End of the Beginning (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)

"End of the Beginning"
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 16
Directed by	Bobby Roth
Written by	Paul Zbyszewski
Produced by	Jed Whedon Maurissa Tancharoen Jeffrey Bell
Cinematography by	Feliks Parnell
Editing by	David Crabtree
Original air date	April 1, 2014 (2014-04-01)
Running time	41 minutes
Guest appearance(s)
Bill Paxton as John Garrett Saffron Burrows as Victoria Hand J. August Richards as Mike Peterson / Deathlok B.J. Britt as Antoine Triplett Titus Welliver as Felix Blake Maximiliano Hernández as Jasper Sitwell Brad Dourif as Thomas Nash
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"End of the Beginning" is the sixteenth episode of the first season 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. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division), revolving around the character of Phil Coulson and his team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents as they hunt for the mysterious Clairvoyant. It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), sharing continuity with the films of the franchise. The episode was written by Paul Zbyszewski, and directed by Bobby Roth.

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, and Elizabeth Henstridge. The episode brings together several major guest stars from throughout the season, including J. August Richards, Titus Welliver, Saffron Burrows, Maximiliano Hernández, and Bill Paxton, with Hernández' appearance leading into the beginning of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, a film that the rest of the episode mentions and partly runs concurrently with.

"End of the Beginning" originally aired on ABC on April 1, 2014, and according to Nielsen Media Research, was watched by 5.71 million viewers.

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