<P> `` Bouncing Back '' opens with `` a mysterious flash - forward to three months in the future , showing an unidentified S.H.I.E.L.D. agent seemingly dead in space . '' Tancharoen called it `` the promise of something fairly ominous to come '' , and stated , `` We will be uncovering things from the midseason opener all the way to the finale . We will slowly be discovering what that image is . '' She added that any `` clues '' would likely play out during present day sequences rather than further flash - forwards , such as when Johnson receives a vision of the flash - forward in `` Spacetime '' , an episode where she learns that `` she can not change the outcome of these visions and the future is the future . '' Whedon discussed this idea , and that of the `` theory behind the Inhumans that each one of them serves a purpose '' , saying , Inhumans `` are made , they 're not random . There 's a lack of something that needs filling and an Inhuman will be created that fills that niche . It 's an interesting concept we like playing with , and that plays into the idea of fate , which with our future visions , we 're hitting pretty hard . '' On choosing Lincoln to be the one to die , which the executive producers knew going into the season when forming the arcs for Lincoln , Daisy , and Ward , Bell said he `` earned it '' adding that Lincoln comes to a point where he realizes what his purpose is , with Whedon noting that he understands that Daisy has a different purpose . Whedon continued that the decision was based on the fact that the series did not `` want to be a body count show , but it is a real world with real stakes . What we had not done is the heroic death and the full - sacrifice death . This was a conscious decision . We also think that there 's a poetry in the fact that the person doing it does n't consider himself a hero . That 's the beauty of the moment -- it 's not just for ( Daisy ) , but it is , and it 's not just for him , but it is . '' </P>
<P> `` Bouncing Back '' opens with `` a mysterious flash - forward to three months in the future , showing an unidentified S.H.I.E.L.D. agent seemingly dead in space . '' Tancharoen called it `` the promise of something fairly ominous to come '' , and stated , `` We will be uncovering things from the midseason opener all the way to the finale . We will slowly be discovering what that image is . '' She added that any `` clues '' would likely play out during present day sequences rather than further flash - forwards , such as when Johnson receives a vision of the flash - forward in `` Spacetime '' , an episode where she learns that `` she can not change the outcome of these visions and the future is the future . '' Whedon discussed this idea , and that of the `` theory behind the Inhumans that each one of them serves a purpose '' , saying , Inhumans `` are made , they 're not random . There 's a lack of something that needs filling and an Inhuman will be created that fills that niche . It 's an interesting concept we like playing with , and that plays into the idea of fate , which with our future visions , we 're hitting pretty hard . '' On choosing Lincoln to be the one to die , which the executive producers knew going into the season when forming the arcs for Lincoln , Daisy , and Ward , Bell said he `` earned it '' adding that Lincoln comes to a point where he realizes what his purpose is , with Whedon noting that he understands that Daisy has a different purpose . Whedon continued that the decision was based on the fact that the series did not `` want to be a body count show , but it is a real world with real stakes . What we had not done is the heroic death and the full - sacrifice death . This was a conscious decision . We also think that there 's a poetry in the fact that the person doing it does n't consider himself a hero . That 's the beauty of the moment -- it 's not just for ( Daisy ) , but it is , and it 's not just for him , but it is . '' </P>
who died in agents of shield season 3
who died in agents of shield season 3
Lincoln
Lincoln