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"The latest edition of Marvel&amp;#039;s Agents of SHIELD is - no pun intended - a bit of a slow burn. &amp;#039;Girl in the Flower Dress&amp;#039; resolves the &amp;#039;Skye-as-a-mole&amp;#039; sub-plot - a bit of a tired trope to begin with and one that plays out, beat-for-beat, pretty much how you&amp;#039;d expect.  Skye&amp;#039;s deception - she&amp;#039;s (literally) in bed with rugged Rising Tide hacker Miles Lydon (Austin Nichols) - is exposed just as she&amp;#039;s starting to fit in with the other SHIELD agents and, despite their mistrust following her reveal as a double-agent, Skye proves her worth to the team when the chips are down. Sure, Ward (Brett Dalton) is still a little surly post-betrayal, but I&amp;#039;m putting money on those two smooching by the season finale. Having Miles sell information for cash is also a rather convenient way to discredit not only him but also all objections to SHIELD&amp;#039;s somewhat underhand tactics. It&amp;#039;s all very &amp;#039;white hats and black hats&amp;#039; and I&amp;#039;d welcome a less blinkered look at the murky morality exploited by Coulson (Clark Gregg) and his team. I&amp;#039;ve spoken out in support of Agents of SHIELD&amp;#039;s right to be fun comic-book drama, but with that said, the Marvel cinematic universe isn&amp;#039;t afraid to let its heroes be flawed and its TV spinoff shouldn&amp;#039;t be either.  The remainder of &amp;#039;Girl in the Flower Dress&amp;#039; is more successful though. In a callback to the pilot episode, sinister organisation Centipede rears its ugly head again, kidnapping a Hong Kong street magician with a fiery temper\u2026 Like episode three&amp;#039;s Graviton, Scorch (Louis Ozawa Changchien) is a small-fish Marvel villain given a small-screen showcase - Agents of SHIELD was never going to get Tom Hiddleston to sign a weekly contract, so the approach they&amp;#039;re taking makes the most sense and gives comic book newbies a grounding in the wider Marvel-verse. It&amp;#039;s in its third act that &amp;#039;Girl in the Flower Dress&amp;#039; really kicks in, as our heroes stage a rescue attempt and events take a dark turn. Scorch embarks on a murderous rampage, leading to a grisly fate for Shannon Lucio&amp;#039;s devious Debbie, and - in a neat reversal of the pilot - Coulson is backed against a wall and is forced to accelerate the Extremis effect. Pre-credits, we also get a few nods to the show&amp;#039;s season arc, which continues to bubble away in a satisfactory manner. Who is the mysterious prison inmate? Who is the Clairvoyant? And who&amp;#039;s at the head of Centipede - an established Marvel villain? A new face? Tom Six?  Skye&amp;#039;s arc is easily the weakest aspect of &amp;#039;Girl in the Flower Dress&amp;#039; but there&amp;#039;s a decent villain and a strong climax to help compensate. What&amp;#039;s more, with the mole plot wrapped, there&amp;#039;s now the opportunity to take Skye and the charming Chloe Bennet in another, more interesting direction.  Parlance of SHIELD... &amp;quot;Did it physically hurt to do that?&amp;quot; - Skye is not used to getting compliments from Ward. &amp;quot;Ah crap - they gave him a name\u2026&amp;quot; - give a man a cool superhero moniker and it&amp;#039;ll go to his head. Make Mine Marvel! - A nod to Steve Rogers / Captain America this week, plus the recurrence of Extremis and arrival of Scorch for comic aficionados. Coulson Lives! - Coulson&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;extra energy&amp;quot; at night - what&amp;#039;s the betting we&amp;#039;ll discover that he can no longer sleep post-resurrection? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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