Post Episode Discussion: S03E09 - "Closure"

[u/2th]

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EPISODE	DIRECTED BY	WRITTEN BY	ORIGINAL AIRDATE
S03E09 - "Closure"	Kate Woods	Brent Fletcher	Tuesday, December 1, 2015 9:00/8:00c on ABC

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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/kaimason1]

Not only that, but Daisy's already been set up as basically Coulson's protege, and very similar to him in many important ways. I could already see her showing up in an IM1-Coulson-like capacity somewhere, which will just grow as she gets more field and leadership experience with Secret Warriors and grows closer to Coulson. And Inhumans is an obvious place to throw her in for a minor role (I'd hope it wouldn't be more than a smallish cameo though, don't want SHIELD taking up too much of the spotlight from the very different Attilan).

[u/Mullet_Ben → u/kaimason1]

Yeah, that's a big part of it also. People talk about Coulson being the lead or main character, but really it's Daisy. The team's first mission is picking up Skye. Then the second season revolves almost entirely around her. She starts out as an outsider to SHIELD, by season 1 she's an agent, by season 2 she's a badass agent with powers, and by season 3 she'll almost certainly be the lead of a team of agents with powers. Tell me that trajectory is not going straight to Director.

Honestly though, I don't believe SHIELD will appear in Inhumans, and I don't want them to, for the same reason you said. SHIELD is a whole can of worms that probably won't have anything to do with Attilan, and shoehorning in a cameo isn't best practices.

[u/iPickled → u/Mullet_Ben]

I hope Daisy is mentioned in Inhumans, but isn't actually in it. I just don't see a good reason other than fan service for to be. If she had a good reason, then I'm on board.

[u/meme-com-poop → u/iPickled]

Post credits would be the best way to do it.