New details for "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." season 3 will feature Phil Coulson's team against the ATCU in the episode 8 promo, as well as new theories on the show setting up "Captain America: Civil War."
The episode 8 promo, titled "Many Heads, One Tale," will feature Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) and his team going up against Rosalind Price (Constant Zimmers) and the whole ATCU. The promo starts with Coulson launching operation "Spotlight" as he plans on getting the secrets on Price's research, and as it turns out, they are not making a cure for the Inhumans, but more likely building an army under their control, CarterMatt reported.
Despite the professional and personal relationship that Phil Coulson and Rosalind Price shared, audiences saw Price's true allegiance. She has been working with one of HYDRA's old leaders Gideon Malick (Powers Boothe), as she tries to hand over Coulson to them; however, it seems that Coulson is aware of Price's duplicity and used their new found relationship to get closer to the truth. The trailer also features Bobbi Morse/Mockingbird (Adrianne Palicki) going up against a super powered person, while Grant Ward (Brett Dalton) is infiltrating an unknown base.
Aside from the episode 8 promo, a new theory that will set up the events for "Captain America: Civil War" in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been revealed.
According to the theory, it started with Rosalind Price's conversation with Daisy Johnson/Quake (Chloe Bennet) during episode 7 "Chaos Theory," wherein the ATCU are putting some Inhumans to a state of stasis as some are a danger to themselves and to other due to their uncontrollable powers, while Daisy believes that what they are doing is inhumane and violates their rights as human beings. Price stated that for "every Daisy Johnson, there is always a Lash" meaning that not everyone can swayed to do something good and can commit to evil, Vox reported.
This somehow mirrors Captain America (Chris Evans) and Iron Man's (Robert Downey Jr.) opposing views on the Accords, in which the government will dictate how the heroes will respond to threats around the world. Tony Stark thinks that it is important for them in order to avoid collateral damage and see them as heroes, while Steve Rogers thinks that the Accords violates everyone's rights as the higher office will tell the heroes who the enemy is despite whether they are guilty or innocent.
Season 3 of the show has certainly made small steps in the road leading up to "Captain America: Civil War" as Phil Coulson and his team will stop both HYDRA and the ATCU for the sake of both human and Inhumans alike.
"Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." season 3 airs on Tuesday at 9PM E.T on ABC