Nothing Personal

Nothing Personal is the twentieth episode of the television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..

Synopsis
With no one left to trust, Agent Maria Hill teams up with Coulson while S.H.I.E.L.D. is being destroyed.

Plot
Maria Hill leaves a Senate hearing in Washinton, DC, while talking on the phone to Pepper Potts. She notices that someone is knocked out her surveillance team, who turns out to be Melinda May. She asks about Coulson and Project T.A.H.I.T.I., and Maria says Nick Fury said that buried the information about who ran Project T.A.H.I.T.I. when he decided not to bury Coulson.

At Providence, Simmons was about to make pancakes before noticing Agent Koenig is dead and Fitz notices one of the fake windows has the message "WARD IS HYDRA" inscribed over it. They tell Coulson, Triplett, and Fitz gets an upset reaction about Ward changing sides. Coulson realizes that he has Skye and that they must save Skye. However, Coulson and the rest of the team are soon ambushed by Colonel Glenn Talbot.

It is revealed that Maria Hill told Talbot about the secret base. After hearing Coulson out and realizing Ward is Hydra, Talbot emerges ready to take the base. Alongside Coulson she battles Talbot's soldiers unarmed; defeating them with an impressive array of martial arts, and works with Coulson to save Skye. Meanwhile, on the Bus, Skye and Ward go to a Diner in Los Angeles to unlock the hard drive with all the information gathered by Coulson's Team on their missions. Ward constantly stresses about this drive. Ward and Skye are ambushed by police at the diner. Ward battles the police fficers and shoots them, while Skye attempts to run. She is stopped by Deathlok. Skye refuses to decrypt the hard drive, forcing Deathlok to nearly kill Ward with one of his weapons to convince her. As Ward tries to fly the Bus, he is confronted by Hill, who stalls long enough for Coulson to sneak on board through the landing gear. Coulson frees Skye and they escape from Deathlok in his car, Lola.

Deathlok then attempts to convince Ward to let them go now that the drive is decrypting on Garrett's orders, but Ward refuses. The team retires to a hotel, where Skye reveals she left a trap in the hard drive. Later, May returns and shows Coulson the contents of a flash drive she recovered from his "grave," specifically a message to Fury from the director of T.A.H.I.T.I. The file is a video of Coulson himself informing Fury that T.A.H.I.T.I. must be shut down because of horrific side effects the drugs had on test subjects, which could only be mitigated by erasing the victim's memory of what happened.

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 Agent Skye
 * Iain De Caestecker as Agent Leo Fitz
 * Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Jemma Simmons

Guest Stars:
 * Adrian Pasdar as Glenn Talbot
 * Cobie Smulders as Agent Maria Hill
 * Jeris Lee Poindexter as Older Man
 * Josh Breeding as a parking attendant
 * J. August Richards as Michael Peterson/Deathlok
 * B.J. Britt as Agent Antoine Triplett

Locations

 * Washington, D.C.
 * Ontario, Canada
 * Providence
 * Los Angeles, California
 * Italy (mentioned)

Vehicles

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

Items

 * Backscatter X-Ray Eye Implant
 * Coulson's Team Hard Drive

Organizations

 * S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * United States Armed Forces
 * FBI
 * CIA (mentioned)
 * NRO - National Reconnaissance Office  (mentioned)
 * United States Congress (mentioned)
 * NSA (mentioned)
 * Hitler Youth (mentioned)

Mentioned

 * Fridge
 * Man-Thing
 * Pepper Potts
 * Tony Stark
 * Project T.A.H.I.T.I.
 * Nick Fury
 * Alexander Pierce
 * Eric Koenig
 * John Garrett
 * Audrey Nathan
 * Victoria Hand
 * Red Skull
 * Thomas Nash
 * Ian Quinn
 * Ace Peterson
 * Mindy Peterson
 * Triskelion
 * Natasha Romanoff
 * Avengers

Goofs

 * When Deathlok punches through the windshield of the police car, the glass breaks as though it were standard 1/4" pane glass. Car windshields are made of laminated glass that would shatter into a spiderweb fracture pattern with no loose pieces falling out.