Tony Stark, a playboy and engineering genius, is captured whilst in Afghanistan demonstrating a new missile. Creating an armoured suit to help his escape, his technology will ultimately be put to greater use.
Agents Coulson and Sitwell plan to derail General Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross from interfering with SHIELD affairs with a special person.
Now that the existence of super heroes and aliens has become public knowledge, the world is trying to come to grips with this new reality. Agent Phil Coulson is back in action and now has his eye on a mysterious group called The Rising Tide. In order to track this unknown enemy, he has assembled a small, highly select group of agents from the law-enforcement organization known as S.H.I.E.L.D. The team has a mission: To investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary.