#AgentsofShield Season 7 Episode 3 "Alien Commies From the Future" Recap and Review
The episode starts with two teenagers in a car in the desert. He tells her that this is where he saw a UFO. She thinks he’s kidding, but then they see the Zephyr.
The Zephyr’s controls lock up when it jumps, so they should have been flying when it happened. As it is, they kinda crash. Thankfully, they’re in Area 51 in 1955. Happens all the time, right?
The Chronicons are having a meeting with the boss lady from Bones. In this reality, she’s known as a predictor and is the one that has been guiding the rest of them.
Before anything else, Mack reminds everyone who is in charge. His plan is to find the Chronicon ship.
LMD Coulson pops in with some trivia. AREA 51 WAS A S.H.I.E.L.D. BASE! I love it. At this time, they are running a project called Helius, which was a failed ion fusion reactor. Deke explains; however, that in his time ion fusion reactor were used as weapons that destroyed ships.
Mack and Yo-Yo talk in a stereotypical 50s diner about what’s been going on with her.
Daisy and LMD Coulson talk about May and the crappy parts of American history until their mark walks in.
His name is Gerald Sharp, he works for the Department of Defense, and they kidnap him after Daisy drugs his coffee with sweetener.
May walks in as they’re discussing the plan and they explain that they have sent Coulson and Simmons into the actual base.
LMD Coulson is impersonating Sharp and Simmons is impersonating Peggy freaking Carter. They are shown into the lab and proceed to be completely adorable.
Mack and Yo-Yo interrogate Sharp. He’s a dick who uses slurs and think they’re communists. Needless to say, he doesn’t crack.
Simmons and LMD Coulson try to provoke emotional responses in the scientists, with amusing results. The head scientist comes in and asks them what to do about the VIPs arriving. Let them in.
One of the VIPs is DANIEL SOUSA!!!!! While I love him and love seeing him, he’s totally going to blow Simmons’ cover.
Daisy and Deke talk about her ordering him to shoot someone. He’s not the same guy that he was in the future and he doesn’t want to be.
Daniel makes Simmons.
LMD Coulson continues to make people cry until Daniel has him arrested. LMD Coulson is, of course, a massive fan.
Sharp made the mistake of insulting May and she almost killed him. They all look at Deke as the one guy he might listen to because he’s a white guy.
Daniel walks in on Daisy in his office. She pretends to be CIA.
Deke talks to Sharp, who tells him that there is nothing on Earth strong enough to power Helius. This gives him an idea. The Chronicons can power it the same way that Enoch powered the monolith in the future: by using themselves as batteries.
As Deke is realizing this, a Chronicon is overriding the system.
May and Yo-Yo infiltrate the base as pilots and throw a canister of tear gas into the lab to find the person that doesn’t react. May has a panic attack and Yo-Yo is still having performance anxiety, so the Chronicon gets away. Neither of them want to talk about it.
While May and Yo-Yo have distracted the base with an alarm, LMD Coulson respectfully locks Daniel in the cell that he had put Simmons and LMD Coulson in to talk to Daisy.
Helius is starting up.
Sharp is free and sees their ship. Mack tells him that he can explain. Then he punches him, because he doesn’t want to.
LMD Coulson tells the main scientist to evacuate all the VIPs.
Mack and Yo-Yo have another chance at the Chronicon, as she plugs herself into Helius.
Simmons wants to use the proto-EMP to turn off Helius. There is another Chronicon that attacks as she’s working. LMD Coulson engages him.
May and Yo-Yo fight the female Chronicon. She starts choking Yo-Yo while trying to plug in the other end.
Daniel interrupts LMD Coulson’s fight and the male Chronicon takes him on instead.
Simmons gets the EMP to work. This destroys both Chronicons and short circuits LMD Coulson, for lack of a better term.
Deke and Mack pretend to be aliens so that Sharp won’t talk about what happened. He runs into the diner and tells them that he got abducted by alien commies from the future. It’s really satisfying that everyone is going to think he’s a nut job for the rest of his life, or at least until Thor.
Daniel is my precious baby and that is really all that I need to say. 8.5/10
