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Only Secret Invasion could stage a fight featuring Avengers-level powers without Avengers-level drama. Although the Nick Fury-focused (Samuel L. Jackson) drama seems to think it went out with a bang, the series finale opts for a whimpering, wheezing final fight and boring repetition. After the previous five episodes, did we expect anything else, though?
The finale, titled “Home,” opens with Fury explaining his plan to defeat Gravik (Kingsley Ben-Adir) to his Skrull wife Priscilla (Charlayne Woodard). Gravik is about to start World War III, pitting the humans against the Skrulls, but Fury believes the countless deaths that could come are avoidable. Gravik will call off the impending World War III if Fury brings him “the Harvest,” which is code for Carol Danvers’ (Brie Larson) supercharged DNA.
At a hospital somewhere else in the country, the Skrull revolution attempts to convince POTUS (Dermot Mulroney) to call for war against the Skrulls in Russia. Gravik’s new right-hand Skrull, Raava, inhabits the body of Rhodey (Don Cheadle) to stay close to the President. Fake Rhodey receives a call from MI6 agent Sonya (Olivia Colman), alerting him to Fury’s presence—Rhodey needs to relocate the President now, to keep everyone safe from Fury’s wrath. Sonya is playing a double agent to someone. Thank goodness she’s not two-timing Fury. Another plot-twisting swap to the Skrull side would be too much to handle.