Ok guys, after waiting an additional week, I have to say that this is definitely one of the best episodes of this week. It had a thrilling plot and a lot of danger and I genuinely thought they were going to use this as an opportunity to kill off Fitz and Simmons (ooh, spoilers). But anyway, this was a great episode, enough said.
This is a follow up to last episode's fiasco with Skye being under surveillance for what she did and Agent Ward not trusting her and treating her very distantly (most likely because he was getting feelings and everything). The major focus of this episode is one Fitz and Simmons who step out of the comedic side-character to show their genuine characters. We all know by now that Simmons took Fitz with her when she joined Agent Coulson and now we learn why. She wasn't just looking out for him by pushing him into the field, she is in love with Fitz. This is actually more comical in that the episode begins with Fitz trying to hit on Skye and Skye mistaking it for him talking about Simmons, showing that she already saw the chemistry between them.
This does leave a bit of a trope argument in this since it's the stupid boy who never noticed his life-long friend was in love with him. Why can't this be the other way around? because girls are always more in touch with their feelings or something. anyway we're off topic.
Anyway, the plot of the episode goes as such, A couple of volunteer firefighters are found dead and floating in mid air do to an electromagnet wave. It turns out the guys and their third partner had taken an alien helmet from the battle site from the end of the Avengers. It turns out the helmet is carrying an alien disease that infects through static electrical shock and kills them by delivering a powerful EMP wave, leaving them suspended in magnetic levitation.
Simmons accidentally contracts the disease and everyone does what they can to desperately try and get the disease cured. During the desperation, Fritz accidentally discovers that Simmons is in love with him and the two of them figure out a way to get it to work.
Sadly the cure makes the EMP wave go off anyway and it looks like Simmons is going to die, so she decides to jump out of the jet and die away from the crew so she doesn't take them down with her. Agent Ward is successful in rescuing her and everyone is saved and together again.
The episode ends with Coulson making a strange threat to his commanding officer that he won't let them shut down his crew, making me wonder if Coulson might become a rogue agent at some point. I'm also hoping and speculating that since Simmons had to use Alien DNA to cure her magnetic disease, it could potentially give her alien/magnetic powers later on. Which would be cool since Joss Whedon is great with writing Super-Powered women.
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