So how about that Agents of SHIELD season finale? The end of Hive! The Fallen Agent revealed! The world spared from an Inhuman apocalypse! An exciting adventure from start to finish.

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: "Absolution" Photos 7 IMAGES

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Want to get inside the head of one of the stars of the show? One of the actors who took the big season finale hit and got killed off? Well, I spoke to SHIELD's Brett Dalton about his big show exit after three seasons, the final moments of Hive (and Lincoln), Hive's big fight with Daisy, and more.Yeah, thanks for bringing that up. [laughs] No, really though, for every significant change my character goes through I have this really long walk to the office with all of the producers. I've done it three times now, and I've dodged a bullet twice. And this time around, it stuck. And obviously, they only tell me the episode before. I think they do that for a couple reasons, but that's how it lands. Always the episode before. And so once again I took this long crazy walk. It's a walk to the principal's office, really. It's not fun. And I go there and I sit down and usually one of the first things they say is "Don't worry, you're not dead. There's just a really big change coming. Let us tell you about it." But this time, they didn't say that. It was all about what was not said. They did the long nod and the door was closed and there was some more long nodding.And I knew this day would be coming at some point. As the bad guy, you kind of know your days are numbered and that it's probably going to happen. But it's always sad when it actually does. Of course, I love the show and I love what I'm doing, but I'm going to particularly miss the people. Because that's irreplaceable and that's something you don't get anywhere else. I'm going to miss my family.Actually, that was on the very last day and to somehow condense all of that into one day was crazy. We had a wrap party that kept getting moved and moved and moved and I'm pretty impressed that we handled that fight in the limited about of time we had. Because normally we would have more time allotted. But we were all on our game. Chloe's been doing these fight scenes a lot. In almost every episode, it seems. So she's been really picking up that mantle. In Season 1 and in Season 2, I had a lot of them myself. So it was two people who had a great deal of experience with this. Who are just capable out there throwing punches and stuff. And this fight was three seasons in the making. So it was really exciting and I think she was definitely bringing it. She went there. I tried to myself, but Hive can't really show that much emotion. But it was a lot of fun.That was my favorite scene in the whole script. I was very happy that they gave him a moment. Actually both of them - Hive and Lincoln - a moment. I thought that, at that point, what was Hive going to do? Put Lincoln under sway for three minutes until this bomb goes off? What would be the point of that? There was nothing these two people could do. They were in a circumstance unlike anything else. It's a very unlikely scene between two people who wouldn't even necessarily be in a scene together. I guess they'd had theirs earlier, where there was a cat and mouse chase scene. But for the most part, here were two people sharing the last moments of their life together. So it was strange to have these two guys together. But it was personal and intimate and vulnerable.It's like looking into a fire. Somehow the truth comes out. You're looking at the Earth, man. It's so far away. And you'll get a perspective on things. For Hive, he was trying to change that entire thing and everyone who was on there. And Lincoln has just been pretty much trying to change one person who lives on there. These opposite perspectives come together and both men have time to reflect. I think there's a great deal of remorse on both of their ends that they weren't able to achieve that connection and do all the things that they wanted to do. But there was also an acceptance.Oh, man. Everybody. Really, everybody. I can say something nice about everyone of them. Ian's [De Caestecker] my best friend so of course that would have been great. We had some scenes in Season 2, so that was fun. But ever since I became a bad guy I didn't get to work with the original six nearly enough. And Elizabeth and I just had that scene where I was Will - even though I was Hive, I was coming to her as Will. And I was so drop-dead impressed. It was just so amazing to work with her. So really, just everybody. I don't know how to answer that!

For more on Agents of SHIELD's Season 3 finale, click here to see what executive producers Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen told us about the deaths of Lincoln and Hive Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association (TCA). Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/Showrenity