Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD season 7 episode 11 review: Chaos reigns

Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD brings the chaos, as the team is divided between the Lighthouse and space. Can they outsmart Sibyl’s time streams?

Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD is running out of episodes in this final season. And when the heck are we going to see Leopold Fitz again? Let’s jump in to this week’s episode.

Daisy’s still reeling from Jiaying’s death and greets her sister with a quake and a chokehold. Kora claims she wants to become an agent of SHIELD. She points out that we’re in a new timeline, which… all of us knew.

So Daisy acts irrationally to beat the time streams, makes Sousa leave his post, and takes the quinjet to go after Simmons in space. After all, she’s the sister that matters. Mack climbs aboard to captain and they jettison into space towards the Zephyr, not knowing if they’ll make it. It definitely has Avengers: Endgame vibes of Tony and Nebula floating through space.

Meanwhile back at base, May tries to get a reading on Kora, but Kora ends up knocking out their power with one punch and lowering their firewalls for Sibyl. Coulson can kind of read her coding and tries to slow her down. He puts May in charge of trying to turn Kora around because she’s the only one who can get Sibyl out of the SHIELD database.

Kora wants to help them get back to restoring their timeline, but she wants SHIELD’s help in checking thirty names off their list to help save the world.

”Grant Ward” is the first name that comes out of her mouth and the stunned silence from everyone made me laugh. It’s like when Rhodey suggested going back and killing baby Thanos.

May gives Kora the truth: Jiaying’s dead by Malick’s hand. And Kora reacts how any child would, with sheer outrage. But it doesn’t work. Garrett swoops in and takes her away before May can turn her.

Onboard the Zephyr in space, Deke’s already been captured, not even living out his Die Hard dreams. Malick can’t find Fitz’s location in Simmons’ brain and brings in Deke as leverage. He finds DIANA, but it’s a struggle.

He jumps back into Simmons’ mind to dig deeper. We do get to see Enoch again as we dive through her memories. She and Fitz have a conversation about trying to get back to the Temple to save the team; he points out that since they’re building a time machine, they can live a little and take their time.

We’re taken to their last memories together where Fitz is trying to convince Simmons of something, but it’s like they’re in Janet’s void and Malick finds nothing. He leaves angrily and in the aftermath when Deke asks Simmons about Fitz, she asks who Fitz is.

This leads me to assume DIANA’s other failsafe is to completely erase Fitz from Simmons’ memories.

All of the plots converge finally as Chronicom hunter ships converge outside of Earth. Sibyl has them targeting SHIELD bases. Every single SHIELD base on Earth.

Post-Credits Stinger

Malick watches the world burn as Kora returns. They’re giving people new life by ending so many.

Badass Moment of the Week

It’s an unconventional one, but Sousa being in space and seeing the Earth from that perspective. Can you even imagine that? A man who wasn’t even around for the space race rocketed into Earth’s atmosphere to see our planet in all its beautiful glory… yeah.

Best One-Liner

“What are your intentions—with Daisy?” Mack asks.

”I don’t… have any intentions,” Sousa responds.

”Well then you better get some—and quick,” Mack responds with so much sass that it cracked me up. He also uses the threat of the entire SHIELD team on Sousa if he hurts Daisy.

There are plenty of heartfelt speeches in this episode. The best was between Daisy and Mack on the quinjet, talking about their future. When Daisy has her moment of loss, thinking about not being around her family any more, Mack calmly points out that she’s always known who she is. And that he and Elena had a bet on her and Sousa as a couple.

Well, there’s something janky going on with Fitz. Bloodwork? Some sort of sickness, I would assume. Simmons also talks about losing a part of her and saying goodbye is hard enough—is that just referring to Fitz or is there a child somewhere in the mix? Doesn’t matter—this is still highly infuriating.

Next week is the series finale for Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD and it’s a double-header. The last mission. Can our emotions handle it?