S5:E03 - Jess and Jared recap and discuss “A Life Spent."
To begin, Grill is a sci-fi kind of name, as is Virgil, but in a different way. Also, Grill saying he owns Mack is *GROSS*, and feels especially messed up. Daisy sort of breezes past her world-destroying prophecy, and Deke wants to address it, and discuss multiverse theory. In hindsight, Deke has evolved a lot, and we can see bits of his grandpa showing through with his techy-ness. A lot of Deke, and well, everyone's stories, are about dealing with Trauma. Jemma is being used to help a girl named Abby, but learns she's only doing so to help Kasius, who uses the Inhumans as gladiators. Daisy catches up with Yo-Yo to figure out the plan to save Simmons, and steal the scroll from Grill, who catches on that they're up to something. We see that Tess was looking out for Flint, a character from Inhumans comics that we'll meet properly a little later in the season. Jemma gets to know the Inhuman girl, Abby, and helps her while learning more about the way things work for them there, and that the girl has intangibility powers.
"The trawler is a giant fish eating rocks in space." And it is! Coulson and May spend some time alone, and hash it out, because Coulson's eternal optimism is faltering and she's dealing with an injury. Grill hears an alarm, but nothing seems to be wrong, and ends up turning off Yo-Yo's "malfunctioning" metric, so she can pull off her scroll-heist. They get ahold of what Tess calls "the lost knob," a radio dial that Virgil needed, but they're caught by Grill who metric's them to the wall with magnets, and they're saved by Mack, who wasn't around until then. Meanwhile Jemma coaches Abby through her powers with science and education, and then she's ready for, wait no...gladiatorial combat. Deke tries to stop Daisy from going after Jemma, but she won't listen. Mack won't listen to Tess when she suggests killing Zev to cover their asses, because he lives by a code. Lady Basha comes to have her big dude kick Abby's ass in the arena and Jemma tries to help her through it, and it works so well she kills Basha's champion. When Zev wakes up Tess is freaking out, but Mack stays strong.
Basha buys Abby from Kasius and Jemma is freaking out, and a box of lemons thwart Daisy from getting to Jemma during an awesome Mission: Impossible-like heist scene, and Chloe was rad! She quakes, ending the fight. Grill interrogates the team and is about to come down hard on them but Yo-Yo planted a gun on Zev and Grill sacrifices his righthand man after Coulson and Tess back Yo-Yo up, and Mack is horrified with the team's actions, and especially Yo-Yo's choice to let someone else die for their lives. Mack continues to be growing into the only person for the job of Director. And Yo-Yo has lived her whole life in the face of those questions, and isn't willing to give up her life, or her friends. It seems like Deke has given Daisy up to Kasius for his own benefit, but we know that's not right! And the episode ends with Coulson's season ending cliffhanger, followed by the Roaches ripping apart Zev after he was sent to the surface of the Earth, where they send those sentenced to death.
And other than our fictional law enforcement agency, fuck the police. Now as always, Black Lives Matter. You can visit www.blacktranstravelfund.com/donate to help provide Black transgender women the means to self-determine and access safe options for travel.
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