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Ragtag

First Aired

May 6, 2014

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"We have no authority to do this. We're no longer S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. We're..."
"We're vigilantes."
"I was gonna say, 'doing this because it's the right thing to do,' but... yeah."

―Phil Coulson and Leo Fitz^[src]

Ragtag is the twenty-first episode of the first season of the television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..

Synopsis

In the last episode before the epic season finale, Ward's betrayal and HYDRA's shocking secrets are revealed as Coulson's Team goes undercover on a mission that leaves no one unscathed.

Plot

Fifteen years in the past, Grant Ward meets John Garrett at a juvenile detention facility, where he is being held after trying to burn down his family's home.

After agreeing to join the secret organization Garrett says he works for, Ward is left in the wilderness alone, forced to survive for months until Garrett returned. Garrett eventually tells him about HYDRA's presence within S.H.I.E.L.D., and Ward agrees to join.

In the present, Coulson's Team connects Centipede Project, Garrett, and others to a common source: Cybertek. Phil Coulson and Melinda May infiltrate Cybertek to activate Skye's Trojan horse she had left on the hard drive, only to find file cabinets instead of mainframes.

However, they learn that Garrett had been the first subject for the Project Deathlok, which began in 1990. As such, Garrett's implants are currently failing, with a few months to live, desperate to complete the Centipede Serum to save himself. Coulson's team finds the Barbershop Headquarters in Havana, Cuba, but Garrett's men have already left, except for several Centipede soldiers. Ward captures Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons, who split from the others to find the Bus, but Fitz is able to use an EMP Joy Buzzer to short out Garrett's body.

The dying Garrett orders Ward to kill Fitz and Simmons, who are hiding from him in a locked medical pod. Ward struggles with following through on the orders, deciding to eject the pod into the ocean instead of putting bullets in their heads. Raina then injects Garrett with the synthesized GH.325 drug to work with his Centipede Serum. Initially, the drug seems to cause an Extremis reaction, before Garrett stabilizes and claims to "feel the universe."

In Washington, D.C., Ian Quinn proposes the sale of Centipede Soldiers and Deathlok Soldiers to the US government, using Deathlok's assassination of Alejandro Castillo as evidence of the program's success.

Cast

Main Cast:

Guest Stars:

Bill Paxton as John Garrett
J. August Richards as Mike Peterson/Deathlok
B.J. Britt as Agent Antoine Triplett
David Conrad as Ian Quinn
Ruth Negga as Raina
Austin Lyon as Teenage Grant Ward
Glenn Morshower as General Jacobs
Paul Elia as Diaz
Joel Johnstone as Ott
Jeffrey Muller as Agent Kaminsky
Ramon Hilario as Ernesto
Mark Berry as Admiral Jolnes
Jay Montalvo as Reporter
Aaron Landon as Pizza Delivery Guy
Michael Hilow as Cybertek Employee (uncredited)
Barbara Grace Dior as News Reporter (uncredited)
CJ Brady as Hipster Agent (uncredited)
Greg Duncan as Special Forces Soldier (uncredited)
James Timphony as S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent (uncredited)
Mike Serlin as Cybertek Security Guard (uncredited)
Lex Lang as Agent Decker (voice; uncredited)
Unknown actor as Alejandro Castillo (uncredited)

Appearances

Locations

Plymouth, Massachusetts
- Plymouth Juvenile Secure Unit
Los Angeles, California
Palo Alto, California
- Cybertek Corporate Headquarters
Havana, Cuba
- Barbershop Headquarters
- Abel Santamaría Airport
Washington, D.C.
- Washington Monument
- United States Capitol
Wyoming
Bogotá, Colombia (mentioned)
Brazil (mentioned)
Cambodia (mentioned)
Syria (mentioned)
Rome, Italy (mentioned)
Hunan, China (mentioned)
Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (mentioned)
Miami, Florida (mentioned)
S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy (mentioned)
Saint Agnes Orphanage (mentioned)

Events

Items

Vehicles

Creatures

Dogs
- Buddy
Deer

Organizations

S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Coulson's Team
HYDRA
- Centipede Project
  - Centipede Soldiers
Cybertek
- Brand Corporation
- Metrobank
- Project Deathlok (mentioned)
  - Deathlok Soldiers (mentioned)
United States Navy
United States Marine Corps
Howling Commandos (mentioned)

Mentioned

Trivia

The episode's stinger begins with a shot of Washington, D.C. that clearly shows Theodore Roosevelt Island, which was established in Captain America: The Winter Soldier to be the location of the Triskelion. However, the ruins of the building are not present in the shot, constituting a continuity error.

Videos

Marvel's Agents of SHIELD 1x21 Promo "Ragtag" (HD)

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 1x21 Sneak Peek 1 "Ragtag"

Marvel's Agents of SHIELD 1x21 "Ragtag" Sneak Peek Clip 2 (HD)

References

The Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki has a collection of images and media related to Ragtag.

External Links

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Season One	Pilot • 0-8-4 • The Asset • Eye-Spy • Girl in the Flower Dress • FZZT • The Hub • The Well • Repairs •The Bridge • The Magical Place • Seeds • T.R.A.C.K.S. • T.A.H.I.T.I. • Yes Men • End of the Beginning • Turn, Turn, Turn • Providence • The Only Light in the Darkness • Nothing Personal • Ragtag • Beginning of the End

Season Two	Shadows • Heavy is the Head • Making Friends and Influencing People • Face My Enemy • A Hen in the Wolf House • A Fractured House • The Writing on the Wall • The Things We Bury • ...Ye Who Enter Here • What They Become • Aftershocks • Who You Really Are • One of Us • Love in the Time of HYDRA • One Door Closes • Afterlife • Melinda • The Frenemy of My Enemy • The Dirty Half Dozen • Scars • S.O.S. Part One • S.O.S. Part Two

Season Three	Laws of Nature • Purpose in the Machine • A Wanted (Inhu)man • Devils You Know • 4,722 Hours • Among Us Hide... • Chaos Theory • Many Heads, One Tale • Closure • Maveth • Bouncing Back • The Inside Man • Parting Shot • Watchdogs • Spacetime • Paradise Lost • The Team • The Singularity • Failed Experiments • Emancipation • Absolution • Ascension

Season Four	The Ghost • Meet the New Boss • Uprising • Let Me Stand Next to Your Fire • Lockup • The Good Samaritan • Deals With Our Devils • The Laws of Inferno Dynamics • Broken Promises • The Patriot • Wake Up • Hot Potato Soup • BOOM • The Man Behind the Shield • Self Control • What If... • Identity and Change • No Regrets • All the Madame's Men • Farewell, Cruel World! • The Return • World's End

Season Five	Orientation Part One • Orientation Part Two • A Life Spent • A Life Earned • Rewind • Fun & Games • Together or Not at All • The Last Day • Best Laid Plans • Past Life • All the Comforts of Home • The Real Deal • Principia • The Devil Complex • Rise and Shine • Inside Voices • The Honeymoon • All Roads Lead... • Option Two • The One Who Will Save Us All • The Force of Gravity • The End

Season Six	Missing Pieces • Window of Opportunity • Fear and Loathing on the Planet of Kitson • Code Yellow • The Other Thing • Inescapable • Toldja • Collision Course Part One • Collision Course Part Two • Leap • From the Ashes • The Sign • New Life

Season Seven	The New Deal • Know Your Onions • Alien Commies from the Future! • Out of the Past • A Trout in the Milk • Adapt or Die • The Totally Excellent Adventures of Mack and the D • After, Before • As I Have Always Been • Stolen • Brand New Day • The End is at Hand • What We're Fighting For

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 |previous = ''[[Nothing Personal]]''
 |next = ''[[Beginning of the End]]''}}
-{{Quote|We have no authority to do this. We're no longer [[S.H.I.E.L.D.]] agents. We're..."<br>"We're vigilantes."<br>"I was gonna say, "doing this because it's the right thing to do", but... yeah.|[[Phil Coulson]] and [[Leo Fitz]]|Ragtag}}
+{{Quote|We have no authority to do this. We're no longer [[S.H.I.E.L.D.]] agents. We're..."<br>"We're vigilantes."<br>"I was gonna say, 'doing this because it's the right thing to do,' but... yeah.|[[Phil Coulson]] and [[Leo Fitz]]|Ragtag}}
 '''''Ragtag''''' is the twenty-first episode of the [[Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D./Season One|first season]] of the television series ''[[Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.]]''.
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 ==Plot==
 [[File:Young_Ward_Garrett_2.png|left|thumb|250px]]
-Fifteen years in the past, a teenage [[Grant Ward]] meets [[John Garrett]] at a juvenile detention facility, where he is being held after trying to burn down his family's home.
+Fifteen years in the past, [[Grant Ward]] meets [[John Garrett]] at a juvenile detention facility, where he is being held after trying to burn down his family's home.
 After agreeing to join the secret organization Garrett says he works for, Ward is left in the wilderness alone, forced to survive for months until Garrett returned. Garrett eventually tells him about [[HYDRA]]'s presence within [[S.H.I.E.L.D.]], and Ward agrees to join.
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 In the present, [[Coulson's Team]] connects [[Centipede Project]], Garrett, and others to a common source: [[Cybertek]]. [[Phil Coulson]] and [[Melinda May]] infiltrate Cybertek to activate [[Skye]]'s Trojan horse she had left on the [[Coulson's Team Hard Drive|hard drive]], only to find file cabinets instead of mainframes.
-However, they learn that Garrett had been the first subject for "[[Project Deathlok]]", which began in 1990. As such, Garrett's implants are currently failing, with a few months to live, desperate to complete the [[Centipede Serum]] to save himself.
+However, they learn that Garrett had been the first subject for the [[Project Deathlok]], which began in 1990. As such, Garrett's implants are currently failing, with a few months to live, desperate to complete the [[Centipede Serum]] to save himself. Coulson's team finds the [[Barbershop Headquarters]] in [[Havana]], [[Cuba]], but Garrett's men have already left, except for several Centipede soldiers. Ward captures [[Leo Fitz]] and [[Jemma Simmons]], who split from the others to find the [[Bus]], but Fitz is able to use an [[EMP Joy Buzzer]] to short out Garrett's body.
-Coulson's team finds the [[Barbershop Headquarters]] in [[Havana]], [[Cuba]], but Garrett's men have already left, except for several Centipede soldiers. Ward captures [[Leo Fitz]] and [[Jemma Simmons]], who split from the others to find the [[Bus]], but Fitz is able to use an [[EMP Joy Buzzer]] to short out Garrett's body.
 [[File:Wardloookson.jpg||right|thumb|250px]]
-The dying Garrett orders Ward to kill Fitz and Simmons, who are hiding from him in a locked medical pod. Ward struggles with following through on the orders, deciding to eject the pod into the ocean instead of putting bullets in their heads.
+The dying Garrett orders Ward to kill Fitz and Simmons, who are hiding from him in a locked medical pod. Ward struggles with following through on the orders, deciding to eject the pod into the ocean instead of putting bullets in their heads. [[Raina]] then injects Garrett with the synthesized [[GH.325]] drug to work with his Centipede Serum. Initially, the drug seems to cause an [[Extremis]] reaction, before Garrett stabilizes and claims to "feel the universe."
-[[Raina]] injects Garrett with the synthesized [[GH.325]] drug to work with his Centipede Serum. Initially, the drug seems to cause an [[Extremis]] reaction, before Garrett stabilizes and claims to "feel the universe".
-In [[Washington, D.C.]], [[Ian Quinn]] proposes the sale of [[Centipede Soldiers]] and [[Deathlok Soldiers]] to the US government, using [[Mike Peterson]]'s assassination of a Colombian [[Alejandro Castillo|drug lord]] as evidence of the program's success.
+In [[Washington, D.C.]], [[Ian Quinn]] proposes the sale of [[Centipede Soldiers]] and [[Deathlok Soldiers]] to the US government, using [[Deathlok]]'s assassination of [[Alejandro Castillo]] as evidence of the program's success.
 ==Cast==
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 '''Guest Stars:'''
 *[[Bill Paxton]] as [[John Garrett]]
-*[[J. August Richards]] as [[Deathlok|Michael Peterson/Deathlok]]
+*[[J. August Richards]] as [[Deathlok|Mike Peterson/Deathlok]]
 *[[B.J. Britt]] as Agent [[Antoine Triplett]]
 *[[David Conrad]] as [[Ian Quinn]]
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 *[[Jay Montalvo]] as [[List of Minor Characters#Ragtag|Reporter]]
 *[[Aaron Landon]] as [[List of Minor Characters#Ragtag|Pizza Delivery Guy]]
+*[[Michael Hilow]] as [[List of Minor Characters#Ragtag|Cybertek Employee]] <small>(uncredited)</small>
 *[[Barbara Grace Dior]] as News Reporter <small>(uncredited)</small>
 *[[CJ Brady]] as Hipster Agent <small>(uncredited)</small>
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 *[[James Timphony]] as S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent <small>(uncredited)</small>
 *[[Mike Serlin]] as Cybertek Security Guard <small>(uncredited)</small>
-*[[Lex Lang]] as Agent [[Decker]] <small>(voice, uncredited)</small>
+*[[Lex Lang]] as Agent [[Decker (Agent)|Decker]] <small>(voice; uncredited)</small>
-*Unknown actor as [[Alejandro Castillo]]
+*Unknown actor as [[Alejandro Castillo]] <small>(uncredited)</small>
 ==Appearances==
 ===Locations===
 *[[Plymouth]], [[Massachusetts]]
+**[[Plymouth Juvenile Secure Unit]]
 *[[Los Angeles]], [[California]]
 *[[Palo Alto]], [[California]]
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 **{{WPS|Abel Santamaría Airport}}
 *[[Washington, D.C.]]
+**[[Washington Monument]]
+**[[United States Capitol]]
 *[[Wyoming]]
 *[[Bogotá]], [[Colombia]] <small>(mentioned)</small>
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 *[[Rome]], [[Italy]] <small>(mentioned)</small>
 *[[Hunan]], [[China]] <small>(mentioned)</small>
-*[[Sarajevo]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]] <small>(mentioned)</small>
+*[[Sarajevo]], [[Yugoslavia]] <small>(mentioned)</small>
 *[[Miami]], [[Florida]] <small>(mentioned)</small>
 *[[S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy]] <small>(mentioned)</small>
+*[[Saint Agnes Orphanage]] <small>(mentioned)</small>
 ===Events===
 *[[HYDRA Uprising]]
+**[[Infiltration into Cybertek Corporate Headquarters]]
+**[[Kidnapping of Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons]]
 **[[Ambush at the Barbershop Headquarters]]
 *[[Massacre in Hunan]] <small>(mentioned)</small>
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 *[[Medical Pod]]
 *[[Howling Commando Gear]]
-**[[Hand-held Hypno Beam]]
+**[[Hand-Held Hypno Beam]]
 **[[Transistorized Blast Gun]]
 **[[EMP Joy Buzzer]]
 **[[Cigarette Laser]]
 **[[UHF Pin]]
-**[[Zip-line Gun]]
+**[[Zip-Line Gun]]
 **[[Quarter Walkie-Talkie]]
 **[[Noisemaker]]
 **[[Portable X-Ray Scanner]]
+*{{WPS|Trojan horse (computing)|Trojan Horse}}
 *[[Coulson's Team Hard Drive]] <small>(mentioned)</small>
 *[[Night-Night Gun]] <small>(mentioned)</small>
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 ===Creatures===
 *[[Dogs]]
+**[[Buddy]]
+*{{WPS|Deer}}
 ===Organizations===
 *[[S.H.I.E.L.D.]]
+**[[Coulson's Team]]
+*[[HYDRA]]
+**[[Centipede Project]]
+***[[Centipede Soldiers]]
 *[[Cybertek]]
 **[[Brand Corporation]]
 **[[Metrobank]]
+**[[Project Deathlok]] <small>(mentioned)</small>
-*[[HYDRA]]
-**[[Centipede Soldiers]]
+***[[Deathlok Soldiers]] <small>(mentioned)</small>
-*[[United States Armed Forces]]
+*[[United States Navy]]
+*[[United States Marine Corps]]
 *[[Howling Commandos]] <small>(mentioned)</small>
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 *[[Ace Peterson]]
 *[[Calvin Zabo]]
+*[[Jiaying]]
+*[[Antoine Triplett]]'s Grandfather
 *{{WPS|Osama bin Laden}}
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 Marvel's Agents of SHIELD 1x21 Promo "Ragtag" (HD)
+Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 1x21 Sneak Peek 1 "Ragtag"
+Marvel's Agents of SHIELD 1x21 "Ragtag" Sneak Peek Clip 2 (HD)
 </gallery>
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 *{{Marvel|Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 1 21|Ragtag}}