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"Many Heads, One Tale"
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode
Episode no.Season 3
Episode 8
Directed byGarry A. Brown
Written by
Produced by
Cinematography byAllan Westbrook
Editing byKelly Stuyvesant
Original air dateNovember 17, 2015 (2015-11-17)
Running time43 minutes
Guest appearances
  • Gideon Malick
  • Rosalind Price
  • Luther Banks
  • Nelson Franklin as Steve Wilson
  • Giyera
  • Andrew Garner
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"Many Heads, One Tale" is the eighth episode of the

Hydra. It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and acknowledges the franchise's films. The episode was written by Jed Whedon and DJ Doyle, and directed by Garry A. Brown
.

Inhuman
storyline.

"Many Heads, One Tale" originally aired on

Nielsen Media Research
, was watched by 3.60 million viewers.

Plot

Confirming he knows

Gideon Malick orders his men to kill him. However Ward overpowers and tortures them, learning the vault is in Germany
.

Inhumans
are being held, but instead finds vitamin supplements containing Terrigen, discovering that they are given to all ATCU staff. She realizes that the ATCU are keeping the Inhumans elsewhere and are not working on a cure for Terrigenesis, but are instead trying to activate more Inhumans.

Updated on the situation, Coulson interrogates Price, suspecting she is Hydra, but she claims innocence of administering Terrigen to her staff, and reveals that Malick, her business partner, is responsible for overseeing the captured Inhumans. They realize that Malick has been removing the Inhumans to an unknown location, and is making more to serve him. Morse and Hunter are attacked by Malick's chief of security, the telekinetic Inhuman

Giyera
. After they subdue him, Banks helps them escape.

Investigating the Distant Star symbol,

a powerful Inhuman
, whose enemies feared him so much that they banished him to another world using the Monolith. Ever since then Hydra have been sending sacrifices to this Inhuman (the creature Will and Simmons fought against), and have been seeking a way to bring it back to Earth. Malick has also been building an army of Inhumans to serve the ancient creature. Ward agrees to help Malick rescue the Inhuman, in exchange for his help destroying S.H.I.E.L.D. Ward later tortures Andrew with mustard gas in a bid to make him transform into Lash.

Production

Development

In November 2015, Marvel announced that the eighth episode of the season would be titled "Many Heads, One Tale", to be written by executive producer Jed Whedon and DJ Doyle, with Garry A. Brown directing.[1]

Casting

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

In November 2015, Marvel revealed that main cast members

Giyera, Nelson Franklin as Steve Wilson and Astrea Campbell-Cobb as flight attendant.[1] Campbell-Cobb did not receive guest star credit in the episode. Underwood, Zimmer, Howard, and Boothe reprise their roles from earlier in the series.[2][3][4]

Marvel Cinematic Universe tie-ins

The episode expands the history of

Red Skull during World War II, as seen in Captain America: The First Avenger, it is revealed here that the organization was actually formed centuries earlier in service to a powerful Inhuman and Red Skull was just following the principles of the original group. This history of Hydra has ties to the comics, specifically Jonathan Hickman and Dustin Weaver's S.H.I.E.L.D.[5]

Broadcast

"Many Heads, One Tale" was first aired in the United States on ABC on November 17, 2015.[1]

Reception

Ratings

In the United States the episode received a 1.3/4 percent share among adults between the ages of 18 and 49, meaning that it was seen by 1.3 percent of all households, and 4 percent of all of those watching television at the time of the broadcast. It was watched by 3.60 million viewers.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ During "Beginning of the End".
  2. ^ During "4,722 Hours".

References

  1. ^ a b c d "(#308) "Many Heads, One Tale"". The Futon Critic. November 3, 2015. Archived from the original on November 29, 2015. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
  2. ^ "Episode Title: (#301) "Laws of Nature"". The Futon Critic. Archived from the original on September 30, 2015. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
  3. ^ "Scoop: MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D on ABC - Tuesday, October 6, 2015". BroadwayWorld. September 21, 2015. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
  4. ^ "Scoop: MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. on ABC - Tuesday, November 3, 2015". BroadwayWorld. October 19, 2015. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved October 20, 2015.
  5. ComicBook.com. Archived
    from the original on December 1, 2015. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
  6. ^ Porter, Rick (November 18, 2015). "Tuesday final ratings: 'Flash' and 'NCIS' adjust up, 'Chicago Med' premiere holds". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on November 20, 2015. Retrieved November 18, 2015.

External links

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