Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Last season on "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."...

We came through a gateway,

some sort of temporal shift.

You're not here to save me.

- Who, then? - Humanity.

Do you see an Earth that can be saved?

It's too late.

It's already been quaked apart.

We need to make sure this world never comes to be.

No matter what.

Fitz didn't get taken to the future.

You weren't part of the Seer's prophecy, Mr. Fitz.

How does this get Fitz to the future?

It's a Cryo-Freeze Chamber.

- What?! - Yeah.

I'm taking the long way there.

Gonna sleep for 74 years.

We made it back home,

and we fought to save the world

from a future we knew was coming.

But the more we fought...

the closer it came.

The team makes one choice,

and it ruins everything.

Phil Coulson is dying.

And you have to let him.

Fitz!

I've lived a life surrounded by heroes.

None bigger than all of you.

Because we sign up to lose each other.

To get close to good people

and have them taken away.

And now Fitz is frozen,

out in deep space somewhere,

I have not a single doubt you will find him.

How long did Simmons say you have?

Days.

Weeks, if I'm lucky.

All right, Director...

where to first?

Apologies, Agent Fitz.

We find ourselves in a bit of a conundrum.

I was prepared to guard this vessel

for the next 73 years, 261 days.

But I now must calculate your best chances of survival.

An extremely... difficult computation.

Considering the circumstance.

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Piper? Talk to me!

Are they still on our tail? Piper!

Yeah, I hear you, Davis!

Give me a second, breathe!

I'm trying to cool the drive lines.

Look, I ran a multi-spec scan, 360 3-D.

And?

And...

Nothing.

Nothing, we're clear!

Well, don't put your feet up yet.

We've still got to put this thing down in unwelcome territory.

Daisy, we're on approach. Be ready.

- Not my best. - Not your best, Davis!

Thanks, sidekick!

You have violated galactic ordinance

and entered D'Rillian atmosphere

without clearance.

Prepared to be boarded.

He seems nice.

I'm unarmed.

Present authorization, Terran.

I don't have any.

We're a little desperate for fuel,

so we had no choice but to land here.

Scan her face.

Check for ident on the data-streams.

Foolhardy.

This small aircraft isn't even worth as much as a unit of fuel.

Unless you plan to work in the shafts,

how do you expect to make payment?

You're gonna give it to me on the house.

Must be the daughter of a monarch,

slumming it on the outer brink.

Well, that's not how it works here, princess.

Who is this girl? We get a name?

Quake.

Give us what we want and we'll let you live to cry about it.

You want fuel, it's yours.

- Take what you need. - No.

I mean, yes, but no. We're looking for someone.

Someone else to shake down?

Or someone you want to eliminate?

We just want to bring him home.

Runco. Quit it.

Has Agent Simmons ever explained what these readings meant?

It started after she left, and now she's light-years away.

Quiet.

That's low-level activity.

I know.

Strike teams, spread out.

100 miles in each direction.

Way ahead of you.

Alpha team in position.

We need someone close enough to get there in time.

- Bravo team? - Bravo team, in position.

- Charlie team, standing by. - Delta team, in position.

There it is!

Where? Where?!

Dialing it in...

Somewhere in Indiana.

It's in Castleton! Go!

That'll be us.

We're sending coordinates now.

It looks like a-a park.

Move! Move!

All right.

Let's see you do it again.

Do you hear that?

Go! Go! Go!

Jaco!

Hands in the air. Now.

Just say the word.

Watch the kids.

Surrender now or we will fire.

Hold on!

Everybody okay?

Yeah. All good.

Safe to say he got away.

Electronics are fried.

I'll try and contact HQ for extract.

Director Mackenzie will be worried.

Ah. He'll be pissed.

How could you lose him?!

What good is it getting there in time

if we don't take this guy down?

I had a clear shot, but then May warned me about the kids,

which made it feel a lot less like a clear shot.

You did the right thing.

But you were wrong for engaging in the air.

We needed feet on the ground.

Or more bodies in the field?

- If Yo-Yo was... - I was in another jet.

And remember, Mack, all you've been talking about

- for the past three days... - Speed.

- Getting there in time. - ... was speed.

Try to catch the person who's creating all these...

I don't even know what to call them.

- "Anomalies"? - No.

- We used that word up last year. - And this is different.

Those were hallucinations coming to life.

And this is reality... distorting.

Uh, how about "reality warps"?

- Uh, "irregularity storms"? - Fox. You're not helping.

Look, regardless, the good news is,

- no innocents were killed. - Not to mention Agents.

Well, that goes without saying. But it's worth saying.

You got knocked around, but everyone's okay?

At least we have confirmation

that it is a person causing this.

Yeah, but we don't know how or...

who or what he is.

We... We need workable theories, people.

Anything, even stupid ideas are welcome.

Our two brightest minds are MIA.

Still no contact with them?

Not in months.

Sir.

Keller has a theory.

Thanks. Well, uh...

we both have been looking at these locations,

- trying to find a connection. - Good.

This park, as well as the city bus

with the holes torn through it

and the lake that froze solid

in the middle of the desert...

They all sit on Ley Lines.

Energy lines that crisscross the Earth in a sort of pattern.

Multiple cultures have believed in some version of this...

Incan, Aborigine, Native American.

Maybe we can use that to narrow the search.

And don't you all look at me like that.

You said stupid ideas are welcome.

I'm full of them.

We'd be stupid not to consider anything at this point.

You two stay on it.

Yo-Yo, I want you back training with May.

This gunman looked like a monster,

he might actually be one.

So you might need to handle him.

You got it.

All right, everyone else, you know your assignments.

So let's get to work.

I'm late for my morning check-in.

Who does the boss got to check in with?

His boss.

Take it one step at a time.

It's not your job to solve every problem.

Your job is to put together a team you trust

and then to tell them to take it one step at a time.

That's all you can do.

If you think about everything you're up against all at once,