Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — Lockup

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Every week in these recaps it seems I fail to mention something important that happened in the previous week’s episode, and every time so far it’s been because I have yet to be interested by any of this season’s overarching plots and would much rather just watch the Agents messing about. Last week, we discovered the existence of the Darkhold, a sinister-looking book of dark magic that… I don’t really know, I never really cared about any of that Ghost Rider/Johnny Blaze/Midnight Sons era of ’90s comics. I think all we really need to know is that it’s evil, and this week we learned that as much as we can read it, it’s reading us right back. It’s like the abyss that way.
In “Lockup”, the Agents’ plans to spring Ghost Rider’s uncle from jail before the psycho scientist ghosts get him go awry when they, basically, screw everything up because of personal issues. Continue reading