Known as "The Cavalry," May is a legendary, quiet, and hyper-lethal combat pilot pulling herself out of self-imposed desk duty.
The magic of Season 1 lies in watching a group of disparate strangers slowly transform into a fiercely loyal chosen family.
In the wake of the Battle of New York, the world is rapidly changing. Regular citizens are discovering alien artifacts, rogue technologies, and emerging superpowers. To manage this volatile new reality, Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division (S.H.I.E.L.D.) Director Nick Fury authorizes Agent Phil Coulson to assemble a highly specialized, mobile rapid-response team. Operating out of a heavily modified Boeing C-17 Globemaster III known as "The Bus," this group is tasked with investigating the strange, the unknown, and the classified.
– Coulson recruits his team and hunts down a man named Mike Peterson, who has been exposed to an unstable, explosive serum.
S.H.I.E.L.D. hunts for Dr. Franklin Hall, a kidnapped asset taken by billionaire Ian Quinn. Quinn uses Hall to build a device powered by Gravitonium, a substance that manipulates gravity. 4. "Eye-Spy"
– Agents Garrett, Triplett, Blake, and Hand join forces with Coulson’s team to corner the mysterious mastermind known as "The Clairvoyant."
Before diving into the how , let’s discuss the why . Season 1 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is notoriously difficult to categorize. It starts as a "monster-of-the-week" procedural following Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) and his ragtag team: the tech wiz Skye (Chloe Bennet), the pilots Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen) and Grant Ward (Brett Dalton), and the scientists Leo Fitz (Iain De Caestecker) and Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge).