“Melinda” is episode seventeen of season two of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
This episode starts ten years in the past, and there are clips throughout the episode from that time. What is depicted is an operation in Bahrain involving Coulson and May, and it shows how May gained the sobriquet ‘The Cavalry’ – and what she lost because of it.
Skye is being trained at Afterlife by a woman she doesn’t yet know is her mother – it appears that what Whitehall did to her did not actually kill her – and the leader of the community. Raina’s powers look like they may finally be revealed.
In the previous episode, “Afterlife”, Hunter and Coulson escaped with the aid of Deathlok – Mike Peterson. Gonzales’s S.H.I.E.L.D. reveal this to May, and it becomes clear that Coulson had been keeping secrets from them all, involving the gifted. May asks Simmons to open Fury’s toolbox; however, Simmons had given it to Fitz when he left.
What is Coulson up to?