Half of last night’sAgents of SHIELDwas its best episode yet

If you turn off Agents of SHIELD halfway through “ F.Z.Z.T. ” , I do n’t charge you . The first half was spent ascertain this supposedly super - significant team inquire the decease of three Tennessean firefighters ( a estimable thing to do , but not precisely the highest stakes ) . But if you did call on it off , you missed the in force part of SHIELD ’s best sequence yet .

As I said , this installment begins with our tiptop - funded elect SHIELD team investigates the cryptic destruction of a military volunteer fire fighter , whose corpse is find with a hole in its head and floating about six human foot off the ground . Another nut electromagnetic pulse kills another volunteer fire-eater te same mode in his barn — he ’s float at least 10 foot — which allows Skye to make the unpaid worker firefighter link . Coulson direct the squad to a nearby firehouse , where he con the fireman were first responder at the Battle of New York ( as seen in the Avengers ) and kept a Chitauri helmet as prize . Our two victim had cleaned the helmet late , along with a third ; as Simmons give away the job really an alien virus transferred by the clash of the cleansing , Coulson gives a pep talking about dying and heaven to the last fire-eater in his final moments .

This low stake mystery takes up the first 30 minute of arc of the episode , but it feel a lot longer . But that ’s when thing get good . As the squad transers the helmet to the Sandbox ( where Graviton and his Ball group O ’ Gravity from an earlier episode are being preserve ) Coulson notices Simmons has contracted the computer virus as well . He quarantine her , and then the drama set out .

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For dispatcher , Simmons has two hours , but they ’re above the Atlantic ocean and ca n’t land anywhere for three hours . Plus , when the fireman died , the emitted a pulse that would definitely take out their plane . So Fitz and Simmons get busy and endeavor to find an antiserum to the computer virus ; Fitz handles the saving machine , Simmons uses her biochemistry to try and employ the fire fighter ’ antibodies to synthesize a cure . There ’s a collage or two , but by and large this whole matter is very effective — Simmons hides her panic and anxiousness by focusing on the inquiry , Fitz intensify our understanding of their human relationship by helping , arguing and joking with his better half . Everyone else is as distressed , but in their unequaled ways : Melinda May is stoic as usually but intelligibly still discommode ; Skye is understandably freak at the idea of losing her first mate ; and even Ward is mad because he ’s facing an enemy he ca n’t hit . Of all the spectacular moments the show has tried to put on so far , this is definitely the most interesting and the most effective .

The science continue , as Fitz and Simmons try their antidote theme by more or less tasering crumb ; the first two die shortly , their bodies floating six inches about their cage . Simmons is about to give up until she and Fitz remember the Chitauri who tire the helmet obviously had the virus and was fine , so Fitz take hold of the helment out of its secure location , and just brings it flop into quarantine with the septic Simmons . It ’s just a surprisal , but Elizabeth Henstridge and Iain De Caestecker play the moment so well it still work . Meanwhile , Agent Blake — the SHIELD agent played by Titus Welliver , last interpret in the “ Item 47 ” brusque — remind Coulson that communications protocol demands he deck all contaminate textile before it can put down the plane ; Coulson is having none of it .

Fitz - Simmons create a third counterpoison using the Chitauri ’s antibodies ( because why on Earth would put in oneself with foreign cells be a job , correct ? ) , and tase the third rat . It ’s o.k. for a moment , but then floats like the others . Simmons ask to speak to Fitz alone , and then clocks him on his top dog with a fire fire extinguisher . When Fitz ignite up , he notice two thing : 1 ) the third so-and-so is suddenly well again , and 2 ) Simmons throwing herself out the plane ’s cargo doorway .

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in earnest , Simmons tosses herself out of the plane , Captain America - style ( no chute ) . And then Ward , alerted the second gear the cargo door bulge out open , has a genuinely badass moment . He runs through the plane , grabs a chute and the antiserum - taser from the waiting Fitz , and jump out of the carpenter’s plane too . Other than a few oddly atrocious greenscreen shots , a lot of the scene is performed by stunt people , and the low - key , gloomy - budget reasoning behind the first installment becomes apparent . The upshot is genuinely thrilling , moreso because these two people have no superpowers whatsoever . Of course , Ward catches up with Simmons , administer the antidote , draw the slide , and the next scene is of Coulson bitching out Simmons because only he gravel to decide when his people get to give themselves to save the rest of the squad .

All that ’s leave is a bunch of the overlong , schmaltzy scenes that SHIELD seems determined to practice in the last 10 minutes of every episode ; it ’s a small well because this time they think an agent was dead as opposed to , I do n’t know , get a line about friendship or some shit , but still , we do n’t demand to see everyone hug Simmons for 45 seconds each while violins play in the background signal . Of course , after this experience , Ward cushion towards Skye a small , Fitz has a weird moment when he pull in Simmons may be in honey with him , and Coulson — oh , Coulson . Coulson has been feel stinking , so he has a physical , and grant a uncanny speech about feeling like he died in Avengers for much longer than 8 sec to the third reliever . In the last , Coulson opens up to Agent May , who wedge him to let on the scrape on his chest , where Loki pierce it with his spear . May evidence Coulson he feel unlike because he is different now , as anyone who was that unaired to death would be .

I ’m not certain “ F.Z.Z.T. ” is a house of greater thing to come — for the first one-half of the episode , I was muttering “ bad . sequence . Ever ” in my respectable Comic Book Guy voice — I find the fact that the show can be this striking at all gives me hope that the show can evolve into something bully . We need Ward to somehow become likable , we need skillful Whedon - esque dialogue ( or just halt trying to be cunning all together ) , we need risky venture that in reality sense like adventures as contradict to PG versions of ten - Files instalment , and it needs to stop turn into an After School Special at the close . But this episode also revealed the show has the potential to be bully . “ F.Z.Z.T. ” may not be a sign of expectant thing to come , but I certainly trust it is .

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Assorted Musings :

• It should surprise no one that Fitz and Simmons have impressions of Ward that are , in fact , hilarious . It should surprise no one that Ward ’s deprecating impression of himself still sucks .

• I did n’t mention that Fitz was trying to hit on Skye , albeit according to the laws of TV Nerd Romance Inefficiency . Mainly because it come to nothing , even when it appears that Simmons declared her love for Fitz even more sideways when they were in quarantine . I ’m smell some unrequited erotic love in the near future .

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• Science annoyance : Simmons being unable to tell that the holes in the fireman ’s heads were made internally , not externally . I feel like she should have figured that out instantly upon picture them , if not sooner .

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• I want to peach more about Agent Coulson , but I want to make trusted we ’re all on the same page . The disputation is whether Coulson died in Avengers and was resuscitated , as he ’s intelligibly been evidence in Agents of SHIELD ; or if he ’s a Life Model Decoy , humanoid that look and act just like the mass they replace ; or some third , mysterious explanation . The reason the Life Model Decoy possibility has a circumstances of credibility with fans is that SHIELD ( especially Nick Fury ) uses LMDs in the comics a portion ; Peggy Carter retrieved the Zodiac in the Marvel brusk “ Agent Carter , ” a machine in the Marvel comics used to make androids ; and last but not least , that wound in Avengers looked awfully fatal .

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