“Resurrection” Re:cap - Nick Fury has returned to Earth, contacted by Maria Hill for Talos, his mission is to stop the Skrulls from taking Earth as their new homeworld! At the Skrull camp, New Skelos, the Skrull woman gets two bags from Pagon to take to the Moscow safe house. Talos takes care of the MI6 observer, Fury notes that he is 136 years old, and Talos asks what he got for his mid life crisis. Fury says The Avengers! Hill follows the Skrull woman. Fury asks Poprishcin about the bomb and Talos takes on Poprishchin who is actually a Skrull! He didn’t want a Skrull to be killed.
Hill follows the Skrull woman into an underground tunnel, but a fight between Robin Scherbatsky and the Mother of Dragons is no match! She is about to escape when Talos has his gun drawn. This is Gi’ah, Talos’ daughter!, he wants the bombs she is carrying and that her mother died. He says that the Skrull revolutionaries knows how she dies. Gi’ah leaves and then finds a corner to cry over her mother’s death. Fury enters a bar to meet with Hill who has their chess game ready. He says he had a “crisis of faith.” Maria Hill says he wasn’t the same after the Blip. Later, we see in his room, Fury recalls fading away in the Blip in Avengers: Infinity War (2018).
At a conference room, Gi’ah hands over the bombs in her backpack to Pagon that he says will be “bait.” A woman hails a taxi that reaches a secluded corner, this is Gi’ah who meets with her father. She reveals that Gravik planned to detonate the bombs on Unity Day at Vossoyedineniye Square. She will be there and mark the bags with infrared spray. Fury, Talos, and Hill are around the square, Hill spots Gi’ah exchange a backpack, and their glasses see the X’s sprayed on the packs. They split up moving through the crowds. Fury spots a girl carrying a multi-colored ball and follows her. The girl shifts into a man in a coat and then a woman.
Fury takes out his gun to his side. Finally, the Skrull shifts into the leader Gravik. Hill and Talos find empty backpacks. Set up. Gravik detonates the bombs! A very violent act. Fury calls over Hill and shoots her! The real Fury draws on the Skrull, an explosion, and Gravik walks away. Maria Hill gasps, “It’s you” and then “Not me” before dying. A dramatic ending for the long running character. One, it is a meaninful death, and two, I didn’t expect the character to return, so I think this is a fitting end to Cobie Smulder’s character. “Promises” begins in 1995, we get a recap of Nick Fury encountering the Skrulls in Captain Marvel (2019).
We see Talos meeting Fury and reuniting with his wife, Soren (Sharon Blynn). The series shifts into the sci fi territory of green-skinned aliens, but necessary to cover the people who are looking for a new home. This moves to “1997, Brixton, London”, an area south of London, where there is a room filled with Skrull refugees. The young Fury meets with a Skrull woman, Varra, who introduces him to his withdrawn son, Gravik. He talks with Varra to the side and she explains that Gravik survived a Kree attack where his parents were killed and escaped in a ship. He says the work will be dangerous.
Talos, in his human form, says that they made the journey to Earth and points out Fury whom he trusts. Fury tells the Skrulls that as they help to make this world safe, Carol Danvers will find a new homeworld, the first volunteer shifts into a human woman, Soren. Young Gi’ah is at her side. Volunteers step forward as humans, only Gi’ah and Gravik are in Skrull form, and Fury makes his promise. This is when we pick up with Gravik after the explosions. Fury holds Maria Hill. Gravik walks with Gi’ah and they drive away. Fury and another man, who shouts that he’s an American, are arrested. He is thrown into a van and the officer shifts back into Talos.
On a train to Warshaw, soldiers ask a woman (Irena Tyshyna) about seeing a Black American showing a photo of Nick Fury, she says no. Then, she shifts back to Talos, Fury enters from the side room in suit and hat. Fury tells Talos about his train rides with his mother to Detroit in the “colored car” from Alabama. Her favorite game was “Tell Something I Don’t Know” which he notes about playing doctor with a girl named Suzie. Fury plays the game with Talos about the destruction of Skrullos. Talos says they fought the Kree and then a million Skrulls left the planet. He admits that all of them are on Earth, the ones not in Emperor Drogge’s colony are here, Fury is angry at finding out the lie.
The friends now are shouting at each other, Talos is mad that Fury left them, and Fury says humans can’t get along with themselves. I think this is why we need the Men in Black! He sends Talos to go at the train stop. London, a coffin is taken out of the back of a car by soldiers and draped with the American flag. There is a presidential jet nearby. A woman, Elizabeth (Juliet Stevenson), is consoled by Fury who admits he was there when her daughter, Maria, was killed. This is some heavy drama, a consequence of an attack, a trap for Fury. Elizabeth tells him not to have her death be meaningless.
News coverage has the death toll at 2,000 civilians. A suspect is Martin Wallace (Ben Peel), a leader of Americans Against Russia. We of course saw him duplicated by a Skrull. At night, Gi’ah is driving while Gravik says he could have killed Fury. They go to a council meeting, Gi’ah is stopped by a guard, Gravik gives her a gun to shoot the guard if he is doesn’t leave in an hour. At the meeting is the UK prime minister, Pamela Lawton (Anna Madeley) and others. It is apparent that they are all Skrulls. Gravik speaks in the Skrull language about the 1997 meeting with Fury. He says he will take the Earth since humans are already killing themselves. Sergio (Giampiero Judica) Caspani, NATO Secretary General, brings up the Avengers, but Gravik says he’s prepared.
Lawton says they need a commmander and she nominates Gravik as Skrull General! Caspani says he can bring up a million troops, but is struck in throat by a guard! The council members all revert back to Skrulls and bow their heads. This is difficult to understand, turning over leadership to a young revolutionary while the older Skrulls have infiltrated all parts of power. I keep getting They Live (1988) vibes with overtones of the V (1983) mini-series. only one left is Shirley Sagar (Seeta Indrani), who says they are without home because they had wanted war.
She refuses and Gravik allows her to leave. Sagar leaves to the street and calls up Talos who tells her to arrange a meeting with Gravik. At the abandoned nuclear plant, now New Skrullos, Gravik returns to applause, with Gi’ah walking behind him. She follows Pagon to a lab, who is checking on the scientist, Dr. Rosa Dalton (Katie Finneran) who says their “DNA selection is limited”? Pagon mentions “The Harvest.” There are plans going on that no Skrull understands except the upper tier. It seems like Gi’ah is acting like a double agent! Dalton has the unknown device activated.
In London, reporters are covering the European nations at an emergency summit to find out American involvement in the bombing. At the meeting is Colonel Rhodes who is asked by the French president (Chiraz Aich) if Nick Fury and Maria Hill where at the bombing scene. He answers that there are “allegations” that they had traveled to Moscow as private citizens. PM Lawton asks why the president is not at the meeting. He says he is there as a courtesy and that there is no hard evidence presented, love Rhodey standing up to the politicians. Afterwards, he gets a call from Fury, and arranges a meeting. At Burner’s Tavern, Fury sits at the empty restaurant and meets with Rhodes who says he made all of the allies go to the side of Russia.
Fury mentions that his security are Skrulls and Rhodes mentions that he was debriefed about them 15 years ago. Rhodes says that they should bring in their “friends” and Fury says that this is his war! He says he can’t take Fury’s side and used all of his influence to get Maria Hill’s body back from the Russians. Rhodes says the point of the meeting is that he is there to fire Nick Fury! A guard tries to escort Fury out, but Fury breaks his arm and takes his gun. Fury leaves and then sits at a bench seeing all of it fade away. Sonya Falsworth enters a butcher shop, she walks past the butcher, and enters the freezer where Brogan is being interrogated in chains.
She hands a phone to the interrogator, who speaks to his superior, and then clears out everyone from the room. Falsworth smiles and says, “I can be quite persuasive.” There is something powerful with such a refined lady. She blocks the door, the prisoner says he will break her bones, and Falsworth takes up a butchering shear! Falsworth severs his finger to see it transform into a Skrull finger! Uh-oh. Gi’ah sneaks into the conference room to search for Rosa Dalton on a computer. There is data on Groot, Frost Beast (from Thor: The Dark World), and Cull Obsidian. Is she making the Super-Skrull? The Skrull villain can duplicate powers, DNA?, of others. He first appeared in Fantastic Four #18 (1963). This may be how Gravik probably plans on taking on The Avengers. Then, Gravik is there, and Gi’ah tries to cover by saying the new recruit is loyal. A fascinating second episode of Secret Invasion, very brutal, political thriller, and all centered around Nick Fury!
Five Skrull Sky Plants out of Five!
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