Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD season 7 episode 10 preview: Inhuman battles

With the team back in normal time flow, Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD keeps us in 1983 with Nathaniel Malick still trying to take over Afterlife.

Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD gave us one of its best episodes last week, running us through a Groundhog Day scenario that became more and more frantic as the group’s time wound down.

Thanks to Enoch’s heroic and heartbreaking sacrifice, the team is back in action and still in 1983. Which is good, because Nathaniel Malick’s emo Magneto and his faux-Brotherhood of Mutants can’t be left unchecked for too long.

Here is the official synopsis for this week’s episode, “Stolen,” courtesy of ABC:

"“After Enoch’s sacrifice propelled them out of the time storm, the team arrives back in 1983 where Nathanial and Kora are hard at work building an army of hand-selected anarchist Inhumans at Afterlife. When the agents split up to cover more ground, Daisy is tasked with protecting Jiaying and is compelled to confront her mother for the first time since her death; while the others quickly learn they’ll need to face yet another supercharged former enemy in order to stop Malick.”"

You know, I should probably have an answer readily available for who the supercharged former enemy is. I really hope it’s Cal, but I don’t remember when he started to go crazy. And de-aging Kyle MacLachlan would take a lot of effort.

It’s not Hive, because he’s still technically on another planet. Maybe Lash? But May’s husband wouldn’t have gone through it this early. But when the whole timeline is screwed up, I suppose it doesn’t really matter.

What would be even more ridiculous than any of those options would be anyone from Marvel’s Inhumans — the show most of us have blocked from our memories. Maximus was the “main” bad guy in that season, but he technically lost his Inhuman genes through Terrigenesis, so he’s not technically superpowered. Maybe Karnak?

But our Agents of SHIELD team wouldn’t know any of the Royal Family, so that’s probably out the window as well.

It will definitely be interesting to see how Daisy deals with her mother — and her sister, who she never actually met in the normal timeline of things.

Tell us your theories about the upcoming episode of Agents of SHIELD in the comments below!