In this episode of “Agents”, we got to visit Fitz &
Simmons’ old alma mater, the Academy, where they became the young prodigies
that they are now. Sadly, the circumstances could have been better, since
someone in the Academy was messing with ice and the titular team has to figure
out as to just who. They, or primarily – Fitz & Simmons – succeed: it is an
outsider student Donnie with the help of another student, namely Seth.
Donnie is interesting, in a minor sort of way: odds are that
he is going to become an anti-Fitz of some sort, since he had a chance to
befriend Fitz, but instead tricked and used Fitz and generally didn’t try to re-establish
friendly contact before getting shipped to the Sandbox after Seth died, their
invention broke down, and he developed ice powers of some sort by the end of
the episode – a reference to Mr. Freeze™
from DC comics, perhaps?
Fitz & Simmons, on the other hand, have also evolved
little since the previous episode, where they were shown to be much more
confident and independent thinkers than their counterparts working in agent
Hand’s Hub. They do manage to figure out how to get to Donnie and Seth, but not
in time, as the dastardly duo of students try to stop their impromptu weather
machine, but fail: Seth dies and Donnie develops ice powers.
The main focus, conversely, belongs to Coulson, May and Skye
– Ward was in this episode, but he actually was more of a background character
for once, though he did suggest that Fitz tries to befriend Donnie, causing
Skye and Simmons to suggest that he does have a heart. That is not a bad personal
development either.
Speaking of personal and of May, she confessed to Coulson
about her relationship (such as it is) with Ward. Coulson is quite
even-tempered about it – in part because May and Ward are competent grownups
and so should deal with this relationship if it goes south without too much
ado. (Of course, considering that this would make a very poor story development
one should not bet on this.)
But in part because we got a major plot development about
Skye: she is a survivor from a tiny village that was rescued by an S.H.I.E.L.D.
team...that got progressively killed off as time went by. That is why she was sent
from one orphanage to another until she ended up living in a van.
Now, normally, Coulson would probably keep this a secret
from Skye, but after personal experiences in this area (i.e. his own secret
that he learned the hard way in the previous episode) he told Skye the truth
instead – and Skye accepted this. Rather than crawling into a van, or her personal
room to cry, she has embraced it, and accepted S.H.I.E.L.D. to be her family
and home.
(This is wonderful news, but remember that Skye is an
idealist at heart, and if S.H.I.E.L.D. somehow disappoints her, the fallout can
be nasty.)
Also, Coulson is
getting out of the funk that he was since the last episode. May be onto something
in this episode.
So: Fitz & Simmons reconnect to their past with mixed
results, Coulson starts to come to terms with his own situation, Skye finally
learns the truth about her past, and May and Ward soldier on. Oh, and one last
thing: the crooked businessman behind Seth and Donnie’s failed experiment, Ian
Quinn, is in the cahoots with the Clairvoyant, as he tells it to agent Coulson
in the last scene of this episode. The Centipede may be gone, but we just might
have been introduced to its’ replacement in this episode.
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