In recent weeks, Agents of SHIELD has really picked up. The story has begun to flow, the stories have been top notch, and have brought in some new faces. This week was more of the same for the series that has found a new life recently with the elements mentioned above and including a stronger emotional connection with the audience. This is a review for episode 19 of season 1 of Agents of SHIELD.
***** SPOILERS below for "The Only Light in the Darkness *****
This week's episode of Agents of SHIELD brought back two characters we met in last week's episode. Right from the start we get reacquainted with Marcus Daniels (aka Blackout). Daniels is terrorizing a town while the team focuses on the outbreak at the Fridge that allowed Daniels to escape. Once Coulson learns Daniels has escaped he insists the team goes after him, but Eric Koenig has an agenda they must complete before that happens. Koenig brings the team to a lie detector to make sure he can trust the team, and he has his doubts. During these tests Skye avoids giving away her previous identity, Triplett reveals to have Howling Commandos ties from his family, and Ward gets held at gun point when Koenig gets suspicious about him being Hydra.
The whole team ends up passing and gets their very own lanyard, which Koenig uses to track them. Coulson selects Triplett, Simmons, and Fitz to go out and rescue someone that has a storied past with Coulson and Marvel's universe. Name-dropped as "The Cellist" in Avengers, Amy Acker takes on the persona of Audrey Nathan. Audrey was Coulson's former love interest before he was killed. As far as Audrey knew and still knows, Coulson is still dead even though she feels as if he is watching over her.
May decides to leave the team after repairing The Bus because of Coulson's lack of trust towards her. May sets off on her own mission to track down Maria Hill and get answers, with the help of her mother. May's absence leaves Koenig, Ward, and Skye alone at Providence. Ward decides to shrink that number when he kills Koenig, ending Patton Oswalt's time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Once Skye finds Koenig's dead body, she puts together Ward's stories and concludes that he is Hydra. Unable to get away Skye and Ward fly to go meet the team as Ward says but reveals to Skye that they are in fact going to the location so she can unlock their backup storage device.
With Skye and Ward out on their own, Coulson and the rest of the team devise a plan to stop Blackout once and for all using some devices made by none other than the angry green monster himself Bruce Banner. The devices work and they put an end to Marcus Daniels. When the team returns to Providence and discovers Skye and Ward are gone they begin to worry. This will lead directly into next week's episode featuring Adrian Pasdar returning as Colonel Glenn Talbot and Cobie Smulders making an appearance as Maria Hill
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