OK, MacLachlan probably isn’t reprising his role as Agent Dale Cooper, but he is playing a character of some importance to the show’s mythology. We’re gonna pad out the article a bit here to give spoilerphobes a chance to get out, but he’s playing a character who was referenced many times last season and almost certainly had to show up at some point, so it’s not exactly a shock that this character exists. Anyway, MacLachlan will be joining the show as The Captain, an eccentric upper-class boating enthusiast. Wait, no. He’s actually going to be playing the father of Chloe Bennet’s ace-ish hacker Skye, the human-sized MacGuffin whose mysterious parentage drove some of last season’s bigger mysteries. That’s really all we know at this point, so there’s still a chance MacLachlan really is playing Dale Cooper, The Captain, or the mayor of Portland, but we’ll have to wait until he pops up on S.H.I.E.L.D. to find out.
MacLachlan joins a few other new faces coming to the show this year, including Lucy Lawless, who will be playing S.H.I.E.L.D. veteran Isabelle Hartley. Franklin & Bash’s Reed Diamond will be playing the villainous Daniel Whitehall, who is better known as a Hydra member called Kraken. Marvel also announced at Comic-Con that the superhero Mockingbird would be coming as well, but it hasn’t made any casting announcements for her yet.