Marvel's Agents of Shield Executive Producer Jeffrey Bell Breaks Down Season 2 FInale Twists

The Season 2 finale of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. aired last night and fans are still reeling from the shocking developments in the episode. Luckily, executive producer Jeffrey Bell sat down with Variety to break it al down.

Let's begin with the end of episode tag, in which the Monolith swallowed up poor Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge):

“When we first started talking about the Monolith, we knew that it needed to present a threat and we needed to demonstrate some of that threat and the promise of more story, because we want more people to watch next year...It’s easy to kill a character for shock value or whatever, and we did have a number of deaths this season, but I don’t think they were so much for shock value... We prefer to leave you with something to talk about…The idea of getting Fitz and Simmons — who had been one person — to become two whole people, come back together, agree to go on a date, and then have this happen, felt beautifully poetic and promises some really intriguing stories next season.”

He also talked about Grant Ward (Brett Dalton) and his return to Hydra:

“It sure looked like Ward’s starting his Fight Club version of Hydra, but one of our challenges [is] any time you have an evil, villainous empire, what motivates those people? Whitehall this past year was just an old school Nazi — he was literally from the ’40s, and so for him that was about power, eugenics, control, it all made sense, and for Ward to come to this place honestly… This is a guy who, a couple of episodes earlier, was really happy that he got to spend time with the old team and feel like he was part of that, but then after Agent 33’s death at his hands he did discover that he likes being part of a team. So for us, it’s a natural growth for the character, as twisted as he may be, and the idea of him with a personal vendetta against our group of SHIELD gives him all the motive he needs.”

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