With Marvel's announcement last week that they will be partnering with Netflix to produce four superhero based television shows, in the form of Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and Jessica Jones respectively, has the once-palpable excitement for Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. waned even further? This week, the group attempts to save Agents Ward and Fitz after their deployment on a "Level 8" mission. What makes a Level 8 mission more dangerous than a Level 7? Will the characters of the show be able to save their co-workers in time and what secrets await them? Hit the jump for our recap of "The Hub". The episode begins with Agent Coulson being led into a dark basement room in an "underground Siberian prison" which leads to pulling out an undercover agent named Shaw. In a scene reminiscent of Total Recall, a device is extricated from Shaw's nose and the agents are informed that the mission has been bumped up to Level 8 (!). Skye is a little flustered that there even is a Level 8, which is understandable since Level 7 was portrayed as the end all be all in the show's pilot. How many levels are there anyway? Regardless, this leads to the team making a trip to "The Hub," a.k.a. S.H.I.E.L.D's big meeting spot for agents, where they are introduced to Victoria Hand. Hand, played by Saffron Burrows, has some notoriety in the comics. Her character was part of the storyline called "Dark Reign" that involved Norman Osborn - Spiderman's Green Goblin - ...
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