On Agents of SHIELD Season 2 Episode 3, viewers learned that Simmons isn’t a traitor after all. She’s on a secret mission given to her by Coulson himself to infiltrate HYDRA as a double agent.
That explains the trailer revealing her to be working with HYDRA. That was too big a deal for ABC to give away in a 30 second clip!
HYDRA has a plan to recruit Donnie Gill, aka Blizzard, and Coulson wants him for SHIELD. Using Simmons, he’s able to learn what HYDRA has planned in hopes that he can best them at their recruitment game.
Donnie wouldn’t be acquired so easily, however, and froze several HYDRA agents who had come to capture him.
Donne should have known that Fitz and Simmons were on his side. When we learned that he’d been brainwashed by HYDRA things started to make a little more sense.
In the end, Skye had to take Donnie out once his programming was activated, and she didn’t hesitate to do so. By taking him out, she protected Simmons’ cover since Simmons is a bad liar.
HOWEVER, Donnie’s body was never recovered and you KNOW what they say about not seeing the body, right?
The threat isn’t over for SHIELD, though. Since HYDRA has taken notice, we can probably expect them to come after Coulson soon. That should be interesting.
If you missed this week’s episode, or you need a refresher, you can watch Agents of SHIELD online at TV Fanatic.