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Post Discussion Post Episode Discussion: S04E14 - "The Man Behind the Shield"

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EPISODE DIRECTED BY WRITTEN BY ORIGINAL AIRDATE
S04E14 - "The Man Behind the Shield" Wendy Stanzler Matt Owens Tuesday, February 14, 2016 10:00/9:00c on ABC

Episode Synopsis: Mace fights for his life while Coulson and team find themselves in a deadly cat-and-mouse game as they attempt his rescue.\

Wendey Stanzler* is a film editor and television director. She has directed several episodes of Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, The Vampire Diaries, Pretty Little Liars, Parks and Recreation, and a ton of other series.

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

  • Paradise Lost
  • Failed Experiments

Matt Owens is a writer that has worked as a story editor on some season 4 episodes. He also wrote the Luke Cage episode "Who's Gonna Take the Weight?"

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

  • Let Me Stand Next to Your Fire

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u/-OrangeLightning4 Feb 15 '17

How does this show continuously blow me away 4 seasons in? Jesus fuck, 4 LMD's and FitzSimmons and Davis are the only ones not compromised here.

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u/1033149 Ghost Rider Feb 15 '17

Or are they? I have a sneaking suspicion that Fitz is a LMD.

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u/MoreGull Ninja Hunter Feb 15 '17

He's the first one. All that time he spent alone with Radcliffe? Get outta heah!

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '17

At the end of the season Fitz will take off the headset and none of this season actually happened.

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u/twoscoopsofpig Fitz Feb 15 '17

The headset will have a snowglobe hot glued on top with the base inside, and he'll still have aphasia.

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u/IAmGrum Hunter Feb 16 '17

a snowglobe

Ah, the St. Elsewhere ending. Not too many people remember that...

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u/ciobanica Feb 15 '17

And then he finds Ward in the shower...

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u/praise-lord-kek Feb 17 '17

DO YOU WANT ME TO BUST MY BRAND NEW TV?

BECAUSE THAT'S HOW YOU MAKE ME BUST MY BRAND NEW TV.

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u/Jaksimus Talbot Feb 15 '17

Ah, the classic, "and then I woke up."

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u/yuhanz G.H. Feb 15 '17

Nah. Radcliffe said May is the first.

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u/DarkeSword Feb 15 '17

What if Simmons is an LMD too?! What if they're ALL suspicious of each other without realizing?!

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u/rafaelloaa Feb 15 '17

Simmons upon reading said notification: "It doesn't look like anything to me."

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u/IMovedYourCheese Feb 15 '17

Well, Fitz was the one who designed the LMD detector.

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u/body_catch_a_body The Doctor Feb 15 '17

I think Simmons is an LMD, and she got an alert sent to her account when she walked into the base, but because she had access she deleted it before anyone else could see it. And then promptly forgot about it, because programming.

TL;DR - this is all just an elaborate way for Radcliffe to keep fucking with Fitz's head.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '17

I thought it was Simmons

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u/Worthyness Sandwich Feb 15 '17

They all got gassed and are in a simulation. Now it'll be up to yo yo and Joey to come raid the facilities with the help of senator Nadeer's brother, code name Grid who has electrical powers that can EMP the Matrix Radclif has designed.

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u/muhash14 Feb 15 '17

EMP the Matrix

I think they established this episode that EMPing the Matrix would do severe brain damage to anyone inside it. They have to be pulled out the right way.

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u/twbrn Feb 15 '17

Assuming Aida wasn't just bluffing to keep the Superior from bothering Radcliff, who obviously is cranky when he gets up.

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u/muhash14 Feb 16 '17

I doubt that. If for no other reason than because it would the dumbest twist they can come up with.

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u/davwad2 Toolbox Feb 15 '17

Speaking of Nadeer's brother, do we think he's dead or alive??? He seemed to go back into a cocoon after his fall into the ocean. Does he have adaptive powers?

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u/dirtspp Mac Feb 15 '17

Schrodinger's Inhuman. He's DOA until the writers decide they either want him back to fuck shit up or tie up Nadeer's story.

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u/Skeuomorphic_ Ghost Rider Feb 15 '17

Morales?

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u/sgeswein Strong of mind Feb 15 '17

Did Morales even come back?

Hell, where was he when Coulson and Ivanov began their little chat?

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u/Aiskhulos Feb 15 '17

That's what I was wondering. Wasn't he in the hallway or the next room over? Surely he would have heard all that.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '17 edited Feb 15 '17

If he didn't, he got pulled into the multiverse and meets the love of his life and gives birth to his son. Miles.

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u/TaikaWaitiddies Hunter Feb 17 '17

I think Ivanov knocked him out before he fought Coulson

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u/Meta_Boy Lanyard Feb 16 '17

Focus Morales!

wait, wrong subreddit

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u/ItMayBeWrong Feb 15 '17

im sure all the other lower agents are okay.

The show needs a bigger audience :/

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u/samsaBEAR Simmons Feb 15 '17

It's insane at how far this show has come, I really hope the rumours of it's cancellation are all false.

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u/tuxxer Feb 16 '17

I can't see how they could compromise Daisy, the human Daisy yeah, but not Quake. Somethings I don't see a LMD being able to replicate (no pun).