

Those salient points cover the shape of the story by episode's end, but the reason this hour proves a winner comes when you look at the episode's details.
#GHOST RIDER AGENTS OF SHIELD UNCLE ELI FULL#
And while his first attempt created a wave of radioactive ghouls, this time out he seems more successful – earning the power to create matter with his own fingertips in a cliffhanger full of dark potential. finally touches down, it's a race to stop Lucy.except the Rider's killing the ghost leave Eli to grab power! Yes, in a late game twist, it was the Reyes' uncle who thirsted for the evil of the book the whole time. Meanwhile, Lucy and Eli continue to recreate their experiment as we keep flashing back to the past when Eli fought against her husband to supposedly control the original test's Darkhold-inspired particulars before the book's power pushed anyone to literally play god with the world. will have to follow Coulson's plan for the moment. Robbie breaks out of Mace's clutches with an unimaginable show of power in a brutal fight scene that makes it clear S.H.I.E.L.D. Once the stories synch back up, we're treated to one of the most assured spy ops in the history of a show chock full of them. He may have never asked to be crippled, but he's dealt with it without a thirst for revenge. That take's Gabe's repudiation that the death of countless gang members is justified by his own state in life. Robbie learns one lesson in responsibility, but it's still not enough for him to understand that he's more responsible for the lives the Rider has taken since it took him over than he'd care to admit. But the ideas behind the scene burn passionately. The moment between the two anti-heroes is brief, and we never fully see the man behind Blaze's alter-ego (which is strange, because you all know Nicholas Cage would totally have done it, right?). The mysterious biker who arrives at the scene isn't a friendly hero but the flaming skull of (an unnamed) Johnny Blaze – the original Ghost Rider who passes his cursed Spirit of Vengeance on to Robbie in exchange for Gabriel's survival. The slow-mo work in the scene is full of palpable anguish, and as modern Gabe recalls a so-called Good Samaritan who came to their aid, we already know what comes next. So Robbie did the only thing he could: send a prayer above or below to anyone who would save them as the bullets tore through their bodies. He decided to take Gabe with him to race, and when the Locos attack, the consequence of his little brother's injury were on him. Robbie meanwhile plays the part of rebel slacker – the kind of guy who's happier to live with a devil may care attitude than a plan for his future.īack in the now, Robbie says that he knows better now.that life is a matter of decisions and consequences. The boys were attacked after the stole Uncle Eli's hotrod for a drag race, a moment that had them musing on the road less taken since Gabe lived life hard at work to educate his way out of their neighborhood. We already knew that Robbie blamed himself when Gabriel was gunned down and confined to a wheelchair by the LA gang the Fifth Street Locos, but here we see the particulars in their terrifying completeness. The most talked about aspect of the episode will doubtlessly be the origin story Robbie is forced to tell his brother while they and Daisy hang in hiding beneath the jet. Mace's entrance forces the former group to go into hiding while Fitz and company push the limits of their life-saving mission.
#GHOST RIDER AGENTS OF SHIELD UNCLE ELI CRACK#
To complicate things, Daisy has just brought aboard Robbie's brother Gabriel for protection from Lucy, AND Fitz is about to crack how the ghost gal and the boys' uncle Eli will try to recreate their original experiment on a massive, potentially catastrophic scale. And then he comes into Coulson's floating fortress guns ablazing in order to arrest Reyes and Daisy for their technically illegal if generally heroic activities. For one, Mace literally disappears Agent Simmons as part of whatever side deal he's cut with an Inhuman-hating senator. Director Jeffrey Mace is bringing down the hammer on Agent Coulson's team just when they're on the cusp of stopping the most deranged of the modern ghosts, Lucy. In the present, the fight is less philosophical if no less deadly.
