Who receives a picture from an unknown address and immediately opens it? Ooh, what’s this?
HYDRA’s password is HYDRa.
HYDRA still uses Banyan VINES.
NOBODY wants to be the sysadmin at a HYDRA office.
That’s like the combination an idiot would put on his luggage!
Not necessarily. If they’re anything like my employer, you can send emails to addresses like energyweaponsdept@hydra.biz and send them to a large chunk of people. You could probably send an email to all the few thousand employees where I work with less than 10 different email addresses.
I’m still waiting for the full recap. I really benefit from those. Come back OP! 
I’d kinda like a scene where the evil scientists of HYDRA are thwarted by the evil lawyers of Roxxon Oil.
it really is that simple.
I’m simple and I don’t get it.
Why would this work? Who would set up a system to allow this? Especially at a super-secret paranoic-about-security evil villain corp? How could it pass the spam filters? In a world of Stuxnet, the last thing you’d allow is mass spam that everybody would receive and open.
Its a group listing @ Hydra - a super secret organization doesn’t want individuals that can be tracked or phished for, they want group think - the group is also always changing, so instead of investing in resources to maintain a proper mailserver and ldap farm, they went with a simple listserv approach.
Since I doubt Raina has her own internal HYDRA email address, she either spoofed one or knew where to route it. Are you telling me that hacker genius Skye* couldn’t get into a system like this six times before breakfast?
*Wait. Sky and Rain? Are the writers as simple as me or are they telling us something. Maybe they’re both daughters of Cloudi?
As for Skye - sometimes geniuses miss the obvious when it comes to hacking evil organizations mailing listss - how often have you said
“Surely they aren’t that stupid…” - well, the evil org counts on you thinking they aren’t that stupid.
Its a really clever security device - really - I mean, if you count on your enemies thinking you’re smarter then you really are, half the battle is already a quarter of the way over.
Don’t forget Raina spent months or years working for the Clairvoyant/Garrett, who was pretty well connected at Hydra - he had his own facility with an Incentive program and everything. It’s likely she got all the information about Hydra she could out of him after she started working for him directly.
“A Hen in the Wolf House”
Directed by Holly Dale
Written by Brent Fletcher
This was an episode dripping with intrigue, tension, humor and (at least for me) surprises. We made a giant leap forward in Skye’s story, and inched a tiny bit ahead with Coulson’s. Oh, and FitzSimmons is back, for real this time.
The episode starts with a wedding where Hydra is trying out poison that affects people in similar ways to the obelisk. Unfortunately for the groom, the attack takes place after the Best Man has given his humorous BuscemiLite speech. By Hydra standards the attack was a failure,since not enough people died. SHIELD takes this as proof that Hydra has the obelisk and start a plan to find out more. Their planning includes Skye haranguing Colson for more information about the alien writing.
It turns out Skye’s Father is also some sort of backroom surgeon. Raina has come to him for help in the middle of surgery. Dr. Father is not happy about the interruption, and he is not as protective of Raina as I expected. Her attempt to get the obelisk back is rejected with great violence and fervor. His bedside manner has been ruined by the time he gets back to his patient. Oh. By the way, Skye’s not her name.
Let’s take a moment to link to a Hellcow. No I haven’t heard of her before, and I am still not sure what Carmine Milk is. But, how delightful that they are slipping a goofy reference like this in the middle of a tense episode.
On a good note for Simmons, Hydra actually remembers the education she worked so hard to earn. When Whitehall asks her if it will be possible to copy the obelisk’s affects to kill people he calls her Dr. Simmons. Has Coulson ever done that? On a bad note, they suspect there is a mole, and Bakshi is ready to make whoever that mole is suffer. And, the new woman is going to track that mole down, even if it means following them into bathrooms.
Raina watches Simmons eat lunch. She doesn’t seem to be carrying a high powered camera. But, that flowered dress does do amazing things. So, she might be taking pictures.
After meeting with Ward Skye realizes that Coulson is producing the writing himself. She comes back to confront him with this information, and finds out that she was being observed to see how she reacted to the Alien DNA. She didn’t react. Which might mean she’s an alien. (Cue Coulson’s Jeff Foxworthy impression)
Raina and Coulson meet at a fancy restaurant. And, oh how she flirts. She blackmails him with a picture of Simmons eating a spy lunch, saying that she will email it to everyone at Hydra in 2 minutes if he doesn’t let her take Skye to meet her father. Skye is ready to rush out and go with her, but Coulson has a plan and refuses the deal. Raina is shocked and Hunter comes over to plant a tracking device on her to find Whitehall when he comes for Raina.
Not only did Raina send that email but she made it so it appeared full screen on everyone at Hydra’s monitors. This made all of Simmons’ fellow Hydra scientists stare at her slack jawed. (And for her to start running.) Bakshi looks especially well dressed when he is following the riot geared Hydra agents. Simmons is running towards the Mole Hunting woman. The Mole hunter turns out to be a SHIELD agent named Bobbi Morse, and she tells Simmons “Don’t worry. Coulson has a plan.” His plan involved them jumping off the roof onto an invisible plane. Before they left the building Bobbi was able to steal Simmons’ hard drive with all of her info about Hydra projects.
Raina gave the location of Skye’s father to Coulson. It was blocks away. This entire situation freaked Skye out and caused her to regress to her lone wolf ways. She ran to her father’s unsanitary operating room by herself. He’s gone, but he left a camera (and a picture of himself on the set of Twin Peaks) to watch her with. Coulson gets there just as Skye finds the picture and comforts her. Skye’s Dad might be a little jealous of Coulson. And, it just gets worse when Skye examines his monster like tendencies in the room with the bodies of the massacred former patients (His services weren’t covered by their insurance).
The FitzSimmons reunion had few words. But, it packed an intense emotional punch.
Bobbi Morse (or Mockingbird, for people like me who didn’t know her real name) turns out to be the ex Hunter has talked about so much.Their reunion had a few more words and it was a bit less emotional, but a lot more funny. Unlike some of you guys I was totally shocked by the connection, and the surprise made it even funnier.
Coulson lets Skye see his alien writing work that he did yesterday. (Do they keep replacing walls? And how does he find the time!?) Skye has a theory that the writing is a map.
Skye’s father confronts Whitehall after killing a couple of his guards. He shows him the obelisk and promises that he will teach him how to control/survive it, and how to use it to kill a bunch of people, but mostly Coulson.
Yeah, this was a great episode from front to back. As I said, I was really surprised by Bobbi Morse being Hunter’s ex wife. But, I was also surprised that she didn’t really work for Hydra, so what do I know. It’s going to be pretty cool to see where they take FitzSimmons from here, and I know some of you guys dislike Ward, but I’m really intrigued with what they do with him as the season goes on. I’m not a big fan with of Whitehall and Skye’s father joining forces, but at this point I trust the show strongly enough to know they will take that in interesting places.
Stuff I liked
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[li]Poor Fitz. Even Subconscious Simmons is checking out other guys. [/li][li]“Thanks for the advice Divorced Guy”[/li][li]Bobbi Morse seems to make it clear to Simmons that even the bathrooms at Hydra are bugged. So, not only are the an evil violent terrorist organization, but they are pervs.[/li][li]The look of shock on Raina’s face when Coulson turns the deal down. [/li][li]“You’re having one hell of a day, huh?”[/li][li]“Is this a group hug type situation?”[/li][li]“Have you been drinking?” “I was working. I had to maintain my cover” “Your cover as what? Ron Burgundy?” “I can see why she frustrates you.”[/li][li] Raina’s dinner with Coulson was perfect in every way. Chilling, funny, badass, sexy. I mean, just look at the way Phil buttons that suit jacket. Come on![/li][/ul]
Thank you! I always enjoy your recaps. I miss so much in the show without them.
You may be on to something. Google tells me he is involved with the Inhumans and Marvel just announced an Inhuman movie.
Thank you, pricciar! I’d been waiting all week for that.