“It’s easier to live with the darkness when you dress it up as vengeance.”
- Merlin
This week is kind of make or break it for Emma. The gang is going to try to put Excalibur back together in Camelot (and also in Storybrooke) but it is going to take a dangerous journey. Merlin says he and Emma need to make a trip to get the fire from Prometheus and it will require confronting the original Dark One (who I am still convinced is Merlin’s lover). Either they will succeed or Emma goes dark and kills Merlin. No pressure (and Hook needs to just calm down already). We had endure Hook getting all lovey dovey on Emma before she goes. He gifts her a ring.
We are also getting some interesting backstory on Merlin. We first meet him as a runaway slave 1,000 years before Arthur even comes along. He and another slave are running through the desert when they spot a chalice in the distance. Merlin asks permission to drink and he isn’t destroyed like his friend (it seems it is similar to how Excalibur chooses people to pull it out). He also discovers he has magic. We then catch up with him 200 years later and he meets young Nimue. For some reason he can’t see her future. A few years later, Merlin wants to propose but he sees an obstacle. His magic is from the Holy Grail and he can’t see a way to let Nimue drink from it. But he’s got another option. They forge the grail into a sword that can cut away his magic and they can be married and live normal lives. And it looks like I might wrong that she is the original Dark One (since we see the masked being watching them run off). They get to Nimue’s village and they find that the street is full of cups. Merlin realizes that the bad guy was looking for the grail. Nimue gets angry about the whole loss of her village and she rants a bit about what she would do with magic but Merlin reminds her they already made their decision and they need to get going. They finally reach the fire and Merlin forges the sword but the bad guy shows up and ultimately kills Nimue. Or so we think. She drank from the grail while Merlin was casting the detection spell. She ends up ripping out the guy’s heart and despite Merlin begging, she crushes the guy’s heart and became the first Dark One. We see the flame go out and she breaks the sword to keep Merlin from cutting away either of their magic away. Poor Merlin.
While Merlin and Emma head off to find the spark, the rest of the Charmings are trying to plot their infiltration of the castle to secure Excalibur. It’s Zelena who has a plan that won’t get them caught. It’s a little used tunnel. Unfortunately, Arthur’s paranoia is gotten to the point he’s willing to use crazy magic to melt our heroes! Hook, Regina, Robin and Charming sneak into the castle and avoid getting caught, at first. Outside, Zelena bests Snow (she is seriously turned into an idiot!).
Out in the forest, Emma admits that she’s done some bad things including hurting Henry, just in time for them to go climb a really big hill to find the spark. Now all Merlin has to worry about is whether he comes down or not. Emma has to use the Dark One dagger to call forth the spirit of the first Dark One. Apparently the fire went out when the Dark One took it and keeps it in an ember. Emma gives herself a little pep talk as she summons the spirit. And it turns out I was right after all! Nimue is the original Dark One! Things look pretty tense for a bit there when Emma uses her magic (although it looks like Nimue is forcing her to do it) to take out Merlin. She even chokes him out while Nimue taunts her about taking in the darkness to avoid going back to being nothing. Emma rails against this and declares quite violently that she was never nothing and doesn’t need the power. She retrieves the ember from Nimue but the old Dark One promises that the sword that will be forged doesn’t have just one purpose and one day Emma will need Nimue again and she will be there.
As Emma and Merlin head back to Camelot to reunite the sword and the dagger, Zelena betrays the group and allows Arthur to bind Merlin’s soul to the rest of Excalibur. At least Arthur doesn’t force Merlin to kill anyone. That’s good at least. But Arthur is still power mad and a lunatic. He and Zelena are quite well made for each other. I still don’t know how Emma is going to go all the way dark but I guess we will find out soon (we are rapidly running out of episodes on this arc of the season).
Back in Storybrooke, we find Emma in her cave with the two pieces of the sword. She’s ready to do what she’s been planning but first she gets to be joined not only by Rumple and Nimue but every other Dark One ever. I guess she can’t really ever be alone with her thoughts as the Dark One, eh? Anyway, she uses the spark, succeeding in re-forging the sword. She hesitates and remembers Merlin’s warning to her as a girl in the movie theater but Nimue and Rumple convince her to take up the power it represents so they can cut away the light forever. Oh Emma, you really should have listened to Merlin. This is not going to end well. Although I have a feeling by the end of this arc she won’t be the Dark One anymore. At least that’s my guess. I could be completely wrong since the last three seasons have had fairly distinct arcs that don’t entirely tie in to one another.
Sunday, November 8, 2015
Friday, November 6, 2015
Doctor Who 9.07: "The Zygon Invasion"
“I’m the peace. Human and Zygon.”
- Osgood
Finally we get back to plot points set up during the 50th Anniversary special. Alas it is not the “let’s find Galifrey” plotline. It’s the Zygon plotline. We see a recorded video of both Osgoods (it’s unclear which is which but that’s probably the point). It does make me wonder which one died thanks to Missy. Anyway, they explain that there is a peace treaty allowing 20 million Zygons living on Earth in disguise. If the peace treaty ever breaks down there is a protocol in place (the Osgood box). Well it seems there is a break down as Osgood (the remaining one) gets kidnapped by some Zygons. At UNIT Kate fears the worst when the encrypted locations of all the Zygons is hacked. Clara is missing in action as the Doctor goes to talk to the Zygon high command (who are going about as two seven-year-old girls). They claim they are handling things but I have a feeling they aren’t going to be solving much of anything.
As the Doctor heads to UNIT and he and Kate watch a video with Osgood claiming that all traitors will be killed, Clara heads home and sees some of her voice mails from the Doctor. She is clueless to what’s going on around her. She sees a neighbor boy on the stairs who claims he can’t find his parents. She heads into his apartment and his parents appear but they are acting super creepy. Yeah, either they are rogue Zygons or he is. I’m betting they are, though. Finally, she gets to UNIT and the Doctor is not happy about the situation. Kate says that they should just bomb the crap out of the rogue Zygons. After all, they did just assassinate the original high command on video. It seems these fringe Zygons are claiming they were sold and forced to assume human form.
The Doctor manages to talk Kate out of said bombing. He’s going to head to see about negotiating and saving Osgood while Kate heads to New Mexico to see if she can find out what’s going on there (Osgood was last pinged in New Mexico). Clara and one of the other UNIT people are supposed to stay in the UK and fight for the country but they end up in a lift that goes to some weird place (because of course there’s a lift in Clara’s apartment that’s al tricked out with Zygon tech). They somehow manage to get back to UNIT and do a little digging and find that there have been odd incidents all around London in elevators with people disappearing. It has to be related to what’s happening elsewhere.
The Doctor gets to the Middle East just as the military is about to launch a drone strike on the Zygon base. The soldier who is supposed to execute the strike can’t do it at the time because the Zygons that appear look like her family. How they knew to look like that is a mystery to me. But I’m kind of glad they did it because the Doctor has more time to try and save people. The lead soldier on the base explains that they think the facility is a training camp of some sort. So they’ve got that to explore, too.
In New Mexico Kate finds the sheriff’s station mostly empty except for a single deputy. She’s pretty freaked out and asks if Kate came alone or with back up. She also thinks Kate is a Zygon (although she doesn’t know that’s what they are called). Kate learns that the displaced Zygons headed there and for a while it was okay but then they started getting in fights and then sort of banded together in factions until one day one of them just turned into a full-on Zygon. Oh boy. And there’s lots of dead bodies lying all around. That can’t be good!
The Doctor and the military folks are heading to the compound and the strike is still on. The Doctor and the leader head around back while the rest of the team is supposed to be drawing the Zygons out to give them an in. It goes horribly awry when the Zygons appear as the soldiers’ family members. The soldiers get lured to their deaths and it turns out the soldiers were also Zygons. Very interesting. Lucky for the Doctor he finds Osgood. Too bad the soldiers are already bombing the hell out of the place and the two of them get stuck underground with a knocked out Zygon. Or maybe it’s a good thing so they can interrogate it. Well, the Zygon wants to take over the world. Good times.
Clara and her UNIT pal go down the elevator to the underground area and see that there are all kinds of pods. I have to admit I didn’t see this twist coming. Maybe I should have but I didn’t. The UNIT soldiers are all Zygons (the pods are full of human since you know, they don’t grow duplicates) and the get executed. The Clara we’ve been seeing is actually one of the rogue Zygons. It actually reminds me a little of the plot in “The Almost People” with Amy being a duplicate. We see the moment when Clara got nabbed (when she was checking on the little neighbor boy). The Doctor is not going to be happy about this betrayal. He’s going to have to fight like hell to stop all of this drama from going down.
In the end, Kate gets neutralized and fake Clara takes a freaking rocket launcher to the Doctor’s plane. While I like that they are picking up threads introduced in the 50th Anniversary special, this isn’t the one I’d have gone with, to be honest. I would have much preferred the search for Galifrey. Sure the Doctor doesn’t really want to be around his people but it would be much more interesting. And the Zygons just aren’t that gripping. And this is the second episode where they’ve referenced the “hybrid” (thank you Davros). I don’t really care about the hybrid. I just want good stories.
- Osgood
Finally we get back to plot points set up during the 50th Anniversary special. Alas it is not the “let’s find Galifrey” plotline. It’s the Zygon plotline. We see a recorded video of both Osgoods (it’s unclear which is which but that’s probably the point). It does make me wonder which one died thanks to Missy. Anyway, they explain that there is a peace treaty allowing 20 million Zygons living on Earth in disguise. If the peace treaty ever breaks down there is a protocol in place (the Osgood box). Well it seems there is a break down as Osgood (the remaining one) gets kidnapped by some Zygons. At UNIT Kate fears the worst when the encrypted locations of all the Zygons is hacked. Clara is missing in action as the Doctor goes to talk to the Zygon high command (who are going about as two seven-year-old girls). They claim they are handling things but I have a feeling they aren’t going to be solving much of anything.
As the Doctor heads to UNIT and he and Kate watch a video with Osgood claiming that all traitors will be killed, Clara heads home and sees some of her voice mails from the Doctor. She is clueless to what’s going on around her. She sees a neighbor boy on the stairs who claims he can’t find his parents. She heads into his apartment and his parents appear but they are acting super creepy. Yeah, either they are rogue Zygons or he is. I’m betting they are, though. Finally, she gets to UNIT and the Doctor is not happy about the situation. Kate says that they should just bomb the crap out of the rogue Zygons. After all, they did just assassinate the original high command on video. It seems these fringe Zygons are claiming they were sold and forced to assume human form.
The Doctor manages to talk Kate out of said bombing. He’s going to head to see about negotiating and saving Osgood while Kate heads to New Mexico to see if she can find out what’s going on there (Osgood was last pinged in New Mexico). Clara and one of the other UNIT people are supposed to stay in the UK and fight for the country but they end up in a lift that goes to some weird place (because of course there’s a lift in Clara’s apartment that’s al tricked out with Zygon tech). They somehow manage to get back to UNIT and do a little digging and find that there have been odd incidents all around London in elevators with people disappearing. It has to be related to what’s happening elsewhere.
The Doctor gets to the Middle East just as the military is about to launch a drone strike on the Zygon base. The soldier who is supposed to execute the strike can’t do it at the time because the Zygons that appear look like her family. How they knew to look like that is a mystery to me. But I’m kind of glad they did it because the Doctor has more time to try and save people. The lead soldier on the base explains that they think the facility is a training camp of some sort. So they’ve got that to explore, too.
In New Mexico Kate finds the sheriff’s station mostly empty except for a single deputy. She’s pretty freaked out and asks if Kate came alone or with back up. She also thinks Kate is a Zygon (although she doesn’t know that’s what they are called). Kate learns that the displaced Zygons headed there and for a while it was okay but then they started getting in fights and then sort of banded together in factions until one day one of them just turned into a full-on Zygon. Oh boy. And there’s lots of dead bodies lying all around. That can’t be good!
The Doctor and the military folks are heading to the compound and the strike is still on. The Doctor and the leader head around back while the rest of the team is supposed to be drawing the Zygons out to give them an in. It goes horribly awry when the Zygons appear as the soldiers’ family members. The soldiers get lured to their deaths and it turns out the soldiers were also Zygons. Very interesting. Lucky for the Doctor he finds Osgood. Too bad the soldiers are already bombing the hell out of the place and the two of them get stuck underground with a knocked out Zygon. Or maybe it’s a good thing so they can interrogate it. Well, the Zygon wants to take over the world. Good times.
Clara and her UNIT pal go down the elevator to the underground area and see that there are all kinds of pods. I have to admit I didn’t see this twist coming. Maybe I should have but I didn’t. The UNIT soldiers are all Zygons (the pods are full of human since you know, they don’t grow duplicates) and the get executed. The Clara we’ve been seeing is actually one of the rogue Zygons. It actually reminds me a little of the plot in “The Almost People” with Amy being a duplicate. We see the moment when Clara got nabbed (when she was checking on the little neighbor boy). The Doctor is not going to be happy about this betrayal. He’s going to have to fight like hell to stop all of this drama from going down.
In the end, Kate gets neutralized and fake Clara takes a freaking rocket launcher to the Doctor’s plane. While I like that they are picking up threads introduced in the 50th Anniversary special, this isn’t the one I’d have gone with, to be honest. I would have much preferred the search for Galifrey. Sure the Doctor doesn’t really want to be around his people but it would be much more interesting. And the Zygons just aren’t that gripping. And this is the second episode where they’ve referenced the “hybrid” (thank you Davros). I don’t really care about the hybrid. I just want good stories.
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Doctor Who 9.06: "The Woman Who Lived"
“You didn’t save my life, Doctor. You trapped me inside it.”
-Ashildr
“The Woman Who Lived” was another episode featuring “Game of Thrones” star Maisie Williams. The episode could be considered a pair with the previous episode, “The Girl Who Died.” It wasn’t a cliffhanger-style two-part episode, though, which was a positive because the two standalone stories were nice compliment to each other. Maisie Williams really did some great work in this episode, revealing to us the real toll of being an immortal being. Time Lords can hide the pain better because of their physiology (they remember more of their past, for instance), but I can imagine that having lost everyone he loved multiple times takes quite a toll on the doctor. I would love if the creative team explored a bit more what makes the Doctor want to keep saving people after having lost so much. What keeps him from being a hollow shell of who he once was like Williams’ Ashildr, who now just goes by “Me?”
This was a Clara-lite episode, with Clara apparently off teaching the Year Sevens at her school Taekwondo. The Doctor, meanwhile, is searching for an alien artifact (an amulet, to be specific). As the episode opens, we get a classic Victorian highwayman scene. A couple is riding along in a carriage when they are stopped by a highwayman who wants their amulet. Suddenly, the Doctor appears on the scene, and he botches everything for the highwayman. The couple end up hurrying off in the carriage before the amulet can be stolen. The highwayman is, understandably, upset with the Doctor for ruining the attempted theft, and he is quickly revealed to actually be a she. More specifically, she is Ashildr, the Viking woman the Doctor saved in the previous episode. Only now she has lived for 800 years, and she has forgotten more life than she remembers. She has taken to her life of crime because she is bored, mostly.
Ashildr is really excited to see the Doctor because she thinks he has finally come back for her and will take her away from her painful, mundane life. She is incredibly disappointed to find out that she’s not the reason the Doctor is in this particular time and place. He has kept an eye on her here and there (for instance, he was very proud to see her founding a leper colony), but it’s pretty clear he lost track. He wasn’t expecting what Ashildr has become. The Doctor wants to know what happened to her, and Ashildr directs him to read her journals. She does herself once in a while when she needs some entertainment. The Doctor sees there are several memories that have been torn out of the books, but a memory of a child dying remains. Ashildr says that’s a reminder not to have any more children.
Ashildr and the Doctor reach a bit of a détente in order to service their common goal of obtaining the amulet, called the Eye of Hades. There’s a bit of a fun heist sequence where the Doctor and Ashildr go to the home of the couple who had the amulet and steal it, but Ashildr has bigger plans. She’s been working with a cat-like being named Leandro, and while Ashildr has attached herself to him as a last resort to escape her misery, he doesn’t seem like he can be trusted. Leandro has convinced Ashildr that she can use the Eye of Hades to create a portal that will take her somewhere else. Ashildr is so desperate to leave her current situation that she doesn’t much care where the portal will take her as long as it is away.
Leandro (and the whole plan) is eventually revealed to the Doctor. The reason Ashildr didn’t tell the Doctor what was going on at first was because the Eye of Hades requires a death to open the portal. Ashildr was originally planning to sacrifice her loyal, long-time servant to activate the portal, but when she hears that rival highwayman Sam Swift is to be hanged, she changes her plans and heads for the gallows. She turns the Doctor over to the authorities as the Knightmare’s (her highwayman moniker) sidekick to give herself a head start. The Doctor manages to avoid jail using a very old trick – he pays the guards a bribe.
Sam Swift is nothing if not a showman, and he’s trying to keep the gathering crowd laughing. I’m not sure if he thinks it will prolong his life, or if he just wants to go out on a high note. The Doctor arrives in time to engage in some witty (and punny) repartee with Sam, and this scene really shows of Peter Capaldi’s comedic chops. He is often very serious as the Doctor, but pre-Doctor, he was most famous for his role in a comedy. As Malcolm Tucker on “The Thick of It,” Capaldi definitely knew how to play for laughs (usually while weaving together epic strings of profanity). Anyway, the Doctor uses the psychic paper to make it appear that Sam has been pardoned, but it’s too late. Ashildr decides to use the amulet on him anyway.
As Sam dies, a portal does indeed open up, but Leandro’s people use it to try and conquer Earth. The portal was never going to be able to take Ashildr away from Earth. Spaceships fly towards the portal opening and start firing on Earth. Ashildr realizes what a mistake she’s made, and she uses the other medical chip (the thing the Doctor used to save her life in the last episode) to save Sam’s life. As Sam comes back to life, the portal closes, presumably because he is no longer powering the amulet. She now has a companion for a while, although the Doctor thinks that the chip won’t give Sam complete immortality. It took too much power to bring him back to life.
At the end of the episode, the Doctor and Ashildr contemplate whether they are enemies or friends now. They decide that they are still friends, but they will be keeping an eye on each other. The Doctor thinks Ashildr is reckless, since she has become so numb after 800 years of living. Ashildr is concerned about how the Doctor tends to discard his traveling companions. After leaving Ashildr, the Doctor picks up Clara, and she joyfully shows him a selfie one of her students took to thank the Doctor for helping her with a paper. The Doctor is grumpy about the idea of a selfie at first, but when he looks at the picture, he is disturbed to see Ashildr in the background.
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Blindspot 1.07: "Sent on Tour"
“If they wanted to kill us then why help us at all?”
- Jane
It seems Director Mayfair may not have a choice in the team digging into the casefile she’s been so secretive about. She feeds Weller some line about the man, Sal Guerrero, being her CI for ten years and then he went dark and started killing people. That might be accurate but I doubt it. Before the tattoo of the week kicks off, we see two guys (one is the guy with the tree tattoo from Jane’s dream) burying a box of stuff under some floorboards. I have to say the tree man is pretty darn cute and based on that dream sequence from last week he and Jane have chemistry. I know there is always talk and hope that Jane and Weller will get together but hopefully not for a while. Maybe let Jane have another romance first. This man is obviously connected to her past somehow. Former lover perhaps? I am sure we will find out eventually. And then while Patterson is trying to get to the office her boyfriend, David, drops the “let’s move in together” bomb on her while he’s trying to decipher another tattoo (even though he’s not supposed to). At the office, Patterson uncovers a new tattoo buried under layers in the formerly black square covering the SEAL tattoo. It gives the team an address in Michigan. And wouldn’t you know it, when they land (after we learn Jane is not a fan of flying), they find one Sal Guerrero. But the place is so off the grid because it’s a bunch of gun-toting secessionists and Guerrero promises they won’t get out alive.
Well he might be right about that because someone cuts the fuel line on their truck and slashes their tires. And then, they get ambushed as they are trying to walk back to civilization. The team takes out their attackers and then Jane points out that there’s another piece from her tattoo puzzle which leads them to where the two guys buried the box. It containers water and guns and the supplies they will need to survive. As Jane pointed out, someone outside the community knew exactly where to find Guerrero and it looks like maybe they want the team to get out of three alive with him in tow.
The team gears up but the radio Weller swiped from one of the dead guys goes off. Apparently they have a way of tracking Guerrero. Jane finds said tracker in his watch but Weller stops her from smashing it. His reasoning: the guys hunting them don’t know they found the tracker. So they will split up and meet up at the rendezvous point on the map on the underside of the container’s lid. Along the way, Zapata points out that Weller is more invested in Jane than he’s letting on. She says it is kind of sad if he can’t even admit it. On the other team, Guerrero tries to get inside Jane’s head but she smacks him with the butt of her gun to shut him up. Reade even backs her play. They find the rendezvous point pretty fast while Weller and Zapata get rid of the tracker. After a quick search, Jane spies a map that matches one of her tattoos and her tat has an x marked on it that the map doesn’t have. What do they find at the end of said treasure hunt? A helicopter!
Since Weller and Zapata don’t know where the helicopter is, Jane and Reade head back to the rendezvous point but quickly get pinned down by locals. She manages to take a bunch of them out (after Guerrero gets winged by a bullet) before Weller shows up. They all get saved by the local sheriff who is on the payroll but he realized he is done being Guerrero’s personal security Jane somehow knows how to fly a freaking helicopter to get them out (but she still can’t handle planes).
Before the team returns victorious, Patterson tries to apologize to David about her reaction to his relationship news but it gets overshadowed by the fact he took one of the photos of the tattoos from her apartment and is investigating on his own. Yeah that is not a good thing. Sure, they end up having a lot of fun deciphering the clues that lead them to a book in which someone (or multiple someones) are passing coded messages back and forth but Mayfair shows up to ruin the party. You had to know it couldn’t keep going like this even if I thought their adventure was really fun. I would love to see more of them working together and figuring out clues. Alas, I don’t think my wish is going to come true any time soon. See, while Mayfair gives Patterson a pass, Patterson realizes that she did screw up horribly and if she and David did move in together she wouldn’t be able to handle it. She hasn’t done well with relationships in the past that involved living together and she gives some excuse about not being able to be distracted from her job. I get that she is scared but don’t dump the sweet guy!
Weller quickly figures out that Mayfair wasn’t Guerrero’s handler after her half-assed (maybe not even half-assed) interrogation. There is no recognition between them and no rapport. Weller is severely pissed that his boss has been lying to him and he demands answers. We won’t get them just yet but I think the answers are coming. As the episode closes, she shuts her door says that only three people know what she is about to tell him and ends with the cryptic sentence “it’s called Daylight”. I knew we shouldn’t trust her (even if Carter is a million times worse). But I am excited to finally figure out what is going on with this Operation Daylight and what exactly it is. I do like that Jane is finally becoming more integrated into the team, too. I was a little sad we didn’t have a reason to see her shrink this week but that’s purely because I think he’s cute and I like his accent.
- Jane
It seems Director Mayfair may not have a choice in the team digging into the casefile she’s been so secretive about. She feeds Weller some line about the man, Sal Guerrero, being her CI for ten years and then he went dark and started killing people. That might be accurate but I doubt it. Before the tattoo of the week kicks off, we see two guys (one is the guy with the tree tattoo from Jane’s dream) burying a box of stuff under some floorboards. I have to say the tree man is pretty darn cute and based on that dream sequence from last week he and Jane have chemistry. I know there is always talk and hope that Jane and Weller will get together but hopefully not for a while. Maybe let Jane have another romance first. This man is obviously connected to her past somehow. Former lover perhaps? I am sure we will find out eventually. And then while Patterson is trying to get to the office her boyfriend, David, drops the “let’s move in together” bomb on her while he’s trying to decipher another tattoo (even though he’s not supposed to). At the office, Patterson uncovers a new tattoo buried under layers in the formerly black square covering the SEAL tattoo. It gives the team an address in Michigan. And wouldn’t you know it, when they land (after we learn Jane is not a fan of flying), they find one Sal Guerrero. But the place is so off the grid because it’s a bunch of gun-toting secessionists and Guerrero promises they won’t get out alive.
Well he might be right about that because someone cuts the fuel line on their truck and slashes their tires. And then, they get ambushed as they are trying to walk back to civilization. The team takes out their attackers and then Jane points out that there’s another piece from her tattoo puzzle which leads them to where the two guys buried the box. It containers water and guns and the supplies they will need to survive. As Jane pointed out, someone outside the community knew exactly where to find Guerrero and it looks like maybe they want the team to get out of three alive with him in tow.
The team gears up but the radio Weller swiped from one of the dead guys goes off. Apparently they have a way of tracking Guerrero. Jane finds said tracker in his watch but Weller stops her from smashing it. His reasoning: the guys hunting them don’t know they found the tracker. So they will split up and meet up at the rendezvous point on the map on the underside of the container’s lid. Along the way, Zapata points out that Weller is more invested in Jane than he’s letting on. She says it is kind of sad if he can’t even admit it. On the other team, Guerrero tries to get inside Jane’s head but she smacks him with the butt of her gun to shut him up. Reade even backs her play. They find the rendezvous point pretty fast while Weller and Zapata get rid of the tracker. After a quick search, Jane spies a map that matches one of her tattoos and her tat has an x marked on it that the map doesn’t have. What do they find at the end of said treasure hunt? A helicopter!
Since Weller and Zapata don’t know where the helicopter is, Jane and Reade head back to the rendezvous point but quickly get pinned down by locals. She manages to take a bunch of them out (after Guerrero gets winged by a bullet) before Weller shows up. They all get saved by the local sheriff who is on the payroll but he realized he is done being Guerrero’s personal security Jane somehow knows how to fly a freaking helicopter to get them out (but she still can’t handle planes).
Before the team returns victorious, Patterson tries to apologize to David about her reaction to his relationship news but it gets overshadowed by the fact he took one of the photos of the tattoos from her apartment and is investigating on his own. Yeah that is not a good thing. Sure, they end up having a lot of fun deciphering the clues that lead them to a book in which someone (or multiple someones) are passing coded messages back and forth but Mayfair shows up to ruin the party. You had to know it couldn’t keep going like this even if I thought their adventure was really fun. I would love to see more of them working together and figuring out clues. Alas, I don’t think my wish is going to come true any time soon. See, while Mayfair gives Patterson a pass, Patterson realizes that she did screw up horribly and if she and David did move in together she wouldn’t be able to handle it. She hasn’t done well with relationships in the past that involved living together and she gives some excuse about not being able to be distracted from her job. I get that she is scared but don’t dump the sweet guy!
Weller quickly figures out that Mayfair wasn’t Guerrero’s handler after her half-assed (maybe not even half-assed) interrogation. There is no recognition between them and no rapport. Weller is severely pissed that his boss has been lying to him and he demands answers. We won’t get them just yet but I think the answers are coming. As the episode closes, she shuts her door says that only three people know what she is about to tell him and ends with the cryptic sentence “it’s called Daylight”. I knew we shouldn’t trust her (even if Carter is a million times worse). But I am excited to finally figure out what is going on with this Operation Daylight and what exactly it is. I do like that Jane is finally becoming more integrated into the team, too. I was a little sad we didn’t have a reason to see her shrink this week but that’s purely because I think he’s cute and I like his accent.
Sunday, November 1, 2015
Once Upon a Time 5.06: "The Bear and the Bow"
“What do you say, will you help me show the clans they messed with the wrong Queen?”
- Merida
For those of you who are astute, you’ll realize that the title of this week’s episode was the original title for “Brave”. I have to admit that’s kind of clever on the writers’ part. In Camelot, Merlin, Charming, Hook and Belle head down to the dungeons to free Lancelot and happen upon Merida as well. They think it is only fair they let her out given what Emma did. Unfortunately, they are going to regret their actions shortly. Belle had given Merlin a spell to use to get rid of the cell bars and so Merida thinks it is a brilliant idea to kidnap Belle to help find her brothers. I have a feeling that isn’t going to work quite as well as she’s hoping. After a little verbal sparring in a canoe, Merida and Belle agree to join forces, especially since Merida is kind of crabby about the clans being sexists pigs. They head to the witch’s hovel (where she figured out how to change her mother back from a bear in the movie) and they find that the clans plan to kill her brothers to punish her for not abdicating her throne. So Merida wants Belle to change her brothers’ fate. It happens to be the exact same spell that turned her mother into a bear. Belle tries to talk Merida out of using the magic, trying to show her that using Merida’s skill with a bow will do more to convince the clans that she is fit to rule than magic but Merida isn’t having it. She explains to Belle that the clans were attacked and an enemy knight was going for her father and she failed to save him. So Belle hands over the potion, even though she’s not happy to do it. But the girl is clever. She gave Merida a fake potion and Merida manages to stand up the clansmen with just her bow and her sword and they all bow down to her. So her family is reunited and she overcomes her fear of not being good enough to lead her people.
In Storybrooke Regina drops the news on the team that they had freed Merlin in Camelot. They think they need to use Arthur to communicate with Merlin now using the crimson crown so they can find out why Merlin was unable to free Emma. Belle isn’t interested in that plan. Rumple probably knows what happened or at least why it might not have worked and she isn’t going to sit around while Emma could be hurting him. Sure she is not happy with her husband but she still feels a pull to him. Speaking of, he is in the woods and uses the chipped cup to free himself from his binds. This only prompts Emma to force Merida to kill Belle. How that will turn Rumple into a hero is anyone’s guess. The Charmings are complete idiots. They think Arthur is on their side and then agree to leave him alone to “communicate” with Merlin. They don’t see Arthur burn the mushroom and then he flat out lies to them. The bastard.
Belle is trying to search the library for a way to find Rumple when the elevator starts working of its own accord. Of course, it’s Rumple and he’s grateful to his wife for standing by him while he was in the coma (and ready to give up the ghost given all he’d done). She gave him hope but they need to get out of the library and to the shop. Emma is no doubt after Belle to force Rumple’s hand. Rumple is scared to make a run to his shop because of his leg and what it represents but Belle reminds him that he hobbled himself for his son and that is one of the things he did that was not a mistake. They make it to the shop but don’t have enough time to find what he wants before Merida shows up intent on killing Belle.
And for some reason Emma thinks taking Zelena out for a little jaunt is a good idea. Yeah, the Dark Swan and the Wicked Witch in league is never going to end well. Not even a little bit. She wants Zelena to help her wield Merlin’s wand when the time is right but Zelena’s not interested. Not only is she okay being alone but she warns Emma that Henry won’t be quick to forgive her for the betrayal. She even drops the “I kill Neal” bit on Emma but Emma doesn’t really blink (that made me sad).
Belle knocks Merida out before she can deliver the final shot which gives them time to get out of the shop. Rumple’s plan of course is to run away. The magic he grabbed will keep them from turning into trees. Belle can’t believe he’s running away yet again. He tells her that he didn’t cripple himself for Bae but because he was scared and will always be a coward. Emma isn’t letting him get away that easily though. It seems Merida didn’t drink the potion in Camelot because Emma forces her to drink it now and she turns into a giant hulking bear. After running through the woods for a bit, Belle gets corned by Merida the Bear until Rumple shows up. He doesn’t really fight (he kind of gets batted around like a cat toy actually) but he manages to use some of the dust he had intended to keep them save crossing the town line to turn Merida back into a person. He proclaims that Belle saved him (so he still isn’t really a hero).
So I was wrong and Rumple does manage to pull Excalibur from the stone. But he gets Merida’s heart returned in exchange and he promises to kick Emma’s butt now that he’s a hero. This is going to be interesting. And briefly in Camelot we see Emma make the connection on Merlin being the usher at the movie theater when she’s a kid. Too bad she isn’t going to heed his warning. And as the idiot Charmings realize what Arthur did, Regina realizes that Henry can talk to Merlin since he’s been chosen as the Author. They get the magician’s voicemail though and it’s not good. Merlin instructs them to find Nimue if they want to defeat the darkness. This makes me want to go back and rewatch the first season of “Merlin”. Anyway, I’m excited to see where the story goes.
- Merida
For those of you who are astute, you’ll realize that the title of this week’s episode was the original title for “Brave”. I have to admit that’s kind of clever on the writers’ part. In Camelot, Merlin, Charming, Hook and Belle head down to the dungeons to free Lancelot and happen upon Merida as well. They think it is only fair they let her out given what Emma did. Unfortunately, they are going to regret their actions shortly. Belle had given Merlin a spell to use to get rid of the cell bars and so Merida thinks it is a brilliant idea to kidnap Belle to help find her brothers. I have a feeling that isn’t going to work quite as well as she’s hoping. After a little verbal sparring in a canoe, Merida and Belle agree to join forces, especially since Merida is kind of crabby about the clans being sexists pigs. They head to the witch’s hovel (where she figured out how to change her mother back from a bear in the movie) and they find that the clans plan to kill her brothers to punish her for not abdicating her throne. So Merida wants Belle to change her brothers’ fate. It happens to be the exact same spell that turned her mother into a bear. Belle tries to talk Merida out of using the magic, trying to show her that using Merida’s skill with a bow will do more to convince the clans that she is fit to rule than magic but Merida isn’t having it. She explains to Belle that the clans were attacked and an enemy knight was going for her father and she failed to save him. So Belle hands over the potion, even though she’s not happy to do it. But the girl is clever. She gave Merida a fake potion and Merida manages to stand up the clansmen with just her bow and her sword and they all bow down to her. So her family is reunited and she overcomes her fear of not being good enough to lead her people.
In Storybrooke Regina drops the news on the team that they had freed Merlin in Camelot. They think they need to use Arthur to communicate with Merlin now using the crimson crown so they can find out why Merlin was unable to free Emma. Belle isn’t interested in that plan. Rumple probably knows what happened or at least why it might not have worked and she isn’t going to sit around while Emma could be hurting him. Sure she is not happy with her husband but she still feels a pull to him. Speaking of, he is in the woods and uses the chipped cup to free himself from his binds. This only prompts Emma to force Merida to kill Belle. How that will turn Rumple into a hero is anyone’s guess. The Charmings are complete idiots. They think Arthur is on their side and then agree to leave him alone to “communicate” with Merlin. They don’t see Arthur burn the mushroom and then he flat out lies to them. The bastard.
Belle is trying to search the library for a way to find Rumple when the elevator starts working of its own accord. Of course, it’s Rumple and he’s grateful to his wife for standing by him while he was in the coma (and ready to give up the ghost given all he’d done). She gave him hope but they need to get out of the library and to the shop. Emma is no doubt after Belle to force Rumple’s hand. Rumple is scared to make a run to his shop because of his leg and what it represents but Belle reminds him that he hobbled himself for his son and that is one of the things he did that was not a mistake. They make it to the shop but don’t have enough time to find what he wants before Merida shows up intent on killing Belle.
And for some reason Emma thinks taking Zelena out for a little jaunt is a good idea. Yeah, the Dark Swan and the Wicked Witch in league is never going to end well. Not even a little bit. She wants Zelena to help her wield Merlin’s wand when the time is right but Zelena’s not interested. Not only is she okay being alone but she warns Emma that Henry won’t be quick to forgive her for the betrayal. She even drops the “I kill Neal” bit on Emma but Emma doesn’t really blink (that made me sad).
Belle knocks Merida out before she can deliver the final shot which gives them time to get out of the shop. Rumple’s plan of course is to run away. The magic he grabbed will keep them from turning into trees. Belle can’t believe he’s running away yet again. He tells her that he didn’t cripple himself for Bae but because he was scared and will always be a coward. Emma isn’t letting him get away that easily though. It seems Merida didn’t drink the potion in Camelot because Emma forces her to drink it now and she turns into a giant hulking bear. After running through the woods for a bit, Belle gets corned by Merida the Bear until Rumple shows up. He doesn’t really fight (he kind of gets batted around like a cat toy actually) but he manages to use some of the dust he had intended to keep them save crossing the town line to turn Merida back into a person. He proclaims that Belle saved him (so he still isn’t really a hero).
So I was wrong and Rumple does manage to pull Excalibur from the stone. But he gets Merida’s heart returned in exchange and he promises to kick Emma’s butt now that he’s a hero. This is going to be interesting. And briefly in Camelot we see Emma make the connection on Merlin being the usher at the movie theater when she’s a kid. Too bad she isn’t going to heed his warning. And as the idiot Charmings realize what Arthur did, Regina realizes that Henry can talk to Merlin since he’s been chosen as the Author. They get the magician’s voicemail though and it’s not good. Merlin instructs them to find Nimue if they want to defeat the darkness. This makes me want to go back and rewatch the first season of “Merlin”. Anyway, I’m excited to see where the story goes.
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 3.05: “4,722 Hours”
“I will not accept that. There’s always hope.”
- Simmons
Just judging by the episode title, this week’s “Agents of SHIELD’ focuses on Jemma’s time away on the alien planet. It’s rather emotional since we here at More TV, Please are both huge FitzSimmons fans and any time they are sad, we are sad. But enough of an intro, let’s get into the meat of this episode. We see Fitz sweetly ask Simmons out on a date for dinner and then she gets sucked into the portal. Immediately, we pick up with her getting dumped on the other side on the alien planet. After the initial shock wears off, Jemma goes into scientist mode and starts documenting things on her phone. She snaps photos of the desert-like, barren terrain and she notes the air is breathable although the gravity is a bit heavier than Earth. The one thing she isn’t counting on is that it’s basically always night time (which would account for her sensitivity to light when she gets back home).
Before long, Jemma is outfitting herself for rugged living and she notes that she can survive up to three weeks without food but only 100 hours without water. Along the way she’s having a conversation with Fitz about their dinner date and what she should wear and what they’ll talk about. It is really adorable. Just when things are looking absolutely dire for her (including getting nearly buried in a sand storm), she finds water. She even goes swimming in the little pond she’s found but gets attacked by plant/fish thing. She hacks off a piece and ends up eating it raw. Not the best move if you ask me. As time goes on, Jemma continues to talk to the picture of Fitz on her phone which is so sweet because it reminds me of last season with Fitz hallucinating Simmons being there. They really are made for each other. After a month, Jemma manages to kill the plant/fish thing and cook it over a fire. She’s quite proud of herself for this accomplishment until some rustling in what looks like a grove of bamboo catches her attention. She heads off to investigate and ends up falling into a trap below the surface!
After being locked in a cage for a week or two, Jemma finally manages to get free of her human captor (he’s kind of handsome now that I think of it) and races outside but he chases after her. She gets hurt and he drags her back inside to keep her safe. Sure he poked her with a spear and locked her up but he explains he didn’t know if she was real or if he’d gone crazy thanks to the evil thing hunting them on the planet.
As the months pass, we learn that Will is a former astronaut and he came through with three scientists (he’s a former air force pilot). So they’ve got all sorts of scientific equipment but it’s useless without sunlight. It does beg the question how NASA got their hands on the monolith in the first place. Jemma is still focused on getting home but Will is skeptical. After all, he’s been stuck on the planet for 14 years. He also believes the planet is evil and that it kills people and makes them go crazy (which is what happened to the other three NASA folks). Slowly, Will and Jemma find a rhythm and rapport and even begin bonding over what they miss most from Earth (including food and sunlight and Fitz). Jemma is still talking to Fitz as if he were there which just makes it all the more emotional given what Fitz went through. She really does love him and she keeps fighting to get back to him. Again, so sweet.
After Jemma storms off when Will tells her to stay away from what he calls the “no fly zone” she finds a sword and what might be a sextant. This gives her the idea to use the stars to find their way home. But first she needs to make it back to safety before the evil gets her (and she realizes it is real!). Jemma goes into science mode and after some time she manages to figure out when the portal should open again. She and Will make the trek but it’s for naught. They try to send a message through but the canyon they’re at is too long and the bottle shatters in the sand. Jemma breaks down but Will tries to cheer her up and they end up hooking up which made me super sad for Fitz. I mean I can understand why she’d react that way (good looking guy, she thinks they’re never getting home) but still. Ultimately, their domestic bliss can’t last. They head off to see the first sunrise in at least 14 years when Jemma spots Fitz’s flare. They race off in the hopes of getting rescued but the evil shows up in the guise of one of Will’s NASA buddies. Will sacrifices his chance of going home to make sure Jemma gets to Fitz.
It turns out this whole episode has really been Jemma recounting what happened to Fitz to explain why she needs to go back. In hindsight it all makes perfect sense and is kind of heartbreaking. I don’t want any kind of love triangle to really continue but I do want them to find Will and give him something to do. Fitz doesn’t say anything at first when Jemma finishes talking but he’s going to help. Clearly it means something very important to Jemma so of course he’s going to do everything he can to make her happy. And at episode’s end we see that Will is indeed alive although we don’t know if he’s been possessed by the evil or not. We can hope that he’s going to be okay and that FitzSimmons will ride to the rescue. While this episode (clearly) broke from the normal episode structure I really enjoyed it and am glad they were able to present this storyline in such an interesting way.
- Simmons
Just judging by the episode title, this week’s “Agents of SHIELD’ focuses on Jemma’s time away on the alien planet. It’s rather emotional since we here at More TV, Please are both huge FitzSimmons fans and any time they are sad, we are sad. But enough of an intro, let’s get into the meat of this episode. We see Fitz sweetly ask Simmons out on a date for dinner and then she gets sucked into the portal. Immediately, we pick up with her getting dumped on the other side on the alien planet. After the initial shock wears off, Jemma goes into scientist mode and starts documenting things on her phone. She snaps photos of the desert-like, barren terrain and she notes the air is breathable although the gravity is a bit heavier than Earth. The one thing she isn’t counting on is that it’s basically always night time (which would account for her sensitivity to light when she gets back home).
Before long, Jemma is outfitting herself for rugged living and she notes that she can survive up to three weeks without food but only 100 hours without water. Along the way she’s having a conversation with Fitz about their dinner date and what she should wear and what they’ll talk about. It is really adorable. Just when things are looking absolutely dire for her (including getting nearly buried in a sand storm), she finds water. She even goes swimming in the little pond she’s found but gets attacked by plant/fish thing. She hacks off a piece and ends up eating it raw. Not the best move if you ask me. As time goes on, Jemma continues to talk to the picture of Fitz on her phone which is so sweet because it reminds me of last season with Fitz hallucinating Simmons being there. They really are made for each other. After a month, Jemma manages to kill the plant/fish thing and cook it over a fire. She’s quite proud of herself for this accomplishment until some rustling in what looks like a grove of bamboo catches her attention. She heads off to investigate and ends up falling into a trap below the surface!
After being locked in a cage for a week or two, Jemma finally manages to get free of her human captor (he’s kind of handsome now that I think of it) and races outside but he chases after her. She gets hurt and he drags her back inside to keep her safe. Sure he poked her with a spear and locked her up but he explains he didn’t know if she was real or if he’d gone crazy thanks to the evil thing hunting them on the planet.
As the months pass, we learn that Will is a former astronaut and he came through with three scientists (he’s a former air force pilot). So they’ve got all sorts of scientific equipment but it’s useless without sunlight. It does beg the question how NASA got their hands on the monolith in the first place. Jemma is still focused on getting home but Will is skeptical. After all, he’s been stuck on the planet for 14 years. He also believes the planet is evil and that it kills people and makes them go crazy (which is what happened to the other three NASA folks). Slowly, Will and Jemma find a rhythm and rapport and even begin bonding over what they miss most from Earth (including food and sunlight and Fitz). Jemma is still talking to Fitz as if he were there which just makes it all the more emotional given what Fitz went through. She really does love him and she keeps fighting to get back to him. Again, so sweet.
After Jemma storms off when Will tells her to stay away from what he calls the “no fly zone” she finds a sword and what might be a sextant. This gives her the idea to use the stars to find their way home. But first she needs to make it back to safety before the evil gets her (and she realizes it is real!). Jemma goes into science mode and after some time she manages to figure out when the portal should open again. She and Will make the trek but it’s for naught. They try to send a message through but the canyon they’re at is too long and the bottle shatters in the sand. Jemma breaks down but Will tries to cheer her up and they end up hooking up which made me super sad for Fitz. I mean I can understand why she’d react that way (good looking guy, she thinks they’re never getting home) but still. Ultimately, their domestic bliss can’t last. They head off to see the first sunrise in at least 14 years when Jemma spots Fitz’s flare. They race off in the hopes of getting rescued but the evil shows up in the guise of one of Will’s NASA buddies. Will sacrifices his chance of going home to make sure Jemma gets to Fitz.
It turns out this whole episode has really been Jemma recounting what happened to Fitz to explain why she needs to go back. In hindsight it all makes perfect sense and is kind of heartbreaking. I don’t want any kind of love triangle to really continue but I do want them to find Will and give him something to do. Fitz doesn’t say anything at first when Jemma finishes talking but he’s going to help. Clearly it means something very important to Jemma so of course he’s going to do everything he can to make her happy. And at episode’s end we see that Will is indeed alive although we don’t know if he’s been possessed by the evil or not. We can hope that he’s going to be okay and that FitzSimmons will ride to the rescue. While this episode (clearly) broke from the normal episode structure I really enjoyed it and am glad they were able to present this storyline in such an interesting way.
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 3.04: "Devils You Know"
“Why’d I let you talk me into this? I had a garage, a workbench full of new tools. My own espresso machine.”
-Mack
This particular episode of “S.H.I.E.L.D. wasn’t really a stand-out to me. It very much seemed like it was just set-up to move characters from one of the season’s stories to the next. It was a transition episode. The S.H.I.E.L.D. team tried to investigate yet another murder of Inhumans, and to do so, they tested their potential new alliance with the ATCU. Most of the team is not happy about the alliance, as you’d expect. Hunter also tries to put his “kill Ward” plan into place. He needs a little help from his friends to have a chance at succeeding, though. And most importantly (to me, because I am very invested in Fitz’s happiness, because he’s adorable), Fitz learned that Simmons is really desperately trying to get back to the other realm where she was trapped thanks to the portal.
The episode starts with a young couple making dinner, and it quickly becomes obvious that they’re Inhumans. They’re OG Inhumans, as in they were at Afterlife – they’re not Inhuman thanks to the fish oil supplements. They also happen to know that the Terrigen has been released (that’s what got into the fish oil supplements). Their dinner is interrupted by the appearance of Alisha, an Inhuman we me before who can basically astral project herself to other locations (her true physical form is with our S.H.I.E.L.D. friends). The non-Alisha Inhumans mention that they both got an e-mail about how OG Inhumans need to band together. The three Inhumans are still trying to figure out what to do when Lash attacks. The Inhuman couple are killed, and Alisha is in very bad shape.
Daisy and Mack are first on the scene, and they are less than thrilled when Coulson brings in the ATCU. Especially since the ATCU tried to capture Daisy in the last episode. Coulson, Bobbi, and Fitz comb the crime scene for evidence while Daisy and Mack try to find Lash. Fitz manages to snag a laptop that might be helpful, especially considering the e-mail we learned about at the beginning of the episode. The ATCU figures out that all the OG Inhumans who have been killed received an e-mail with a virus that made it easy for Lash to track them. Daisy then takes this to the next level, tracking the virus to an IT guy who works for the Social Security Administration, Dwight Frye. Daisy is shocked that the ATCU didn’t know about him, considering he’s a government employee. I think Daisy’s instinct is right.
S.H.I.E.L.D. and the ATCU both pay Frye a visit, although he completely freaks out when he comes in contact with Daisy. Frye is Inhuman, too, and his superpower is having a bad reaction every time he’s in the presence of another Inhuman. He’s basically an Inhuman divining rod. Coulson uses his robotic hand (and sarcasm) to threaten Frye into admitting he’s been working with Lash. Because his power makes him so uncomfortable around other Inhumans, he is totally cool with Lash’s Inhuman killing plans. The ATCU decides to take Frye into custody, and Daisy and Mack tag along to check out the holding facility. Lash attacks the transport, though, seriously injuring Mack and killing Frye. Daisy sees Lash change into something resembling a human silhouette, meaning he/she/it is likely an Inhuman.
Elsewhere, Hunter is progressing in his quest to kill Ward. Ward has something big planned using weapons Hunter procured, so Hunter wants to take care of that and take care of Ward in general before Bobbi is recovered enough to be back in the field. I guess he’s afraid of Ward targeting her again. May is worried that this is a suicide mission, so she heads back to S.H.I.E.L.D. HQ for reinforcements. To her chagrin, she runs into Andrew there. We learn that he left her, not the other way around (in their most recent parting), although we don’t quite know why. They have a super awkward conversation where Andrew tries to apologize for how things when down, but May doesn’t really want to have anything to do with him anymore. She says that now each of them has left the other once, they’re even.
In the course of the work he’s been doing to move up in the new Hydra, Hunter finds himself in a room with Ward. Ward knows who he is, obviously, and the encounter doesn’t go well for either of them (although I guess it’s somewhat better for Ward). Hunter can’t hold out against Ward and his goons for long, but luckily May’s got his back. Ward seems to be genuinely worried that May is on the scene, but he’s got a contingency plan. Some of his goons (including the trust fund baby who has been taking Andrew’s class) have been tailing Andrew. Ward says that if Hunter and May don’t back off, he’ll have Andrew killed. May wants to call it off, because she still cares about Andrew, but Hunter charges into the fray, taking that option away. A huge explosion engulfs the store Andrew had been patronizing, and presumably he doesn’t survive (we’ll see what happens). Ward is shot in the fray, but he manages to get away to fight again later.
There’s also some FitzSimmons drama in this episode, which makes me uneasy because, as you should all know by now, sad FitzSimmons makes me sad (or, to be more precise, sad Fitz makes me sad, because Fitz is adorable). Simmons has been working on a research project that she doesn’t want anybody to see, so naturally this peaks Fitz’s curiosity. It also helps that Bobbi just doesn’t get all the little quirks of how he and Simmons used to work, so she doesn’t hand him a blue baggie for biologicals like she’s supposed to. Fitz gets very worried about Simmons when he takes a look at her research and figures out that she is trying to recreate the monolith, presumably to reopen the portal. With some prompting by Bobbi (on both sides), Fitz confronts Simmons about his discovery, and Simmons admits she needs to go back to the land at the other end of the portal. She promises to tell Fitz everything if he will help her, and of course he agrees.
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