It’s Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and select allies versus the world in Secret Invasion Season 1 Episode 5. “Harvest” was written by Michael Bhim and Brian Tucker and directed by Ali Selim.
Fury follows the gurney of U.S. President Ritson (Dermot Mulroney) as it heads into the operating room. He tells the President it was not the Russians. Fury further emphasizes not trusting “James Rhodes” (Don Cheadle) before he is locked out for lack of clearance. On the television screen in the lobby, the presence of Talos (Ben Mendelsohn) is used to link the attack to the Skrulls. Fury pulls up a chair and guards the hospital door with a gun.
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Elsewhere, a vehicle carrying Gravik (Kingsley Ben-Adir) and several of his Skrull soldiers arrive at the abandoned nuclear plant where the Skrulls have built their secret society. He orders his officers to be assembled. Pagon (Killian Scott) claims the death of Talos as a victory. Gravik states the President was the target. Pagon questions why Fury continues to live. According to Gravik, Fury knows the location of the Avengers’ DNA samples. But the locations they’ve checked so far have been inaccurate. Pagon asks whether Fury ever trusted Gravik and, by extension, questions whether Gravik is worth trusting. Gravik uses Super Skrull powers to kill Pagon. Gravik blames Varra, AKA Priscilla “Cilla” Fury (Charlayne Woodard), for Fury’s presence at the attack. He dispatches a team to kill her. Beto (Samuel Adewunmi) looks concerned.
“Harvest”
Gravik contacts “Rhodey” (Raava). Raava is on the way to the hospital to kill Ritson. But Gravik orders Ritson to be kept alive. He further states that Raava should ensure Ritson knows it wasn’t Russians but Skrulls responsible for the attack. Raava arrives at the hospital and orders it to be locked down. Fury soon has her at gunpoint. But she reveals that the footage of Fury killing Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) has already been leaked to the media. Raava promises this is just a preview of what will come if Fury comes within 100 feet of Ritson again.
In London, Sonya Falsworth (Olivia Colman) enters the office of Director Weatherby. He asks her if she really thinks Skrulls could be everywhere. She puts a gun to his head. She asks the location of Doctor Rosa Dalton. Weatherby gives her lip, so she shoots him in the thigh. When security enters with their weapons drawn, she states she’s showing his “true colors.” His hand returns to Skrull form. Falsworth threatens him by pointing out that the S.I.S. has no official policy on killing Skrulls. She advises him to start talking.
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At the Skrull base, Gravik’s soldiers question his decision to kill Pagon. Gravik takes a call from Raava, who reports Ritson is out of surgery. Raava says he’ll send confirmation of the strike once he’s awake. After the call is terminated, Gravik is attacked by his soldiers. They attempt to kill him. However, Gravik’s Super Skrull abilities allow him to prevail. Gravik kills one of the soldiers in front of a crowd of civilian Skrulls.
Skrull Games
Fury arrives at a locked location but finds it compromised. Inside is G’iah (Emilia Clarke). It’s the location where episode two, “Promises,” opened. Fury explains the location survived the WWII Nazi attack on London and became a refuge for immigrants from the West Indies. He says, “The path of struggle is steep. I feel a lot of strength when I’m over here.” Fury brings up Talos. G’iah says she ran away from Talos because she knew he would lose. Fury says Talos chose a life of struggle and did not lose. However, Fury knows that G’iah survived being shot by Gravik. G’iah states that Gravik has a few DNA samples, but not what he wanted: “the harvest.”
G’iah says she has to bury Talos. Fury says to bring the body to Cilla. Police lights outside signal it’s time for Fury to leave. He asks if G’iah will be alright. She replies that she’ll put on a good face. Fury states he’s going to Finland. He asks if G’iah will be okay, and she says she’ll “put on a good face.”
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Elsewhere, the “Daltons” find Falsworth looking through their microscope. She immediately identifies them as Skrulls. She goes on to offer them “cake or death”: either friendship or force. They refuse to yield until her concealed soldiers have them at gunpoint. Falsworth presents the plans for the Super Skrull machine. Soon the lab is being torched. The masculine Dalton breaks out of cuffs and puts a gun on his feminine counterpart’s head. Falsworth summarily dispatches him.
The Penultimate Peril
In a van, G’iah mourns over the body of Talos. She approaches Cilla’s house. After getting no answer to her knock, she breaks the locked doorknob and enters. Inside, she draws a gun and calls for “Professor Davis” but gets no response. She turns a corner and finds Cilla in the kitchen, also with a gun. Cilla asks if Gravik has sent G’iah to kill her. G’iah surrenders and says Fury said Cilla could help bury Talos.
Raava approaches a recovering Ritson. According to Raava, they can confirm the attack was of Skrull origin thanks to corroborating evidence from Falsworth. Raava shows Ritson the Skrull base at the Russian nuclear plant and states that they must neutralize the facility. Ritson says an attack on Russian soil is tantamount to WWIII. Raava claims a preference for war over extinction, which is what a Skrull invasion will mean.
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Gravik contacts Fury by phone. According to Gravik, he’ll call off the U.S. attack on Russia if Fury brings him “the harvest.” He further advises Fury to bring iodine pills. After terminating the call, Fury gets on a plane. On board, Rick Mason (O-T Fagbenle) gives him new credentials and reveals that the Helicarrier has been mothballed.
Widow’s Veil
In the forest, Cilla and G’iah prepare a funeral pyre for Talos. G’iah says he deserves a military procession. Cilla states Talos wasn’t much for pageantry. She asks if G’iah has the offering. G’iah places a ring on the sheet-wrapped body. She states that it belonged to her mother. Since G’iah doesn’t know the prayer, Cilla recites it. G’iah tells her father to travel well to the beyond.
Back at Cilla’s house, G’iah laments telling her father he was a failure. Cilla shares her last statement to Fury pre-Snap with G’iah. The pair seem to be bonding until G’iah offends Cilla by asking whether or not Fury ever felt comfortable when Cilla was in Skrull form. However, their conversation is interrupted by incoming bullets. The pair fall back and pull on backpacks filled with weapons. Together, they overcome the attacking soldiers.
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At customs in Finland, Fury’s image and information are posted at each station. An old white man passes through customs without trouble. Outside, the man is revealed to be Fury utilizing the Widow’s Veil disguise. He gets in a car driven by Falsworth. When hip-hop begins playing after she starts the car, Fury asks if they’re really doing this. Falsworth confirms that they are. In another car, Cilla tells G’iah to be careful.
Secret Invasion’s Impending Conclusion
294 km from the Russian border, Fury asks Falsworth why “Rhodey” is in charge of the operation. Falsworth says as active head of the S.I.S., she had the authority to do so. Fury reveals Rhodey is a Skrull. Falsworth asks who isn’t these days. She wonders why Gravik would blow up his own people. Fury states that its leverage, with the attack to be called off if he surrenders “the harvest.” He further explains that nearly every Avenger spilled blood during the battle of Earth in Avengers: Endgame, even Carol Danvers (Brie Larson). Skrull agents were secretly sent in to collect DNA samples. Gravik led this team. Fury believes this is where he got the idea for Super Skrulls to begin with. Falsworth states Fury is responsible for “all this,” and Fury says that’s why he came back.
Fury and Falsworth abandon the car and continue to a gravestone marked “Col. Nicholas J. Fury.” Falsworth asks why Fury hasn’t called any of his “special friends.” Fury says it’s personal and thinks they can’t keep depending on superheroes to swoop in and save the day. Falsworth says she thought Fury had another grave. Fury confirms he has several. He blows on the gravestone, which illuminates before rising and revealing a vial: the harvest.
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Fury proceeds inside a nearby mausoleum. He pulls his leather jacket, eyepatch, and gun from a device concealed inside. Then he calls someone (presumably Gravik) and says, “It’s time. Let’s finish this.”
New episodes of Secret Invasion are released Wednesday on Disney+.
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