As Daisy and the team fight to protect Inhumans, S.H.I.E.L.D. discovers the shocking truth about one of their biggest foes.

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. reveals a hell of a lot tonight as we learn about the origin of Lash and some of the logic of Garner keeping it a secret. The episode though moves the story along a hell of a lot.

We get the origin, the motivation, and we also get a showdown between Coulson, his team, and Lash. It’s a lot to pack in to one episode. Interestingly the fight goes on and on and feels like it’s building up a bunch, only to feel a bit anticlimactic. It’s a bit of a weird ending and I’m sure we’ll see more of it all, but still, for such a build up of a threat, the end is very meh.

Then there’s the storyline of the portal and trying to get back to it. A revelation is made that seems… idiotic.

For all of the interesting things in this weeks episodes and all of the good spots, the blah parts are about equal, creating a very uneven episode that just doesn’t feel like it has paid off much at all. The series was building Lash to be this big bad, and it just doesn’t feel like he was much of one at all.

Other than the portal, it should be interesting to see where the rest of the season goes, but looks like to be more secret organizations to deal with.

At least the episode ended well. There was that.

Overall Score: 6.8