Agents of SHIELD Episode Recap, Season 1 Finale: Beginning of the End

Episode Recap of Agents of SHIELD, Season 1 Episode 22: Beginning of the End

So the season finale of Agents of SHIELD begins with an employee joining a company–Cybertek. As the episode continues, we learn they are watching Coulson and the team. The team is trying to retrieve some data, and May has to hold off the men as Skye gets what she needs.

Meanwhile, Garret isn’t happy about them getting away, but he is enjoying the new-found cure he took last episode.

Skye was able to get her Trojan virus into Cybertek’s systems, providing the team with a lot of information. Or at least eventually it will. Coulson, in the meantime, hears about Fitz and Simmons at the bottom of the ocean.

Meanwhile, at the bottom of the ocean, Fitz is dreary about their hopes, while Simmons is happy they are alive. Simmons then has reality hit her–there is no way out from the ocean bottom.

Simmons and Fitz start to come up with a plan to blow the window open, but that doesn’t solve much–considering the water will rush in and drown them. Fitz tells Simmons they only have enough air for one person, and wants Simmons to take it. Fitz then admits his feelings for her, and Simmons breaks down in tears. She refuses to take it, but Fitz breaks the window on his own. Simmons swims for the surface, holding Fitz, when Nick Fury himself shows up in the nick of time.

Quinn, in the meantime, isn’t happy that Garrett took all of the new drug that saved him, but Garrett doesn’t seem to care.

Garrett meets with some military contacts, and tells them he has new Special Forces soldiers for them, fully enhanced.

Coulson and the team get ready for a big move on their plan to stop HYDRA. Coulson and Triplet start their attack, commandeering a large truck, and blowing a hole in the walls of Garrett’s base. Inside, alarms go off, and the military personnel is concerned something shady is going on.

Garrett pays a visit, and threatens the General in charge. Quinn tries to calm the tension in the room, but Garrett decides it’s best that the General dies. Ward begins to question Garrett’s motives at this point. Quinn decides he is going to take off with the Gravitonium.

Meanwhile, outside, some of Garrett’s men attack. Skye pays a visit to Cybertek, and she along with May take over the abuse with the threat of a bomb. This convinces them to set the soldiers to “Default Directive,” which calls the soldiers off. Skye decides to give Garrett a call. They exchange banter, but after the conversation, Garrett sends Ward to get Skye.

Aboard Fury’s jet, Fury explains to Simmons that Fitz is being held in containment due to lack of oxygen. Fury then says that he is trying to find Coulson.

Skye questions the Cybertek people, and begins asking about the “incentives program.” She is interrupted though, by Ward showing up. May then shows up, and the two begin fighting. Skye resumes her conversation with the Cybertek employee. May eventually wins, and we learn what the “incentives” program is. It is the prisoners kept hostage to have everyone, like Mike Peterson, stay in line with their orders.

Coulson makes his entrance, paying a visit to Garrett. Fury has also made it for the visit. He gives Coulson a rather large gun, which looks pretty familiar–from Avengers perhaps?

Skye saves Mike Peterson’s son, and gives Deathlok the message that his son has been saved. Deathlok launches a missile at Garrett, and stomps his face.

Ward and the rest of Garrett’s men are arrested. Coulson gives Ward a harsh talking to. Mike Peterson, meanwhile, watches his son being rescued from afar. He then takes off, and tells Skye he will be making amends for his actions.

Garrett seems to still be alive, and is suited up in a suit similar to that of Deathlok’s. Coulson takes care of the situation though–and nukes him with a laser-like weapon.

Aboard his plane, Coulson begins yelling at Fury for what he did. But Fury tells Coulson that SHIELD needs to be rebuilt, and Coulson will be the leader. Fury then makes his exit, saying he won’t be seen for a while.
Simmons reunites with the team, but Fitz is still in containment. Then another secret base is found. Complete with Eric Koenig, played by Patton Oswald. But this is actually Billy Koenig–a clone?

The episode ends with Reina meeting with a mystery man. This mystery man is Skye’s father, and Reina wanted him to know where Skye is.

But wait, there is one more scene. Coulson wakes up in the middle of the night, and begins carving into a stone wall with a knife. Similar to what Garrett had been doing.