By Leah Stone
I’m happy to say that the latest episode has kept with the high quality of the previous. Perhaps now the quality of the episodes will stay steady from now on? Here’s hoping…
I’m happy to say that the latest episode has kept with the high quality of the previous. Perhaps now the quality of the episodes will stay steady from now on? Here’s hoping…
The episode starts with the introduction of this week’s mission. Well, more of a “you can only know if you are level 8” which of course extremely annoys Skye, who, as we know is all for freedom of information. The team head to The Hub, one of SHIELD’s bases, where Coulson will find out more about the mission and what the plans are. He is allowed to take May and Ward with him to the briefing because they are level 7 agents. The mission is to send a two-man team into South Ossetia and disable a device called the Overkill. This means that Fitz has to be on the team because they need him to disable it, and Ward is chosen to go as the experienced field agent.
Again we get to see just how close Fitz and Simmons are when he is getting ready to go on his mission. Simmons is worried about him going in with just Ward as backup, because she has no idea what is going on. As a consequence of this, she and Skye take it upon themselves to try and hack into the SHIELD system to find out what’s really happening. Skye finds out that there is no extraction plan for Fitz and Ward and, when Coulson finds her hacking into the system and finds this out for himself, he confronts Agent Victoria Han (Saffron Burrows), the woman running the mission. It is then up to the team to extract Fitz and Ward once they have completed their assignment.
There were quite a few moments throughout the episode that actually made me laugh, instead of a quiet, awkward chuckle because things were too corny. There were also multiple moments of character-developments and soul searching, Fitz confronts Ward about his need to always be the hero, and that he is just as good a SHIELD agent as he is. Coulson manages to get the original file that Skye had previously discovered about her past, and tells her that she was dropped off at the orphanage by a female SHIELD agent. However when he gets back to his office May is sitting there reading the files, and it seems he did not tell Skye everything, and states that “some things should be left a secret.” We see a picture of someone lying dead on the ground, presumably Skye’s mother. Perhaps we will find out about her past later on in the series.
There were quite a few moments throughout the episode that actually made me laugh, instead of a quiet, awkward chuckle because things were too corny. There were also multiple moments of character-developments and soul searching, Fitz confronts Ward about his need to always be the hero, and that he is just as good a SHIELD agent as he is. Coulson manages to get the original file that Skye had previously discovered about her past, and tells her that she was dropped off at the orphanage by a female SHIELD agent. However when he gets back to his office May is sitting there reading the files, and it seems he did not tell Skye everything, and states that “some things should be left a secret.” We see a picture of someone lying dead on the ground, presumably Skye’s mother. Perhaps we will find out about her past later on in the series.
At the end of the episode, Coulson is on the phone trying to obtain documents on his recuperation in Tahiti, but apparently he doesn’t have clearing for his own files.
I think it’s good to get an equal balance between a great plot and character development, and that’s what this week’s episode does well. It proves that field agents and those that work in the labs such as Fitz and Simmons can be just as good as each other. Fitz proves himself after the whole “jumping out of the plane” fiasco of the last episode, and Skye comes one step closer to finding about her parents. But, now it’s not just the question of “What happened in Budapest?” for Marvel fans. Now it’s also “What happened in Tahiti?”
I think it’s good to get an equal balance between a great plot and character development, and that’s what this week’s episode does well. It proves that field agents and those that work in the labs such as Fitz and Simmons can be just as good as each other. Fitz proves himself after the whole “jumping out of the plane” fiasco of the last episode, and Skye comes one step closer to finding about her parents. But, now it’s not just the question of “What happened in Budapest?” for Marvel fans. Now it’s also “What happened in Tahiti?”
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