Agents of Shield Season 3 Episode 6 Review
Tread carefully, Agents of S.H.I.East.L.D. fans: Here exist monsters.
I similar giving credit where credit is due, and I can safely say that, as someone who has been a fan and viewer since season 1, this night's game-changing reveal was on par with the smashing "Ward is Hydra" turn of 2014. I didn't see it coming, and maybe I'm lone in that. But when a evidence tin blindside me completely with a narrative that is interesting and unsuspecting, I have to requite it props.
Before nosotros get to those big moments, though, let's start with something important: Andrew Garner is live. Not but that, he's alive enough to talk and requite May and Coulson the rundown on what happened when Werner von Strucker tried to kill him. He tells them about the men who followed him, who Coulson correctly calls out as beingness Hydra. Turns out that Coulson had his own South.H.I.E.50.D. agents tailing Garner, which is how he got lucky: The agents gave him fourth dimension to find cover, but simply barely. (The manner this scene was shot, with May watching the medics piece of work on her husband, was incredibly reminiscent of Black Widow, Cap, and Maria Hill watching a dying Nick Fury in Winter Solider…at to the lowest degree for me.)
May'south notwithstanding pissed at Hunter for putting Garner's life in danger, and her anger'south non unwarranted. Unsurprisingly, Coulson pulls Hunter off the consignment while May puts herself on, because now she's going afterwards Ward, hell or high water. At to the lowest degree there'southward one positive thing that comes out of Garner's most-death feel: May's back. I mean, really back. She'south got the Hunter "out for claret" thing going and takes it to the side by side level by "recruiting" Bobbi to assist her in the way just S.H.I.East.L.D. agents can: by forcing her into a sparring session. As much as I enjoyed Scientist Bobbi Morse, I cannot limited how happy I am to run across my favorite grapheme back in the field, kicking butt, and being an active office of the team again. (And those fight scenes in this calendar week's episode just proved that. Give me an entire episode of Bobbi and May undercover, please.)
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Meanwhile, there's a lot of frustration and acrimony happening on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Ward is trying to figure out what happened to his protégé, and he'due south pissed at Kebo for letting S.H.I.E.L.D. notice him. Kebo, in plough, is pissed at Ward for letting Werner take on such an intense task because, if he'southward alive, he's now most likely on the run with dangerous information, which makes him a liability. Skye is pissed because of Lash's recent set on and has realized that his shapeshifting change ego is definitely someone working within the ATCU. Oh, and she's also pissed because Coulson is getting a trivial too cozy with Rosalind. The two are off on their own for most of the episode, with the intention of exploring Rosalind'south home base (even though Coulson still won't tell her where S.H.I.E.L.D.'s habitation base of operations is), but their day is interrupted by an emergency. Coulson calls her out for her hypocritical views on secrecy and refuses to exit, so Rosalind takes him abode to her flat, which they find out has been broken into. He does his obligatory spying (a lot of art posters, brand new piece of furniture, and a LOT of biographies of Margaret Thatcher) before Rosalind tries to appeal to him by offering burgers from his favorite eatery. The gesture has the opposite effect: Coulson believes she staged a break-in, and Rosalind accuses Coulson of using his ain guys to practise the task. So many trust issues! Fed up, Rosalind finally relents, bringing Coulson to the facility.
Adjacent: My proper name is Lance Hunter, and I accept anger problems
With Hunter off the Ward case and Bobbi off with May, the guy attempts to brand himself useful. He tries to buddy upwardly with Fitz, who is helping his friends with their undercover op in between doing portal work. They get into a talk about Fitz helping Will, which Hunter is not okay with for all the reasons that most people probably wouldn't be. Fitz won't budge, though. Will helped Simmons, and Fitz believes he owes him. Then contest exist damned, Volition deserves his help. Fitz is such a skillful person, y'all guys. Information technology hurts.
When Fitz all simply pushes him away, Hunter attaches himself to Daisy and Mack instead. Mack has pegged Rosalind's right-hand man, Luther Banks, as Lash, thanks to Daisy'south ATCU theory. And it turns out that Banks, who was part of an aristocracy anti-alien task force subsequently New York, is someone y'all probably don't want to cross. The perfect candidate to be an angry, killing Inhuman! The three decide to stake him out on their own mission, despite the fact Daisy and Mack are still aroused almost Garner. Anoint this partnership: Daisy and Mack soon realize that they have no thought how to really runway this guy, other than waiting to see if he randomly shapeshifts. While Mack and Daisy want to be stealthy (especially with Coulson currently embedded in the ATCU), stealth has never been Hunter's way of doing things. He takes matters into his own easily and runs out of the van and ices the guy. ("Come on!" Daisy yells, and I laugh because I would accept yelled the verbal same matter.) No one thinks shooting Rosalind'south No. 2 is a peculiarly good idea, merely Hunter's really being smart for once: Inhumans have markers in their Deoxyribonucleic acid, so if they examination Banks' blood, they'll know whether or not he'southward Lash. Fifty-fifty Daisy admits that's kind of smart, though she well-nigh takes the compliment back after Hunter punches Banks in order to become the blood sample. (No, Hunter does not want to talk about his acrimony bug, thanks very much. He'due south simply FINE.) I accept to acknowledge, I kind of like Hunter because he'southward increasingly unapologetic. Sure, his methods are a niggling violent and unorthodox, but that doesn't hateful he'south heartless. (Okay, possibly he could use a little more empathy.) He's just trained to be tactical, and he does his jobs the way he's used to — and every bit long equally he's successful, he doesn't care whether that fits protocol or not. Which is why he's not backing down about the decision to shoot Ward, fifty-fifty though everyone else would've probably idea offset and acted second.
Mack, Daisy and Hunter go through Banks' things. (No selfies, simply he does shop at Costco!) His phone goes off with a message most a place called Endotech Lab in Gaithersburg, and the three decide to go bank check it out. Information technology's heavily guarded, then Daisy uses a new drone from Fitz to go inside. It's so new it even has stealth mode! (See, we tin can be stealth later all.) Daisy gets a phone call from Simmons maxim Banks has no Inhuman markers — i.e. he's not Lash. Dejected and in anattempt to salve the day from existence a total failure, they continue to monitor what Banks was supposed to be here for: a delivery. Daisy catches people unboxing cartons that look they're holding humans and realizes this must exist where the ATCU is storing its Inhumans. When they spy further, they see Coulson and Rosalind standing around together…and Daisy is non happy. Yeah, there'southward no way she's working with the ATCU later this, then practiced luck, Coulson.
But all is not what it seems, and this is part of why Rosalind didn't want to tell Coulson about what they were doing. Rosalind and the ATCU are treating the Inhuman factor similar an illness, one that they're trying to find a cure for, so people tin live their lives in peace. Plot twist! Turns out this all comes from a personal identify: Rosalind's own married man died of cancer a few years ago, and this a mode to try to assistance others when she couldn't assist him. Coulson is unexpectedly touched by this show of humanity, and I call up it'southward interesting to come across the two leaders displaying unlike sides of the coin when it comes to how to survive in this manufacture. Rosalind is doing anything she can not to cutting herself off because she believes information technology's of import to have feelings, while Coulson thinks the only mode to become the job done is to stop feeling entirely. (Oh, and Rosalind does want Coulson to like her. Although we're apparently edifice towards an ATCU-versus-South.H.I.E.L.D.-versus-Coulson-versus-Rosalind-versus-Daisy showdown, I actually, really hope nosotros don't go the love-interest road here. It's so much more interesting without information technology.)
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While May and Bobbi fix for their mission, they figure out that transfer student "Alex" is really von Strucker'southward son. He'due south alive and on the run, having cleaned out a recent Hydra bank account, and May correctly thinks that if they find him, they can detect a link to Ward. Turns out Werner is actually hiding out in a penthouse in Portugal with Gideon Malick (Powers Boothe), a powerful Hydra menace who once worked with his father. (Although he never left his hologram, Powers Boothe played one of the original Globe Security Council members in The Avengers. Notably, the one who was adamant about launching a missile into Manhattan.) The poor kid doesn't know where to plow, merely don't worry — Malick will handle everything. (P.Due south.: Werner thinks Ward is scary? Conspicuously, he's never met someone like Red Skull. Or Zola. Or Alexander Pierce, for that matter.) True to his give-and-take, Malick calls upwardly Ward, who isn't at all intimidated by Malick's Hydra by. Malick offers him a chance at redemption, a adventure to fix the mistakes he's made in the game by involving unprepared people like von Strucker's son. A confident Ward rejects Malick's proposal, even when Malick says he knows where he can detect the kid, who Due south.H.I.E.Fifty.D. is also conveniently looking for. "Sometimes," he tells the budding Hydra leader, "you sacrifice a role player to play the game."
May and Bobbi show upwardly at the bank under the guise of wanting to open Ms. Wong (May's) safe deposit box. (The two most important things almost this scene: Bobbi'southward undercover glasses, and May and Bobbi trading conversations in Standard mandarin.) But when Bobbi uses one of Fitz's devices to find the actual prophylactic eolith box belonging to Hydra, they trigger an warning that has the banking company manager and the guards cornering them in the vault. May's first instinct is to fight, but Bobbi takes the opposite road: Using information Fitz is feeding her through her spectacles, she sweetness talks them long plenty to nigh get out of trouble. When May sees a baby-sit going for his gun, though, the channel gets inverse to the Melinda May Badass Hour. Afterwards on, May corners Bobbi about why she chose the condom route rather than the assault route dorsum at the bank. She assesses that Bobbi is hiding behind her medical tests and holding back considering she doesn't think she's potent enough to fight anymore. May rallies her confidence past telling her about how she scouted her at the Academy before she became an agent (and I really demand THAT backstory now) and shares her own Bahrain experiences. She knows what it feels like to regress due to a personal loss. And she's not going to let Bobbi go there.
Thank you to Malick, Ward has gotten to Werner first, only May and Bobbi easily interrupt the love fest that is Hydra beating the crap out of the kid and gloriously disarm all the agents in a sequence that reminds me why I beloved these ladies so much. Bobbi finally gets her due, taking on Kebo in a duel that shows u.s. why no one should ever underestimate the BAMF that is Barbara "Bobbi" Morse. And for all her fighting skills, it's experience and smarts that help Bobbi succeed — she uses her batons to electrocute Kebo in the pool. May, meanwhile, is trying desperately to get Werner to tell her about Ward earlier he either passes out or dies. (I don't think they'll let him dice, though… Based on Malick's conversation before, it'south clear that they have plans to go on him live for a greater purpose.) Werner tries to repent for what happened, telling May, "I didn't know he changed into that affair." And as we watch May's horrified face, we get the actual story of what happened the day that Garner was attacked and the reason behind why he ultimately survived a lilliputian too well.
Garner. Is. Lash.
Like I said: credit where credit is due. While I've mulled over the fact Garner may be an Inhuman, I never would have pegged him for Lash, and this reveal caught me off guard. Obviously, now everything makes sense: the fact that he hasn't nevertheless killed Daisy (something Daisy asks him about point bare, along with asking almost his shapeshifting skills) and also the fact that he's and so interested in finding Lincoln. (That last scene, where we see Daisy willing to offering up Lincoln's whereabouts because, as Garner notes, "he'd be safer here," made me cringe. Don't practice information technology, Daisy!) Much similar when we learned Ward was Hydra, looking dorsum at all the interactions and choices Garner has made in light of this new knowledge all of a sudden adds a different perspective to our stories. How will this touch his relationship with May? What nearly the fact that he and Simmons take been bonding over therapy and PhDs? Is Garner really, truly evil inside, or is just Lash that's the problem? (Nosotros've already done the Jekyll and Hyde thing, so I'm guessing nosotros're not going to go there twice.) Moreover, if Garner has been vetting Inhumans since the first, how many has he actually killed or put on a list when he realizes they're not "worthy" enough? Practise nosotros fifty-fifty want to know?
Debriefing Notes:
- This was our beginning real good expect at Lash, and I have to say, it'southward pretty spot on from the comics.
- I feel similar there should be a theory about Coulson having more than secrets than he let on — and that he really does know nearly Garner/Lash. Was it coincidence that he had two agents tailing him that twenty-four hours? Did Coulson just purchase his story about that because of the situation? I don't retrieve based on everything nosotros've seen so far Coulson would exist that vicious, since people he cares nearly have been in danger because of this thing, but you never know. (Personally, I'm all about dark turns, if the evidence e'er wanted to take Coulson into the bad-guy expanse.)
- For now, the background of Gideon Malick is being kept in the dark. What we do know is he's a shadowy figure of Hydra who has ties to Baron von Strucker, and whose loyalties definitely lie somewhere evil. But how deep and involved he is remains to exist seen.
- Poor May. Get-go, she has the near terrible guilt thinking that everything that happened with Garner was her fault. Now, she has to try to figure out how to deal with the fact that her husband is the monster that'due south been killing people. Does this mean nosotros're getting some kind of Garner backstory shortly? May obviously doesn't know, and they were married, and I'd be interested to know exactly how Garner came into being an Inhuman and what his life was like earlier he met her. (Or did he become his powers while they were together?)
- According to Fitz, there's been little progress on the portal simulations and nothing and so far as worked. Simmons is disappointed, but Fitz assures her the monolith was but one option. They're not giving up. I beloved everything well-nigh this scene until we find out Hunter's earlier talk has patently afflicted Fitz, who is doing his own inquiry on Will in his down fourth dimension. I'thousand all for Fitz taking this in a protective way — researching to make sure he has no bad blood in his groundwork and so that Simmons doesn't get hurt. But if nosotros're going the jealousy route, I'm hoping there's going to be more to it than merely Fitz thinking he can't compete with Space Young man. This pair has been through far as well much for that, and in my opinion, that plotline would be a disservice to both their characters.
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