| "Bouncing Back" | |||
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| Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode | |||
| Episodeno. | Season 3 Episode 11 | ||
| Directed by | Ron Underwood | ||
| Written by | Monica Owusu-Breen | ||
| Cinematography by | Feliks Parnell | ||
| Editing by | Kelly Stuyvesant | ||
| Original air date | March 8, 2016 (2016-03-08) | ||
| Running time | 43 minutes | ||
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"Bouncing Back" is the eleventh episode of thethird season of the American television seriesAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Based on theMarvel Comics organizationS.H.I.E.L.D., it followsPhil Coulson and his team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents as they investigate the appearance of a newInhuman. It is set in theMarvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and acknowledgesthe franchise's films. The episode was written byMonica Owusu-Breen, and directed byRon Underwood.
Clark Gregg reprises his role as Coulson from the film series, and is joined by series regularsMing-Na Wen,Brett Dalton,Chloe Bennet,Iain De Caestecker,Elizabeth Henstridge,Nick Blood,Adrianne Palicki,Henry Simmons, andLuke Mitchell.
"Bouncing Back" originally aired onABC on March 8, 2016, and according toNielsen Media Research, was watched by 3.52 million viewers.
The episode opens with a mysterious flash-forward to three months in the future, showing an unidentifiedS.H.I.E.L.D. agent being killed in an explosion in space.
InBogotá,Colombia,Elena Rodriguez, anInhuman with super-speed (but who can only travel a certain distance between heartbeats, before being teleported back to the point from which she started), steals a large amount of weapons from the Colombian police. The next dayDaisy Johnson,Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie,Bobbi Morse,Lance Hunter andJoey Gutierrez investigate the thefts, but Mack is abducted by Elena. The team track them down and subdue Elena, but she later explains that the police are corrupt, and she has been using her newfound powers (which she believes to be a gift from God) to stop them from hurting innocents.
Hunter and Morse find her cousin Francisco disposing of the weapons in a river, but the police arrive, includingLucio, an Inhuman with paralytic vision. Lucio immobilizes Francisco, who is executed, and Hunter and Morse, who are abducted. Daisy, Mack, Elena and Joey attack the police station and rescue Hunter and Morse, while Lucio is defeated when Joey welds his sunglasses to his face, after which he is abducted byHydra.
Back in the United States,Phil Coulson (now the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. again) andMelinda May meet with PresidentMatthew Ellis atRosalind Price's abandoned apartment. With Price having vouched for S.H.I.E.L.D. before her death, Ellis has decided to let them continue dealing with the Inhuman threat as a "black ops" unit, and to have the new head of theAdvanced Threat Containment Unit (ATCU) answer to Coulson. Elsewhere,Gideon Malick has been tending tothe ancient Inhuman, who is very weak from the millennia of clinging to life, but is growing stronger, promising that Malick's faith in his capabilities is not misplaced. He also displays one of his powers, to disperseGrant Ward's body into a mass of particles, and vows to "make a believer" ofGiyera. To find Malick, Coulson usesJohn Garrett's mind probe, in conjunction withLincoln Campbell's powers, on a vegetativeWerner von Strucker, who awakens long enough to inform them of a location where Malick can be contacted. There Coulson finds a phone, through which he calls Malick, while May traces the call to a number of locations worldwide, where Malick's various companies can be found, though he promptly sells them.
Elena agrees to be a reserve member of the Secret Warriors, but refuses to leave Colombia. She gains the nickname "Yo-Yo" from Mack.Jemma Simmons andLeo Fitz address the distance between them since he destroyedWill Daniels's body on Maveth, which she does not blame him for because Will was already dead, and they agree to start over. May consoles Coulson over his decision to murder Ward, telling him that he "joined the Cavalry".
In an end tag, Ellis informs Coulson that he has appointedGlenn Talbot as the new head of the ATCU.
In February 2016, Marvel announced that the eleventh episode of the season would be titled "Bouncing Back", to be written byMonica Owusu-Breen, withRon Underwood directing.[1]
The episode opens with "a mysterious flash-forward to three months in the future, showing an unidentified S.H.I.E.L.D. agent seemingly dead in space." Executive producerMaurissa Tancharoen called it "the promise of something fairly ominous to come", and stated, "We will be uncovering things from the midseason opener all the way to the finale. We will slowly be discovering what that image is." Her fellowshowrunnerJed Whedon explained that the decision to use the flash-forward device in the episode was made "to kick off [the second part of the season] with a mystery."[2]
In February 2016,Natalia Cordova-Buckley was revealed to be portrayingElena "Yo-Yo" Rodriguez, based on the character from theSecret Warriors comic.[3][4] Cordova-Buckley said she had auditioned for a character called "Adriana Molina", only learning she was actually playing Rodriguez shortly before filming the episode. Learning this, she called it "a dream come true" to portray a Latina superhero.[5]
A week later, Marvel revealed that main cast membersClark Gregg,Ming-Na Wen,Brett Dalton,Chloe Bennet,Iain De Caestecker,Elizabeth Henstridge,Nick Blood,Adrianne Palicki,Henry Simmons, andLuke Mitchell would star asPhil Coulson,Melinda May,Grant Ward,Daisy Johnson,Leo Fitz,Jemma Simmons,Lance Hunter,Bobbi Morse,Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie, andLincoln Campbell, respectively.[1] It was also revealed thatNatalia Cordova-Buckley would guest star in "Bouncing Back", along withJuan Pablo Raba asJoey Gutierrez,Spencer Treat Clark asWerner von Strucker,Powers Boothe asGideon Malick,William Sadler as PresidentMatthew Ellis,Mark Dacascos asGiyera, Paul Lincoln Alayo as Francisco Rodriguez, Vance Valencia as Turkish old man,Yancey Arias as ColonelVictor Ramon, Gabriel Salvador asLucio, Jamie Alvarez as lead officer, Ronnie Alvarez as uniformed officer and Eric Thomas Wilson as Hydra guard.[1] Alayo, Valencia, Jamie Alvarez, Ronnie Alvarez, and Wilson did not receive guest star credit in the episode. Raba, Clark, Boothe, Sadler, and Dacascos reprise their roles from earlier in the series.[6][7][8]
"Bouncing Back" was first aired in the United States onABC on March 8, 2016.[1]
In the United States the episode received a 1.1/4 percent share among adults between the ages of 18 and 49, meaning that it was seen by 1.1 percent of all households, and 4 percent of all of those watching television at the time of the broadcast. It was watched by 3.52 million viewers.[9]
