May's Life Model Decoy will wreak havoc on 'Agents of SHIELD'

Marvel's Agents of SHIELD returns from its winter break on Jan. 10, and after a fiery batch of fall episodes courtesy of Ghost Rider (Gabriel Luna), the next story arc is taking an altogether more chilling turn. Starting with episode 409, the focus shifts to Life Model Decoys -- lifelike androids that are designed to be indistinguishable from humans, like Aida (Mallory Jansen). Unbeknownst to our heroes, they already have another LMD in their midst, after the midseason finale revealed that Agent May (Ming-Na Wen) had been captured and replaced with an LMD duplicate by Aida. Since we still have no idea why Aida made the switcheroo, the implications are pretty worrying -- but they're even more disconcerting in light of the final moments of episode 408, which saw the LMD version of May sharing an intimate drink with Coulson (Clark Gregg). During a recent Agents of SHIELD set visit, Jansen was cagey about Aida's motivations for kidnapping May, teasing reporters, "I was made a specific way and anything I do is really what I think is right, or what I'm programmed to do." Was she acting under her own burgeoning free will -- if she has it -- or is her creator, Dr. Radcliffe (John Hannah) calling the shots?