User blog comment:Demileto/Is Lincoln Campbell really an alias for Thomas Ward?/@comment-26844548-20150801151422/@comment-26412466-20151012195204

The "links to HYDRA" Christian has thus far is through Grant, but really, it wouldn't shock me in the slightest to find out that he has FAR deeper ones than this.

An interesting thing to notice about "A Fracture House", the episode that introduced Christian, is that while Coulson believes the mastermind of the attacks on the UN and SHIELD's safehouse to be Daniel Whitehall the connection is actually pretty fragile, coming down to the splinter bombs being made from Whitehall's research on Diviner technology. In no moment of this episode do Marcus Scarlotti or Julien Beckers ever acknowledge who they're working for, and neither Whitehall nor Bakshi acknowledge their hand on those events in later episodes. Worse, this is the only episode where Whitehall frontally attacks SHIELD, in all the other ones he's pretty much content on being the CEO of HYDRA's research branch, investigating alien biology and technology to find out ways to weaponize them for HYDRA, so his role in those events feel pretty much out of place. Christian, however, played a direct role in the threat SHIELD faced in 2x06 - his proposal of an international anti-SHIELD task force is what forces Coulson to direct his world operatives to the safehouse - and expressed some very beligerant anti-SHIELD views in that episode, so it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to find out that CHRISTIAN, not Whitehall, was the real mastermind of the attack on the UN and the safehouse. In fact, I'm betting a lot on Christian being the 3B big bad, so I tend to view that whole episode to be less of a season 2 one and more of a prologue to season 3.