Girl In The Flower Dress: Recap

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Everybody felt the burn tonight on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 1, episode 5. Check out our recap of “The Girl In The Flower Dress” and share your thoughts on the episode!

Here’s the hot-and-cold dish on what happened tonight on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 1, episode 5!

• Chan Ho Yin is a struggling busker who happens to be able to conjure fire with his hands.
• While performing a mediocre magic show, he is watched by woman in a fetching white dress patterned with black flowers.
• The woman sees him conjure fire and, appearing awed by his skill, introduces herself as Raina.
• At his apartment, she tells him he has a gift and that she believes he was “chosen.”
• But she apparently means “chosen to be kidnapped,” because then she kidnaps him with cleverly/impossibly concealed people in fireproof silver suits.
• Coulson watches, satisfied, as Skye and Ward bond over a game of Battleship.
• Ward sinks.
• May inquires after Coulson’s excessive energy – she heard him puttering that morning because they are basically married – and offers to spar “like the old days.”
• Coulson is saved by the alert on Chan’s abduction.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. tracks and categorizes people with powers, which unnerves Skye.
• And, for different reasons, Fitz.
• Chan’s S.H.I.E.L.D handler shows them the fireproof material, and says that the list of specials was hacked by… the Rising Tide.
• In China, Chan wakes up in captivity with the woman in the flower dress.
• “I just want people to see what I can do,” he says.
• Raina says she’ll make him a star, and that always ends well.
• On the Bus, Skye is like “The hacker isn’t me!” and proves her innocence by tracing the hack to a famous hacktivist named Miles Langdon in Texas.
• The team’s attempts to apprehend him prove futile when Miles pulls up a gridlock protocol from his phone, trapping Coulson’s jeep in traffic.
• Skye manages to track Miles down… but clearly not in an official capacity.
• They have sex, and shows him a microchip she has been hiding in her bra.
• As you do.
• (No, nobody does that.)
• Skye looks for her clothes, and opens the porch door to Melinda May.
• BAM.
• Coulson grills Skye. (She’s dressed now, by the way.)
• She says she and Miles are close, and that she hasn’t betrayed them.
• Fitz feels betrayed that Skye didn’t tell him and Simmons about Miles.
• Awww.
• Ward coldly handcuffs Skye.
• Back in China, Raina gives Chan a strengthening serum with “impressive” results. Almost immediately, he is able to produce a huge fireball in his hands.
• Chan is totally into it and hurls fireballs because it’s fun.
• Maybe it is, we don’t know.
• In the Bus’s interrogation room, Skye argues with Miles; she’s started to approve of S.H.I.E.L.D’s methods if it keeps people safe.
• Coulson feels broken up about Skye’s betrayal; May says she’s still hiding something.
• FitzSimmons finally pull up the well-hidden dirt on Miles.
• Ward lays out the info in the interrogation room; Miles was paid a cool million by the girl in the flower dress to hack the Chinese S.H.I.E.L.D feed.
• Skye is furious.
• Miles thinks it’s not a big deal – all it led to was an ecological site studying centipedes.
• Which is actually Centipede.
• LIKE FROM THE PILOT.
• DUN DUN DUN.
• Back in China, Mike Patterson’s benevolent doctor turns up in Raina’s facility.
• It seems that Miles can process the Extremis well because of his superpower genetics.
• Or something.
• The doctor muses that it’s a good thing no one will ever call Chan “Scorch.”
• And yeah, okay, we agree.
• She congratulates Raina and leaves, telling her to “drain him.”
• Raina promptly gasses Chan into unconsciousness like she’s just lost a boring video game.
• Chan is aghast to find himself tied to a table and having his platelets drained.
• He conjures fire but burns himself, because they drained his fire-resistant platelets.
• Couslon apologizes to Ward – in that not-apologizing way – about bringing Skye aboard. Coulson and May will handle the rescue.
• “My problem. I fix it,” he says.
• Skye rails at Miles for selling out. “I risked everything to help you,” she says.
• Miles wanted them to do their hactivist work, minus the poverty so Skye could “find what [she's] looking for,” without having to join icky S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Skye isn’t impressed.
• Coulson, May, and Agent Kwan break into the Centipede building through the roof, but it goes bad when Chan injects himself with the Centipede serum and kills Agent Kwan.
• May tries to talk Chan down, but he says he’s a prisoner of S.H.I.E.L.D just as much as he is of Centipede.
• Also he’s really started to like the name “Scorch.”
• The building goes on lockdown and Skye and Ward go in to save Mom and Dad.
• Fitz’s night-night gun doesn’t work against Chan’s fire!
• Skye does something with a computer and the doors open.
• The doctor begs for mercy, but Chan burns her to a crispity-crisp.
• May ninjas in and stabs him with something – Extremis? – and she and Coulson book it.
• Miles hacks the building’s mainframe and creates a path to channel Chan’s explosion.
• Coulson, May, Ward, and Skye all race out of the building as Chan’s fireball blooms in the night sky.
• Coulson drops Miles in Hong Kong with an anti-electronic bracelet.
• Ha ha.
• Skye tells Miles she’s going to stay if they let her; he tells her he hopes she finds what she’s looking for.
• May and Ward drink together, and he refuses to face Coulson with Skye.
• In Coulson’s office, Coulson chews Skye out for her deception.
• “You have a secret, Skye, and one chance to come out with it…” or Coulson is done with her.
• Skye pulls out the microchip. “It’s everything I have… on me,” she says.
• She became a hacker to find everything she could on her parents.
• Her search led her to a single document – redacted – by S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Coulson offers her a Miles-bracelet, and she clicks it on as he leaves the room.
• In the tag, Raina – again in a flowery dress – meets with an older man in prison.
• Stage two is beginning, and she asks him to talk to “the clairvoyant” to see if any insights can be made on “stage three.”
• He likes her dress.

Source: Hypable