Beloved is the fourth episode of the first season of Secret Invasion.
Synopsis[]
Fury must make some hard sacrifices.
Plot[]
In the aftermath of being shot by Gravik, G'iah manages to survive, as she used Rosa Dalton's knowledge to use the Super-Skrull Machine and gave herself the Extremis regeneration.
In 2012, Nick Fury meets with Varra in Paris, as the two discuss the Battle of New York and Fury's involvement with the Avengers. They both then share a bonding moment, reciting Raymond Carver's Lost Fragment, and getting closer to each other.
In the present, Varra goes to St James's Church, where she talks to Raava, a Skrull that has been impersonating James Rhodes. Raava tells her that Fury must be killed, but Varra tries to get her to reconsider, saying that Fury is no longer a man he used to be and his death is unnecessary. Raava does not agree and tells Varra to proceed under the threat of possibly being killed herself if she doesn't comply, while Fury is listening to their conversation via a wiretap. Meanwhile, Gravik and the rest of the Skrull Resistance are preparing for an upcoming attack that they are going to blame the Russians for, while Gravik tells Pagon that G'iah was a mole and had to be killed.
Talos meets with G'iah, blaming himself for putting his daughter in harm's way, but she insists that she was only acting on her free will. G'iah asks Talos if he has a plan to find a new home for the Skrulls, to which he replies that by thwarting Gravik's insurgency, they will get a favor from the world leaders, which would mean amnesty for the Skrulls and permission to stay on Earth. G'iah is not pleased with the idea, considering that they would still not be able to live on Earth as themselves, and always keep themselves disguised. Talos tells her that Skrulls can and must earn humans' goodwill to stay on their planet, to which G'iah calls him delusional and leaves.
Varra returns home, where she encounters Fury, who tells her that marrying her was the biggest mistake of his life. Varra tells him the story of Priscilla Davis, a dying woman whose likeness she assumed. Varra was looking for a woman who could slip through Fury's defenses and asked if Davis wanted to find love before death, and she allowed Varra to take her identity on the promise she would never hurt Fury. Both pull out guns and fire but neither shoot each other, instead shooting past each other. Fury jokingly wonders over whether he and Varra should solidify their marriage or call a divorce, to his wife's amusement. In other words, Varra has betrayed Gravik and might become his target. Varra tells him not to worry and asks if he would love her true self, to which he replies that they will never know.
Fury visits Raava at her hotel suite, acting like he still does not know that she's an impostor. Fury informs her that Skrulls have infiltrated the U.S. Government and got close to President James Ritson himself, proposing to Raava that he would remain silent in exchange for being reinstated. Instead, Raava shows him some footage from Moscow of Gravik murdering Maria Hill while disguised as Fury, using it as leverage to keep Fury quiet. Raava then leaves, unaware that Fury and Talos are tailing her, using a liquid tracker in a bourbon that Fury brought. Raava then welcomes Ritson, who has arrived in England for emergency peace talks with Russia.
As Ritson is being escorted by the United States Secret Service, Raava gives Gravik a signal and the Resistance attacks the convoy, posing as Russian soldiers. While Ritson is incapacitated, the Secret Service agents fight the Resistance but are largely outgunned and cut down until Fury, Talos, and the Special Air Service arrive to aid them. Talos tries to break into the car to extricate Ritson but gets shot in the shoulder by Pagon, which makes it harder to maintain a human form. Wounded and back in his Skrull form, Talos keeps going and eventually gets the unconscious Ritson out of the car.
One of the SAS soldiers comes to Talos' aid and helps him to his feet, but Fury immediately realizes that he is actually an impostor because this very soldier had freaked out moments earlier when Talos' human disguise wore off. He promptly shoots the soldier. Sure enough, the soldier turns out to be Gravik. His cover blown, Gravik swiftly grabs a knife and fatally stabs Talos in the chest. As Talos falls to the ground, Fury empties his gun into Gravik's head, but to his shock, Gravik is barely fazed, merely glaring at Fury as the Extremis heals his bullet wounds. As Gravik and Pagon flee on a police motorcycle upon seeing the approaching cavalry, Fury is forced to evacuate Ritson, leaving Talos' body behind.
Cast[]
Main Cast:
- Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury
- Ben Mendelsohn as Talos
- Kingsley Ben-Adir as Gravik
- Charlayne Woodard as Varra
- Killian Scott as Pagon
- Samuel Adewunmi as Beto
- Dermot Mulroney as James Ritson
- Katie Finneran as Rosa Dalton
- Emilia Clarke as G'iah
- Don Cheadle as Raava (disguised as James Rhodes)
Special Guest Star:
- Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill (footage)
Guest Stars:
- Nisha Aaliya as Raava (Skrull form)
- Michael Epp as Ruben Steiner Skrull
- Michael Keogh as SAS Officer #1 / Gravik (disguised)
- Richard Teverson as Chief of Staff
- Jorge Leon Martinez as SAS Soldier (uncredited)
- Jeska Pike as Secret Service (uncredited)
Appearances[]
Locations[]
- Earth
- Russia
- London, England
- Paris, France (flashback)
- Eiffel Tower (flashback)
- Moscow, Russia (footage)
- Vossoyedineniye Square (footage)
- Cuba (mentioned)
Events[]
- Secret Invasion
- Battle of New York (mentioned)
- Blip (mentioned)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (mentioned)
Items[]
- Extremis
- Bulletproof Vest
- Liquid Location Tracker
- Decoding the "Superhuman" Gene
- Pappy Van Winkle's Family Reserve
- Fracking Pods (flashback)
- Super-Skrull Machine (flashback)
Vehicles[]
Sentient Species[]
Creatures[]
- Ducks
- Frost Beasts (mentioned)
Organizations[]
- Skrull Resistance
- United States Secret Service
- British Army
- Metropolitan Police Service
- London Peace Movement
- Avengers (mentioned)
Mentioned[]
- Avengers Initiative
- Priscilla Davis
- James Rhodes
- Cull Obsidian
- Alpha
- Bravo
- Tango
- Raymond Carver
- The Undertaker
- Vladimir Lenin
- John Lennon
Music[]
To be added
Trivia[]
- The title of the episode is a reference to a poem "Lost Fragment" by Raymond Carver, that Varra recites with Nick Fury.
References[]
External Links[]
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