Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Agent Phil Coulson from the film "The Avengers" returns to lead a small, highly skilled group of agents into the field.
- Metascore74
- 2013-2020
- 7 seasons
- ABC
- Action & Adventure, Science Fiction, Suspense
- TV-PG
Agent Phil Coulson from the film "The Avengers" returns to lead a small, highly skilled group of agents into the field.
Season 1 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2013 - 2014
Episode 1
Pilot
Tue, Sep 24, 2013 44 mins
After the Battle of New York, Agent Phil Coulson recruits a specialized team to investigate new superhuman threats. Their first mission in Los Angeles forces them to stop Mike Peterson, an ordinary man struggling with an unstable, explosive serum. The team also captures hacker Skye from "The Rising Tide," eventually neutralizing the threat at Union Station and welcoming Skye onto the S.H.I.E.L.D. bus.
Episode 2
0-8-4
Tue, Oct 1, 2013 42 mins
Skye is now integrated into Coulson's team as a consultant. Their next assignment is in Peru, tracking a "0-8-4", a S.H.I.E.L.D. prefix for "an object of unknown origin". Once there, the team quickly realizes that the object is actually a piece of forgotten HYDRA technology powered by Tesseract energy. Coulson meets with a former ally, Camilla Reyes and brings her onboard the team plane. Later, Reyes betrays Coulson and plans to take the HYDRA weapon for herself so she can take over Peru. The squabbling team members band together, utilizing each of their talents, and save the day. Skye receives a text message from another member of the Rising Tide and confirms her allegiance to them. Afterwards, Director Nick Fury scolds Coulson for the damage to the plane, and warns him about the risk Skye poses.
Episode 3
The Asset
Tue, Oct 8, 2013 43 mins
When the brilliant scientist Dr. Franklin Hall is kidnapped, Agent Coulson and his S.H.I.E.L.D. team must race against the clock to locate him. Skye is their only way in - pushing the team to their limits when the entire plan turns upside-down.
Episode 4
Eye-Spy
Tue, Oct 15, 2013 43 mins
Agent Phil Coulson and his team investigate a series of high-stakes diamond heists committed by Akela Amador, a former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent presumed dead. The team discovers she is being blackmailed by a mysterious handler via an explosive, cybernetic eye implant that broadcasts everything she sees. While Ward goes undercover to mimic her feed and fool her captors, Fitz and Simmons must perform a high-tension, remote surgery to disable the device and save her life.
Episode 5
Girl in the Flower Dress
Tue, Oct 22, 2013 43 mins
Agent Phil Coulson and his team travel to Hong Kong to rescue Chan Ho Yin, a street performer with pyrokinetic abilities who has been abducted by a mysterious woman in a flower dress named Raina. The team discovers that Raina is working for the "Centipede" organization, using Chan's DNA to stabilize their volatile super-soldier serum. Meanwhile, Skye's loyalties are put to the ultimate test when the team discovers her secret connection to a rogue hacker who leaked S.H.I.E.L.D. data.
Episode 6
FZZT
Tue, Nov 5, 2013 43 mins
Agent Phil Coulson and his team investigate a series of bizarre deaths involving victims who float in mid-air before dying from a massive electrostatic shock. They trace the cause to an alien virus residing on a scavenged Chitauri helmet from the Battle of New York. The stakes become deeply personal when Jemma Simmons accidentally becomes infected, forcing Fitz to race against time to engineer a cure while the team is quarantined aboard the Bus.
Episode 7
The Hub
Tue, Nov 12, 2013 43 mins
Coulson and his team arrive at a base called the S.H.I.E.L.D Hub and are given an assignment by it's director Agent Victoria Hand. The assignment calls for Ward and Fitz to head to South Ossetia and disable a weapon device called the Overkill. Skye and Simmons try to find out more information about the mission, since they are not privy to details about the mission which has been classified as Level 8. Simmons manages to tranquilize Agent Jasper Sitwell who catches her in the act of hacking into top secret Level 8 files. Skye deduces from the information that there is no extraction team coming to pick up Ward and Fitz as Coulson learns about this upon catching her. After a talk with Victoria Hand, Coulson and the team proceed to rescue Ward and Fitz (who manage to disable the Overkill device) as S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents move in on the compound. Coulson did find out that the person who brought Skye to the orphanage when she was young was an as-yet-unidentified S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent. In the final scene, Coulson (wanting to find out about his recuperation in Tahiti) is denied access to the Level 8 information despite his high level S.H.I.E.L.D. clearance as the person he calls up about it asks if he would like to get approval from Nick Fury about it. Coulson declines and hangs up.
Episode 8
The Well
Tue, Nov 19, 2013 43 mins
Following the events of Thor: The Dark World, Agent Coulson and his team clear Asgardian debris in London, where a pagan hate group recovers a piece of the Berserker Staff. Agent Ward becomes overwhelmed by traumatic memories after touching the artifact, prompting the team to contain his rage and recover the remaining pieces with a mythology professor's help.
Episode 9
Repairs
Tue, Nov 26, 2013 43 mins
Agent Phil Coulson and his team investigate Hannah Hutchins, a safety inspector blamed for a fatal laboratory explosion who is seemingly being targeted by telekinetic phenomena driven by her own trauma. When the team brings her aboard the Bus for her own safety, they realize they are trapped with a vengeful, phase-shifting worker who survived the blast in a state between dimensions. Amidst the chaos, Agent May must confront her own past as "The Cavalry" to neutralize the threat and save the team.
Episode 10
The Bridge
Tue, Dec 10, 2013 42 mins
In the wake of re-surfacing of Centipede, Shield recruits Mike after their last not-so-warm encounter, in order to balance the scales against Centipede's super-soldiers. At this end Centipede is looking for technology which would allow them to stabilize the serum fully. Amidst all these is the myth of a Clairvoyant and Shield has never been at such a downside of advantage at discerning the true intentions of their opponents.
Episode 11
The Magical Place
Tue, Jan 7, 2014 43 mins
While S.H.I.E.L.D. pulls out all stops to locate the abducted Agent Coulson, Centipede's leader, Edison Po, and Raina subject him to a painful memory-extraction machine to uncover the secret behind his miraculous resurrection. Going rogue after being sidelined by Hand, Skye uses her hacking instincts to track down Coulson's location. The rescue mission leads to a dark compound where Coulson finally learns the unsettling, traumatic truth about the medical procedures that brought him back to life.
Episode 12
Seeds
Tue, Jan 14, 2014 43 mins
Ward, Fitz, Simmons, and Skye visit the prestigious S.H.I.E.L.D. Sci-Ops Academy to investigate a rogue freezing device that has targeted elite cadets. They soon discover that a brilliant but troubled student, Donnie Gill, is secretly constructing a massive weather-machine for a ruthless corporate buyer. Meanwhile, Coulson and May travel to Mexico to track down a former agent, uncovering the tragic, bloody history behind Skye's origins as a classified "0-8-4" asset.
Episode 13
T.R.A.C.K.S.
Tue, Feb 4, 2014 43 mins
The team goes undercover on a high-speed train in Italy to track a mysterious package being delivered to the Clairvoyant by the Cybertek corporation. Told through a compelling non-linear structure, the mission quickly goes sideways as the team is separated, forcing them to piece together what happened from multiple viewpoints. The high-stakes operation leads to a brutal confrontation with Ian Quinn, leaving Skye's life hanging in the balance and introducing the cybernetic Cybertek technology.
Episode 14
T.A.H.I.T.I.
Tue, Mar 4, 2014 45 mins
Following Skye's critical injury, Agent Coulson takes his team rogue and defies S.H.I.E.L.D. protocol to save her life. Joined by agents John Garrett and Antoine Triplett, they launch a high-stakes tactical raid on the Guest House, a top-secret, subterranean bunker containing the experimental GH-325 healing serum. While the team faces heavy security, Coulson uncovers a horrifying, alien truth behind his own resurrection just as he races to deliver the cure to Skye.
Episode 15
Yes Men
Tue, Mar 11, 2014 45 mins
The team joins forces with the Asgardian warrior Lady Sif to track down Lorelei, an escaped sorceress who has arrived on Earth with the power to mentally control any man she encounters. The mission turns dangerous when Agent Ward falls under her spell, causing him to turn against S.H.I.E.L.D. and forcing Melinda May into a brutal physical confrontation. Together, Sif and the remaining female operatives must neutralize the Asgardian threat aboard the Bus and break Lorelei's hold before it is too late.
Episode 16
End of the Beginning
Tue, Apr 1, 2014 45 mins
Agent Phil Coulson assembles a large tactical team, including John Garrett, Antoine Triplett, and Victoria Hand, to launch a coordinated global hunt for the mysterious Clairvoyant. The operation turns deadly when the heavily cybernetic Deathlok is dispatched to ambush the agents, leading to a critical confrontation. As the team closes in on their target, a shocking confrontation with a decoy mastermind forces Coulson to realize that the Clairvoyant is actually a high-ranking insider within S.H.I.E.L.D. itself, triggering immediate paranoia aboard the Bus.
Episode 17
Turn, Turn, Turn
Tue, Apr 8, 2014 44 mins
As the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier unfold, the team is thrust into chaos when Hydra is revealed to have deeply infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. from within. Trapped aboard the Bus, intense paranoia erupts as Coulson and his loyal agents must determine who among them is a traitor while fighting off attacks from rogue factions. After a high-stakes battle to secure a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility, the episode culminates in a shocking, heartbreaking betrayal that shatters the team dynamic and changes the series forever.
Episode 18
Providence
Tue, Apr 15, 2014 45 mins
With Colonel Glenn Talbot now on their trail, Coulson and his team seek refuge in the last place anyone would look, where they begin to uncover S.H.I.E.L.D.'S most dangerous secrets -- secrets that could destroy them all.
Episode 19
The Only Light in the Darkness
Tue, Apr 22, 2014 41 mins
Agent Koenig puts the team through the ultimate lie detector test and Coulson races to protect an old flame from an old enemy.
Episode 20
Nothing Personal
Tue, Apr 29, 2014 41 mins
Just when there's no one left to trust, Agent Maria Hill returns to team up with Coulson as S.H.I.E.L.D. is being destroyed around them.
Episode 21
Ragtag
Tue, May 6, 2014 42 mins
Ward's betrayal and HYDRA's shocking secrets are revealed as Coulson's team goes undercover on a mission that leaves no one unscathed.
Episode 22
Beginning of the End
Tue, May 13, 2014 44 mins
Dark secrets are revealed as Coulson and his team put everything on the line to stop Garrett and the forces of HYDRA.
