After the game changing and action packed filled episodes we've seen recently from Agents of SHIELD, most of this episode seemed to be scaled back on the surprises. There was still good fight scenes, great one-liners, and a compelling story, but it was not up to the same level in terms of jaw dropping moments. Silly for me to think that way as Marvel and writers Maurissa Tancharoen and Jed Whedon were saving the best for last.
***** SPOILERS for "Nothing Personal" to follow*****
After recent revelations about Ward, we knew this episode would dive deeper into his betrayal. The episode started off with May tracking down Maria Hill to try and get some answers to her questions. While May gets her answers, the rest of the team searches for theirs after discovering Ward and Skye have left Providence. The team however, is shocked by the answers they discover. Skye left them a message telling them "Ward is Hydra" and when Simmons discovers Koenig's dead body, they know it to be true. This leads to all kind of emotion and causes the biggest outrage from Fitz none the less. In typical unfortunate timing, right when the team puts a plan in place they get some visitors.
Providence is bombarded by the military, Colonel Glenn Talbot, and Maria Hill. When Talbot asks the team to turn themselves over, Coulson explains what has happened to Hill and her perspective changes. Hill and Coulson team up to take down Talbot and his men in an exciting sequence. With them now on their way to rescue Skye, Skye does whatever she can to keep herself alive. Even if that includes turning herself in to the police. Unfortunately for Skye, Ward fights them off and gets some extra help when Deathlok comes back into the picture to stop Skye from escaping.
Deathlok and Ward need the hard drive to be unlocked and Deathlok goes to extreme means to do so. He shoots Ward with another one of his new toys and stops his heart until Skye gives up the correct way to unlock the hard drive. Skye tries to convince both Deathlok and Ward that they don't need to listen to Garrett but Ward reiterates that he owes Garrett. What exactly Ward owes Garrett is a mystery for now, but should be resolved next week.
When the rest of the team meets up with Deathlok, Ward, and Skye, Hill and Ward get into a verbal fight which seems to end with Ward as the winner. Luckily for us and Skye, Hill was only stalling so Coulson had enough time to climb aboard his stolen plane. Once he rescues Skye, they go to drastic measures to escape the plain. This brings us one of the cooler sequences of the series as Skye, Coulson, and Lola go flying and dropping to the ground.
Now for the jaw dropping ending. May returns in secret to deliver a video she found to Coulson. The video contains information regarding TAHITI. When the video starts up, it gets really weird and confusing very quickly. Coulson appears on screen. He is making a video message for Fury where he states that he is resigning from SHIELD. The reason for this decision is because of his work with Project TAHITI. Apparently Coulson was a leader for the mysterious project and explains that the project seemed to work at first in terms of regenerating tissue but then the patients started to lose their mental ability. This brings Coulson to the conclusion that the best way to save someone from death would be a reprogramming the mind so the patient had no idea what happened to them. Coulson ends his video by saying that Project TAHITI should be stopped and never used.
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