Much better. Last's
night's episode was so much better. It
felt like the story actually progressed somewhere, while last week felt like it
pretty much marched in place. I know
they were moving the chess pieces around, but still.
We start out in the hatch.
With the revelation that the villains SHIELD had previous locked away
were out, Coulson is anxious to start rounding them up - one in
particular. But before any of that happens,
Eric, the guy in the hatch, wants to vet all of Coulson's team with a series of
questions while hooked up to the ultimate lie detector, some of the logical,
some of them random. Everyone passes
with flying colors except Ward (big surprise there), but even Ward manages to
get passed eventually.
That formality out of the way, Coulson takes off with Simmons,
Fitz, and Trip to go track down the first of the escaped prisoners. May begs to go along, but Coulson still won't
have anything to do with her after learning she was reporting on him all along.
Their target is Marcus Daniels, aka Blackout, a villain who
takes power from light and energy of any kind and uses it to hurt of kill those
who stand in his way. When they captured
him before, he was stalking a cellist - Audrey - the woman who became Coulson's
girlfriend.
Of course, Audrey thinks that Coulson is dead (because, you
know, he should be). So he lets Trip and
Simmons take the lead on contacting her.
They get to her just as she is starting to freak out because Daniels is
after her again. They get her to safety,
but Daniels gets away because, instead of trying to rehabilitate him, SHIELD
(or was it HYDRA) was trying to enhance his abilities. Overwhelming him with light didn't work like
it did in the past.
However, Fitz has an idea that he got from the experiments
of Bruce Banner that might work - Gamma rays.
Unfortunately, to make that work, they have to use Audrey to lure him
out into the open. Coulson doesn't like
the idea of doing that at all. He also
refuses to see her or speak with her. He
will at some point, but not until he can be with her, and now is not the time.
Anyway, they set up Daniels, and he comes as predicted. While the first attempt to hits him with the
rays doesn't seem to work, the second round does, and he explodes. The resulting concussion waves send Audrey
back into the wall. Coulson was lured
out to get a better angle on Daniels for the second attempt with the waves, and
he then rushes to Audrey. She sort of
sees him, but thinks it is an illusion.
She closes her eyes again and opens them to find Simmons looking at
her. Coulson's secret is safe - at least
for now.
The group flies back to the base, and along the way Simmons
and Fitz patch up their relationship which was fraying due to Fitz's jealousy
of Trip. Not that either of them admits
it, yet.
Meanwhile, back at the hatch, May takes off as soon as she
gets the plane back in working shape an fueled up. If Coulson won't forgive her, she is going to
start trying to defeat HYDRA on her own.
So now we are down to Skye, Ward, and Eric. Ward wants Skye to start working on
decrypting that drive, however she can't do it.
She has to do it in a certain location and not just anywhere. And she thinks they need to get the satellite
feed going to help track the other villains that have been released from the
fridge. To do that, she has to hacked
into the NSA's feed. She goes off to do
that, which leaves Ward alone with Eric.
And when she comes back, the feed is working, but not
showing anything yet. However, Eric has
mysteriously disappeared. Ward takes
advantage of the two of them being alone to start romancing Skye. She falls for it until they go in for a kiss,
and she finds fresh blood behind his ear.
Ward goes to clean up, and she finds an iPad that is giving the location
for the three of them in the hatch.
She uses that to try to find Eric. He's hiding in a closet with a penny set up
to show when someone has entered a room.
Skye thinks that is weird - until she finds Eric's body. Now she knows the truth - Ward is HYDRA. And Ward is now looking for her.
She manages to reset the penny before Ward gets to the
closet and he falls for her excuse that their kiss frightened her a bit because
of how much she liked it. She's ready to
continue now, however, but unfortunately duty calls. Ward claims that he's gotten word from
Coulson, and they need info from the drive right away. As in Skye doesn't even have time to grab
something - they have to leave right now.
Our last shot of them is them flying away in the plane.
Which means that when Coulson and his team return, they find
no one in the bunker and no clue why.
But the last scene is of May. She walking down the road when a car
stops. She gets in, and I knew right
away that the driver was her mother. Her
mother has retired from some agency, but we aren't told what agency it is. May is determined that she needs to track
down Maria - another tie in to Captain America.
So many questions that need to be answered at this
point. How will Coulson and his team
find the others? Will Skye get the upper
hand over Ward? Was she able to leave
something behind for the others to find?
Will Coulson be able to tell May he's forgiven her?
Suddenly, three more episodes this seasons doesn't seem like
enough.
Excellent recap of the episode!
ReplyDeleteThank you very much.
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