Only three episodes left before the first season of Agents
of SHIELD is over and while most of the folks around are feeling better about the
show I’m still in the same "this isn’t that good" camp. With last night’s episode
titled 'Nothing’s Personal' really not changing my feelings either. I think after the
first spoilery episode 4 days after the release of Cap 2 the show kind of
settled back into its kind of average state of being again with every one being
just a bit too cute. This episode continues directly where the last one left us
with team back at the base, May out in the cold, and Skye in a terrible scary
boyfriend movie plot with Ward.
The episode starts with us seeing Maria Hill (now a Stark
employee sorry for more Cap 2 spoilers) in Washington dealing with Congressional
hearings about what happened with HYDRA and SHIELD. She's snuck up on by Agent
May who’s still on the hunt for who was in charge of T.A.H.I.T.I. with Hill not
having much for her she dips away as Hill is taken into custody by FBI. Back at
the hidden base bunker left over team Coulson is checking and sees from tapes
that everyone left. Simmons ends up finding Koenig’s body with Fitz finding a
message from Skye warning that Ward is HYDRA. After everyone gets over their shock at the
betrayal they start to get angry and make a plan, only to have the base entered by Talbot (aka the #2 Hulk hater in existence) and his troops. Wondering how they
got in Coulson finds out that Maria Hill snitched.
As Talbot starts questioning Fitz, Simmons and Triplett, Coulson
is talking to Hill about what’s going on. Hill cut a deal to not go to jail
and tells Coulson to get in on it. He’s like "naw", Ward is HYDRA, they done
murdered Hand and broke out the fridge, took all the good stuff and he has
to take out Garrett. Once Hill hears that she becomes extra gully again and
with Coulson beats up Talbot and his troops and escapes to hunt down Ward and
get Skye back.
So meanwhile the lovers Skye and Ward are in L.A. She tells him that the place to decrypt the drive is the diner where she
first met Mike Peterson aka Deathlok. So she’s running the immaculate game on
Ward feigning ignorance over the sudden arrival of cops, and just waiting for the moment to tell Ward
she knows he’s HYDRA and that she brought the cops to the spot. He flips out
and starts beating up cops and somehow doesn’t get shot by the LAPD while Skye
gets kind of arrested and then as the cops are taken out drives the squad car
away until the dude Deathlok jumps on the car punches through the windshield
and grabs her up by the throat. Now with the supreme muscle that is Deathlok
they all go back to the Bus with Skye really getting into Ward and hurting his
feelings. An annoyed Deathlok who has no time or gives no damn anymore about
these people tells Skye to give up the info or as he shoots Ward with a weird
chest device that stops Ward’s heart. Skye has to give up the info or Ward
dies. So because she is a good person she tells him and Ward doesn’t die. She
tells them that the position to decrypt the data is high in the sky so as they
try to take off the plane is stopped by Hill and Team Coulson.
It’s really just a stalling tactic so that Coulson can sneak
aboard the plane. Ward takes off with Coulson now on the plane. He reaches Skye
and Skye all happy to be saved asked him how he took out Deathlok. A shook
looking Coulson is like Deathlok is here? Now Deathlok sees Coulson and begin
pursuit. Coulson and Skye run to Lola (the flying car) open the Bus’ loading
door and escape the clutches of Ward and Deathlok using Lola to not die. Ward
being Ward is all salty and thirsty can’t let them escape and plans to pursue
with Deathlok telling him to chill since they have the drive and the info but
of course no one listens to him. The team now at a lowly motel 6 looking place
is just now taking a rest and dealing with Ward’s betrayal. Skye tells Coulson
in another one of their father-daughter like heart to hearts that she left a
trap in the hard drive. So with things bad but not too terrible Coulson goes to
his motel room to find Agent May standing there in the dark.
See during the episode she decided to go to Coulson’s “grave”
and dig up the casket. There she found a flash drive with some video on it. She
then brings it to Coulson and gets him to sit down and watch it since it will
give him the answer to who ran the T.A.H.I.T.I. project. Guess what trill
believers it was Coulson. Coulson was put in charge of project that was
designed to bring an Avenger back to life if they just so happened to have died
in battle. But what they learned is that the side effects were just too great
unless you wipe a person’s mind so that they do not remember anything of the
process. The video is Coulson explaining this to Fury and resigning all to
which Coulson just says “huh”.
So that’s it. A little more mystery and more douche bag Ward
ahead with hopefully more I don’t really care but I have to do this Deathlok in
the next two weeks. Oh and Maria Hill named dropped the Man-Thing this past
week. That was nice.
