Things are only getting worse for Fury.

Episode 3 has proven quite a few things to us, including that Fury is in over his head. As Fury continues to build back the bridges he burned, the Skrulls are gearing up for a full-on assault, while taking up scientific experimentation to make themselves even stronger. All this to say, the next 3 episodes are only going to get more and more crazy and we are along for the ride. As we are halfway through the show, the bigger ramifications of it are also starting to be brought into question as we start to sort out where this show might lead us. We cover all of this and more in our new podcast episode. Listen on your favorite listening platform by clicking the button or start listening live right now with the link provided.

Super Skrulls have made their Appearance

An extremely subtle moment in this episode was the fact we witnessed our first Super Skrull. If you happened to look away for even a second, you might have missed the three-second moment where Gravik’s hand healed after being stabbed by Talos and the whole area glowed a red/orange. It’s possible to miss it, but if you didn’t then you know exactly what that red/orange glow signifies thanks to Iron Man 3. Extremis has made an appearance and the first Super Skrull has officially been sighted. This small moment shows that the Skrulls have been successful at least once so far in their effort to make their own super race, and there are two things we need to note from this moment.

The first thing is that in the trailer, we see Gravik with what appears to be Groot arms. We learned in episode 2 that Groot is one of the specimens that the Skrulls are using the DNA to experiment with creating powers, so we know this checks out. Since we have seen Gravik now with Extremis and know the future holds Groot arms, there’s a very strong possibility that Gravik is going to make himself a, let’s say, an extended Super Skrull, the top of the group, allowing himself to have all four of the enhanced powers that they are experimenting with. We’ve seen how Gravik acts and how he is treated almost like a god by the Skrulls who follow him. These moments make it seem highly probable that he wanted to make himself remain the top dog by having all the enhancements in his system.

The second thing to note is the reason Gravik is creating Super Skrulls is because of threats like the Avengers and other enhanced heroes. We saw that the Avengers were thrown around twice in the trailers, but quite frankly, we believed that those mentions would be it. Instead, the Avengers have been mentioned at least twice an episode and they appear to be a really big thorn in the Skrull’s side, even though they haven’t made an appearance in a while (that we know of). It’s starting to make me think that Secret Invasion really is going to lead us into a bigger Avengers-level piece of content, as the Skrulls are not only outsmarting Fury, but they outnumber him greatly. Once more and more of them become enhanced, unless Fury does have some friends he decides to call him, this fight really will be too much for him to handle, even with the help of Talos and Sonya. Not to mention, we’re making it to the part of the series where we start to question if we actually have the time to bring a conclusion to all the things that need to be finished. For now, the threat only grows only stronger.

More Talk of Rhodey being a Skrull

There was one other slightly missable moment in the episode where Fury drops that he has a lead on a high-ranking US government official being a Skrull. I say it’s missable because it gets a little buried in the bestie reunion that takes place between Fury and Talos toward the beginning of the episode. Either way, this line is pretty important considering we pretty strongly believe that Fury is talking about Rhodey. I mean, quite frankly, who else would Fury be talking about considering he just had a sit down with Rhodey himself, who is, of course, a high-ranking US government official. It seems Fury didn’t look past some of the oddities that we fans caught onto as well.

Yet a different moment, which is a little less of an obvious and concrete clue, is the man on the other end of Priscillas, Fury’s wife’s phone call. We will discuss her in the next section, but we are allowed to hear the man speak to her in the very last few seconds before the credits, where it sounds like Rhodey might be on the other end. As I said, definitely not nearly as concrete as the previous clue, yet it still could be a more blatant way of proving that Rhodey is in fact a Skrull. As Taylor mentioned on the podcast, this is gearing up to be a witchhunt similar to that of Mephisto in WandaVision, but I do think we have a better chance of this one panning out for us.

Fury’s Wife

Let’s get to the real elephant in the room, which is that we have gotten answers to some pretty pressing questions we had from the last episode revolving around Fury’s wife, and not all of them are great. First things first, Fury does in fact know his wife is a Skrull and she is actually Varra, the Skrull who brings Gravik to Fury in the flashback from episode 2. She goes by Priscilla in her human form, in case that was mildly confusing for anyone else for a second. However, unfortunately, we see that Priscilla, in Fury’s absence, has begun to work with Gravik.

This shouldn’t be too surprising to anyone, considering she did act as his almost social worker when his parents died. She brought him to Earth and it wouldn’t be entirely too shocking to maybe learn Priscilla and Fury were a large part of Gravik’s life as he grew up. Once Fury chose to leave for SABER, Priscilla likely felt she couldn’t defend him any longer and instead spent more and more time with Gravik, who she felt was still trying to help the Skrulls. This doesn’t take away from the fact she still very much cares for Fury, as we have seen in the few seconds of screentime they share together. With the ending of this episode being Priscilla getting a gun out of a holding box, there’s a very real possibility that Gravik ordered her to take out Fury if he came home, something she feels unable to carry through with. Regardless, I don’t think she’s a bad Skrull, instead, she’s similar to G’iah who just wants to help her people. I wouldn’t be entirely shocked to see her switch up or sacrifice herself for Fury somewhere in the last three episodes of this show.

What is happening with G’iah?

The real shock of the episode came when Gravik shot G’iah after exposing her as the person giving away information to Fury and Talos. I guess in all honesty, this isn’t the shock, it’s more when she is shot and killed by Gravik, with death confirmed when her body turned back to Skrull form. The trailers have already confirmed more scenes of G’iah and I hardly can think they brought in Emilia Clarke for three episodes of this show, which leads me to think there is no possibility where she actually died. So here are the possible theories we’re running around.

Gravik didn’t check the body once he killed her, so there’s a strong possibility G’iah faked her death. Since Skrulls clearly have the ability to also take on their true forms whenever they wish to, G’iah possibly prepared for Gravik to come after her. So she then faked her death to ensure getting out of Gravik’s reach. She knew the risk and she also specifically told Gravik to shoot her as they faced each other, so it’s very possible a plan was conceived to fake it all. I mean, come on, who’s better at faking deaths than Nick Fury?

Another possibility is that G’iah really did die, but someone else is going to take up her shell and parade as her. A hole in this is that we have to assume Gravik will pass along the news that G’iah was a traitor, so her shell isn’t of much use inside the revolutionaries anymore. That doesn’t mean the average refugee who isn’t as involved in the fighting itself might not think twice about letting “G’iah” wander around, although it seems like a lower possibility.

A final theory, one that is absolutely crazy but so on brand for our show, is that G’iah’s mom was never killed and instead G’iah is safe somewhere while her mom wore her shell. The conversation between Talos and G’iah in episode one about her mom could have been coded to mean it was time to start passing information rather than just keeping up appearances and settling herself in with the revolutionary Skrulls. Pretty left field, I know, but it’s always pretty suspicious to me when a show or movie kills a character off-screen and allows only one small reference to it.

Conclusion

We are hoping that Secret Invasion keeps up with answering our dying questions in episode 4, as there were some crazy moments in episode 3 that have left me clawing for more. The action is also heating up, as the Skrulls make more and more power moves to prepare for their war against the entire human species, where 99% of them don’t even realize that there is a very real threat walking among them. Let’s get ready for episode 4, out in only two more days with more chaos to come, since Marvel just blew your mind, so let’s talk about it.

Image: “Secret Invasion Episode 3”, Breeze Riley, Multiverse of Color