Agents of SHIELD season 6, episode 5 review: The Other Thing
What went down on this week’s episode of Agents of SHIELD? What was “The Other Thing,” anyway?
“The Other Thing” was what everyone was searching for in the latest episode of Agents of SHIELD, after being off last week due to the NBA Finals.
When viewers last saw the agents in “Code Yellow,” Deke Shaw (Jeff Ward) had spent the year well out of SHIELD’s sight re-inventing himself as a tech magnate, using designs he had pilfered from the Lighthouse.
Sarge (Clark Gregg) and his crew crashed the party, forcing a SHIELD team led by Mack (Henry Simmons) and May (Ming-Na Wen) to rescue him, with May getting kidnapped in the process.
In the meantime, back at the Lighthouse Yo-Yo Rodriguez (Natalia Cordova-Buckley) and Dr. Marcus Benson (Barry Shabaka Henley) tried unsuccessfully to save Yo-yo’s new boyfriend Keller, who died from an alien neurotoxic death bat.
Semi familiar
Those death bats are called “shrike,” apparently, according to Sarge, and his team is tasked with taking out “things that shouldn’t be there” (which is why they went after Deke in the last episode).
May beats up both Sarge and Snowflake (Brooke Williams) after a new threat that caught even her off guard – a zombie infected by the shrike.
She and Sarge question his history before the fighting starts, as she thought back to her time with Coulson in Tahiti.
A Light(house) in the darkness
At the Lighthouse, Benson and Yo-yo are trying to process Keller’s death and grief in general, though Benson does make a discovery: the crystal structure that comes after the zombies die for good is similar chemically to the Monoliths. (Because it’s all connected.)
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Friends are friends forever
In space, Zephyr One is boarded by Enoch’s (Joel Stoffer) former boss Attarra, who threatens to kill Fitz (Iain De Caesticker) in revenge for causing their planet to wither away due a plague. In order to save her friends, Simmons volunteers to be a prisoner as bait for Fitz’s safety, as if she is alive (and in danger) he will be able to solve anything, as Enoch stated.
That includes time travel, which they can only solve as a team.
Where things currently stand
The good news: Daisy (Chloe Bennet), Davis (Maximilian Osinski) and Piper (Briana Venskus) made it back to Earth safely, Benson thinks Incan ruins might hold the key to figuring out the latest Monolith mystery, and May is returning to the Lighthouse after hijacking the semi.
The bad news: FitzSimmons are prisoners, and working on trying to solve time travel (in reverse this time). They are also stranded in space, and Enoch’s actions might prove treacherous.
SHIELD shrapnel
- Deke’s absence was explained away by his recovery from surgery, and Tinker and Jaco are uncooperative prisoners in SHIELD custody. Focusing on fewer characters definitely was a strength in this episode.
- Sarge claims to be at least a hundred years old.
- If they’re “not robots,” how did the Chromicons have their own planet and a race that could be mostly-exterminated?
- After May kills the zombie, Snowflake asks excitedly, “Can we keep her, Sarge?!” She’s definitely nuts, but an interesting character.
- ….Did May kill Coulson via poison on the island?
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Episode six, titled “Inescapable,” will air on ABC on Friday, June 21 at 8 p.m. ET.