In his final appearance, Whitehall plans to torture Skye to death and force her father to watch. Whitehall's goal is to use the Obelisk and the city it leads to in order to create a Weapon of Mass Destruction, which he will use to kill millions, if not billions of people. for killing sprees that he himself organized and ordered the Bus shot down, despite Ward promising mercy, after forcing its passengers to surrender Skye. In the present, Whitehall brags about having mastered the art of keeping his victims conscious as he performs gruesome and invasive surgeries without anesthesia brainwashes people, including loyal S.H.I.E.L.D agents, into becoming his slaves frames S.H.I.E.L.D. In the 1980's, Reinhardt brutally tortured and eviscerated Skye's mother, Jiaying, via surgery to obtain her powers of lasting youth, discarding her afterwards. Whitehall has performed horrific human experiments during World War II and in the present, using the Obelisk to test how quickly people died after touching it.
Daniel Whitehall, is one of the present-day heads of HYDRA, as well as a true believer of Johann Schmidt's cause of eliminating The Evils of Free Will. Ultimately, the Clairvoyant's true interest was extending his own life, and once he'd achieved that he'd go on to plan world domination. Later, he would force Ward to attempt to murder his two friends, Fitz and Simmons, in order to prove he's not weak. Despite his cheery demeanor, the Clairvoyant has no loyalty or empathy for anyone, not even to his undyingly loyal right-hand man, Grant Ward, whom he nearly killed to further his own plans. Later he implanted an Explosive Leash in Mike Peterson as well, abducted his son, and turned Mike into the cyborg villain Deathlok against his will.
Agent with an explosive leash and forced her to work for him, work that included massacring a subway train full of bank security personnel to get what they were guarding. Heading the Centipede Project as a powerful figure in HYDRA, the Clairvoyant has superpowered individuals abducted and experimented on, implants his soldiers with explosive leashes, which he utilizes should they fail him or outlive their usefulness had Coulson tortured to reveal the secret of his revival and frequently kidnaps and threatens the lives of the loved ones of his "employees" in order to ensure their complete loyalty. Season 1: John Garrett is also known as the Clairvoyant.