Providence (episode)

Providence is the eighteenth episode of the television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..

Synopsis
With Colonel Glenn Talbot now on their trail, Coulson and his team seek refuge in the last place anyone would look, where they begin to uncover S.H.I.E.L.D.'s most dangerous secrets. Secrets that could destroy them all.

Plot
Grant Ward frees Raina from her confinement and introduces Garrett to her as the Clairvoyant. Despite her initial disappointment that Garrett does not actually have any powers, he tasks her with conducting research on the Guest House drugs for Project Centipede, which was secretly backed by HYDRA.

Meanwhile, Colonel Glenn Talbot contacts Coulson and informs him a military team is en route to the Hub. Not trusting Talbot, Coulson leaves with the team and Triplett. He orders Skye to erase the identities of all the team members, including Ward. However, when Coulson collects the team's badges, he discovers a hidden message with coordinates to the Canadian wilderness. There they discover the hidden S.H.I.E.L.D. base, Providence, run by Eric Koenig. Coulson learns from Koenig that Fury is alive but is told to keep the information secret. He also learns from May that Fury did not oversee the T.A.H.I.T.I. project.

Elsewhere, Ward and Garrett infiltrate the Fridge freeing its prisoners and stealing weapons including the Berserker Staff and the 0-8-4 from Peru. At the HYDRA base, Raina informs Garrett that the hard drive containing all of Skye and Simmons' research is locked with a password only Skye holds, prompting Garrett to send Ward to Providence to obtain it. Later, Ian Quinn, who is angry at Garrett for his lies, is brought to the HYDRA base to reclaim his Gravitonium, which was retrieved from the Fridge.

Cast

 * Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson
 * Ming-Na Wen as Agent Melinda May
 * Brett Dalton as Agent Grant Ward
 * Chloe Bennet as Agent Skye
 * Iain De Caestecker as Agent Leo Fitz
 * Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Jemma Simmons
 * Bill Paxton as Agent John Garrett
 * B.J. Britt as Agent Antoine Triplett
 * David Conrad as Ian Quinn
 * Ruth Negga as Raina
 * Adrian Pasdar as Colonel Glenn Talbot
 * Patton Oswalt as Agent Eric Koenig
 * Patrick Brennan as Marcus Daniels
 * Kylie Furneaux as Agent Shade
 * Rich Paul as Agent #1
 * Bayardo De Murguia as Agent #2
 * Jeffrey Muller as Agent Kaminsky
 * Alysha Del Valle as ABC Reporter
 * Ramon Hilario as Ernesto the barber

Locations

 * The Hub
 * The Fridge
 * Havana, Cuba
 * Barbershop Headquarters


 * Ontario, Canada
 * Providence

Items

 * Pick-Lock Device
 * Berserker Staff
 * 0-8-4
 * Gravitonium

Vehicles

 * The Bus
 * Lola
 * S.H.I.E.L.D. SUV

Organizations

 * S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * HYDRA
 * United States Air Force

Mentioned

 * Cube (S.H.I.E.L.D. Facility)
 * Tesseract
 * Triskelion
 * Centipede Project
 * Tom Brady
 * New England Patriots
 * Moby Dick
 * Black Widow
 * Nick Fury
 * GH.325
 * John Horton
 * Chitauri
 * Call of Duty
 * Captain America
 * Maria Hill
 * Battle of New York
 * Project T.A.H.I.T.I.