‘From the Ashes:’ Marvel’s Agents of Shield Season 6, Episode 11 Recap

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”27492″ img_size=”579×325″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]We have reached the penultimate episode for Marvel’s Agents of Shield Season 6. Episode 11 sets the stage for next week’s 2-hour exciting season finale. So let’s see what we learned

From the Ashes

When we last left things, Mack and Yo-Yo were with Izel in search of the lost ruins where her people may be reached. Sarge is at the Lighthouse with the Shield team trying to understand exactly who or what Sarge is. Is he an Alien who looks like Coulson, or is he a Coulson duplicate, possessed by an Alien entity? These are the questions to be answered in From the Ashes.

Calling Dr. Benson

The episode starts with Izel as she tries to manipulate both YoYo and Mack. Her goal is to try to ascertain the location of the temple. It is there where she can use the power of the monoliths to open the gateway and bring her people into this universe. She does this by possessing Mack. As Yo-Yo tends to the wounds on Mack she believes she caused, she is tricked into revealing that Dr. Benson is the only one who knows the location of the temple Izel is after. Upon hearing that, Izel releases Mack and tells Yo-Yo that they should contact Benson. She would like to meet him.

What is Sarge?

Back at the Lighthouse, Daisy and May are struggling to decipher whether Sarge is more like Coulson or more like Izel. May believes Coulson is buried in him somewhere while Daisy sees the alien in him as a possible weapon against Izel.

Meanwhile, Deke and Fitz-Simmons are trying to figure out a way to defend the team from Izel’s ability to possess them. It would be the only way for them to get close en
ough to stop her. At the same time, they are monitoring Sarge in his containment cell. As they work, and despite their best efforts thus far, they are unable to hypothesize how Izel’s powers work. Without understanding how she manifests them, they can’t find a way to neutralize her abilities.

Not a Cure for Your Loneliness

May interrogates Sarge In her effort to draw the Coulson side out. It is her hope that if she can somehow extract his memories, it will draw that side of him that is Coulson to the forefront. For his part, Sarge insists that the memories he is experiencing have no meaning. He is not the Coulson May remembers and in fact, they are not HIS memories. Sarge reasserts: “I am not the cure for your loneliness!” He emphasizes that when in a moment of rage, he pounds the metal table, leaving a sizable dent in the metal as May leaves him.

Upon leaving Sarge, May talks to Daisy who agrees with Sarge’s assessment. She believes he is NOT Coulson. Instead he is something else entirely. He is a weapon. One that she believes is strong enough to stop Izel. The question remains: What are his abilities? What is he hiding? May tells her if she does what she is planning, and it goes sideways, it’s on Daisy.

In Search of the Temple

Back at the Zephyr, Dr. Benson has returned to brief who he believes is Mack. The Director explains that he needs the coordinates to the temple and he is making it on a need to know basis to explain why the rest of the team is not there. Yo-Yo attempts to signal Benson that things are not what they seem and somehow gets him to understand. He resists giving Mack/Izel the information she wants. He instead deletes his data.
Realizing something is up, Izel uses Mack to kill the Shield agent that was escorting Dr. Benson. She then slips free of Mack and threatens to kill Benson if he doesn’t give her what she wants. Benson, realizing what is happening says that he has already lost everything that matters to him. After everything that has happened to him he doesn’t fear death and refuses to help Izel. She however, thinks otherwise.

You Mean Nothing to Me

Meanwhile at the lighthouse, Daisy takes her turn at questioning Sarge, focusing on what is inside him and what he did to the table. He again questions if Daisy has “Daddy Issues” with his Coulson shell. She rebukes his comment telling him he means “nothing to her,” but then leaves the room. Afterwards, she talks again with FitzSimmons and they again tell her they are not close to finding a way to combat her abilities. She tells them they must because she is getting no where with Sarge.

Jemma questions if her difficulty getting through to Sarge is because she is not listening to what he has to say. She explains that in the past, whenever things got to hard to bare, Daisy had a pattern of not facing it. She went on the search to find Fitz because she didn’t want to face that Coulson was gone. Now she is staring him, or what looks like him, in the face. She reminds Daisy they are there for her.

The Letter

After her talk with Jemma, Daisy goes to her quarters and pulls out the letter Coulson had left for her before he died. She had not opened it. Now, she did…reading the letter as tears welled up. Somewhere in that time, she decided what to do. She goes back to Sarge and tells him that she realizes that he has gotten stronger, just like his memories, ever since Izel shot and killed him. Using the theory that his death made him stronger, Daisy uses her quake powers to snap his neck and kill Sarge again. She hopes that his next resurrection will make him show what he truly is. Sounds kind of foolish when you think about it.

Facing Thomas

Returning to the Zephyr, Izel uses the gravitonium orb containing the monoliths’s energies to create what Benson does fear the most, his dead husband, Thomas. He slowly materializes and points the finger at Benson for his accident and for choosing to take him off of life support. Izel was able to threaten Benson not with his own death but with having to face Thomas over and over again and the grief that comes with it. Unable to bare that pain, Benson breaks and gives Izel the location of the temple.

While unable to prevent Izel from coercing the location of the temple, Mack and YoYo are able to create a distraction for Izel that allows Benson to escape within an escape pod. Izel reveals that since she already has the temple’s location from Dr. Benson, it is of no importance. Mack however, says that with Benson free, he will give the SHIELD team the location. Izel hopes that is true. Her people will require host bodies once she has opened the door to allow them to cross over into our world.

Sarge Awakens

As we return to the holding cell, Daisy is sitting in a chair watching Sarge. He slowly comes back a second time, but he appears to be in some emotional turmoil. He also is having difficulty controlling his powers. This manifests itself by him struggling to maintain his physical form. As he appears to labor, he tells Daisy he has to leave. She demands he show her what he is. He turns away and with a single swipe, knocks her across the room and blasts his way out of the cell.

His Inner Coulson

Once Daisy recovers, she goes to the lab and retrieves the Shrike sword. She plans to put to the test. If it can kill Sarge it would probably kill Izel as well. She approaches Sarge, who also is looking for the sword. However, he wants the sword so that he can kill himself before anyone else at SHIELD is hurt. He tells Daisy that she doesn’t know what it’s like. The memories, the pain, he feels Izel’s song in his bones, controlling him.
As he laments about her hold on him, he calls Daisy “Skye” without even realizing that he did telling her to kill him. The use of her original name and his willingness to sacrifice himself, causes Daisy to pause. She realizes that perhaps May was right and there is some of Coulson in Sarge. As Daisy drops the sword he tells her, “I could kill you.” She replies, “You won’t” as she hugs him.

Blocking the Body Snatcher

As team FitzSimmons and Grandson have monitored events, Deke had listened carefully to Sarge’s words and realized that the blades he created behave much like tuning forks. They emit a counter resonance that can obstruct Izel’s powers. She uses harmonic resonance to possess others. If they can create a device that can disrupts or blocks that resonance, then they can stop her from being able to possess people.

The Return of Flint

As the Zephyr heads to its destination, Izel realizes that the monoliths must be reconstructed. She requires them to resonate with the energy inside the device and to open the door to her people. In addition, she needs YoYo and Mack to help her recreate the stones because unlike them, she has never seen them. Both YoYo and Mack are adamant that they aren’t going to help her as they have nothing to fear. However, Izel points out that the device has created someone. “Then who is  that?” She asks. It is Flint, the inhuman they met in the future from last season. Flint has the ability to move stone, and was responsible for re-assembling the monolith before…or later…time travel is so confusing.

A New Mission, New Targets

In the end scene, we return to the Chronicoms. Altarah tells the Chronicom hunters that their planet, Chronyca-2 can be saved. However, the hunters want to conquer a new world and designate it Chronyca-3. When Altarah protests, they kill her and set out with a new mission and a new set of targets. But what are those targets and what role might Enoch play?

So there we are. We have three different factions in play: Izel and her phantom friends, Daisy, May, perhaps Sarge/Coulson and the Shield team, and the Chronicoms with their mysterious agenda. What will transpire and whose side will Sarge/Coulson take? We have a two-hour final to figure it all out. Are you ready to see how Season 6 wraps up? Especially since we know that next season is the last for Marvel’s Agents of Shield? Share your thoughts on From the Ashes and all of Season 6, here on GeekVibesNation.

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