'Agents Of SHIELD' Season 2: 'Is He Redeemable'? Grant Ward Story Not Over, Whedon & Tancharoen Talk New Plans [VIDEO]
Agents of SHIELD has definitely not seen the last of Grant Ward.
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Garrett's (Bill Paxton) right-hand man is currently in custody thanks to Melinda May's (Ming-Na Wen) formidable hand-to-hand combat skills, but writers have only brushed off the first layer of Ward's (Brett Dalton) story. As Coulson (Clark Gregg) said, Ward has yet to figure out who he is without the Clairvoyant directing his every move (see video below).
"We saw in the finale it was a little bit of one step at a time with helping Garrett and now that they reached the finish line, he was looking to Garrett for answers and Garrett's not giving them to him, which emotionally affected Ward," explained Jed Whedon, series co-creator with Maurissa Tancharoen, according to BuzzFeed. "For the first time he's lost, and how that will play out in Season 2 is one of the things we're excited to explore."
To determine who Ward truly is, Whedon and Tancharoen have posited several different theories as seen through the eyes of Coulson's team.
"We wanted to represent, in our characters, the different voices factions of our audience would have," Tancharoen told Buzzfeed. "Fitz still believes that Ward has been conditioned to be this way, and that's definitely an opinion some of our audience has. We want to play the question of, Is he redeemable? There's still glimpses of Ward where you feel there's more going on with him being a bad guy. And, of course, we show in Episode 21 the conditioning."
Additionally, what viewers have learned about Ward's pre-HYDRA life has only come in tiny bits and pieces. It is clear that the his family life was defiantly outside of the norm (he did try to burn his brother alive), but what really went on during his childhood?
"We have yet to see what Garrett pulled him out of," Tancharoen said, according to BuzzFeed. "We saw glimpses of his family life in Episode 7, but we still don't know how dire or how toxic that was."
It sounds like viewers will have to tune in next fall to get the whole story. Agents of SHIELD will air Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET on ABC.
