BWW Recap: MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. See 'The Writing on the Wall'

The guy from last week with the writing on his chest (COUGAR TOWN's Brian Van Holt) is seemingly getting lucky with a lady who has invited him home from the bar. He looks familiar and she's trying to remember why. He shows her the writing on his chest pulls out a knife to help her remember. I don't think she's getting a second date.

Coulson (Clark Gregg) , meanwhile, is listening to jazz and continues to make his own carvings (see, kids: nothing good every comes from jazz). The knife breaks just as Skye (Chloe Bennet) takes the needle off the record. She tells him she knows about Ward, her father, the "alien buzz kill device", his writing project and the GH 325 serum that saved both their lives. He confesses that the urge to write is happening more frequently now.

May (Ming-Na Wen) in the air, searching for the recently escaped turncoat Agent Ward (Brett Dalton). Trip (B.J. Britt) tells May he has visual contact of Ward in an airport. She wisely tells him to standby. Coulson tells his team to "bring him in by any means necessary." Ward has a pack of explosives on him and detonator in his hand, so they decide to tail him.

Skye shows Coulson a crime photo of bad date woman. The guy has carved some of the writing into her forehead. Coulson is sure she's an agent, but upon investigating her apartment the pair cannot find any trace of S.H.I.E.L.D. material. They do find more alien writing in the form of some paintings, though.

Back at the Playground, Coulson begins to overlay pictures of the dead woman's paintings over his own carvings. Skye, meanwhile, finds evidence that the dead woman was a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent -who died of cancer five years ago.

Mack (Henry Simmons) and Fitz (Iain De Caestecker) have managed to swipe the dead gal's body and bring it to the Playground.

Ward, meanwhile, flirts on a bus with an undercover Morse (Adrianne Palicki). He realizes who she is. She realizes he still has a bomb. She lets him get off that bus and onto another one. Hunter (Nick Blood) is seated right behind him.

Back at the Playground, Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) had analysis done that reveals both the dead woman and the killer have traces of GH 325 in their blood. Coulson is sure he knows her and realizes the only way to get the hidden memories of the woman out of his head is to use the mind reading device that Raina used on him last season.

Skye doesn't think using the torture device is a good idea. The memories seem to be driving people crazy. Coulson tells her he's the director and it's his decision. They fire up the machine and Skye shows him a photo of the dead woman as his point of reference. Buried in his memories: there were a total of six patients, all of them going insane and writing the alien language. .

Ward is off the bus and walks into a bar. He is soon joined by Hydra agent Bakshi (Simon Kassianides). Ward offers to get Bakshi close enough to put a bullet in Coulson's head in exchange for a meeting with Hydra bad guy Daniel Whitehall (Reed Diamond)

Skye consults with a still-in-the-air May about Coulson. May tells her to lock him up. Before Skye can do that, Coulson pushes her into the cell and escapes.

May, Trip, Hunter and Morse have finally caught up to Ward and are strategizing on how best to take him down. They enter the bar, but Ward is gone. Bakshi, however, is tied up; the tape over his mouth reads "For Coulson." It looks like Christmas came early to S.H.I.E.L.D.

Coulson approaches one of the other patients. The killer is also there and knocks out Coulson. The killer ties up both Coulson and the other guy. The killer tells Coulson that it's pain that makes him remember things (and that's why he has been carving into people).

The other guy manages to get loose. The killer throws a knife at him, which he is surprised to find that he is able to catch between his two hands. He throws the knife at the killer, who ducks. The knife cuts Coulson down (nice shot, Mr. former agent). Coulson tells the man to take his family and run.

Ward tells the killer to look at the model train set the other guy had been building. It's a three-dimensional version of what they all have been seeing. It's not a map. It's a blueprint of a city.

Back at The Playground, Coulson tells May and Skye the compulsion is gone. Bakshi is in Ward's former cell. Coulson gives Skye Bakshi's phone to see if she can obtain anything useful from it.

Coulson debriefs the entire team. Their new mission is to find the city before anyone else does.

Final moment: Ward listens to music as he shaves his beard and then his head. At the Playground, Skye is hacking the phone and listening to the same music that Ward is. The phone rings. It's Ward. He tells her he will "be sending a few other gifts her way every now and then."

She offers to meet him. He tells her he has a few things to attend to. The last shot is of him placing a USA Today into his bag. The top story is about his brother vowing to bring him to justice.

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