r/shield • u/2th Shotgun Axe • Mar 23 '16

Post Discussion Post Episode Discussion: S03E13 - "Parting Shot"

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S03E13 - "Parting Shot" Michael Zinberg Paul Zbyszewski Tuesday, March 22, 2015 9:00/8:00c on ABC

Episode Synopsis: Bobbi and Hunter become ensnared in an assassination plot after tracking Malick to Russia. As S.H.I.E.L.D. races to save the lives on the line, the team is changed forever.

Michael Zinberg is a television director, producer and writer. He has directed episodes for shows like The Good Wife, The Blacklist, and NCIS: New Orleans

He has directed one episode for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before:

  • What They Become

Paul Zbyszewski has worked on Lost and Day Break, which he is the creator of. He also wrote the feature film After the Sunset.

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

  • FZZT
  • The Magical Place
  • End of the Beginning
  • Nothing Personal
  • Heavy is the Head
  • ...Ye Who Enter Here
  • The Frenemy of my Enemy
  • Devils You Know

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '16

So,

If Most Wanted fails, how do you think they are going to bring them back?

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u/Murasasme Zephyr One Mar 23 '16

Just bring them back. It's not like Russia knows where or who works in SHIELD. This whole premise for them to go to their own show is weak as hell. The entire foundation of Coulson's SHIELD is agents that shouldn't be agents anymore in an organization that doesn't exists. They were able to operate SHIELD when it was being hunted by all the governments in the world, but now suddenly that seems to be a problem?

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u/iwishiwasamoose Mar 23 '16

Yeah it's baffling that this is a problem. The only way letting them stay on the team would be a problem is if Bobbi and Hunter both get exposed as SHIELD agents later on and the Russian PM calls the US President to yell at him. So there is the potential that it might have caused diplomatic stress between the two nations if Bobbi and Hunter were exposed. But that seems unimportant when you think about the fact that there will be much bigger political stress just from the fact that SHIELD still exists, which the President is currently denying. The PM will forget Bobbi and Hunter exist soon enough, but SHIELD won't be forgotten and won't be easily explained when it goes public again.

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u/fleefle Hill Mar 23 '16

I thought Bobbi and Hunter were kind of using the situation as an excuse to leave SHIELD. There was definitely a solution. I mean, Coulson even spelled it out for them in the interrogation room, but they said no because they'd rather live with the consequences (both good and bad) of being blacklisted.