Agents of Shield Season 5 Episode 7 Review
This episode sees the reunion of almost all of the agents, plus the remaining sympathetic time to come characters (~ish, in the case of Deke). Grown up Robin reveals herself to May, and Gravitonium makes a stunning reappearance after disappearing for four seasons. The future is total of dangling plot threads, from the remains of the Framework to ane of the offset mysteries the show ever tackled, last seen in the hands of ruthless billionaire Ian Quinn, who stole it from HYDRA. Everything on this show comes total circle eventually.
The episode picks up moments later Fun and Games left off, communicable upwards with the daring escape of Han, Leia and Luke from the evil empire Fitz, Jemma and Daisy from the Kree. They make a quick stop to allow Jemma change out of her flowing white Princess Leia garb, which, while fun, is too conspicuous for an escape. Fitz checks Daisy's condition later her fall to the crater flooring. She asks why he didn't join in the hand to hand fighting, and he replies, with his usual dry out wit, "Wouldn't be fair. I do push button ups now. Double digits. So…"
Jemma and Fitz make enthusiastic plans for storytelling, pints and gin when the crunch is over. Jemma'south ear implant let's out a dizzying high pitched whine. Fitz looks for tweezers and then that he tin remove information technology. He finds clamps, and does a delicate removal procedure on the love of his life's ear culvert while Daisy fights a Kree warrior side by side to him. I've missed having these three together, and so and then much.
They see the next corridor, where Fitz' waiting escape ship tin be seen. Information technology blows upwardly in a spectacular ball of flame, with giant pieces flying toward the window. You'd recall this was a 3D movie. Fitz is stunned and nearly has to be dragged away past Jemma and Daisy.
Kasius tin't finish touching and obsessing over his new cheek scar. I understand that Jemma's very good with scars, as well bad he wasn't nicer to her. Faulnak tells him that scars are badges of honor. His business for his unblemished eyebrow is misplaced. Faulnak is the big brother from h#ll.
Faulnak takes command of the search for Quake, sending his best warrior, Maston-Dar, to find her. He allows Sinara to bring together the search, as long every bit she only uses Terran weapons. Maston-Dar prefers to utilize the weapons of the archaic people he kills to keep the hunt interesting. Sinara looks to Kasius for confirmation, and he nods in acquiescence.
The Vicar cleans upwards Tess' body, with the threat that the other humans volition end up the same way if they continue to hibernate Flintstone. Coulson and Mack realize that the man level isn't safety for them whatsoever more, even in hiding.
Kasius is pacing in a corridor, waiting for Sinara. Every bit she approaches, he positions himself and then that he'll be on higher ground. He tries to act every bit though zip is incorrect, then tries to convince her that he permit Faulnak take accuse as a way to go on both Faulnak and their male parent happy. It's irrelevant in the long run. Shortly Kasius and Sinara will have their freedom. Sinara questions whether Kasius is really working for her freedom along with his own, and notes that Faulnak is the one giving the orders at present.
She continues down the corridor, putting them on the same height level. Kasius rushes to keep up with her. He explains that he understands that she's resentful that he put her in a expiry match against Quake, only she survived, as he knew she would.
Kasius jumps in front of Sinara, at present putting his head lower than hers, an exact reversal of their starting positions. He proves his real skill. It'south not warfare, information technology's reading and manipulating people. Sinara knows this, only she allows it this time, considering he'southward building upwards to giving her what she needs.
Kasius: Your forcefulness has never let me downwardly. And now, I inquire for you lot to lend it to me once more. We're and so close, Sinara. To freedom from this identify. Restored to glory, together.
Sinara: You're begging. Information technology's repulsive.
Kasius: I'chiliad imploring you to think. (He grows impatient, but dials it dorsum.) To apply reason. I must gratify my brother, and I cannot let him to steal my advantage. I will keep him entertained. Nosotros'll let his man chase her tail, while yous figure out what's in her head. (He steps up to put them on even footing again, as the wheels are turning in Sinara'south mind.) Where will she go?
She'll go direct for the elevators, every bit it turns out. Maston-Dar does the obvious, and pulls the wires out of the command box, stopping the elevator. Daisy opens the ceiling hatch and has Fitz give her a boost. Good matter he'south been doing those button ups. Jemma says that it's proficient to be on the run instead of standing still. Fitz adds in, "Together."
The photographic camera pans up though the elevator hatch to the surface, and then that we can check in with May. It's a absurd fleck of editing. She's live but in a horror movie, albeit 1 with fantastic camera work, CGI and lighting. She's likewise still in a lot of pain. All of the fighting is making her leg worse instead of better.
A Vrellnexian sneaks upwardly on her, merely Enoch kills it earlier it tin can attack. He lets May know that he's killed three that would've killed her, not that he'southward bragging or anything. May, being May, isn't impressed. She wants to know why he'southward not being eaten. He tells her that he doesn't have tender insides to attract them. He assures her he's not a robot either, after she assumes that Fitz congenital another LMD for the occasion. He begins to list the agents who'll save the day, and when he gets to Coulson, she realizes that he's the one who sent them through the monolith. She'southward really not okay with that.
Her righteous assail is cut short by her injured leg. Enoch says that she shouldn't even exist standing with an injury like hers. May says she's a fighter.
Enoch: It may be time for a career alter.
Enoch tells May that a gravity storm is approaching. The Vrellnexians run away. Enoch says they ride the gravity storms (they are super tough), and they aren't afraid of him. Just then a human swathed in typical Star Wars desert gear arrives and anchors May and Enoch to the ground without saying a word. Information technology's just in fourth dimension, equally the gravity storm was about to acquit May away.
Coulson and the squad realize that it's time to become to the surface, since the Kree won't stop killing humans until they've institute Flint and his accomplices. While they're talking, Flint wonders why it's been so long since he's seen Tess. Mack, Elena and Coulson admit that the Kree killed her. Flint takes a minute to be solitary and assume that everything is his error.
Maston-Dar is nevertheless searching for Daisy, since he was on the wrong floor when he pulled out the elevator wires. He dramatically kills i person, which inspires the next to show Maston-Dar that Daisy and friends escaped through the top of the elevator. He's all about the brute force, not so much nearly the reasoning or detective work.
Kasius and Faulnak accept a fiddling heart to heart chat over their weapons preferences and fighting styles.
Kasius: Yous were always more interested in the power behind the weapon. The ability to impale.
Faulnak: (He's belongings a rifle with a bayonet.) The craftsmanship is what caught my eye. in one case once again, misplaced priorities.
Kasius: These item tools from earth seem a nice cross department of our areas of interest.
Faulnak: Firearms are fine for those who demand the condom of distance. (He turns and fires by Kasius' head without warning.) I adopt a blade, feel the warm blood on my easily as the life drains from my adversary's trunk.
Kasius: Spoken like a true kid of our male parent.
Faulnak: Maybe if you'd bothered to sound more similar him, you lot'd exist less of a disgrace.
Kasius: A disgrace? Who with no prior training was placed in accuse of his own fleet. A disgrace who fought as you did confronting our enemies.
Faulnak: Y'all lost a strategic outpost and thousands of lives in the process.
Kasius (entering storyteller mode): I was put in an impossible state of affairs. (Faulnak: Excuses!) I was cornered, outmanned and overrun. (Faulnak fires again, inches from Kasius' head.) Two of my trusted generals dead at my feet. Enemies closing in.
Faulnak: Then you ran.
Kasius: What option did I take?
Faulnak: Glory! Drink the odium. Fight and die like any of the Kasius family name would have, rather than fleeing with your low built-in subordinate. I wonder, is it her beauty you lot admire, or her ability to kill?
Kasius: Sinara defended me. She cutting downwardly my would be attackers.
Faulnak: And yous were both exiled for abandoning your posts.
Kasius: She saved my life! She's been past my side ever since. Yous telephone call me weak? My strength comes from surrounding myself with loyalty.
Faulnak: More platitudes. The only thing that runs deeper than the river of blood from your fallen soldiers is the shame you lot bring on our family. Yous're similar this planet, brother. Once full of promise and father'due south hopes, to be molded into something magnificent, simply at present just a broken speck of dust, confined to the darkest border of the galaxy. I'yard eager for my homo to find the Destroyer so I can have exit of both.
He hands Kasius a handgun, aimed toward Faulnak. The wheels are turning in Kasius' head. That last role was a challenge. Kasius looks like he'south been handed the keys to the kingdom, if only he tin figure out exactly which door to use them on. I suspect he's realized that Faulnak completely underestimates him, and that'south just where he likes to be.
Fitz, Jemma, and Daisy find their way to the life support monitoring hub of the Lighthouse. As they investigate, Fitz rolls back a panel, and discovers that the artificial gravity is existence provided by Gravitonium. Gravitonium is a volatile, unstable, fictional element that probably too causes the gravity storms, holds the shell of the earth and the remaining atmosphere together, and should move to the number one spot on the list of candidates for who/what really destroyed the globe. The last time we saw information technology, it had besides swallowed a scientist alive, so there's a adventure Dr Hall will bear witness up in some form.
The iii agents are looking at the Gravitonium, trying to figure out how information technology got there, when Maston-Dar comes around the corner shooting at them and the Gravitonium sleeping room. Say what y'all will about Kasius and Sinara, at least they use their brains.
Fitz is shot in the side, so Daisy engages Maston-Dar, while Jemma helps Fitz escape. Daisy follows as quickly as she can, losing Maston-Dar in the steam released from holes he's shot in pipes. When they end for a moment to tend to Fitz' wound, a lighted mask appears in the shadows, setting them on alert again.
It turns out to be Deke, wearing his pressurization helmet. He broke a window in order to escape the room he was welded into, used his antigrav device to observe another entrance, then followed the dead bodies and gun shots to find them. There's a brief debate about whether to kill him for selling Daisy to Kasius. He explains that he got her to Jemma without the craziness she was going to cause, which was my reasoning. You'd recall Daisy would understand pirate reasoning, being a former pirate herself. Anyway, he swears he'southward Team SHIELD at present, salute and all.
Deke and Fitz seem to think alike to some extent, but don't have time to explore information technology, or the goodwill of Jemma and Daisy. That bromance will have to wait.
Mack follows Flint to offering a bit of comfort, using the daddy skills he learned in the Framework. Flint continues to feel that it'due south his responsibility to save everyone, even the agents. He'll brand an excellent Agent of SHIELD with that hero circuitous.
They hear pounding on the door, and Mack goes to investigate. It's Daisy and co. At that place are heartfelt hugs all effectually, specially between Coulson and Daisy, and Fitz and everyone. No one is glad to run into Deke. Anybody misses May. Simmons won't permit Fitz tell Mack how he got to the future, because she's practicing to be a strict English school marm. Someone's gotta keep the kids on task.
Flint leaves while no 1's watching him, and finds the Vicar in the public foursquare. The Vicar and a second Kree effort to arrest Flintstone, but he has a pocket full of rocks. He pulls them together to grade a spike, and stabs the Vicar through the eye. Before he can kill the second one, Sinara knocks Flint out. She plans to employ him as bait to catch Daisy.
The team has discovered that Flintstone'south missing, and followed him to the square. They figure out Sinara'south plan. Daisy pretends to plow herself in, and Coulson starts shooting with Grill's gun. Mack slams Maston-Dar with an oxygen tank and a sledge-hammer, while Coulson knicks Sinara's arm with a bullet. They barely escape.
Maston-Dar and Sinara follow them dorsum to their hide out. It has a shaft that leads upwards to the trawlers, and then they utilise Deke's antigrav device to take them to the meridian, i or two at a time (Fitz and Simmons go kickoff together, aww). Flint moves boulders in front end of the door, and so the assassins begin to break downwardly the wall.
Just as Maston-Dar breaks through the wall, Sinara uses her psychically controlled balls to impale him. She follows the team alone.
No i in the group is a pilot except Flintstone, but he'south staying in the Lighthouse to protect his people. Mack and Elena decide to adopt him and stay too. Fitz tells them near the weapons he hid on level 3 (the roaches' floor). They are ungrateful that he didn't hibernate the weapons in a amend identify, and he calls them on information technology. He feels like he's not getting enough credit for what he went through to get to them, and what he brought to the table. Mack relents and thanks him.
Coulson decides to exist the pilot. He has a flying machine. How dissimilar can it exist?
Sinara returns to tell Faulnak and Kasius that Daisy and the rest have escaped to the surface. They've been communicating with friends who alive there. Kasius is taken aback, and says it'south impossible. Sinara holds upwardly Virgil's tiny radio.
Faulnak: So the Destroyer of Worlds has escaped, and willingly makes for your state of exile, where apparently others have survived. Your incompetence is virtually admirably phenomenal.
Kasius: There must be some…
Faulnak: Ready a transport for Maston-Dar. If humans can survive the perils of this planet, it will exist only fine for him to pursue.
Sinara: Maston is dead.
Faulnak: By whose hand?
Sinara: My hand.
(Sinara stares ar Kasius during most of the post-obit speech.)
Faulnak: (Laughs) Sinara. Holding your own against the Destroyer of Worlds. Felling my ain all-time warrior. It seems I underestimated y'all and your desire to motility college in the ranks. My brother confines you to his dungeon, denying you the correct to smooth. At my side, you will smoothen more radiant than the stars nosotros volition conquer. A warrior such as yourself deserves a leader worthy of your talents. I will show you lot things Kasius could never…
Kasius stabs him in the back, all the manner through, with the bayonet they were admiring before. Sinara watches placidly.
Kasius: Sinara's non some object to be taken.
Sinara smiles. Kasius pulls the bayonet out. Faulnak falls to the floor.
Kasius: The truth, brother. We both know father sent me on a suicide mission. Two of my generals were dead at my anxiety, yes, considering Sinara killed them. They were preventing me from fleeing the battlefield. You see Sinara said, and I agree, the battleground is not my place. I'1000 not built for it. With the mortality left to her, I can, and have, focused on greater things. I wasted so much time on my knees seeking your approving. No more.
Faulnak: You play God over a dead stone. Only you're but a coward who hides, and stabs his enemies in the back.
Kasius: And in the front end.
Kasius viciously stabs Faulnak through the eye. He dies.
Kasius: (Looking at Faulnak) A life spent, (Looking at Sinara) a life earned.
By killing Faulnak, he's proven himself to Sinara and earned her loyalty back.
Sinara looks gleeful at this betoken. He'southward just given her everything she'south ever wanted- recognition, loyalty, respect, devotion, first identify in his heart and schemes. Kasius closes Faulnak'due south optics and rubs Faulnak'southward blood on his face. He takes both of Sinara's hands in his own.
Kasius: Retrieve how warmly my father will greet us when we avenge my brother's death, and bring him the Destroyer of Worlds. Everything nosotros've ever wanted volition soon come to carry.
Geez, buddy, move on from your daddy issues. Think exterior the box.
Back on the trawler, Fitz and Simmons strap in and reiterate that they never want to be autonomously again, which they've said a worrying number of times at this bespeak. They starting time to kiss and the curse kicks in. The trawler hits a meteorite, and Coulson yells, "Okay, and so maybe non exactly like flying a motorcar." Deke runs for the back yelling that they're so stupid. What did the True Believers do to him that made him then jaded?
May wakes up on the Zephyr, which has survived and houses the Truthful Believers. Elderly Robin Hinton comes out to greet May, saying, "I've waited such a long time to run into you once again." She holds out the carved wooden robin that her begetter made for her.
When Daisy goes to fight the first Kree warrior after their escape, she raises her hand to quake him out of instinct, and zilch happens. She looks at her hand for a moment, totally befuddled and betrayed, earlier she switches to hand to manus, and does just fine, because Melinda May and Grant Ward train their agents thoroughly, inhuman powers or no.
Maston-Dar wins for best Kree make upward. The deep black effectually his eyes and matching blackness mohawk, combined with his deep blue peel and self attitude, make him memorable. Too bad we lost him so presently, though I don't remember seeing anyone check the torso for a pulse. His killer Sinara is obviously the 2d best Kree expect, just the best overall Kree style.
With this episode, Sinara and Kasius rise to join the ranks of the all-time AOS villainous supercouples like Ward and Agent 33, Garrett and Raina, Radcliffe and Aida/Agnes, Madame HYDRA and Framework Fitz, and Jiaying and Calvin Johnson. Sinara and Kasius are two parts of the same devious whole, valuing their intelligence and devotion to each other above all else, and seeking wealth and recognition at any cost. I hope they're alive when nosotros go dorsum to the by, so I can recollect fondly of them murdering their mode to fame and fortune throughout the galaxy.
The corridor scene with Kasius and Sinara was a lovely little graphic symbol slice, explaining both their personalities and their relationship in about a minute. He may exist the front human being for their human relationship, but they are ultimately equal, and they both know it. She gives him leeway to posture for guests and servants, but in one case he's gone too far, she'southward ruthless in making him earn her trust and loyalty dorsum. He depends on her as his emotional support, confidante, spy, general and assassin. He's desperately afraid of losing her.
The foreshadowing that something is going to happen to May is simply besides difficult to ignore whatsoever more. Last week she lost her fight confronting Ben, and Fitz called her an ancient has-been. This week Enoch told her it'south time for a career modify, and Robin showed her the bird fabricated by her father, Seer of Impending Expiry. She acted like she'd been waiting for May specifically. The last time nosotros saw May before the holiday break, she lost her fight with Sinara and was captured.
When May joined the team in season ane, she had been working at a desk-bound job by choice because she couldn't face going back into the field subsequently she'd had to impale an inhuman kid who'd slaughtered humans. Will she save Robin and/or Flint this season, plus the world, bringing her full circumvolve?
Aida tried to give May closure in the Framework, but the same scenario still played out at a later engagement. Saving the inhuman daughter in the field and putting her in a school only meant postponing the daughter's breakdown, which made May even more cold as an agent. Both Flint and Robin are parentless and need assistance. Either could requite May the positive influence on an inhuman child's life that she needs to forgive herself. Then she could retire or choose a desk job, perhaps also as female parent to whichever kid. (Robin is still a child in our era.)
I am not entertaining the idea of May's death.
It makes perfect sense for the production to save coin past reducing the screen time or getting rid of the movie star. She may take even asked to leave or have her hours reduced after her real life injury. There's no reason to kill her, when she could come back for occasional guest spots for a ratings heave. She could also hang out at base and exist the team's handler, phoning in a few minutes of time at a calculator a calendar week.
But what is Enoch made of that would make him neither a person or a robot? Is he a silicone based life course?
The Vrellnexians ride the gravity storms. Is that for kicks, or just the best mode to survive the storm? Could someone who wanted to railroad train them use it as a reward? Maybe taking rides with Deke's antigrav device would be close enough?
Faulnak's whole speech when he told Kasius that he's just a coward was melodramatic, but this: "[You are] now only a broken speck of dust, confined to the darkest edge of the milky way," has to be one of the best Shakespeare meets SciFi lines ever. Straight out of Galaxy Quest. I want to use it on anybody who disappoints me.
When Maston-Dar finds the agents in the life support hub, I believe he says, "Submit willingly or entertain me. Those are your options." Geez, the egos on him and Faulnak. Course, their egos caused them to underestimate their enemies badly enough to turn their backs, which was a fatal mistake in both cases.
Kasius and Faulnak had the personalities and relationship that Blackness Commodities and Maximus should take had on Marvel's Inhumans. Sinara could either exist Auran or a Medusa who chose the smarter brother. Faulnak and Blackness Commodities are both the heirs apparent, slightly stupid and overconfident, inflexible, underestimating their enemies, stuck clinging to outdated, oppressive tradition. They were easy to get rid of because of it. (Inhumans had to impaired the otherwise intelligent Maximus down over the course of the season so that Blackness Commodities could prevail, i of its many faults.)
Kasius and Maximus are the younger brothers who are smarter and endeavor harder, but get no recognition. They grow up resentful and using any means necessary to get a slice of the pie that their older, less talented brothers are given for just existing. They develop a capacity to operate under the radar, read and manipulate people, draw people to them and encourage loyalty, create long term plans, and become ruthless, sneaky, and calculating. They can't get ahead through normal means, so they have to create their own opportunities, which some see every bit cheating.
In an episode and a half, AOS made their congenial relationship more than interesting and developed than Inhumans did in viii. And better acted, peculiarly by Dominic Rains as Kasius, who has endless shades of jealousy, superciliousness, grandiosity, evil, cocky-pity, greed, and even a flake of amore.
What kind of a long strange trip has the Gravitonium taken to finish up providing gravity for the Lighthouse? Is information technology an chemical element plant in infinite? Is this from a unlike cache of the element than the Gravitonium Quinn and Raina stole at the finish of season 1? Is the Gravitonium a clue as to who built the Lighthouse? Quinn, or Fury? HYDRA? Garrett? Ivanov the Superior? (Remember him, the disembodied brain with the ground forces of LMDs?) Dr Hall? Inhumans? Agent Carter? Please let it be Agent Carter. We need a new flashback or 2 or six. Preacher has short seasons, maybe we could even get a Dominic Cooper/Howard Stark appearance. Some of the Howlies? Trip's granddad?
Could the Gravitonium exist used to aid time travel? Are its gravitational disruptions plenty to upset the time-space continuum, and could they effigy out how to directly and control the disruptions?
The original Gravitonium
Swallowing its discoverer, Dr Hall
Could the Gravitonium exist responsible for both destroying the globe and maintaining the integrity of what'due south left? Information technology almost has to be causing the gravity storms. At that place must exist more of it than that little bit nosotros saw in the life support hub.
Bonus Fitz in a cardigan, for Jemma. Information technology doesn't look similar any of his originals survived the trip to the future.
IAIN DE CAESTECKER, ELIZABETH HENSTRIDGE
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