The Agents of SHIELD thought they decimated Hydra, but the multi-headed bastion of evil will rise again in season 3, this time with one of their own leading the charge.

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Ward (Brett Dalton) is out in the world once more, and he has the skills - and the motivation - to an even bigger throne in SHIELD's side. When Coulson's (Clark Gregg) team returns this fall, they will be facing off with a whole new enemy.

"Hydra's different this time," Elizabeth Henstridge (Simmons) informed Zap2It. "It's been completely dismantled, and Ward's kind of taking it on. He's got huge scores to settle and nothing to lose, so he's a very dangerous character."

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In fact, Ward will become the "hero" of the floundering empire.

"I think that Hydra doesn't have a sense of leadership at this point. We've had the Hydra with Strucker, we've had the Hydra with Whitehall - all of these other versions of Hydra - and, you know, it's a ship in need of captaining," Dalton informed Zap2It. "Ward has elected himself, and he's a hero in that story."

Catch the new and improved Hydra when Agents of SHIELD returns to ABC in September.

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