Bobbi Morse put quite the shock into Ward's partner Kebo when they tussled earlier this season and then electrified the pool of water he was standing in. It was enough electricity to kill a man, but Daz Crawford, who plays the Hydra henchman, wouldn't give up on his character making a comeback just yet.
"It's an assumption that I'm dead," Crawford told Express.co.uk. "Are you sure I'm dead?"
For a show built around a character brought back from the dead - Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) - anything is possible. If he does return, he's not going to find the same Grant Ward (Brett Dalton) he last saw trying to take over Hydra. That Ward has died, his body taken over by an Inhuman monster that's currently slithering inside of him.
The man formerly known as Ward will retain not only some of the ex-S.H.I.E.L.D. agent's memories, but also the memories of the monster's former hosts, including Will Daniels (Dillon Casey), the man Jemma fell in love with while stuck on the other planet.
"The idea with this new iteration is that it's a collection of a lot of different memories of all the different hosts that have come before Ward. So, of course, there's still some Ward there, but it's 'Ward and' rather than 'Ward but.' It's kind of 'Ward and Will' and Ward and the Host Before Will,'" Dalton explained to TV Insider in December about his character's new identity.
Crawford hopes he can return to "S.H.I.E.L.D.," although he has a busy schedule ahead of him. His film "Rogue Warrior: Robot Fighter" will premiere later this year, and he has been announced to star in the horror flick "Trust." He also provided the motion capture for Shere Khan in Disney's "Jungle Book," voiced by fellow Marvel star Idris Elba.
"I love working on ['Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'] and it would definitely be something I would like to work on again," he told Express.co.uk.
"Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." will return from its winter hiatus on Tuesday, March 8 at 9 p.m. EST on ABC.
