Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD season 7 episode 2 review: Out of time

Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD takes us to full-blown gangster shootouts as the team tries to figure out what to do with Freddie Malick.

Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD keeps us stuck in 1931 as we try to save Freddie Malick, father of future head of Hydra Gideon Malick. What hijinks await us this week?

Mack and Deke help Freddie to make his delivery, which is some fun Hydra serum hiding in a bottle of contraband, though they don’t know that he’s a Malick. Well, they kind of help him — they all end up boarding a train because the delivery is 500 miles away.

We do get a little backstory on Freddie and his motivations, since he’s now on his own. His dad “took a walk off a tall building,” and his mom cracked afterward and hasn’t spoken in two years. So it’s all about surviving, which Deke can understand.

Simmons and Yo-Yo meet up with Daisy, Coulson, and Koenig. The Chronicoms show up, and thankfully, Koenig is able to hide everyone in a secret room behind his office — including our potentially Hydra girl, who wakes up at the most inopportune moment.

Simmons finds a bit of something on the girl’s shoe, conducts an experiment, and figures out what it is. Yep, it’s Captain America serum.

Freddie Malick is about to deliver the most important ingredient of the serum that will be given to Johann Schmidt aka the Red Skull.

Meanwhile, May’s alive and conscious. Enoch getting her up to speed on everything ends in her saying she’s hungry, so May’s back to herself again. It also ends in a fun Enoch vs. May showdown, where Enoch confesses he took some Hunter fighting techniques.

Coulson and the team show up in time to stop her from beating Enoch. Is anyone surprised that May feels how she does about LMD Coulson? Of course she can see right through it. I mean, she may also have some emotional issues due to being … what’s a good word? Reborn? Rebuilt? She’s put back under for retooling while Koenig leads them to Hell.

Before they arrive to see Mack and Deke, the Zephyr goes crazy; they only have 17 minutes left in this time period. Daisy puts Deke in a tight spot and asks him to take out Freddie before he can actually do anything bad. Surprisingly, Deke attempts the shot, but the Chronicoms show up and turn it into a fire fight.

Freddie gets away even despite a pep talk from Koenig, and the team (and Chronicoms, separately) try to make their way back before the time jump.

Unfortunately, Enoch gets left behind. Which isn’t necessarily a terrible thing for him, but is still highly inconvenient.

Post-Credits Stinger

Koenig made it back to his bar, and Enoch is hired as his new bartender. And Koenig has plenty of questions about SHIELD and … robots. Hence the LMD Koenigs … or his grandchildren. And that wraps up 1931 in a neat little package!

Badass Moment of the Week

“Die, coppers!” Koenig screams as he and Coulson shoot at the Chronicoms in a driving car. It’s such a gangster movie moment that it made me incredibly happy. This would also double as the best one-liner, except…

Best One-Liner

Koenig’s reaction to everything on the Zephyr was priceless.

Everyone being confused and impressed by the walkie-talkies was a fun running gag. I also enjoyed the gag of Enoch calling them primitive.

Also apologies for everything I wrote last week — Freddie is Gideon’s father, not grandfather.

Elena’s got some stuff going on. The shrike may have messed her up because she’s not ready to use her powers just yet and freezes at the worst possible time. More on that in later episodes, I would assume.

Next week’s Agents of SHIELD looks like we’re in the 1950s — and the reintroduction of Daniel Sousa! Fingers crossed for at least a flashback to Peggy Carter…