Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. bosses on death twist and what’s next.
Daisy has gone totally goth and is on the run. She’s not with S.H.I.E.L.D. She’s with the family of the Inhuman who gave her the premonition in the first place. What’s going on there?
TANCHAROEN: She’s keeping a promise.
WHEDON: She did promise that she would take care of them. She set out to take care of Inhumans, even though it morphed into a leadership role.
TANCHAROEN: I think it’s maybe an example of what she may be doing now. Lincoln said, “I think you’re meant for more than this.” I don’t think she’s going to take his sacrifice lightly and crawl up in a ball – maybe she did for a while – about what that meant. She didn’t get to do the one heroic act that would erase all that she had done, so now she’s going to have to do a ton of little ones for the rest of her life.
TANCHAROEN: With that six-month jump, we know a few things going into season 4. We know that she’s on her own, we know that S.H.I.E.L.D. is going after her, and we also know that while being on her own, she’s still doing good works, and that’s keeping an Inhuman that meant a lot to her, because he made her see the future. She said, “I’ll take care of your daughter.” She’s following through. We still know at her core, even though she’s riddled with guilt and she looks different, she still has Daisy’s heart.
LOEB: And also, in many ways, we’ve come back to –
WHEDON: – who she was.
LOEB: The girl who she was in the very beginning, which is someone on her own trying to find her place in the world, and trying to do it without S.H.I.E.L.D.
What is the rest of S.H.I.E.L.D. dealing with? They spent the last five episodes of the season trying to save her, and now she’s not with them anymore. I have to imagine some of them aren’t happy about that.
TANCHAROEN: Uh-huh. That’s right.
WHEDON: You’ll have to imagine it.
LOEB: That’s a fun thing to imagine.
BELL: And Coulson’s no longer director.
Yeah, what’s going on there?
TANCHAROEN: I don’t know. Do you know why?
WHEDON: The first scene of next season is they turn to each other and go, “Just kidding, you’re still the director.” [Laughs.]
BELL: We just call everybody director now.
Does that tie at all to Coulson’s reluctance with the Sokovia Accords or why they’re going after Daisy and Coulson’s reticence to be a part of that?
LOEB: Let’s just say that as a result of what’s happened, there will be some changes that happened to the organization.
With all that’s happened, is this the end of Secret Warriors, or is there still hope for it in the future?
BELL: We’ve got cool people with punchy powers, so we don’t want that to go away.
WHEDON: They’re in the world, but right now they’re not banded together in any way. There’s always hope in the future.
Dr. Radcliffe has been working on a Marvel staple: Life Model Decoys! Spill!
LOEB: LMD’s have always been part of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s history in the comics so it felt like the right time to intro them into the show. As to how and where and most importantly who, that’s what Season 4 will bring. It does ask that question: Who, or what, can you trust?
Do you plan to have John Hannah around next season?
TANCHAROEN: We like John Hannah.
WHEDON: We like him very much. We love how he interacts with our people.
TANCHAROEN: He’s an interesting character.
Do you have any sense of who might be the new big bad for season 4, especially now that Hydra is really gone?
WHEDON: We’re having those conversations. They’re going nowhere, but we’re having them.
LOEB: Look, what we have is an extraordinary library. The idea is to be able to find out who that’s going to be and make that person work within the story that we have.
For more Marvel’s Agents f S.H.I.E.L.D. scoop, read out postmortem with Brett Dalton here and our postmortem with Luke Mitchell here.
Plus: the cast reacts to hose deaths on set here.
Original article at Entertainment Weekly.