Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Recap: Providence

Written by Shae

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If you haven't seen Captain America: The Winter Soldier, you're seriously missing out! Why? Because Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is intertwined with The Winter Soldier's plot twist! That being said, seriously, betrayals? Can everything stop being all, murdery, of my feels?! That's something I'd appreciate, just saying.

In accordance with last week's episode, we hit it off with Ward and Garrett being all giddy over everything that is HYDRA. Because, again, we have to betray everything that we all knew and loved dearly and rub in the fact that HYDRA is everywhere. Well, that's fantastic because Ward turns out to be a major jerk, Hand is really dead, and it looks like Raina is on their team. Making it all totally okay to just play with everyones feelings. Speaking of, Skye and the Team have no idea about Ward yet, and boy is that going to be a rude awakening next week! Until then, Ward and Garrett are off to the Fridge to get some awesome weapons that Fury had stored there. Turns out, the Director was kind of bad at destroying things he said he destroyed; instead keeping them locked up, making it convenient for bad guys, like HYDRA, to come in and steal. Thankfully, Ward and Garrett also are kind enough to let out all the people locked up in the Fridge.

Meanwhile, Coulson and the team hit the Bus and leave the Hub before the government can swarm in and make trouble for them. While in the air, Coulson has Skye collect everyone's badges and erase their identities. It's better to not exist then leave a trail for anyone to find. Without knowing Ward is a giant traitorous douche, Skye keeps Ward informed of what's going on via phone, because it would be too easy to have the Team know that he's really with the bad guys. Triplett joins the Team, despite Coulson not wanting that, and Simmons vouches for him. Fitz is not pleased because this other agent is totally hitting on his girl and she's digging it. To make things more awkward, May is concerned about Coulson's well being in the whole "I'm just doing my job, but you seem off, please don't be breaking" kind of way, which makes Coulson angry. A twist of fate is thrown their way, however, when Coulson goes to lock the badges up in his safe, only to find his is already there with some coordinates written on them. May is automatically more suspicious now, wondering if Coulson isn't a sleeper HYDRA agent.

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We find out that Fury didn't directly oversee Coulson's recovery, and that was part of why May was keeping tabs on him. Which, you know, puts May even more on the outs with Coulson. It's all okay, sort of, because soon they find the secret base that Fury lead them too, only for a solo level 6 agent to tell them Fury is dead. Only once he and Coulson are alone does he reveal that Fury's really alive, but nobody but a hand picked select few can know about it. Skye tells Ward about the secret base once she finds out that the Fridge was attacked. Ward plays along and heads down there to regroup with them. Only because he needs Skye to un-encrypt the hard drive she backed up of all the information on from the Bus. 

All these crazy betrayals are still not setting well with me. I certainly hope Ward gets what's coming to him once everyone finds out about this. Though, secretly, I'm hoping it's still a lie somehow and that he's really a good guy. Doubting it, but one can only hope! Will we ever see Hill again? Will Fury ever give Coulson the answers he wants? Could there be anymore sexual tension on this show? I don't know about you guys, but I'm already excited for next week's episode!

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