Truly , this is a clock time of miracles . First Ward , who was so boring he in reality made fun of himself for being boring , becamethe most fascinating persona . And now Skye , whom the show had to keep telling us was awesome , is all of a sudden being a entire straight - up badass . Meanwhile , Coulson continues to stick out . Yay .
Top look-alike : Stephanie Hans / Marvel .
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Part of the amusement of SHIELD , at this point , is look on the denial chip aside small-arm by while . Coulson still has n’t quite contract it through his oral sex that the organization he served all this time no longer exist or is viewed as indistinguishable from Hydra . In this episode , we reveal that Maria Hill has live on to work for Tony Stark and is swerve stack with the U.S. government to pass over intel .
( include intel about the Man - Thing — firstwe find out that Iron Man 3 had a Man - Thing easter orchis , and now there ’s a unmediated reference in this show . Sounds as though Marvel got the right back from Lionsgate . So looking forward to finding out who in the MCU knows fright and therefore burns at the Man - Thing ’s touch ! )
So in this episode , Coulson keep getting pick apart back by how on his own he is — even aside from finding Koenig ’s dead consistency and realizing that Ward is a Hydra broker who ’s taken Skye with him . He is blindsided when Maria Hill leads Col . Talbott ’s goons to the Providence base and throws Coulson and his multitude to the wolves . He keeps thinking that they can call for backup to go after Ward — but there is no backup . To the authorities , Coulson and Ward are the same , until Coulson proves otherwise by coming clear .
The rest of the squad only just bring in in this episode that Ward is Hydra , and it hit them hard — at one point , Coulson says he ’ll freak out about this later , but it ’s exculpated he ’s freaking out on the interior . Fitz , the one who least wants everything to change , is the most repellent to accepting the truth , even after he find a subject matter that says “ WARD IS HYDRA ” shroud on the fundament . None of them wants to live with they ’ve been play that badly .
But the person who handles the Ward unwrap with the most aplomb , and yet who totally serve disdain to Ward in the raw and insensate , is Skye . The way she plays Ward in this installment is really beautiful to watch . She gets him to aviate to L.A. , pretending that the concentrated - drive ’s encryption is geo - interlock to the diner where she met Mike Peterson . And then she keep back stalling . She ’s not as good as Ward at affect to be something she ’s not , so she habituate the jolt of the Hydra reveal and the surrender of SHIELD to continue up what ’s really disturb her .
And she keep finding way of life to dig at Ward without giving up the game . All the scene where he ’s growing more suspicious and she ’s just using his misgiving and twitchiness to twist the tongue further are just great — his desire to keep their S.O.-trainee relationship and their budding Latinian language take into account her to flirt him while also take a crap him squirm .
It all culminates in the great scene above , where the build - up is note perfect , her shout out him on his lie that he killed Garrett — and also using Garrett ’s perfidiousness to comment on Ward ’s . Until she finally reveal that she tipped off the cops about Ward , with a beautiful “ hail Hydra . ” Later , when Ward endeavor to get wild-eyed with her , her answer mirrors ours : “ I ’m run to throw up . ” The more she sticks it to him , the more Ward unravels and becomes the ego - serve weirdy he always was .
You peculiarly have to love Skye calling Hydra what they are — German Nazi — while Grant tries to pretend that that was the honest-to-goodness Hydra and this is the Modern , awesome Hydra that ’s just about holding hands and blab campfire songs or something .
And Skye dead would have gotten away from Ward , except that Mike Peterson show up and nabs her . And then , acting on Garrett ’s instructions , he does what needs to be done to get the hard driveway decrypted . ( That geo - locking is based purely on altitude , and they just call for to be at 35,000 feet . )
It ’s interesting to see the line of latitude between last night ’s episode and the show ’s pilot film . Not just the parallel conversations in the diner — Skye trying to win over Mike Peterson he ’s a hero , versus her exposing that Ward is n’t . But also , the orgasm of the episode being Coulson flying along in Lola , his awesome midlife crisis car . But most of all , the Crux Australis being that someone has captured Skye and wants her cooperation — but instead of administering truth drug / torture to Skye , her captor administers it to Ward . In the first instalment , that motion gains Skye ’s confidence because she gets to interrogate one of her captor — but here it just act as on her last sympathy for her former friend .
Skye is less successful at carry off Deathlok aka Mike Peterson than she was at handle Ward — because she entrust Mike ’s son to SHIELD , he ’s now in the hands of Hydra . So Mike has to playact orb or his kid conk out . Plus he ’s get one of those bombs in his head , and they can see if he tries anything remotely funny .
But Garrett do a tactical error by having Mike give Ward a heart attack — it shows too clear that Ward is disposable in the eyes of his previous S.O. and mentor . And you see hints ( which are going to be expanded on next episode , looks like ) that Ward is see that the teamwork and loyalty he found on Coulson ’s team is better than the “ you ’re a value phallus of this team until we no longer necessitate you ” mental attitude of Garrett ’s . ( I really desire they do n’t essay to save Ward in the couple episode remain to this season . That ’s a season - two discharge , if it ’s anything . )
So at last Coulson shew up and rescues Skye , with the aforesaid flying - car chronological sequence . Too unfit Skye has already decrypted the knockout drive — although she left the Hydra goons a nasty surprise .
Meanwhile , Coulson ’s squad proceed to fray at the edges — there ’s the aforementioned attack by Talbott , who want them all to surrender and be interrogated and bargain for their lives with closed book . There ’s the Ward radioactive dust . But there ’s also the sentience that they ’re only here by option — even the word “ agent , ” as Talbott says , imply the existence of an system that is now illegitimate . They all think Melinda May has give up them , and Simmons observe making noises about how Coulson ’s order do n’t really come from anyone or anything .
Perhaps amazingly , it ’s the squad ’s outsider , Triplett , who ’s the most steadfast . He still believes he has a duty , and he still accepts Coulson ’s leading . If Melinda May did leave them , then she ’s a turncoat in Triplett ’s eyes . He is happy to hang out by the pool and eat junk food until the next duty assignment — but he ’s still wait for the next naming , and despite Garrett ’s treachery he has not changed his psyche about anything .
We do n’t really get to see Coulson ’s forebode addict - out about Ward and everything else — and then he ’s given even more reasonableness to freak out . While everyone else was plow with Talbott and rescuing Skye , Melinda May has cypher out the cryptic clue that Nick Fury gave Maria Hill about the secrets of Coulson ’s resurrection and the Tahiti course of study . ( To be just , Fury ’s clue was essentially along the lines of “ Hey , poke up Coulson ’s grave . ” )
At last , May finds who was in charge of the program that brought Coulson back from the numb : Coulson himself . There ’s a television of him telling Fury that the program should be abandon because this Christ’s Resurrection process lean to cause insanity , graphomania , aphasia , dementedness and world-wide brain - sproing . The only matter that might facilitate is what they actually did to Coulson himself : implanting false remembering .
Coulson seems stunned by this reveal — although did anybody else wish the telecasting had show him being gung - ho and saying the program was in great shape and they should rush forward with testing , instead ? That ’s the only thing that would have given this knife one additional twist .
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