Fans are in shock and awe after last night’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Is one or more of Coulson’s team really a traitor?
Producers said events in Captain America: The Winter Soldier would have a game-changing impact on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
In the aftermath of last night’s shocking episode Marvel revealed some big news: Cobie Smulders will guest star as Maria Hill on the April 29th episode.
The other jaw-dropper requires….a major SPOILER WARNING!
If you have not seen Captain America: The Winter Soldier and this week’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. stop reading now!
Seriously.
Here it comes.
OK.
Agent Grant Ward (Brett Dalton) and John Garrett (Bill Paxton) are traitors. In Captain America: The Winter Soldier it was revealed that Hydra has infiltrated every level of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Garrett’s treachery was revealed earlier in last night’s episode but in the final moments of the show Ward shot and killed Victoria Hand.
In a Marvel.com exclusive Dalton reveals when he learned Ward was on the dark side.
“When we were shooting “Yes Men.” It was a Friday night and [we were filming a] kind of brutal fight between May, and I thought, “Wow, there’s quite a few people on set for a Friday night, watching a fight scene.” Usually they don’t do that.
And then afterwards [Executive Producer] Maurissa [Tancharoen], who is clearly the designated mother of the entire set, was like, “Hey, you’re doing such a great job, the writers just wanted to talk to you after when you were done.” And I didn’t really think anything of it, and she was like, “It’s all good, don’t worry about it, but we just wanted a few [minutes] when you wrap.” [Then] I’m thinking the entire time, holy crap, they’re gonna kill me off. I better enjoy this scene then because my days are numbered at this point. And you know I’m on a Joss Whedon show, so from the very beginning I’m not unaware of the fact that my position on the team was not a guarantee.
So there I was, I have not felt that way since middle school probably, being called into the principal’s office. It took me a really long time to get dressed because [of] the whole thing. I remember stalling as much as I could, and I walked in and sat down on the couch and there were all the writers there and I thought, “oh my god.” I was kind of in shock, kind of like, “give it to me doc, tell me the results what do we got here.” Then they proceeded to let me in on what their plan for my character had been all along. I don’t think anyone knew who the Clairvoyant was, so they told me first, “Well, Garrett is the clairvoyant and Garrett is your supervising officer and you trained under him so that makes you also part of Hydra.” And I think I just sat there with my jaw open for the next 20 minutes, and they just did all of the talking because I couldn’t say anything. It was a huge turn. I didn’t see any of that coming, so I was just shock for about the next day. Then it sank in and I started to think wow, what a cool opportunity. Because the Ward I thought I was going to be playing for the next few seasons, the whole thing just changed. Now I think what I was given was just a huge opportunity to play somebody who is more complex, more interesting, more dangerous, scarier in a way that Ward wasn’t. I get to play two different characters in a way.
Sixteen and a half episodes of a guy who is very trustworthy and rolled up his sleeves and did all the heavy lifting and didn’t really question authority. You know, a by-the-book risk assessor, and yet here I am. The last five episodes and I get to play somebody who I really think just has a troubled past. It’s so juicy [and] it’s so much more complex than the character I was before that.
I mean, I think it fulfilled a promise of his past. We got from the very beginning, [when] he’s talking to Coulson about how he has a troubled past and the whole revelation that he doesn’t play well with others. The Berserker episode, we get bits and pieces of this troubled past. This delivers on it in an interesting way that nobody sees coming.”
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. returns with guest star Patton Oswalt as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent (if he’s not really Hydra?) next week and Colbie Smulders reprises her role as Maria Hill on April 29th.
By Editor