Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Recap: "The Things We Bury"

Written by John Edward Betancourt

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I guess if there is one good way to describe Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is that the show is like a fine wine, it truly gets better with age.  Week after week this show continues to impress me and last night was no exception. So many questions were answered and I'm still reeling from a couple of plot points from "The Things We Bury".

The good news is, crazy Coulson is truly gone.  Sure there is some fear from a few members of the team as to whether or not he may have gone off of his rocker, but his focus on finding this strange alien city and the plan he has in place shows the man we know and love has indeed truly returned.  But while the hunt for the city is clearly the focus for the next few episodes of the show...the focus last night was on Ward & Whitehall.

We learned a lot about Whitehall last night.  We learned the man is likely damn near one hundred years old for starters and has been dealing with the Obelisk, now called The Diviner, basically all of his life.  He was unable to crack the code back in the 1940's and Agent Carter (in another surprise guest spot from Haley Atwell) had him locked up for most of his life. That is until Under Secretary Pierce had him released where he continued his work. He once again found a girl who was able to touch the Diviner and not be harmed.  It's important to mention she was still the same age she was in 1945 when Whitehall meets her again in 1989 and the subsequent experiments on her body gave Whitehall the youth we see today at the cost of her life. 

In between watching that horrific story, Ward went after his brother. The focus of this visit? To get Christian to admit that he was the reason that Grant shoved Thomas down the well and surprisingly, Christian admits it. This admission seemingly patched up the differences between these two.  So as the brothers Ward seem to be burying the hatchet, Coulson's plan to hijack government satellites to find the alien city goes into action, and it brings him face to face with Skye's dad.  It's a quick and angry confrontation that will undoubtedly get ugly the next time the two see one another.  

But on the plus side, they find the city. On the downside, Ward finally meets with Whitehall and it is revealed that his brother and the rest of his family are dead in a "murder/suicide" and that's how the show ends, on a bleak note.  To say the least Ward is quickly becoming terrifying and next week, it looks like we may finally find what this hidden city is all about. 

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