The president's ATCU (Advanced Threat Containment Unit) begins hunting down inhumans across the country. Meanwhile, Simmons begins her rehabilitation after her extended stay on the alien world.
SPOILERS AHEAD!
A Most Wanted (Inhu)Man starts off pretty fast-paced. We meet back with Lincoln, who is being chased by a small military squadron. They pursue him through the woods until he escapes after creating a blinding wall of sparks via some steel towers. He continues throughout the episode in a similar fashion, having to give the slip from the ATCU using his powers. Eventually, he seeks refuge with his old friend, John, but he ends up turning Lincoln in after seeing a news report falsely exposing him as a fugitive. Despite distrusting Daisy after S.H.I.E.L.D. placed a tracker on him, he was left with no choice, but to call them for help.
While Daisy attempts to convince Lincoln to come along, Coulson meets with Rosalind Price. He's attempting to find the reason her task force is hunting inhumans, particularly Lincoln. While her response is inconclusive, Coulson's focus shifts when he informs her that he's aware she knows about Daisy, who happens to also be on her hit list. Realizing neither side will get anywhere if they keep attacking each other, instead of focusing on the bigger struggle at hand, Coulson suggests a temporary partnership with Price.
May finally decides to team up with Hunter in their mutual pursuit of Grant Ward. They make their way to Boston to meet with an old friend of Hunter's who is in league with a mysterious arms dealer, suspected to be the new Hydra. After a few rousing rounds of lager, Hunter agrees to fight his way up the pecking order…literally. Turning down May's insistence to participate, he engages in an underground fight club meant as a proving ground to meet with the boss. Somehow managing to withstand a pretty hefty beating, he finally decides to go by Hydra's rules to play as dirty as possible, pulls out his knuckle dusters, and reigns in his victory. Barely able to keep himself upright, he's taken to finally face the man he set out to kill.
Finally back home, Simmons is having some trouble adjusting to her surroundings. She spent months in an alien atmosphere. The difference in gravity, air supply, etc. is proving very jarring for her body to re-acclimate. Fitz is doing his best to rehabilitate her, but she's startled by any sudden move and slightly audible disturbance. Besides her physical limitations, needless to say, she's suffered some emotional distress. The team assumes its because she was clearly traumatized by her unexpected exile, causing her to break down and withdraw from everyone. When Bobbi finds Simmons still analyzing the fragments of the Monolith, she tries telling her its been completely disabled and she has nothing to fear anymore. Much to Bobbi's surprise, Simmons tells her she's not afraid of being sent back, but for some reason, actually needs to go back.
Between the ATCU moving in on Lincoln and Hunter placing himself in a fight club just to get closer to Ward, the episode was pretty entertaining with a decent amount of action. It feels like certain hidden plots about Simmons are starting to come to fruition, particularly that she may be an inhuman. In the last episode, Professor Randolph made it clear the Monolith isn't active at random and in fact needs to be triggered. So far, it has only reacted when any inhuman or being of a higher form has been near it…with the exception of Simmons. Now that Simmons is back, she's expressing some kind of desire to return to the alien world. There's no explanation as to why, but she definitely has some kind of drive to return, even though she claims she was being hunted the whole time. There's a decent amount of evidence to go by, but time will tell if the team ends up with another superpowered ally if Simmons ever meets a greater destiny.
