Now that we know that the mysterious symbols in Coulson's head were a city layout, we finally understand why he was having such a hard time.
He had the equivalent of Dora The Explorer's singing map in his head.
Can you imagine trying to sleep with all the racket going on ?
"I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map, I'm the map !"...
...over and over constantly.
Agent Coulson is still carving at the "Crazy wall" , the writing is coming every day, he can no longer sleep and he's worried.
Not as worried as the young artist who has also been drawing the symbols and has found a third person who knows about them. This mysterious man wants her to remember why she's painting, and he knows how to make her. Apparently this involves filletting her.
Skye and Coulson investigate and find dozens of pictures in the victim's apartment that have extra detail that makes the pattern in his head bigger.
I'm always surprised by how easy it appears to gain access to secret meetings in high security buildings without anyone raising the alarm.
Where are the security services, cameras, checkpoints, armoured doors? Why aren't sensitive meetings held on the top floor of skyscrapers? Why does there always seem to be easy access via fire doors?
HYDRA agents brazenly walk into a UN meeting and start disintegrating people while Gen. Talbot is speaking. This sparks global outrage, which is the natural consequence of melting Italian ambassadors.
We're not messing about this week.
It's bonkers central!
Everyone seems to be stressed, afraid, cracking up, psychotic, flying off the handle or looking forward to genocide, and all in the first few minutes !
We start with a Navy wedding dinner, which ends up with corpses aplenty, covered in same substance that the Obelisk transforms people into.
Flying cars, superheroes, gods, invisible Sky-borne aircraft carriers. Agents Of SHIELD often skirts the fantastic, stretching the boundaries of the possible to breaking point.
Someone's going to need some serious therapy!
Are you ready ?
Take a deep breath.
If ever there was a series that needed to hit the ground running this is it.
After a much hyped and anticipated start, with the back-up of the Marvel movies to add an extra punch, much was anticipated.
And it all almost went completely wrong.