It's time for the Agents of SHIELD to meet the new boss.

Two seasons after its emergence turned the MCU upside down, Hydra is down for the count. It's time for SHIELD to come in from the cold, but, thanks to the Sokovia Accords, the agency might not have a choice.

A six-month time jump placed Coulson (Clark Gregg) back in the field, and, from the fact that the team is now handily liaising with other governmental taskforces and choosing to send the Nation Guard after one of their own, it looks as if the new Director will be plucked from outside the ranks of SHIELD (see video below).

"I suspect, in the wake of the Sokovia Accords and the end of Civil War, the people involved in choosing who the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. will be are other than in-house S.H.I.E.L.D. people," Gregg explained, according to Entertainment Weekly. "If I know my government bureaucracies, I have a feeling it will be someone somewhat less qualified than Coulson to run S.H.I.E.L.D."

After all, anyone of Coulson's trusted confidants would do everything and anything to insure that they were the only ones to bring a rouge Daisy (Chloe Bennet) in. The striking difference between SHIELD and the ATCU's Inhuman policies makes us wonder what the National Guard will do with the troubled heroine once they find her. Instead of being welcomed home with open arms, Quake could easily be headed for a cell on the Raft.

After the high stakes and near misses of the last two years, Coulson will be more than a little relieved to find that the weight of responsibility no longer rests on his shoulders.

"Other than the regrets he has about where Daisy seems to be, I suspect there's a part of him that's very happy to return to Agent Phil Coulson," Gregg teased.

Nevertheless, something tells us it won't be long before Gregg's character is ready to defy orders.

Catch Agents of SHIELD this fall on ABC.

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