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Agents of SHIELD Season 4 Episode 10: The Patriot Recap

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Whoops, the Hero of Vienna wasn’t such a hero after all, and the “powered person that people could trust” that Coulson requested for the new SHIELD director doesn’t have powers of his own at all. I’ve been asking for the show to humanize Jeffrey Mace and make him more relatable, but that’s not really what I meant. I don’t know what to make of him at this point. Guess we’re rebuilding the character from the ground up, as the MCU loves to do. Things are never ever what they seem at SHIELD, or anywhere SHIELD adjacent.

Mace is standing at a podium on the steps of a government building, making a speech honoring Daisy for saving people when a bridge collapsed during one of her “undercover” missions. Coulson and Mack mill around the perimeter gossiping about Talbot, Burrows, and Mace’s Very Important MacGuffin of the Week briefcase. Suddenly, a sniper shoots at Mace from a nearby roof top. Mace blocks the shot with the podium. He’s then whisked away by Coulson, Mack and Burrows, while Daisy captures the shooter.

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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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