In my opinion, after the last 2 episodes focusing more on Hydra, this episode felt a bit more like the earlier episodes of AoS, with stories involving one individual with superpower each episode. Yes, Hydra story line was still continuing, but we kind of got a little side story as well this time.
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The episode opened with a man named Marcus Daniels. As someone who never actually read Marvel's comicbooks, I had no idea who this man was. But it was shown that he's got some sort of a power of absorbing energy around him. Lamps turned off when he passed (at first it reminds me a bit to Dumbledore's Deluminator, haha), and also he killed a guy just by touching. How convenient is that power?
At the Providence, Ward told the team his version of what happened in the Fridge, you lying son of a bish, while being treated for his wounds. He even told the team that he killed Agent Garrett. Good acting, Ward.
One thing that bugged me during this scene was too much flashbacks. Why? That episode was only a week ago. To emphasize to audiences who didn't catch last week's episode that Ward was telling lies? Maybe. But still annoying.
From Ward, we knew that the prisoners from the Fridge were now freely roaming the world. Coulson seemed to pay extra attention to one Marcus Daniels, it looked like he got a special history with Coulson. In order to search for Daniels, Coulson insisted to split the team even though Skye and May told him it's not wise. Plus Agent Koenig didn't fully trust the whole team yet to let them leave the secret base.
Agent Koenig then decided to put the whole team except Coulson through a lie detector test. An ultimate lie detector, actually. Tbh this was more like a comedic bit of the episode, and some of it was actually funny.
Agents who passed the test would get a lanyard which served a special purpose later in the episode. Also Ward managed to pass this test, although he was very close to being shot by Koenig. Damn, Ward was good at this whole acting thing.
After that, the team was split into 2.
- Coulson, Fitz, Simmons, and Agent Triplett went to get Daniels, this is the part I called the side story,
- while Skye, Ward, May and Koenig stayed at the base.
Turned out, Daniels was a stalker who's obsessed with a cellist named Audrey Nathan. YES, the same cellist who had a relationship with Coulson before the battle of New York. She still didn't know that Coulson's alive, and apparently Coulson didn't want to tell them either, because he couldn't stay with her anyway. awww. Also yes, Daniels' power was absorbing energy.
The team managed to save Audrey before Daniels got her. They made a plan where Audrey would have to do an awesooooome solo cello on stage to trap Daniels and then the team would shoot him with gamma rays to make him overloaded with energy. Simply put, of course they did defeat Daniels. Typical.
But the good part comes after this.
Back at the Providence, bigger and more exciting things were happening.
- Turned out the lanyard given to each agent was a tracker, so Koenig knew their where about all the time, sneaky, but smart also useful later on.
- May left after fixing their plane. Since Coulson no longer trusted her, she decided to leave the team. Walking, on foot, alone, in the middle of Canadian nowhere, heavy snow, I mean, HOW BADASS IS THAT???
- Skye had an idea to hack NSA to get satellite footage of the Fridge breakout. Ward started to get panicked here, but he was still playing it cool, though.
- Ward killed Agent Koenig just before the footage Skye hacked got cleared up to reveal that Ward was there. I should've seen this coming, I mean it's clear that Ward was totally a Hydra, he'd do anything for his mission (which was to bring Skye to Garrett) like he said to May, so it should not be surprising that he killed Koenig. But still it's a nice surprise.
- Besides killing Koenig, it seemed that Ward also managed to edit the footage?? Since we could not see any sign of Ward and Garrett in the video after that. I don't really get this part.
- We also got Skye and Ward's intimate moment. All the kissing, the sweet talks, confession, whatever. Again, brilliant acting from Agent Ward. I really can't tell whether he had genuine feelings or not towards Skye. The intimate moment was stopped abruptly though, because Skye found a trace of blood on Ward and he got panicked.
- With Ward gone, Skye then went looking for Koenig with the help of the lanyard/tracker. See? Useful. She found him not long after that, in a closet, killed. oops. One thing, this scene played simultaneously with Audrey playing solo cello on stage, cross-cutting style, and also Ward started looking for Skye. And let me tell you, the music was perfect in building the suspense just before Skye sound Koenig's dead body, BRILLIANT BACKGROUND MUSIC TIMING.
- After finding out about Koenig, Skye realized that Ward was Hydra. Finally, Skye. She's also panicking though, since Ward was looking for her. There's a noticeable moment here, when Skye was looking for an escape plan, she/the camera focused on the modifiable window. Maybe she left a message for Coulson's team there? Idk. We will have to see next week.
- Skye played smart after that, pretending she's still in the intimate atmosphere with Ward, so he didn't notice anything. And then Ward managed to take her away from the Providence with their plane, saying the team needed their help. Skye found out about Ward's real purpose later on though.
Now, even from episode 1, we knew that Skye's smart. She always managed to send clues, coordinates, without being noticed. Maybe next episode we will see how Skye trying to reach Coulson and the rest of the team. We'll see.
A couple more things from this episode.
It seems that Fitz-Simmons relationship was shifting towards romantic side, with Fitz being jealous of Triplett and all. Tbh I enjoy their sibling-like dynamic more than this. Their dynamic was unique, something we rarely see on tv between a male and a female character. Turning that into a triangle love relationship would be soooo boring.
Lastly, it's been confirmed that Cobie Smulders a.k.a Agent Maria Hill will guest star on AoS, and it's a nice surprise to know that May is the one who is gonna approach her. YES TO BADASS FEMALE HEROES.
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I give this episode of AoS 4/5 noise. It's a nice combination of Hydra story line and AoS earlier type of story line. Less comedic lines, except for the lie detector part but still entertaining. Also that climax, solo cello scene / Skye's finding out about Ward, that was a big plus point.
With only 3 episodes left this season, I guess AoS will have a high tension season finale. I hope so.
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