Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Episode 13: T.R.A.C.K.S. Recap With Spoilers

The episode starts with Coulson’s team on the Bus. They are tracking a large purchase Ian Quin [...]

By Jamie Lovett - February 4, 2014 09:54 pm EST

The episode starts with Coulson's team on the Bus. They are tracking a large purchase Ian Quin made from a company called Cybertek. After a brief cut away to Coulson rather pleasantly taking over the operation from Italian Intelligence, the team takes on undercover personas to board the train that is transporting the package in hopes that It will lead them to Quinn and, through him, the Clairvoyant. Agents Ward and May take on operations, going undercover as a wealthy couple in first class. Fitz and Skye handle communications as a young couple traveling Europe for their anniversary. Coulson and Simmons go in as a father and daughter bringing their late mother/wife's ashes to her final resting place (with Simmons hilariously over prepared for the role). When Ward and May get to their room, they change outfits and have a discussion about how things see to have gotten personal for Coulson and how Skye seems much more determined as of late. This leads to Ward making a comment about Coulson finding out about their relationship, and then May revealing that she already told him before heading out the window to the top of the train. Meanwhile, Skye and Fitz decide that they're both American and play the overexcited couple in order to take the keys off of a train service person. They sneak into an empty room to set up communications. Coulson and Simmons have an amusing discussion about their backstory and then get in a loud argument that attracts the attention of a older gentlemen with an entourage of women played by Stan Lee (!). When their mark, Carlo Mancini, comes into their car. Simmons stands and "accidently" spills ashes all over Mancini. After things get cleaned up, Coulson and Simmons discover that communications are being jammed. Coulson goes to find out what's wrong and discovers the car at the end of the train has been emptied out. Ward comes running in, shouting that they've been made, with several men following behind. One pulls out what looks like a grenade so the two jump off. The grenade goes off and makes the train disappear. We then skip back in a time and see Ward before he runs into the room with Coulson. He's asked to help a blonde woman with her bag. The woman insists even after Ward refuses. Wards takes the bag in the room and the woman pulls a gun out. Ward expects it and a fight breaks out between Ward, the woman and another Cybertek agent hiding in the room, with Ward coming out on top. Ward discovers that communications are down and runs to the car where Simmons is alone. He tells her they've been made and Simmons tells him that Coulson has gone ahead. Ward follows and we catch up where we left off, with Coulson and Ward jumping off the plane and the grenade making the train disappear. Ward and Coulson discuss what to do next. Coulson says the other will be okay with May on board, but Ward says she's not on board and finds her sunglasses on the ground by the tracks. They decide to get back to the Bus. They find a truck in a field that has suspiciously already been hot wired and use it to get back to the plane. When they get back to the Bus, they take a call from Russo, the Italian Intelligence agent who Coulson took the operation over from. He looks beat up and tells them that Cybertek is on to them. Coulson sends him their coordinates so they can meet up and try to figure things out. Ward takes the fragment of the grenade into Fitzsimmons' lab in order to try to examine it, but it takes him a minute to figure out how to turn the holographic table on. Eventually he gets it working and manages to isolate the model of the fragment. Coulson comes in and says S.H.I.E.L.D. can't find the train with their satellites. The two try to zoom in on the object but prove incapable, finally decide to just upload the specs to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters. Ward tells Coulson that he would have preferred that he and May's relationship had just stayed between the two of them. Coulson says that it's his business because it's happening on his plane, around his people. Ward awkwardly says that "it" hasn't actually happened on the plane. Coulson lets Ward know that if anyone gets hurt because of his relationship, he'll be sent to Barrow, Alaska to guard Blonsky's cryo-cell (Blonsky being Emil Blonsky, the Abomination, from The Incredible Hulk). Russo arrives at the bus and is telling them that they've found the train when suddenly he goes stiff, knife in his back. He falls and a battered May is behind him. Cut back to May on top of the train. She's trying to move when a guard pops onto the roof and opens fire. She deploys a parachute to float off of the train. When she lands, she discovers Ward and Coulson on the ground, alive but paralyzed. She move into the field and hotwires the truck that Ward and Coulson will later find, only to be caught at gunpoint by Russo, who takes her prisoner. May wakes up hanging inside a barn, surrounded by Russo and his men. Russo explains that he helps Cybetek move products through Italy and the company makes sure that he is taken care of. He asks May where Coulson and Ward are but she just smiles. Russo tells her that he warned Coulson about this operation, but he insisted on taking over. He then stabs May in the shoulder. May says "That's just what I needed," then uses the knife to cut herself free, slice Russo's face, and take out the rest of his men. We cut back to May catching up with Russo at the bus and the taking him out. Coulson pleads with her to explain herself and she tells him that the train didn't disappear, but Russo sold them out. She demands that they get the plane in the air while she showers. Ward offers to help her patch up her wounds, but she refuses him. May is sewing herself up when Coulson comes in. He tells her that the train switched tracks shortly after they were knocked off, and that the grenade must have released a toxin that made them not notice the time passing. May tells him they looked ridiculous frozen next to the tracks. He tells her that it wasn't supposed to be a combat op, and May reassures him that the team can take care of themselves. Ward walks in and sees the two of them and seems jealous. He lets them know that the train was found suddenly stopped in the Italian countryside. He says he'll get the plane in the air an refuses May's help when it's offered. They go to the train and find it abandoned with no signs of Skye or Fitzsimmons. Coulson notices a car with a dirty window except for a small spot that was wiped clean. They go to investigate just as Simmon pops up, firing her gun and wondering what happened to Fitz and Skye. We then cut to Skye and Fitz on the train, having a discussion about 084s. Skye asks If Cybertek's package could be one, but Fitz says it's not because they know its origin is Cybertek. Skye asks if they're always machines and Fitz tells her they can be all kinds of things. She asks if there's ever been a person who was an 084 and Fitz says no, but it's possible and he'd hate to meet the guy, Communications go out and as Skye and Fitz are moving to warn the others a guard bursts in. Skye and Fitz fend him off temporarily and Simmons comes in as he pulls out a grenade. Simmons grabs the man and the grenade goes off, freezing both of them. Fitz says the grenade had improved dendrotoxin in it, the same stuff as in the "night night" gun. They decide to leave and find the others and so they move Fitz and give her a gun to protect herself with. They put the guard in a crate and give him a couple extra shots of dendrotoxin. They discover that everyone else is gone from the train. They wipe a clean spot in the dirty window and see Cybertek meeting with someone. They decide to use a tracker to follow. The tracker leads them to Ian Quinn. They decide to go in because it's what Coulson would want. Fitz gives a gun to Skye. Skye moves in, taking down a guard, while Fitz hides and places a tracker under a car. Sneaking about, Skye overhears someone say the package is downstairs. She goes to investigate and finds Mike Petersen in some kind of capsule. Quinn then finds her and says the Clairvoyant told him to expect her. He then pulls out Petersen. Mike says he knows who Quinn is and what his orders are. Mancini then takes a device out a case and places it on Petersen's leg. The device attaches itself, painfully, to Mikes severed leg and then grows into an advanced robotic prosthetic. Petersen says he's not allowed to hurt Quinn, since he gets his orders from the Clairvoyant. HE would let Quinn hurt him though. Quinn asks if he would hurt Skye, and Petersen says those aren't his orders, not who he's supposed to kill. Petersen leaves and Quinn shoots Skye twice, he's sorry but that he has his orders too. Skye is bleeding to death. Meanwhile, Petersen goes to meet with the group from Cybertek. They want to know where Quinn is but Petersen says they failed, that the Clairvoyant isn't happy that they led S.H.I.E.L.D. straight to them. Things start to get violent when we cut to Fitz, who hears a guard land on the car he's hiding under and the chaotic violence going on inside. He moves to go find Skye and is almost shot by a guard when Ward and company show up. Skye is still bleeding out. Quinn becomes aware of Coulson's arrival just as Ward bursts in, guns blazing. Coulson comes in the side and grabs Quinn. Petersen receives orders not to engage S.H.I.E.L.D. Coulson demands to know where Skye is. Quinn says he shouldn't keep sending her into these situations alone if she means so much to him. Coulson pistol whips him and the teams spreads out to find her. Coulson finds her bleeding out downstairs and calls for Simmons. They discover her gunshot wounds and that she has no pulse. Simmons demands they put her in Petersen's capsule, which she says is a hyperbaric chamber. Skye stabilizes. Back on the Bus, Simmons tells the group that the chamber is working for now but that her temperature is 44 degrees. If they don't get her temperature up in a few hours then Skye will sustain brain damage. They need to get to a medical facility immediately, but Simmons will keep her alive in the meantime as best she can. Fitz comforts Simmons as she cries. Ward punches a vehicle I the hanger. May tells him its not his fault and holds his hand. Ward says Skye never should have gone in there alone. May says that blaming himself won't help, but Ward says he doesn't blame himself. Coulson continues to watch over Skye. The final scene is of Petersen watching children play from a distance. He using pen and paper to ask the Clairvoyant if he can see his child. He is told "not yet" and crumples the paper. The camera zooms into the interior of his cybernetic leg where there is a Cybertek label that reads "Project: Deathlok."

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