Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Seven Reasons [Spoiler] Makes Sense as a Traitor

What were they thinking?!In tonight’s episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Coulson’s team started to feel the fallout from Captain America: The First Avenger as one of their own was revealed to have secretly been an agent of HYDRA all along.Of course, there’s a lot of question marks. Is he really a triple agent? That last scene seemed a little…forced, didn’t it? Well, who knows? Now that it’s happened I’m actually less convinced it’s real than I was beforehand.

• Skye and Ward have chemistry, or at least that’s what the showrunners would like us to have believed for the first two-thirds of the season or so.
• Ward was Skye’s SO
• Ward as a traitor likely brings May and Skye closer together as the two commiserate about being duped
• Losing Ward as a probable, long-term love interest opens up Skye’s options

Any one of those things could be great for her character going forward, but getting rid of Ward in this way gives her all of them and a TON of angst about not seeing it coming sooner, especially once she became Coulson’s go-to resource.It could also put her in the position of having to prove herself to whatever authority takes over from big S.H.I.E.L.D., since her SO was actively trying to sabotage the organization so it’s not as though his signing off on her is credible. And given her Rising Tide past, it’s distinctly possible some people would think she was in on it.