'Agents Of SHIELD' Season 2 Spoilers: When Will Simmons Return To Coulson's Team [PHOTOS]? Jed Whedon Talks Scientist's Future [VIDEO]
Agents of SHIELD's Gemma Simmons left Coulson's team in the wake of Fitz's accident, and it could be some time before she returns as anything other than the engineer's hallucination.
Under the supposition that her departure would help Fitz (Iain De Caestecker) recuperate (it definitely isn't, by the way), Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) disappeared over the hiatus. While Henstridge has teased that viewers will see Simmons become more of an individual throughout season 2, series creators Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen are staying tightlipped regarding the agent's physical return.
"We will see her," Whedon told Entertainment Weekly. "She will be seen, it's just that what does it mean? We can't really say what that means."
FitzSimmons Pulling Apart On 'Agents Of SHIELD', "Coming Into Their' Own As Individuals
If/when Simmons does resurface, the biochem specialist will have to rework her friendship with the love struck Fitz.
"I'm curious to see how she develops as an individual, and what that means to different relationships that she might be able to have on a platonic level and romantically now that she's perhaps not as tied to Fitz as she once was," Henstridge told Marvel.com. "But I'm also curious about the relationship between her and Fitz because there's so much love there, that this is an obstacle I hope they can get over. But I guess only time will tell."
Find out more when Agents of SHIELD airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET on ABC. Scroll through the photos above and click the video below to get a preview for the series' next episode, "Heavy Is The Head."
