Years ago, Kree soldiers captured a hunter-gatherer in the
wild. They experimented on him by injecting their own blood into his system
until he eventually underwent the first form of Terrigenesis as an Inhuman. In
the present, the Inhuman became Hive, and he explains his origins to Daisy. In
addition, he gathers remaining descendants of Hydra members who escaped the
downfall of the organization. With these members, he plans to follow through on
their dedication.
Back at the base, Lincoln asks May about any news regarding
Daisy. May is less privy to talk about it to Lincoln since he was so willing to
hurt Alicia to find Daisy. Lincoln insists that he wanted to find Daisy, but
May reminds him that they’ve all known Daisy longer and didn’t fall apart like
he did. Since they can’t trust him in the field swayed or not, he has to
remains in the base. In the lab, Fitz and Simmons continue to experiment on
possibly finding a cure for the parasite following their awkward encounters
with Hive-swayed Daisy and Ward speaking as Will. Unfortunately, they find that
any sample they would try on human DNA would result in death with no idea how
it would affect someone like Daisy fighting back. The only way to truly test a
vaccine would be to have an Inhuman to test it, leading to Lincoln volunteering
himself.
Simmons: You’re right; I only had to listen to the disgusting face of Grant Ward pretend to be my dead boyfriend.
Fitz: Yep, yours is worse.
In the meantime, Coulson scans security footage until he
finds Daisy in a small South Wyoming town now occupied by the military after
the water was poisoned. Mack believes that if Daisy was caught on surveillance,
she must actually want SHIELD to find her. Coulson, however, believes she’s
leading them to a trap since she helped design the system to track people in
the first place. Nevertheless, Mack retains some hope that, despite Hive’s
influence, the real Daisy somewhere is still on their side.
Mack and May gather a team of agents to the location in
order to take out Hive and possibly rescue Daisy. Mack informs the group that
since they don’t know what they’re facing with Hive or the Inhumans, everyone,
including May, will be equipped with some form of weapon to fight. May believes
that Mack is taking the mission purposefully, an accusation Mack agrees with
surprisingly. He believes that with Lincoln distracted with being accused,
Coulson distracted with Malick, and him distracted with the absence of Bobbi
and Hunter, there was no one to keep an eye out for Daisy after she changed.
Now he plans to do something about it.
At the lab, Lincoln tries to convince Coulson, Fitz, and
Simmons to experiment on him for a cure. Simmons is less willing to go through
with it since if the experiment fails, his immune system may shut down killing
him. Lincoln emphasizes that if there is a chance he should take since he
understands the risks as a doctor. Coulson then forbids Lincoln from following
through on the trial but first asks Fitz for his opinion. Despite agreeing with
Simmons on the risks, Fitz believes that Lincoln should do what it takes.
Simmons reminds him that Daisy would not want someone acting cavalier for her
sake, but Fitz says Daisy has no choice in this.
Back in the town, Daisy hangs with James at a bar. She asks
what made him leave off in a trailer, and he admits that he didn’t feel
connected with the people in society. He then wonders what Daisy came from
since SHIELD is out to stop them. Eventually, they’d come to stop her. Daisy
replies that if the people at SHIELD will go through Hive’s plan, they will all
be on one side. Neither of them would have to fight.
Meanwhile, Hive rebukes Radcliffe for the failed trials.
Radcliffe admits that the blood he gave him was from the dead host rather than
an Inhuman, so the trial couldn’t work. He reveals that the only way the
experiment could work is if they had Kree blood, the same that created Hive.
Hive suggests he could just kill Radcliffe and take over his body for his
brains, but Radcliffe persists that he can make the experiment work if they had
the blood. Hive then unveils the Kree artifacts placed together to form a
machine. He tells Radcliffe that he will have what he needs soon.
Aboard the Zephyr One, the team prepare to examine the town.
Although Coulson cannot be there in person, he will monitor the attack from
their helmet cameras. Mack asks the director what they should do if their
weapons should fail against Hive to which the director responds that they
should run very fast. Back at the base, Fitz and Simmons meet over coffee. Fitz
apologizes for taking a different position from Simmons. Simmons, however,
states that if she was going to stay with someone who never disagreed with her,
she would have stayed with her old boyfriend Milton. She then reminds him that
their disagreements in work doesn’t have to affect their relationship outside
of work. Before they continue, they spot Lincoln in the lab injecting the
experimental cure into his system. Too late to stop him, the vaccine courses
through his system, causing him to convulse and send the lab to a power
blowout. Simmons offers to inject him with a counter-solution, but Lincoln
refuses. He believes the cure will work.
Coulson: I suggest running…very fast…away.
May and Mack spot James entering a bar, recognizing him as
the Inhuman in South Dakota, and decide that he would be the best place to
start. May enters the bar posing as a Hydra worker questioning about the new
developments. James reveals to her his powers and offers to discuss more with
her, not without a little flirting.
Hive then meets with Daisy to evaluate her priorities. While
she’s proven loyal to him, she was also made by SHIELD, and he wonders what she
would do should SHIELD attack them. Daisy offers that if the experiments work,
they wouldn’t have to fight, but Hive persists. Daisy then replies that she
would rip their hearts out should they come after him.
Fitz and Simmons take Lincoln to the hospital bed and
examine his vitals. Lincoln tries to appeal to Fitz, but Fitz throws back that
Coulson ordered him not to try this. They are not on the same side here.
Simmons then arrives to drill Lincoln’s brain for a sample. In order to find
out if the cure worked, she needs to examine a tissue sample from his brain,
something he would have known if he asked questions instead of acted rashly.
Back at the bar, May continues to talk to James about his
abilities. James admits that he didn’t change as a person after transforming,
but he claims that May could find out for herself. He reveals that Hive’s plan
is to turn humans into Inhumans. He believes that the creature is now in the
old mining facility outside town. With all she needs, May proceeds to knock
James out and returns to Mack with the news.
Unfortunately, Hive introduces another wrinkle to the plan.
He invited the ones who created him to the planet: the Kree. The team finds the
Kree devices providing a radio transmission to call the aliens who destroy the
facility immediately. These soldiers are not regular Kree but reapers, members
of the race which abandoned their world and has been circling this solar system
ever since. Daisy questions why he would do that since the Kree are the one
thing that could destroy him. Hive understands, but this was the one way to
ensure his plan could work. Also, he plans to face the ones who created him
and, should it come down to it, rip their hearts out as she suggested. In the
meantime, he entrusts her to gather the Kree blood needed for the experiment.
The Kree arrive and begin killing off the Inhuman guards,
including Alisha. Mack and May stay behind, questioning what to make of these
new players while the other SHIELD agents try to process aliens landing on
Earth. In the long run, they realize, the Kree reapers might do the work for
them. One of the reapers finally approaches the garage housing Radcliffe only
for Daisy to fight back. She takes him on physically at first, then uses her
powers to incapacitate him. Finally, she breaks his spine and orders Radcliffe
to drain the creature of its blood. Hive faces the other reaper, his creator,
elsewhere.
Agent Piper: Fricking aliens just landed. We're not gonna take a moment to let that soak in?
As Radcliffe begins draining the Kree, Daisy is confronted
by Mack who says he came to help her while Daisy says she can help him by
turning him into an Inhuman. Daisy insists that she doesn’t need help from
SHIELD anymore, but Mack reminds her that they care about her, just like he
does. Daisy then remarks that SHIELD only took them in because it could turn
them, a hacker or a mechanic, into soldiers, and Bobbi and Hunter already left
SHIELD because there was nothing worth coming back. For his best interests, he
has to leave if he doesn’t agree. Mack instead removes his weapon and refuses
to leave since he cares too much about her. Daisy finally states that while she
cared about Mack like a brother, he could barely take care of the brother he
had, touching a nerve. Still, Mack wants to help Daisy and decides the best way
to do so is throwing a splinter bomb, destroying the Kree reaper. Distraught at
the loss of the experiment, Daisy attacks Mack.
At the same time, Hive attacks the other Kree reaper. He
matches the creature blow for blow, taunting that he is no longer the weak
sample they tortured years ago. The reaper fires back that he’s just a failed
experiment, a mistake, but Hive responds that sometimes the greatest miracles
come from mistakes, echoing Daisy’s words.
He then uses his powers to kill the reaper. The team take this time to fire
at the Inhuman, only to be shocked that their weapons prove useless. They are
forced to run.
Daisy continues attacking Mack, using her powers to beat him
as well. Mack refuses to fight his friend, but Daisy is proving ruthless. She
mourns that they could have had a connection, but Mack persists that it isn’t
real. She doesn’t want to do this. She then begins to rupture his chest, only
to be shot at by SHIELD. The team take Mack back on an emergency pod, leaving
Daisy in the hands of Hive.
The team recuperate at the base tending to Mack’s wounds.
Simmons is shocked that Daisy would cause them, leading Mack to believe that
they were right. Daisy is too far gone. Fitz then reiterates that Hive wants to
turn humans into Inhumans despite the genetic markers preventing certain people
from changing. They have no idea how he could accomplish this or how they could
stop him. Meanwhile, Simmons also tends to Lincoln in a pod and informs him
that the team arrived an hour earlier. Lincoln wants to talk to them, but
Simmons reminds him that his immune system has shut down, leaving him
vulnerable to every little infection. Now, he must remain on the base. Lincoln
then asks Simmons to inform Coulson on the vaccine, but Simmons says she can’t
since the vaccine proved useless. They have no cure for Daisy.
In the town, Hive reveals to Daisy the heart of the Kree
reaper he killed, as they discussed earlier. He is less impressed that she let
SHIELD get away instead of killing them, proving that her connection with them
may be stronger than they thought. Daisy instead claims that she’s done with
SHIELD since they attacked back but provides valuable information. He requires
Kree blood for the experiment, and she has it: the GH-325 the team injected in
her after she was shot. She offers herself to be drained as part of the
experiment.
S.H.I.E.L.D. Notes
- “Only a billionaire can build iron suits, only a military can make super soldiers, which can only lead to a war of its own.” Looks like Hive was predicting Civil War this whole time!
- Daisy references the GH-325 in her system. The drug was originally introduced and used in season one's episode "T.A.H.I.T.I." where it's revealed Coulson has the same drug in his body as well. Could there be a connection?
- Briana Venskus who plays Agent Piper should look familiar this year. She also played an agent of the DEO in Supergirl!
- Looks like May has officially taken the Calvary name as her own!
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