Maveth

Plot

Grant Ward's team finds an ancient Hydra-shaped statue on the planet Maveth and discovers Will Daniels. Leo Fitz convinces Ward to let Will guide them to the portal reopening point. Phil Coulson pursues them, and after Will leads the Hydra agents into a storm so he and Fitz can escape, Coulson kills the soldiers and wounds Ward, forcing him to help find Fitz and Will. On Earth, Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie leads two teams into the castle to secure the portal and rescue Coulson, Fitz, and Jemma Simmons, as well as Hydra's captive Inhumans.

Daisy Johnson goes with Melinda May, Lincoln Campbell, and Joey Gutierrez. Lincoln causes a power failure, allowing Simmons to escape and find the captive Inhumans, including Andrew Garner. She releases him to fight Hydra agents, but he murders the other Inhumans. Mack, Lance Hunter, and Bobbi Morse seize the portal chamber.

May learns of Andrew's escape, and Joey saves Daisy from Giyera. Mack orders the agents to leave and destroy the castle, but Daisy refuses to leave him behind.

Production

In November 2015, Marvel announced the episode title "Maveth" and that it would be written by executive producer Jeffrey Bell and directed by Vincent Misiano. Main cast members included Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Brett Dalton, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, Nick Blood, Adrianne Palicki, Henry Simmons, and Luke Mitchell. Guest cast included Blair Underwood as Andrew Garner, Constance Zimmer as Rosalind Price, Juan Pablo Raba as Joey Gutierrez, Powers Boothe as Gideon Malick, Mark Dacascos as Giyera, Garrett Hines as a Hydra soldier, Brandon Ford Green as a third soldier, and Dillon Casey as Will Daniels.

Filming for the alien planet took place in a work quarry in Simi Valley and around the Mojave Desert near Northridge, Los Angeles. Composer Bear McCreary used a 90-piece orchestra, larger than the usual 50 or 70 players, and the score was recorded at the Newman Scoring Stage on the 20th Century Fox lot the Saturday after Thanksgiving. McCreary described the episode as a crossroads between old and new storylines, incorporating at least half a dozen important musical themes including two new ones.