Among Us Hide...
"Among Us Hide..." is the sixth episode of the third season, and fiftieth episode overall, of the American television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Based on the Marvel Comics organization S.H.I.E.L.D., it follows Phil Coulson and his team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents as they deal with new players and secrets. It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and acknowledges List of [Marvel Cinematic Universe films|the franchise's films]. The episode was written by Drew Z. Greenberg, and directed by Dwight Little.
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, Elizabeth Henstridge, Nick Blood, Adrianne Palicki, Henry Simmons, and Luke Mitchell.
"Among Us Hide..." originally aired on ABC on November 3, 2015, and according to Nielsen Media Research, was watched by 3.84 million viewers.
Plot
After being attacked by Hydra, Andrew Garner is found badly injured and brought to the Playground for treatment. Melinda May takes over the hunt for Grant Ward, and convinces Bobbi Morse to join her. They examine Werner von Strucker's bank transactions and learn he has travelled to the Cayman Islands. Ward orders Kebo to find and kill Strucker, who has sought refuge with his father's friend Gideon Malick, a former World Security Council member and senior Hydra member. Sending Strucker to Portugal, Malick later contacts Ward, offering him an alliance and telling him Strucker's location as a show of faith. May and Morse steal Strucker's safe deposit box, and Leo Fitz traces the fake passports inside, finding further Strucker bank accounts and learning his location.Meanwhile, Phil Coulson meets with Rosalind Price, who agreed to show him the Advanced Threat Containment Unit facility for their captured Inhumans. There is a break-in at her apartment, and she and Coulson go there to investigate. Coulson suspects Price staged a burglary to divert his attention and gain his sympathy, at which point a hurt Price takes him to the Inhuman facility. Theorising Luther Banks may be Lash, Daisy Johnson, Lance Hunter and Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie spy on him, and Hunter shoots Banks with an I.C.E.R. so they can collect a blood sample. The DNA analysis proves Banks is not an Inhuman, but after finding a text on his phone regarding a delivery to Endotex Labs, the three agents go there and discover it is the facility where the Inhumans are being held by the ATCU. Daisy is shocked to find the Inhumans are being kept in suspended animation, and is further riled to see Coulson there. Though Coulson has misgivings, Price insists suspended animation is the only way to contain the Inhumans until the ATCU can find a cure to reverse their Terrigenesis. She also admits that her husband died from cancer years earlier, and that she genuinely wants to be allies with Coulson, if not friends.
May and Morse arrive in Portugal to find Kebo torturing Strucker, and while Morse fights Kebo and fatally electrocutes him in a swimming pool, May subdues the other Hydra agents and frees a critically wounded Strucker. Before losing consciousness, he reveals to a horrified May that Andrew Garner is the real Lash, and that he killed his Hydra attackers and then set the explosion in the convenience store to cover his tracks.
In the end tag, Daisy shares a brief phone conversation with Lincoln Campbell, who is still off the grid after the ATCU tried to capture him. Andrew asks her to try to persuade Lincoln to come to the Playground, secretly plotting to kill him.