MARVEL'S AGENTS OF SHIELD 2x21 / 2x22 "S.O.S. Part One" / "S.O.S. Part Two" May 12, 2015

MARVEL'S AGENTS OF SHIELD
Air Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Time Slot: 9:00 PM-11:00 PM EST on ABC
Episode Title: (#221/222) "S.O.S. Part One" / "S.O.S. Part Two"

SEASON 2 FINALE

THE INHUMANS' ENDGAME IS REVEALED, ON THE TWO-HOUR SEASON FINALE OF ABC'S "MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D."

"S.O.S. Part One" and "S.O.S. Part Two"

S.H.I.E.L.D. puts everything on the line to survive a war that blurs the line between friend and foe. Coulson and his team will be forced to make shocking sacrifices that will leave their relationships and their world changed forever, on the two-hour season finale of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D," TUESDAY, MAY 12 (9:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on ABC.

"Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." stars Clark Gregg as Director Phil Coulson, Ming-Na Wen as Agent Melinda May, Brett Dalton as Grant Ward, Chloe Bennet as Agent Skye, Iain De Caestecker as Agent Leo Fitz, Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Jemma Simmons, Nick Blood as Lance Hunter and Adrianne Palicki as Bobbi Morse.

Guest starring on "S.O.S.," Part One are Henry Simmons as Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie, Ruth Negga as Raina, Kyle Maclachlan as Cal, Jamie Harris as Gordon, Christine Adams as Agent Weaver, Mark Allan Stewart as Agent Oliver, Maya Stojan as Kara/Agent 33, Dichen Lachman as Jiaying, Luke Mitchell as Lincoln Campbell, Kyle Mattocks as Agent Harris, Ryan Powers as S.H.I.E.L.D. tech agent and Alicia Vela-Bailey as Alisha.

Guest starring on "S.O.S.," Part Two are Henry Simmons as Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie, Kyle Maclachlan as Cal, Jamie Harris as Gordon, Christine Adams as Agent Weaver, Mark Allan Stewart as Agent Oliver, Blair Underwood as Andrew Garner, Maya Stojan as Kara/Agent 33, Dichen Lachman as Jiaying, Luke Mitchell as Lincoln Campbell, Brendan Wayne as Jiaying's assistant, Robert Reinis as bartender, Daz Crawford as Kebo, Alicia Vela-Bailey as Alisha and Anthony D. Washington as TAC agent #3.

"S.O.S.," Part One was written by Jeffrey Bell and directed by Vincent Misiano.

"S.O.S.," Part Two was written by Jed Whedon & Maurissa Tancharoen and directed by Billy Gierhart.

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Promo pics for episode 2x21 / 2x22:

I wonder who the hot red head is?

Ez wrote:

I wonder who the hot red head is?

Good question. She's not in the first promo video for ep 2x20. But I guess she's with the Inhumans ("Afterlife").

Whoever she is I hope she sticks around!

Ez wrote:

Whoever she is I hope she sticks around!

I think she's Alicia Vela-Bailey, the one listed as guest star for the final three eps of season 2:



"Guest starring on "Scars" ... , Alicia Vela-Bailey as Alisha, ..."
"Guest starring on "S.O.S. Part One" ... and Alicia Vela-Bailey as Alisha."
"Guest starring on "S.O.S. Part Two" ..., Alicia Vela-Bailey as Alisha ..."



It's pretty interesting, because she's a well known and very busy stuntwomen according to her IMDB page. On Agents of Shield she's part of the regular stunt team and works as stunt double for Adrianne Palicki (Bobbie)!



Now she obviously got promoted to a series guest star! I think that's quite unusual, to play a character in a show and at the same time being the stunt double for another character in the same show ...

Agents of SHIELD - Season 2 Finale - Bosses offer 5 Cryptic Teases

- Bobbi doesn't like needles.

- Mack has an axe.

- Casualties of war.

- Coulson is going to lose something important.

- Fitz and Simmons have a talk.



Source: Entertainment Weekly

Well saw the show live tonight, and no I dont count n the neilsen ratings!!!!!!!!

It was very good.......Spoilers so dont read if you have not seen!!!!!!


First what I did not like.

Kara gets killed , by ward which sends him over to the dark side totally.
May tricked her into using her face, and ward thought it was may.

Coulson is going to lose something important.....yeah his hand!
Coulson losing a hand ! so now I imagine he gets a bionic hand.

Fitz and Simmons have a talk..... yeah but they made it look like she was going to tell him she loves him but then didnt?! cmon go one way or the other!

thats about it.

Likes skyes mom exposed and killed by cal
Cal gets a brainwash and a happy life as a vet! lol
Skye back with coulson and can control her powers.

Ward is now the new leader of hydra and will rebuild it, dont really like that but it might be good.

Coulson is now leader of shield and except ward the team is back together.

Not sure about the inhumans, some were killed sme captured all o the ship, not sure abut the rest
or what happened to Lincoln.

Then at the end they never thought to go after the chest of crystals!!!!>>>>>>>>>>>?????
then it shows it leaking and getting into the fish and people eat the fish, so I guess this means
the death of the human race or more inhumans are created the ones with the genes.

Either way I did not really care for that.

But overall a good 2 hours, had fun watching it. glad we get a S-3
but just checked and this is made by abc studios so it will get 5 or more seasons.

Yea Marvel is owned by Disney/ABC, it will go on for as long as Marvel is doing well. I really liked this episode. The doppleganger woman was really cool. I liked Ward becoming the new head of Hydra. After tonight there was no going back for him. I wonder if Tony Stark will build Coulson a new hand. ALso, maybe Skye will start going by Daisy next season, to honor her dad. AHelluva cliffhanger, Simmons gets sucked up into the Kree thing. Maybe the crystals won't hurt humans now since their transformation, only make new Inhumans. Very good season. I am ready for season 3!

Damn, that was an exciting finale with dramatic developments!
I just didn't get why Ward was so obsessed with "closure", though he really seemed to love Kara. In the end May did the hell of trick to him. Accidently killing one's love definitely has to suck. But ok, I always tended to say Ward's beyond redemption, but now we have an easy motive for him to finally go dark ... revenge. But Ward becoming the new head of Hydra?? Doesn't work for me. This just feels above his paygrade ...
Oh, and I guess I was wrong with Sky's mother. She actually was pretty evil and only cared for the survival of the inhumans, not for single individuals though, just for the "race".
I'm already looking forward to season 3. The cliffhangers with the crystal stuff in the fish oil and Simmons getting absorbed by the "black alien matter" need continuation!! BTW, was it Fitz, who accidently unlocked the "black matter" container??

I think Fitz did open it, I really liked the finale too, I can buy Ward as the Head of Hydra because everyone else is dead, and the other Hydra guys were clearly scared of him, it will be along wait until September.

So Raina is dead too. Actually I'm sorry for her character. Until the last moment everybody only saw the worst in her, maybe not surprising regarding her history. But in the end she herself explained it with a nice metaphor, seeing herself as the thornes, which protect the rose (Sky). She was right with her visions and through her being killed by Jiaying Sky got the chance to see the truth about her mother. As Raina said, she and Sky would never meet again, but Raina fulfilled her destination, which she finally embraced. Probably that's why she even didn't try to avoid Jiaying's deadly attack, to make sure Sky realizes the hard truth ... that should count for Raina's redemption ...

Yea, I agree. By the end, Raina was a good guy, although I didn't trust her at first when she said Jaiying was the one who would bring the destruction.

I always liked raina, she was never a bad person.
She deserved better than she got.

'Agents of SHIELD' Season 3: Brett Dalton is excited Ward is 'officially' the Big Bad

Grant Ward's allegiance is a mystery no more. In the Season 2 finale of "Marvel's Agents of SHIELD," Brett Dalton's character took the reins at Hydra as a means to get the "closure" that's been his driving motivations for a full season.

In some ways, the first two seasons of "Agents of SHIELD" acted as a supervillain origin story for Ward -- just like the first season-and-a-half set up the superhero origin story of Chloe Bennet's Skye. Though some fans are disappointed that Ward didn't get a redemptive arc, Dalton is thrilled at the opportunity to play a villain who is not only complex but who audiences have seen be a "good guy."

During a lengthy conversation with Zap2it, Dalton discusses his response to the finale's Hydra twist, what he hopes it means for Ward and how much fans can expect to see him in Season 3.


Zap2it: How did you feel about Ward's turn in the finale?
Brett Dalton: I think it's exciting to take a character who in Season 1 was the muscle of the group and, in some ways, the one we knew the least about, and who seemed like he just had a bad attitude but was really a hard-working good guy underneath it all. To take that person, who was part of the original six, and to make him now the head of the evil organization that's now working against SHIELD, I think is pretty amazing. He's had an incredible arc, and I think it's good for him to go from one of the original cast members to now the Big Bad. It's been quite a journey. It's been a hell of a lot of fun to play.

People have been very torn about Ward, and tend to view him as black and white. But in Season 2, he's been in a gray area. Do you think the finale knocks him more toward the black side, or do you think he still resides in that gray area?
It seems like something has snapped, and it seems that moral ambiguity that he may have had is gone. I would say that that is a good point. He has been in that gray area for a while, and with the death of 33 [Maya Stojan] it seems he's a completely different person now. He's crossed over into the dark side, and I'm not sure that there's any getting him back. We'll have to see. We have a whole other season to explore that as well, but it definitely seems like whatever he is, he's out for vengeance now. He's crossed over for sure. We'll have to see where Season 3 picks up and where he decides to go. 
If we were to track his progression, this guy was an embedded guy, meets somebody, has this relationship that he didn't anticipate to have, and he knew that's a weakness of his; that he actually does have a heart. And then, despite his best efforts, she wasn't able to really forgive him for this. Then he has this new relationship with Agent 33 where she's incredibly devoted to him and he seems devoted to her, and they seem to be on this chaotic path of closure -- and then he's burned a second time now, and I'm not sure if he can allow that anymore.

The second you say "I'm not sure that there's any getting him back," it automatically feels like a challenge for the writers of, OK, how do we bring him back from that point and make him a character who's a good guy?
I think it's a brilliant thing that the writers have shown his backstory. I have been surprised that I have people who seem to be standing with Ward no matter what he does. I think people feel like they've seen the real Grant Ward, and they know that there's a good guy deep down in there somewhere. I certainly think that's true as well. They're getting glimpses of his backstory, of his troubled childhood and all these other things that have led him to who he is today. 
I just think that it's incredible that there are people out there who just seem to be following this character wherever he goes. I think that's brilliant. I'll take some credit [ laughs] for the acting part, but also the writers have allowed this guy to be an incredibly complex, completely unpredictable character. There isn't any character like him on the show, and I would say even within the Marvel canon. It seems like they're creating this person who flip-flops all of the time. ... I think the writers are really good with that. As soon as you think you know who he is, he'll turn that assumption on a dime and all of the sudden you're sitting there wondering who he is again.

In the finale, Kara says "Stand with Ward," which is sort of the catchphrase for the real-life Ward support movement. Can you talk about how that made it into the script?
I think it's like the coolest fan shoutout I can imagine. I was surprised. I was reading the script and I was like, "Wait a minute!" All that was missing is the hashtag. I think that is just a testament to the fans, this incredibly loyal fanbase that has now influenced the script of our show. That's a huge, huge thing that I never could have imagined, and yet the writers are taking a cue from what's happening in real life and now putting that in the show. Not even just a show, not even just snuck in there, but it's in our two-hour season finale. I think that it's an Easter egg on one level for the people who are aware of the Ward Warriors, but it's also a wink to the fans that have created the campaign in the first place.

The theme of the episode for Ward was closure, and fans got some themselves when they learned he actually did kill Buddy the dog. Were you surprised by that revelation?
I know, there was a debate. It seems like the character Grant Ward is obsessed with this idea of closure. It wasn't enough for him to get it to himself. He also feels like Agent 33 needs her own sense of closure, and then at the end we also find out Kara never received that herself, and so he's taken it upon himself to make sure she does get that.

Is that how you interpret that final "closure" line?
Yeah. I guess it can be open to interpretation. The idea of closure is incredibly important to him, and I think that speaks to his ability to rewrite his own history. He does have a past, but it seems like at times we're never really sure what was the truth of that. There was the episode with his brother the senator. We would hear the senator's side of the story, and we'd hear Grant Ward's side of the story, and those two scenes would play against each other. We never really found the truth of how that story actually went down. We heard two people's sides of it, and then I ended up killing my brother and my family, so we'll never get to hear their sides of it or exactly what happened. 
It seems like at times he picks and chooses from his past what will help him, I guess, in moving forward. We get glimpses of it and we get people's sides of their story, but I'm not sure if we'll ever really get the exact truth of what happened. The past seems, for Ward, like something he can pull from when he needs to, or rewrite when he doesn't like what has happened before.

It's a little surprising that of all the places Ward could go, he went back to Hydra. Why did he choose that, and is he really the top of the food chain?
Maybe he saw a business opportunity and he took it. He saw that they were failing in the leadership department and decided to elect himself. The way I look at it, if we go back to the whole idea of closure, he probably sees a lack of closure in the world around him. It's not just Kara's story that he's trying to tie up, but he also probably sees injustice all around him, and that there are things that need closure. If he has to join an evil organization in order to see that through, I guess he has to.

With you coming back as a series regular in Season 3, do you imagine you'll get more screen time than you did in Season 2?
This season was really different, but I think it had to be. The first season I was part of the original six, going through all these missions, and then three-quarters of the way I'm a spy and you can't really use me as much. I think moving forward I will probably have a bigger role than I did in this season. I'm not sure how much I can say about that.

Having a villain as a main part of a story can be fascinating. "Daredevil" just proved that with Vincent D'Onofrio's Wilson Fisk, who is the best part of that series.
I agree. He played the role so well. And I think that now you have to earn a bad guy who has that much screen time. There needs to be a relationship with the heroes of the story, and there needs to be a compelling enough backstory. It can't just be a villain of the week, or a mustache-twirling, cat-petting bad guy. If you were to just see him when he pops in and sort of does his bad guy stuff and monologues all the time, it's just not terribly interesting. 
Grant Ward, I think, has earned that because he was a good guy. There's this whole big backstory that we know about, there have been so many twists and turns, so now it's not just a new bad guy popping up. It's a bad guy who used to be a good guy popping up, and that's infinitely more fascinating, and something that I think would deserve much more screen time.

Now that you are calling Ward the Big Bad, is there any end for his story other than death? Is that too morbid?
[ Laughs] It's not too morbid. It's something that's certainly the fear of any actor. I've had that fear since I started "SHIELD"; it's a Joss Whedon [show], and I know not all his characters survive. That's just the reality. I would much rather have him come to end in an interesting way rather than have him just be a fixture on the show that is just kind of there. If it serves the story and it makes the most interesting story, then maybe that's it. But they've been teasing the whole idea of if he's a good guy or if he's a bad guy for so long. He is, I guess, officially a total bad guy now, and the head of the bad guys, but I think there's always that chance. I think what keeps you tuning in every week is there's still that chance that he might still be a good guy underneath all of that.

OK, last question: What do you hope for Grant Ward in Season 3?
The last scene does signal a new direction for Ward, just as Agent 33 is picking him up and walking off with him [in the Season 2 fall finale] was a new direction as well. I like this idea of someone who is so hurt that he feels that he needs to hurt the rest of the world. There is a wrong that he feels like he needs to correct, and it doesn't matter how many people have to go down in the process, he is going to do it. What we were trying to do in the last scene, and I think that we got there, is that with this person there isn't the question of, "What do I do anymore?" At the end of Season 1, after Garrett died, there was an episode that I call the "Hamlet" episode which [asked that question]. That's no longer here.
I feel what we have now is someone who really has crossed the line, who has nothing to do anymore. That's a really fascinating place to be. One of the things that the director was talking about was [Ward's] so far gone that his pulse doesn't even change. ... He has a plan, he knows how to execute it, and there's a kind of coldness in there that is scary that I'd like to really explore in Season 3; somebody who doesn't have those questions, who isn't in a relationship with someone else, who is just a man with vengeance on his mind. I think that's fascinating to play, and that's where I think Season 3 will hit the ground running. This is just the beginning of a whole other chapter, and that's what I think is so exciting. When you do have a character that is this far gone, to see a glimmer of maybe he is still a good guy, that would be fun too just to remind people -- or just to confuse them even more.

'Agents of SHIELD' Season 3: Time jump, Terrigen Crystals' spread and Simmons answers

"Marvel's Agents of SHIELD" ended Season 2 with a number of cliffhangers, both large and small. While most of those will to have to wait to be resolved until Season 3 kicks off in September 2015, Zap2it went straight to the source -- executive producer Jeffrey Bell -- to get some answers now.
From how long after this shocking ending Season 3 will pick up, to what happened to Jemma Simmons, here's a tease at what "Agents of SHIELD's" return has in store.

More Inhumans are on the way

One major cliffhanger at the end of the Season 2 finale was Jiaying's Diviner-laced Terrigen Crystals dissolving into the ocean, being consumed by fish and ending up on store shelves. But is it the metal, which is fatal to humans, that is being spread around the globe, or just the substance through which Inhuman powers can be awoken?

"We've intentionally left it ambiguous," Bell teases. "That question and the others will be answered in Season 3."

Still, he will say this is "Agents of SHIELD's" way to expand the Inhumans in the show's world. In a way, it's the ABC series' way of doing the Terrigen Bomb storyline from the "Infinity" comics arc.

"Every Inhuman we met came out of Jiaying's little camp and there are people who knew about it," he says. "The idea that it might go wider, that somebody might have a piece of sushi or an Omega-3 and have something surprising happen, seems to us like a nice story engine to open it up and to ask a lot of questions as the world gets more enhanced people in it. Without dropping a bomb over everybody, it seems a nice way to promise international stories that can reach into anybody's lives and effect them, and that seems like something fun for us to do."

So is this all just set-up to 2019's Marvel movie "Inhumans"? "I can't speak to the 'Inhumans' movie part because that's on the books for like, what, 2074? And we're in 2015," Bell says. "We're playing with our little corner of the Inhuman universe, and this seems like a good way to expand it."

There will be a time jump going into Season 3

The "Agents of SHIELD" writers are currently putting together their plan for Season 3, and as it stands right now they're planning for some sort of time jump between the end of Season 2 and where they pick up again. They just haven't decided just how much time is going to be used up in that transition.

"It behooves us to have a little bit of time, rather than picking things right up. It allows people to be fresh for Season 3, so you won't necessarily have had to watch the end of Season 2 for an entry point," Bell says. "Whether it's a week or a month or a few months, in general a bit of time allows you to reset [and] put characters into [the show] in a new way. That worked really well for us coming into this season. I suspect we'll do something similar next year."

The writers know what happened to Simmons

If there's a time jump, that means the show will likely move past the characters realizing Simmons disappeared. As for what happened to her after the Kree Stone snatched her up, Bell isn't giving even a tiny hint.

"That's the whole point of it being a cliffhanger! That's the whole point of it being the last thing you see!" he says. "You think the story's over, everything's good, [then] oh my god, what just happened? Why did that happen to her? Is she dead? Is she trapped inside there? Will we ever see her again? Poor Fitz. What happened to him? He's so sad."

So are Fitz and Simmons ever going to catch a break? "Oh, I hope not," Bell says with a laugh. 

"What's been fun about Fitz and Simmons is last year they were one person, FitzSimmons," he continues. "Then at the end of the first season, they split up. Over the course of [Season 2] they've each become their own person and figured out who they are and what they want, and eventually that led them back to each other, which I think is lovely and beautiful. The fact that this sad thing happened will only complicate it and provide more feelings and emotions for people to watch."

Even if "SHIELD's" audience needs to wait four months to find out Simmons' fate, viewers can rest easy knowing that the show's writers have all the answers to that mysterious twist.

"We work very hard to stick the landing," says Bell. "We talk about it for a long time -- what it means and where we're going -- and yes, the writer's room has already spent a lot of time talking about what Season 3 will look like, how we'll begin and where we want to go. So yeah, we're excited."

All the main characters are coming back

Season 2 ended with Bobbi seemingly wanting to get out of SHIELD and Hunter ready to go with her, Ward planning to resurrect Hydra and Simmons going goodness-knows-where. If that has you nervous about their Season 3 fates, don't be: All the actors are coming back.

ABC already renewed Season 3, and confirmed on Tuesday (May 12) that all the current series regular will be returning. That includes Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson, Ming-Na Wen as Melinda May, Brett Dalton as Grant Ward, Chloe Bennet as Skye, Iain De Caestecker as Leo Fitz, Elizabeth Henstridge as Jemma Simmons, Nick Blood as Lance Hunter and Adrianne Palicki as Bobbi Morse.

"We love them all, and we look forward to telling lots of cool stories with them next year," Bell says.


When "Agents of SHIELD" returns in fall 2015, it will continue to air Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.

'Agents of SHIELD' EP on Simmons' Fate, Finale's Secret Warriors Nod

Jeffrey Bell also talks with THR about Ward's new role: "It feels like everything between Ward and SHIELD next year will be very personal."
[Warning: This story contains spoilers from the season-two finale of Agents of SHIELD.]
Tuesday's season two finale of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD contained death, mayhem and a whole lot of action. But the biggest shock came from the revelation that Jiaying’s (Dichen Lachman) Terrigen crystals took on a new form — everyday ordinary fish oils. 
Jiaying and her Inhuman forces, equipped with an arsenal of Terrigen crystals, led an assault against the SHIELD naval ship. With a successful coup of the vessel, the Inhuman leader ordered a crate of the crystals to be taken onto a Quinjet to be released around the world. By doing so, Jiaying would eliminate all humans and awaken the dormant Inhumans around the world.
In order to stop her mother’s plan to destroy humanity, Skye (Chloe Bennet) uses her powers to send the Quinjet containing the crate into the ocean. However, the Terrigen crystals did not remain locked away in their oceanic grave. The crystals dissolved into the water, becoming absorbed by the ocean life, and eventually turned into fish oils that are available on everyday vitamin store shelves.
The Hollywood Reporter caught up with executive producer Jeffrey Bell to discuss the big moments of the second season’s finale, whether the sea life poses a danger to humanity, SHIELD’s powered task team and Simmons' fate.

The episode ends with a Contagion-esque sequence showing how the Terrigen Mist is spread through ocean life. Is the Diviner metal dissolved out, or will the fish/fish oils be lethal to those that don’t have the Inhuman gene?
We have to watch and find out. To say too much would spoil the fun. We'll definitely see the mist, whether it’s the old-school mist or the one with the metal — we need to wait and see.

Ward (Brett Dalton) has been in the background this season. How was the decision made to have him take over Hydra? Does he blame SHIELD for Kara’s death?
Yes, he does blame SHIELD for Kara’s death. God forbid he ever take responsibility for anything he’s ever done. For us, it’s been a real journey for Ward. He started off as Garrett’s (Bill Paxton) right-hand and was always a guy who looked to someone else to tell him what to do. This season had him coming to terms with his past, finding closure and, in a sense, forgiving himself. And then he goes off about getting together with the old team, talking about how much he regrets what happened, and he wishes he could be with the old team again. After the events of the last couple of episodes, that seems to all go out the window — and going back to Hydra, the fact that he says he misses being part of the team is a big clue to how he’s feeling. In the past he had no personal agenda against Coulson (Clark Gregg) or the team. It feels like everything between Ward and SHIELD next year will be very personal.

It looks like Skye will be fulfilling Raina’s (Ruth Negga) prophecy of leading the Inhumans with a super-powered team that Coulson assigns her to. Is this the beginning of a Secret Warriors?
There is the Secret Warriors, and Daisy Johnson does run a team for Fury of powered people that is secret and off the grid — people who are not on the Index or anything like that. The fact that we have a character named Daisy who is talking to Coulson about filling that role is a nod in that direction.

Robert Kirkman has talked about regretting his decision in The Walking Dead comic books of cutting off Rick’s hand. What was the decision with cutting off Coulson’s hand, and was it one that was taken lightly?
No, it was not taken lightly at all. The advantage that we have that Kirkman doesn’t have is that we live in the Marvel Universe, and in the MU, there’s all kinds of cool technology and medical stuff where people can lose a hand or have a brain operated on and come back different but more intriguing. So for us it’s not just the physical thing but the emotional thing of Coulson losing a part of himself. In The Walking Dead, Rick would have to walk around without a hand. In herewell maybe Coulson knows a guy who can build him a hand.

A relationship is seen developing between Fitz (Ian De Caestecker) and Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) in the finale. With Simmons “absorbed” by the Kree stone, what can we expect of her fate/the Kree Stone in season three? SHIELD must have seen what happened since there are cameras in the room, right?
Nobody’s more upset about that than us. We worked hard trying to earn their coming back together. If only that darned stone didn’t absorb her, we’d all live happily ever after. But let’s just see how this plays out. At a certain point, lets even say they didn’t see it on the cameras. … I mean she’s on a ship in the middle of the ocean. They are going to search everywhere, and they’re not going to find her and then they’ll go back into the room where she was. I think either way the math will add up fairly quickly for them.

Bobbi (Adrianne Palicki) takes the bullet for Hunter (Nick Blood), even though he knew he was walking into a trap. At the end she says she wants out and is done with this life. What does she mean by that?
She says, “I can’t do this anymore.” The questions are: Does Bobbi mean she is done with Hunter? Done with SHIELD? Done with getting shot? I look forward to seeing how people interpret that.

There were talks about a Bobbi and Hunter spinoff that wasn’t picked up. What happened with the SHIELD spinoff? Is it something you plan to re-evaluate at a later date?
I can’t really talk about any of that. I know that came out of everybody at the studio and network loving those characters and having lots of story ideas for them, and so that will continue to be true when they return to Agents of SHIELD.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. postmortem: Are the Secret Warriors on the way?

There were casualties aplenty in the season finale of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as Coulson (Clark Gregg) and his team faced off against the Inhumans.
In a bid to get the Inhumans to side with her in a war, Jaiying (Dichen Lachman) tasks Gordon (Jamie Harris) with stealing a quinjet to attack Afterlife, making it appear as though S.H.I.E.L.D. took the first shot. After Raina (Ruth Negga) subsequently tries to warn Skye (Chloe Bennet) that her mother is dangerous, Jaiying murders her, making Skye realize the truth. Unfortunately, it’s too late to warn S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Inhumans infiltrate the aircraft carrier with a plan to kill the entire organization with the Terrigen crystals.
But what Jaiying could never account for is Cal’s (Kyle MacLachlan) love for his daughter. Instead of turning into Mister Hyde and killing Coulson, Cal joins S.H.I.E.L.D. to make sure Skye doesn’t fall victim to her mother’s nefarious plans. Cal ultimately kills Jaiying, sparing Skye from having to do the task herself after her mother tries to suck the life out of her.
As the battle between Inhumans and S.H.I.E.L.D. comes to a head, Fitz (Iain de Caestecker) accidentally kills Gordon, who drops a lethal crystal, but Coulson dives to catch it, unafraid of the consequences. As Coulson begins to petrify, Mack (Henry Simmons) comes to the rescue and chops off his arm—the producers did warn that Mack had an ax and Coulson would lose something important! In the end, Coulson and Skye ultimately launch what appears to be the Secret Warriors program.
Elsewhere, Ward and Kara torture Bobbi and plan to kill Hunter as recompense for Mockingbird selling Agent 33 out to Hydra. But Bobbi takes the bullet marked for Hunter and decidedly walks away from S.H.I.E.L.D.—though she’s not the only one as May decides to take a hiatus with Andrew. On the plus side, the incident makes Simmons realizes her true feelings for Fitz, and they plan to go on a date—but he’ll be waiting a while since the mysterious Kree stone sucks Simmons up into it. Oh, and Ward becomes the new head of Hydra after accidentally killing Kara. What does this all mean?! EW caught up with Executive Producer Jeffrey Bell to get the scoop on next season: (Also, Elizabeth Henstridge discusses Simmons’ disappearing act here, Brett Dalton talks Ward’s Hydra turn here and we go behind-the-scenes to see how they chopped off Coulson’s arm here.)

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Are you setting up Secret Warriors for next season?
JEFFREY BELL: I would say setting up is perhaps an over statement. Certainly we’re tipping our hat to a woman named Daisy Johnson talking to Coulson about a secret group of powered people.

Any secret organizations within organizations don’t tend to make people happy. How secret would this actually be because of what incidents they’ve faced before?
On the one hand, this whole season on the S.H.I.E.L.D. level was about the price of secrets. When you’re doing a spy show, secrets are your bread and butter. There is always good conflict and tension when there are secrets. Having said that, we just played out, “Oh, I have a secret that I can’t tell you about,” so I think we’ll work very hard so we don’t replicate these people in S.H.I.E.L.D. have a secret and these people don’t know it. Having secrets ultimately causes a lot of pain for people and it rarely works out, as our U.S. government is learning from the Snowden stuff. We’ll find a way to make secrets a great texture to next year.

What does this mean for Skye in regards to the team now that she’s stepping up elsewhere?
Some people will be excited and some people will be a little intimidated or threatened by that. Any time a person grows or steps out of the role that they’re perceived to be a part of, it’s a problem. What happens when the student reaches the level of master or teacher? There’s a lot of good fodder for us next season with that.

Simmons has disappeared! What happened to her?
Oh, this weird alien rock seemed to dissolve and consume her and come back together. No one was more shocked about that than us. [Laughs]

Is it safe to say that Fitz will do everything in his power to get her back?
I wouldn’t limit it to Fitz. Everyone will be very upset and concerned after they figure out what happened. I would suspect our team would not take this lightly and will do everything they can to figure out what happened.

May has taken what I assume to be a temporary hiatus. Are we going to see her back, and can she ever actually be normal?
That’s a good question. One of the things that we talked about with our finale was though there was a lot of plot, there were also a lot of emotional resolutions. We’ve given May an emotional resolution. It’s not riding off into the sunset to live happily ever after, but it’s at least a moment of contentment and to consider the possibility of what’s next. We love Blair Underwood and he came in and fit very nicely into our universe. The possibility to tell some more stories next year, if that works out, is exciting to us. Whether that means we see a very happy, content May or not is to be determined.

I feel like there’s still a lot more story to be told with Lincoln and Skye. Do you plan to hang on to Luke Mitchell for a while?
We loved Luke this season. We have a lot of ideas for Luke. The writers are getting back together in about three weeks to start shaping the next season. He was a nice addition this past season, so he’s definitely being considered for all that.

Bobbi has decided to give up on S.H.I.E.L.D., but since the spin-off is not moving forward, can we expect her and Hunter to be back on this team or will we see some parallel storytelling for a bit?
When she said, “I can’t do this anymore,” we intentionally made that very ambiguous. Does it mean her and Hunter, or does it mean S.H.I.E.L.D.? The whole intention of the possible spin-off was we love these people as characters and feel that they’re a great part of our universe. When they return, we expect to have great stories for them both as a couple and within the larger team, whether they’re part of it or parallel. Twenty-two episodes makes for a long season, so there are opportunities to split people off and bring them back together.

The Terrigen crystals are basically out there in the world now. How dangerous could this be to Inhumans and humans alike? And is this your indication that we haven’t seen the last of the Inhumans on S.H.I.E.L.D.?
This was a way for us to remind people that anything can happen at any time. Anywhere in the world, this sort of thing can happen without going so far as to dropping a Terrigen bomb and turning a whole group of people at one time. The idea that the possibility is out there allows us a lot of story opportunities for next year. And for the audience, it teases the promise of more Inhumans next season.

Because you’ve already delved into S.H.I.E.L.D. vs. Inhumans this season, do you want to take on a different villain next season?
I don’t think of Inhumans necessarily as villains. With Jaiying, this is a woman who got sliced apart by someone who called himself S.H.I.E.L.D. even though he was really Hydra. Then she moved her group to the middle of nowhere to be left alone and S.H.I.E.L.D. showed up again. She certainly was justified in whatever she was feeling. We used a very small corner of the Inhuman universe. It’s not so much about this community as an antagonist as it is about individuals who don’t know what’s happening with them as we move forward.

The description for next season says Coulson embarks on a deadly new secret mission to protect the world from new threats in the wake of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s wars with Hydra and the rogue faction of Inhumans. What can you tease about these new threats?
They’re hinted at in the last couple of episodes. The Kree rock would be a good place to start. Any time you end a season with an image of something, in our minds, that’s the promise of there being more story to be had. It seems to open up a new world of questions.

Those new threats also include Ward and his Hydra faction, I’m sure. Is he just dead set on revenge? And is there no redemption for him at this point?
I love Dostoevsky, and one of the things that I love about his books is that nobody is too high that they can’t fall and nobody is too low to ever be redeemed. It takes a long time. I would say no one is ever beyond redemption., nor is anybody above a horrible turn. Ward is a complicated figure that some people think is a victim and some people think is a psychopath. It does seem, at the end of the season, that he doesn’t want to reconcile with Coulson and the team after the death of Agent 33—God forbid he take any responsibility for that. In blaming them for what happened and in his desire for closure, he’ll be a pretty good adversary.

Is that the last we’ve seen of Cal for now?
Cal is in a good place for now. He had a great season. He got to live a happily ever after in a beautiful way. We would never write off the idea of finding more story for him down the road, but we had a great time with Kyle this year and feel like that was a story that ended nicely. At least for now, we’ll put that down.

Are you guys already in discussions about what new characters you might be bringing on for next season?
We are. This year, we had a slew of antagonist. We had Whitehall, we had Ward, we had Cal, we had Jaiying, we had Gonzalez—not a bad guy, but certainly an antagonist—we had Raina, we had a bunch of people who came and went at different times over the course of the season before we got all together at the end. That seemed to work well. The idea of some familiar faces with some new faces is something to look forward to. I also think finding some new Marvel characters to pull into the universe would be cool. Fans seems to respond when there are characters from the Marvel comics and Marvel Cinematic Universe. We’ll also continue to create our own mythology as we’ve done. It’s a whole new world.

I've forgotten to mention how much I liked Dichen Lachman playing Sky's mom. Like in The 100 she sadly had to go far too early.
I just hope she'll fjnally get a major and longer lasting role soon ...

tscc1000 wrote:

I've forgotten to mention how much I liked Dichen Lachman playing Sky's mom. Like in The 100 she sadly had to go far too early.
I just hope she'll fjnally get a major and longer lasting role soon ...

She pretty much gets killed in every show she does?
She left 100 to be in shield, and they chose to kill her off.
That is why it is better to write people out so later you can write them back in.

Like  cal on shield, they can write him back in whenever they want, it is a good option to have.

Oh and I read thru what you posted on the interviews, but most of it was stuff I could assume,
like simmons and the kree rock, they will figure it out and she will come out, the only question is will she have a power
and or what way will she be changed?.
Ward is now a bad guy and one main villain, I think the chance of redemption now is very low.
More likely to be killed off.

I did not like 33 being killed off, or skyes mom being bad, or raina turned into spike girl, and then killed.
But it is still a ok show to watch.
I do worry that they will now have too many powered people with all the inhumans popping up, and and I can see most
being the baddie of the week, which is not good. seen that on smallville.