Pilot

Pilot is the first episode of the first season. It is also the first episode overall of the series. It first premiered October 10 2013. It features the first appearance of all the main characters of the first season. It serves as an Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. film as it was 88 minutes long.

Synopsis
Nick Fury assigns Agent Phil Coulson the duty of forming a team to help defeat the evils the avengers can't take care of. He gets the help of former field member Melinda May, Scientists Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons and field member Grant Ward. They track down a core member of the Rising Tide named Skye, an orphan who is secretly a member of a secret society. They then track down with the help of Skye a living project working for CyberTech and capture him.

Recap
70 years ago in 1943 Michael Peterson awakens to find himself with scares and bruises and remembers he was attacked in his apartment after agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. found with a centipede logo. CyberTech which is working for HYDRA attack him once again and kill him. In present day 2013 Peterson awakens to find himself once again with only more scares and bruises. He walks out of a room to look at a CyberTech logo and attacks the people there. He is then sedated by Ian Quinn and Edison Po.

In a S.H.I.E.L.D. base in New York City not to far from the CyberTech base, Nick Fury meets with Phil Coulson. Coulson asks him what he wants and Fury tells him that he is assigning him the duty of putting together a team of the best agents to take down the forces that the Avengers can't. Agent Grant Ward attacks and kills a bunch of agents working for CyberTech and eventually finds and attacks Raina, a core member of CyberTech. She tries to attack him but he kidnaps her and brings her to Coulson. Coulson tells Fury he has just found his next member of his team.

Agent Melinda May former field member now in a desk is asked by Coulson to join his team as they need at least one desk member. She ask him if she can pilot. He agrees and gives her an unseen note and she agrees while he walks off. Agents Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons are asked by Phil to be his scientist for the team. They agree and walk away with him. Agent Jasper Sitwell is also asked but declines saying he wouldn't want to fight with "another". Coulson confused walks off onto his plane.

Coulson, May, Ward, Fitz and Simmons track down a core member of the Rising Tide, another agency that isn't exactly official as in it is not known to the public. Skye tries to hack CyberTech and finds the files to Michael Peterson. She drives her van to the base he is at and attacks them freeing Peterson. Peterson tells her he is over 100 years old and doesn't known how. She and Peteron are caught by S.H.I.E..D. and kidnaped. They are questioned by Fitz and Skye seduces him and gets out. Simmons and May attack her but Coulson tells them to let her go.

Raina escapes and is picked up by Quinn and Po. They go to a meeting with fellow CyberTech agent, John Garrett. Meanwhile, Ward finds S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, Antoine Triplett and he goes with him onto Coulson's plane. As the whole team goes after Skye, Peterson begs Fitz (who stayed) to let him go. Fitz and Peterson go after the four CyberTech agents and the rest of the team convince Skye and her boyfriend, Bryon Dutch to join the team.

All but Po are kept alive while Po was killed by Peterson for sedating him. Coulson checks Peterson's blood and tells him CyberTech and HYDRA kept him alive with a drug titled AL85.

Raina talks Garrett into letting her become what Po always was: Garrett's "Clairvoyant".

1976
In a flashback, Michael Peterson who is now 63 is awakened and tested on. They give him the drug "AL85".

Unknown Origins
In between when she was asked to join Coulson's team she visits her boyfriend, Bryon Dutch and they kiss and agree to never leave each other until death.

Deleted Scenes Trivia

 * 1976 was deleted because they wanted to keep the AL85 drug a secret until the very end.
 * Unknown Origins was deleted because they didn't want people thinking Skye was a villain as she had a poster of the Rising Tide which was almost the same logo as CyberTech.

Regular Appearances

 * Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson
 * Ming-Na Wen as Melinda May
 * Brett Dalton as Grant Ward
 * Chloe Bennett as Skye
 * Iain De Caestecker as Leopold Fitz
 * Elizabeth Henstridge as Jemma Simmons

Recurring Appearances

 * David Conrad as Ian Quinn
 * Ruth Negga as Raina
 * J. August Richards as Michael Peterson
 * Bill Paxton as John Garrett
 * B.J. Britt as Antoine Triplett

Guest Appearances

 * Maximiliano Hernandez as Jasper Sitwell
 * Cullen Douglas as Edison Po

Trivia

 * Series Premiere
 * Season Premiere
 * Since it was noted to be 88 minutes it was also posed as a possible film