Following the events of "The Inside Man", Gideon Malick's plane lands in Siberia, and Morse and Hunter pursue him and Anton Petrov to an abandoned facility they intend to repurpose into the Inhuman sanctuary, which has been banned by the Russian Prime Minister, Dmitry Olshenko.
Melinda May, Daisy Johnson and Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie join Hunter and Morse, and the five of them infiltrate the facility, discovering the dead body of Olshenko's personal attaché.
In the present, Morse and Hunter deny their involvement with S.H.I.E.L.D., claiming they were on vacation and became caught up in events by accident, sticking to their story even when Phil Coulson offers to extract them, as they are determined to protect their friends and prevent war.
no longer exists, President Matthew Ellis and Coulson (posing as an Advanced Threat Containment Unit (ATCU) consultant) convince Olshenko not to execute Morse and Hunter, on the condition that they never work for the U.S. government again.
They notice Coulson, May, Mack, Daisy, Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons watching them, and the agents share a silent farewell, drinking "parting shots".
In March 2016, Marvel announced that the thirteenth episode of the season would be titled "Parting Shot", to be written by co-executive producer Paul Zbyszewski, with Michael Zinberg directing.
[1] After the twelfth episode, "The Inside Man", set up the characters of Bobbi Morse and Lance Hunter for an apparent solo mission in "Parting Shot", it was asked if this was leading to the potential Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
"[3] In March 2016, Marvel revealed that main cast members Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Brett Dalton, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, Nick Blood, Adrianne Palicki, Henry Simmons, and Luke Mitchell would star as Phil Coulson, Melinda May, Grant Ward, Daisy Johnson, Leo Fitz, Jemma Simmons, Lance Hunter, Bobbi Morse, Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie, and Lincoln Campbell, respectively.
[1] It was also revealed that the guest cast for the episode would include Powers Boothe as Gideon Malick, William Sadler as President Matthew Ellis, Ravil Isyanov as Anton Petrov, Kristof Konrad as General Androvich, Ivo Nandi as Inspector Duval, Bethany Joy Lenz as Stephanie Malick, Endre Hules as Prime Minister Olshenko, Julia Aks as waitress, Roman Varshavsky as FSO agent and Vladimir Orlov as Russian soldier.