S.H.I.E.L.D. agents Bobbi Morse and Lance Hunter won't fade into the background as Adrianne Palicki and Nick Blood gear up to star in their own Marvel TV series. "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." plans to keep the battling lovebirds an integral part of the team until ABC officially picks up their "Marvel's Most Wanted" pilot.
Bobbi (Palicki) and Hunter (Blood) will showcase their skills in this week's episode, "Inside Man," which will also reveal a traitor within Coulson's (Clark Gregg) ranks. An unsuspecting twist will put the duo front and center.
"We hope that one day they may have their own show," executive producer Jeffrey Bell said, "but while they're on 'S.H.I.E.L.D.,' we want to take advantage of who they are and give the audience as much of their relationship with one another and with other people as possible, to make that really satisfying. We are aware that there is a potential imminent end, but they won't be neglected [in the meantime]."
ABC is considering "Marvel's Most Wanted" for the 2016-2017 season. The show will focus on Palicki and Blood's characters, two ex-spies and ex-spouses who are on the run with no friends, no S.H.I.E.L.D. and a long list of enemies looking to claim a bounty on their heads. Able to trust no one but each other, Bobbi and Hunter form an uneasy alliance with Dominic Fortune (Delroy Lindo), a rogue adventurer with a wealth of resources and even more adversaries, who agrees to protect them so long as they help him with his own agenda. These two heroes will help anyone in need, all while trying to uncover the conspiracy that put their own lives in jeopardy.
Could that conspiracy have anything to do with a possible assassination? In episode 13, "Parting Shot," the S.H.I.E.L.D. crime-fighters become ensnared in an assassination plot after tracking Hydra honcho Gideon Malick to Russia. As S.H.I.E.L.D. races to save the lives on the line, it will change the team forever.
While things get dicey for Bobbi and Hunter, tensions may bubble over between Coulson and May (Ming-Na Wen) by the end of this season. May has taken her place again as the director's right-hand woman following her lengthy absence from S.H.I.E.L.D, but there's still the issue of May's escaped ex-husband Andrew, better known these days as the Inhuman-killing Lash.
"Andrew/Lash is still out there and by all reports is more Lash and less Andrew all the time," Gregg said. "The way that they handle that is an impediment to them being fully harmonic."
"Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." airs on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on ABC.
