S4:E14 - Jess and Jared recap and discuss “The Man Behind the Shield."

Fitz explains the Framework as a VR training program, and he and Jemma plan to use it to locate the real May as the rest of the S.H.‪‪I.E.L.D. team searches for Mace and the Russian. We learn that people can get brain damage, or even die, in the Framework, and the stakes are just as high in their virtual world‪. Throughout the episode we see flashbacks to the beginning of May and Coulson's relationship, and it's heartbreaking. While Gemma and Fitz are unsuccessful in locating Radcliffe's other Framework, the team is able to save Mace and Daisy overpowers the Russian, and they return to the base. The episode concludes with Jemma and Fitz discovering that four of their friends had been replaced with LMDs, including Coulson, who boots up Robo-May.

And we begin our discussion by going down a weird rabbit hole of references to Legends of the Hidden Temple, Guts, All That! and Ross Perot, before we ever get to the episode with one of our weirdest asides ever, brought to you by Nickelodeon™! Does Jared go through some emotions over his relationship with Chris Pratt films/shows? Yes! And do we rant a little about our Tom Cruise, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Scarlet Johansson hate? You bet!

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