I'm wondering now if we're looking for more depth and clues than we're supposed to as well. It is an early-evening comic book show, after all, not a deep, intricate drama.

I'm definitely hoping no one on the Bus is related to Skye. Maybe Melinda killed Skye's folks. I like her using Melinda as a template for badassery.

The changes in Fitz are very interesting. Poor Simmons seems very dismayed.

That girl is annoying. And she needs a new hook because "I wear flowered dresses" is not as interesting as they seem to think it is.

Honestly, I was impressed that she played Coulson well enough to get him into the brain reading machine dealie.

She knows how to play to what her target wants.

She reminds me of Lorelei Martins on the mentalist.

Honestly, I was impressed that she played Coulson well enough to get him into the brain reading machine dealie.

It didn't even really seem that hard, though. It mainly consisted of her killing the dude who had been trying to torture Coulson into using the machine and then saying, "You don't know what happened to you, really, but you want to know. Don't you? Well, don't you? You know you do...go on, get in the machine. It won't bite. It's just like riding a surfboard." And then, bam. He was ready to get in the machine with very minimal fuss. Eh, maybe that flowered dress is doing more than I thought it was.

I just don't like her. But then, I haven't liked her since she ramped up her presence on the show in earnest with fire hands dude. I feel like we are just supposed to accept that she is super competent and devious plus mysterious and sexy/dangerous just because they say she is and people keep doing what she says. Now even the Clairvoyant wants to be down with her even though a few episodes ago dead minion claimed that the Clairvoyant didn't talk to anyone but him. Maybe this girl got a secret makeover from Freddie Prinze, Jr. like that girl in She's All That and now she's irresistible and also does spoken word performance art in her undies. She persuaded Coulson by subliminally telling him to be silent, be still. Makes as much sense as anything else.

The flowers on the dress have a hypnotic effect?

Poor Mike Petersen.

Also, the thing with Coulson has to be something about the super soldier serum, right? Ever since Erskine died in Captain America, people have been trying to recreate it, but it keeps going wrong. That's how you got the Hulk, that's how you got Extremis, that's how you get the Centipede people who were blowing up.

Wait, I just watched. While it wasn't a giant revel,Coulson did come back wrong. They gave him one memory that we know of,but I got the feeling that there might be much more. They made the Coulson they wanted...so for example, is the cello player real? Coulson doesn't know. He can't trust his memory.

Coulson is experienced, but now he can no longer trust anything he remembers - which is why he wasn't ever supposed to know.

poor Mike

Well, the cello player was mentioned in the Avengers movie, so I think we can trust that. But did the Claivoyent pick up the information pre- or post-memory fiddling?

Next week we've got Phil mulling over things, so we'll see what else comes up.