This week on Secret Invasion, Nick Fury visits his own grave, Gravik deals with some dissent, we get one of the least interesting cameos imaginable, and it turns out the Skrulls have yet another secret plan that nobody had ever mentioned before on this show.
Warning: it’s all spoilers from here.
Does Marvel have a policy against foreshadowing? That’s the only reason I can think of for why Secret Invasion would just now introduce a new plot thread that had never even been hinted at in the previous four episodes.
Coming into this week’s episode, Gravik’s master plan to take over the Earth was basically complete. He gave his Skrulls superpowers, and he has the USA and Russia on the brink of a war that would turn the Earth into the sort of irradiated wasteland where Skrulls thrive and humans die. They just gotta give it that one last push.
Then, this week, characters start talking about “the Harvest.” Apparently, Nick Fury collected all the DNA of everybody super who’s been affiliated with the Avengers, and the Skrulls want it so they can become even more super. The only problem is the series only started teasing this “Harvest” in this episode, about 20 minutes before it revealed what it was. Considering this Harvest is suddenly the main plot thread of the series, that’s pretty frustrating.
Meanwhile, Gi’ah spends this episode with Nick Fury’s Skrull wife, Varra. They hold a little funeral for Talos, who seems like he might actually be dead for real, and then they shoot some bad Skrulls who come looking for them. There are still other pieces in play, too: Skrull Rhodey is trying to get the president to bomb the Skrull base in Russia to instigate the war, and Sonya Falsworth has to deal with Skrull infiltrators of her own before linking up with Fury for the final big move.
And in the midst of all that, we got some Easter eggs.
