Imagine the joke: "Well, Black Widow was already taken."

We also learned this week why the Short Bus team exists: to monitor Coulson's Kree juiced up self.

Or, Hand had already started her own secret team.

So no one is curious why Coulson comes running like a puppy when the Clairvoyant threatens Skye? Or Ward, for that matter?

I think he's a Manchurian Candidate. Triplett made the comment about his family being a Kennedy-esque family and then there was a trigger that made Ward kill the guy in the wheelchair.

Don't worry! Things always seem to work out for Skye.

Lamely possible!

He seems like a Manchurian Candidate. In the previous eppy, it seemed like he was given triggers, and Garrett was his S.O. Even Triplett made the comment about his family being like the Kennedys (total ManCan reference).

All I could think in regards to the scene above was, "NOT in front of Lola!"

I would say mostly saving herself. She didn't know Ollie was alive when she worked with Ivo. And Ollie wasn't around when she joined the League of Shadows.

Not at all, Lotz is great.

I don't think it's odd when it's based on an established character. Ollie has killed in the comics before. Ollie has been portrayed as a vigilante before. So has Canary. They've both done questionable things.

Let me ask you this, do you think the writers had Sara strap a bomb on a guy in order to shock us that she would do that?

I think it will be addressed on the show at some point. They kill for very different reasons. She was an assassin for hire, he is a vigilante. They're both screwed up, but Ollie kills because he thinks he's doing the right thing, and her motives seem very ambiguous and usually tied to her immediate needs. I'm not…

Well, his algorithm is. While I consider it, Tripp says that the Clairvoyant killed his partner, Munroe (which I thought at the time D-Man reference). So they are hunting the Clairvoyant and know of their interest in Coulson/Skye. I mean, Garrett definitely seems interested.

Sharon Carter is horrible. Hopefully they won't characterize her as they do in the comics. If they are going to make a point about Cap not having a girl every time we see him, he will eventually get a girl one would hope.

Ugh. Bucky Cap. One notch above John Walker. It's like letting Jason Todd become Batman.

Yes. It has an Infinity Gem.

I did recall the SHIELD name drop. The guy's partner, Monroe, was killed by the Clairvoyant.

He was also one of the only great characters on the Once Upon a Time show.