Synopsis:

SECRETS AND LIES ARE REVEALED AS THE TEAM SETS OUT TO RESCUE COULSON, ON ABC'S "MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D."

"The Magical Place" -- Coulson uncovers vital information about the mystery of his death, but, with Centipede out for blood, this knowledge may come at the cost of one of the team on MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D., TUESDAY, JANUARY 7 (8:00-9:01 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

"Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." stars Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson, Ming-Na Wen as Agent Melinda May, Brett Dalton as Agent Grant Ward, Chloe Bennet as Skye, Iain De Caestecker as Agent Leo Fitz and Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Jemma Simmons.

Guest starring are Saffron Burrows as Agent Victoria Hand, Ron Glass as Dr. Streiten, Ruth Negga as Raina, Rob Huebel as Lloyd Rathman, Aiden Turner as Vanchat, Felisha Terrell as Emily Deville, Cullen Douglas as Po.

"The Magical Place" was written by Paul Zbyszewski & Brent Fletcher and directed by Kevin Hooks.


Episode 11 of 22


FYI, this is part 2 from episode 10, which ended on a cliffhanger.

I'll see where the threads of the once-dead Coulson play out here, but I think this where I bow out on this show; didn't miss it on the holiday break.

Well, that was unsettling...

Yeah, didn't see that coming. Damn.

Will they bring Fury in for season finale to answer to Coulson?

I wish this show had balls.

Was that at the end?

Basically just a placeholder to get Coulson back on the plane, little new information. I want that Lamborghini. So much. Kevin Hooks is the guy who made that old 90s Snipes action flick Passenger 57, apparently. This episode would've been a lot better without half the screen chopped off for information about school closings. Damn snow.

Hey, it's Shepard Book!

The brain thing was pretty freaky, but the reveal didn't seem like that big of a deal to me, unless i'm misunderstanding what happened. So basically Coulson died, Fury kept him alive somehow, and they tinkered with his brain to stop him from wanting to die?

The rest of the episode wasn't particularly good, but I liked the Peterson thing at the end.

The pieces fit. I hope you're right. That's be awesome!!!

^Hell yeah!

The surprising thing to me about Coulson was that he was dead for days, not just a few hours. Loved the way his memory played out and him begging to die. Creepy shit.

Yeah, it was pretty creepy.

I liked this episode. The reveal about Coulson is giving little bits and pieces of info, kind of like what Whedon did on Buffy and Angel. I'm intrigued to see what exactly happened to him and how they kept him alive.

Curious as to why Coulson is so special...



Coulson must be one of the Infinity Stones

Yup I bet he

Wasn't the Vision rumor debunked this week by Whedon?

+1

I'm with you - over the break I was going through the DVR and deleted the 3 or so episodes of this i had left.

I just had no interest in watching this. I will still check out the threads to see if there is any big reveal.

Yeah the Coulson storyline took a really dark and twisted turn. The brain operation was really creepy.

I agree that Samuel L. Jackson will probably guest star in the season finale to answer to Coulson.

at Skye pretending to be May and then that dude had no idea how to work his computer to find account history.

I knew Peterson wasn't dead after the last episode, so it wasn't a huge surprise except for the condition he was in.

Yeah, that brain thing was crazy. Not much of a reveal other than he was dead for days. Interested in finding out who this "clairvoyant" is. Seems like it could just be a mole within Shield.

I feel like this show has good ideas for the overall story arc (Centipede, the Clairvoyant, Coulson), but mediocre to bad execution on getting the characters there.

Let me die = LMD

I thought this was a good ep. Definitely had my interest for the whole time , which seldom happens with this show. My speculation on the Clairvoyant is that he might be Robert Redford's character in the upcoming Captain America movie. Or maybe just some B-list celebrity they can pull out as a guest star.

Was Stan Lee in this episode?

We got a lot of answers without really giving us the answer.

So Coulson isn't a robot, he isn't a LMD, he really died and was brought back from the dead.

Now, I suppose the question is WHY? Why did Fury want Coulson kept alive?

I was fully expecting Mike to turn up alive at some point, though not necessarily this episode. Good call on his potential future; my first instinct was Cable, but that's the wrong studio...

They're promoting that Donnie Gill (aka Blizzard) will appear in next week's episode.

We don't know that for sure. We don't know exactly what that robot was doing to Coulson's brain. The doctor at the end in the car says the robot reprogrammed Coulson's brain not to remember anything and replaced the memory with a vacation in Tahiti. Reprogramming sounds a lot like making a machine to me...

Plus, we don't know if that's all that happened. The robot could have been doing something else too, like transferring the real Coulson's memories to an LMD. Notice that Coulson doesn't have any scars from having his head split open like that.

The MCU is often saying that magic doesn't exist. Magic is just really advanced science that we don't understand. Even Thor and the other Asgardians aren't magical. They are just far more advanced scientifically. The doctor tells Coulson he was dead, not for seconds, but for days. Resurrecting someone days after their death just sounds too much like magic. A machine or LMD makes more sense given that.

What they did to him was inhuman.