Victoria Louise Hand was a high-ranking Level 8 S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. She was well-known within the organization and had a reputation for brusqueness and strictness. Hand worked alongside Agent Phil Coulson to hunt down the Clairvoyant, however she soon became suspicious that Coulson may be working against them. During the HYDRA Uprising, Hand was betrayed and killed by the HYDRA infiltrator and her former ally, Grant Ward while attempting to lock away another HYDRA agent, John Garrett, who had been discovered to be the true Clairvoyant.