Aw man you guys ready for this recap! YOU HYPED UP! You saw
Captain America: The Winter Solider and then tuned in last night for Agents of
SHIELD because #ITSALLCONNECTED right! Well I watched it and I was just
whelmed. Was it because I’m not basking in the Cap 2 afterglow like everyone
else? Is it because Game of Thrones came back on this past Sunday and it was
pure lava? Or was it that maybe the episode was a bit too easy to figure out
and a bit late to have a seriously interesting direction to the show. Here’s
the point where some of you call me a hater (even Travis) but hear me out as we
go through the events of the episode.
Real talk even though I haven’t seen the movie the show spoils
events in Captain America: The Winter Solider so read on at your own risk.
Turn, Turn, Turn starts off exactly where Beginning of the
End ended with Coulson and Skye holding May at gunpoint with Fitz locked in the
lab room. At the same time Garrett is flying along in his super-fast SHIELD jet
is then attacked by some SHIELD drones sent from The Hub by Agent Hand. It also
seems that Agent Hand is convinced that Coulson and crew are Hydra. Hand feels
that only the agents she trusts with her are down for the cause and everyone
else is possible enemy. Basically I think this episode is happening
concurrently with the film. Agent Triplett and Simmons are basically stuck in
the Hub trying to get back in contact with Fitz on the Bus. On the Bus Coulson has completely lost all
trust in May and when Garrett finds a way to get a SOS to the Bus he ices May
(stun blast) and proceed along with Fitz and Skye to help save Garrett from the
drones. The whole first 15-20 minutes is very fast paced and tight still not 24
level of tense though. With Garrett no attaching his plane to the Bus Race
Banon style he and Coulson share info and ideas about who they think the
Clairvoyant plus they get this encoded message on their computer screen about
Hydra coming out like Diana Ross.
Around the same time Simmons ends up contacting the SHIELD
school we saw earlier during the episode Seeds. Agent Weaver appears before
Simmons in hologram and tells Simmons that Hydra done took over and to not
trust anyone and to lock the door and hide. No lie the scene reminded me of a
scene in another Whedon thing, Serenity when they learned about the birth of
reavers but I digress. Triplett then goes ahead and locks the door with Simmons
now being a bit shook he gives her his knife saying that if she tries to kill
him then he knows she’s Hydra. Hand and her group ends up getting into that
room and capturing Triplett and Simmons telling them she’s Hydra to test them. When
the past Hand tells them that she thinks Coulson is Hydra and that they must take
Coulson out. Coulson splits up the team to have Ward and Skye go take out the
computers with Coulson and Garrett going to go after Hand.
While teamed up with Garrett they have a conversation about
killing Agent Hand and once Coulson disagrees he notices that Garrett knows
some things that he shouldn’t. At that point Coulson and the handcuffed not
trusted anymore Agent May figure out that Garrett is the Clairvoyant!
Some SHIELD swat guys come in and at one point to get them
and then Garrett is like…
And like half the squad shoot the other guys and Garrett is
all like Bond villain now. He goes on to talk about why being bad is good and
stuff and says how Coulson is going to die and May is going to die and that
Fitz (yeah my bad Fitz is there too) basically going to be a Hydra science
slave. Fitz crying tears of anger says he’s going to make Garrett pay which
make Garrett give him the best you ain’t bout that life laugh of the whole
series. Ward and Skye have a heart to
heart kiss and really was the slowest part of the episode that then goes to
Ward fighting a group of SHIELD guys on some Double Dragon style wrecking. Ward
comes out scathed, bruises and cuts looks all heroic and then they set bombs up
all over the area and blows them.
Fisticuffs happen between Team Coulson and Them Hydra boys
with Fitz hiding under a desk and May smashing faces with Coulson fighting the
big bad. Fitz gets his first body saving May who was about to got from behind
and Coulson overpowers Garrett as Hand and her crew comes in. Hand and Coulson reconcile as they find out
the end of the Cap 2 like everyone else. Hand decides to go to the fridge and
leaves the Hub to Coulson with them being possibly the last two remaining
highest ranking SHIELD agents. Ward is told his Garrett is the Clairvoyant and
Hydra so he goes with Hand on the transport to the fridge. The rest of the Team
helps Coulson fix the Bus with Coulson still being mad at May (who was talking
to Fury on that special phone line).
Here’s the kicker part; on the plane with Hand she offers Ward
a chance to kill the right Clairvoyant and he takes her firearm and then goes
and kills the other guards and shoots Agent Hand a ton of times. These guys
just bodied the best character yet Skye still lives. There we have it; Ward was the traitor in the
group.
Did You Know:
That this whole episode takes place during the Winter
Soldier movie? Not a lot of real serious Easter eggs from comic but more from
the new movie. I don’t know if it helped their ratings or DVR views but to me
it’s a little too late to ramp up stuff like this when it should’ve been
happening at the halfway point. I have a theory on all of this MCU stuff but I
need to wait to see the last episodes.
