Sorry, bad wording. It was Koenig's tracking device, not Ward's. I was looking for something else on his desk and came across it. None of us-- Ward included-- knew it even existed. The trackers must have been on the security clearance cards he gave us. ... I don't know why he killed Koenig, though. We'll probably never know. Maybe he found Ward out too.
I didn't confront him about it right away. After all, it's like you said: it wasn't a situation he could've recovered from without killing me too. I'm no match for him, so I was pretty much imagining my imminent death slasher-film style. So instead, I... played him right back. Pretended I didn't know. I knew eventually there'd be an opportune moment.
And there was. Feelings aside, he needed me for something. To decrypt my harddrive. ... Er, not just any harddrive. A special one. ... Okay, that probably requires a little backtracking to explain, sorry.
You ask if there were others like him? You don't even know the scope of it. I would say almost fully a third of SHIELD was actually Hydra in disguise. Rotting the organisation from within. When Hydra revealed themselves and staged their attempted takeover a few days prior, Coulson told me to scrub our entire operation. All our research, all the things we'd found. Erase every trace. We couldn't risk any of it getting into the wrong hands. But I made a back-up on an encrypted harddrive. Stupidly, I gave it to Ward to hold onto for safekeeping. I was thinking that of all of us, he'd be the least likely to get captured and the least likely to give anything up under torture if he did. Little did I know. He took it straight to Hydra. They desperately needed something that was on it. I'm not sure what exactly, but I can make a guess. Anyway, it's not important.
Long story short, they couldn't get into it-- I set the harddrive to immediately erase every piece of data on it if anyone tried to hack their way in. They didn't want to risk it, so Ward had to try and play me. Get me to unlock the drive by pretending it was for Coulson. Said Coulson had rung him from the field, supposedly requested some information from a file that was on the drive. Needed help from us on their mission.
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I didn't confront him about it right away. After all, it's like you said: it wasn't a situation he could've recovered from without killing me too. I'm no match for him, so I was pretty much imagining my imminent death slasher-film style. So instead, I... played him right back. Pretended I didn't know. I knew eventually there'd be an opportune moment.
And there was. Feelings aside, he needed me for something. To decrypt my harddrive. ... Er, not just any harddrive. A special one. ... Okay, that probably requires a little backtracking to explain, sorry.
You ask if there were others like him? You don't even know the scope of it. I would say almost fully a third of SHIELD was actually Hydra in disguise. Rotting the organisation from within. When Hydra revealed themselves and staged their attempted takeover a few days prior, Coulson told me to scrub our entire operation. All our research, all the things we'd found. Erase every trace. We couldn't risk any of it getting into the wrong hands. But I made a back-up on an encrypted harddrive. Stupidly, I gave it to Ward to hold onto for safekeeping. I was thinking that of all of us, he'd be the least likely to get captured and the least likely to give anything up under torture if he did. Little did I know. He took it straight to Hydra. They desperately needed something that was on it. I'm not sure what exactly, but I can make a guess. Anyway, it's not important.
Long story short, they couldn't get into it-- I set the harddrive to immediately erase every piece of data on it if anyone tried to hack their way in. They didn't want to risk it, so Ward had to try and play me. Get me to unlock the drive by pretending it was for Coulson. Said Coulson had rung him from the field, supposedly requested some information from a file that was on the drive. Needed help from us on their mission.