Fitz, who began out as certainly one of two science whizzes who supplied the do-gooders in “Brokers of S.H.I.E.L.D.” with their nifty devices in season 1, was in a troublesome spot when season 2 started. Having virtually died after professing his emotions for his accomplice in science crime (er, figurative crime, that’s), Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge), and saving her life on the finish of season 1, Fitz was nonetheless firmly in restoration mode when the second season picked up. The present did not fast-forward via Fitz’s therapeutic course of or skip proper into the subsequent section of his and Simmons’ slow-burn romance both, which made it all of the extra satisfying when Fitz was lastly again on his toes and able to transfer ahead by the point “S.O.S. Half 2” rolled round.
No second signified this greater than when Fitz and his fellow S.H.I.E.L.D. brokers, particularly his large brother-y buddy Alphonso “Mack” Mackenzie (Henry Simmons), and boss Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg), efficiently laid a lure for his or her enemy Gordon (Jamie Harris) — an eyeless teleporting Inhuman whose make-up was in all probability solely barely extra snug than Alan Cumming’s getup as fellow teleporter Nightcrawler in “X2: X-Males United” — utilizing the ability of Science™. Reveling in his triumph, Fitz informs a gobsmacked Gordon that he has, in actual fact, been cornered via the magic of “Science, biatch,” doing his finest to channel Aaron Paul’s Jesse Pinkman and his iconic catchphrase from “Breaking Unhealthy.” That Fitz does not fairly pull it off is definitely on-brand for the S.H.I.E.L.D. group’s resident lovable dork.
Clark confirmed this second was fully improvised shortly after “S.O.S. Half 2” aired. In the meantime, the episode itself affirmed that “Brokers of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” very similar to Fitz, was stronger and higher than ever earlier than.
