Resurrection (Secret Invasion)

Resurrection is the first episode of the first season of Secret Invasion.
==Synopsis==
Nick Fury learns of a clandestine invasion of Earth by Skrulls.
==Plot==
Everett Ross meets with Agent Prescod in Moscow, whose investigations into particular terrorist attacks have driven him paranoid. Prescod tries to convince Ross that a rogue faction of Skrulls has been secretly invading Earth for years and are planning in secret an invasion to take over the planet. Ross, unconvinced that the Skrulls are enemies due to their alliance with Nick Fury, asks for more evidence. Prescod shows him the plans for the Skrulls' next plot but suddenly attacks Ross when he decides to Fury.
 
Ross shoots Prescod dead after a struggle, and escapes, being tailed by an unknown man. He contacts Maria Hill and asks for evacuation. Ross tries to escape his chaser through the streets but dies after failing a jump from a building. However, once Hill catches up to them, she discovers that "Ross" was actually an enemy Skrull, while the man who was chasing him was Talos. Hill contacts Fury and summons him to Earth from the S.A.B.E.R. Space Station.
Fury arrives on Earth and is reunited with Hill and Talos. After Fury extends his condolences for Soren's death, Talos reveals losing his Skrull Council position due to Fury's unfulfilled promise of finding a new home for Skrulls. The radical Gravik has taken his place and, alongside Talos' daughter G'iah, leads a rogue Skrull faction plotting to conquer Earth, starting by inciting a war between the United States and Russia. Hill shows Fury the plans that Prescod intercepted, revealing that Gravik's faction is planning to launch a massive terrorist attack, disguising themselves as the Americans Against Russia political group.
In Washington, D.C., James Rhodes briefs President Ritson on Fury who left S.A.B.E.R. and returned on Earth. Ritson is frustrated, as Fury was tasked with building a crucial aerospace defense system, but he left on his own. Rhodey also informs him about an encrypted message Fury received from Hill, stating that since he cannot reach both of them, they are effectively AWOL.
Frustrated, Fury takes a walk on the Moscow streets, where he gets ambushed and kidnapped by MI6 agents, and delivered to his old ally Sonya Falsworth. Despite Fury's attempts to gather information about the Skrull attacks, Falsworth refuses to discuss it, deeming Fury unfit to combat the invasion. She rejects his offer to join forces, advising him to return to S.A.B.E.R. Fury departs, but leaves a concealed camera behind at Falsworth's compound.
A homeless Skrull named Beto comes to an abandoned nuclear site, where he is welcomed by G'iah into New Skrullos, a secret sanctuary for the Skrull refugees. G'iah reveals that Gravik is leading the Skrull Resistance, aiming to make Earth their home where they can live freely in their own skin. The Resistance has been abducting humans, including members of the AAR, and replacing them with Skrull agents while the real humans are placed in fracking pods and suspended in stasis. G'iah watches as some of Gravik's henchmen, led by his right-hand man Pagon, bring in Martin Wallace, a captured member of the AAR. They show Wallace to another newly inducted resistance member, Brogan, who takes on Wallace's appearance. Once he does this, they shove Wallace into a fracking pod, and Brogan takes the imprisoned man's memories.
Spying on Falsworth, Fury, Hill and Talos find out about Vasily Poprishchin, a potential supplier of s for Gravik. Despite Talos' concerns about crossing MI6, Fury insists on pursuing Poprishchin, emphasizing Falsworth's readiness to use extreme measures to halt Gravik. Fury believes they must be equally relentless to prevent the war and protect innocent Skrulls.
Gravik is informed by Pagon that Fury has returned to Earth, but believes he is no longer a threat. Determined to achieve their goal and make Earth their home, they assign G'iah a mission. She is ordered to meet Poprishchin, deliver him his money, and obtain the bombs from him. G'iah gets to him first before Fury and takes the bombs, however, Hill notices and trails her. Fury and Talos confront Poprishchin and find out that he has been replaced by another Skrull. He fights Talos, accusing him of betrayal, but Fury intervenes, fatally shooting Poprishchin.
Hill chases G'iah into a subway tunnel. As Hill rounds a corner, G'iah ambushes her, disarms her of of her gun, and overpowers her before running off. Talos catches up to G'iah moments later as she's preparing to climb a ladder to escape the tunnels. He reveals Soren's death, implying Gravik's involvement. G'iah is shocked to find out that her mother is dead, but refuses to comply and pushes him away, taking the bombs with her. However, once out of sight, G'iah breaks down in tears, overwhelmed by grief. 
Hill sets up a rendezvous with Fury at a local bar, implying that besides building S.A.B.E.R. after the Snap, Fury had lost his edge, hindering his ability to confront Gravik. G'iah brings the bombs to New Skrullos, but suggests postponing the attack due to Fury and his crew's pursuit. Pagon disagrees. In a private meeting with Talos, G'iah, though still angry with him, reluctantly discloses that Gravik's operatives will strike at Vossoyedineniye Square on , although she is unsure of the full scale of the attack. G'iah promises to mark the bag containings the bombs for Talos and Fury to find.
Fury, Talos, and Hill go on a mission to intercept the bombs, chasing the Skrull operatives. Talos and Hill capture the couriers only to discover the bags were decoys. Fury meanwhile ends up finding Gravik posing as various random civilians that Fury has met over the past few days. As they get to the middle of the square, Gravik shifts into his default human appearance, glares at Fury, and activates a detonator, setting off explosions around the square. During the mayhem, Gravik takes on Fury's appearance, calls out to Hill, and as she approaches him, he pulls out a gun and shoots her. As the real Fury comes along, Gravik shifts back to his default human appearance and flees while Hill succumbs to her injuries. Fury and Talos are forced to flee.
==Cast==
Main Cast:
*Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury / Gravik (disguised)
*Ben Mendelsohn as Talos
*Kingsley Ben-Adir as Gravik
*Killian Scott as Pagon
*Samuel Adewunmi as Beto
*Dermot Mulroney as Ritson
*Richard Dormer as Prescod
*Emilia Clarke as G'iah
*Olivia Colman as Sonya Falsworth
*Don Cheadle as Raava (disguised as James Rhodes)
Special Guest Stars:
*Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill
*Martin Freeman as Everett Ross Skrull
Guest Stars:
*Uriel Emil as Vasily Poprishchin / Vasily Poprishchin Skrull
*Tony Curran as Derrik Weatherby Skrull
*Irmena Chichikova as Kreega
*Andrei Nova as Talos (disguised as Russian Man)
*Ben Peel as Martin Wallace / Brogan
*Michael Epp as Ruben Steiner / Ruben Steiner Skrull
*Mihai Arsene as Drunk Russian / Gravik (disguised)
*Natallia Bulynia as Russian Mother
*Bebe Massey as Gravik (disguised as Young Russian Girl)
*Mark Lewis as Zirksu
*Eugenia Caruso as Talos (disguised as Taxi Driver)
*Irina Kara as G'iah (disguised as Russian Professional Woman)
*Zsuzsa Magyar as Russian Bartender
*Jack Baldwin as Nigel's MI6 Partner
*Grace Boyle as White House Aid
*Alex Batareanu as Faux Gate Guard 1
*Adriana Grigoriev as Faux Gate Guard 2
*James Macnaughton as Pod Security Skrull
*Jack Gouldbourne as Nuro (uncredited)
*Electra Allen as Russian Passerby (uncredited)
*Ruth Clarson as Russian Food Vendor (uncredited)
*Billy Clements as La Selva Guard 1 (uncredited)
*Hector Kingsley Bhattacharjee as Refugee (uncredited)
*Nathan Hall as Unity Day Russian Passerby (uncredited)
*Emiko Ishii as SAS Suit (uncredited)
*Andy M Milligan as Russian Spy (uncredited)
*Marvin Montoute as Shop Owner (uncredited)
*Tatsujiro Oto as Gravik Inner Circle Rebel (uncredited)
*Jeska Pike as Secret Service (uncredited)
*David Vickers as Russian Salesman (uncredited)
*Anastasia Zabarchuk as Passer-by in Botanical Gardens (uncredited)
*Unknown actress as Gravik (disguised as Russian Woman)
*Unknown actor as Talos (disguised as Nigel)
==Appearances==
===Locations===
*Earth
**Moscow, Russia
***Academica Metro Station
***EMIII
***Madman's Gallery
***Vossoyedineniye Square
***Red Square
***Kremlin
**Russia
***New Skrullos
***Sonya Falsworth's Russian Townhouse
**Washington, D.C.
***White House
***Washington Monument
***United States Capitol
**London, England
**Atlanta, Georgia (flashback)
**Bogotá, Colombia (mentioned)
**Munich, Germany (newspaper)
**Chechnya, Russia (mentioned)
**Miami, Florida (mentioned)
**Argentina (mentioned)
**Philippines (mentioned)
**Kazakhstan (mentioned)
**Soviet Union (mentioned)
** (mentioned)
*S.A.B.E.R. Space Station (mentioned)
*Skrullos (mentioned)
===Events===
*Secret Invasion
**Attack on the Everett Ross Impersonator
**Kidnapping of Nick Fury
**Chase of G'iah
**Bombing of Vossoyedineniye Square
*Snap (flashback)
*Blip (mentioned)
*Cold War (mentioned)
*Kree-Skrull War (indirectly mentioned)
*Battle of London (indirectly mentioned)
===Items===
*Fracking Pods
*Infrared Glasses
*Santo Millika
*Hoot
===Concepts===
*Dreams
===Vehicles===
*Jeep
===Sentient Species===
*Humans
*Skrulls
===Creatures===
* (statue)
===Organizations===
*Skrull Resistance
*MI6
*CIA
*Americans Against Russia
*United States Secret Service
*Police of Russia
*UKN24 News
*Skrull Council (mentioned)
*S.A.B.E.R. (mentioned)
*Avengers (mentioned)
*Russian Armed Forces (logo)
** (logo)
===Mentioned===
*Everett Ross
*Carol Danvers
*Soren
*Thanos
*Varra (indirectly)
*R. Keller
*Nigel
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*Harry S. Truman (picture)
*Dwight D. Eisenhower (picture)
*Jimmy Carter (picture)
* (picture)
* (picture)
* (picture)
* (picture)
* (picture)
==Music==
Song title 	Artist 	Location(s)
The Problem	Jesika Jane & NEM3Si$	
*A suspect "Russian" chase "Everett Ross" through Moscow streets.
Equinox 	John Coltrane 	
*Nick Fury plays a vinyl on a record player while speaking with Sonya Falsworth.
==References==
==External Links==
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Category:Secret Invasion (TV series) Episodes