Well Agents of Shield keeps moving towards the inevitable and Inside Voices was no different. The show is now really pushing the concepts of inevitability and because of that invulnerability.
This episode also bought back a couple of minor villains from the show and suddenly put us headlong on the course to the end of the world.
Once again we have multiple story lines that are slowly coming together. What is Hale's plan to save the world from an alien invasion (I'm still convinced that this is going to tie into Thanos). The dynamic splintering of the team at the shield base with Daisy and Mack on one side and Yo yo and Simmons on the other side, and Fitz's pragmatic new get things done character in the middle. The third story is the inevitable confrontation between Ruby and Hale with Daisy being caught in the middle.
When we look at the inevitability theory of time, it basically states that time is linear and no matter what happens you can't deviate it. You can't go into the past and change the future. you might change events, but time will find a way. We've seen this being proven, Yo Yo losing her arms. Deke the grandson, the relationship between May and Robin.
What has come out of this sense of invincibility is that somehow Simmon's and Yo Yo seem to believe that Fitz ruthless nature is probably the only weapon against the end of the world, but in order to for them to break him out Simmons used a taste test and a bit of acting, however in the end we found out that Daisy had among her glasses of water a glass of poisonous hydraulic fluid and she didn't pick that, she also had a gun go off accidentally and nobody died. So in terms of this ploy, she duped Mack, freed Fitz and somewhat proved that he is invulnerable due to the inevitability of time.
Meanwhile Hale is pushing forward with the experiment to graft Daisy with Gravitonium, and she's experimenting with the substance to the point of sending poor Creel in to touch it. When he does, things go wrong and he hears two voices in there. We knew about the one voice from Dr Hall who fell into it in season one. But we got a flashback where Raina basically had Ian Quinn given to the Gravitonium.
so here's crazy theory number one
Anyways, Creel finds out after this experiment that Hale lied to him about Talbot and he throws his lot in with Coulson to save him.
Again we go to the inevitability theory as during the escape attempt Coulson is killed and revived by Creel. But that doesn't mean he can't die later, this was a jerk tease by Whedon to give us a heart attack.
We also get Glenn Talbot comedian with no impulse control. during the escape he keeps talking loudly and Coulson begs him to use his inside voice.
Meanwhile Robin tells the team where Coulson and Talbot are going to turn up through a drawing and Coulson escapes with Talbot using the alien transporter.
Meanwhile Creel is recaptured and Hale decides that her daughter is strong enough to go in the infusion chamber. And we're now full bore heading towards a final confrontation.
This was a fun episode that was more about moving things over and filling in plot holes while setting the table for the last 5 episodes
Random crap
Daisy is become a severe Hard ass - If this show continues I feel like Daisy is going to be the director of shield even if Coulson doesn't die
Talbot - "THIS IS MY INSIDE VOICE!!"
The continued dislike of Deke by Fitz. When Yo Yo finds out
Yo Yo -"Wow, I'm really sorry"
Fitz - "Thanks"
Simmons - "No he's really quite sweet"