This week on Secret Invasion, Nick Fury visits his own grave, Gravik deals with some dissent, we get one of the least interesting cameos imaginable, and it turns out the Skrulls have yet another secret plan that nobody had ever mentioned before on this show.
Warning: it's all spoilers from here.
Does Marvel have a policy against foreshadowing? That's the only reason I can think of for why Secret Invasion would just now introduce a new plot thread that had never even been hinted at in the previous four episodes.
Coming into this week's episode, Gravik's master plan to take over the Earth was basically complete. He gave his Skrulls superpowers, and he has the USA and Russia on the brink of a war that would turn the Earth into the sort of irradiated wasteland where Skrulls thrive and humans die. They just gotta give it that one last push.
Then, this week, characters start talking about "the Harvest." Apparently, Nick Fury collected all the DNA of everybody super who's been affiliated with the Avengers, and the Skrulls want it so they can become even more super. The only problem is the series only started teasing this "Harvest" in this episode, about 20 minutes before it revealed what it was. Considering this Harvest is suddenly the main plot thread of the series, that's pretty frustrating.
Meanwhile, Gi'ah spends this episode with Nick Fury's Skrull wife, Varra. They hold a little funeral for Talos, who seems like he might actually be dead for real, and then they shoot some bad Skrulls who come looking for them. There are still other pieces in play, too: Skrull Rhodey is trying to get the president to bomb the Skrull base in Russia to instigate the war, and Sonya Falsworth has to deal with Skrull infiltrators of her own before linking up with Fury for the final big move.
And in the midst of all that, we got some Easter eggs.
1. Tony Curran
This Scottish actor is in the episode only briefly--he's Sonya's boss, who is secretly a Skrull, and Sonya shoots him. This is Curran's second such tiny-but-consequential role in the MCU after playing Bor, Odin's dad, in the opening sequence from Thor: The Dark World.
2. The Harvest and the Battle of Earth
When Fury is explaining this Harvest thing to Sonya, he says that in the aftermath of "the Battle of Earth" he sent Skrulls to the battlefield to collect blood and other DNA samples that had been left by super-powered individuals--aka the titular Harvest. I don't recall if it's ever been referred to this way in the MCU before, but in case you're wondering: The Battle of Earth is the big battle at the end of Avengers: Endgame.
That means, well, everybody is included in this sample. Nearly the entire main cast of every MCU subfranchise showed up for that one. It would probably be pretty bad if Gravik got that.
3. Dr. Dalton
Sonya goes after a pair of scientist Skrulls who were involved in the construction of the chamber that the bad Skrulls are using to give themselves powers, one of them being a woman who Sonya addresses as Dr. Dalton. This is likely a nod to an obscure comics character who appeared in a single X-Men issue, called Professor Dalton, who helped build a different sort of facility called The World, which could be used to create and evolve super-powered folks.
4. Rick Mason
When Nick Fury gets on the most-wanted list and needs a quick flight to Finland, he calls Rick Mason--the guy who provided those same services for Natasha Romanoff in the Black Widow film. I know I'm always complaining that the MCU needs to do more crossovers, but I didn't mean have an irrelevant character show up and do nothing.
5. Widow's veil
When Fury gets to Finland, he uses a digital mask to pretend to be a grey-haired white guy when he goes through Customs. This tech is original to the MCU and was first used in Captain America: The Winter Soldier by Natasha Romanoff to disguise herself as an old lady during the climax of the movie.
Calling it the "Widow's veil" is interesting, though, because they used this device on Agents of SHIELD a lot. So it had actually been thought of as a SHIELD thing rather than a Widow thing. But it seems like we can infer from the name that this was something Nat brought with her to SHIELD when she defected.
6. Fury's many graves
Fury's ultimate destination in Finland is his own grave, which apparently has all his gear in it, including his eye patch--he jokes to Sonya that he has these gravesites all over the place. And we've seen at least one of his other grave sites--the one he visits with Natasha, Steve Rogers, and Sam Wilson at the end of Captain America: The Winter Soldier was definitely not in Finland, but this bit with the fake graves is clearly a nod to that film.
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