T.R.A.C.K.S.

T.R.A.C.K.S. is the thirteenth episode of the first season of the television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..

Synopsis
Hot on the trail of The Clairvoyant, Coulson and his team board a mystery train that seems to be headed for certain death.

Plot
In order to find the Clairvoyant, the team boards a train in Italy, on which a Cybertek Inc. security group led by Carlo Mancini was shipping a ten-million dollar package to Ian Quinn. The team takes over the mission for an Italian police member named Luca Russo. The team splits into groups, with Phil Coulson and Jemma Simmons posing as a father and daughter, while Leo Fitz and Skye work with Grant Ward and Melinda May to track down the package.

However, the group is exposed, leaving Coulson and Ward to flee the train. May also goes missing, having been captured by Luca Russo and tortured for information. May manages to escape, and returns to the Bus, where she informs Coulson and Ward that they had been sold out by Russo. May swiftly kills said offender.

The team finds the train and Simmons, but Fitz and Skye are gone, having disembarked to track the package to Quinn's mansion. In the basement, Skye is confronted by Quinn and Mancini, who reveal that Mike Peterson is alive, having been kept in a hyperbaric chamber. Mancini opens the package containing a high-tech prosthetic leg which he then fits onto Peterson's amputated right leg.

To test Peterson's obedience to the Centipede Project, Quinn orders him to kill Skye. He refuses, stating that Skye is not who he is supposed to kill. Instead, Quinn then shoots Skye twice in the stomach and leaves her for dead, stating that he has his own orders. Peterson then executes the Cybertek security team because they led S.H.I.E.L.D. to the mansion.

Quinn walks right into a S.H.I.E.L.D. raid on the mansion. Quinn is arrested, but Skye is left near death. Simmons can only sustain her temporarily by placing her into Peterson's hyperbaric chamber. Peterson has gained his new prosthetic leg through "Project Deathlok". He secretly observes his son at a playground and requests through his robotic eye that his handler let him see his son, by writing on a piece of paper for the handler to read. He receives a response of, "not yet".

Cast
Main Cast:
 * Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson
 * Ming-Na Wen as Agent Melinda May
 * Brett Dalton as Agent Grant Ward
 * Chloe Bennet as Skye
 * Iain De Caestecker as Agent Leo Fitz
 * Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Jemma Simmons

Guest Stars:
 * J. August Richards as Michael Peterson/Deathlok
 * David Conrad as Ian Quinn
 * Carlo Rota as Luca RussoStanLee-AoS.png
 * Emily Baldoni as Sofia
 * T.J. Ramini as Carlo Mancini
 * Stan Lee as Debonair Gentleman
 * Ludwig Manukian as the Conductor
 * Brandon Molale as Smith

Locations

 * Italy
 * Ian Quinn's Villa
 * Verona, Italy (mentioned)
 * Los Angeles, California
 * Zagreb, Croatia (mentioned)
 * Scotland (mentioned)
 * , England (mentioned)
 * , Thailand (mentioned)
 * Barrow, Alaska (mentioned)
 * United States (mentioned)
 * The Hub (mentioned)
 * S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters (mentioned)
 * Asgard (mentioned)
 * Asgard (mentioned)

Items

 * Holocom
 * Holotable
 * Infrared Goggles
 * Tactical Parachute
 * Dendrotoxin Grenade
 * Night-Night Pistol
 * Tracker
 * Localized EMP Device
 * Hyperbaric Chamber
 * Centipede Device
 * Backscatter X-Ray Eye Implant
 * Cybertek Prosthetic Leg
 * S.H.I.E.L.D. Satellite
 * Peruvian 0-8-4 (mentioned)

Vehicles

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

Organizations

 * S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * HYDRA
 * Centipede Project
 * Cybertek
 * Quinn Worldwide

Mentioned

 * The Clairvoyant
 * Raina (photograph)
 * Edison Po (photograph)
 * Emil Blonsky
 * Ace Peterson
 * 0-8-4 (Code)

Trivia

 * On the jet Phil Coulson tells Grant Ward if anything goes wrong he'll spend rest of career in Alaska, doing night shift on Blonsky cryo cell. Blonsky refers to Emil Blonsky, the Abomination, an enemy of the Hulk.