Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD Recap And Review – “Spacetime”
Will tonight’s Agents of SHIELD have to deal with the space-time continuum? Will they reach the end of space and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at them? Never mind, let’s get to it.
Not-So-Short Summary: We start with a bum, Charles, hanging outside of a grocery store in New York with the owner trying to persuade him to leave. He tries to hand Charles some money to get breakfast, but Charles’s touch shows him the future: Edwin Abbott needs Daisy Johnson.
SHIELD arrives on the scene and he tries to explain how he knows everything from her name to Hydra: He’s seen this moment before. He learns of Hydra because May yells it as they fly in to take Charles away.
“This is where I die,” Edwin says to Daisy before being shot and killed. That’s when she realizes the homeless man is an Inhuman. She rushes after him, grabbing his hand before Hydra whisks him away, gaining glimpses of the future–all ominous, doomsday-esque, and kind of badass. I’m excited!
Coulson asks if it’s even possible, with everyone piping in (May’s response being the best, “It’s a dumb question.”). They’re trying to change the future, but Fitz is against it, going on about the fourth dimension. In the end, they decide on how to fix the future. Since Daisy is at the center of these visions and May is nowhere to be found, Coulson says Daisy is to stay underground, May is out in the field, and FitzSimmons are tasked with helping Daisy try to remember as much as possible.
Whatever bad thing happens, Daisy says it’s going to happen tonight.
SHIELD brings in Charles’ wife. The visions drove them crazy. He and whoever he touched would see someone’s death. It got worse when the visions started coming true and he was powerless to do anything.
In the training room, May sets up a makeshift practice session for what could happen so she can move a few seconds faster than what May saw. As they finally find their groove, they find the building Daisy saw.
But before that, Andrew waltzes in, still Andrew. Lash is about to take over and he came to say goodbye. “Well, at least this day can’t get any weirder,” Coulson says as they march Andrew through HQ. Looks like May can’t go on the mission anymore!
Daisy goes in her stead–actually, she goes in everyone’s stead.
On the Hydra-front, Hive!Ward has some new clothes and a healthier look. He gets some one-on-one explanation time with Malick, wanting to know what Malick is after. True power. And Hive offers it (or so it seems because who knows with him).
Oh, and he still has Coulson’s hand. He and Malick take it to the company who created the nerve endings in the hand. Malick wants to buy the company (Transia). It does not go well, so Hive pulls some strings; he has Charles show him what will happen if he says no. The CEO signs immediately. Hive kills everyone anyway. He did say he would show the CEO what will happen.
Malick puts on the prototype armor, very Iron Man-esque, that gives him superhuman strength, the kind of power he craves. Or at least close to it…as my ABC cut to the Wisconsin Primary just after Malick goes Liz Lemon on the nearby conference table. Good, it picked up where they cut out.
Hive wants Malick to crush the CEO. That’s true power, feeling someone’s life slip away beneath your fingers. So Malick crushes his skull.
Daisy goes into Transia on her own. Everyone stays behind. They watch it all on security cameras and as Coulson goes on a mini rant about how this could all be stupid and pointless…they see Grant Ward smirk at the camera before it goes out.
I cracked up. Agents of SHIELD played that reveal to our SHIELD compatriots perfectly.
Daisy walks through their training situation, takes everyone out, and finds herself face-to-face with one-way glass, a machine gun pointed at her on the other side. That’s when Coulson shows up and shoots her–reflection, that is. He tells her she has to go to the roof just like in the vision.
“What are you going to do?” Daisy asks.
“Find Grant Ward,” he replies. Dead silence. “Yeah. Day got weirder.”
She gets to the roof only to see her vision play out in front of her and have Malick clock her with his Iron Man hands and not let up. He’s about to go in for the final hit when Charles touches him. Malick goes after Charles instead. In the end, Charles gets to save a life, sacrificing his own.
Daisy touches him again after promising to protect his daughter, Robin, only to see that scene from the mid-season premiere of the ship in outer space, a SHIELD agent on board before it blows up.
Post-Credits Stinger: Hive wants fake!Magneto to go for more technology. Fake!Magneto gets a call from Malick, angry that his head of security was not by his side.
Badass Moment of the Week: The entire training scene with May trying to not hit anyone with her punches or kicks.
Best One Liner: “I never saw the original Terminator,” Lincoln says.
“…You’re off the team,” Coulson utters, and I tend to side with him.
On the Andrew-front, they give him the Hail Mary potential cure Simmons has been working on. But no matter what, he wants Lash in SHIELD’s custody. He has a higher purpose. We also get the obligatory Wrath of Khan reference before he turns into Lash once and for all.
I will say that Brett Dalton is having a hell of a time playing Hive. He just oozes finesse and power. I have also missed Coulson’s great one-liners. This episode was chock full of them.
The husband’s guess is that Lash is the one who will kill Hive!Ward at the end of this season. I’m inclined to agree. I’m also interested in whether Robin, Charles’ daughter, will turn out to be anyone.
Next week’s Agents of SHIELD looks like it’s going to be a heck of a lot of fun as our SHIELD cohorts try to figure out what the hell Grant Ward is now.