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Awesome Moments from Season Two of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..

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Shadows

• The Howling Commandos and Peggy Carter storming the last HYDRA cell.
• Skye taking a level in badass and fighting alongside the likes of May and Triplett on the front lines. Looks like all that training from May paid off.
• May vs. Absorbing Man, who's wielding a ball-and-chain and has turned his body into the same kind of metal as it. Not only does she take him on without a hint of fear, but she was holding her own even before the team intervened.
• Skye's smart about Ward's attempt to Hannibal Lecture her, keeping her word that she'll shut the interrogation down the second he says something not directly related to the questions she's asking.
• The team manage to break into Talbot's military base that's swarming with personnel and steal an 0-8-4 and a freakin' Quinjet. Granted, they don't hold onto the 0-8-4 for long, but they apparently make off with the Quinjet free and clear.
• The shot of Asphalt!Absorbing Man stopping a speeding SUV with merely his crouched body is pretty damn amazing. Bonus points for the visual similarity to a scene between the Winter Soldier and Fury in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Heavy Is the Head

• Coulson's crew beat Crusher Creel at last after the last episode's bummer.
  • With a modified version of one of Fitz's designs. Not bad for a guy whose mind is barely functioning.
• Coulson meeting with Talbot, the man dedicated to hunting him down personally, in person and offering him a deal. Talbot even grudgingly admits that Coulson has "big brass ones". When Talbot points out that he has no backup and rejects the deal, Coulson has the newly cloak-capable Bus decloak overhead, aiming a cannon in warning. When Talbot and his men are too busy gawking at the thing, he calmly walks away right into the quinjet, which was cloaked next to him all along, and flies off.
  • Even better is that he makes a statement about the Bus just being "the tip of the iceberg" which is a complete bluff, and he even has to get out of there quickly before it drops out of the sky and wrecks the illusion. And Talbot buys it completely.
• Creel turning himself to metal from a park bench railing to deflect Hunter's bullet in the nick of time.
• Mack basically decides to try treating Fitz like an adult, and it works, allowing him to make his first active contribution to the team since the incident that left him brain-damaged. Skye comments that Mack's the first person to even get Fitz to converse coherently since Simmons left. He even seems to make some headway into making Fitz realise that "Simmons" is a hallucination.

Making Friends and Influencing People

• Fitz giving Ward a nightmarish demonstration of hypoxia by slowly sucking the oxygen out of his cell.
• Fitz doesn't seem to be having any trouble using the technology he encounters in the episode; he's shown using the advanced controls to Ward's cell with no difficulty whatsoever. It's a definite improvement on earlier episodes, where Mack at one point apparently even has to take over his tablet computer for him; though his aphasia seems to get worse at the same time (though that might be put down to the stress of seeing Ward unexpectedly).
• Donnie getting Tired of Running and fighting back against his HYDRA pursuers, not to mention the aftermath of his rampage on the cargo freighter.
• Skye snipes Donnie on her first such mission. Not only is she successful, her pulse doesn't change.

Face My Enemy

• May's fight with Agent 33 disguised as her, perhaps the single most impressive brawl in the series. May ends it by leaping off a table, over the swing of 33's weapon, then uses the momentum from her descent to slam 33's face into the aforementioned table. Also one for the editing and effects guys, who make a fight between two Ming-Na Wens completely believable.
• Fitz guiding Lance through fixing Agent 33's sabotage of the Bus, proving he still has what it takes even with his brain damage.
• The marvelously choreographed ballroom dance, doubtlessly helped by the episode's director being a dancer himself.

A Hen In the Wolf House

• Coulson staring down Raina's threat to expose Simmons, with Raina gradually losing her composure as he just lets the timer count down, realizing that Raina is desperate and knowing that Mockingbird will get Simmons out.
• Mockingbird introducing herself to the Marvel Cinematic Universe by single-handedly saving Simmons when the latter's cover gets blown. In addition to that, she swipes Simmons' hard-drive, and all the top-level HYDRA projects contained there, on the pretense of preventing them from being leaked to S.H.I.E.L.D! This would both deny HYDRA anything Simmons may have worked on and thus put them back, and let S.H.I.E.L.D. find out everything they gave Simmons access to.
  • As a sub-CMOA, Simmons and Mockingbird jumping off a building onto a cloaked Quinjet.
• In The Stinger, the Doctor effortlessly taking down a pair of HYDRA agents, never raising his voice and barely even breaking stride.
• Simmons keeping her cool and framing her lab partner. She watches him being knocked out and dragged away to be tortured without giving the game away — damn, that's cold! A season ago, she had to shoot Sitwell because she lost her head and couldn't talk her way out of the situation. Simmons has come a long, long way.
• Mockingbird's infiltration is itself an Off Screen Moment Of Awesome. As a S.H.I.E.L.D The Mole, she worked herself into a position of hunting other S.H.I.E.L.D infiltrators. Black Widow, eat your heart out!
  • There's also some Fridge-Awesome in this as well; as she was in charge of finding the moles in the organisation, it means that she would be directly in charge of investigating these moles; as she'd know ahead of time who was really a mole and who wasn't, she'd be able to take suspicion off of the real double agents, and frame actual HYDRA agents, and thus cause instability as their loyal forces were turned against one another. Not only did she get herself a high position, she got herself the perfect position to mess with HYDRA, and they had no idea.

A Fractured House

• At the start of the episode, Talbot shuts up Senator Ward by telling him he knows about his brother, and responds to his question about threatening him by saying he doesn't play politics. Talbot may be after S.H.I.E.L.D., but it's because he genuinely believes they are a threat, and not because he's a lapdog for a Sleazy Politician that is trying to avoid embarrassment.
• A rather underrated one for Ward: He's been locked in a cell for months now. He has no clock, no windows, pretty much no way at all to know what time or day it is. And yet according to Simmons, he gets up every single day at 5am on the dot to train.
• The entirety of May's fight with Scarlotti; on that note, Bobbi and Lance prove to be quite the Battle Couple.
• Ward claims he's still a member of Coulson's team. Coulson tells him in no uncertain terms to go to hell, which also sounds like a Take That! to Ward's defenders:
  Coulson: You are not, nor will you ever be, part of my team. You dropped FitzSimmons in the ocean. You murdered Victoria Hand and Eric Koenig. You betrayed us all, you deluded son of a bitch!
• While being escorted to his new custody, Ward tries to talk to Skye — only for Simmons to step in front of her.
  Simmons: If I ever see you again, I'll kill you.
• While it was terrifying, Ward taking out the guards was pretty awesome.
• Skye expertly plays Ward again, acting like she's desperate enough to find her father to let him out, when she's actually just making sure he's been bled dry of information on that front before he's transferred. The last time we saw something like this, it was Black Widow tricking Loki.
  • Note: Ward has been trained for years as a spy, while Skye just became a full-fledged S.H.I.E.L.D agent last season. In other words, a rookie spy sold a seasoned veteran a pack of lies like it was nothing.
• Walters, the head of the S.H.I.E.L.D. safehouse in Bruges, Belgium gets one even though HYDRA agents have broken in and killed her men. When Scarlotti puts a knife to her, she headbutts him, and when he puts in the razor disc infected with the alien Obelisk and she starts to disintegrate, instead of screaming in terror or agony, she's Defiant to the End; her last words as she's Killed Mid-Sentence are "HYDRA will never defeat S.H.I.E.-"
  • Even more amazing, when she started that sentence, she was already disintegrating.
• Coulson made good on his threat to Ward from last season. He promised to invent new ways to ruin Ward's life for what he did to Fitz, and forking him over to his possibly sociopathic older brother would certainly qualify. Granted, Ward escapes shortly after, but that doesn't take away from Coulson's awesomeness.

The Writing On The Wall

• Simmons deduces exactly what's going on with Coulson in under a minute, a secret that he's been keeping from most of the team since last season. Skye and Coulson's shocked glance at each other says it all.
• Ward proves himself to be quite the Manipulative Bastard by outsmarting the entire S.H.I.E.L.D. field team (consisting of certified badasses May, Trip, Hunter and Morse) sent to catch him and HYDRA, leaving a tied-up Bakshi as a gift for Coulson. The Evil Brit is literally "giftwrapped", with a gag over his mouth that says "For Coulson".
  • How he notices Morse is one of Coulson's agents: he saw what page in her book she was on while sitting outside the bus station, and then spots her reading the same page while passing her inside the bus.
• Coulson's fight with Derek, the other GH-325 recipient who went Ax-Crazy, ends with his victory. "You want pain? Come and get some!"
• Hank Thompson catching that knife with his bare hands! Then he throws it just right to free Coulson. According to his file, this is the least of what he could do back when he was a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent.
• Fitz and Mack go into the field successfully, stealing Stevens' body from a morgue by just walking out of there with it like they own it. Not half bad for two non-field-trained agents.
• Skye drawing a gun on Coulson (who's basically her Parental Substitute) to protect Simmons.
• Coulson pulls a fast one on Skye, trapping her in Ward's old cell, before escaping the Playground and tracking down Thompson for more information on the alien writing.

The Things We Bury

• This episode as a whole is one big CMOA after another, not just for S.H.I.E.L.D., but also HYDRA, Ward and the Doctor.
• The Bus team subplot is one big CMOA for Coulson as a leader and strategist: he needed a satellite to find the mysterious city but the control center in Hawaii is too well guarded, so he takes it down by planting 2 trojan horses that seem like harmless objects but create a massive EMP when they come near each other, forcing the much less well-guarded back-up center in Australia to activate. On the field, he encourages and believes in Fitz's ability, eliminated his self-doubt; he acts cool under pressure when being ambushed by HYDRA and doesn't hesitate to save Trip's life even if it mean letting Skye's father go. In the end, they succeed and the satellite finds a match for the mysterious city.
• Fitz's I Am Not Left-Handed reveal: after complaining that he's only got one good hand following his brain damage, he repeats the same procedure one-handed for hours in order to get it done in under six minutes. He's able to trim it down from eleven and a half to just over seven, which Coulson points out still isn't good enough. Fitz then reveals that it was his bad hand he was practicing with — with both, he'll be fine. He's Back!.
  • In the actual event, he's not only able to perform the procedure in under six minutes, but do so with a gunfight going on around him, Triplett potentially dying a few feet away, and distracted by a tense stand-off between Coulson and the Doctor. Then when he's finished, he helps Coulson save Trip's life, just to really underscore the awesome he's once again capable of.
  • It should be noted that for the first time all season, Fitz didn't stutter or hunt for words throughout the whole episode.
• The Doctor. Turns out everything he's done was to get to Whitehall and avenge his dead wife.
• The completely nonchalant way that the Doctor reacts to his Freudian Slip and how he turns the tables on Coulson without missing a beat.
  Coulson: I prefer we stabilize and move.
  Doctor: The bullet's holding the wound open. If we keep our heads about us, he has a chance, Phil.
  Coulson: [Oh, Crap!]
  Doctor: [realizes what he said and just smiles] Shouldn't have said Phil. Not supposed to know that. You probably wouldn't recognize me from the picture I left for her, though I haven't changed as much as (Skye) has since then.
  Coulson: [draws his gun]
  Doctor: If I let go of this clamp, he dies. I just sliced this man's brachial artery. [smiles] Mr. Coulson, hand me the gun.
• Bobbi Morse is quite the detective for deducing so much from a slip in tense.
• Also a villainous example is Grant Ward, who has moved his plan along flawlessly: He killed his Abusive Parents, framed his abusive brother for it and is now back to HYDRA with the intention of bringing Skye to her father.
• Peggy Carter turning down the future Whitehall's attempt to become a Boxed Crook, saying he'll never see her again and will have no one to share his rants with for as long as she lives.
• The fact that the Big Bad is so outclassed is satisfying. S.H.I.E.L.D. found out about the city on their own and have a head start on finding it, the Doctor is playing Whitehall like a violin virtuoso, and Ward has been personally welcomed back to HYDRA while likely planning to metaphorically carve up Whitehall and serve him to S.H.I.E.L.D. on a silver platter. After everything going wrong for S.H.I.E.L.D. and them struggling to just keep up, it is delicious to see their enemy at such a large disadvantage.

Ye Who Enter Here

• Skye's fight with Agent 33. She's come a long way from the hacker who knew exactly one martial arts move a year ago.
• Crosses over with Heartwarming: Every single member of Team Coulson was prepared to get blown out of the sky by HYDRA rather than let Skye be captured. If anything qualifies as Undying Loyalty, that's it.
• Bobbi being able to hold her own against possessed-Mack, at least for a little while.
  • The fact that there are tasers on the ends of Bobbi's batons.

What They Become

• Skye getting the chance to pull a Calling the Old Man Out on her father.
• Skye managing to get the drop on Ward and putting a few bullets into him. The fact he was savvy enough to be wearing body armor saved his life. Her casual quip as she leaves him behind without looking back was icing on the cake.
  Skye: Never turn your back on your enemy, you taught me that.
• Skye standing up to Cal a second time to get him to halt his No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on Coulson.
  • Before that, though, Coulson managed to hold his own as long as possible, even pulling a Black Widow-esque move on him.
• Trip managing to disarm the final bomb at the buzzer despite lingering injury.
• Fitz is regaining more of his expertise, arming the bomb and getting back to the others with 10 minutes to spare and recalling situations and terminology that he most likely had forgotten.
  • He isn't lost for words even once for the episode, clearly showing his progress.
• Skye's delightful rejoinder to Ward when he comments on the training she's received from May:
  Ward: How's your marksmanship?
  Skye: [in Tranquil Fury] I don't know. Hand me your sidearm and let's find out.
• The Reveal that Skye is not a Canon Foreigner but Daisy Johnson, aka Quake. At the episode's end her powers are activated by the Diviner and she lets out an earthquake in the caverns housing the mysterious city.
• Trip smashes the crystal that was inside the Diviner, knowing what could happen to him from just touching it, to try and free Skye, and when the shards start to turn him into stone, he just looks at her as if to say "Hold on, kid, I'll be there soon" with no regret whatsoever.
• As sad as Trip's Dying Moment of Awesome was, the scenes where the Diviner splits open and reveals the Terrigen crystals and misting all over Raina and Skye was incredible, complete with Skye bursting out of her cocoon and the earthquake effects immediately taking place afterwards.
• May's maneuver with the bus at the beginning of the episode shows she's even more badass as a pilot than she is as a fighter.

Aftershocks

• Simmons nonchalantly shooting a Inhuman Raina several times after she kills some poor S.H.I.E.L.D. scientists which being a scientist isn't even part of her job or training but she is still a badass.
• Coulson concocting a plan to take out a sizeable portion of the leadership of HYDRA in one fell swoop, getting them to turn on each other by faking a prison break and assassination attempt on Bakshi, then mopping up the few who are left. It works without a hitch.
• May distracting four HYDRA mooks with a nearby gas explosion, then coming out Guns Akimbo and taking them all down.
• Hunter killing a HYDRA leader with Boom, Headshot!.
• Gordon warping in to save Raina from her attempted Suicide By S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents.
  • Beyond the rescue, there's his maturity and strength of character. In his first scene he's a scared child who can't control his powers. In his second scene, he is a confident man who is in complete control of himself. In him we see what an Inhuman can become with the right guidance and support.
• Fitz, despite his condition troubling him once again this episode, is not only the first (and only) one to realise that Skye has a superpower now, but he decides to conceal it from the rest of the team to protect her from their new-found Fantastic Racism, despite his initial fear.
  • He successfully covers up the reason for the broken lamp and the real blood tests from Simmons, who out of everyone would expect to know if Fitz was lying to her, and from May, who as an operative is an expert in detecting this kind of concealment. Obfuscating Disability plays a role: he plays expertly on the fact that they trust his implicit honesty, are familiar with his clumsiness, and believe that his brain damage has lessened his mental abilities to the point where he couldn't keep something so important from them.

Who You Really Are

• Skye ICERs herself to shut off her out-of-control superpowers and protect the team. Even Sif is impressed, to the point where she backs off on her crusade to capture Skye.
• The confrontation between Fitz and the other agents. When they say that they should have been told about Skye's new powers he immediately bites back against their somewhat entitled attitude in that regard by pointing out the recent Fantastic Racism that they've been showing is the reason they weren't told. Not to mention that when Simmons tries to invoke a Double Standard he beautifully shuts it down by bringing up her actions over the course of the season, not just defending Skye but getting a chance to vent to her about his feelings towards what she has done.
  Simmons: You lied to me!
  Fitz: Okay, so now we're even. Can you blame me with the way you've been going on about Raina, that she's a-a plague to be eradicated?
  Simmons: Skye's my friend! She's different!
  Fitz: Oh, yeah, like I was your friend, and then I changed. How did you handle that?
• Once again, Bobbi holds her own against a being with super-human strength, this time against the Kree warrior, Vin-Tak. While he's eventually he's able to subdue her, she keeps at it long enough, and gets enough good shots in, to buy Fitz time to get the Destroyer Gun (aka "The Bambino") to take him down, allowing her to use his memory-truncheon against him.

One Of Us

• May performing an epic Slow Walk before throwing down with Francis and winning despite her foe's superhuman strength.
• Gordon calmly standing up to Cal and verbally shutting him down. Not only is he dismissive of his temper tantrums, he makes it clear that Cal doesn't belong with the Inhumans because his powers came from a chemical experiment and that his petty feud with S.H.I.E.L.D. is endangering the truly gifted.
• Bobbi taking down a dangerous criminally insane Gifted who was got the jump on her at the beginning, in about twenty seconds at most, while Coulson just looks on. Particularly since she did it without her batons.

Love in the Time of HYDRA

• Lance being able to take down "real" S.H.I.E.L.D.'s guards, and somehow managing to escape the entire compound without a trace.
• For all of Talbot's ridiculous monologue about lawn mowers, he's not stupid. Once he hears that his wife is in two places simultaneously, it takes him about five seconds to figure out what's going on. He also shows sense that very few characters show in this situation by warning his subordinate to take him out if he suddenly shows up somewhere he's not supposed to be.
• Agent 33 knocks Bakshi out when he tries to use his Trigger Phrase on her and reactivate her brainwashing.
• Ward refuses 33's advances while disguised as Skye, showing a little Character Development.

One Door Closes

• May and Bobbi's fight. May proves a slightly better ass-kicker, but Bobbi is Crazy-Prepared.
• Simmons taking out Bobbi by handing her two seemingly random objects which combine to knock Bobbi out. What's truly awesome is that Bobbi was taken completely off guard. Simmons, legendary Bad Liar, sold a professional secret agent a stone cold deception.
• May avoiding capture then helping Coulson escape.
• Skye really unleashing her powers, sending out a vibration wave that deflects a bullet, knocks Bobbi and Calderon off their feet, blows up a tree, levels the clearing behind them, and puts a giant stake in Calderon's shoulder for good measure.
• Once again, Gordon teleports in and grabs someone like it's nothing. This time it's because Skye asked, and he lets her make the decision.
• Coulson getting the drop on Mack: First, he lets him take a look under Lola's hood, casually chatting about how Mack's model of her was perfect...except for one detail: Coulson knows Lola like the back of his hand, so he was able to find that extra component Mack added. When Coulson isn't satisfied with Mack's explanation, he reveals every mechanic in the room to be an armed S.H.I.E.L.D agent and they all simultaneously pull their guns on Mack.
• In a flashback, Bobbi arriving to save Mack and co from HYDRA, storming in and casually killing each one of them before she and Hartley arm the engineers. Then there's her leading the charge, and revealing she was there to sink the Iliad to keep it out of HYDRA's hands despite that meaning she'd have no escape.
• Isabelle Hartley fighting a whole ship's worth of HYDRA agents on the day they rose up. When given the assignment that will require getting past more of them, she just grins because she gets to beat more of them up.
• Gonzales' summation of how he dealt with the HYDRA agent that tried to kill him: "That man had an ax. Now I have it."
• Coulson calling BS on the "real" S.H.I.E.L.D.'s philosophies:
  "Fury's secrets didn't destroy S.H.I.E.L.D.; HYDRA did."
• Just to hammer home how much Skye has really benefited from May's training, she single-handedly fights and defeats an armed "real" S.H.I.E.L.D. agent using nothing but martial arts (not even her own powers!), to the point that she pins him to the ground and has his own gun pointed at him. Unfortunately, this doesn't go well when Calderon finds her.

Afterlife

• When Coulson tries to buy a car, the salesman assumes he's looking for a Mid-Life Crisis Car because he's a guy who's "played it safe his whole life and is looking to let the tiger out." Right before he and Hunter steal the salesman's personal car, Coulson quips, "Sorry, Eddie, but the tiger's been loose for some time." *PEW!*
• May calling Gonzales' bluff.
  • Gonzales having not bluffed May at all.
• After a season at cross purposes, FitzSimmons are back.
  • Fitz getting the Toolbox out of Gonzales' team's possession with the help of Simmons and taking a bite of his sandwich.
  • He gets another one when he calls the "real" S.H.I.E.L.D. agents out on being driven by fear, going so far as to grab the toolbox in defiance. When the agents train their guns on him he just tosses it around into his other hand, practically mocking them by doing so before setting it down.
  • Simmons, the girl who couldn't tell a lie in Season 1, fooled both Mack and Bobbi (who were also double-agents before) with her apparent break with Fitz and Coulson, and is working undercover again in the "real" S.H.I.E.L.D. like she did in HYDRA earlier this season.
• Gordon effortlessly putting Cal in his place. Even when Cal bluffs into getting close enough to knock him off his feet, he's gone and back quickly.
• The back and forth scheming of Coulson and Gonzales.
  • Coulson and Hunter playing cards and using a hologram of it to ambush Gonzales's retrieval team and then stealing their uniforms for disguises.
  • Gonzales' reinforcements not falling for their disguises and flanking them with a second quinjet.
  • Mike Peterson being a One-Man Army as usual to bail Coulson and Hunter out.
• The reveal that Skye's mother is still alive, essentially pulling a reverse Fridging and showing that Dichen Lachman hadn't been wasted on a throwaway role after all.

Melinda

• Fitz realizes that Gonzales is having him followed so he will lead him to Coulson. So Fitz locks himself in a bathroom and opens the Toolbox to call Coulson to ask how to shake a tail.
  • Off Screen Moment Of Awesome: "How to escape federal agents using an electric hand dryer" — By Professor Hunter. The following episode never shows or describes what Hunter had Fitz do, but it apparently worked.
  • The fact that Fitz hacks the Toolbox in order to do this, while in a public bathroom at Starbucks!. This is something that Nick Fury designed and "Real" S.H.I.E.L.D. failed to crack, and he's not even in a lab!
• Everything May did in Bahrain. Infiltrating the stronghold, neck snapping the guards, defeating three of them simultaneously, and then killing an Inhuman with Super-Strength, and all without losing a single agent. It's little wonder the others started calling her "the Cavalry" after this.
• Skye causing an avalanche.
• Jiayang says that Cal "pieced me back together". This means he sewed her together, stitch by stitch. For someone that's currently experiencing rage issues, that's something that requires a remarkably steady hand and iron nerves.
• Lincoln figuring out Raina's power is precognition.

The Frenemy of My Enemy

• Simmons, when May tells on her to Bobbi, sees in it an opportunity to clear Coulson's name and even says as much to them, proving once again that she may as well be the MCU counterpart of Hermione Granger.
• Both Lincoln and Cal doing a You Shall Not Pass! moment to HYDRA to keep Skye/Daisy safe. Cal even gets out alive.
• Lincoln is powerful enough to nearly incapacitate Deathlok while Deathlok is resilient enough to exhaust Lincoln.
• Skye finally saying her full name, Daisy Johnson.
• After learning Jiaying's plan to exile Cal, Skye immediately comes up with a way to use it to get a message to Coulson, right under her father's nose.
• Coulson and Ward, despite not trusting each other, easily work together like they did before the HYDRA uprising, wordlessly operating in sync while taking down every HYDRA operative in their path.
  • Skye's reaction to Ward helping Coulson, though very brief, leaves quite an impression.
  • Ward calling Coulson "boss", showing how good it felt to slip back in his role as ally.
• Bakshi managed to resist Ward and Agent 33's attempts at hypnotizing him and ends up orchestrating the capture of both Deathlok and Lincoln. Credit where it's due; after half a season of being humiliated, for him to turn the tables so thoroughly is just awesome. It's revealed in the next episode that Bakshi was under Ward's control the whole time, but it's still awesome that he was able to pull such a convincing ruse that fooled even the audience for a time.

The Dirty Half Dozen

• The team's infiltration plan involves sacrificing the Bus, getting it deliberately hit and destroyed by HYDRA anti-air and infiltrating with a Quinjet in free-fall, pretending to be debris. May pulls out of the descent at literally the last second and performs a perfect landing.
• Skye using her earthquake powers against HYDRA agents for the first time, just to demonstrate to Ward that this time, Team Coulson has an advantage of sorts.
  • Followed by her single-handedly fighting off a bunch of them hand to hand and with her gun, in a Oner right up there with the one from Daredevil (2015).
  • She also figures out a non-destructive application for her powers by tapping into the wavelength of Lincoln's stilled heart to restart it and save his life.
• The completely nonchalant way Coulson reveals Fury will be coming for the Toolbox, and then shows Bobbi and Gonzales his phone to reveal that he's getting a call from Maria Hill. Bobbi thinks it's funny, while Gonzales is furious that he was outgambited.
• The team soundly rejecting Ward's attempt to make amends, especially since it's about what he lost rather than what he did. Skye breaks the silence to say that she doesn't regret shooting him.
  • Though there are those that see it as half-hearted, Ward's attempt to make amends is still a sincere one. Even if he can't say exactly why he was wrong, he can own up to the fact that he was wrong anyway.
• Ward giving a hard Disappointed in You to Simmons when she tries to kill him without being provoked. Grant Ward is the merciful one here.

Scars

• The truth behind Theta Protocol. Last year, Coulson and his team merely reacted to the events in Thor: The Dark World and felt the fallout from the Captain America: The Winter Soldier, but this year not only does he set the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron in motion by locating Loki's Scepter, it's Coulson's own Hellicarrier that is used to save thousands of Sokovians, not to mention all of the Avengers.
  • A bit of Fridge Awesome for Coulson: Not only was locating the Scepter and bringing the Helicarrier to the fight incredibly awesome, but repairing one isn't exactly the kind of thing you can get done with a few mechanics overnight. He must've had a huge team working on it around the clock, and was still able to keep it a secret, even from his closest allies!
• An understated one, but even though she gets captured shortly after, Bobbi's Curb-Stomp Battle fight against Kara. Considering how much of a fight Kara previously gave May, this is no mean feat. The only reason she got captured afterwards was that Ward shot her from behind, and when she begins to wake up, they promptly hit her with a few more Icer rounds (when only one shot would have been needed) just to keep her from waking up.
• Ward and Kara are able to convince S.H.I.E.L.D. to give the latter a second chance, so that they can nab Bobbi without anyone suspecting anything.

S.O.S.

• Bobbi, after hours of being tortured with needles shoved under her nails holds her own against both Ward and Agent 33 for a good time. Special mention to her ripping out the needles then stabbing Ward with them.
  • Later, her attempted Heroic Sacrifice to spare Hunter.
• While searching for Bobbi, May masterfully manipulates Agent 33 into heading for Ward's location disguised as her, causing Ward to shoot 33 repeatedly before he realizes he's been played.
• Mack, who had previously been ready to walk out the door, instead goes all Die Hard when the Helicarrier gets taken over. He manages to evade every superpowered individual, breaks Skye out, gets her to the control room where she can warn the approaching SHIELD fleet of Jiaying's trap, and manages to hold his own against Gordon before Coulson and Fitz arrive.
  • He even gets his own Badass Boast: "I'm the guy who kills Gordon."
    • Made even better by the fact that the above is how he introduces himself to Gordon, while casually chilling on the Terrigen crystal container.
    • Something must be said about the fact that he spent the whole time only armed with a fire ax.
• Coulson, Mack, and Fitz vs. Gordon. Fitz traps him in the ventilation room while delivering a classy one-liner, though it doesn't outright stop his Teleport Spam. He does, however, give Gordon a dose of Tele-Frag when Coulson and Mack can't land a clean hit. Afterwards, Coulson makes a dive for the Terrigen crystal that Gordon drops, preventing it from shattering and killing all three of them. Mack returns the favor by cutting off Coulson's hand before the petrification spreads and kills him.
  • On that note, one line from Fitz: "Science, biatch!" Even better when you learn it was improvised by de Caestecker and it was so perfect they left it in.
• Skye holds her own against Alica, an Inhuman that can multiply herself, while her own powers are restrained. She eventually gets overwhelmed, but Lincoln pulls a Heel–Face Turn and shows up to save her, along with May.
• Raina outfoxes Jiaying to the very end just so Skye can realize what her mom has done.
• Cal realizing that the Jiaying he fell in love with did not exist anymore, and rather than let her kill their daughter or viceversa, he kills her.
• Coulson managing to turn Cal over to his side while he was pinned.

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