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For the first time since the series launched last fall, last night’s episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. really started to embrace the spy drama elements of its concept, taking cues from Captain America: The Winter Soldier and focusing on which — if any — members of S.H.I.E.L.D. could be trusted.When all was said and done, there were some familiar characters revealed to have been working for HYDRA all along, and a member of Agent Coulson’s team joined that side of the conflict in the episode’s final moments.Of course, it’s been difficult to “read” the expression on actor Brett Dalton’s face, or just what the intent of those last couple of scenes was, in last night’s episode. As many people have been saying they saw it coming a mile away, others insist that Ward is clearly a triple agent who will return to Coulson and company as soon as he has successfully eliminated the threat of Centipede and helped to destabilize HYDRA.I’ll say this, too — in order to really sell this story, they would have to manage it perfectly. Making Ward a triple agent in a sloppy and uncreative way would be a real bummer, in no small part because it would undercut what happened this week and not give us much back of value in return.As far as just how Ward will turn out not to be such a bad guy, we’ve been hearing a lot of cool theories…
