Massive twists, Inhuman origins and KREE on Earth in a huge Agents of SHIELD episode.
We’re on the Fallen Agent final countdown. Who will die in the final episode? Daisy saw the future but in this week’s episode we go way back to discover the origin of Hive and learn his endgame.
Failed Experiments took us into the past and hinted as the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Before we continue here’s a SPOILER ALERT!
If you have not seen this week’s episode stop reading now
Seriously.
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Here it comes.
In a flashback we saw a primitive human warrior on ancient Earth captured by Kree warriors who inject him with Kree blood to alter his DNA. After the transfusion, the human was encased in the familiar black rock cocoon. This was Hive, one of the first Inhumans.
Hive revealed his origin to Daisy and referred the Kree warriors as “Reapers” as he continued to recreate the same experiment that created him as an Inhuman with tragic results for his test subjects. Hive is attempting to turn all humans into Inhumans. The infected Daisy is his devoted follower but her friends hope to win her back or cure her of her Hive influence.
The Kree came to ancient Earth to create the Inhumans as a slave army. Now the blue-skinned alien warriors are back to erase their original experiments all their descendants. The new invasion is all part of Hive’s plan. The artifact that could destroy him (revealed in last week’s episode) was a signal bringing the Reapers back to Earth. Hive’s scientist needs actual Kree blood to recreate the experiment that created the first Inhumans.
Fitz and Simmons are attempting to create a vaccine to cure Daisy’s Hive infection. They need an Inhuman to test it on but it could be fatal. Lincoln injects himself. Later Simmons reveals the antitoxin doesn’t work.
The Agents of SHIELD allow the Kree to attack Hive and his disciples. Daisy kills one Kree warrior. One experiment can begin. In a tense exchange, Mack and Daisy try to win each other over but he stops the experiment with a bomb, Daisy gives her mentor a brutal beatdown but Team Coulson rescues him and heads back to base after a brutal defeat.
The other Kree battles Hive declaring, “We shouldn’t have chosen you.”
Hive kills the Kree with his parasitic powers but ripped out the heart.
After the confrontation with Mack, Daisy reveals she has Inhuman and Kree blood (Coulson used it to save her life on an earlier mission) and is willing to sacrifice herself. Daisy tells hive to drain her.
We have to wait to see what happens next but here are some big reminders of the Kree connection to the Marvel Universe:
You may remember the villain of Guardians of the Galaxy was Ronan the Accuser, a radical Kree warlord who made an alliance with Thanos, the big villain the Avengers will face in Infinity Wars.
Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) is set to star in her own film. Danvers got her super powers after exposure to a Kree weapon.
The Inhumans film is off the schedule for now. It was presumed the movie version would star the Inhumans Royal Family (including Black Bolt and Medusa) who live secluded from humanity.
One big question that jumped into my mind with the flashback: Who was this primitive warrior the Reapers abducted? Was this in Wakanda? Was it in the Savage Land?
If this was Wakanda, this ties the Inhumans and Kree to Black Panther. T’Challa’s homeland is the only source of the metal vibranium after a meteorite crashed in the African nation. What if the meteorite was from the Kree Empire? More to come!
Emancipation, next week’s episode is set in the aftermath of the events in Captain America: Civil War which opens Friday.
Agents of SHIELD airs Tuesday at 9pm on ABC.
By Editor