With Agents of SHIELD Season 4 on break, ABC has taken the opportunity to give fans more insight into the show’s only speedster: Yo-Yo Rodriguez, aka Slingshot. The digital mini-series consists of six episodes, three to five minutes in length, all available now for free on YouTube and the ABC App.
Slingshot dives into Yo-Yo’s life between Agents of SHIELD Seasons 3 and 4. Forced to sign the Sokovia Accords after the events of Captain America: Civil War , Yo-Yo turned down SHIELD’s offer to become a Secret Warrior at first. Though she has hesitations about officially joining SHIELD, she quickly developed a strong friendships with Agents Mack and Daisy. It was a personal matter that took her back to Columbia.
“It explores her story between Season 3 and 4, and a lot of her stance within the institution of SHIELD and anything that has to do with bureaucracy or government,” Cordova-Buckley said in a trailer released on ABC Go.
Watch Slingshot below, or download the ABC App. No cable login is necessary.
Now that Daisy has returned to S.H.I.E.L.D., Yo-Yo wants to talk to her about a secret the two of them share. In a flashback, we start to learn about the day Yo-Yo signed the Sokovia Accords. But we also discover Yo-Yo is tracking a dangerous threat from her past.
Director Mace talks Yo-Yo through the signing of the Sokovia Accords. There are regulations to follow and severe consequences if the agreement is broken. When Yo-Yo feels that bureaucracy is getting in the way of her mission, she’s faced with a difficult choice.
Yo-Yo is eager to further her personal mission, but must first report to the lab. While Fitz-Simmons complete Yo-Yo’s Inhuman registration, she must find a way to continue her secret agenda, and hide the truth from Mack.
After Agent May confronts Yo-Yo, Yo-Yo reunites with an old acquaintance and digs up the past.
Yo-Yo finds herself held captive by Ramon and discovers he has a connection to an old foe of S.H.I.E.L.D. When some unexpected help arrives, Yo-Yo gets her chance to exact vengeance against the man who caused her family pain.
Yo-Yo continues her personal mission of vengeance and must decide if she will cross the line and take a life in her quest for revenge. In the aftermath of her covert adventure, Yo-Yo weighs her commitment to the S.H.I.E.L.D. team.
