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The Six Important Moments From Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD – The Purpose In The Machine

*** Possible Spoilers for Marvel's Agents of SHIELD ***

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The second episode of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD for season three brought back some missing team members, a guest star from season one and a new player for the bad guys. It also wrapped up one of the outstanding plot threads from season two. So let's hit the highlights of the Purpose in the Machine.

1) We start off with everyone flipping out because Leo Fitz has broken into the room with the giant rock that likes to occasionally liquefy and happened to engulf Jemma Simmons. They discover that Fitz has alien sand on his fingers, making them conclude that the rock is actually a portal and that the best person to turn to is an Asgardian. Phil Coulson splits the team with Daisy Johnson and Alphonso 'Mack' MacKenzie staying to take care of the new Inhuman, Lance Hunter heading off to kill Grant Ward while Bobbi Morse will work with Coulson and Fitz to find Dr. Randolph (who we met in season one).

2) Meanwhile Ward spends the episode building up his new version of Hydra, cutting off the dead weight. He then goes after some rich kid on a boat. Ward says the kid is squandering his inheritance, doesn't deserve what he has and assigns Kebo to torture the young man until he gives up his banking information. The fact Ward wasn't torturing this kid himself should have been a clue that something was up. The kid takes out Kebo… most likely killing him and we learn that this is Werner Von Strucker, the son of former Hydra head Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker who died in Avengers: Age of Ultron. The whole thing was to test what Werner was made of and bring him on board. In the end we see him adding into Dr. Andrew Garner's college class.

3) Hunter is off on his own now, except he's not. He heads to Hawaii and finds Melinda May who is staying with her father and helping him recover from a car crash. Hunter wants her to come help him go after Ward. He plans on infiltrating Hydra to get close enough to take him out. We learn that May had gone on vacation to reconnect with Garner but ended up with her father after the accident. But its more than she's just there helping him rehab. She thinks that Ward may have set up the accident to get at her for what happened last season. Hurting someone she loves because she tricked him into killing the woman he loved. Hunter has no luck convincing May to help him, but her father does and by the end May is back. So almost all of the pieces are in place for season three.

4) They break Randolph out of prison and bring him back to see the monolith and the ancient scroll. Randolph recognizes the symbol as something he had seen in Gloucestershire, England. The team heads to an old castle where they discover a hidden room built to make the monolith work. They have Mack and Daisy bring the monolith to them and they are able to make the object liquefy for them long enough to fire a flare into the liquid before the machines in the room break. But the process of opening the portal… the believe it is a portal because of the sand… plays hell on Daisy. But Fitz realizes that its vibration that opens the portal and that the room is basically a giant sub-woofer. Which means they don't need the machines, they just need Daisy to create that exact vibration.

5) The plan is to send a probe through to see what's on the other side. Except once the portal is open thanks to Daisy, Fitz tether's himself to a cable and leaps in. He is able to find Simmons, but the storm on the alien planet is so strong that they have a hard time reaching each other. The strain of keeping the portal open is too much for Daisy and she starts to lose it. Coulson starts pulling Fitz back just as Simmons is losing her grip. It's a well played out tense moment until the monolith explodes, filling the hole it was in with a lot of debris and sand. After a few beats, Fitz raises his head up from the sand and then pulls Simmons out as well. The new Action Fitz has saved the woman he loves.

6) In two episodes the writers of the series wrapped up the plot threads from season two and laid out the next few months of season three. Hunter and May are going after Ward who is in turn going after the people May loves. With Simmons back, the team can now fully focus on finding and bringing in new Inhumans and Daisy can put together her Secret Warriors team all while trying to figure out who Lash is and avoiding Rosalind Price and her team. All the pieces are in place, let the games begin.

If you look at the first two episodes as a two-hour season premiere it makes a little more sense. The episodes focused on certain aspects of the story and ignored the others completely. Price, Lash, Lincoln Campbell and the Inhuman stuff was all the first episode. Simmons, The Monolith, May and Ward were all the second episode. All of these issues needed to be addressed and need their space… so they split it up evenly. Now they can focus on the Inhuman main story that includes most of the pieces and then the Hydra / Hunter and May second story as the series moves forward. And that kicks off by spending episode three focused on Lincoln in what they are calling A Wanted (Inhu)man.

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