Beyond allowing for some workplace humor that helps to humanize the people within HYDRA's lower ranks, that division allows what truly matters to the immediate plot to take center stage - not an endless number of veiled forces at play.

From the show's opening moments, it's clear that the characters on either side now occupy their very own self-contained universe, thankfully removed from Marvel's cinematic spectacles. If the previous episode was one of the best yet in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s run, then it's compliment enough to say that 'Making Friends.' sets its sights merely at keeping the story moving forward from its predecessor. agents is how he spends at least part of his time, while his underlings race Coulson's team in an effort to track a familiar 'gifted' - Donald Gill (Dylan Minnette). Meanwhile, the villainous Whitehall (Reed Diamond) shows that brainwashing captured S.H.I.E.L.D. In 'Making Friends and Influencing People,' written by Monica Owusu-Breen ( Fringe, Revolution), the assignment given to Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) is revealed: pose as a HYDRA recruit in an attempt to infiltrate their hierarchy, while supplying Director Coulson (Clark Gregg) with intelligence on the still-largely-unknown organization a task that Skye (Chloe Bennet) is also pursuing in her ongoing sessions with an imprisoned Ward (Brett Dalton). With a number of subplots, budding relationships, and half-truths among a group once designed as a family more than a strike team highlighted in Episode 2, this week's episode begins to set the wheels turning, and putting even more members of the remaining team in harm's way - from HYDRA just as much as each other. made its goal clear for season 2: to drop the cast into a brave new world where secrecy was their only hope of survival, and above all, start to deliver on the potential established in the show's turbulent first season. From its premiere episode, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

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