Love in the Time of HYDRA

Love in the Time of HYDRA is the fourteenth episode of the second season of the television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.  and the thirty-sixth episode overall.

Synopsis
Coulson and his team are still reeling from a shocking revelation that leaves the team fractured as they must decide what to do with one of their own. Meanwhile, Bobbi and Mack reveal their true allegiance to Hunter, while elsewhere, Ward and Agent 33 embark on a personal mission.

Plot
On Andrew Garner's recommendation, Phil Coulson pulls Skye from active duty, and leaves her at a S.H.I.E.L.D. Safe House with gloves designed to help surpress her abilities, asking her to take some time to learn to control her powers.

Grant Ward and Agent 33 hunt down the man who created the Photostatic Veil. He fixes her mask so she can revert to her original appearance, albeit still scarred, and change her appearance to anyone she wishes. Using this, they infiltrate Glenn Talbot's base and break out Sunil Bakshi, whom S.H.I.E.L.D. had handed over as a sign of good faith. From Bakshi they learn about Agent 33's life before Daniel Whitehall brainwashed her, including her name, Kara, before brainwashing him themselves.

Alphonso Mackenzie introduces Lance Hunter to Robert Gonzales and the leadership of the "real S.H.I.E.L.D.", founded on the ideal of transparency, rather than Nick Fury's mantra of compartmentalization. They see Coulson and his erratic behavior as a threat, and as Hunter escapes, Bobbi Morse decides to attack Coulson's group immediately.

Cast
Main Cast:
 * Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson
 * Ming-Na Wen as Melinda May and Agent 33 (impersonation)
 * Brett Dalton as Grant Ward
 * Chloe Bennet as Skye and Agent 33 (impersonation)
 * Iain De Caestecker as Leo Fitz
 * Elizabeth Henstridge as Jemma Simmons
 * Nick Blood as Lance Hunter
 * Adrianne Palicki as Bobbi Morse

Guest Stars:
 * Adrian Pasdar as Brigadier General Glenn Talbot
 * Henry Simmons as Alphonso Mackenzie
 * Maya Stojan as Agent 33
 * Simon Kassianides as Sunil Bakshi
 * Kirk Acevedo as Agent Tomas Calderon
 * Christine Adams as Agent Anne Weaver
 * Edward James Olmos as Robert Gonzales
 * Parisa Fakhri as Lieutenant Decker
 * Raquel Gardner as Carla Talbot and Agent 33 (impersonation)
 * Anna Campbell as Major Meredith Tredwyck and Agent 33 (impersonation)
 * Meredith Bishop as Captain Anderson
 * Landall Goolsby as Selwyn
 * Gigi Bermingham as Rhonda
 * Shannon McClung as Staff Sergeant Brockton and Agent 33 (impersonation)
 * Mark Allan Stewart as Agent Oliver
 * Murielle Telio as Young Starlet and Agent 33 (impersonation)
 * Kieren van den Blink as Female Lieutenant
 * Raquel Pomplun as International Model and Agent 33 (impersonation)
 * Scott Speiser as Station Guard

Locations

 * Playground
 * S.H.I.E.L.D. Safe House
 * Puerto Rico (mentioned)
 * Kree City (mentioned)
 * Bahrain (mentioned)
 * Athens, Georgia (mentioned)
 * Arizona (mentioned)

Events

 * S.H.I.E.L.D. Civil War (mentioned)

Items

 * Toolbox
 * Photostatic Veil
 * Diviner (mentioned)
 * City Blueprints (mentioned)

Sentient Species

 * Humans
 * Inhumans

Vehicles

 * Bus
 * Quinjet
 * S.H.I.E.L.D. Aircraft Carrier
 * Lola

Organizations

 * S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * Phil Coulson's faction
 * Robert Gonzales' faction
 * HYDRA
 * United States Armed Forces
 * Avengers (mentioned)

Mentioned

 * Index
 * Faustus
 * Captain America
 * Bruce Banner / Hulk
 * Daniel Whitehall
 * Andrew Garner
 * Nick Fury
 * Isabelle Hartley
 * Antoine Triplett
 * Raina
 * Calvin Zabo
 * Robert Coulson
 * John Garrett
 * George Talbot

Trivia

 * The title of this episode is an allusion to the romance novel  by.