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Agents Garrett, Triplett, Hand, Sitwell, and Blake join the team to hunt for the Clairvoyant. The agents pair up to pursue different Clairvoyant candidates. While searching for Thomas Nash, May and Blake encounter Mike Peterson / Deathlok and tag him with a tracker before he flees. The team converges on Deathlok’s new location while Triplett and Simmons stay at the Hub with Hand. The team briefly encounters Deathlok again, but he flees into the sewers. Nevertheless, they find Nash, a vegetative man on life support who must speak through a computer. When Nash boasts about being the Clairvoyant and says that Centipede will kill Skye, Ward kills him. Fitz discovers May's secure line. Coulson realizes that Nash was not the Clairvoyant, and, with Skye’s help, that the Clairvoyant is a high-ranking member of S.H.I.E.L.D. Coulson accuses Ward of working with the Clairvoyant and shooting Nash, but they are interrupted with news of May's phone line. As Coulson and Skye end up in a standoff with May in the hangar, control of the Bus is hijacked. At the Hub, Hand orders everyone aboard to be killed.
OMG. Simply OMG. The backstory - which I've been loving so far - really comes to the fore.
We have the excitement of knowing that we are finally catching up with the Clairvoyant. Additionally, we have Deathlok again. It looks as though Coulson's team might be able to wrap this all up - but there's the constant feeling of potential betrayal from one of the other Shield leaders.
And then, at the end, an apparent meeting with the Claivoyant - and if that isn't tense enough, we have Agent Ward apparently murdering him.
That in itself would have been a great episode. But, no, we're not finished - Coulson has the intelligence to realise that this might have been a set-up.
And then we see May's apparent betrayal discovered, underlined by her head and heart shot at Fitz - and then her stand off against Coulson and Sky at the end.
And then the big reveal of which the Clairvoyant may actually be - Agent Hand.
While I suspected that might be the case (along with a number of other possibilities - Bill Paxton's character is too friendly, too, which in trope terms also makes him a suspect), there's been nothing disappointing about the story, or its reveal, so far.
In fact, the backstory in general is amazing - and the best I've seen since Babylon 5. It has the same combination of cheesy episodes with big reveals that makes every new episode worth waiting for. I'm just glad we don't have to wait a full week for each, seeing as I'm still playing catch-up with this.
Agents Garrett, Triplett, Hand, Sitwell, and Blake join the team to hunt for the Clairvoyant. The agents pair up to pursue different Clairvoyant candidates. While searching for Thomas Nash, May and Blake encounter Mike Peterson / Deathlok and tag him with a tracker before he flees. The team converges on Deathlok’s new location while Triplett and Simmons stay at the Hub with Hand. The team briefly encounters Deathlok again, but he flees into the sewers. Nevertheless, they find Nash, a vegetative man on life support who must speak through a computer. When Nash boasts about being the Clairvoyant and says that Centipede will kill Skye, Ward kills him. Fitz discovers May's secure line. Coulson realizes that Nash was not the Clairvoyant, and, with Skye’s help, that the Clairvoyant is a high-ranking member of S.H.I.E.L.D. Coulson accuses Ward of working with the Clairvoyant and shooting Nash, but they are interrupted with news of May's phone line. As Coulson and Skye end up in a standoff with May in the hangar, control of the Bus is hijacked. At the Hub, Hand orders everyone aboard to be killed.
OMG. Simply OMG. The backstory - which I've been loving so far - really comes to the fore.
We have the excitement of knowing that we are finally catching up with the Clairvoyant. Additionally, we have Deathlok again. It looks as though Coulson's team might be able to wrap this all up - but there's the constant feeling of potential betrayal from one of the other Shield leaders.
And then, at the end, an apparent meeting with the Claivoyant - and if that isn't tense enough, we have Agent Ward apparently murdering him.
That in itself would have been a great episode. But, no, we're not finished - Coulson has the intelligence to realise that this might have been a set-up.
And then we see May's apparent betrayal discovered, underlined by her head and heart shot at Fitz - and then her stand off against Coulson and Sky at the end.
And then the big reveal of which the Clairvoyant may actually be - Agent Hand.
While I suspected that might be the case (along with a number of other possibilities - Bill Paxton's character is too friendly, too, which in trope terms also makes him a suspect), there's been nothing disappointing about the story, or its reveal, so far.
In fact, the backstory in general is amazing - and the best I've seen since Babylon 5. It has the same combination of cheesy episodes with big reveals that makes every new episode worth waiting for. I'm just glad we don't have to wait a full week for each, seeing as I'm still playing catch-up with this.
