Agents Of SHIELD S2.22 "SOS Part 2" review

Mack: “What are those things?” Fitz: “Quantum field disruptors. Should contain him in here if he comes back.” Mack: “Yeah, of course. Why didn’t I think of that?” Fitz: “That’s okay. You’ve been busy and you’re not a quantum physicist. It’s completely understandable.”

May’s locker is numbered 33. The little label saying “May” is clearly new (well, newer than Bobbi’s label) so has May recently decided to take over locker number 33 as an ironic joke after Agent 33 pretended to be her for much of the season? Another label says Simon-Gersuk: Jake Simon-Gersuk is a set production assistant on Agents Of SHIELD.

So the car that Coulson uses to trap Cal can withstand a blow from a battering ram without a dent? It must be made out of vibranium.

All the fighting scenes were great but the moment that really takes us by surprise was Coulson losing his arm. Later in the episode he tells Andrew that he’s considering options – what’s the betting one of those options involves a bionic arm designed by Tony Stark?

Skye beats Cal to the punch, guessing that he’s going to say “Best day ever!” But Cal has the last word saying there was only ever one best day: the day his daughter was born.

As soon as Simmons hinted that she might actually have feelings for Fitz, you just knew one of them was doomed. The script teased that it was going to be Fitz, but amazingly both of them were still alive by 10 seconds from the end of the episode. Then Simmons was swallowed by the monolith. Admittedly, she’s probably only trapped, not dead, but something had to happen to one or other of them.

We did wonder, though, if Simmons was actually going to reveal she’d developed a crush on Cal. “His physical changes have improved,” she tells Coulson. “Careful. I’m a married man,” smirks Cal. Cue Simmons blushing like some character in a Jane Austen novel.

Hang on? Have we been missing a running joke all season or has Mack only just turned into Cisco Ramone? He’s called Fitz Turbo regularly, but here he’s handing out nicknames all over the place: he calls Skye Tremors (there’s already a character called Tremor in the DC universe); he calls Multiple Woman the Ginger Ninja (we still prefer Xerox); and he calls Gordon No Eyes. Cisco has a better hit rate.

Jiaying and Lincoln once suggested to Skye that the “gloves” SHIELD had given her to control her powers were a sign of SHIELD’s oppression. At least the SHIELD gloves were intended to help her heal even if they did restrict her powers. Now Jiaying is forcing Skye to wear a very similar pair of “gloves” that are only designed to douse her powers. That’s dramatic irony, that is.

Just before Gordon gets himself killed the make-up team finally perfect his no-eyes make-up. For once the skin tone matched perfectly and the sockets didn’t bulge.

Here are those plans for next season’s replacement bus the right way up for your perusing ease.

This is probably a coincidence and not an intentional in-joke, but Cal’s new identity is a vet called Winslow, while in Marvel’s Howard The Duck comic there was a character called Arthur Winslow, a would-be author who dreamed of living the life of a hero who eventually became Turnip Man. Hands up who’d like Turnip Man for season three?