FZZT

FZZT is the sixth episode of the first season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
==Synopsis==
When floating bodies turn up, Coulson and the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. must hunt down an elusive killer. No one is safe - not even the team.
==Plot==
In Wrigley, Pennsylvania, a group of boy scouts sit around a campfire while being told scary stories by Justin. As he finishes his story, Adam Cross becomes concerned by a humming noise that only he seems to hear and walks off to investigate the nearby area. The first counselor reassures the kids that Cross is only trying to scare them, until they are alarmed as a mug raises into the air on its own before dropping back to the ground with an electric shock. This event is soon followed by several screams from Cross along with bright flashes, causing the scouts to take refuge in a nearby truck. A shock rips the battery from the truck. The counselor and scouts search the nearby area for Cross only to find his dead body, left ominously floating several feet above the ground.
On the Bus, Phil Coulson is taking several physical tests which Jemma Simmons questions. In the lab, Grant Ward tests the Night-Night Gun and tells Leo Fitz that it's an ounce too heavy and that it needs to be fixed. After he leaves, Fitz imitates Ward, which amuses Skye. Simmons comes in and imitates Ward, as Fitz had done earlier, only for Ward to interrupt, telling the team that they have a new mission.
At the campsite, the team investigates the earlier incident as Fitz and Simmons discover mysterious electrostatic anomalies and examine a hole in Cross' head. As Simmons gets closer to examine Cross' corpse, static discharges from his body before falling to the ground. On the Bus, Skye researches Cross while Coulson tells Ward he's being too hard on Skye, but Ward argues that she needs to earn back their trust. In the interrogation room, Melinda May intimidates Justin. Coulson comes down to the lab with Simmons, analyzing the victim's body. They find that the brain was struck by 2,000 megajoules of electricity. May enters and says the counselor is innocent. Fitz then alerts the team, saying he's detected another electrostatic event.
Coulson, May, and Ward quickly drive to the new location with Skye, pinpointing the event to a farmhouse not far away. The energy signature suddenly disappears with Ward, May, and Coulson arriving too late to save the owner, Frank Whalen. Skye finds out that Cross and Whalen were part of a volunteer fire truck sent to New York City after the Chitauri invasion. The group determines that a killer is targeting them. Coulson, Ward, and May travel to the local fire station where Tony Diaz exhibits strange behavior before retreating to the kitchen. Diaz claims to hear a noise similar to the one heard by Cross earlier. Coulson claims that he hears nothing, before noticing a pan lifting in the air. Alarmed, Coulson holds Diaz at gunpoint. May contacts Coulson, reporting her discovery of a Chitauri Helmet.
Diaz claims the helmet is a souvenir from their clean up work in New York. He claims that he, Cross, and Whalen were only cleaning it, leading Simmons to realize that Diaz is infected and that the helmet must have had an alien virus on it. Coulson tells Ward and May to evacuate everyone from the building. Coulson stays, and comforts Diaz during his last moments, sharing his experience from his own brief death, before leaving Diaz to his fate. Afterwards, Fitz scans the others to ensure they're not infected while the firefighters are taken into quarantine. Coulson tells Simmons to begin developing a cure. On the Bus, the team delivers the helmet to the Sandbox. In the lab, Simmons tells Coulson how the infection spreads. In the middle of her explanation, a lab tool hovers behind Simmons. Coulson backs up and locks her in the lab, as he has realized Simmons is infected.
Coulson reassures his team that Simmons will find a way to cure herself. Coulson contacts Felix Blake to find out more about the virus, but Blake doesn't have any information. Coulson hangs up before being told any protocols. Quarantined in the lab, Simmons works to test her antiserum on a lab rat, only for it to fail. Fitz and Simmons argue and the two realize that they need the only things to have survived the virus--the Chitauri. They summarize that the only reason the Chituari soldier itself never died from the virus was that it was immune.
Fitz goes to retrieve the helmet and enters the quarantined lab, despite the risk of infection, where the two work to develop the antiserum together. They make a new antiserum that seems to work at first, but it only prolonged the rat's life slightly, as it died moments later. Simmons, having lost all hope and knowing the procedure for these situations, asks Coulson to tell her father first, because her mother will take the news better from him. She then asks for a moment alone with Fitz. Fitz is not willing to give up and encourages Simmons to keep trying. Despairingly, she knocks him unconscious. Later, Fitz wakes up and finds the rat to be fine, having only been knocked out by the last serum. He sees that Simmons is attempting to save the team by jumping off the plane, despite his outcries. Fitz grabs the antiserum before Ward grabs it along with a parachute and jumps. Ward manages to catch up to Simmons, curing and rescuing her just in time.
In Coulson's office, he reprimands Simmons on the trouble that her stunt caused, and tells her to never do attempt such a feat again, as they would hate to lose her. Later, Coulson reveals to May that he ordered the physical exam for himself, because of his own doubts. She tells him to unbutton his shirt. This reveals the scar left behind by Loki. She reassures him that he feels different because he is different. In Fitz' room, Fitz is beating himself up over the fact that he did not jump out of the place to save Simmons. Howeberm Simmons reassures him. Later at the Sandbox, Blake tells Coulson that he will get his team taken away if he pulls a stunt like that again.
==Cast==
Main Cast:
*Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson
*Ming-Na Wen as Melinda May
*Brett Dalton as Grant Ward
*Chloe Bennet as Skye
*Iain De Caestecker as Leo Fitz
*Elizabeth Henstridge as Jemma Simmons
Guest Stars:
*Vincent Laresca as Tony Diaz
*Titus Welliver as Agent Felix Blake
*Robert Maffia as Baker
*Rick Gifford as Adam Cross
*David Michael Paul as Justin
*Thomas Robie as Camper #1
*Trevor Larcom as Camper #2
*Caleb Burgess as Camper #3
*Jake Brennan as Camper #4
*Troy Glass as Camper #5
*Tom Crisp as Frank Whalen (uncredited)
==Appearances==
===Locations===
*Wrigley, Pennsylvania
**Wrigley Fire Station
*Sandbox
*New York City, New York (mentioned)
*Morocco (mentioned)
**S.H.I.E.L.D. Moroccan Office (mentioned)
*S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters (mentioned)
*S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy (mentioned)
*S.H.I.E.L.D. Bio-Hazard Facility (mentioned)
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===Events===
*Chitauri Virus Outbreak
*Battle of New York (mentioned)
===Items===
*Chitauri Helmet
*Chitauri Virus
*Tracking Bracelet
*Night-Night Gun
*D.W.A.R.F.s
*Holocom
*Anti-Serum Delivery Mechanism
*S.H.I.E.L.D. Satellite
===Vehicles===
*Bus
*L.O.L.A.
*S.H.I.E.L.D. SUV
===Sentient Species===
*Humans
*Inhumans
*Chitauri (mentioned)
===Creatures===
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*Cats (mentioned)
*Dogs (mentioned)
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===Organizations===
*S.H.I.E.L.D.
**Coulson's Team
*Wrigley Fire Department
*HYDRA
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*Rising Tide (mentioned)
* (mentioned)
===Mentioned===
*Index
*Captain America
*Miles Lydon
*Iron Man
*Karine
*Jemma Simmons' Parents
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==Trivia==
*Skye mentioned "The Dude", the main character from the who was portrayed by Jeff Bridges.
*The barn used in the scene where the team discovers Frank Whalen's corpse is known as the "Pee-Wee Barn", as it was constructed for the comedy in 1985 inside Disney's Golden Oak Ranch, in Newhall, California. The barn was later used in episode Repairs.
*When Jemma Simmons shows Phil Coulson the "brain cells", they clearly lack axons/dendrites, which are branchings from the cell walls that make neurons easily identifiable. Brain cells normally use these branches to produce tiny electrical impulses. The cells shown look like red blood cells.
==Videos==
===Trailers===
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 1x06 "FZZT" - Promo
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 1x06 "FZZT" - Sneak Peek 1
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 1x06 "FZZT" - Sneak Peek 2
==References==
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Category:Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Episodes