Phil Coulson | The problem is, there are no good options. |
Lance Hunter | Well, maybe it's time for the bad ones. |
Appearances
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Inhumans (First full appearance)
- Gordon
- Lincoln Campbell (First appearance)
- Raina
- Jiaying (Revealed to be alive)
- S.H.I.E.L.D. (Coulson's faction)
Antagonists:
- S.H.I.E.L.D. (Gonzales' faction)
- Commander Robert Gonzales
- Agent Bobbi Morse
- Agent Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie
- Agent Tomás Calderon (Mentioned)
- Agent Anne Weaver (Mentioned)
- Unnamed agents
- Cal
Other Characters:
- Honest Eddie (First appearance)
- Robbie
- SSR (Name only)
- Nick Fury (Mentioned)
- God (Yahweh) (Invoked)
- Kree (Mentioned)
- Hydra (Mentioned)
- Dr. List (Mentioned)
- Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Mentioned)
- Howling Commandos (Mentioned)
- Antoine Triplett (Mentioned)
- Nazis (Mentioned)
- Grant Ward (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-199999
- Earth
- The Playground
- United States of America
- The Retreat
- The Triskelion (Mentioned)
- Chicago (Mentioned)
- Afterlife, Nepal
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy (Mentioned)
- China (Mentioned)
- Cincinnati (Mentioned)
- Bahrain (Mentioned)
- Mexico (Mentioned)
- Hell (Invoked)
- Sun
- Earth
Items:
- I.C.E.R.
- Terrigen Mist (Mentioned)
- Toolbox
- Vibranium (Mentioned)
- Diviner (Mentioned)
- GH.325 (Mentioned)
Vehicles:
Events:
- World War II (Mentioned)
Synopsis
Skye wakes up in a bed covered in what appear to be acupuncture needles. Gordon is next to her and calms her down, and another person enters the room. He introduces himself as Lincoln, and that as Skye's "transitioner," he was selected to help Skye smoothly adjust to life since undergoing Terrigenesis. Lincoln shows her around the place Gordon brought her, which they call "Afterlife." People with the genetic marker recognized by Diviners are brought there to await Terrigenesis, but only a few are ever selected every year, making both Skye and Raina something of an oddity to the others. Lincoln shows Skye his gift from Terrigenesis, the ability to generate static electricity, in an attempt to get her to reveal her power to him. However, Skye runs off when he accidentally reveals Raina is also somewhere in Afterlife. Skye finds her in another hut, and is horrified by Raina's physical transformation. She tells Raina that her hideous outlook was what she deserved and blamed her for her own transformation and Trip's death; Raina retorts that Skye went into the Kree city of her own volition and provokes her by claiming they are both the same, inside and out. Skye then unleashes her power on Raina, before Jiaying, Skye's mother (who is somehow alive again and with scars on her face) breaks them up. Skye refused to remain so long as Raina was present, but Jiaying asks for a few days to teach her to control her powers and if she's not satisfied she can leave. Some time later, Gordon takes Jiaying to see Cal, who is still locked up in a room with no doors or windows since Gordon took him away. They share an emotional embrace over their daughter's change, but Jiaying denies Cal's request to see her.
Coulson and Hunter arrive at the Retreat in a stolen jeep. They take notice of the debris in the area left from Skye's encounter with Gonzales' agents, and discover it was all Skye's doing when they watch security footage of the previous night. That night, they talk over their options, none of which seem to be any good. Hunter suggests that maybe they should go with one of the bad options. The next morning, Hunter is awoken by the sound of engines outside. Coulson purposefully activated the cabin's security to alert Gonzales to their presence so they could steal one of his quinjets. Hunter has no idea how his new boss plans on actually taking one of them, but Coulson assures him he has backup coming. However, Gonzales' agents brought a battering ram with them, getting them inside the cabin (which was built to withstand the Hulk) sooner than expected. Coulson uses a device inside the Howling Commandos' kit Trip and Fitz made for him to surprise Gonzales agents and allow Coulson and Hunter to steal their uniforms. They walk over to a quinjet disguised as Gonzales' agents, but agents in another, cloaked quinjet surround them. The agents take Coulson and Hunter into their custody, but before they take off, the quinjet comes under attack by Mike Peterson, Coulson's backup. Since Coulson took over as director of S.H.I.E.L.D., he has had the now-Agent Peterson follow Dr. List, uncovering Hydra's recent desire for enhanced individuals. Agent Peterson hijacks the quinjet for Coulson, and they set off to find the one person connected to both sides of the conflict between S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra and would devote himself to find Skye - Grant Ward.
Cast
Character | Actor |
---|---|
Director Phil Coulson | Clark Gregg |
Agent Melinda May | Ming-Na Wen |
Agent Skye / Daisy | Chloe Bennet |
Agent Leo Fitz | Iain De Caestecker |
Agent Jemma Simmons | Elizabeth Henstridge |
Lance Hunter | Nick Blood |
Agent Bobbi Morse | Adrianne Palicki |
Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie | Henry Simmons |
Raina | Ruth Negga |
Cal | Kyle MacLachlan |
Cmdr. Robert Gonzales | Edward James Olmos |
Gordon | Jamie Harris |
Jiaying | Dichen Lachman |
Lincoln Campbell | Luke Mitchell |
S.H.I.E.L.D. leader | Craig Johnson |
Honest Eddie | Stoney Westmoreland |
Robbie | John Forest |
Deathlok / Agent Mike Peterson | J. August Richards (uncredited) |
Notes
- As the sixth episode of the second half of the season, this episode features the sixth original cover artwork of The Art of Evolution series, by Dave Johnson.
- A promotional poster teasing the introduction of Lincoln was also made for this episode.
See Also
Links and References
References
- ↑ Canavaugh, Patrick (20 March 2015) Declassifying 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.': Afterlife Marvel.com. Retrieved on 20 March 2015.