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Is one of these people a Hydra agent?

If you’ve seen Captain America: The Winter Soldier (last spoiler warning!), you know that movie has huge consequences on the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe - and especially seemingly unavoidable ones as far as Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD is concerned. Or, as Chloe Bennet (“Skye”) put it, when we spoke a couple weeks back, “S**t goes down.”The revelation that SHIELD had long been infiltrated by Hydra agents — up to to the very top of the organization — and then Cap seemingly taking down SHIELD, is not the kind of thing you can just gloss over on a TV show about SHIELD. Now, USA Today have revealed info about the plan going forward.At the end of the movie, SHIELD’s leadership is gone and several key agents — Maria Hill and Agent 13 among them — have left. But it looks like there is some form of SHIELD still operating, though it’s in disaray. USA Today says that in the upcoming six episodes that wrap up Season 1, there is “a civil war within the entire SHIELD organization, where no one knows who's actually a Hydra operative.” In addition (and this gets a bit more spoiler-alluding if you want to skip a paragraph), there will be “at least one major betrayal, and what's left of Coulson's team is forced to deal on their own with the dismantling of their whole world as well as the new Hydra threat.Executive producer Maurissa Tancharoen tells USA Today, "Survival is a huge part of it. There is no more tapping into big S.H.I.E.L.D. through the holo-comm. The guns you have on the plane are the guns you have. They're basically left with the bare minimum." EP Jed Whedon says the series will show the characters going from being in “the most massive organization ever created by man," to “a ragtag bunch scraping things together."While SHIELD has faced its fair share of criticisms, Tancharoen told USA Today, “Hopefully people who've had mixed feelings about the show will now understand it was all part of a big plan.”When I spoke to the SHIELD cast and crew recently, EP Jeph Loeb noted that they’d obviously known the plot of the new Cap film, “from the beginning. You know, people have to remember that when you go out to make a movie, you usually start about two years beforehand -- and we started about a year ago, so obviously when we first set out, we sat with the studio, and they laid out where it was going. But what's really important is that this is the Marvel Universe. It always has been a part of the Marvel Universe, with all things leading back to one another, whether it is publishing, whether it's in the animation group, live television or in the movies. It's obviously been very clear from the very beginning, from our pilot, we have been telling the story of what happened to Agent Coulson in The Avengers. So clearly the world of the movies is impacting our show. When folks see what's going to happen in the next few weeks, there'll be a lot of surprises.”Said Jed Whedon, “This will have a ripple effect, but it's an exciting opportunity to tee up to it and then play out from it. I think people will be excited by how we did that.”The man at the center of Agents of SHIELD, Clark Gregg (“Phil Coulson”), told me, “This is a show about a guy who's always been a company man. He's not afraid to make fun of people if they're taking themselves too seriously within that structure, whether they're superheroes or SHIELD agents. But he dedicated his life to this and grew up a fanboy of Cap, so everything he believes is going to be called into question if SHIELD isn't what it seems to be. That said, this is also a guy who died and was brought back and had one version of how that happened, and then he found out that those were all lies. So his whole world is getting torn down, and that's really interesting to play. As an audience member and someone who loves Marvel, it's always been something that they've messed with with SHIELD, and rightly so. It couldn't be more germane to this moment, because if you are the keeper of secrets, if you are the surveillance entity, who's watching you? Traditionally, anyone who's had that responsibility has abused it.”Ming-Na Wen (“Melinda May”) revealed the cast were shown Captain America: The Winter Soldier before they began making the final six episodes of Season 1. “They wanted us to see a rough cut of the film before they handed us the script that comes after The Winter Soldier. Frankly, I was even more confused and more upset. I was just like, "What the hell is going on!?" No other franchise has tried to achieve this, so fingers crossed that it all works out, that it does tie in. For me, I feel like it ties in incredibly well. Marvel and our producers, they're so smart in how they're developing our characters and yet being able to make what happens in that movie affect us.”Bennet told me, “What happens in Cap 2 is what happens to SHIELD on a big level, but it affects our show on a personal level, which is what's so beautiful about the fact that we're a TV show.” As for how different Agents of SHIELD will be after Captain America: The Winter Solider versus before it, Bennet said the series changes, “128 million percent. It will change the feel of our show, yeah.”