Clark Gregg reprises his role as Coulson from the film series, and is joined by principal cast members Ming-Na Wen, Brett Dalton, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, and Nick Blood.

"Face My Enemy" originally aired on ABC on October 14, 2014, and according to Nielsen Media Research, was watched by 7.80 million viewers within a week of its release.

After the church Santa Maria de las Flores in Miami, Florida, was burnt down, the only remaining intact object, a 500-year-old painting, is discovered to have strange markings engraved on its back.

When they realize that Brigadier General Glenn Talbot is also at the event, Coulson attempts to negotiate with him before their cover is blown.

On the Bus, the virus starts destroying the plane's electrical systems, and it takes the mentally and socially impaired Agent Leo Fitz, along with Hunter, to stop it.

In an end tag, Raina, en route to investigate the painting, is confronted by Daniel Whitehall, who gives her 48 hours to return the Obelisk to him or be killed.

In September 2014, Marvel announced that the fourth episode of the season would be titled "Face My Enemy", to be written by Drew Z. Greenberg, with Kevin Tancharoen directing.

[4] In September 2014, Marvel revealed that main cast members Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Brett Dalton, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, and Nick Blood would star as Phil Coulson, Melinda May, Grant Ward, Skye, Leo Fitz, Jemma Simmons, and Lance Hunter, respectively.

[1] It was also revealed that the guest cast for the episode would include Henry Simmons as "Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie", Adrian Pasdar as Glenn Talbot, Simon Kassianides as Sunil Bakshi, Maya Stojan as Agent 33, Diego Serrano as Gabriel Soto, Lance Irwin as Guard, Isaac Montgomery as Guard #2, Alyce Tawil as Woman, Roberto Medina as Bishop, and Christian Barillas as Priest.

Though they were not officially announced by Marvel, B. J. Britt, Ruth Negga, and Reed Diamond also guest star as Antoine Triplett, Raina, and Daniel Whitehall, respectively.

[5] Simmons, Pasdar, Kassianides, Stojan, Britt, Negga, and Diamond all reprise their roles from earlier in the series.

We see what we would get in terms of props, we take into consideration what the actors can do, move-wise—in our case, Ming-Na is exceptionally talented, so we can do a lot of different martial arts movement with her.

"[11] Tancharoen later reflected that "everyone really liked the May versus May fight", and so he and the stunt team would use it as a benchmark to overcome when designing action sequences for future episodes.

"[11] The technology Hydra uses to take on another's appearance and voice, referred to by the production team as a "nano mask",[2] was introduced to the MCU in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, where it is used by the S.H.I.E.L.D.

[17] The episode began streaming on Netflix on June 11, 2015,[18] and was released along with the rest of the second season on September 18, 2015, on Blu-ray and DVD.

He also highlighted the character development for Fitz and Coulson, and found the end tag made Whitehall feel "truly menacing and powerful".

[23] Alan Sepinwall of HitFix found the episode to deal with many elements the series was criticized for in the first season in a superior way, calling it "hoaky and retro", but saying "I don't much care, because the extended May vs. "May" brawl in and around the hotel room was such a treat.

"[24] Rob Leane, for Den of Geek, stated that "this week we continue to see the fallout of [Captain America: The Winter Soldier]'s revelations playing out in gleefully entertaining fashion ... we were treated to a twisty espionage-heavy thriller of an episode".

director Kevin Tancharoen used his experience from Mortal Kombat: Legacy to highlight how far the action elements of the show have come since the early days."

[25] Kevin Fitzpatrick of ScreenCrush said "I had my trepidations about "Face My Enemy"'s cutesy-looking callbacks to more camp episodes and spy tropes, the kind you might expect from Chuck, back in the day.

The hour certainly danced over that line here and there, what with May and Coulson's only means to recover an important artifact lying in a lavish party, the stock laser grid security alarm, May's mirror image fight, and other such throwback fare, but I'd say "Face My Enemy" ended up more of a celebratory self-aware subversion, rather than a sign of the season running out on empty just yet.