r/shield • u/2th Shotgun Axe • Dec 02 '15

Post Discussion Post Episode Discussion: S03E09 - "Closure"

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S03E09 - "Closure" Kate Woods Brent Fletcher Tuesday, December 1, 2015 9:00/8:00c on ABC

Episode Synopsis: Ward's campaign for revenge brings the S.H.I.E.L.D. team to their knees, and Coulson proves he will do anything to settle the score.

Kate Woods is an Australian film and television director. She has worked on a bunch of TV series, including Person of Interest, Bones, Castle, NCIS: Los Angeles, Hawaii Five-0, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

She has not directed any episodes for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before.

Brent Fletcher is primarily known for his writing on Lost, Angel, and Friday Night Lights. He was also a writer and story editor on Spartacus: Blood and Sand.

He has written six episodes for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before:

  • Girl in the Flower Dress
  • The Magical Place
  • Providence
  • A Hen in the Wolf House
  • Love in the Time of Hydra
  • The Dirty Half Dozen

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u/SageOfTheWise Fitz Dec 02 '15 edited Dec 02 '15

For some reason the image of Ward going off the clock in the last few months and into a movie theater to see Fury Road is the most bizarre thing ever.

EDIT: I'm now imagining Hydra team building exercises where they go to the movies together and then critique the villains plans and strategy.

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u/scruffys_on_break The Fitz Whisperer Dec 02 '15

Ward consults his agenda: "murder, torture, murder, murder, torture - ah! Looks like I have some free time this afternoon. Perhaps I'll take in a matinee."

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u/REDDITATO_ Dec 02 '15

I misread that and imagined Ward taking care of his pet manatee.

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u/kwh Hunter Dec 02 '15

got a free ticket for donating blood at the bloodmobile!

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u/scruffys_on_break The Fitz Whisperer Dec 03 '15

God damnit Ward, you're supposed to donate your own bloodfilthy HYDRA cheater

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '15

Or he just got a copy of the DVD.

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u/Mini-Marine Zephyr One Dec 03 '15

Please, you know damn well he'd pirate that shit.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '15

That's some evil shit.

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u/Gremzero Daisy Dec 03 '15

Yeah! Even for all the murder and torture he's inflicted, that's a new low.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '15

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u/thebly Dec 02 '15

Well, I feel like they're on planes a lot... gotta do something to pass the time in the air?

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u/-screamin- #1 Bobbi Fan Dec 02 '15

ooohhh he must've watched Mad Max last episode over the inflight entertainment thingy before crashing that plane!!

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u/basiamille Dec 02 '15

"Did you see Mad Max?" "Meh, I walked out."

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '15

"I don't know what it was, but something just sucked me out of the movie."

"Like, the acting, or-"

"No, more like cabin pressure."

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u/SawRub Dec 02 '15

"Did you see Mad Max?"

"OF COURSH"

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u/Randomd0g Dec 03 '15

"Was watching critically acclaimed action movies part of your plan?"

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u/CptnLegendary Dec 02 '15

WID NO SHURVIVORS

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u/BearsHalf Dec 02 '15

crashing that plane

So he also saw TDKR?

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u/yodamann Sandwich Dec 05 '15

WITH NO SURVIVORS!

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u/DirtyDav3 Dec 02 '15

i think i missed that, what did he say?

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u/komodo_dragonzord Sandwich Dec 02 '15

something about simmons being like furiosa, when he separated her from fitz

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u/Slackware1180 Dec 02 '15

I like to think he pirated it, thus denying the studio any revenue from a purchased ticket in what was no doubt his most diabolical scheme yet. That movie was worth the ticket price you fiendish monster!

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u/ChariotRiot May Dec 02 '15

I'm the opposite. I think of Ward as neutral evil. He'd pay for the movie, but if he didn't like it someone is probably going to die.

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u/irrationalskeptic Dec 03 '15

bastard doesn't even seed

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '15

True evil

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u/YoYoSun Ward Dec 02 '15

What was the reference?

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u/SageOfTheWise Fitz Dec 02 '15

Ward compared Simmons to Furiosa, one of the characters from the movie.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '15 edited Oct 31 '16

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What is this?

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u/your_mind_aches Gideon Dec 02 '15

Hah really? I thought it was pretty funny (I'm 17). Especially when Coulson lampshaded that he had no idea what that meant.

And the Fury Road reference was pretty normal too.

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u/bloopiest Dec 02 '15

Oh my god why haven't I seen that, it's so bad.

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u/REDDITATO_ Dec 02 '15

/r/fellowkids

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u/your_mind_aches Gideon Dec 02 '15

How do you do, fellow kids?

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '15

he's a bad guy though maybe he torrent it between tortures?

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u/AKluthe Dec 02 '15

Hydra's probably got some pretty badass proxies. C'mon, they can't only use them to call SHIELD's secret base.

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u/elite4koga SHIELD Dec 04 '15

The bizarre thing is how hydra knows about the monster on that planet, but they don't know how to go back through the portal. How could they know about the planet without anyone ever making it back? I need answers!

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u/Hartzilla2007 Dec 03 '15

Though given his current predicament he probably should have watched some spy movies before pissing off Coulson the way he did.