User blog comment:Demileto/Is Lincoln Campbell really an alias for Thomas Ward?/@comment-26273890-20150525003750/@comment-26918230-20150824120501

I’ve seen a number of theories regarding the possible true identity of Grant Ward from the comics and given the Daisy Johnson connection his being Hellfire makes the most sense. He certainly fills the role of the Hydra double agent with no real loyalty to Hydra (in the case of Grant, he was loyal to John Garrett, and in the case of J. T. coerced into service to Hydra after pilfering some funds of theirs from S.H.I.E.L.D. custody they managed to track) whose primary redeeming quality is supposed to be his love for Daisy. Though Grant in my opinion presents a far more compelling character with a lot more potential for story, so I hope doesn’t meet as swift and ignominious an end as his comic-book origin (and given the greater elaboration of his family history we can take as a promise, I don’t feel he’ll be as readily dispensible). I don’t expect any real redemption for Grant before Season 4 at the earliest... I would hope the interaction and resolution with his family in Season 3 might give him some pause in his journey but right now he’s on a really dangerous trajectory and it’s not something he can turn around from overnight. I expect the writers will be going all in with his villainy and as long as it’s well-written the whole way I’m looking forward to seeing how far he will go on the dark side of things. They could go in a number of directions with this, but I think it’s going to be one of those things where even his love for the few people he values won’t be enough to sway him from the role he feels he needs to fulfil before he’s at rock bottom, and there’s going to be too many people in the way as collateral damage. My primary thought is that I’m not really sure I see a place for Lincoln Campbell on the show in the long term (whether he eventually dies or moves on to another part of the MCU as I guess will be the case with Hunter and Morse in future), but if he does in fact turn out to be Thomas Ward (or whoever turns out to be Thomas Ward) that adds a far greater risk to his mortality. Kara Lynn Palamas was the first real casualty in this obsession of Grant Ward seeking “closure” (ahem, revenge) and I doubt she will be the last. I don’t think it’s ever going to end until people he cares about have paid the price for it and he can finally recognise full responsibility for his actions (just as he was responsible for at least Kara Lynn’s death, though not for all that was done to her by Hydra and S.H.I.E.L.D. in life, but his mind refuses to accept it as anything more than further cause to destroy everyone). Skye won’t die as she’s Daisy Johnson, but the person he probably loved the most before her entry into his life, Thomas, could easily wind up dead or permanently injured. So many troubling possibilities but that there are so many possibilities at all has me excited for Season 3 to start.