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Agents of Shield Season 4 Episode 9: Broken Promises Recap

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We start the episode with AIDA lovingly caring for human May, making sure she’s getting what she needs, even though AIDA needs to keep her held hostage for now. Cut to LMD May at a mission briefing about disposing of the Darkhold, and wiping AIDA’s hard drive. Radcliffe and Fitz give in to the order to wipe AIDA after a perfunctory bit of protest. Mack brings up the first of his many references to movies that feature evil robots.

Vijay, Senator Nadeer’s now inhuman brother, has a nightmare about the day of the Chitauri attack from the first Avengers movie, when their mother died in one of the explosions. When he wakes up, his sister tells him he’s missed the last 7 months in his terrigenesis cocoon.

Daisy and Jemma chat about boys and their toys while they identify the inhuman that Mace and Senator Nadeer forced Jemma to examine. It turns out to be Vijay, of course. Ellen Nadeer kept his disappearance a secret by having his social media posts continue uninterrupted. They agree that it’s nice to have each other to talk to again. I agree. It’s nice to see the cast milling around the SHIELD home base, having casual conversations with each other. This is part of what’s been missing.

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Agents of Shield Season 4A: GhostRider Review

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I knew I’d miss Grant Ward and his ability to instigate both plot and relationship events when Agents of Shield killed him off at the end of season 3, but holy cow, it’s like both dried up completely when he left the building. He was a complex character with an ability to draw different groups of characters together. He was one of my favorite characters for that reason, but I didn’t think the show would suffer all that much from the loss. It’s a show full of interesting characters, with a comic book universe to draw more from.

Except, for most of this season, all of the returning characters have been separate, chasing random macguffins and/or being chased most of the time, or becoming or dealing with “ghosts”, who turned out to have no plot significance whatsoever long-term. It feels like we took 8 episodes to say wow, we’ve got a guy who’s head catches fire, the movies have magic so we get to have it too, especially this extra evil book, and the world hates inhumans even more than they used to. That looks like an episode or 2 worth of plot to me. We didn’t need any of the red herring distraction of Eli’s accomplices. We could have gone straight to Eli, although even his plot was cut short and explained in very broad strokes.

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