The Lake

The Lake is the eighth episode of the first season. It is also the eighth episode overall of the series. It first premiered December 12 2013. It marks the first appearance of The Lake which becomes a important point in the season.

Synopsis
Coulson, Ward and Fitz leave to check out a Lake which has super powers. May, Skye and Simmons decide to have a girls night out. Raina decide she is a girl too and follows them. Quinn attempts a surprise attack on The Base but ends up getting captured.

Plot
Victoria Hand and Coulson finish a game of chess. Coulson is assigned the duty of bringing Ward and Fitz with to find a mysterious super-powered lake. He then leaves with Ward and Fitz to New Hampshire.

May and Skye wake up Simmons and tell her about the boys leaving. They agree to have a girls night out. Quinn and Raina plan to take revenge of S.H.I.E.L.D. for capturing Garrett. Quinn decides to attack The Base with other agents. Raina finds out about May and the others and decides to pay them a visit.

Quinn along with other agents attack The Base. Victoria Hand, Kenneth Drain and Timothy Pine attack them. Hand punches him in the face but Quinn's team kills Drain and takes Pine into custody. Hand shoots his team and frees Pine. Quinn is then taken into custody by S.H.I.E.L.D.

Coulson finds the lake and finds out when no one is near it is still. But when somebody is near it starts flowing. Ward tries jumping past it and when he's on top it still flows. As soon as he lands it stops. Fitz then tries but accidently lands in the water.

Simmons is having the time of her life while Skye and Mya find Raina. She sits them down and shows them the mark they made while shooting her. Simmons then comes over with her "friend". Raina then shows a secret trigger that when is pressed will explode everything in a 50 feet radius besides where it was pressed.

Coulson tries to go near it but it is still quiet. Ward then passes by and it starts flowing. Fitz tells him he must have some sort of thing inside him that prevents the water from detecting him.

Raina asks them what they're choice is. Hand in Garrett and nobody gets hurt or keep him in S.H.I.E.L.D. custody and everyone but her in a 50 feet radius will die. May tells her they are not handing in Garrett. Skye attacks Raina and steals the device. Skye then throws it into the air. It lands in a park on the trigger and explodes killing everyone at the park.

May and Simmons speed out with captured Raina. Skye tells them what happened. May asks her how only everything but her in a 10 feet radius in front of her exploded. Raina then smirks revealing she tricked them because she thought if she said everything in a 50 feet radius then they would hand Garrett over.

Coulson, Fitz and Ward return telling Hand what happened and about Coulson. Hand reveals they captured Quinn. May, Skye and Simmons return with Raina. Coulson wonders how they did all that in two hours. Skye tells him that some stuff is a mystery. Coulson nods and says a lot is a mystery.

Regular Appearances

 * Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson
 * Ming-Na Wen as Melinda May
 * Brett Dalton as Grant Ward
 * Chloe Bennett as Skye
 * Iain De Caestecker as Leopold Fitz
 * Elizabeth Henstridge as Jemma Simmons

Recurring Appearances

 * Ruth Negga as Raina
 * Saffron Burrows as Victoria Hand
 * David Conrad as Ian Quinn

Guest Appearances

 * Titus Welliver as Kenneth Drain
 * Michael Socha as Timothy Pine