Beginning of the End (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)

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"Beginning of the End"
The Art of Level Seven" poster for the episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 22
Directed byDavid Straiton
Written by
Produced by
Cinematography byFeliks Parnell[citation needed]
Original air dateMay 13, 2014 (2014-05-13)
Running time41 minutes
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"Beginning of the End" is the twenty-second episode and

Hydra base. It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and acknowledges the franchise's films. The episode was written by Maurissa Tancharoen and Jed Whedon, and directed by David Straiton
.

Clark Gregg reprises his role as Coulson from the film series, and is joined by series regulars Ming-Na Wen, Brett Dalton, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, and Elizabeth Henstridge.

"Beginning of the End" originally aired on

Nielsen Media Research
, was watched by 5.45 million viewers.

Plot

Following the events of "

Hydra
operative wielding the Berserker staff in a Cuban Hydra base. After Skye activates her Trojan virus within Hydra's computer systems so the team can uncover their plans, May uses the staff to collapse the base and bury the Hydra agents.

Trapped on the ocean floor, Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons send out a distress signal, and devise a controlled explosive to blow the windows open and escape. Fitz forces a distraught Simmons to take the sole oxygen tank, professing his feelings for her. He is nearly drowned after using the explosive, while Simmons swims to the surface with his unconscious body, where they are rescued by Nick Fury, who picked up their distress signal. Fitz survives, but sustains damage to his temporal lobe as a result of oxygen deprivation and is left comatose.

After being saved from death by

gravitonium
, along with Raina.

Ward tries to capture Skye, but is attacked and incapacitated by May, while Skye releases prisoners Hydra took to coerce the Cybertek staff and Centipede soldiers into doing their bidding, including

Mike Peterson
. Skye sends Peterson a message from Ace through his eye implant ("Dad, what are we? We're a team"), and Peterson, realizing Ace is safe, fires a missile at Garrett and then kills him with his cybernetic leg.

In the aftermath, the Centipede soldiers are arrested by the military, Coulson takes Ward captive, and Peterson, unable to face his son, leaves to seek redemption for his crimes. The GH325 in Garrett's blood revives him, and he uses Cybertek machinery to upgrade into an advanced Deathlok, but Coulson vaporizes him with the Peruvian Tesseract weapon. Coulson criticizes Fury for using GH325 to revive him, but Fury asserts that he values Coulson as much as any

the Doctor
".

In an end tag, Coulson begins experiencing hypergraphic episodes as a belated side effect of the GH325.

Production

Development and writing

In April 2014, Marvel revealed that the twenty-second episode would be titled "Beginning of the End", and would be written by executive producers

Raina, Skye, and Phil Coulson, "we wanted to feel their victory" in the episode.[2]
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Casting

Further information: List of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. characters

In April 2014, Marvel revealed that main cast members

Ace Peterson, Asif Ali as Jesse Fletcher, Kyla Garcia as Mrs. Zeller, Nicole J. Butler as Aunt Mindy and Cynthia Rose Hall as employee.[1] Oswalt, Berry, Muller, Wrighster, Ali, Garcia, Butler, and Hall did not receive guest star credit in the episode. Paxton, Richards, Britt, Negga, Conrad, and Morshower reprise their roles from earlier in the series.[3] Samuel L. Jackson makes a special guest appearance as Nick Fury, reprising his role from the films.[4]

Filming

Filming occurred from March 23 to April 9, 2014.[2]: 191 

Marvel Cinematic Universe tie-ins

In his appearance, Jackson's Fury wields a version of the gun that Coulson used in Marvel's The Avengers.[5]

Release

Broadcast

"Beginning of the End" was first aired in the United States on ABC on May 13, 2014.[6]

Marketing

For the final six episodes, Marvel began the "

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Art of Level Seven" initiative, in which a different image was released each Thursday before a new episode, depicting a first look at a key event from the upcoming episode. Bell stated that the initiative was a way to tie the series back to its comics roots, and was thought of at the beginning of the season. The production team tried to pair specific artists to the teaser posters based on their previous work and how it connected to the themes and emotion of the intended episode.[7] The poster for "Beginning of the End", created by Phantom City Creative, is reminiscent of the first official poster released, with differences including the characters' order and clothing, the poster's coloring, a broken S.H.I.E.L.D. logo over Hydra's, and Ward being tinted by Hydra.[8] Phantom City Creative director Justine Erickson said, "It made sense to bookend the series with a poster that on one hand called back to where they began, but more importantly showed how far they've come as a team." May and Skye are positioned closest to Coulson in the poster because they are now both the closest emotionally to him, while Ward's positioning needed to show how he went "from the most trusted of colleagues to betrayer and villain".[2]
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Home media

The episode, along with the rest of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s first season, was released on Blu-ray and DVD on September 9, 2014. Bonus features include behind-the-scenes featurettes, audio commentary, deleted scenes, and a blooper reel.[9] On November 20, 2014, the episode became available for streaming on Netflix.[10]

Reception

Ratings

In the United States the episode received a 2.0/7 percent share among adults between the ages of 18 and 49, meaning that it was seen by 2.0 percent of all households, and 7 percent of all of those watching television at the time of the broadcast. It was watched by 5.45 million viewers.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ "Eye Spy."

References

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    Marvel.com. Archived
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    ISBN 978-0-7851-8998-5
    .
  3. Marvel.com. Archived
    from the original on November 25, 2015. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
  4. ^ Vineyard, Jennifer (April 7, 2014). "Samuel L. Jackson Just Filmed Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Season Finale". Vulture. Archived from the original on April 7, 2014. Retrieved April 8, 2014.
  5. ^ Garcia, Kevin (May 14, 2014). "Hey-Ho Friends: Secrets of SHIELD episode "Beginning of the End"". Observation Deck. Archived from the original on October 6, 2015. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
  6. ^ a b Bibel, Sara (May 14, 2014). "Tuesday Final Ratings: 'The Voice', 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' & 'The Goldbergs' Adjusted Up; 'The Originals', 'Supernatural' & 'About A Boy' Adjusted Down". TV by the Numbers. Zap2it. Archived from the original on May 15, 2014. Retrieved May 14, 2014.
  7. ^ Towers, Andrea (April 3, 2014). "'Agents of SHIELD' first-look art teases Clairvoyant reveal – Exclusive". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on April 13, 2014. Retrieved April 11, 2014.
  8. ^ Towers, Andrea (May 8, 2014). "'Agents of SHIELD': Season finale poster art teases 'beginning of the end' – Exclusive". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on May 14, 2014. Retrieved May 13, 2014.
  9. ^ Fowler, Matt (May 30, 2014). "Marvel's Agents of SHIELD Blu-ray And DVD Details". IGN. Archived from the original on May 31, 2014. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
  10. Decider. Archived
    from the original on November 17, 2014. Retrieved November 16, 2014.

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