Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. s05e01 Episode Script
Orientation
1 Previously on "Marvel's Agents of S.
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" DAISY: We were all in the Framework together.
We all lost ourselves in there.
FITZ: No, this is my fault Aida, the LMDs, all the deaths.
Those aren't on S.
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D.
Those are on me.
MAY: If there's a price to pay, we pay it together.
SIMMONS: Amen.
Anybody else hungry? I'm not saying we're definitely gonna get locked up, but if we are, wouldn't mind grabbing a bite to eat first.
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES, POWERS DOWN.]
- [DOOR OPENS.]
- [PEOPLE GASP, MURMUR.]
- Phillip J.
Coulson.
- Yep.
[DEVICE POWERS ON, HIGH-PITCHED RINGING.]
The window closes in less than two minutes.
Take them.
[TALKING HEADS' "THIS MUST BE THE PLACE (NAIVE MELODY)" PLAYS.]
Home is where I want to be Pick me up and turn me 'round I feel numb Born with a weak heart I guess I must be having fun The less we say about it, the better Make it up as we go along Feet on the ground Head in the sky It's okay I know nothing's wrong, nothing Hi-yo I got plenty of time Hi-yo You got light in your eyes And you're standing here beside me I love the passing of time Never for money Always for love Cover up and say good night Say good night Home is where I want to be But I guess I'm already there I come home She lifted up her wings I guess that this must be the place I can't tell one from another Did I find you or you find me? [MUSIC STOPS.]
[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE.]
[EQUIPMENT CLACKING.]
[ELECTRICITY POWERS DOWN.]
[DOOR SLAMS.]
[WEAPONS COCKING.]
[DOOR CLOSES.]
[INSECTS CHIRPING.]
Haven't done one of these in a while.
You? My wife thinks that I'm at a friend's house for our fantasy draft.
Doesn't even occur to her that we're in the middle of the season.
Doesn't even occur her.
[DOOR OPENS.]
We left one sitting at the counter, sir.
Yeah.
Not on the list.
[DOLLY RATTLING.]
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES.]
MAN: And the coat pockets.
Clean it up, please.
Watch the clock.
The moment is fast approaching, everybody.
[ALL GASP.]
Is everyone all right? MACK: Yeah, I think so.
[SCREAMS.]
[GRUNTS.]
Are you out of your skull? What the hell are you doing, blowing the damn window? I It's called improvisation.
You suicidal? Do you want to be a vacancy? I couldn't see another way to kill that thing.
We're safe now, okay? Quit howling.
The other guy I hired isn't safe.
He's frozen in the vacuum of space.
Yeah, well, I'll take his cut, too.
Relax.
You can keep his rations.
- COULSON: Hi.
- What in the hell?! Don't shoot.
Thanks.
Oh, my God.
My God, you're here.
That I'm slowly figuring out.
Sorry, I-I think I might be a little confused.
Disoriented, of course.
It's quite a journey.
I didn't know how you traveled here, but I knew it wasn't gonna be first class.
[SIGHS.]
You're here.
Agent Coulson of S.
H.
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L.
D.
You've come to save us.
Yeah, just to clarify, where is here, who is us, and from what? [CREATURE SHRIEKS IN DISTANCE.]
[GROANS.]
Move! Let's go! Is this the whole shipment, Vir Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! - No! - Where are the others?! Wait! Where are the others? You weren't the only one to travel through, were you? I don't think so.
Um, I'm sorry, what was that? Ack, the gravitational flux must've messed with your entry.
We got to wait for the rest of them, okay? You'll have to triple my tokens to get me to stay a minute longer.
One of those Roaches gets us, you'll pay me to shoot you in the head.
- [CREATURE SHRIEKS.]
- Whoa! [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
Get back.
Stay back.
Shh! All right, all right, that's enough.
Can we I'd like to know, if you don't mind, what is happening here, please.
Yeah.
Sorry.
I-I didn't know how much you would know about our current situation coming in.
Zero.
Walk me through it like I'm a child, like I'm a foreign child.
What was that thing? Right.
Right.
That was a Vrell Nexian.
We call them Roaches.
They can surf gravity storms so they'd be able to breach a few years back.
This level's been sealed up ever since then.
It's my first time here.
And who are you? Right, sorry.
Stupid me.
My name is Virgil.
I'm the greeting party and a fan.
Great to have a name, Virgil, but looking for big picture, here.
I mean, who are you? I'm one of the true believers.
Believers in what? In you.
[BODY THUDS.]
Mack.
You okay? What the hell is going on? I was about to find out.
Oh, my bad.
I see a dirty-looking dude hovering over you with a crazy-looking gun.
I acted on impulse.
Where'd that rock send us? Well, I don't have many details, but I do know we're in space.
Yeah, that makes sense.
That's the one thing we haven't done yet.
[SIGHS.]
All right, so, where's everyone else? Wait.
Yo-Yo No, no, Yo-Yo, wait! - It's me.
- Simmons? [SIGHS.]
What on Earth are you I'm lucky there were no knives.
What the hell were you doing with that mask, trying to give me a heart attack? Well, I wasn't sure the air was safe in here.
They were trying to get out.
I thought maybe it was for air when I saw this mask on the ground, but I guess not.
[GRUNTS.]
Do you really Is that the smartest thing? They're already dead.
There's nothing to be scared of.
No.
Of course not.
Oh, that looks like Momia Juanita from the Incan The Incan mummies, yeah.
These people have been dead for a long while, but their bodies seem absent all interstitial fluid.
It's completely dehydrated them, preserving them.
Dehydrated how? Frozen? No.
Drained.
Oh.
"They're already dead.
There's nothing to be scared of.
" Really? What sucks a human dry? MACK: Aliens.
Mack.
[SPEAKS SPANISH.]
I'm happy to see you, too, but I'm not happy we're here.
[SIGHS.]
Aliens.
Yep.
Coulson's 99 percent sure we're in space.
[SIGHS.]
Not again.
All right.
Any idea which part of space we're in? Uh, outer? And you saw an alien? No.
We saw what they can do.
So we have no idea what kind of creature these people are trying to get away from.
Question I'm asking is, who locked them in? [WATER DRIPPING.]
[SCREAMING.]
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[GRUNTING.]
[CREATURE ROARS IN DISTANCE.]
'Cause this wasn't fun enough.
[GRUNTING.]
[METAL GROANS.]
It's stupid.
Just stupid.
All right.
I get it.
Look, I'm just saying, what good is it having a state-of-the-art robotic hand if you don't have it on you when you're kidnapped by Martians? Looks like he's got both hands to me.
Ah, that's his civvy hand.
It's just a prosthetic without all the cool doodads.
It should've been a hook.
At least you can stab things with a hook.
Thought I was gonna be arrested.
So, wait, that one doesn't have the blowtorch or the laser gun or anything? First of all, I'm not Inspector Gadget.
And second of all, the authorities would've confiscated it.
Prison's bad enough without being down an appendage.
First rule of Boy Scouts is always come prepared.
How were we supposed to prepare for this, Mack? I don't know.
I mean, we got to be prepared for everything, apparently.
Look, not a day ago, I was trapped inside a-a computer-generated mind prison, and now You know what? You know what, Coulson? I'm out.
I'm out.
We get through this, I am packing it in.
Sorry, Mack.
You already quit years ago.
Yeah, well, I didn't quit hard enough.
Look, I am not comfortable at the pace at which we deal with new trials and tribulations.
Believe it or not, Mack, this isn't new for me.
I've been hurled through space by a monolith before.
Best we can do is keep our heads and apply the scientific method.
That's right.
Learn what we can about our circumstances.
So, are these people human? Humanoid, at least.
Means we aren't the first ones here.
- That's good.
- Is it? We don't exactly want to follow in their footsteps.
They've got no I.
D.
s.
Fury never said anything about deep-space outposts being developed, did he? There was nothing like this in his black box.
So, wait, S.
H.
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doesn't have a space division called S.
P.
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R.
or something? Really? I always thought you guys had people hiding on the moon.
Hey! Wake up! Geez, Mack, how hard did you hit him? What do you mean? As hard as I possibly could.
Look, I-I don't half-hit people.
It's a punch.
That's why it's called a punch.
What did he say before that? He said that we were coming here to serve a purpose.
YO-YO: As food? No.
He said we were here to save them.
Any idea what that is? SIMMONS: No.
Here we go.
Well looks like he's from Earth.
Or he ate someone from Earth.
So it is a human outpost.
Yeah, and, of course, it's being overrun by creatures that suck out your innards.
I should've been a fireman.
[WRENCH CLANKS.]
[GRUNTS, BREATHES HEAVILY.]
[CREATURE ROARS IN DISTANCE.]
Aah! [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[GRUNTS, BREATHES SHAKILY.]
[THUDDING ON DOOR.]
[GRUNTING.]
Hey.
Hey.
Uh How long have I been out? We can't We can't linger here.
Yeah, sorry.
Mack thought you were an imminent threat.
[GASPS.]
Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie.
Oh, it's good to meet you.
How do you know me? Oh, I know all of you.
Yo-Yo Rodriguez.
Is it okay if I call you Yo-Yo? No.
Okay.
[CHUCKLES.]
Jemma Simmons Biochemistry.
I'm sorry Fitz didn't get to make the trip, but he is thinking of you.
Hey! How do you know us? I've been studying you for years, your history.
I mean, I always believed.
I mean, I had moments, but they They tried to take that last bit away from me, but I always believed the stories were true.
What stories? This one That you would You would come.
To save you, Virgil, from those aliens that were attacking? No, those No.
The The Roaches are an anomaly, a glitch in the plan.
Don't be crazy.
You're not here to save me.
Who, then? Humanity.
- W-W - I'm sorry.
This is a lot to dump on your plate, but how do you eat an elephant, right? [CHUCKLES.]
This will make a lot more sense once I show you [VRELL NEXIAN SHRIEKS.]
Got to let that guy finish his sentence.
[VRELL NEXIAN SHRIEKING.]
Go.
Go.
Go, go.
Go.
[GUN CLICKING.]
[GRUNTS.]
[RUMBLING.]
Right? Yes, that was right, and not the only one.
[DOOR CREAKS.]
[BODY SLIDING.]
[AIR HISSES.]
[KNIFE SCRAPING.]
[GRUNTS.]
I've been looking for you.
Aah! You know, I didn't want to hurt you, but the idea is starting to grow on me.
[PANTING.]
I deserve better than this.
Tell that to the corpses.
[METAL CLATTERS.]
[PANTING.]
Damn.
I was not prepared for that, I got to admit.
You pack a big punch for such a small package.
I got to read the fine print next time.
I hate wasting the charge on that thing.
Honestly, I wasn't trying to hurt you, but you had a lead pipe at the ready, and I can't ri [PANTING.]
Okay.
I guess we'll stick with the first impression.
I don't know what you did to these people or why I was dragged here, but [MUFFLED SHOUTING.]
Save it.
The less I know, the better.
So, is there anything you want to fill us in on, Coulson? 'Cause now's the time.
You know what I know.
This doesn't have anything to do with the little bargain that you made with the Ghost Rider? Yeah, that thing doesn't ride for free.
There has to be some price.
Nope.
This is all new to me.
Sorry.
It's That's just the reality.
Well, maybe this isn't reality.
Maybe someone put us back in the Framework - and this is a simulation.
- Please, we have to shut up about that.
- Don't even got there.
- My God, if I even think about that, my brain will explode.
Again, let's not just postulate.
Let's apply scientific principles and consider the evidence we have.
Look, this is magic, okay? Can we all agree there's some magic at play? Magic is just science we don't understand yet.
Ah, please.
We just got zapped through space by Stonehenge, and we're trying to rule out the involvement of a flame-headed demon from east L.
A.
? Science my ass.
Now, let me see that gun.
Maybe I can try to get it working.
Fitz would agree, but, apparently, he didn't get taken.
No.
At least, he wasn't in the room with the monolith.
I was the last to go through.
I saw it all.
Well, that's some relief.
He's safe from this, better off than we are.
Yeah.
You okay? Fine.
What, do you think he isn't better off? He has to be.
No, that's not what I'm saying.
Or that he did something drastic? He wouldn't do that.
He was right there with us at the diner.
No, I'm not saying any of that.
It's just you guys are constantly torn apart.
Cursed, as he would say.
Well, I'm not afraid that he isn't here.
I'm thrilled.
He's no doubt working this problem, probably trying to get a message to us right now.
Better for everyone he isn't here.
Yeah, well, May did get pulled through.
I saw it.
So we should find her.
We should split up.
- Aw, hell, no.
No, no.
- Yeah, let's not do that.
We are sticking together 100 percent.
Haven't you ever seen an alien movie? Mack, it's the best way to cover the most ground.
Okay, you see, you see, that's exactly what they say before they get picked off one by one, and you know who the first one will be.
It's your call, boss.
This has to be the coolest we've ever looked.
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[GRUNTS.]
MAN: That should keep the Roaches away for a while.
Smell drives them nuts, I think.
But you kick me again, and I'm gonna leave you to be their dessert.
Now, this is gonna hurt like hell, but it's better than the other way we can do it.
[GRUNTING.]
I don't know where you flushed out of, but in this sector, you can't go 10 feet without a Metric.
Hey.
Don't move.
One inch the wrong way, and you're a vacancy.
[MUFFLED SCREAM.]
Yo-Yo, you want to scout up ahead? All clear for now.
Seems like it's just a lot of work just to keep this place afloat.
But it's designed for humans to survive Atmosphere and simulated gravity And the machinery seemed to be for reclaiming water, I think.
Yeah, it looks man-made.
Could possibly be a colony? Moving mankind to the stars? Maybe that's what Virgil meant by "humanity.
" I don't know.
That plasma gun wasn't man-made, and I don't think they could've built this place without some outside help.
Got some serious miles on it.
Decades by the look of it.
Means this program would've had to have been started back in the, what, '80s with Howard Stark? That doesn't feel right.
Yo-Yo found something.
[SIGHS.]
Nothing.
Nothing alive.
Hey.
They didn't get to her, did they? May would've put up a fight.
And they left the other bodies here.
"Water reclamation.
" You were right, Jemma.
I figured it out using magic.
[CONSOLE BEEPS, WHIRS.]
I can try and find a layout and track May.
It's in English.
They're tracking debris fields called "frozen oceans.
" [KEYBOARD CLACKING.]
They're collecting water from ice in space.
This is a colony.
Which means unless they all came through a monolith Then we're close enough to Earth for people to travel here.
And we can get home.
Yes, but just as important, collecting ice means they have a spacecraft, and if they have a spacecraft, they must have a laser-based rapid-transmission system.
If we can find the ship and fly above the debris field We can send a message.
We can send a message to Fitz back on Earth.
Okay, okay, so if I can find a layout, find a ship, find May, it's a start.
This interface looks similar to [MONITOR BEEPS.]
[SIGHS.]
Coulson, do you recognize this language? No.
I don't think humans are running this place after all.
[THUD ON DOOR.]
Mack? Yo-Yo? Hey.
What are you gonna do with our friends? Whatever we want.
Experiment.
They knew the rule, and they broke it.
They're not gonna make it easy for you.
No.
They'll beg for their lives as you humans always do.
I've done 22 rotations, and I have never observed anything else.
It's great to get some alone time with you, but I really wish you had run away with your superspeed instead.
Yeah, you forget I snap back to where I started.
Sometimes it's very useful, but other times, it's super annoying.
[DOOR OPENS.]
You speak English? Of course.
Let her go.
She didn't do anything.
[GRUNTS.]
I said we speak English.
That doesn't mean I want to hear it.
[SIGHS.]
[GRUNTS.]
[CHAINS RATTLE.]
Okay.
New theory.
The Kree have been abducting humans to this outpost for years.
Running experiments? Well, their genetic work in creating Inhumans is well-known.
Maybe they're doing more of the same.
Yeah, well, I'm not gonna wait around to find out.
So [DOOR BEEPS.]
May.
Buddy! [WHISPERING.]
Just go with it.
[NORMAL VOICE.]
I've been looking everywhere for you guys.
Man, what a mess back there, huh? These poor suckers.
Virgil you know, from R&R? He was trying to scam these guys out of some tokens.
This one came running to me begging for help, the poor thing.
When I get my hands on that no-good louse, he's gonna have some explaining to do.
So where is Virgil, anyway? He's dead.
Good.
Good.
Got what he deserved, then, didn't he, for trying to drag these poor transfers up from processing into the wet works just to steal their Metrics.
So he's just Roach food then, huh? Oh, yeah.
One more vacancy, right? That's what I was gonna say.
[STAMMERS.]
Guys, what did I say about trusting Virgil, huh? We went over this.
What did I say? - Don't trust Virgil.
- Not to trust him.
God, you repeated it back to me, and we said back it was like a pass-and-catch thing.
Look, I really appreciate your help with these guys, but I can take them off your hands, and then I'll slip you a few extra tokens for your trouble.
Listen, I'll be I'll be honest with you, man to more than a man.
If I can't get these guys back to processing at warp speed, I am gonna be in some pretty hot water.
So I know it's not ideal, but Look, if you If you come by the gallery for an hour or two, I'll make it worth your while, all right? All good, gang.
So, single file.
[GRUNTS.]
[CHAINS RATTLE.]
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
- [GRUNTS.]
- [SHOUTS IN NATIVE LANGUAGE.]
We'll spare you to provide us greater satisfaction than killing you would bring.
[GAS HISSING.]
[GRUNTS.]
She'll pay that price for you.
Stop! Stop! [SCREAMING.]
No! No! You good? Mm-hmm.
Banged up but okay.
We in space? That's affirmative.
Copy that.
What the hell happened to Virgil? The Roaches get him? Sorry to say.
Was he a friend? Acquaintance.
He owed me a ton of tokens for this job.
Job? All he said was that he wanted to hide some people.
That's not unheard of.
So I was hired to supply the Metrics and swap them out, but you guys don't even have Metrics, which means that you don't have the tokens to cover Virgil's end, so have fun.
Hey, wait, wait.
We need your help.
We need to find our friends.
Your friends? Your friends attacked a Kreeper.
They're as good as gone.
Those blues are bred to kill, so you just you make your peace with it.
We'll take our chances.
Listen, if you could just help us find them and then get to the spacecraft You mean the Trawler? To do what? The only pilot I knew was Virgil, may he rest in peace, apparently.
So best of luck to all you guys, but mine's running out.
You got a name? [SIGHS.]
Deke.
Well, Deke, we just wanted pie, and now we don't know where we are or what's going on, and we finally found someone who does, so you're not walking away.
[YO-YO SCREAMS IN DISTANCE.]
[GRUNTS.]
Where's the Trawler? [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
Take a lift down to level nine.
You can't miss it.
May, take Simmons.
Get that spacecraft in the air.
Send out the signal.
Daisy and I will find Mack and Yo-Yo.
No, no, wait.
You stay here.
What? I've got two good fighters down there once I get the restraints off.
I'll be fine.
We can't lose our leader again.
We need answers.
You want me to stay here and grill this guy? Find out where the hell and what the hell sir.
Good plan.
What do the Kree want with us, Deke? All they ever want Submission.
Whoa.
How many Kree live here? Too many.
Think about it.
The Kree have been studying humans for years, moving here in large numbers.
Kree who were bred to kill.
Bred to kill and living within striking distance of Earth.
This isn't an outpost, May.
It's a staging ground.
They're planning an invasion.
[YO-YO SCREAMING.]
[DEVICE BEEPS.]
What do you mean "submission"? Are the Kree planning some sort of attack? Attack on whom exactly? Humans.
Why would they do that? - [SCREAMING CONTINUES.]
- Stop! Please! I'll do anything! Just stop! Quiet, or we'll change our minds about you.
[RUMBLING.]
[GRUNTS.]
[PANTING.]
Can you start her up? [GRUNTS, INHALES SHARPLY.]
That's the ignition port, I think, but, uh, we obviously don't have the key.
What are the chances of them leaving it in here? Wait.
[ENGINE STARTS.]
[CONSOLE BEEPS.]
Well, that worked out.
Have you ever flown a spaceship? You know the answer to that question.
[CONSOLE BEEPS.]
I have no words.
Don't need them.
So, then why did the Kree build this place? They didn't build the bunker.
Humans did.
Why don't you know these things? Even in waste processing, they know the history You're not from processing, are you? No.
I was enjoying a meal, and then I was taken and zapped to this place.
I'm from Earth.
Yeah, well, that would be the one thing that I do know, wing nut.
But from where? What area? Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
Are you high on something? Can I have some? [AXE THUDS.]
[RUMBLING.]
- [PANTING.]
- You okay? Thought you were gonna lose these for a second there.
I was starting to picture myself with two hooks.
Wait.
Wait.
[KEYBOARD CLACKING.]
Yeah, help me get him up.
We can gain access now, maybe talk to the Trawler ship, find their location.
[MAY SIGHS.]
We need to get up off this debris field if we want a clear signal.
Yeah, if I can figure out how to send one.
I mean, the good news is, I-I recognize some of these constellations, so we're we're at least in our own galaxy.
[SIGHS.]
That doesn't make sense.
How long ago did they build this place, and when did you first come here? I don't know.
They built it 90-some-odd years ago, minimum.
But I what do you mean "come here?" I was born here.
Que pasa, Mack? These These filtration systems, they weren't designed for this.
They've been repurposed.
Yeah, I feel like this machine's out of its element, too.
I found the coordinates to this place, but it's listing our location in longitude and latitude.
The postcard.
90 years ago? That That's impossible.
The tech in here couldn't have been developed in the '20s.
Wait.
No Metrics, no scars, Wisconsin, pie.
Tell me again about when you were taken.
We were We were sitting in our favorite diner just off Columbus Drive.
No, not not where.
When? What year? That monolith was different, wasn't it? We didn't travel through space.
Are you seeing what I'm seeing? I know, May.
I recognize all of these constellations.
I meant that.
No reason to send a message back to Earth.
We're already here.
And all-new episode of "Agents of SHIELD" starts now.
SIMMONS: It's gone.
Ever Every Everyone.
[RUMBLING.]
What was that? Let's hope this ship is designed to take a few hits.
Aah! Hold on! Thrusters are misfiring! - Talk to me what do we do? - You're the pilot! It knocked something out of alignment.
Nothing's working properly.
Simmons we don't want to hit that.
[ALARM BLARING.]
[ALARM STOPS, ELECTRICITY POWERS DOWN.]
Are you trying to kill us? First rule of I.
T.
Turn it off and turn it back on again.
[GRUNTS.]
Oh! No, this should be working.
No! Come on! [ELECTRICITY HUMMING.]
Hang on.
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[AIR HISSING.]
- This is Earth.
- We're in the future! It's all destroyed.
Coulson, please, tell me it's impossible.
I think we can all agree at this point that anything is possible.
Glad you're all right.
Your guy, Virgil He didn't tell you anything else about his plan to bring us back from the past? I'm just still trying to fit all these ideas inside my skull.
And you haven't heard anything about a gateway? A rock that transports people? If I had, do you think I'd still be here? There was no second monolith when I landed on Maveth.
So we'll have to find our own way back.
Well, I'm a biologist, but sure, I can invent time travel.
Just give me a minute.
Well, without some miracle, then we're stuck here, and we need to stay alive.
Oh, and you You You all want me to help you with that, yeah.
Well, that's a big surprise.
Well, all I can offer you is these.
Who's first? You think I'm gonna let you do that to anyone else?! You are lucky that I am even offering.
The only way to not die is to blend in and work hard, and you can't do either of those things without these.
Come on.
Keep moving.
What do they do? Track us? I don't think we want that.
I don't think you have a choice.
Deke?! Tess, yeah, sure, join the fray.
You took out the damn trawler? Where's Virgil? If you lifted off in that thing without What? What's wrong with your face? I'm sorry.
Virgil's gone.
Deke this true? Roaches got him on three.
What was he doing on three, Deke? - That's a sealed-off level.
- This wasn't my - What did you get him into?! - I He hired me.
- What - Listen! He hired me to hide these people.
From where? Well, that's the thing.
Remember all that deranged garbage that Virgil was always spouting about people arriving from the past? I think you're looking at them.
[SCOFFS.]
That's insane.
Doesn't mean it's not true.
We came through a gateway, some sort of temporal shift.
I don't want to believe it, either, but look at their clothes.
They got matching buttons.
Not exactly locals.
How can we prove it to you? Here.
It's from last year.
Still shiny.
TESS: You don't have a Metric.
Never did.
That's too weird.
Virgil said you'd be Agents of S.
H.
I.
E.
L.
D.
Pleased to meet you.
Then there should be more of you.
There's one girl that went to go pry the others away from the Kree guards.
You let them go face the Blues? I didn't let them d They do whatever they want! It's like herding rats.
- Just go get them.
- Me? [CHUCKLES.]
No! No.
Think again.
They are radioactive.
Virgil already got himself wasted.
I intend to learn something from his vacancy.
[PIPE CLATTERS.]
I'll double his price.
You don't even know the number that you just agreed to.
All right, fine.
You stash these people, you make them blend in.
I'll see if I can talk the others out of certain death.
[GRUNTS.]
I just I can't believe this.
Me neither.
No, no, no, no! He's all right.
He's all right.
How did you get that Kreeper's axe? Please tell me he was sweet on you.
You killed a Kree? It was us or them.
Well, you made the wrong choice.
Is that gonna be a problem? Two? You killed two? It's only a problem for the herd of people they will kill in retaliation.
We got to cover this up.
What do you think we're doing? We could just make it look like an accident.
- Shut up! Just let me think.
- Wait a minute.
What if we leave them upstairs with the other bodies? Use the elevator? We can't exactly be seen in the lift with a pair of dead guards.
Well, maybe we don't put them in the elevator.
All right, well, I hope you saved some of your energy there, Tiny.
[AIR HISSING.]
What happened to the Earth? Good question.
Ask anyone, they'll give a different story.
What's yours? All we really know is the planet was torn apart Some cataclysmic event.
And the Blues showed up, restored order, but destroyed all historical data Files, books.
Said it would keep us focused on the future.
Now they oversee everything that's left.
What is left? What do people do here? - [INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS.]
- We survive.
Welcome to the end of the world.
TESS: It's called the Lighthouse.
Back when Earth was round, this was an underground survival bunker.
This is the Exchange.
Need anything this is where you get it.
Virgil mentioned stories About us.
Stories from when we were kids.
Some of the elders swore that a group called S.
H.
I.
E.
L.
D.
would come from the past to help us.
Can we talk to these elders? That would be nice, but the Blues got rid of anyone who believed in the movement.
Fed them to the roaches.
- Kill the belief.
- And it worked.
Only Virgil held out hope, and everybody thought that he was a crackpot.
I'd like to see where he lived, see if we can find any clues as to what his plan for us was.
I can take one of you there.
Sure.
[WOMAN SOBS.]
[SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE.]
MAY: Hey.
Why don't you fight them? We depend on them to survive.
That can't be true.
It's not right, but it's true.
COULSON: That's a lot of pressure to carry the fate of humanity on your shoulders.
It's taught us the value of a life.
Everyone has a role to play to keep the Lighthouse from falling apart.
What's her role? Sometimes the Kree take humans to their levels to serve.
Call it an honor.
But when they visit, they don't talk much.
I don't see many guards.
We've got the numbers.
And they've got the weapons.
We're not exactly military-trained.
We are.
Maybe it's how Virgil thought we could help - To fight.
- Keep it down.
Deke was right.
You have to blend in.
Hear me? - Coulson, right? - Yeah.
I'll take you to Virgil's room.
You two gonna be good? We'll get the lay of the land.
Okay.
Keep your head down, do what the others do, you'll be fine.
Great.
MACK: You couldn't have told us there was a skylight? What's a skylight? Oh, boy.
It is what it is.
I just can't picture somewhere so open.
How did you make that much air? We didn't make it.
It was just there.
You've never been in a place without four walls, - have you? - Do spacewalks count? Definitely.
What about all the dangers Earthquakes, floods, sharknados? Feels safer inside, no? Okay, hold up.
The whole sharknado thing that's just entertainment.
Who would put a shark inside a tornado? They wouldn't.
It's fiction.
A movie.
L-Like I said, we have pieces.
[CHUCKLES.]
It It seems like it was nice.
You would've liked it.
GRILL: Quit howling! HOLT: I did the grind.
I should get my share! You were docked for insubordination.
Now piss off.
Tess! Trawler went out, but I didn't get a drop.
You hauling for somebody else? No, Grill.
We were training a new pilot.
Virgil's dead.
Really? Damn.
You the one filling his seat? No.
I'm just passing through.
That's a shame about Virgil.
I didn't trust that head case, but I liked him.
Well vacancy or no, next time you owe double.
Tess! What did I just say? Double.
Got it.
Avuncular fellow.
Just like anyone else.
Makes trouble if you make trouble.
MACK: We got to come up with a system, 'cause I'm not doing this every time we take out a Kree! DEKE: The system is, "No more dead Kree"! We're two past maximum! Hopefully, the bodies are still warm enough for the roaches to take 'em.
Here, right here.
That's the door.
[DOOR OPENS.]
[GRUNTS.]
- Daisy, the door.
- Daisy? Pretty name.
Like the flower? Does that line work in the future? I guess not.
[VRELL NEXIANS SHRIEK.]
Virgil loved his artifacts.
You should've seen my office.
Don't suppose you ever saw "Singin' in the Rain.
" What about just plain old rain? Only drips from reclamation pipes.
But you fear sharknados.
We need to fix everything.
What about the surface of the planet? Will it ever be livable again? For humans? No.
Land of the roaches now.
Virgil always kept this in the trawler.
Said the world might look this way again someday.
Crazy, right? But he was right about you guys, so You two were close? Yeah.
Not as close as he would've liked, but He was crazy Virgil, you know? Could never take him too seriously.
I'm sure he knew you cared.
Yeah.
You know anything about this? Maybe a flight log? Think it's important? COULSON: Important enough to hide.
Virgil's the only one who had answers.
I just wish we'd spent more time with him.
Me, too.
[TABLET BEEPING.]
That's the first piece of tech I've seen on this floor.
They keep people in the Dark Ages here No progress, no innovation.
Meanwhile, the aliens are so advanced Fitz would be going out of his mind.
Time is strange.
Somewhere out there, he's still fighting.
But from our reference point, he's lived his life.
Or not.
Shh! [DISHES CLATTERING.]
Something is going down.
Today, Kasius has seen fit to feed the most vulnerable amongst us.
We've hit the North-Korean-dictator level of creepy.
[BUZZER.]
MAN: Food! Get some! Hey! Move over! [INDISTINCT SHOUTING.]
- Give it to me! - Get out of my way! Me first! - Out of my way! - Hey! Hey, me first! Give me that! MAN: You got your share! [GRUNTS.]
Come on! - [BOWL CLATTERS.]
- Yeah! MAY: It's a knife.
[GROANS.]
[GRUNTS.]
[GROANS.]
[GROANS.]
I need to cauterize his wound.
MAN: What's she doing? Who's that? - WOMAN: She's crazy.
- What is that? What's she doing? Okay.
I'm very sorry about this next part.
Aaaah! Aah.
No, no.
You can't move him.
No, don't move him! You can't [CHATTER.]
Hey.
- At least you're okay.
- DAISY: What do you mean? Wait, where's Simmons? [SIGHS.]
The Kree took her.
- What? - YO-YO: How? Can I talk to you for a second? This is not exactly flying under the radar.
What the hell happened to her? A servant got stabbed, was bleeding out.
The girl saved him.
She thought she was doing a good thing.
These people They're they're not like us.
No, they're frickin' hazardous.
They'll get us all killed.
Maybe not.
Maybe Virgil was right Just Just stop it.
Just the fairy tale was toxic.
The morons that believed it were eaten alive.
I know, Deke.
Okay, I know what you lost.
But maybe they didn't die in vain.
Maybe it's real.
And that's worse.
If it's real it'll be a massacre.
We have to get Simmons.
Hit them hard and fast and get up to the surface.
There's barely any surface left, Daisy.
The planet's been blown apart.
And what's there is uninhabitable.
So out, not an option.
As far as in here We get Simmons.
I'll do it.
- They won't know what hit them.
- MACK: Hey, hold up.
No one knows you two have abilities, so let's keep it that way.
For the moment.
But right now at this moment, we don't know jack squat about anything.
Including where Simmons is being held.
Deke.
He seems to have this place dialed in.
He might know.
He's too afraid to make noises.
Yeah, but that's 'cause he's protecting himself.
He has a scam up and running.
He's afraid we're gonna blow it for him.
I agree.
I'll tail him, dig up some dirt, encourage him to help us.
Those tablets Could have intel.
Hello? Yo-Yo, master thief.
I am not gonna tell you this again.
Get them to blend in.
That's my ride.
Wish me luck.
We'll meet back here, yeah? You really don't know where they might've taken our friend? Someplace I've never been.
Kasius welcomes you to his suites.
Oh.
Someone who talks.
Please, tell me how the injured man is doing.
Please take this opportunity to undress and clean yourself.
Even Hala doesn't have a view like this.
So you're the one who saved a life.
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS.]
[DOOR CREAKS.]
[DOOR CLOSES.]
[MACHINERY BEEPING.]
So, all this talk about protecting people, you were worried about your speakeasy.
I'm in a Framework program.
Oh, no.
She must feel like she's stepped into a new world.
Mm.
Pretty.
But she appears more dormouse than medical practitioner.
Your actions caused quite the stir.
I was only trying to save a man's life.
By rather elaborate means.
Do you have a name? Jemma.
And where are you from, Jemma? Processing.
Processing.
Good we had you bathe.
So, tell me, Jemma, how does one learn such specific curative skills working in sewage all day? My mother taught me.
How resourceful.
Did she also teach you the cost of interfering in my affairs? The man would've died.
A life spent, a life earned, yes? You thought this law did not apply? I only did what I thought would make you happiest in the end.
That is the superior answer To any question, really.
This was a fight over food, Sinara? The pressure must be building up there.
Tell the guards to give them some breathing room, for mercy's sake.
A renewal will do them some good.
Life is a fragile thing.
We must cultivate the beauty and prune back the rest.
[CLIPPERS CLACK.]
I always found humans to be inelegant creatures, but you Your Metric It's gone.
I removed it.
I'm sorry.
No scar.
Not even a scratch.
Just a pristine canvas.
Such marvels make me wonder if you're even from a place as tough as Processing.
I think I would like to see how my Servitor fared under your handiwork, and if your wrist is any indication I should be quite pleased.
MACK: They keep the tablets in there.
Once May gets Tess out of the picture, we'll go.
Hey, I rustled up some grub.
- Pre-packaged, but it's decent.
- Oh, great.
Listen, Tess, is there somewhere I could change my bandage? Sure.
How sure are you that's actually a steam pipe? Um, say 50/50.
Either Coulson's gonna release hot steam or raw sewage.
Either way, it'll get attention.
[STEAM HISSES.]
[KREE SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE.]
Ready, and go.
You should see go-face in slow-motion.
Classic.
You're showing off.
If you got it, flaunt it.
They'll never know what happened.
Let's hope not.
[INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER P.
A.
.]
[ALARM BLARING.]
Remove the children.
[ALARM CONTINUES.]
Line up and present your Metrics.
This is not a good thing.
So far, any new development in this place is not a good thing.
Why don't we put those on? Because they go through your damn wrist! But without them, who knows? I want to make a trade.
Not the time.
I think it's exactly the time.
[SCOFFS.]
Okay.
So much for "passing through.
" What do you want? I have a working Kree tablet.
I'll trade it for three Metrics installed.
I was right to be suspicious of you.
A tablet's not worth three Metrics.
But anyone who can steal it is, so I'll get you hooked up.
Thank you.
But you'll work for it, and it won't be fun.
GUARD: Line up and present! We can work.
We're in.
Get inside.
[ALARM CONTINUES.]
[LAUGHS.]
DEKE: Where is it? Did you throw out the old papers? RICK: Yeah, it was a mess.
Stop doing that.
You're always cleaning.
Yeah, you programmed me to.
Really? Because I don't remember programming you to talk back to me.
It was a joke, because I I did program you to talk Just will you find the papers, please? Yeah.
[SIGHS.]
You may as well pull up a stool and have a beer.
[SCOFFS.]
Clearly, you're a talented pusher, but I will pass, thanks.
It's probably for the best, because I have no idea what actual beer tasted like.
You want to tell me where I am? You're passed out at my place of business.
You got too close to my transmitters when you were stalking me.
DAISY: So this is your racket? You're You're pimping out the Framework? I never called it that, but yeah.
That's the technology the hardware interface is based on.
I-I had to rebuild the software from scratch because Kasius had the historical archives erased.
But I was able to get my hands on the servers.
I gathered bits of data here and there, and the rest is guesswork.
But your customers don't know the difference.
You've got them addicted to Earth-as-it-was scenarios.
Among other simulations, yes.
So this is the business that you're protecting? Your creepy opium den of fantasy? Well, I can't get real opium, so I'm selling escape.
The only other way out of here is the final exit.
They're trading one prison for another.
You think the Lighthouse is a prison? Sweetheart prison would be nice.
[TABLET BEEPING.]
No.
Is this about my team? It's much worse.
It's a renewal.
[GRUNTS.]
I feel less good about this.
[TABLET BEEPING.]
What's a renewal? TESS: A low-earner will be selected.
Their Metric will turn red.
Then they owe a life Their own or someone else's.
A life spent - A life earned! - A life earned! [METRICS BEEPING.]
[METRICS BEEPING LOUDLY.]
Let's go.
Come on! [GRUNTS.]
[GUN COCKS.]
[GUNSHOT.]
[PEOPLE SCREAMING.]
[GUNSHOT.]
[GUNSHOTS, SCREAMING IN DISTANCE.]
What's going on? It sounds like people are dying out there.
A life is owed.
Now, we stay safe in here, but if that fails [MAGNETS HUMMING.]
we make sure they find you first.
[CHOKING.]
Oh, thank God.
Thank God.
[GUNSHOT.]
Hey! You gonna leave us here to die?! - That's the hope.
- If we don't, you and me are gonna have a conversation.
Where's an axe when you need one, huh? - Still too soon.
- That's not something to joke about.
[KNOCK ON DOOR, DOOR OPENS.]
[GUN COCKS.]
Where's Grill? Grill! My tab was low 'cause you didn't pay me! Now you owe me a life! GRILL: I left you three out there.
Grill's the one you want.
Don't forget that.
He's got to come out sometime, right? He strung you up for me? That's twisted.
[GRUNTS.]
[GUNSHOT.]
[GRUNTS.]
Aah! I'm sorry.
I owe a life.
Aah! [GUNSHOT.]
[METRIC BEEPS.]
He didn't have to die.
Somebody did.
[DOOR OPENS.]
[DEVICE BEEPS.]
Is this the last life owed? GRILL: Yes, Commander.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
[TABLET BEEPS.]
[TABLET BEEPS.]
[TABLET BEEPS.]
This is unformatted.
Who are you? I've been recalibrating their Metrics, but I do pledge that they work for me, sir.
Is this true? Where's your station? It's true.
We work in Salvage.
GRILL: They owe me a sizable debt, sir, so they will be stationed here a long time.
Hmm.
Carry on.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
I am happy you came to your senses, and I will be happy to call the watch commander back if not.
Trying to preserve humanity.
Feels like they lost it a long time ago.
What are you doing on your feet? Yes.
She is right.
What is this man doing up in this condition? Of course, that you made the effort shows why you're the finest of your people.
Will it heal? He is my most precious.
Of course.
It's barely been hours.
But it'll scar.
Um, or with time or advanced procedures, it can look much better.
My servitors must symbolize perfection when they represent me.
Perhaps with his tunic on, no one will notice.
This, however No, I can That can be minimized.
No one will notice.
- I will notice.
- It's a miniscule cut.
On the man's face.
Please don't I'm sorry.
I demand perfection.
He's now marred.
Unh! Oh! [COUGHS.]
Whereas you remain immaculate.
And a woman of your talent What is wrong with you? A life taken a life earned.
What is wrong with you?! Silence! You are a beauty worth cultivating.
But you must learn silence.
Aah! Aah! Oh! [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[NO AUDIO.]
[NO AUDIO.]
The Kree have her.
You can't help her.
To try is too dangerous.
You said the same thing about Mack and Yo-Yo.
How'd that turn out? A catastrophe! This entire place is a very delicate ecosystem, and you all just keep taking a leak in the water - left and right! - You're worried we'll mess this up or we'll mess this up for you? I mean, do the Kree even know about this operation? Because Of course they know about it.
They're crazy about it, because I'm I'm improving people's lives.
I'm giving them something other than just hour after hour of endless grind.
They condone it 'cause it keeps them placid.
I have seen the Framework in action before.
Pretend that wishes are coming true so the real hope dies.
- Hope is what gets people killed.
- Make them forget reality - so they don't try to make a move to fix it! - No, I'm making reality livable.
- Don't make any waves, because - No, you don't want to make any waves, 'cause if you start a fire, you want to know what's combustible in there.
- We're mixing metaphors all over the place.
- telling them to just chill - so they don't rock the boat is so wrong! - No, the boat sank! Do you understand that?! We are a breath away from extinction.
We make one wrong move, and in a blink, mankind is gone for good.
Wait.
That That That That's it.
That's what I'm looking for.
That! Daisy Johnson.
And you say you're not dangerous.
So you know who I am.
Quake.
You see, I'm the one person that's pieced the history together, who has an idea of what happened.
You want to know what kind of force can tear a planet apart? It was you.
You think if you work hard enough if you inspire them, that you can put the pieces back together? You think you can save mankind? Give them back a world with justice and freedom and all that other pledgeof-allegiance garbage? I'm telling you to make peace with it.
Surrender to it and make this your home, just the way it is.
Because S.
H.
I.
E.
L.
D.
tried to save the world.
And you want to see the consequences? Take a look.
Do you see an Earth that can be saved? It's too late.
It's already been quaked apart.
We'll return in a moment.
[NO AUDIO.]
Jemma.
You look wonderful.
And I hear you're learning well.
That's good.
Just in time for my guests.
H.
I.
E.
L.
D.
" DAISY: We were all in the Framework together.
We all lost ourselves in there.
FITZ: No, this is my fault Aida, the LMDs, all the deaths.
Those aren't on S.
H.
I.
E.
L.
D.
Those are on me.
MAY: If there's a price to pay, we pay it together.
SIMMONS: Amen.
Anybody else hungry? I'm not saying we're definitely gonna get locked up, but if we are, wouldn't mind grabbing a bite to eat first.
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES, POWERS DOWN.]
- [DOOR OPENS.]
- [PEOPLE GASP, MURMUR.]
- Phillip J.
Coulson.
- Yep.
[DEVICE POWERS ON, HIGH-PITCHED RINGING.]
The window closes in less than two minutes.
Take them.
[TALKING HEADS' "THIS MUST BE THE PLACE (NAIVE MELODY)" PLAYS.]
Home is where I want to be Pick me up and turn me 'round I feel numb Born with a weak heart I guess I must be having fun The less we say about it, the better Make it up as we go along Feet on the ground Head in the sky It's okay I know nothing's wrong, nothing Hi-yo I got plenty of time Hi-yo You got light in your eyes And you're standing here beside me I love the passing of time Never for money Always for love Cover up and say good night Say good night Home is where I want to be But I guess I'm already there I come home She lifted up her wings I guess that this must be the place I can't tell one from another Did I find you or you find me? [MUSIC STOPS.]
[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE.]
[EQUIPMENT CLACKING.]
[ELECTRICITY POWERS DOWN.]
[DOOR SLAMS.]
[WEAPONS COCKING.]
[DOOR CLOSES.]
[INSECTS CHIRPING.]
Haven't done one of these in a while.
You? My wife thinks that I'm at a friend's house for our fantasy draft.
Doesn't even occur to her that we're in the middle of the season.
Doesn't even occur her.
[DOOR OPENS.]
We left one sitting at the counter, sir.
Yeah.
Not on the list.
[DOLLY RATTLING.]
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES.]
MAN: And the coat pockets.
Clean it up, please.
Watch the clock.
The moment is fast approaching, everybody.
[ALL GASP.]
Is everyone all right? MACK: Yeah, I think so.
[SCREAMS.]
[GRUNTS.]
Are you out of your skull? What the hell are you doing, blowing the damn window? I It's called improvisation.
You suicidal? Do you want to be a vacancy? I couldn't see another way to kill that thing.
We're safe now, okay? Quit howling.
The other guy I hired isn't safe.
He's frozen in the vacuum of space.
Yeah, well, I'll take his cut, too.
Relax.
You can keep his rations.
- COULSON: Hi.
- What in the hell?! Don't shoot.
Thanks.
Oh, my God.
My God, you're here.
That I'm slowly figuring out.
Sorry, I-I think I might be a little confused.
Disoriented, of course.
It's quite a journey.
I didn't know how you traveled here, but I knew it wasn't gonna be first class.
[SIGHS.]
You're here.
Agent Coulson of S.
H.
I.
E.
L.
D.
You've come to save us.
Yeah, just to clarify, where is here, who is us, and from what? [CREATURE SHRIEKS IN DISTANCE.]
[GROANS.]
Move! Let's go! Is this the whole shipment, Vir Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! - No! - Where are the others?! Wait! Where are the others? You weren't the only one to travel through, were you? I don't think so.
Um, I'm sorry, what was that? Ack, the gravitational flux must've messed with your entry.
We got to wait for the rest of them, okay? You'll have to triple my tokens to get me to stay a minute longer.
One of those Roaches gets us, you'll pay me to shoot you in the head.
- [CREATURE SHRIEKS.]
- Whoa! [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
Get back.
Stay back.
Shh! All right, all right, that's enough.
Can we I'd like to know, if you don't mind, what is happening here, please.
Yeah.
Sorry.
I-I didn't know how much you would know about our current situation coming in.
Zero.
Walk me through it like I'm a child, like I'm a foreign child.
What was that thing? Right.
Right.
That was a Vrell Nexian.
We call them Roaches.
They can surf gravity storms so they'd be able to breach a few years back.
This level's been sealed up ever since then.
It's my first time here.
And who are you? Right, sorry.
Stupid me.
My name is Virgil.
I'm the greeting party and a fan.
Great to have a name, Virgil, but looking for big picture, here.
I mean, who are you? I'm one of the true believers.
Believers in what? In you.
[BODY THUDS.]
Mack.
You okay? What the hell is going on? I was about to find out.
Oh, my bad.
I see a dirty-looking dude hovering over you with a crazy-looking gun.
I acted on impulse.
Where'd that rock send us? Well, I don't have many details, but I do know we're in space.
Yeah, that makes sense.
That's the one thing we haven't done yet.
[SIGHS.]
All right, so, where's everyone else? Wait.
Yo-Yo No, no, Yo-Yo, wait! - It's me.
- Simmons? [SIGHS.]
What on Earth are you I'm lucky there were no knives.
What the hell were you doing with that mask, trying to give me a heart attack? Well, I wasn't sure the air was safe in here.
They were trying to get out.
I thought maybe it was for air when I saw this mask on the ground, but I guess not.
[GRUNTS.]
Do you really Is that the smartest thing? They're already dead.
There's nothing to be scared of.
No.
Of course not.
Oh, that looks like Momia Juanita from the Incan The Incan mummies, yeah.
These people have been dead for a long while, but their bodies seem absent all interstitial fluid.
It's completely dehydrated them, preserving them.
Dehydrated how? Frozen? No.
Drained.
Oh.
"They're already dead.
There's nothing to be scared of.
" Really? What sucks a human dry? MACK: Aliens.
Mack.
[SPEAKS SPANISH.]
I'm happy to see you, too, but I'm not happy we're here.
[SIGHS.]
Aliens.
Yep.
Coulson's 99 percent sure we're in space.
[SIGHS.]
Not again.
All right.
Any idea which part of space we're in? Uh, outer? And you saw an alien? No.
We saw what they can do.
So we have no idea what kind of creature these people are trying to get away from.
Question I'm asking is, who locked them in? [WATER DRIPPING.]
[SCREAMING.]
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[GRUNTING.]
[CREATURE ROARS IN DISTANCE.]
'Cause this wasn't fun enough.
[GRUNTING.]
[METAL GROANS.]
It's stupid.
Just stupid.
All right.
I get it.
Look, I'm just saying, what good is it having a state-of-the-art robotic hand if you don't have it on you when you're kidnapped by Martians? Looks like he's got both hands to me.
Ah, that's his civvy hand.
It's just a prosthetic without all the cool doodads.
It should've been a hook.
At least you can stab things with a hook.
Thought I was gonna be arrested.
So, wait, that one doesn't have the blowtorch or the laser gun or anything? First of all, I'm not Inspector Gadget.
And second of all, the authorities would've confiscated it.
Prison's bad enough without being down an appendage.
First rule of Boy Scouts is always come prepared.
How were we supposed to prepare for this, Mack? I don't know.
I mean, we got to be prepared for everything, apparently.
Look, not a day ago, I was trapped inside a-a computer-generated mind prison, and now You know what? You know what, Coulson? I'm out.
I'm out.
We get through this, I am packing it in.
Sorry, Mack.
You already quit years ago.
Yeah, well, I didn't quit hard enough.
Look, I am not comfortable at the pace at which we deal with new trials and tribulations.
Believe it or not, Mack, this isn't new for me.
I've been hurled through space by a monolith before.
Best we can do is keep our heads and apply the scientific method.
That's right.
Learn what we can about our circumstances.
So, are these people human? Humanoid, at least.
Means we aren't the first ones here.
- That's good.
- Is it? We don't exactly want to follow in their footsteps.
They've got no I.
D.
s.
Fury never said anything about deep-space outposts being developed, did he? There was nothing like this in his black box.
So, wait, S.
H.
I.
E.
L.
D.
doesn't have a space division called S.
P.
E.
A.
R.
or something? Really? I always thought you guys had people hiding on the moon.
Hey! Wake up! Geez, Mack, how hard did you hit him? What do you mean? As hard as I possibly could.
Look, I-I don't half-hit people.
It's a punch.
That's why it's called a punch.
What did he say before that? He said that we were coming here to serve a purpose.
YO-YO: As food? No.
He said we were here to save them.
Any idea what that is? SIMMONS: No.
Here we go.
Well looks like he's from Earth.
Or he ate someone from Earth.
So it is a human outpost.
Yeah, and, of course, it's being overrun by creatures that suck out your innards.
I should've been a fireman.
[WRENCH CLANKS.]
[GRUNTS, BREATHES HEAVILY.]
[CREATURE ROARS IN DISTANCE.]
Aah! [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[GRUNTS, BREATHES SHAKILY.]
[THUDDING ON DOOR.]
[GRUNTING.]
Hey.
Hey.
Uh How long have I been out? We can't We can't linger here.
Yeah, sorry.
Mack thought you were an imminent threat.
[GASPS.]
Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie.
Oh, it's good to meet you.
How do you know me? Oh, I know all of you.
Yo-Yo Rodriguez.
Is it okay if I call you Yo-Yo? No.
Okay.
[CHUCKLES.]
Jemma Simmons Biochemistry.
I'm sorry Fitz didn't get to make the trip, but he is thinking of you.
Hey! How do you know us? I've been studying you for years, your history.
I mean, I always believed.
I mean, I had moments, but they They tried to take that last bit away from me, but I always believed the stories were true.
What stories? This one That you would You would come.
To save you, Virgil, from those aliens that were attacking? No, those No.
The The Roaches are an anomaly, a glitch in the plan.
Don't be crazy.
You're not here to save me.
Who, then? Humanity.
- W-W - I'm sorry.
This is a lot to dump on your plate, but how do you eat an elephant, right? [CHUCKLES.]
This will make a lot more sense once I show you [VRELL NEXIAN SHRIEKS.]
Got to let that guy finish his sentence.
[VRELL NEXIAN SHRIEKING.]
Go.
Go.
Go, go.
Go.
[GUN CLICKING.]
[GRUNTS.]
[RUMBLING.]
Right? Yes, that was right, and not the only one.
[DOOR CREAKS.]
[BODY SLIDING.]
[AIR HISSES.]
[KNIFE SCRAPING.]
[GRUNTS.]
I've been looking for you.
Aah! You know, I didn't want to hurt you, but the idea is starting to grow on me.
[PANTING.]
I deserve better than this.
Tell that to the corpses.
[METAL CLATTERS.]
[PANTING.]
Damn.
I was not prepared for that, I got to admit.
You pack a big punch for such a small package.
I got to read the fine print next time.
I hate wasting the charge on that thing.
Honestly, I wasn't trying to hurt you, but you had a lead pipe at the ready, and I can't ri [PANTING.]
Okay.
I guess we'll stick with the first impression.
I don't know what you did to these people or why I was dragged here, but [MUFFLED SHOUTING.]
Save it.
The less I know, the better.
So, is there anything you want to fill us in on, Coulson? 'Cause now's the time.
You know what I know.
This doesn't have anything to do with the little bargain that you made with the Ghost Rider? Yeah, that thing doesn't ride for free.
There has to be some price.
Nope.
This is all new to me.
Sorry.
It's That's just the reality.
Well, maybe this isn't reality.
Maybe someone put us back in the Framework - and this is a simulation.
- Please, we have to shut up about that.
- Don't even got there.
- My God, if I even think about that, my brain will explode.
Again, let's not just postulate.
Let's apply scientific principles and consider the evidence we have.
Look, this is magic, okay? Can we all agree there's some magic at play? Magic is just science we don't understand yet.
Ah, please.
We just got zapped through space by Stonehenge, and we're trying to rule out the involvement of a flame-headed demon from east L.
A.
? Science my ass.
Now, let me see that gun.
Maybe I can try to get it working.
Fitz would agree, but, apparently, he didn't get taken.
No.
At least, he wasn't in the room with the monolith.
I was the last to go through.
I saw it all.
Well, that's some relief.
He's safe from this, better off than we are.
Yeah.
You okay? Fine.
What, do you think he isn't better off? He has to be.
No, that's not what I'm saying.
Or that he did something drastic? He wouldn't do that.
He was right there with us at the diner.
No, I'm not saying any of that.
It's just you guys are constantly torn apart.
Cursed, as he would say.
Well, I'm not afraid that he isn't here.
I'm thrilled.
He's no doubt working this problem, probably trying to get a message to us right now.
Better for everyone he isn't here.
Yeah, well, May did get pulled through.
I saw it.
So we should find her.
We should split up.
- Aw, hell, no.
No, no.
- Yeah, let's not do that.
We are sticking together 100 percent.
Haven't you ever seen an alien movie? Mack, it's the best way to cover the most ground.
Okay, you see, you see, that's exactly what they say before they get picked off one by one, and you know who the first one will be.
It's your call, boss.
This has to be the coolest we've ever looked.
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[GRUNTS.]
MAN: That should keep the Roaches away for a while.
Smell drives them nuts, I think.
But you kick me again, and I'm gonna leave you to be their dessert.
Now, this is gonna hurt like hell, but it's better than the other way we can do it.
[GRUNTING.]
I don't know where you flushed out of, but in this sector, you can't go 10 feet without a Metric.
Hey.
Don't move.
One inch the wrong way, and you're a vacancy.
[MUFFLED SCREAM.]
Yo-Yo, you want to scout up ahead? All clear for now.
Seems like it's just a lot of work just to keep this place afloat.
But it's designed for humans to survive Atmosphere and simulated gravity And the machinery seemed to be for reclaiming water, I think.
Yeah, it looks man-made.
Could possibly be a colony? Moving mankind to the stars? Maybe that's what Virgil meant by "humanity.
" I don't know.
That plasma gun wasn't man-made, and I don't think they could've built this place without some outside help.
Got some serious miles on it.
Decades by the look of it.
Means this program would've had to have been started back in the, what, '80s with Howard Stark? That doesn't feel right.
Yo-Yo found something.
[SIGHS.]
Nothing.
Nothing alive.
Hey.
They didn't get to her, did they? May would've put up a fight.
And they left the other bodies here.
"Water reclamation.
" You were right, Jemma.
I figured it out using magic.
[CONSOLE BEEPS, WHIRS.]
I can try and find a layout and track May.
It's in English.
They're tracking debris fields called "frozen oceans.
" [KEYBOARD CLACKING.]
They're collecting water from ice in space.
This is a colony.
Which means unless they all came through a monolith Then we're close enough to Earth for people to travel here.
And we can get home.
Yes, but just as important, collecting ice means they have a spacecraft, and if they have a spacecraft, they must have a laser-based rapid-transmission system.
If we can find the ship and fly above the debris field We can send a message.
We can send a message to Fitz back on Earth.
Okay, okay, so if I can find a layout, find a ship, find May, it's a start.
This interface looks similar to [MONITOR BEEPS.]
[SIGHS.]
Coulson, do you recognize this language? No.
I don't think humans are running this place after all.
[THUD ON DOOR.]
Mack? Yo-Yo? Hey.
What are you gonna do with our friends? Whatever we want.
Experiment.
They knew the rule, and they broke it.
They're not gonna make it easy for you.
No.
They'll beg for their lives as you humans always do.
I've done 22 rotations, and I have never observed anything else.
It's great to get some alone time with you, but I really wish you had run away with your superspeed instead.
Yeah, you forget I snap back to where I started.
Sometimes it's very useful, but other times, it's super annoying.
[DOOR OPENS.]
You speak English? Of course.
Let her go.
She didn't do anything.
[GRUNTS.]
I said we speak English.
That doesn't mean I want to hear it.
[SIGHS.]
[GRUNTS.]
[CHAINS RATTLE.]
Okay.
New theory.
The Kree have been abducting humans to this outpost for years.
Running experiments? Well, their genetic work in creating Inhumans is well-known.
Maybe they're doing more of the same.
Yeah, well, I'm not gonna wait around to find out.
So [DOOR BEEPS.]
May.
Buddy! [WHISPERING.]
Just go with it.
[NORMAL VOICE.]
I've been looking everywhere for you guys.
Man, what a mess back there, huh? These poor suckers.
Virgil you know, from R&R? He was trying to scam these guys out of some tokens.
This one came running to me begging for help, the poor thing.
When I get my hands on that no-good louse, he's gonna have some explaining to do.
So where is Virgil, anyway? He's dead.
Good.
Good.
Got what he deserved, then, didn't he, for trying to drag these poor transfers up from processing into the wet works just to steal their Metrics.
So he's just Roach food then, huh? Oh, yeah.
One more vacancy, right? That's what I was gonna say.
[STAMMERS.]
Guys, what did I say about trusting Virgil, huh? We went over this.
What did I say? - Don't trust Virgil.
- Not to trust him.
God, you repeated it back to me, and we said back it was like a pass-and-catch thing.
Look, I really appreciate your help with these guys, but I can take them off your hands, and then I'll slip you a few extra tokens for your trouble.
Listen, I'll be I'll be honest with you, man to more than a man.
If I can't get these guys back to processing at warp speed, I am gonna be in some pretty hot water.
So I know it's not ideal, but Look, if you If you come by the gallery for an hour or two, I'll make it worth your while, all right? All good, gang.
So, single file.
[GRUNTS.]
[CHAINS RATTLE.]
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
- [GRUNTS.]
- [SHOUTS IN NATIVE LANGUAGE.]
We'll spare you to provide us greater satisfaction than killing you would bring.
[GAS HISSING.]
[GRUNTS.]
She'll pay that price for you.
Stop! Stop! [SCREAMING.]
No! No! You good? Mm-hmm.
Banged up but okay.
We in space? That's affirmative.
Copy that.
What the hell happened to Virgil? The Roaches get him? Sorry to say.
Was he a friend? Acquaintance.
He owed me a ton of tokens for this job.
Job? All he said was that he wanted to hide some people.
That's not unheard of.
So I was hired to supply the Metrics and swap them out, but you guys don't even have Metrics, which means that you don't have the tokens to cover Virgil's end, so have fun.
Hey, wait, wait.
We need your help.
We need to find our friends.
Your friends? Your friends attacked a Kreeper.
They're as good as gone.
Those blues are bred to kill, so you just you make your peace with it.
We'll take our chances.
Listen, if you could just help us find them and then get to the spacecraft You mean the Trawler? To do what? The only pilot I knew was Virgil, may he rest in peace, apparently.
So best of luck to all you guys, but mine's running out.
You got a name? [SIGHS.]
Deke.
Well, Deke, we just wanted pie, and now we don't know where we are or what's going on, and we finally found someone who does, so you're not walking away.
[YO-YO SCREAMS IN DISTANCE.]
[GRUNTS.]
Where's the Trawler? [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
Take a lift down to level nine.
You can't miss it.
May, take Simmons.
Get that spacecraft in the air.
Send out the signal.
Daisy and I will find Mack and Yo-Yo.
No, no, wait.
You stay here.
What? I've got two good fighters down there once I get the restraints off.
I'll be fine.
We can't lose our leader again.
We need answers.
You want me to stay here and grill this guy? Find out where the hell and what the hell sir.
Good plan.
What do the Kree want with us, Deke? All they ever want Submission.
Whoa.
How many Kree live here? Too many.
Think about it.
The Kree have been studying humans for years, moving here in large numbers.
Kree who were bred to kill.
Bred to kill and living within striking distance of Earth.
This isn't an outpost, May.
It's a staging ground.
They're planning an invasion.
[YO-YO SCREAMING.]
[DEVICE BEEPS.]
What do you mean "submission"? Are the Kree planning some sort of attack? Attack on whom exactly? Humans.
Why would they do that? - [SCREAMING CONTINUES.]
- Stop! Please! I'll do anything! Just stop! Quiet, or we'll change our minds about you.
[RUMBLING.]
[GRUNTS.]
[PANTING.]
Can you start her up? [GRUNTS, INHALES SHARPLY.]
That's the ignition port, I think, but, uh, we obviously don't have the key.
What are the chances of them leaving it in here? Wait.
[ENGINE STARTS.]
[CONSOLE BEEPS.]
Well, that worked out.
Have you ever flown a spaceship? You know the answer to that question.
[CONSOLE BEEPS.]
I have no words.
Don't need them.
So, then why did the Kree build this place? They didn't build the bunker.
Humans did.
Why don't you know these things? Even in waste processing, they know the history You're not from processing, are you? No.
I was enjoying a meal, and then I was taken and zapped to this place.
I'm from Earth.
Yeah, well, that would be the one thing that I do know, wing nut.
But from where? What area? Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
Are you high on something? Can I have some? [AXE THUDS.]
[RUMBLING.]
- [PANTING.]
- You okay? Thought you were gonna lose these for a second there.
I was starting to picture myself with two hooks.
Wait.
Wait.
[KEYBOARD CLACKING.]
Yeah, help me get him up.
We can gain access now, maybe talk to the Trawler ship, find their location.
[MAY SIGHS.]
We need to get up off this debris field if we want a clear signal.
Yeah, if I can figure out how to send one.
I mean, the good news is, I-I recognize some of these constellations, so we're we're at least in our own galaxy.
[SIGHS.]
That doesn't make sense.
How long ago did they build this place, and when did you first come here? I don't know.
They built it 90-some-odd years ago, minimum.
But I what do you mean "come here?" I was born here.
Que pasa, Mack? These These filtration systems, they weren't designed for this.
They've been repurposed.
Yeah, I feel like this machine's out of its element, too.
I found the coordinates to this place, but it's listing our location in longitude and latitude.
The postcard.
90 years ago? That That's impossible.
The tech in here couldn't have been developed in the '20s.
Wait.
No Metrics, no scars, Wisconsin, pie.
Tell me again about when you were taken.
We were We were sitting in our favorite diner just off Columbus Drive.
No, not not where.
When? What year? That monolith was different, wasn't it? We didn't travel through space.
Are you seeing what I'm seeing? I know, May.
I recognize all of these constellations.
I meant that.
No reason to send a message back to Earth.
We're already here.
And all-new episode of "Agents of SHIELD" starts now.
SIMMONS: It's gone.
Ever Every Everyone.
[RUMBLING.]
What was that? Let's hope this ship is designed to take a few hits.
Aah! Hold on! Thrusters are misfiring! - Talk to me what do we do? - You're the pilot! It knocked something out of alignment.
Nothing's working properly.
Simmons we don't want to hit that.
[ALARM BLARING.]
[ALARM STOPS, ELECTRICITY POWERS DOWN.]
Are you trying to kill us? First rule of I.
T.
Turn it off and turn it back on again.
[GRUNTS.]
Oh! No, this should be working.
No! Come on! [ELECTRICITY HUMMING.]
Hang on.
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[AIR HISSING.]
- This is Earth.
- We're in the future! It's all destroyed.
Coulson, please, tell me it's impossible.
I think we can all agree at this point that anything is possible.
Glad you're all right.
Your guy, Virgil He didn't tell you anything else about his plan to bring us back from the past? I'm just still trying to fit all these ideas inside my skull.
And you haven't heard anything about a gateway? A rock that transports people? If I had, do you think I'd still be here? There was no second monolith when I landed on Maveth.
So we'll have to find our own way back.
Well, I'm a biologist, but sure, I can invent time travel.
Just give me a minute.
Well, without some miracle, then we're stuck here, and we need to stay alive.
Oh, and you You You all want me to help you with that, yeah.
Well, that's a big surprise.
Well, all I can offer you is these.
Who's first? You think I'm gonna let you do that to anyone else?! You are lucky that I am even offering.
The only way to not die is to blend in and work hard, and you can't do either of those things without these.
Come on.
Keep moving.
What do they do? Track us? I don't think we want that.
I don't think you have a choice.
Deke?! Tess, yeah, sure, join the fray.
You took out the damn trawler? Where's Virgil? If you lifted off in that thing without What? What's wrong with your face? I'm sorry.
Virgil's gone.
Deke this true? Roaches got him on three.
What was he doing on three, Deke? - That's a sealed-off level.
- This wasn't my - What did you get him into?! - I He hired me.
- What - Listen! He hired me to hide these people.
From where? Well, that's the thing.
Remember all that deranged garbage that Virgil was always spouting about people arriving from the past? I think you're looking at them.
[SCOFFS.]
That's insane.
Doesn't mean it's not true.
We came through a gateway, some sort of temporal shift.
I don't want to believe it, either, but look at their clothes.
They got matching buttons.
Not exactly locals.
How can we prove it to you? Here.
It's from last year.
Still shiny.
TESS: You don't have a Metric.
Never did.
That's too weird.
Virgil said you'd be Agents of S.
H.
I.
E.
L.
D.
Pleased to meet you.
Then there should be more of you.
There's one girl that went to go pry the others away from the Kree guards.
You let them go face the Blues? I didn't let them d They do whatever they want! It's like herding rats.
- Just go get them.
- Me? [CHUCKLES.]
No! No.
Think again.
They are radioactive.
Virgil already got himself wasted.
I intend to learn something from his vacancy.
[PIPE CLATTERS.]
I'll double his price.
You don't even know the number that you just agreed to.
All right, fine.
You stash these people, you make them blend in.
I'll see if I can talk the others out of certain death.
[GRUNTS.]
I just I can't believe this.
Me neither.
No, no, no, no! He's all right.
He's all right.
How did you get that Kreeper's axe? Please tell me he was sweet on you.
You killed a Kree? It was us or them.
Well, you made the wrong choice.
Is that gonna be a problem? Two? You killed two? It's only a problem for the herd of people they will kill in retaliation.
We got to cover this up.
What do you think we're doing? We could just make it look like an accident.
- Shut up! Just let me think.
- Wait a minute.
What if we leave them upstairs with the other bodies? Use the elevator? We can't exactly be seen in the lift with a pair of dead guards.
Well, maybe we don't put them in the elevator.
All right, well, I hope you saved some of your energy there, Tiny.
[AIR HISSING.]
What happened to the Earth? Good question.
Ask anyone, they'll give a different story.
What's yours? All we really know is the planet was torn apart Some cataclysmic event.
And the Blues showed up, restored order, but destroyed all historical data Files, books.
Said it would keep us focused on the future.
Now they oversee everything that's left.
What is left? What do people do here? - [INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS.]
- We survive.
Welcome to the end of the world.
TESS: It's called the Lighthouse.
Back when Earth was round, this was an underground survival bunker.
This is the Exchange.
Need anything this is where you get it.
Virgil mentioned stories About us.
Stories from when we were kids.
Some of the elders swore that a group called S.
H.
I.
E.
L.
D.
would come from the past to help us.
Can we talk to these elders? That would be nice, but the Blues got rid of anyone who believed in the movement.
Fed them to the roaches.
- Kill the belief.
- And it worked.
Only Virgil held out hope, and everybody thought that he was a crackpot.
I'd like to see where he lived, see if we can find any clues as to what his plan for us was.
I can take one of you there.
Sure.
[WOMAN SOBS.]
[SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE.]
MAY: Hey.
Why don't you fight them? We depend on them to survive.
That can't be true.
It's not right, but it's true.
COULSON: That's a lot of pressure to carry the fate of humanity on your shoulders.
It's taught us the value of a life.
Everyone has a role to play to keep the Lighthouse from falling apart.
What's her role? Sometimes the Kree take humans to their levels to serve.
Call it an honor.
But when they visit, they don't talk much.
I don't see many guards.
We've got the numbers.
And they've got the weapons.
We're not exactly military-trained.
We are.
Maybe it's how Virgil thought we could help - To fight.
- Keep it down.
Deke was right.
You have to blend in.
Hear me? - Coulson, right? - Yeah.
I'll take you to Virgil's room.
You two gonna be good? We'll get the lay of the land.
Okay.
Keep your head down, do what the others do, you'll be fine.
Great.
MACK: You couldn't have told us there was a skylight? What's a skylight? Oh, boy.
It is what it is.
I just can't picture somewhere so open.
How did you make that much air? We didn't make it.
It was just there.
You've never been in a place without four walls, - have you? - Do spacewalks count? Definitely.
What about all the dangers Earthquakes, floods, sharknados? Feels safer inside, no? Okay, hold up.
The whole sharknado thing that's just entertainment.
Who would put a shark inside a tornado? They wouldn't.
It's fiction.
A movie.
L-Like I said, we have pieces.
[CHUCKLES.]
It It seems like it was nice.
You would've liked it.
GRILL: Quit howling! HOLT: I did the grind.
I should get my share! You were docked for insubordination.
Now piss off.
Tess! Trawler went out, but I didn't get a drop.
You hauling for somebody else? No, Grill.
We were training a new pilot.
Virgil's dead.
Really? Damn.
You the one filling his seat? No.
I'm just passing through.
That's a shame about Virgil.
I didn't trust that head case, but I liked him.
Well vacancy or no, next time you owe double.
Tess! What did I just say? Double.
Got it.
Avuncular fellow.
Just like anyone else.
Makes trouble if you make trouble.
MACK: We got to come up with a system, 'cause I'm not doing this every time we take out a Kree! DEKE: The system is, "No more dead Kree"! We're two past maximum! Hopefully, the bodies are still warm enough for the roaches to take 'em.
Here, right here.
That's the door.
[DOOR OPENS.]
[GRUNTS.]
- Daisy, the door.
- Daisy? Pretty name.
Like the flower? Does that line work in the future? I guess not.
[VRELL NEXIANS SHRIEK.]
Virgil loved his artifacts.
You should've seen my office.
Don't suppose you ever saw "Singin' in the Rain.
" What about just plain old rain? Only drips from reclamation pipes.
But you fear sharknados.
We need to fix everything.
What about the surface of the planet? Will it ever be livable again? For humans? No.
Land of the roaches now.
Virgil always kept this in the trawler.
Said the world might look this way again someday.
Crazy, right? But he was right about you guys, so You two were close? Yeah.
Not as close as he would've liked, but He was crazy Virgil, you know? Could never take him too seriously.
I'm sure he knew you cared.
Yeah.
You know anything about this? Maybe a flight log? Think it's important? COULSON: Important enough to hide.
Virgil's the only one who had answers.
I just wish we'd spent more time with him.
Me, too.
[TABLET BEEPING.]
That's the first piece of tech I've seen on this floor.
They keep people in the Dark Ages here No progress, no innovation.
Meanwhile, the aliens are so advanced Fitz would be going out of his mind.
Time is strange.
Somewhere out there, he's still fighting.
But from our reference point, he's lived his life.
Or not.
Shh! [DISHES CLATTERING.]
Something is going down.
Today, Kasius has seen fit to feed the most vulnerable amongst us.
We've hit the North-Korean-dictator level of creepy.
[BUZZER.]
MAN: Food! Get some! Hey! Move over! [INDISTINCT SHOUTING.]
- Give it to me! - Get out of my way! Me first! - Out of my way! - Hey! Hey, me first! Give me that! MAN: You got your share! [GRUNTS.]
Come on! - [BOWL CLATTERS.]
- Yeah! MAY: It's a knife.
[GROANS.]
[GRUNTS.]
[GROANS.]
[GROANS.]
I need to cauterize his wound.
MAN: What's she doing? Who's that? - WOMAN: She's crazy.
- What is that? What's she doing? Okay.
I'm very sorry about this next part.
Aaaah! Aah.
No, no.
You can't move him.
No, don't move him! You can't [CHATTER.]
Hey.
- At least you're okay.
- DAISY: What do you mean? Wait, where's Simmons? [SIGHS.]
The Kree took her.
- What? - YO-YO: How? Can I talk to you for a second? This is not exactly flying under the radar.
What the hell happened to her? A servant got stabbed, was bleeding out.
The girl saved him.
She thought she was doing a good thing.
These people They're they're not like us.
No, they're frickin' hazardous.
They'll get us all killed.
Maybe not.
Maybe Virgil was right Just Just stop it.
Just the fairy tale was toxic.
The morons that believed it were eaten alive.
I know, Deke.
Okay, I know what you lost.
But maybe they didn't die in vain.
Maybe it's real.
And that's worse.
If it's real it'll be a massacre.
We have to get Simmons.
Hit them hard and fast and get up to the surface.
There's barely any surface left, Daisy.
The planet's been blown apart.
And what's there is uninhabitable.
So out, not an option.
As far as in here We get Simmons.
I'll do it.
- They won't know what hit them.
- MACK: Hey, hold up.
No one knows you two have abilities, so let's keep it that way.
For the moment.
But right now at this moment, we don't know jack squat about anything.
Including where Simmons is being held.
Deke.
He seems to have this place dialed in.
He might know.
He's too afraid to make noises.
Yeah, but that's 'cause he's protecting himself.
He has a scam up and running.
He's afraid we're gonna blow it for him.
I agree.
I'll tail him, dig up some dirt, encourage him to help us.
Those tablets Could have intel.
Hello? Yo-Yo, master thief.
I am not gonna tell you this again.
Get them to blend in.
That's my ride.
Wish me luck.
We'll meet back here, yeah? You really don't know where they might've taken our friend? Someplace I've never been.
Kasius welcomes you to his suites.
Oh.
Someone who talks.
Please, tell me how the injured man is doing.
Please take this opportunity to undress and clean yourself.
Even Hala doesn't have a view like this.
So you're the one who saved a life.
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS.]
[DOOR CREAKS.]
[DOOR CLOSES.]
[MACHINERY BEEPING.]
So, all this talk about protecting people, you were worried about your speakeasy.
I'm in a Framework program.
Oh, no.
She must feel like she's stepped into a new world.
Mm.
Pretty.
But she appears more dormouse than medical practitioner.
Your actions caused quite the stir.
I was only trying to save a man's life.
By rather elaborate means.
Do you have a name? Jemma.
And where are you from, Jemma? Processing.
Processing.
Good we had you bathe.
So, tell me, Jemma, how does one learn such specific curative skills working in sewage all day? My mother taught me.
How resourceful.
Did she also teach you the cost of interfering in my affairs? The man would've died.
A life spent, a life earned, yes? You thought this law did not apply? I only did what I thought would make you happiest in the end.
That is the superior answer To any question, really.
This was a fight over food, Sinara? The pressure must be building up there.
Tell the guards to give them some breathing room, for mercy's sake.
A renewal will do them some good.
Life is a fragile thing.
We must cultivate the beauty and prune back the rest.
[CLIPPERS CLACK.]
I always found humans to be inelegant creatures, but you Your Metric It's gone.
I removed it.
I'm sorry.
No scar.
Not even a scratch.
Just a pristine canvas.
Such marvels make me wonder if you're even from a place as tough as Processing.
I think I would like to see how my Servitor fared under your handiwork, and if your wrist is any indication I should be quite pleased.
MACK: They keep the tablets in there.
Once May gets Tess out of the picture, we'll go.
Hey, I rustled up some grub.
- Pre-packaged, but it's decent.
- Oh, great.
Listen, Tess, is there somewhere I could change my bandage? Sure.
How sure are you that's actually a steam pipe? Um, say 50/50.
Either Coulson's gonna release hot steam or raw sewage.
Either way, it'll get attention.
[STEAM HISSES.]
[KREE SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE.]
Ready, and go.
You should see go-face in slow-motion.
Classic.
You're showing off.
If you got it, flaunt it.
They'll never know what happened.
Let's hope not.
[INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER P.
A.
.]
[ALARM BLARING.]
Remove the children.
[ALARM CONTINUES.]
Line up and present your Metrics.
This is not a good thing.
So far, any new development in this place is not a good thing.
Why don't we put those on? Because they go through your damn wrist! But without them, who knows? I want to make a trade.
Not the time.
I think it's exactly the time.
[SCOFFS.]
Okay.
So much for "passing through.
" What do you want? I have a working Kree tablet.
I'll trade it for three Metrics installed.
I was right to be suspicious of you.
A tablet's not worth three Metrics.
But anyone who can steal it is, so I'll get you hooked up.
Thank you.
But you'll work for it, and it won't be fun.
GUARD: Line up and present! We can work.
We're in.
Get inside.
[ALARM CONTINUES.]
[LAUGHS.]
DEKE: Where is it? Did you throw out the old papers? RICK: Yeah, it was a mess.
Stop doing that.
You're always cleaning.
Yeah, you programmed me to.
Really? Because I don't remember programming you to talk back to me.
It was a joke, because I I did program you to talk Just will you find the papers, please? Yeah.
[SIGHS.]
You may as well pull up a stool and have a beer.
[SCOFFS.]
Clearly, you're a talented pusher, but I will pass, thanks.
It's probably for the best, because I have no idea what actual beer tasted like.
You want to tell me where I am? You're passed out at my place of business.
You got too close to my transmitters when you were stalking me.
DAISY: So this is your racket? You're You're pimping out the Framework? I never called it that, but yeah.
That's the technology the hardware interface is based on.
I-I had to rebuild the software from scratch because Kasius had the historical archives erased.
But I was able to get my hands on the servers.
I gathered bits of data here and there, and the rest is guesswork.
But your customers don't know the difference.
You've got them addicted to Earth-as-it-was scenarios.
Among other simulations, yes.
So this is the business that you're protecting? Your creepy opium den of fantasy? Well, I can't get real opium, so I'm selling escape.
The only other way out of here is the final exit.
They're trading one prison for another.
You think the Lighthouse is a prison? Sweetheart prison would be nice.
[TABLET BEEPING.]
No.
Is this about my team? It's much worse.
It's a renewal.
[GRUNTS.]
I feel less good about this.
[TABLET BEEPING.]
What's a renewal? TESS: A low-earner will be selected.
Their Metric will turn red.
Then they owe a life Their own or someone else's.
A life spent - A life earned! - A life earned! [METRICS BEEPING.]
[METRICS BEEPING LOUDLY.]
Let's go.
Come on! [GRUNTS.]
[GUN COCKS.]
[GUNSHOT.]
[PEOPLE SCREAMING.]
[GUNSHOT.]
[GUNSHOTS, SCREAMING IN DISTANCE.]
What's going on? It sounds like people are dying out there.
A life is owed.
Now, we stay safe in here, but if that fails [MAGNETS HUMMING.]
we make sure they find you first.
[CHOKING.]
Oh, thank God.
Thank God.
[GUNSHOT.]
Hey! You gonna leave us here to die?! - That's the hope.
- If we don't, you and me are gonna have a conversation.
Where's an axe when you need one, huh? - Still too soon.
- That's not something to joke about.
[KNOCK ON DOOR, DOOR OPENS.]
[GUN COCKS.]
Where's Grill? Grill! My tab was low 'cause you didn't pay me! Now you owe me a life! GRILL: I left you three out there.
Grill's the one you want.
Don't forget that.
He's got to come out sometime, right? He strung you up for me? That's twisted.
[GRUNTS.]
[GUNSHOT.]
[GRUNTS.]
Aah! I'm sorry.
I owe a life.
Aah! [GUNSHOT.]
[METRIC BEEPS.]
He didn't have to die.
Somebody did.
[DOOR OPENS.]
[DEVICE BEEPS.]
Is this the last life owed? GRILL: Yes, Commander.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
[TABLET BEEPS.]
[TABLET BEEPS.]
[TABLET BEEPS.]
This is unformatted.
Who are you? I've been recalibrating their Metrics, but I do pledge that they work for me, sir.
Is this true? Where's your station? It's true.
We work in Salvage.
GRILL: They owe me a sizable debt, sir, so they will be stationed here a long time.
Hmm.
Carry on.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
I am happy you came to your senses, and I will be happy to call the watch commander back if not.
Trying to preserve humanity.
Feels like they lost it a long time ago.
What are you doing on your feet? Yes.
She is right.
What is this man doing up in this condition? Of course, that you made the effort shows why you're the finest of your people.
Will it heal? He is my most precious.
Of course.
It's barely been hours.
But it'll scar.
Um, or with time or advanced procedures, it can look much better.
My servitors must symbolize perfection when they represent me.
Perhaps with his tunic on, no one will notice.
This, however No, I can That can be minimized.
No one will notice.
- I will notice.
- It's a miniscule cut.
On the man's face.
Please don't I'm sorry.
I demand perfection.
He's now marred.
Unh! Oh! [COUGHS.]
Whereas you remain immaculate.
And a woman of your talent What is wrong with you? A life taken a life earned.
What is wrong with you?! Silence! You are a beauty worth cultivating.
But you must learn silence.
Aah! Aah! Oh! [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[NO AUDIO.]
[NO AUDIO.]
The Kree have her.
You can't help her.
To try is too dangerous.
You said the same thing about Mack and Yo-Yo.
How'd that turn out? A catastrophe! This entire place is a very delicate ecosystem, and you all just keep taking a leak in the water - left and right! - You're worried we'll mess this up or we'll mess this up for you? I mean, do the Kree even know about this operation? Because Of course they know about it.
They're crazy about it, because I'm I'm improving people's lives.
I'm giving them something other than just hour after hour of endless grind.
They condone it 'cause it keeps them placid.
I have seen the Framework in action before.
Pretend that wishes are coming true so the real hope dies.
- Hope is what gets people killed.
- Make them forget reality - so they don't try to make a move to fix it! - No, I'm making reality livable.
- Don't make any waves, because - No, you don't want to make any waves, 'cause if you start a fire, you want to know what's combustible in there.
- We're mixing metaphors all over the place.
- telling them to just chill - so they don't rock the boat is so wrong! - No, the boat sank! Do you understand that?! We are a breath away from extinction.
We make one wrong move, and in a blink, mankind is gone for good.
Wait.
That That That That's it.
That's what I'm looking for.
That! Daisy Johnson.
And you say you're not dangerous.
So you know who I am.
Quake.
You see, I'm the one person that's pieced the history together, who has an idea of what happened.
You want to know what kind of force can tear a planet apart? It was you.
You think if you work hard enough if you inspire them, that you can put the pieces back together? You think you can save mankind? Give them back a world with justice and freedom and all that other pledgeof-allegiance garbage? I'm telling you to make peace with it.
Surrender to it and make this your home, just the way it is.
Because S.
H.
I.
E.
L.
D.
tried to save the world.
And you want to see the consequences? Take a look.
Do you see an Earth that can be saved? It's too late.
It's already been quaked apart.
We'll return in a moment.
[NO AUDIO.]
Jemma.
You look wonderful.
And I hear you're learning well.
That's good.
Just in time for my guests.