Parminder Nagra appeared at the end of Agents of SHIELD Season 4 episode 3, “Uprising,” and presented herself as a potential villain. She plays Senator Rota Nadeer and she could have ties to the Watchdogs, an anti-inhuman organization responsible for the blackouts.
The episode begins as the blackouts continue to get worse, Director Jeffrey Mace sends SHIELD to different locations to see if it’s inhumans disrupting the power source. Agent Coulson, Mack and Fitz head out to find Yo-Yo, who is stuck in a hostage situation by The Watchdogs. They got a tip that an inhuman was in the vicinity and held an innocent man at gunpoint to lure in Yo-Yo. It worked but SHIELD busted in right in time to save Yo-Yo and arrest a few rioters
Meanwhile, Jemma and Dr. Radcliffe are trying to save May. Her condition is getting worse by the minute and they think the only way to save her is to killer her and bring her back to life. But the blackout cuts the power in the lab right when they try to revive her. Dr. Radcliffe runs and grabs an experimental clean energy device and Jemma uses it to jumpstart May’s heart. It works, and May wakes up without the demon controlling her mind.
Back Los Angeles, Ghost Rider is worried about his brother Gabe getting home because of the blackouts. Quake and Ghost Rider go to find him and end up having to fight of some rioters. Quake hurts her arm saving Gabe and Ghost Rider brings her back to his house to rest. While he’s away, Gabe suspects Daisy is Quake and tells her to get lost because his brother needs to be around good people.
With Yo-Yo’s help, Fitz, Mack and Coulson disable the EMP causing the blackouts. Fitz suspects the Watchdogs could have ties an international organization with lots of resources. Coulson speaks to Director Mace, who says he doesn’t want to roll out the plan too soon, but Coulson convinces him with advice from Nick Fury.
Director Mace goes on TV to announce the blackouts are over and that inhumans weren't responsible. “They were caused by an inhuman extremist group hell bent on spreading fear of these new members of our community. They want to turn us against each other, but there’s an old friend back in town,” Mace tells press.
That new friend is SHIELD, no longer officially living in the shadows. After Mace’s speech, the final scene shows a new character named Senator Nadeer watching her interview about the blackouts on TV.
“SHIELD was a puppet of HYDRA, now they’ll be puppets of the inhumans. I have credible sources telling me inhumans were responsible for the blackouts despite what Jeffrey Mace may say,” Nadeer says on the broadcast. Then, we hear her talking on the phone with someone who sounds like they could be part of The Watchdogs.
“We were able to eliminate 17 inhumans worldwide,” the voice says. Nadeer reveals she’s at her brother’s place and tells the person on the other line that she’ll fill them in on the play-by-play when she gets in the car.
Before she leaves the apartment, she goes through a huge pile of mail and says goodbye to someone who we didn’t see in the room. She turns the lights off and there’s a statue of a man, that on second look seems to be a man trapped inside a terrigenesis cocoon. It appears her brother has been inside the cocoon for quite some time and it’s hard to tell whether he just hasn’t mutated yet or Nadeer has something to do with why he’s frozen. Either way, this could explain why Nadeer has it out for inhumans.
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