Watch the “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D”. Unfortunately, the ex-lovers’ turned possible ex-ex-lovers aren’t able to maintain their blissful reunion for too long.
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The recently reinstated agent learned that her ex-husband Andrew (Blair Underwood) is the murderous Inhuman Lash on “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D”. It’s a well-choreographed and power-heavy display on all ends, just going to show how different the series has become from its more humble beginnings, where you were lucky to see someone using powers once every five episodes or so. Ward tells Gideon that he wants to take out Coulson to destroy S.H.I.E.L.D. Psych! Just a daydream.
The photos from tonight’s episode mostly focus on Andrew – and his incarnation as Lash. We don’t really get an idea of just who is training him given that the only Inhuman SHIELD has on the payroll that we know about is Daisy, but that’s okay. Once there, she forces Joe, along with all of the guards, out of the room and tells Andrew that they need to talk alone. The confrontation turns hostile quickly, as Andrew can’t control his anger and shoots May with a stun gun. Now that Coulson has offered Lincoln a slot on the team, they’ll have the chance to clarify their weird thing to both each other and the audience (and convince me that Daisy/Lincoln is a more compelling pairing than Daisy/Mack). Thanks to Daisy’s mother, Andrew encounters the terrigen mists while investigating one of her remaining books, and trying to decipher mysteries about the Inhumans themselves.
But what would this episode be without more sexual tension between Coulson and Rosalind? Coulson is having a hard time tying his necktie. Why? Their scenes are heartbreaking to watch unfold because we know that at a few point, something has to give. Daisy interrupts this tender moment to announce that another quintet has docked.
Garner takes the opportunity to kidnap May so he can explain himself. While they do that, Andrew is going to go reexamine Joey to see if he can be used in the field.
The vague explanation for Dr. Garner’s violent reign as Lash was a bit of a letdown. Coulson and Rosalind are supposed to be meeting with the President and other world leaders in this episode, but they never make it. We get the reveal that Gideon Malick would have been at that meeting.
Back to May and Andrew. The ATCU just wants to help them. “I didn’t ask for this”, he explains.
Next week: Ward takes the first step in his plan to take down S.H.I.E.L.D.
It isn’t that Rosalind believes every Inhuman will be a serial killer, but she knows that not everyone can be a hero. This week, Fitz and Simmons’s story hinges on Simmons’s cell phone, which made it back through the portal damaged but intact. But Coulson shows up. He wouldn’t hurt Daisy or Joey, but Lincoln has a dark side.
Andrew reassures May that he only kills Inhumans who don’t deserve their powers.
The only person who could be killing them is whoever has that list. The dying Strucker then reveals to May that Garner is Lash. She knows about him turning into Lash. He doesn’t want to kill people, but his instincts as Lash have become tethered to his job as the man vetting Inhumans for SHIELD. May returns to home base and, after hearing Bobbi talk about how they have been tracking Lash, checks Andrew’s flight records and medical files. May didn’t. She agrees to have Andrew, in human form, put into stasis. May and Andrew might not be on good terms for a while, but everyone else seems to have come together due to this highly personal showdown.
Joey is back. I’ve been wondering how he’s been doing since we haven’t seen him since the pilot episode. What is that plan, you ask?
But if Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. taught us anything, it’s to never trust anybody, especially people who head up shadowy organizations like the ATCU. Morse fought the Hydra members while Strucker told May that Garner managed to live because he was Lash. Rosalind hangs up the phone and guess who walks up behind her, buttoning his own shirt?
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Tonight’s episode will see Agent Leo Fitz (Iain De Caestecker) finally chose to help Agent Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) to find a way to get back to the portal. But more importantly, while fixing and watching the recordings on Simmons’ phone, he discovers that she really does love him.
