It's hard to believe the first season of Agents of SHIELD is almost done. It has been a roller coaster of a ride and Marvel's previous promotion "It's All Connected" showed just how connected everything is in this episode. In an episode where half of the time was spent as flashbacks to Ward growing up as an undercover Hydra agent, the story and flow was not as good as past episodes. This episode however had to deal with setting up one heck of a season finale. One that will see Coulson and a much more powerful Garrett go head to head among many other confrontations
***** SPOILERS for "Ragtag" to follow. *****
"Ragtag" starts off with the first meeting between Ward and Garrett. The episodes there relationship evolve throughout a series of years. Garrett broke Ward out of prison, left him in the wild, and taught him how to shoot and survive. Garrett even gets Ward into SHIELD's program but makes him also become a double agent.
When we see Garrett in the present time, he talks to Raina about the project she's been working on. She had so far been unsuccessful in replicating a GH serum that would create the same results as the GH 325 that was injected in Coulson and Skye, but when she tells Garrett she thinks she made one, he says he's been chasing "this" for 25 years.
When Raina tells Ward about the serum, she also reveals something she discovered. She looked through the hard drive and found all of the files Skye was looking at, and when she looked into them, she found something. The stories of Skye's past match up with something Raina heard long ago. A story of a baby and how everything and everybody protecting her were killed by "monsters". Those "monsters", Raina explains, were the baby's parents. This brings into question Skye's past even more and hopefully we learn in the season finale what kind of "monsters" Skye's parents were/are.
Meanwhile, the team goes undercover at Cybertek to try and get some answers. Thanks to some old Howling Commando gear courtesy of Triplett, the team uncovers some old files on the Deathlok project. We found out earlier in the season that Garrett also has Cybertek technology in him. That is because Garrett had the Deathlok operation done to him long ago.
Unfortunately for Garrett, he is dying. He has the Centipede serum flowing through him but that has not been enough to make him fully recover. According to his doctors, he only has a month or so to live. That is why he needs Raina's new serum so that it will regenerate his cells. With the team watching Garrett, Ward captures Fitz and Simmons. Fitz tricks Ward into triggering an old EMP which electrocutes Garrett. This causes Garrett's technology to malfunction. When Raina injects Garrett with her new GH serum, it ends working and Garrett says he can "feel the universe."
The final setup for the season finale features Ian Quinn talking to high up army officers. His pitch? Sell them an army of 1,000 with his combination of technology. The team meanwhile, found Garrett's old base, and when they find a computer to install their "Trojan Horse" virus, the base goes dark. Then the Asgardian staff, from "The Well", lights up the hands of what is most likely a Hydra agent along with multiple red lights. Looks like Coulson and the team are going to have their hands full next week.
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