Agents of SHIELD - 'Laws of Nature'

Ah, fuck; Ward still isn't dead.

We open with a shot of our season's arch-villain:

Damn you, health supplements!*

A new Inhuman has terrigenised and is cornered by armed bastards, but rescued by Daisy - now all at home with her powers - and Mac, using what appears to be a technology derived from Willie Wonka's great glass elevator** to the new bus, which is more of a giant quinjet than a conventional aircraft.

Coulson, missing his actual left arm and his figurative right hand - May, who has vanished on vacation; as an aside I like the parallel with Fury describing Coulson as his 'one good eye' - is tracking down 'Rosalind Price', the woman behind the armed bastards, who are later named as ATCU - Advanced Threat Countermeasures Unit. She proves to be resourceful and dangerous, but Coulson and Hunter elude her guards while she takes a phone call and the confrontation is a no-score draw in the end, with the only significant outcome the realisation for both that someone else is killing Inhumans.

Mac: "And I need a bigger gun, I guess. Or my axe. Or maybe a shotgun-axe
combination of some sort."

Struggling to acclimatise Joey, the new Inhuman, to the idea that just because he has to break contact with everyone he knows and go back in the closet (that's right, we have a gay character and right out of the gate he's being told to hide who he is,) Daisy decides to have another go at recruiting Lincoln to continue his work with SHIELD. He's not happy to see her, especially when the hospital where he works is suddenly attacked by a giant spiny dude looking for 'the Inhuman'. He kinda shrugs off Daisy and Lincoln's powers, merely retreating by melting through walls when faced with a combined barrage.

Bobbi is kind of benched for this episode. Still recovering from last season's injuries, she's working in the lab, covering for Fitz and arguing with Hunter about their relationship and his determination to track down Ward.

Fitz is all recovered from last Season's brain damage, but obsessed with getting Simmons back from the monolith that ate her. He does some bad ass shit in Morocco to secure a scroll which is said to describe the monolith, and which ends up containing a single word in Hebrew: Death. As another side note, Fitz reads Hebrew. Coulson encourages him to let go, but he rages at the dangerous monolith and we cut to Simmons, who is...

Yeah; this is awesome.

'Laws of Nature' is a decent opening. There's a lot of plot dropping and procedural stuff, and I would like to see May back sooner rather than later. It would also be good to see more dynamic stuff from the Inhumans than Daisy and Lincoln just holding their hands out at Hans my Hedgehog while he charges along a corridor. For the entire episode, I did not hate Daisy nor resent her screen time, so that's progress.

Moving forward, I have high hopes for Simmons' subplot, but Ward vs. Hunter is a confrontation I would pay not to see.

* In fairness, they have said that the effects are in other parts of the ecosystem, so we don't keep going to the fish oil.
** I now want to see the lost episode where SHIELD breach the chocolate factory to free the Oompa Loompa slave workforce.