Double night of catch-ups here–I had a nasty headache coming on Tuesday night, so I wasn’t able to put together the recaps from that night at the time, but I’m better now!
Agents of SHIELD
Wow! What an intense episode! Last time on Agents, Mike (J. August Richards) had gone after his son’s kidnappers, the people behind the Centipede project, and Agent Coulson got taken in the exchange, leaving Mike apparently dead in a horrible explosion, and the rest of the SHIELD team out for blood to get their leader back.
This time, Coulson is being tortured, interrogated, and tortured some more by the Centipede organization, with Raina pulling the strings for the mysterious man on the telephone and Coulson looking more battered every moment.
Back on the bus, the bitchy by-the-book woman with the red highlights, Agent Victoria Hand (I’m sure you’ll remember Saffron Burrows’s earlier guest appearance on the episode where the team visited SHIELD headquarters) has taken over Coulson’s team, and doesn’t like the way they don’t play by the rules. From Ward’s unusual interrogation tactics to Skye’s attempt to hack the financial records of the suspect they have in custody, violating her little bracelet thing, it seems like the team can do nothing right.
Skye gets kicked off, with a little reverse psychology on May’s part, and a little parting gift from Fitz/Simmons, and it doesn’t take her long to get into the financial records she needs to track Coulson’s captors down. When the team shows up to save him, however, Coulson is already on this mind-reading machine, one that will “help” him remember what happened in “Tahiti”–the veracity of which he has begun to doubt of late anyway. It’s not a pretty sight.
Raina gets taken into custody, and Skye is there to hold Coulson’s hand as he wakes up from the machine, but he remembers what happened when he died, and it is a horrifying reality he now faces. He goes to the doctor who was present during the “surgery” he had, Dr. Streiten (Ron Glass), who, if you will also recall, was in the pilot episode earlier this season (and of course, Whedon fans will recognize him as the Preacher from Firefly/Serenity). Streiten doesn’t play coy, but gives it to Coulson straight–they should have let him die, or left him dead, rather than inflict the hell on him they did in order to “save” him and bring him back.Now that Coulson knows the truth, what is he going to do with that knowledge? Fury vs. Coulson, battle royale? I doubt it, but I suspect Fury at least is in for an earful, subordinate or not, Coulson has a right to be angry and Fury’s the only one he can rightfully blame.
Justified
HOLY HELL, this was an awesome episode! For one, nobody is happier than I am to see Deputy Marshal Raylan Givens back in action. For two, they did a lovely tribute to Elmore Leonard, who passed away last year during the off-season, where all the actors remarked on what a wonderful talent and wonderful person old Dutch was, and shared fond memories of him and the work that he created in coming up with the characters, setting, and storyline that led to the making of Justified.
Raylan is on trial against Dewey Crowe, or rather, being sued by him, over all the pain and suffering he’s caused over the years. Admittedly, Raylan has been pretty hard on Dewey, not necessarily unjustly, but in the eyes of the law, it was at the least, excessive. So, instead of putting a marshal in prison, the defense offers Dewey $300,000, up from the meager five-figure sum he was initially offered. Dewey jumps on it. However, in Harlan, a rich nitwit like Dewey is probably not going to make it too far on his own. He’ll have plenty of “help,” “family,” and “friends” who turn up wanting to spend that new money.
However, the bulk of the episode takes place in Florida, focusing on a different Crowe, Dilly, and his brother Darryl (Michael Rapaport). When a US Coast Guard, albeit a dirty one, goes missing down in Raylan’s old stomping grounds in Florida, with a Cuban by the name of Elvis and another Crowe, Dilly, as the prime suspects in the murder, Art decides it’s a good opportunity for Raylan to go down and assist, and maybe visit his kid while he’s there.
Raylan is resistant at first, but he goes and does as he’s told. Once he arrives, he is greeted by another marshal, Deputy Sutter (played by David Koechner, whom I know you’ll recognize from his recent publicity tour for Anchorman 2 even if you haven’t actually seen either of the movies; he was also in Thank You for Smoking, in case you’d forgotten). They follow up on the Cuban and Dilly Crowe, and learn that Darryl wants to get off his parole, bad–bad enough to turn on his own brother.
With a guest appearance by Alicia Witt as the Crowe sister, Wendy, this is quite a family. They have a few nitwits like Dewey and Dilly, but it’s the smart Crowes you have to worry about, and Wendy and Darryl, for sure.
Meanwhile, in trying to get Ava out of prison, Boyd gets himself into a spot of trouble with some Canadians up in Detroit. He’s out the money he had intended to buy dope with, and while he and Wynn Duffy have a new friend who says he has connections in Mexico, Boyd still needs to threaten the judge’s family who gets Ava’s case. Unfortunately, the judge has no family to threaten, so Boyd does the next best thing–go to a man who can work a judge. Worse still, the man pushes Boyd too far, and Boyd beats to a bloody pulp, leaving him presumed dead with the man’s young mail-order bride to lie to the cops. And perhaps the worst part? Boyd left his victim alive, alive enough that the wife intends to revive him. Will Boyd be up for charges of his own soon?
Oh, Raylan. He went all the way to Florida, heard Sutter rave about his three kids, and he still couldn’t bring himself to go and visit Winona and the baby. He video chats with them at the end of the episode, and while he looks happy, and I do love seeing Natalie Zea every chance I get, it’s eating him up inside that he’s not going to get to be a father to that baby. Not because he doesn’t want to, but because he knows the life he leads is too dangerous even to get too close with her. It lost Winona her last husband, and nearly got her killed more than once, and Raylan doesn’t want anything like that to come close to his kid, so painful as it is, it’s best if he keeps his distance.
Man, this is going to be a hell of a season. The Florida Crowes decide to pay their Kentucky kin a visit, Ava’s going to be on trial soon, Boyd’s already dug himself a few holes, and Raylan–Raylan is and always will be Raylan. He doesn’t look for trouble, but it always seems to find him.
Chicago Fire
It’s like a brand-new show–Shay’s got a new partner, Dawson’s a firefighter candidate in training, Mouch is heading up the union, and Severide is an instructor at the academy.
More bad news for Molly’s–it looks like the bank owns the bar, so Herrmann, Otis, and Dawson will soon have to give up their shares.
Dawson has met a super-competitive chick at the training program, one who seems to know a little too much for a trainee, and who manages to get on Severide’s bad side just as fast as she got on his good side. On a “ride-along” with the guys at 51, she endangers the lives of some of the other candidates while trying to show off how much she knows.
Severide won’t stand for it and wants her kicked out, but it turns out, she’s somebody’s daughter, an important somebody, and kicking her out isn’t an option. This girl’s gonna be trouble. Even more than she already has been. I’m better Severide still sleeps with her. It’s a pattern.
Casey seems to be having a little trouble with his memory after the last accident he had, and it looks like this has done a little brain damage as well, as his emotions may get the better of him in the episodes ahead. However, he does one good thing by asking Dawson to live with him, in their own place, one without memories of his ex-fiancee.
Shay has a little trouble communicating with her new partner, who apparently has been exposed to her sort of “lifestyle” before and doesn’t exactly care for it. She “respects” it, but doesn’t want Shay flaunting it or constantly talking about it or involving her in it in any way. Shay is offended, naturally, but when the new girl helps her out by getting rid of the lawyer Shay is supposed to talk to, it looks like they may end up friends after all.
Other random tidbits you may have missed: Peter Mills gets promoted! We knew it would happen eventually, but good for him. And, I almost forgot! Otis gets cozy with Severide’s sister! They both like this weird card game that originated in Germany and discover that aside from having something in common, they are attracted to each other too. Otis is glad when any girl likes him, but a pretty girl like Katie? Oh, it’s on.
As much as I’d like to have seen the pilot of Chicago PD Wednesday night, it happened to be on at the same time as Psych!, so I’ll have to catch up with it later. I don’t think NBC has changed their format for next-day viewing online (yet), so I should be able to watch it later this week!
Psych!
This one was way too much fun. The guys go to Great Britain on a mysterious case to help INTERPOL, and we learn that Gus is a Harry Potter fanatic. However, the case turns out to be another of Despereaux’s (Cary Elwes’s) schemes, and Shawn and Gus barely escape a gang of British thugs in the process.
Shawn has trouble pronouncing some of the words and names, and understanding that they speak English in Britain, and Gus is raving on about how he wants to meet Rupert Grint (Ron, from the Harry Potter films, in case you live under a rock), talking about drinking butterbeer and going on a scavenger hunt for horcruxes.
It’s not a far jump to believe Gus is a huge nerd, but I would have thought Trekkie before Potterhead! Also, he walks around in a full Hogwarts school uniform the entire episode, which is adorable. (Just FYI, Firefox agrees that “Hogwarts” is a real word. That’s awesome. It still needs to learn “butterbeer” and “horcrux” though…)
While Despereaux, Shawn and Gus all come out alive, Despereaux may be in trouble with his superiors, and Shawn and Gus are headed back to Santa Barbara for more adventures.
So, there weren’t any big guest stars in this episode, aside from the almost regularly scheduled appearance by Cary Elwes, so I suppose all the guest stars USA was touting promoting the new season are sprinkled throughout the season, which makes sense, but I was really looking forward to seeing Bruce Campbell sooner than later! Oh well, something to look forward to!
Also, it’s unclear to me how this season is going to play out since Maggie Lawson has her own series on ABC now, but I suppose we’ll find out soon enough!
Sidenote regarding the Psych: The Musical, since I didn’t recap it when it aired: I was mildly disappointed, mainly that Gus didn’t have more scenes/songs. The story was a little sad, especially with Yang, but who knew how great a singing voice Juliette had, not to mention Lassie’s incredible baritone! It was a lot of fun, but like I said, I wanted more Gus songs because I know Dule Hill has the voice! And it isn’t Jamaican! Just wanted to bring it up since we were on the subject 🙂
Up next:
Sorry, guys, the recap of American Horror Story: Coven is going to have to wait! I ran out of writing time!!
Thursday night, the Assets is on, and it looks like it’s on during the last time block. I hate to do it, but maybe I’ll watch it instead of Elementary, and try to recap episode two since I missed the first one and let you know how it is. Also, new episodes of The Michael J. Fox Show and Parenthood are on NBC, as well as a new episode of Elementary on CBS. I believe The Crazy Ones is also new this week, according to Xfinity’s listings, but don’t hold me to that. Light night, for once, at least!
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