Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Recap: The Asset

The episode began with a trucker barreling down the street, singing along with his radio, when he gets a call. He tells the person on the other end of the CB that the cargo is secure, and is almost immediately motioned to turn over by someone in a black, official-looking SUV. When it pulls out in front of him, it flips over and he starts to freak out, at which point you see that his truck has the SHIELD tech in it and he’s trying to figure out what’s attacking all the vehicles around him, throwing them in the air and crushing them. Then, they do it to his truck and while he’s in the air, he calls in but is dropped before he ever gets to explain what’s happening and crashes.On the side of the road, a number of soldiers with a construction crane break into the back of the truck, cut into a SHIELD vault with torches and take a man, who is strapped into a metal seat and asks “Are we there yet?”Cut to the bus, where Ward is training Skye in basic boxing skills. She’s annoyed about having to do all the physical labor, but Fitz and Simmons explain what the training is like to be a non-field agent (lots of science stuff) and she gets back to it. She asks him what his moment of truth was that got him to decide he was right for the job.Ward tells her that the truth serum he was given in the pilot was BS and that he had only given her a “priority one overshare” to con her into helping.In the conference room, Coulson tells the group that Dr. Franklin Hall had been abducted by invisible enemies. He’s one of a few select scientists SHIELD has been protecting.In the field, the truck driver says that he’s convinced the bad guys are working with someone within SHIELD. Fitz and Simmons find a small electronic device that’s conducting an electromagnetic field, kicking up debris, and deactivate it. Coulson picks it up and says that it’s “something big.”Back in the lab, Coulson tells Melinda May about the mole theory. Ward found a tire tread pattern and came up with three suspects who may have sold the construction equipment to the kidnappers.Skye asks Coulson about the truth serum and he evades the question, walking away, while Melinda comes in and gives her a mountain of paperwork to read through to look for evidence of a mole.