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"Pilot" is the pilot and first episode of the first season of the American television series ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'', based on the Marvel Comics organization S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division), revolving around the character of Phil Coulson and his team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents as they investigate a super-powered man and the hacktivist group the Rising Tide. It is the first television episode to be set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), sharing continuity with the films of the franchise. The episode was written by series creators Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon, and Maurissa Tancharoen, and was directed by Joss Whedon. The episode was ordered in 2012, after Joss Whedon wrote and directed ''Marvel's The Avengers'', and was filmed in early 2013 in Los Angeles, California, with some additional filming in Paris, France. Clark Gregg reprises his role as Coulson from the film series, and is joined by principal cast members Ming-Na Wen, Brett Dalton, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, and Elizabeth Henstridge. Cobie Smulders guest stars, reprising her role of Maria Hill from ''The Avengers'', with previous Whedon collaborators J. August Richards and Ron Glass also guest starring. Emphasis was put on consistency and continuity with the MCU films, and some elements are reused from the films throughout the episode, most notably extremis. The visual effects for the episode were nominated at the Visual Effects Society Awards. "Pilot" originally aired on ABC on September 24, 2013, and according to Nielsen Media Research, was watched by 12.12 million viewers, the highest ratings received by the first episode of a drama series since 2009. The episode received a mostly positive response from critics, who praised Joss Whedon's involvement and Richards' performance, but were disappointed that the episode did not reach the standard of the MCU films. The use of the name 'Rising Tide' received backlash from a real life group of the same name. ==Plot== After the events of ''Iron Man 3'',〔 Mike Peterson is out with his son, Ace, when the top floor of a nearby building explodes. Climbing up the outside of the building by punching holes in the brickwork, Peterson saves a trapped woman, and, as a crowd looks on, jumps to the ground whilst carrying her. Watching him is Skye, a member of the hacktivist group the Rising Tide, who films him on her smart phone. Meanwhile, Maria Hill is interviewing Grant Ward for a new S.H.I.E.L.D. team alongside Agent Phil Coulson, who is officially dead. Coulson assigns Ward level 7 security clearance, and reveals the team's first mission is to investigate the Rising Tide. Coulson also recruits the reluctant Agent Melinda May, who had previously retired from field duty. Skye meets with Peterson and warns him about S.H.I.E.L.D., saying that they cover up superhero based events. She is shortly arrested by Coulson, and placed in the S.H.I.E.L.D. team's plane, their mobile base of operations (nicknamed "The Bus"). Coulson and Ward question her, and she reveals her limited knowledge of the mysterious Project Centipede, something neither of the agents had heard of before. Coulson injects Ward with a truth serum and allows Skye to question him, gaining her trust, and she reveals where she filmed Peterson. Agents Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons are sent to investigate the scene of the explosion. Peterson returns to the factory he used to work at, and injures his former boss, calling him the "bad guy" and himself the "hero". Peterson then visits the woman he saved in the hospital, who is actually the doctor that gave him his abilities by implanting the Centipede device in his left forearm. He wants to go public with his abilities, but she says that her backers would not like that. Before jumping from the hospital window, he claims this is all his "origin story". Fitz and Simmons investigate a damaged Centipede device found at the explosion scene, and find that it combines several previously known sources of superpowers, including extremis. They also manage to reproduce footage from the crime scene using the flash memory of a video camera and discover that the extremis within a previous Centipede-created superhero was unstable, and had caused the explosion. Peterson abducts Skye and makes her delete his personal information from the government's systems, though she manages to warn the team at the same time. Peterson and Skye are tracked to a train station by Coulson's team and a gunman sent by Peterson's doctor. May takes out the gunman, and Coulson calms Peterson down long enough for Ward to shoot him with an advanced stun gun developed by Fitz and Simmons. Afterwards, Coulson is offering Skye a place on his team when a call for an "0-8-4" comes in. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pilot (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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