r/shield • u/2th Shotgun Axe • Jun 25 '20
Live Discussion Live Episode Discussion: S7E05 - "A Trout in the Milk"
As usual, following the episodes there will be a post-episode discussion thread.
| EPISODE | DIRECTED BY | WRITTEN BY | ORIGINAL AIRDATE |
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| S7E05 - "A Trout in the Milk" | Stan Brooks | Iden Baghdadchi | Wednesday, June 24, 2020 10/9c on ABC |
Episode Synopsis: After a bumpy landing in the disco decade, the team - Daniel Sousa in tow - reunites with more than one familiar face at the S.H.I.E.L.D. hangout and discovers exactly how to dismantle the Chronicoms' latest plan. But when they get too close for comfort, the Zephyr unexpectedly leaps forward again, this time to a date pivotal to not only the future of S.H.I.E.L.D. but to the future of Director Mack as well.
Stan Brooks is an American film and television producer. He has produced more than 60 movies for film and television as well as several critically acclaimed miniseries including Broken Trail and Prayers for Bobby.
He has directed one episode for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before:
- A Life Earned
Iden Baghdadchi is a writer and production assistant. He has written the episode "Reunion" for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot.
He has written two episodes for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before:
- Rise and Shine
- Collision Course (Part II)
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u/2th Shotgun Axe Jun 25 '20 edited Jun 25 '20
Feel free to mock me. I fucked up and totally forgot there was an episode today. My bad everyone.
Here are links to the posts from before I put this up.
https://www.reddit.com/r/shield/comments/hfe756/live_episode_discussion_s7e05_outbreak_the_first/
https://www.reddit.com/r/shield/comments/hfdz0c/episode_thread/
https://www.reddit.com/r/shield/comments/hfbe2r/pre_episode_discussion_s7e05_a_trout_in_the_milk/
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u/snopet Ninja Hunter Jun 25 '20
This is given me throwbacks to when you forgot during s3 😭
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u/2th Shotgun Axe Jun 25 '20
Has it really been that long since my last fuck up? Damn that is actually impressive.
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u/legone Marauder Fitz Jun 25 '20
Can you link the thread that had the first few minutes for posterity?
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u/dinopastasauce Jun 25 '20
So did ABC..
‘s all good! Thanks for putting it up week on week!
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u/2th Shotgun Axe Jun 25 '20
Simmons cares about Enoch. That is so adorable and he deserves that love!
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u/2th Shotgun Axe Jun 25 '20
Seriously everyone, my bad. Though in my defense, this is only like the second or third time it has happened in my 6 seasons of doing these. So my track record isnt that bad.
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u/2th Shotgun Axe Jun 25 '20
I really love Director Mack. He is such a good sympathetic leader.
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u/midasgoldentouch Clairvoyant Jun 25 '20
Is he threatening to do to Daisy what Whitehall did to Jiaying?
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u/LiveFromNewYork95 Jun 25 '20
“It seems like you missed a lot Sousa, but at least you’re not Captain America. Now that guy missed a lot!”
“Wait what!?”
“Oh did we not tell you?”
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u/Arya_Granger Fitz Jun 25 '20
This is stressing me out. I love it. I missed that feeling from AOS
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u/cjn13 Fitz Jun 25 '20
honestly shooting down a US government satellite launch would nearly cause WWIII since the US would blame the Soviets
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u/mtm4440 Jun 25 '20
Time travel was a brilliant farewell season idea. So much potential to interact with every single thing Marvel.
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u/Vlinux Coulson Jun 25 '20
Anyone notice the odd reference in this episode to "Sarge" from last season? The fake name that Coulson gives when Malick confronts him in the bar. "Patrick Kutik" (sp?). Sounds a lot like the name of the creature that took on Coulson's appearance last season: "Pachakutiq"
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u/PhiPhiAokigahara Jun 25 '20
Transferring memories into a chronicom body... Is the Simmons theory true?!
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u/jrt_01 Jun 25 '20
Wait, were Mack's parents in the photo? That would explain their bank on him making Coulson and May abort, and maybe why Yo-Yo recognized them, but we never actually see the picture.
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u/mwthecool Clairvoyant Jun 25 '20
Gideon Malick is a pressuring creep and Sousa is a chivalrous gentlemen, that's not surprising at all on either side.
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u/SlashGames Coulson Jun 25 '20
Besides Banner, I also saw Victoria Hand and Roberto Gonzalez on the Insight list! Nice callbacks!
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u/A_Nick_Name Jun 25 '20
I love the classic SHIELD jumpsuits
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/Nickfuryshield.jpg
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u/AlecBaldwinner Jun 25 '20
Here's hoping for a little Dollhouse reunion between Whitehall and Souza.
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u/TheTractor20 Davis Jun 25 '20
If I don’t get Fitz next week I swear to god, we are nearly half way through this season (13 episodes) and he hasn’t existed yet
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u/cjn13 Fitz Jun 25 '20
Wait until she tells him that the phone has many more times the computing power than the computers that put astronauts on the moon.
Also tell him that we landed on the moon
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u/flintlock0 Deathlok Jun 25 '20 edited Jun 25 '20
The computer should reveal itself as Zola.
Or, maybe they don’t need it with time travel.
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u/midasgoldentouch Clairvoyant Jun 25 '20
Oh, and this Nathaniel never went to Maveth
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u/stu_25 Jun 25 '20 edited Jun 25 '20
I love how both the SHIELD team and Sousa are seeing a new time period but from different points in their own timeline.
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u/bidet2yousir Deke Jun 25 '20
How the FUCK are they supposed to stop insight in 12 mins + commercials
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u/OliviaElevenDunham Coulson Jun 25 '20
It's sweet seeing Deke protect his grandmother like that.
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u/DamePeinte Jun 25 '20
I'm surprised they haven't also found Steve's body in the ice yet and gotten rid of him
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u/WontonJr Jun 25 '20
This season has been wild, I’m enjoying it thoroughly, and yet I STILL BARELY UNDERSTAND WHAT’S GOING ON.
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u/bjs916 Jun 25 '20
I was literally JUST thinking about Whitehall being brought back. You know what they say about experimentation...
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u/iPixelate Daisy Jun 25 '20
Really loving all this Daisy and Sousa content we're getting. They work well together.
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u/WontonJr Jun 25 '20
Damn, so the Chronicoms can force Shield to time jump whenever they want, pretty much.
Damn cheaters.
But why not jump back to like 2010? By then it will have been too late for Shield to stop them, and Project Insight would have launched decades before, right?
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u/King_Drumpf Jun 25 '20
If they jump about 20 years everytime, will the next 2 episode arc after this be based on 90s movies?
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u/WontonJr Jun 25 '20
Damn, when I said Nathaniel Malick would play a bigger role this season....I didn’t mean later this episode.
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u/DealBringer Jun 25 '20
How did May feel emotions from Jemma if she’s a chronicom? Maybe she’s a different type of robot.
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u/Hyperion409 Jun 26 '20
Is it possible that they travel to 2012 and sousa goes with them and dresses up like a cop and we get a plothole fixed
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u/im_at_work0 Jun 25 '20
The Sousa phone picture scene reminded me of “ERASE ALL PICTURES OF RON!”
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u/cjn13 Fitz Jun 25 '20
wow the actor they got to play his son really looks like middle age Wilfred
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u/dragonman8001 Zima Jun 25 '20
Lighthouse has been rewired
Oh fuck, the Chronocoms are gonna fix the time monolith aren't they?!
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u/LiveFromNewYork95 Jun 25 '20
I know Bruce makes for an easy narrative story because he’s a pivotal character that’s alive at that time who is a kid so it doesn’t matter who they cast but surely if you want to prevent the Avengers you would kill a still early in his career Nick Fury, right?
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u/cjn13 Fitz Jun 25 '20
Oh boy the Chronicoms just pulled a Grandfathers Paradox on Mack
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u/BornAshes Lemon Jun 25 '20
Thoughts as I'm watching:
-OMG these opening credits are THE BEST!!!! Jeff is so dreamy. Hello Twin Towers. Sousa is adapting rather well. Elephant pants. Chloe looks amazing. So May really doesn't have any emotions at all except the ones that she picks up, cool. Yes, try not to think about time travel too much. "Okay Dad". Wow....the joint has changed. The LOOK she just gave him when he said "Bump lemons" lmao. What the frell are those red dots, is that an implant?! Back to the Lighthouse....to GET RANDY BABY YEAAAAAH!!!! Empaths can get contact drunk, awesome. STONER!!!! Hydra's got an ion cannon....not good....
-Gosh I hope we keep Sousa around for a while, watching him play off of Coulson is a treat. Chastity Mcbride pfffffffffthahahaha. Oh no, has Stoner been flipped? Smooth save but now the plot thickens. Confirmed, Yoyo is a fan of Moonraker. "You've been here before? A few days ago 1931" I love time travel. "Woah, high tech" awwwww. BRUCE oh no oh no no no. Balls, jigs up, "Did you really think I wouldn't remember you?"...yes?
-Hey it's THAT jackhole Chronicom...I hate him but I love him! "Sorry kid it's nothing personal"....ripple alert ripple alert he'll remember that. "I'll explain later" UH HUH! ENOCH THE LINE WE MISSED YOU! "So Hydra's attempting INSIGHT without any Helicarriers"...oooh I'm so dumb THAT was what it was. Ooooh that's a rocket annnd they jumped and it was only 3 years and how the...oh they jumped early and oh no yeah yeah this is where a chainsaw gets taken to the timeline.
-Jemma is forgetting and Enoch totally knows what's up so THAT'S a thing. "You're in charge but you don't know how this works? So you're screwing with time but you have no idea what you're doing! You're playing with matches and burning the house down!" Sousa has a freakin point to be honest. "Yeah we ALL were!" Deke has a great point as well. Sousa has no clue who Deke is and it's going to blow his mind when he does find out. Deke and Yoyo going after Mallick...oh that's going to end well. The Chronicoms are very quickly turning into some of my favorite bad guys because they learn from the good guys AND the other bad guys fuck ups. Hahaha oh I am so glad they put this scene in here with Daisy showing Sousa a cell phone "Wooooow!" awww it's so cute. Coulson and May....one can't feel anything and one just wants to feel more. It just hit me that those are the OG SHIELD jumpsuits from the comics. RIP Hacker Team.
-Yup, Stoner got flipped...at least May is learning to use her abilities now. "They were always 10 steps ahead" annd they snuck an Arrow reference in. "They see that coming" BANG DEKE HOLY SMOKES! Rocket is a decoy I bet. Solid call Mack but now your position is out in the open and May and Coulson have been captured AND they've got your parents AND Sousa and Daisy got captured How the hell do they get out of this one now?
-Oh no...it got even WORSE....he wants to transfer Daisy's powers to himself...
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u/nezumipi Sandwich Jun 25 '20
I love that Mack's idea of an adventurous date is making out in an abandoned SHIELD base.
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u/Gepap1000 Quake Jun 25 '20
That opening...
And the timeline has changed! Malick was supposed to be dead as we had been told - things are starting to get interesting.
Enoch probably noticed the timeline changes and has started taking bold action
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u/nbrazelton Jun 25 '20
Wonder if Simmons is actually a chronicom on the side of the chronicoms. Which is how they’ve been a step ahead.
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u/strikerlegacy Jun 25 '20
He lost his daughter, he’s not gonna loose his parents
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u/Fools_Requiem Lola Jun 25 '20
Please tell me Enoch was on the ship this time...
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u/AlecBaldwinner Jun 25 '20
It's not a serum, Souza.
Maybe she's born with it. Maybe it's Maybelline.
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u/xviandy Jun 28 '20
Where THE FUCK is Fitz??? I can't believe it's a condensed final season and he's been missing for such a huge chunk of it.
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u/WontonJr Jun 25 '20
Nathaniel Malick is definitely gonna play a bigger role later in the season.
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u/Fanofeverythinggood Deathlok Jun 25 '20
Season started smooth sailing. Got a few ripples in the 50’s and now the waves are starting to ramp up.
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u/legone Marauder Fitz Jun 25 '20
Can't believe the Chronicoms ripped of Fitzsimmons Night Night Gun
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u/flintlock0 Deathlok Jun 25 '20
Wait til Sousa finds out about Reddit.
And Facebook.
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u/neddoge Jun 25 '20
Y'all ever sit down and think about how many years of commercials/ads we've consciously AND subconsciously watched/listened to..?
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u/legone Marauder Fitz Jun 25 '20
Very bold to assume Wilfred just won't remember any of them
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u/legone Marauder Fitz Jun 25 '20
I get that Sousa's frustrated by also Deke being protective is great
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u/bidet2yousir Deke Jun 25 '20
Seems like people guessing that next week would be about FitzSimmons are right because they brought up Jemma’s problem but haven’t gone into details
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u/GetItFuckingDone The Doctor Jun 25 '20
I think the photo is going to be a pic of Malick dead, just to prove that they are 10 steps ahead.
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u/mwthecool Clairvoyant Jun 25 '20
Official prediction from me:
However the chronicoms extended Freddie's life is the same way they extended Simmons and Fitz'. We're gonna see the red lights at the back of his neck too.
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u/JohnnyHotshot Clairvoyant Jun 25 '20
Wait, does that mean Hive is dying now? With no new host?
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u/silkysmoothjay The Bus Jun 25 '20
Well, I guess he's not pulling a "Hail Hydra" to get out of this one
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u/TheTractor20 Davis Jun 25 '20
“Explain it to me, I’m a big boy!” One of my favorite quotes this season
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u/bjs916 Jun 25 '20
My poor baby Simmons...she better end up happy with Fitz at the end of all of this...
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u/El_Stupacabra Jun 25 '20
Oh my God! I love the trope of pay people experiencing modern technology!
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u/Linklingonreddit Shotgun Axe Jun 25 '20
Is that an iPhone? Definitely a good guy if anyone is wondering
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u/neddoge Jun 25 '20
For a show that has KILLED the modeling, Freddy looks worse every time they jump.
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u/flintlock0 Deathlok Jun 25 '20 edited Jun 25 '20
“The time traveling synthetic aliens? The aliens that time travel and are synthetic? The synthetic aliens? And they time travel? Time traveling aliens that are synthetic?”
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u/Slackware1180 Jun 25 '20
For a security agency SHIELDs password policy is atrocious. They haven't changed it in 30 years.
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u/Jedi-El1823 Shotgun Axe Jun 25 '20
David Robinson was on the list.
They're going after The Admiral!
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u/w_brown7 Simmons Jun 25 '20
They are 10 steps ahead and shield doesn't even know what game they are playing
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u/GuitarGuru253 Jun 26 '20
What’s the song that starts playing right after Coulson types the swordfish password and they enter the bar?
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u/jrt_01 Jun 25 '20
If we see Arnim Zola in that computer Daisy is at, I'm gonna lose my shit
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u/AlecBaldwinner Jun 25 '20
"It's time we changed the rules."
Uh, what have you been doing for the last 20 years, then?
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u/ODonsky1 Deathlok Jun 25 '20
Am I missing something? Was there any reason given to why Mack's parents were there? I never heard any mention of them throughout the whole episode and I can't remember any mention of them in past seasons
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u/JTLittleWad Jun 25 '20
Is no one mentioning the ant-man van was in the background while Nathaniel (if I remember his name correctly) was using the pay phone?
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u/neddoge Jun 25 '20
Okay, next week looks fucking cracked.com and I have a chub.
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u/flintlock0 Deathlok Jun 25 '20
That intro sequence is one for the ages.
Complete with Deke smile.
Also, Daisy rocks literally every outfit she wears.
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u/2th Shotgun Axe Jun 25 '20
BTW, everyone give love to /u/V2Blast. They sent modmail to remind us to do this, and it was pure luck I was browsing reddit.
And again, I am so sorry for messing up tonight. And I still love you all.