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"The Well" is the eighth 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 they search for an Asgardian weapon while fighting a paganist hate group. It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), sharing continuity with the films of the franchise. The episode was written by Monica Owusu-Breen, and directed by Jonathan Frakes. Clark Gregg reprises his role as Coulson from the film series, and is joined by series regulars Ming-Na Wen, Brett Dalton, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, and Elizabeth Henstridge. This episode serves a direct tie-in to the film ''Thor: The Dark World'', depicting the immediate aftermath of that film, while also sharing Asgardian-related plot points and characters. "The Well" originally aired on ABC on November 19, 2013, and according to Nielsen Media Research, was watched by 6.89 million viewers. ==Plot== In Norway, the leaders of a pagan hate group obsessed with Norse mythology find part of a staff hidden within an ancient tree that grants them superhuman strength. Agent Phil Coulson and his team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, having recently assisted with the cleanup of London following the Convergence, analyze the remains of the tree, with Agents Jemma Simmons and Leo Fitz producing a rough 3D model of the staff based on its imprint in the wood, determining that it is of Asgardian origin, and that there are at least two more pieces of it that were broken off. Coulson consults with Elliot Randolph, a professor of Norse mythology in Seville, Spain. He tells the legend of the Berserker, a mythological tale concerning an Asgardian warrior who remained on Earth after a long ago war, and broke his war staff into three pieces, hiding them in different locations to avoid its power falling into the wrong hands. The professor reveals three poems, each pointing to the location of a piece, and one matching the tree in Norway. Randolph points the team in the direction of Baffin Island, but they soon learn that this was misdirection. They follow one of the poems to a crypt in Seville, where Randolph forces Agent Grant Ward to touch a second piece of the staff, unlocking painful memories of a young boy stuck in a well. The pagans, numbers ever growing and sowing chaos around the world, proclaim themselves gods, and attack Randolph with their own piece of the staff, taking his. Coulson arrests Randolph for deceiving them, and they discover that he is the Berserker of legend, posing as a human professor so as to live a peaceful life on Earth. He directs them to Ireland, to a church where he hid the third piece of the staff, but the pagans also find the church, and use the staff to stab Randolph in the heart. The staff causes great surges of adrenalin within its users, and for Ward this comes from hateful memories – he had been forced by his older brother to trap their younger brother in a well. Ward manages to defeat the pagans, with the help of Agent Melinda May, who is seemingly immune to the rage-inducing side effects of the staff because she already constantly relives her bad memories. Coulson, Simmons, and Fitz manage to keep Randolph alive long enough for his Asgardian heart to heal itself, and though Coulson wishes to touch the staff himself to try and unlock memories from his recovery directly after he died, Randolph convinces him not to. That night, Ward turns down Agent Skye's offer to talk about his past, instead going into May's hotel room. In an end tag, Coulson has a nightmare of his recovery in Tahiti. 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「The Well (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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