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The Six Important Moments From Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD – The Dirty Half-Dozen

*** This articles contains spoilers from Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD ***

The recent episode of Agents Of SHIELD, The Dirty Half-Dozen, not only ties into the upcoming Avengers: Age Of Ultron but also brings back together the six characters that made up Phil Coulson's team when the series debuted in 2013. So how do we get to that point? That's what these important moments are for:

1) Phil Coulson meets with Robert Gonzalez in the interrogation room on the Bus and even though Coulson is the prisoner, it feels like he's running the show here. Or at least he knows how to make things happen. He doesn't win Gonzalez's trust, but he does get him to go along by revealing that not only will he open and turn over Fury's Toolbox, but he also knows about what Gonzalez has in the cargo hold of his ship… mind you we don't get to know. Maybe that will come up in the season finale.

2) Meanwhile Skye is back in Afterlife and when Gordon goes to get Lincoln, he is attacked and barely escapes. They realize Hydra is tracking Gordon's teleportations and they aren't going to rescue Lincoln again. But Skye knows that SHIELD will go after Mike Peterson / Deathlok. Raina gets a flash of the rescue in a vision and sees that it's Skye that saves Lincoln and she must go help. They get Gordon to teleport Skye onto the Bus.

3) After making peace with Melinda May, Coulson and his team of May, Grant Ward, Jemma Simmons, Leo Fitz get onto the Bus to take off where they are joined by Skye. The mission is anything but simple and they must count on Bakshi for intelligence. The plan involves having the Bus blown out of the sky and landing a Quinjet mixed in with the falling debris. Once inside they split into two teams with Ward, Skye, Simmons and Bakshi going to free Lincoln and Deathlok while Fitz, May and Coulson go to bring down the guns so SHIELD can attack.

4) The team with Ward find Deathlok quickly but Lincoln has been moved and Skye goes after him. This is the chance to show just what she has learned to do both as an agent and as a powered. She kind of kicks ass. She also uses her powers to bring Lincoln back to life. While this is happening, Jemma makes sure that Mike is okay and then tries to kill Ward. Bakshi jumps in the way, giving up his own life. That was some damn fine brain washing. Ward could kill Simmons but chooses not to and leaves.

5) Coulson's group get the guns down, but he also gets the information he wants on Hydra. He uses that information to contact Maria Hill and get the Avengers involved. They also speak of the Theta Protocol being ready and Loki's scepter. We see know that there was a much bigger game in play. He also keeps his promise and gives Gonzalez the opened toolbox… then tells him he can keep it, until Fury comes back for it. Yes, Coulson dropped the "Fury Is Still Alive" card.

6) The final moment is really a series of moments when we kind of take stock of where the original six characters are now compare to when it started. Coulson is back to being the Agent Coulson that fans fell in love with. May is now more open and healing after the Cavalry mission. Skye has gone from being a computer hacker on her own to being a borderline superhero with two families. Fitz is almost back to himself again after what Ward did. Simmons is far from the lab rat that we meet in the pilot, she is ready to kill if its necessary. And finally, Ward. He has gone through the biggest growth cycle from stoic agent to evil traitor to a guy who helped out in the end and brought Agent 33 home to be helped when he no longer thinks he's good enough to help her.

So they are calling in the Avengers to take out Baron Von Strucker and Hydra… that happens in the movie theaters this weekend. And then next week it looks like things just keep going in the season finale where it's SHIELD versus the Inhumans. One episode and then the two-hour season finale.

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