khan worriedly climbs down into an alley where she is found by the Stark combat drones. Damage Control agents then chase her down the alley where she escapes when Kamaran luckily pulls up. When she gets into his car, Kamran tells her that he wants her to meet his mother.
==Cast==
Main Cast:
*Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan
*Matt Lintz as Bruno Carrelli
*Yasmeen Fletcher as Nakia Bahadir
*Zenobia Shroff as Muneeba Khan
*Mohan Kapur as Yusuf Khan
*Saagar Shaikh as Aamir Khan
*Rish Shah as Kamran
*Laurel Marsden as Zoe Zimmer
*Arian Moayed as P. Cleary
*Alysia Reiner as Sadie Deever
*Laith Nakli as Sheikh Abdullah
*Nimra Bucha as Najma
*Azhar Usman as Najaf
*Travina Springer as Tyesha Hillman
Guest Stars:
*Samina Ahmad as Sana Ali
*Anjali Bhimani as Ruby
*Matthew Vasquez as Miguel
*Jordan Firstman as Gabe Wilson, Jr.
*Sophia Mahmud as Zara
*Ishan Gandhi as Hameed
*Sheila Awasthi as Zaynaya
*Rokaya Al Mouzani as Snapchat Girl #2
*Iyad Hajjaj as Rasheed
*Nandini Minocha as Humaira
*Yash Gajera as Fizaan
*Rany Abu-Elniaj as Mosque Bro #2
*Paul Kim as Paul
*Connor Jones as Shawn
*Vseant Nath as Hameed's Parent #1
*Shivani Persaud as Hameed's Parent #2
*Chris Mayo as Onlooker #1
*Philip Covin as Gym Teacher
*Joseph Echavarria as Guy Student #1
*Kelvin Hodge as Guy Student #2
*Cheslee Duke as Girl Student #1
*Jada Keche Howard as Girl Student #2
*Sarah Grace Drake as Popular High School Student (uncredited)
*Adil El Arbi as Man in the Mosque (uncredited)
*Bilall Fallah as Mosque Bro (uncredited)
*Bella Gracely as Party Goer (uncredited)
*Alba Katiuska Mera as Festival Attendee (uncredited)
*Emanuel Perez as Mosque Bro (uncredited)
*Nina Tesa as Mosque Attendee (uncredited)
*Unknown Actor as Rafael (deleted scene; uncredited)
==Appearances==
===Locations===
*Jersey City, New Jersey
**Coles Academic High School
**Circle Q
**Islamic Masjid of Jersey City
**Khan Residence
**Zimmer Residence
**Bombay Spice
*Damage Control Field Office
*New York City, New York
*Ancient Rome (mentioned)
*Ancient Greece (mentioned)
*Ancient Persia (mentioned)
*Byzantium (mentioned)
*Pasadena, California (mentioned)
**California Institute of Technology (mentioned)
*Karachi, Pakistan (mentioned)
**Sana Ali's House (video)
*Bangladesh (mentioned)
*Bombay, India (mentioned)
*United Kingdom (mentioned)
===Events===
*Rescue at the Eid Festival
*Rescue of Kamala Khan
*New Jersey AvengerCon (mentioned)
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** (mentioned)
===Items===
*Quantum Bands
*Stark Industries Combat Drones
*Stark Sonic Cannon
*Zuzu
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*Starforce Uniform (cosplay)
===Concepts===
*Noor
===Vehicles===
*The Gyro King
===Sentient Species===
*Humans
*Mutants
*Asgardians (mentioned)
*Kree (artwork)
===Creatures===
*Ants (mentioned)
*Cats (picture)
* (drawing)
* (mentioned)
===Organizations===
*United States Department of Damage Control
*Clandestines
*Edison Electric (logo)
*Jersey City Police Department (mentioned)
*FBI (mentioned)
*Avengers (mentioned)
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* (mentioned)
* (mentioned)
* (logo)
*Brown Jovi (indirectly mentioned)
===Mentioned===
*Ant-Man
*Captain Marvel (artwork)
*Black Widow (artwork)
*Thor
*Zoe Zimmer's Parents
*Kamran's Uncle
*Nakia Bahadir's Parents
*Humaira's Father 
*Kingo
*"Kingo Sr."
*Choudhury
*Hasan
*Aisha
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*Swet Shop Boys
*Bon Jovi
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==Music==
Song title 	Artist 	Location(s)
 	Mase 	Kamala enters the school after getting her powers
Goddess 	Krewella, NERVO & Raja Kumari 	
Come Around 	Timbaland & M.I.A. 	
Keep On Movin'	B. Stew 	
 	Tesher 	
Anthem 	Swet Shop Boys 	
 	The Ronettes 	
Sage 	Ritviz 	
Aye Khuda 	Aslam Afzal, Farhad B., Vimal K & Atif Afzal	
Peechuy Hutt 	Hassan Raheem, Justin Bibis & Talal Qureshi 	
 	Bhangra Knights 	
==Trivia==
*The title of this episode is named after Ms. Marvel Vol. 3 issues #12-15, listed as "Crushed".
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Category:Ms. Marvel (TV series) Episodes