As the Sokovia Accords divide the Avengers on the big screen, so too are they setting up battle lines on Marvel's Agents of SHIELD. Captain America: Civil War's aftershocks reached the MCU TV series in Tuesday's episode -- the third to last of the season -- and there were some pretty major repercussions on Phil Coulson's team.

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Showrunners Maurissa Tancharoen and Jed Whedon got on the phone to talk about tying SHIELD to Marvel's latest film, and also set up what to expect in next week's two-hour season finale. After "Emancipation," Hive is going to be as troublesome as ever. "Right now he's pretty indestructible," said Whedon, "so we'll see how they tackle that problem."Read on for the full interview.

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First season, obviously, we had the most direct tie-in that will ever occur between a film and TV show. Since then it's been a little bit more nuanced in terms of us trying to establish our own universe but still living within the universe that all the movies have also been. Knowing that Civil War was coming, some of the themes and some of the issues that would be dealt with in that film, we a little bit built our season to deal with sort of the same ideas. We introduced Inhumans, and now they're a little bit more ubiquitous. They're out there, so that raises concerns and questions in the public about how to deal with people who are different.It's a common metaphor that's used in this situation, but we think it applies very well to our show. So thematically that's how we tied in, and then in terms of the events, the Sokovia Accords perfectly led us into what we wanted to deal with at the end of the season and into next season, which is, "How do you deal with a war with powered people at that level, a government level?" So we wanted to feel the ripple and have it have an emotional impact, but mostly just complicate things for our peeps.You know, we still have our antagonist that we're facing off with, but I think it will make our world more complicated, and moving forward we'll sort of change things for our team in a pretty significant way.Well, he's SHIELD through and through, and she is one of the founders. And not only is he SHIELD through and though, but he's Team Cap. He's a pretty big fanboy.I mean, it's a very significant event to our world, to SHIELD, and our characters. We absolutely had to put it in the show.It's interesting. Maybe the Coulson of old would have instantly sided with Captain America, but now given the things that he's been through and what he has witnessed and having Inhumans on his team, I think he would be fairly conflicted about it.Well, it's a fun argument for us. The argument of what to do with these people has always been an easy argument to write, because one side of it is sort of equal rights, everybody should be treated fairly. The other is gun control, you know, not everybody should have access to something that is deadly. So both sides of the argument are pretty compelling. I think that, in terms of our team, they have things they need to do. They can't have their hands tied. Now, in terms of the world as a whole, I don't know where they would fall in that argument. But right now they can't deal with any red tape because they're in a race to save the world.Right. Well, I think that Talbot's a little bit on our side now in a way that he wasn't before. We saved his son, and he and Coulson clearly have a different sort of respect for each other. But he is the voice of the President in this episode, and so I think that he would maybe side with us for the time being and help out, but longterm, who knows which side of the line he'll fall.Well, we can't say too much about what's coming, but in terms of Lash, you know, he says in the first episode, he says, "I am the cure," and we strongly felt that he in some way was aware of the dangers that Hive possessed, so it was logical that he would be sent there as sort of the [way] to kill Hive, and we like the turn that in fact it's something a little bit more emotional -- and it's not a violent act, it's actually an act of a heroic savior saving this.I think within the Inhumans we hit the theme of destiny and purpose a lot. So it only made sense to us to reveal what Lash's true purpose was. Unfortunately, it comes at a sacrifice. And the ripple effect that will have emotionally is something that you will see.All we can say is that it will have an impact. We cannot tease the circumstances or who it is or why she dies -- oops!Oh, s--t! Come on! [laughs]No, but obviously we don't want to reveal any of that. But it will have impact -- hopefully, for the audience. [laughs] But definitely for our show.You know, we've been touching on some of those themes throughout, the idea that Hive is the origin story for a bunch of these devil myths. I think that Mack is the voice a little bit of a person with faith. His world view has been rattled, I would say in the last year, two years. So for us, I don't know if we're necessarily making a statement about faith as much as we are playing with the idea of destiny.Yeah, I think from the very beginning, the inception of the show was about ordinary people within this extraordinary world, and we dealt with a man named Mike Peterson who basically considered himself to be less than when he was exposed to this world of people with gifts and powers. I think that this season we're sort of saying that, no, everyone has a purpose. Therefore, everyone has a sense of worth. Everyone has worth. Then the destiny of it is that, even in knowing that, even in knowing you have a purpose, you are still powerless to it. You are powerless to fate. You are powerless to destiny. So in sort of this theory that everyone has a purpose and a worth, we're still saying that you can't do anything about it.Yeah, while we're building up people with power, it's nice to hit on the notion that they are in fact powerless.Yeah, Inhumans were still all the same because we were just here living in this world, and we are kind of powerless to where the fates take us. So it's a way of showing the differences of each people while saying that everyone is just as worthy as the other and saying that that kind of doesn't matter, because you can't change anything. So I mean it's a way of buoying your spirits while also just saying, "Hey," taking it away I guess.Well, we can't tease much. One thing we can say is that we think that we've seen how unbeatable he is. We've hit him with missiles, we've hit him with bullets, and we like that about Hive, that he's the kind of villain where when he walks into the room you just run away. So I think that what we'll see in the finale is, how do you even go at him? How do you even try to beat him? Is there a solution to that, or do we have to give up? Do we have to take risks that we wouldn't normally take? I think that's the most compelling thing for us about Hive. That and the way Brett Dalton plays him, which we couldn't be bigger fans of. But yeah, right now he's pretty indestructible. So we'll see how they tackle that problem.That's true, that could be something. But we can't say anything about it.

Terri Schwartz is Entertainment Editor at IGN. Talk to her on Twitter at @Terri_Schwartz.