Agents of SHIELD (7×05) A Trout in the Milk Review

For our review of the last episode of Agents of SHIELD, click here.

Synopsis: The team – Daniel Sousa in tow – reunites with more than one familiar face at the S.H.I.E.L.D. hangout and discovers exactly how to dismantle the Chronicoms’ latest plan; the Zephyr unexpectedly leaps forward again. (IMDb)

The genre hopping/remix final season of Agents of SHIELD continues in the heart of the 1970s (with another cool opening). The more things change, the more they stay the same as the effects of SHIELD and the chromicons’ battle through history continue to be felt with potentially more to come. Enoch was M.I.A.. Meanwhile, this episode will surely be familiar to many MCU watchers as it brings back a major plot point.

A Trout in the Milk (an expression) began saw the team back in New York (the running gag was Sousa getting used to his new surroundings but he also seemed to take what was going on more seriously than the others). Saving Sousa changed things but they would soon figure out that more things have changed thanks to the Chromicons’ team up with Wilfred Malick (Neal Bledsoe), keeping him and his son Nathaniel alive past their original deaths years prior (bringing on more frustration on Deke’s part for not taking Freddy out earlier). They returned to the speakeasy where a SHIELD group, including Wilfred Malick and General Rick Stoner, were in the middle of a celebration for Project Insight (from Captain America: The Winter Soldier). Project Insight was still three years away but the plan was to take out prominent members of SHIELD and Avengers early. The celebration was cut short once Wilfred recognized Coulson and the others. Taking Nathaniel at gunpoint, Wilfred let them go much to the dismay of the Chromicons (Nathaniel seeing Daisy’s powers gave him an idea). Enoch arrived to give them a ride to safety (delivering a hilarious Terminator line). Meanwhile, Mack and Yo-Yo returned to the lighthouse which was different than they expected.

Luckily or not, the team would not have to wait 3 years as the zephyr jumped into the future for them just in time for the launch of Project Insight for the bicentennial on July 4th, 1976. While Sousa watched Daisy as she hacked the lighthouse security system (that was certainly advanced for the 1970s) and bonded, May and Coulson were on the inside planting charges to they could flood the lighthouse. After the former’s time together was cut short thanks to Nathaniel Malick, the latter would have to improvise but only got so far (Stoner didn’t believe their story). Mack called off the operation after discovering his parents as prisoners inside who risked drowning. Meanwhile, the Chromicons warned Wilfred Malick that SHIELD would be coming to his estate near the lighthouse where Project Insight would be launched. They gave him a message to deliver them (it appeared to be a big one but we never got to see it at least yet).

The team could have shot down Project Insight with the zephyr but that would reveal their location to the Chromicons. With no choice, they did so and thus revealed their location. Meanwhile in other news, Fitz is still around somewhere but Simmons believed they would be together again soon. However, what appeared to be a light on the back of her neck implied that there may be more going on here (is she secretly a Chromicon?)./She seemed a little off here and there is something that happened between her and Enoch that nobody else knows.

The last scene was of Nathaniel Malick calling the prison where Daniel Whitehall was kept to give him a message.

In the end, this remix has certainly had its ups and downs but we are getting closer to present day and who knows what other surprises are to come?

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Keith Noakes

The EIC of the coincidentally-named keithlovesmovies.com. A Canadian who prefers to get out of the cold and into the warmth of a movie theatre.