Spoilers

“Betrayed”

Did not see that coming.

The second shocking death (or at least that is what it seems) occurred on the third episode of Secret Invasion. Our main antagonist, Gravik, discovered G’iah was the traitor in his ranks and he shot her, leaving her Skrull corpse in the woods outside of the camp in Russia. I did not expect that to happen, as Emilia Clarke is one of the stars of the show and a vital connection to Talos. I am not sure that what we saw happened though as some of the promo material for Secret Invasion included scenes that featured Clarke. It would not be the first time that Marvel used images in a trailer that was not in the final show, but there seemed to be quite a bit.

This episode also dove deeper into the Talos/Nick Fury relationship, with Talos laying out their past history and how much he and his Skrull brethren had done for Fury over the years. Once again, seeing Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Mendelsohn acting opposite each other is a treat. Their banter was excellent and continued to show their character. It also placed Nick Fury in context over the years. It does seem as if Talos has Fury’s back.

However, who else in Fury’s orbit is loyal? His wife, Priscilla, who were know is a Skrull, called a voice on the phone and asked about Gravik. That voice was clearly implied to be Don Cheadle’s Rhodey. Does that mean that Rhodey is a Skrull? Is he and Priscilla working against Nick Fury?

We do learn that Fury knew that Priscilla is a Skrull. There is a flashback to their initial meeting in a coffee shop, at least a meeting where Priscilla has taken on a new face. There was speculation that Fury did not know that Priscilla was a Skrull, but that is laid to rest. Fury and Priscilla had a great scene together to as she talked about the time he was blipped and then returned only to run off to space.

This episode has a severe lack of Olivia Colman. She had one scene and, while I loved it, it was just not enough for me. Sonya Falsworth is my favorite character in this series. She did rename her owl statue ‘Nicholas Fury’ when she put an eye patch over the owl statue to cover the bug Fury had planted in episode one.

Gravik looks to be already a Super Skrull, the term that was actually uttered by Gravik to the Skrull Council. Gravik healed from the knife to the hand by Talos.

There are only three episodes left and there are so many things in the fire. So much so far has been tension being built between great actors in dialogue and big things feel like are happening.