Plus, the “well, I didn’t expect that” expressions on Melinda and Coulson’s faces after they heard the girl claiming to be haunted by demons was priceless while staying true to character. –The notion of the team encountering a seemingly super-powered individual who had concocted their own religious explanation for their affliction was well-conceived. And Skye thinks Melinda’s just a big old meanie head until she hears the story of how she got the nickname “calvary” at which point Skye wants to watch her fly the plane and be pals. Melinda and Grant’s relationship is more than just a one-time thing, but it appears to be physical-only and they are good at keeping it secret. Oh, and Fitz and Simmons tried to prank Skye because…ah, who cares. In the end, ’twas love that felled the beast. Melinda convinces him the sins will live with him for the rest of his days, and that he needs to let the poor girl go. After the accident, he attempted to atone for his sins by protecting her, but inadvertently hurt more people in the process. The accident only happened in the first place because he continually unloosened some stray screws just so the girl as part of her job would arrive to fix it, which he describes as having been the best part of his day. The ghost isn’t trying to hurt the girl he’s protecting her. It comes down to him and Melinda with everyone else locked away, but yet again our geniuses had it wrong. The “ghost” proceeds to cut power the plane and hunt down each member of the team, seemingly because they have the girl locked away in a compartment of the plane he can’t get into. He only sometimes becomes visible in our universe, meaning to the poor girl it sure must have seemed like a haunting. Instead, Simmons discovers the particle accelerator accident created a tear in space, trapping one of the victims between our universe and another one. This week, the big twist is that the girl does not have telekinetic abilities at all. That about takes us up to the episode’s halfway point, which is almost always where SHIELD drops its big plot twist. We’re going to the other room now to talk about how crazy you are.” You shouldn’t have taken me – now the demon will get to you, too” to which our agents reply, “Whoa. They tell her, “Look, you clearly picked up an ability from that accident with the particle accelerator,” she says, “I know, God abandoned me, and now I am being haunted by demons. Various members of our SHIELD team bicker over whether or not the girl truly has telekinetic powers, but either way they seek her out in her ill-defined Midwestern town and bring her in, just in the nick of time too from the looks of the angry crowd threatening her. Her apparent powers fire up whenever she is threatened, causing an explosion at a gas tank and propelling a police car at an angry crowd gathered outside her house. Once, there was this girl who…seems to have telekinetic superpowers after an accident at her job as safety inspector at a particle accelerator facility killed four people. The result was perhaps heavier on other characters simply talking about May than expected, but the mostly stand alone “Repairs” indicated SHIELD might be at their best in episodic form as opposed to serialized. With “Repairs,” it was finally Melinda May’s turn, i.e., the most unknowable character on the show to this point. In quick succession now we’ve had showcases for Skye (“Girl in the Flower Dress”), Simmons (“FZZT”), Fitz (“The Hub”), and Grant (“The Well”). However, ever since the fifth episode they’ve designed stories meant to tell us a little more about one individual character at a time. A big weakness of those episodes was their dependence upon the character of Skye to be an audience surrogate figure who quite often felt superfluous to the plot and was just generally annoying, like a modern Wesley Crusher to the rest of the team’s crew of the Enterprise. The first handful of SHIELD episodes seemed designed to establish the universe of the show, its tone, and a general idea of who these characters and how they’ll interact with one another. Writer(s): Maurissa Tancharoen & Jed Whedon ( SHIELD’s co-creators and co-show-runners).Director: Billy Gierhart ( The Walking Dead, Torchwood, Sons of Anarchy).To read our other Agents of SHIELD episode reviews please go here.
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