Making Friends and Influencing People

Episode Summary & Review

Summary

Coulson and his team race against Hydra to get to Donnie Gill — a dangerous gifted with the ability to freeze objects — while Simmons is caught in the crossfire.

Our Take

A solid table-setter that mostly works because of Simmons, whose double-agent situation gives the episode its real tension. Donnie Gill himself is a fairly thin reason for all the running around, and some of the Hydra stuff feels like marking time. Still, the character beats land well enough that it’s an easy hour to sit through, even if nothing here wows you.