I wasn't trying to make sense.

In that case, I totally get it.

That's what I think, Una.

And Raina's wide-eyed flirtation is so obvious. Po shutting her down was pleasant, but I imagine he'd take advantage for his own amusement.

Hypothesis: "The Clairvoyant" is an alter-ego of Po.

What, they brought the Teletubbies in for this ep?

Gigglesnort.

"Po" is how the closed-captions spelled it, anyway!

Hypothesis: "The Clairvoyant" is an alter-ego of Po.

That's the way I'm leaning too. I'm wondering if it might not be a Mad Thinker-esque ability to do predictive calculations rather than true precognition.

He prefers to be called "The Mentalist" in his other job.

OMG WTF BBQ! I just caught up and I am flailing.

So good to see JAR again. I may have yelled "damn it feels good to get my violence on" at the screen at an appropriate moment. I was worried about Mike from the beginning of the episode, and well - now I'm really worried.

I knew the "Did I fall asleep/for a little while" exchange creeped me out, but didn't make the connection. Sneaky sneaky, writers.

I feel like Skye is getting slightly less annoying, and possibly the actress is gaining some skill? She was pretty good in the scene where May snapped at her, I thought.

I don't think Mike is dead, he still has some redemption to do. Might die once that's done though. I wish he'd told the team the real plan ahead of time, though. I think Coulson would have still gone through with it. Guess Mike couldn't take the chance he wouldn't though.

Wonder if we'll see that code that Ward snapped a picture of during the Amadal ep in Po's lair...

That explosion looked to be mostly flames from the tanker truck rather than shrapnel, and Mike's powers are Extremis-based. He should be able to handle brief exposures to high temperatures, shouldn't he?

I don't think that it was Mike exploding, I think that the explosion was planned by Raina as a distraction, since she knew that they would jump into action when they took Coulson instead of Mike.

Since the original issue with the program was that the soliders exploded, perhaps the solution to the problem made them fireproof. I mean, how would they know that was a side effect. That's my theory.

I don't understand why Mike didn't just tell Coulson that they wanted him instead of Mike. If S.H.I.E.L.D. weren't willing to let him sacrifice himself, why would they object if he told them that they really wanted Coulson? I will be happy if it is revealed that Coulson knew what was up. I wouldn't be surprised if they had been monitoring Mike's communications and heard the actual call with the real demand.

I am annoyed by Ward's sniper's perch. No sniper worth his/her salt would pick a spot without a 360 degree view of the target, and if it wasn't possible, they would damn sure do better than a spot where they can't see ANYTHING if they walk behind a truck. That's just stupid. If there was really no good spot, Ward was better used elsewhere and they could have put random sniper there.

At first, I thought that Mike could actually be dead, I mean it is Joss after all. But then, I thought "ABC at 8PM? Nah. Deus ex Machina coming up"