Bethany Joy Lenz | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Genre: Action, Drama, Science fiction, Superhero
• Created by: Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen
• Based on: S.H.I.E.L.D by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby
• Showrunners: Jed Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, Jeffrey Bell
• Starring: Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Brett Dalton, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, Nick Blood, Adrianne Palicki, Henry Simmons, Luke Mitchell, John Hannah, Natalia Cordova-Buckley, Jeff Ward
• Composers: Bear McCreary, Jason Akers
• No. of seasons: 7
• No. of episodes: 136
• Executive producers: Alan Fine, Stan Lee, Joe Quesada, Jeph Loeb, Jeffrey Bell, Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon, Joss Whedon, Paul Zbyszewski, Jim Chory, Brent Fletcher
• Producers: Garry A. Brown, Chris Cheramie
• Production locations: Los Angeles, Culver City
• Running time: 41–44 minutes
• Production companies: ABC Studios, Marvel Television, Mutant Enemy Productions
• Network: ABC
• Release: September 24, 2013 – August 12, 2020

After the Battle of New York, the world has changed. It now knows not only about the Avengers, but also the powerful menaces that require those superheroes and more to face them. In response, Phil Coulson of the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division assembles an elite covert team to find and deal with these threats wherever they are found. With a world rapidly becoming more bizarre and dangerous than ever before as the supervillains arise, these agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. are ready to take them on.

 "Parting Shot"

Hunter and Morse follow Malick to a decommissioned facility in Siberia, where Russian delegate Anton Petrov wishes to build a sanctuary against the wishes of Russian Prime Minister Dimitri Olshenko. Olshenko sends his attaché to shut down the operation, but he is murdered by General Androvich, an opposition minister and Inhuman whose shadow is made of sentient darkforce. Malick suggests that the Prime Minister be invited to the facility himself and that Androvich be unleashed upon him. Hunter kills Petrov to protect Olshenko, while Morse kills Androvich to destroy his shadow. Olshenko, unaware of the attempt on his life, has the two arrested. Their Interpol interrogator threatens to turn them over to the Russians for execution unless they confirm that S.H.I.E.L.D. still exists, but Morse and Hunter refuse. Ellis intervenes with Coulson; they save the pair's lives on the condition that they never work for the U.S. government again. With the option of working in secret out of the field, Morse and Hunter instead choose to leave S.H.I.E.L.D.

"Paradise Lost"

Malick's father died in 1970, leaving him and his brother Nathaniel to lead the "religious" side of Hydra, including periodically sending a sacrificial "traveler"—chosen at random from Hydra's inner circle—through the portal for Hive to inhabit until his return. Discovering that their father used a trick to never be chosen as the traveler, Gideon does the same and Nathaniel is chosen. In the present, Gideon tells his daughter Stephanie of his vision: he believes he saw his own death at the hands of Hive. Daisy and Campbell track down J. T. James, an untransitioned Inhuman with knowledge of Hive who gives them an ancient Kree device. The rest of S.H.I.E.L.D. captures Giyera, Gideon's right-hand man who is now loyal to Hive. A telekinetic Inhuman, Giyera takes control of their plane and directs it to a Hydra base with most of S.H.I.E.L.D. as his prisoners. Hive comes to the Malicks' house and reveals to Gideon that he has Nathaniel's memories. As punishment for Gideon's betrayal of Nathaniel, Hive murders Stephanie in front of him.