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* AndThenWhat: Averted. Hive asks what Malick wants from him considering he is incredibly wealthy and influential. Malick seems confused by the question, but Hive tells he was playing coy with not explicitly saying he wants "true" power: superhuman abilities.

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* AndThenWhat: Averted. Hive asks what Malick wants from him him, considering he is he's incredibly wealthy and influential. Malick seems confused by the question, but Hive tells reveals that he was playing coy with not explicitly saying he wants "true" power: superhuman abilities.



* RealityEnsues: Fancy powered exoskeleton aside, Malick is an old, out of shape man who has never been in fight before. After getting hit once, he's down, and can barely manage to run away from a woman who can't even stand.

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* RealityEnsues: Fancy powered exoskeleton aside, Malick is Malick's still an old, out of shape old man who has whose never been in a real fight before. After getting hit once, blasted once by one of Daisy's shockwaves, he's down, and can barely manage to run away from a woman who can't even stand.



* ShaggyDogStory: Daisy spends hours training May to fight her way through the guard room fast enough that the guards do not have time to raise the alarm. When it's time to do it for real, May does not go due to Andrew showing up. Daisy does the fighting instead and does better than May did in training. Then the alarm sounds anyway because there was another guard hidden behind a one-way mirror.

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* ShaggyDogStory: Daisy spends hours training May to fight her way through the guard room fast enough that the guards do not have time to raise the alarm. When it's time to do it for real, May does not doesn't go due to Andrew showing up. Daisy does the fighting instead and does better than May did in training. Then the alarm sounds anyway because there was another guard hidden behind a one-way mirror.



* TheUnreveal: Malick's vision is never shown, but whatever it was it rattled him big time.
* TheWorfEffect: Thanks to his new exoskeleton, Malick nearly manages to beat Daisy to death.

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* TheUnreveal: Malick's vision is never shown, but whatever it was it rattled him big time.
* TheWorfEffect: Thanks to his new exoskeleton, Malick nearly manages to beat Daisy to death.death before Charles' intervention.
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* ShaggyDogStory: Daisy spends hours training May to fight her way through the guard room fast enough that the guards do not have time to raise the alarm. When it's time to do it for real, May does not go due to Andrew showing up. Daisy does the fighting instead and does better than May did in training. Then the alarm sounds anyway because there was another guard hidden behind a one-way mirror.
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* AbsenteeActor: Henry Simmons does not appear in this episode, though we hear Mack is still in recovery.
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* CreatorThumbprint: Director Kevin Tancharoen's preference for badass and carefully choreographed fight scenes makes another appearance, as in [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E4FaceMyEnemy previous]] [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E13OneOfUs episodes]] [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E19TheDirtyHalfDozen he]] [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E2PurposeInTheMachine directed]].
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* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Lincoln, it turns out, has never seen ''Film/TheTerminator''.
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** Charles wasn't saying "I thought you could help" as an accusation of Daisy's failure, but as he's asking her to look after his daughter.

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* NotSoStoic: Malick's confidence finally cracks as he starts to lose control to Hive, though a large part of it is the unrevealed vision he has.

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* NotSoStoic: Malick's confidence finally cracks as he starts to lose control to Hive, though a large part of it is after the unrevealed vision he has.has.
* TheOner: Daisy again gets to kick ass in one.

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A new Inhuman is discovered with the ability to pass visions of the future. A refreshed Hive begins to make moves.

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A new Inhuman is discovered with the ability to pass share visions of the future.future--but only ones that involve someone dying. A refreshed Hive begins to make moves.


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* PowerIncontinence: Every time Charles touches someone, he and the other person both have a vision of an unpreventable death in the near future. The inability to touch his wife and daughter without giving them terrible visions drove him away from his family and into homelessness.

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* HopeSpot: May hooks Andrew up to an IV of Simmons' vaccine, since it has a remote chance of preventing his final transformation. They have a good long conversation before he turns into Lash anyway.



* ARealManIsAKiller: Hive encourages Malick to embrace power by killing someone — not just by having someone shot, but by squeezing the life out of them ''personally''.

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* ARealManIsAKiller: Hive encourages Malick to embrace power by killing someone — not someone--not just by having someone shot, but by squeezing the life out of them ''personally''.
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* ApeShallNeverKillApe: Hive orders Giyera to only kill human S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, not Inhuman ones. Later, Hive stops him from finishing off Lincoln.


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* RealityEnsues: Fancy powered exoskeleton aside, Malick is an old, out of shape man who has never been in fight before. After getting hit once, he's down, and can barely manage to run away from a woman who can't even stand.

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* BecauseDestinySaysSo: PlayedForLaughs. The only reason Fitz and Simmons hold hands is because Daisy saw it in her vision.



* StunnedSilence: When Hive appears on the hacked security camera for second just before it goes blank, Coulson stops in the middle of a sentence and he, Simmons, Fitz and Lincoln simply stare at screen in silence for an extended period.

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* StunnedSilence: When Hive appears on the hacked security camera for a second just before it goes blank, Coulson stops in the middle of a sentence and he, Simmons, Fitz and Lincoln simply stare at screen in silence for an extended period.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Andrew turns himself into S.H.I.E.L.D. because he has a feeling that they're going to need Lash. Now why would S.H.I.E.L.D. need a nigh-unstoppable Inhuman who has the instinct to kill other Inhumans when they're just about to realize they're now facing a very powerful Inhuman who is trying to take over the world?

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Andrew turns himself into S.H.I.E.L.D. partially because he has a feeling that they're going to need Lash. Now why would S.H.I.E.L.D. need a nigh-unstoppable Inhuman who has the instinct to kill other Inhumans when they're just about to realize they're now facing a very powerful Inhuman who is trying to take over the world?



* ARealManIsAKiller: Hive encourages Malick to embrace power by killing someone - not just by having someone shot, but by squeezing the life out of them ''personally''.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Some of the events Charles predicted would not have happened they way he foresaw them had he not caused someone to have a vision of those events.

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* ARealManIsAKiller: Hive encourages Malick to embrace power by killing someone - not just by having someone shot, but by squeezing the life out of them ''personally''.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Some of the events Charles predicted would not have happened they way he foresaw them had he not caused someone to have The more that a vision Charles and whoever touches him see directly involves one of those events.them, the more likely they are to react to it in ways that will actually make it happen, whether that be embracing the details in a FreakOut or trying their hardest to avert it. Certainly supports Fitz and Lincoln's account of things regarding the below…
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* ARealManIsAKiller: Hive encourages Malick to embrace power by killing someone - not just by having someone shot, but by squeezing the life out of them ''personally''.


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* SlidingScaleOfFreeWillVsFate: Discussed. Fitz believes in Fate, using a technobabble analogy to try to explain how everything is predetermined. Daisy, in contrast, says "ScrewDestiny"... and fails. Lincoln doesn't believe in Fate to the same extent Fitz does, but he does believe that the prophetic visions were sent with a purpose to guide people on a predetermined path.

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* BadassLongcoat: Hive dons a duster.

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* BadassLongcoat: Hive dons a an impressive-looking black duster.



** The CEO getting his head crushed is shown in vivid detail.

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** The CEO getting his head crushed by Malick is shown in vivid detail.


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* FlippingTheTable: Malick tests the exoskeleton's strength by flipping the rather large table in the center of the boardroom.

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* BodyguardBetrayal: While we don't get to see the vision Charles gives Malick about his death, the episode stinger implies that Malick being betrayed or abandoned by Giyera will play a key part in it.
* BodyHorror: We actually get to see Hive devouring people.
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: After trying to subvert the visions by sending in May, the one member of the team who didn't appear in them, Andrew happens to show up, resulting in Coulson insisting she stay behind. And then seeing Hive causes him to head in with the others.

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* BoardToDeath: After getting the CEO of the cybernetics company to sign over his holdings to Malick, Hive kills the entire board sans the CEO. Malick finishes the job on Hive's order.
* BodyguardBetrayal: While we don't get to see the vision Charles gives Malick about his death, the episode stinger implies that Malick being betrayed or abandoned by Giyera will play a key part in it.
it. In the episode itself, Giyera bluntly tells Malick that he's where he needs to be when Malick insists that Giyera should be by his side at all times.
* BodyHorror: BodyHorror:
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We actually get to see Hive devouring people.
** The CEO getting his head crushed is shown in vivid detail.
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: After trying to subvert the visions by sending in May, the one member of the team who didn't appear in them, Andrew happens to show up, resulting in up and Coulson insisting insists she stay behind. And then seeing behind to say her goodbyes. Then everyone else has to join in when they see Hive causes him to head in with on the others.security feed.
* DemotedToDragon: Malick is now the one taking orders, and Giyera outright disobeys him.



* ExactWords: Hive tells the board chairman that he's going to show him "what's going to happen", and has Charles show him a vision of Hive devouring the board. After the chairman does what Malick wants and signs over his company, Hive devours them, since that was what was going to happen anyway.

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* ExactWords: Hive tells the board chairman that he's going to show him "what's going to "what will happen", and has Charles show him a vision of Hive devouring the board. After the chairman does what Malick wants and signs over his company, Hive devours them, since that was what was going to happen anyway.



* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: Hive has Malick don a suit of PoweredArmor and kill a man, just to show him what true power is. Malick is hesitant at first, but he really gets into it.



* NotSoStoic: Malick's confidence finally cracks as he starts to lose control to Hive.
* ThatManIsDead: Andrew is gone and Lash is officially in control.

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* NotSoStoic: Malick's confidence finally cracks as he starts to lose control to Hive.
* ThatManIsDead: Andrew
Hive, though a large part of it is gone and Lash is officially in control.the unrevealed vision he has.
* PoweredArmor: The exoskeleton Malick dons increases his strength, allowing him to crush a man's head. It's destroyed by the end of the episode.



** Amongst Daisy's visions, she has one where Coulson is shooting her. When the moment actually happens, it turns out she saw Coulson in a two-way mirror before he shoots the guard standing behind it.

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** Amongst Daisy's visions, she has one where Coulson is shooting her. When the moment actually happens, it turns out she saw Coulson in a two-way one-way mirror before he shoots the guard standing behind it.



** Daisy thinks that the vision means that she's destined to save Charles, and Lincoln backs her up in that there's a reason things happen with Inhumans and that her having the vision means she could be destined to do it. They were wrong: ''Charles'' was the one destined to make the difference by saving Daisy.

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** Daisy thinks that the vision means that she's destined to save Charles, and Lincoln backs her up in that there's a reason things happen with Inhumans and that her having the vision means she could be destined to do it. They were wrong: ''Charles'' was the one destined to make the a difference by saving Daisy.



-->'''Lincoln:''' Was that ''Ward''?
-->'''Fitz:''' I don't think [[PuppeteerParasite that was Ward.]]

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-->'''Lincoln:''' Was that ''Ward''?
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''Ward''?\\
'''Fitz:'''
I don't think [[PuppeteerParasite that was Ward.]]]]
* ThatManIsDead: Andrew is gone and Lash is officially in control.



* TheUnreveal: Malick's vision is never shown, but whatever it was it rattled him big time.



* YouCantFightFate: Every attempt to counter the visions Daisy gets from Charles ends up ineffective and passing anyways.

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* YouCantFightFate: Every attempt to counter the visions Daisy gets from Charles ends up ineffective and passing anyways.the vision plays out exactly as she saw it.
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* BodyguardBetrayal: While we don't get to see the vision Charles gives Malick about his death, the episode stinger implies that Malick being betrayed or abandoned by Giyera will play a key part in it.


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* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Some of the events Charles predicted would not have happened they way he foresaw them had he not caused someone to have a vision of those events.


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* TragicKeepsake: Charles' wooden robin. Robin is the name of his daughter. Holding that toy was the closest he could get to touching her without inflicting traumatizing visions on her.

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* ExactWords: Hive tells the board chairman that he's going to show him "what's going to happen", and has Charles show him a vision of Hive devouring the board. After the chairman does what Malick wants and signs over his company, Hive devours them anywhere, since that was what was going to happen anyway.

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* ExactWords: Hive tells the board chairman that he's going to show him "what's going to happen", and has Charles show him a vision of Hive devouring the board. After the chairman does what Malick wants and signs over his company, Hive devours them anywhere, them, since that was what was going to happen anyway.anyway.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Andrew turns himself into S.H.I.E.L.D. because he has a feeling that they're going to need Lash. Now why would S.H.I.E.L.D. need a nigh-unstoppable Inhuman who has the instinct to kill other Inhumans when they're just about to realize they're now facing a very powerful Inhuman who is trying to take over the world?


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** Daisy thinks that the vision means that she's destined to save Charles, and Lincoln backs her up in that there's a reason things happen with Inhumans and that her having the vision means she could be destined to do it. They were wrong: ''Charles'' was the one destined to make the difference by saving Daisy.
* StunnedSilence: When Hive appears on the hacked security camera for second just before it goes blank, Coulson stops in the middle of a sentence and he, Simmons, Fitz and Lincoln simply stare at screen in silence for an extended period.
-->'''Lincoln:''' Was that ''Ward''?
-->'''Fitz:''' I don't think [[PuppeteerParasite that was Ward.]]
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* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: After trying to subvert the vision by sending in May, the one member of the team who didn't appear in them, Andrew happens to show up, resulting in Coulson insisting she stay behind. And then seeing Hive causes him to head in with the others.

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* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: After trying to subvert the vision visions by sending in May, the one member of the team who didn't appear in them, Andrew happens to show up, resulting in Coulson insisting she stay behind. And then seeing Hive causes him to head in with the others.
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* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: After trying to subvert the vision by sending in May, the one member of the team who didn't appear in them, Andrew happens to show up, resulting in Coulson insisting she stay behind. And then seeing Hive causes him to head in with the others.
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* MassOhCrap: The cameras catch a brief glimpse of "Ward" just before they're cut off, in front of most of the team.


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* NotSoStoic: Malick's confidence finally cracks as he starts to lose control to Hive.
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* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: Averted. Andrew surrenders himself to S.H.I.E.L.D. so he ''can'' say goodbye to May, before Lash takes over.
* ThatManIsDead: Andrew is gone and Lash is officially in control.
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* BadassLongcoat: Hive dons a duster.


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* TheWorfEffect: Thanks to his new exoskeleton, Malick nearly manages to beat Daisy to death.

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* ProphecyTwist: Amongst Daisy's visions, she has one where Coulson is shooting her. When the moment actually happens, it turns out she saw Coulson in a mirror before he shoots out a two way glass.

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* ProphecyTwist: Amongst ProphecyTwist:
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Daisy's visions, she has one where Coulson is shooting her. When the moment actually happens, it turns out she saw Coulson in a two-way mirror before he shoots out a two way glass.the guard standing behind it.
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* BodyHorror: We actually get to see Hive devouring people.
* EvilerThanThou: It's subtle, but Hive is usurping control of HYDRA from Malick.
* ExactWords: Hive tells the board chairman that he's going to show him "what's going to happen", and has Charles show him a vision of Hive devouring the board. After the chairman does what Malick wants and signs over his company, Hive devours them anywhere, since that was what was going to happen anyway.


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** Also, Fitz-Simmons weren't standing in the snow, they were standing in falling ash.
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** Daisy touches Charles a second time, and sees the explosion shown in "[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E11BouncingBack]]", implying she is inside the ship.

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** Daisy touches Charles a second time, and sees the explosion shown in "[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E11BouncingBack]]", [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E11BouncingBack the midseason premiere]], implying she is inside the ship.ship with someone else.

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* ProphecyTwist: Amongst Daisy's visions, she has one where Coulson is shooting her. When the moment actually happens, it turns out she saw Coulson in a mirror before he shoots out a two way glass.

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*InternalReveal:
**S.H.I.E.L.D. discovers that "Ward" is alive, though Fitz points out it is likely the ancient Inhuman.
**Daisy touches Charles a second time, and sees the explosion shown in "[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E11BouncingBack]]", implying she is inside the ship.
* ProphecyTwist: Amongst Daisy's visions, she has one where Coulson is shooting her. When the moment actually happens, it turns out she saw Coulson in a mirror before he shoots out a two way glass.glass.
*YouCantFightFate: Every attempt to counter the visions Daisy gets from Charles ends up ineffective and passing anyways.
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* AndThenWhat: Averted. Hive asks what Malick wants from him considering he is incredibly wealthy and influential. Malick seems confused by the question, but Hive tells he was playing coy with not explicitly saying he wants "true" power: superhuman abilities.

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* AndThenWhat: Averted. Hive asks what Malick wants from him considering he is incredibly wealthy and influential. Malick seems confused by the question, but Hive tells he was playing coy with not explicitly saying he wants "true" power: superhuman abilities.abilities.
*ProphecyTwist: Amongst Daisy's visions, she has one where Coulson is shooting her. When the moment actually happens, it turns out she saw Coulson in a mirror before he shoots out a two way glass.
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A new Inhuman is discovered with the ability to pass visions of the future.

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A new Inhuman is discovered with the ability to pass visions of the future. A refreshed Hive begins to make moves.



* AndThenWhat: Downplayed. Hive asks what Malick wants from him considering he is incredibly wealthy and influential. Malick seems confused by the question, but Hive assumes he was playing coy with not explicitly saying he wants "true" power.

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* AndThenWhat: Downplayed.Averted. Hive asks what Malick wants from him considering he is incredibly wealthy and influential. Malick seems confused by the question, but Hive assumes tells he was playing coy with not explicitly saying he wants "true" power.power: superhuman abilities.
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AndThenWhat: Downplayed. Hive asks what Malick wants from him considering he is incredibly wealthy and influential. Malick seems confused by the question, but Hive assumes he was playing coy with not explicitly saying he wants "true" power.

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AndThenWhat: *AndThenWhat: Downplayed. Hive asks what Malick wants from him considering he is incredibly wealthy and influential. Malick seems confused by the question, but Hive assumes he was playing coy with not explicitly saying he wants "true" power.
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A new Inhuman is discovered with the ability to pass visions of the future.
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AndThenWhat: Downplayed. Hive asks what Malick wants from him considering he is incredibly wealthy and influential. Malick seems confused by the question, but Hive assumes he was playing coy with not explicitly saying he wants "true" power.

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