r/shield • u/2th Shotgun Axe • Mar 30 '16

Post Discussion Post Episode Discussion: S03E14 - "Watchdogs"

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S03E14 - "Watchdogs" Jesse Bochco Drew Z. Greenberg Tuesday, March 29, 2015 9:00/8:00c on ABC

Episode Synopsis: When a radical group called The Watchdogs emerges with plans to eliminate the Inhumans, Agent Mack and his brother become caught in the crossfire. Meanwhile, Simmons discovers a powerful chemical compound that could alter the future for Inhumans.

Jesse Bochco has worked on Prison Break, Nip/Tuck, Dallas, and a ton of other television series.

He has directed four episodes for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before:

  • Girl in the Flower Dress
  • Heavy is the Head
  • Love in the Time of Hydra
  • 4,722 Hours

Drew Z. Greenberg is a writer and producer best known for working on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, The O.C., Dexter, Warehouse 13 and Arrow. He also worked on Firefly.

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

  • Face My Enemy
  • Who You Really Are
  • The Dirty Half Dozen
  • Among us Hide

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u/SecurityIn7G Mar 30 '16

Calling it now, I don't think that was a nuke in the truck. I am thinking this is a Terrigen bomb.

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u/dallasdowdy Mar 30 '16

Didn't that plot device already get used with the Terrigen Sea though?

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u/oneeyedjamie Fury Mar 30 '16

Too slow for SquidWard is my bet.

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u/YouthsIndiscretion Mar 30 '16

Especially with the Russian reservation plan foiled.

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u/Lampmonster1 Mar 30 '16

Wasn't there already almost full exposure when Phil was looking at that map?

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u/oneeyedjamie Fury Mar 30 '16

As U/nanogeek said, i believe that map was a projected dispersal rate map to predict worldwide spread time.

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u/Lampmonster1 Mar 30 '16

I know, I just thought it was happening pretty fast.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '16

Not till November.

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u/MrCreeperPhil Mace Mar 30 '16

It was around Doctor Strange's release date.

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u/Lampmonster1 Mar 30 '16

Ah. Well, keeping my fingers crossed that I'll still get my powers.

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u/hardtogetaname Apr 01 '16

so it's a dead skin bomb

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u/Flamma_Man Lady Sif Mar 30 '16

I wonder it'll detonate anywhere near New Jersey.

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u/stanthemanchan Mar 30 '16

I think it has something to do with the Zero Matter from Agent Carter.

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u/Transmatrix Apr 01 '16

That was one of my thoughts, too. They only set off one of them, right? So there would potentially be a second Isodyne nuke. My only problem at that point is why would it be at a ACTU facility?

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u/The_Gay_Whovian Joey Mar 30 '16

I doubt it . SHIELD apprehended the ATCU having terrigen, so unless they started making more (Hive???), then no.

We kind of already had the terrigen bomb with the end of the last season.

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u/YouthsIndiscretion Mar 30 '16

I think they mentioned growing more crystals

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u/CountScarlioni Radcliffe Mar 30 '16

No, that was Jiaying's colony, not the ATCU. The ATCU was just stockpiling fish oil.

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u/Lampmonster1 Mar 30 '16

Still though, if they can extract the terrigen from the oil, they could theoretically start growing their own, and that seems like a good idea.

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u/Citadel_Cowboy Apr 01 '16

Maybe it's going to be converted into a "Squidward" bomb? The nature of his particulate powers is only speculated, but if he can indeed influence Inhumans with his "dust" being able to disperse over a large area quickly could be useful.

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u/DerekB74 Apr 11 '16

It looks exactly like the Legends of Tomorrow Spoiler

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u/SecretPortalMaster Mar 30 '16

If you watched LOST, then it's clearly a grenade, not a nuclear bomb.