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AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. ep 3 "The Asset"

PLOT
S.H.I.E.L.D. searches for one of its assets, Dr. Franklin Hall (Ian Hart), who was kidnapped by his former research partner Ian Quinn (David Conrad), and wants to use Hall to take control over the planet's gravity. Skye attempts to infiltrate Quinn's mansion so that Coulson's S.H.I.E.L.D. team can rescue Hall.

CONNECTING TO THE MCU
ORIGIN OF GRAVITON:

Dr. Franklin Hall appears in the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode "The Asset", played by Ian Hart. undefined Franklin Hall is a protected S.H.I.E.L.D. asset who is abducted from a fully-protected convoy by a military unit and taken to a compound in Malta owned by Franklin Hall's former research partner Ian Quinn (the head of Quinn Worldwide) who wants Hall to complete the gravity fields in Quinn's device. When Phil Coulson finds Hall, he is in the process of sending the gravity-control device and Quinn's house into the ocean, endangering the guests in Quinn's compound. Hall reveals to Coulson that he orchestrated his own kidnapping and states that the gravity element is too powerful for S.H.I.E.L.D. and Ian Quinn while proclaiming that he is "protecting mankind" and "making things right." After Coulson shoots the glass blocking the device, Hall falls towards the device where he is apparently atomized. The gravity-control device ends up locked up in S.H.I.E.L.D. custody where it is revealed that Hall is still alive in the gravity-control device.