with Gregg directing. After the emotional fifth-season finale, Wen felt that returning for the sixth season with Gregg directing was "wonderful out of the gate, and like we got a new life". The opening of the episode was created by visual effects vendor FuseFX. For the space scenes, some of the movements made by Zephyr-One were inspired by the Millennium Falcon. The effect of Sarge's crew appearing through the handball court wall was created by CoSA VFX, and inspired by different videos of objects being pushed through barriers. For the destruction of the building at the end of the episode, visual effects supervisor Mark Kolpack took many photographs of the building so a digital model of it could be created by Rhythm and Hues. The production then filmed the same street that the building is on but in the opposite direction so the model could be added to the empty space and then destroyed without revealing the original building behind it. Release "Missing Pieces" was first screened at WonderCon on March 30. It aired in the United States on ABC on May 10, 2019. The episode began streaming on Netflix in the United States on September 1, 2019, along with the rest of the sixth season. Reception Ratings In the United States the episode received a 0.4/3 percent share among adults between the ages of 18 and 49, meaning that it was seen by 0.4 percent of all households, and 3 percent of all of those watching television at the time of the broadcast. This was a drop from the previous season's finale and average viewership. However, the total audience of 2.31 million people was the largest for the series since January 2018. Within a week of its release, "Missing Pieces" had been watched by 3.63 million U.S. viewers. References External links "Missing Pieces" at ABC 2019 American television episodes Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season 6) episodes