Daisy Johnson (Chloe Bennet) has evolved a lot since Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD began -- well beyond simply finding out her real name (farewell, “Skye”) -- as she discovered she was actually an Inhuman with incredible abilities that can cause earthquakes.

Season 3 ended with Daisy leaving behind SHIELD entirely, with an epilogue set months later showing the team trying to bring her in, and Daisy now referred to as “Quake” (her comic book alias) by the media for the first time, and apparently a wanted woman.

Chloe Bennet as Daisy Johnson/Quake in Marvel's Agents of SHIELD.

I spoke to Bennet about where Season 4 finds Daisy, the introduction of Robbie Reyes/Ghost Rider (Gabriel Luna) and more... including what certainly sounds like a hint that Daisy and Ghost Rider will be spending some time together.

IGN TV: Your character’s on the run. What can you say about where we pick up? We had that time jump already so are we picking up in the wake of that?

Chloe Bennet: Yeah, we pick up right around 6 months later. She’s gone rogue. She’s hurting. She is in pain. She’s hurting from what’s happened the past couple of seasons and I think her way of protecting the people she cares about, Coulson and the team and SHIELD, is to really isolate herself. I think she feels like when she gets close to people they die or something bad happens to them. Wherever she goes, death follows. I think she feels that way and I think she’s trying to stay clear of the team as some sort of mechanism to protect them and herself.

IGN: Those newspaper articles we saw were interesting because it seems like she has quite a reputation going. Clearly she’s perceived as a criminal of some sort...

Bennet: If you read closely at what the articles were saying, people are miraculously always saved. There might be some physical damage to buildings or bridges but good things always come out of these tragedies so I don’t think she’s what people are saying she is.

IGN: And they got the name Quake in there!

Bennet: Yes! Finally! I was really excited, because I was wondering how they were going to do it. They had it written it into another episode to have the reveal, like, “I hear people call you Quake” and then they cut it out.

IGN: Agents of SHIELD has changed up its dynamic more than once. Is it safe to say this feels like another iteration of the series?

Bennet: Yes! I think all the storylines from Season 1 got tied up at the end of Season 3 and this, more than ever, feels like a fresh start or a different start.

IGN: Let me ask about Ghost Rider. What's it like bringing in a character of that sort to Agents of SHIELD?

Bennet: It’s exciting! I was curious. It is always a little scary and you want everything to work well, but Gabriel is wonderful and fits in perfectly with the cast and I’m excited to see where they go with it. All the powers so far have been really rooted in something that Fitz and Simmons can always explain. I’m curious to see how they tie in a flaming head/skull on fire, and how they explain that with science.

IGN: We spoke last season about seeing Daisy’s powers get bigger and more impressive. Is that continuing to be the case this year?

Bennet: Definitely. I think we see that at the end of the season with her ability to kind of leap or fly. And so she’s become even more powerful. But that doesn’t come without a cost. I think you’ll see right away the repercussions of her powers not being monitored by SHIELD and you really see how SHIELD is necessary for people with powers.

IGN: Anything you can say about who you might be working with a lot this season?

Bennet: I think I can say I have not been working with our dear cast as much as normal. And I’ve spent some time on the east side of LA… at night…

IGN: Hmm! And sometimes you can use a flaming skull guy to help you...?

Bennet: ...I don’t know! [Laughs]

Marvel's Agents of SHIELD: Season 4 premieres Tuesday, September 20th on ABC.

Eric Goldman is Executive Editor of IGN TV. You can follow him on Twitter at @TheEricGoldman, IGN at ericgoldman-ign and Facebook at Facebook.com/TheEricGoldman.