Supplementary Plot Post
This isn't a real plot post so it's not going to be quite as exciting as usual, but feel free to treat it as a plot post if you hav plotting to do.
What I want to accomplish in this post is laying out what's actually going on with the whole Jess Is Evil, Nick Is Fired, Everything Goes To Hell plot. I know that Taryn is working on evil-fying Jess soon, so that's good. Nick has his LMDs in the wings and is starting to do some shady shady stuff to come out of this looking like a bad guy. Justin is ultimately going to profit from this by becoming Director of SHIELD (HAMMER?), either because he's poised and lucky, or because he was manipulating the situation, I'm not sure which. Either way, when he does have a little bit of power, he's going to make the Avengers out to be bad guys, too. We know Hydra is involved in this, whether directly in league with Justin or just because they want to cause their usual Hydra havoc. With our growing street level representation, though (hey kids), Rory has suggested making use of the Hand, which would spread the reach of this thing a bit better and, really, bring it down out of the Tower. Justin could be their pawn, they could be working inexplicably with Hydra, they could be working directly against Hydra to make an all out baddie gang war, I don't really know. Point is, they also want to take over the world, why not.
So, help me out here, guys. What's the actual groundwork for this? What details am I missing? How does anyone want to be involved? What else would be totally cool?
For your time, an accurate representation of Nick's LMD army: