Previously on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D...
- Phil Coulson is dying. - Can we cure this?
The tissue is already dead. There is no cure for that.
Ruby, when they resurface, I'll put an end to all of this.
This entire S.H.I.E.L.D. chapter will be over.
Your work was incomplete.
At least the beacon will do what it's supposed to do.
I think that when the monoliths exploded, they tore open a fear dimension.
And I was hoping there was enough gravitonium to stitch together
the tear in space-time.
Deke Shaw could possibly be an LMD. I ran a genetic profile to see
- if he was biologically linked to anyone. - And it came up with a match?
No.
It came up with two.
Have you heard of Thorazine, Alex?
I only mention it because that's what they're proposing for you.
High dose.
Much more aggressive treatment than what you're taking in the mornings now.
And I'm the one holding them back.
Because I feel for you.
I don't think that you're a violent person.
A few outbursts don't define you.
But you need to open up about the trauma that led you here.
Starting with your father's abuse.
And then torture
at the hands of Mr Ward.
Then S.H.I.E.L.D.
I remember everything.
That's a start.
But we need to drill down on how that makes you feel.
Show them some improvement.
So they don't drug you to the point where thoughts are hard to come by.
Okay?
So... we can start anywhere.
April.
Okay. What happened in April?
April...
your daughter, just turned three.
- I never spoke about... - Six weeks ago,
during our Tuesday session, it was raining.
You always prop the window open with a pen.
Your wife called
and you answered after one ring.
Tight leash, huh?
You stepped outside to talk. The door is not as thick as you think.
April had a fever... 103.2.
All those kids at the parties,
a lot of germs. You said you'd be home early.
513 Elm Drive, right?
You know where I live?
You should really be more careful.
You never know what someone might do with that information.
I told you. I remember everything.
I'd like that Thorazine now, please.
Everything is stabilising, back in normal range. Bit of good news.
How's the pain?
Nothing I can't handle. Thank you.
- Well, how's this? You okay? - It's fine.
Good, okay.
Well... ...you need to stay warm.
- Can I get you anything to eat? - Mack, enough.
Seriously, if I had arms, I would strangle you right now.
How's the patient?
- Cranky. - How are you feeling?
The same way I was feeling before you knew anything was wrong with me.
Thank you for asking, but please, stop asking.
Fitz is gonna do the best prosthetics work he's ever done for you,
but it may take some time.
We don't have the materials he needs here, but we're gonna find a way to get them.
In the meantime, I need you to focus on resting and healing.
- Sitting still isn't my strong suit. - I know. But he'll make it worth the wait.
See? People can't even tell the difference, and honestly,
this one's way more fun.
- He's always adding... - Does it feel the same?
Actually, no.
It doesn't feel at all, but you get used to it.
How are you gonna feel about dating someone with robot parts?
Those aren't the parts that matter.
- Mack! - What? Oh, no. Come on.
That's not what I meant. What I meant was,
that the thing I hate about robots is that they have no heart, no soul.
Those are the parts that matter.
Nice save. And sweet.
Okay, you can be annoying again.
It's my turn now.
Time to break up this party. You need rest.
- I need a beer. - I'll see what I can do about that.
In the meantime, you listen to the doc, all right?
We need to get out of here and get Fitz what he needs to fix her.
I know, Mack. But it's one of many pressing concerns.
- I was just coming to see you. - Tidings of comfort and joy?
Warnings of doom and gloom.
The, uh, gravitonium device that we used to seal the Rift is barely strong enough.
It's duct tape on the Hoover Dam. It's not gonna hold.
How much time before the dam starts leaking?
Well, uh, it's hard to calculate that precisely,
but based on the increased frequency of transient electromagnetic waves...
I'd say that our days are numbered. S... Sorry. That was insensitive.
No. It wasn't. It's part of life. We're all gonna die.
Right now, we need to make sure
it doesn't happen to the entire planet all at once.
Right, so we need more gravitonium to seal the Rift for good, right?
Yeah, but that's something we haven't seen on this side of the future
in a long time. Sir...
I really think that we should have everybody on this.
- We do. - Let's not forget about Yo-Yo.
She can't help until we help her.
Daisy's hoping we can tackle both problems with one solution.
Cybertek.
The last time anyone saw gravitonium in this timeline was at Cybertek's lab,
which happens to be the same company that built Deathlok's leg.
- Now we're talking. - Cybertek was dissolved.
Quinn's vanished, Raina's dead, gravitonium is still MIA.
Yeah. But we found the names of the scientists
- who worked under Ian Quinn. So... - Who's Ian Quinn?
Rich guy, bad guy.
- What are you doing here? - Oh, I'm not part of the club?
I'm sorry, I'll just go get my things and I'll go grab a cheeseburger.
Have a seat, Deke. I invited him.
He's seen more gravitonium than any of us.
He may have some insight that we don't.
Okay. So, this is Quinn's gravitonium guy, Dr Joseph Getty.
Also dead. We chased that lead.
Right, but here's where it gets interesting.
All of Cybertek's scientists are now dead, within the past two years,
and all of their death certificates were signed by one man...
Murray Jacobson.
What, so you think it's a cover-up? They're still alive?
Yeah, it smells like it. But this photo is all I could find on him.
You ran facial recognition?
I did, and I found his mug associated with multiple aliases,
the most recent being Lewis Casalino, a real-estate agent in Baton Rouge.
We need to talk to him.
So, we're going outside?
Yeah, they're kind of sparing no expense looking for you guys.
We'll leave under cover of night. It's a risk we have to take.
If he can help us find Dr Getty, we may get a lead on gravitonium.
- Yeah. I'm going with you. - I thought you grounded yourself?
Yeah, I can't really destroy the world without my powers, so...
- I can take care of myself. - I know. I just want some fresh air.
Great. Well, fresh air for all of us.
- Have a seat, Deke. - Okay.
I need you to stay here. See if you can help Fitz.
What... No. Come... I'm not a babysitter.
Do you've any idea how high my IQ is? Actually, neither do I.
Nobody actually cared about that in the future.
Intelligence was measured by how long you can survive.
Then be smart and stay here.
Hello.
Hey!
What is this place?
Hey!
Where are we?
Lewis Casalino?
AKA Murray Jacobson, William Pratt, Gene Klein, Marion Cobretti...
He's armed and he's coming your way.
- Show yourself or I'll drop you. - Drop the gun. We just wanna talk.
- You heard him. Drop the gun. - Listen, Lady Cakes,
I take orders from two people, no one and not you.
Candy Man?
Mack Hammer?
Well, I'll be damned. Do I owe you money?
Hey, it's probably the other way around, brother.
- Ha! It's good to see you. - Good to see you.
There he is.
Tony "Candy Man" Caine. We were roommates freshmen year at the Academy.
Why'd they call you Candy Man?
You know, Tony was the kind of guy who could get you anything.
Fake IDs, backstage passes, test answers.
What did I get for all my troubles? Booted from the Academy.
Well, you also never went to class.
Yeah, well, I really wasn't the books and tests kinda guy. That was Mack.
Never missed a class, never broke a rule. They called us the Saint and the Sinner.
Wait, could we get back to Mack Hammer, please?
Oh, yeah, yeah. He made the mistake of telling us
that he was obsessed with MC Hammer in high school.
- Okay. - Wait. Where is your picture?
- Oh, my, my. - Don't.
- Can't. I can't un-see that, Mack. - All right, this does not leave the plane.
Guys, guys, I'm guessing you didn't track me down to relive
- good memories and awesome haircuts. - You're right.
We're looking for a Cybertek scientist named Joseph Getty.
- And why would I know him? - You signed his death certificate.
If he's still alive, he may have valuable information for us.
It could help us keep the world from shattering into a billion pieces.
Uh... Okay.
You guys ever hear of Project Paperclip?
Secret program to recruit Nazi scientists
- after World War Two. - Yeah.
And the exact same thing happened with Hydra.
For those worthy of a second chance, it was my job
to give them new identities, new lives, erase the old ones.
- So, you know where he is. - We need to talk to him, Tony.
Well, if the Mack Hammer's willing to break the rules,
this has got to be bad.
Doomsday bad.
Following the rules is no longer an option.
Look what I found in storage.
Baseball, right?
Everybody have really big hands? 'Cause this is crazy.
There's another one if you wanna play.
I'm monitoring a highly volatile situation.
Well, yeah, I'm trying to help.
You don't have to be such a cranky old man about it.
If you're stuck on a problem, you should take a break.
My mum used to tell me about this guy named Albert Einstein.
He says that play is the highest form of research.
I'm not gonna play catch with you. I've got stuff to...
Okay?
Well, why don't I stay here and stare at the numbers for a little while.
You can go visit Mrs Fitz. You guys just got married,
all the grown-ups are gone, I bet she's just dying
for a little post-wedding yee-haw.
Okay, do you know what, Einstein? You're right.
I need a break, so let's play ball. Let's play ball, come on.
Okay, toss me the ball. We'll play fetch.
Ready?
Damn, it's happening again.
We are experiencing another Anomaly Flare.
If you see something that doesn't belong here...
it's not real.
Kill it by any means necessary.
Hey. What happened?
- Are you okay? - I woke up. I forgot I didn't have arms.
- Okay. Let's just get you back up then. - Please...
leave me alone.
I just wanna sit here.
I wanna be with Mack forever and I wanna have children with him.
And you will.
- This doesn't change anything. - Look at me.
What I saw...
what I heard...
it's all happening.
- There's no future but the one we saw. - No, that's not true. Hey.
We can change it.
We will change it.
No.
Nothing's gonna change it.
You're different, man.
Wow, you hated violence.
Now look at this. You got this shotgun axe thing,
you're one of America's most wanted.
I mean, it's badass and everything, don't get me wrong.
But, dude, what happened?
There are a lot of dark things going on in this world
that people should never have to see.
I won't let the people I love get hurt by it.
Not anymore.
So that's why you're asking about the Deathlok program?
I'm sorry, man. It's a dead end.
I know Cybertek coerced a lot of people, but I'm still not sure
how I feel about a bunch of their scientists
getting clean slates and walking among us.
What if one of them has the key to saving you?
You were hoping Cybertek could solve more than two problems.
I am not gonna be the next John Garrett.
- The answer's no. - Okay, just hear me out for a second.
Cybertek had a whole team of people whose only job was to keep Garrett alive.
What if one of them could do the same for you?
- Absolutely not. That's an order. - If there's a chance to save your life,
- why not try? - Because...
I already had one unnatural life extension and I don't want another.
You both have to accept that.
- Not gonna happen. - Not a chance.
He was our shield when we needed it, and like it or not,
we're gonna be his.
Come on in, join the party.
You can talk.
When I feel like it.
What is this place?
A safe house.
- Why are you here? - I live here.
Why am I here?
You'll get all of your questions answered when you get them answered.
From who?
Mother.
What?
You still have that scar?
The one you got when you were a kid.
How did you know?
We used to play together.
Ruby, right?
I don't remember you.
You hit your head on the kitchen counter. That's how you got it.
- I remember the floor... - Black and white checkers.
I was supposed to be watching you so, I got blamed.
My father beat me in front of you...
and your mother.
I wanna see her.
Now.
Oh, this can't be good.
Did they find me? Do I have to relocate again?
Everything's okay. This isn't an official visit.
I just need you to help me find something.
What?
Gravitonium.
It's okay. He's an old friend of mine. You can trust him.
He's one of the good guys.
I'm with S.H.I.E.L.D.
No, no, no. They're the bad guys now. I can't be seen talking to a criminal.
Says the guy who used to work for Hydra.
Listen, he had to work for 'em. They were threatening to kill his family.
I'm sorry.
Look, I still regret everything I did for them.
But I'm paying for my sins.
Saving the world will pay for them all.
- What do you need to know? - What happened to the gravitonium?
They put it on a cargo ship,
the Principia, to transport it to a facility in the Pacific, but...
- never made it. - Why? What happened?
It sank during a thunderstorm.
If you want gravitonium, you're gonna have to reach five miles down
into the ocean to get it.
We're looking in an area that they already searched.
There's nothing there. I expanded the search range
a hundred miles in every direction from the coordinates
which it last made contact. Bathymetric maps don't show anything,
sonar doesn't pick up any deviations. So, maybe they were hijacked by pirates.
He said it went down in a storm.
Did you ever consider he might be lying? He was Hydra.
Mack believes him. Keep looking.
Look at all that water.
Hey, you should get some rest. You haven't slept all night.
No, I'm fine, I'm fine. I just...
I don't know where else to look. And even if we do find it,
I don't know how we salvage it from that depth.
How deep?
- Five miles where we're looking. - Five miles?
Are you serious? What's it like down there?
- It's cold. - Dark.
So, did you guys go visit? Like on holiday?
- Do they have hotels, or is that...? - Okay, you know what? Just go.
Please, please just go, because you are giving me a headache.
I'm sorry that I have never seen an ocean before.
Where I was born, you guys already blew up the planet,
so, thank you very much for your service.
He never stops.
It's like somebody let Scrappy-Doo in here.
Yeah, but you can't be so hard on him.
We both know what it's like to be pulled into a strange world.
Plus, he has exquisite taste in wedding rings.
Can you believe that we're married?
- Wife? - I cannot, husband.
Do you think we'll ever get used to it, husband?
No, I do not, wife.
Hey, I was thinking, we should hyphenate our last name, yeah?
Uh...
Yeah. Of course. Mr and Mrs Simmons-Fitz.
- Sounds great. - Yeah.
- Just rolls right off the tongue. - Yeah, right off.
Let her go...
or they will kill you.
Why am I here?
They wanted to chemically lobotomise you, so I had you transferred.
Maybe that's what I wanted.
It's good to see you, Werner, after all these years.
It's Alex.
Alex Braun.
I don't want anything to do with my father or his name. Or Hydra.
Hydra.
Such a boy's club.
So much testosterone.
If you're not Hydra, why were you always visiting my father?
Oh, we had overlapping interests back then.
But I hated his guts, if we're being honest.
I can use you, Alex.
I know what you can do, 'cause I've read your S.H.I.E.L.D. file...
your psych evaluations...
I pieced it all together.
S.H.I.E.L.D. zapped your brain when you were in the memory enhancer.
Something was bound to happen. I mean, how much do you remember?
What you mean is how much do I remember that my father said,
- or did or wrote down. - It's valuable information.
And your father is one of the reasons that Hydra went off the rails.
See, what I'm building here is something new,
a better future for you. For you and for Ruby.
Can you help me do that, Alex?
Go to hell!
I am so sorry you feel that way.
Kill me. I don't care.
I'm not gonna kill you, Alex.
Tomorrow morning, they'll take you wherever it is you wanna go.
You're free. Go.
It's my gift to you.
Gain his trust...
his love...
whatever it is you need to do to get inside his head. We need that information.
Uh. Ruby...
stick to the books this time.
Don't you go off the rails.
Oh, my God.
I have got to meet the chef that invented these.
Deke.
Who's there?
- Mum? - There you are, sweetie.
- I have been looking all over for you. - You're not...
- Not real. Not real. - Put that down.
You'll cut yourself.
Are you getting enough to eat here?
I see you're making some friends.
- I don't know if I'd call them friends. - You like them.
I can tell.
- Some, maybe. - That Daisy girl is cute.
- Mum. No, she's not. Stop it. - Remember, sweetie...
the steps you take don't need to be big,
- they just need to take you... - Just need to take you...
- ...in the right direction. - ...in the right direction.
You always used to say that.
And my mum said it to me.
So, what are you saying? You're saying that I...
You should walk away.
You know what happens when you care about someone.
No!
- Deke? - Oh.
You okay?
You look like you've had a fright.
I just saw another one of those fear things.
I need a Zima.
You shouldn't be alone. Come back to Control. Fitz didn't mean...
Fitz thinks I'm an idiot!
Like I don't know up from down. Well, tell him I'm sorry
that I was born in a place that doesn't have oceans or air, or...
You know, and technically, there is no up and down in space,
it's all the same thing. So, you can tell him to take all that
science mumbo-jumbo and shove it up...
Wait.
It's all the same thing.
Hey!
You need to look up in the sky!
Our ships float and sink, they don't fly. I'm sorry, Deke, but those are spaceships.
But what if this ship can fly. It was carrying gravitonium
during a storm. If it got hit by lightning...
- It could've charged the gravitonium. - And generated a gravity field
around the entire ship.
Okay. Well, if it rose up into the atmosphere,
it would've been tossed about by air currents all these years.
- It could be anywhere. - Yes, so we need to analyse
wind and weather patterns, air currents, starting from the night it disappeared,
- and try and build a workable algorithm. - Yeah. That. Let's do all that.
Anything?
Yeah.
- More clouds. - We're looking for a needle in a haystack.
Or a flying boat.
You gotta be kidding me.
Holy moly!
You guys see stuff like this all the time?
Mm-hm. Pretty much.
- Yeah. - Yep.
Oh!
Get... Get away!
I heard screaming.
I don't just remember words and facts.
I remember pain.
Every beating I've ever taken.
Like it's new.
Over and over.
Well, that...
has gotta suck.
I never knew my father...
but my mother...
she is a tyrant.
Keeps me locked up here and makes me do things that...
I don't wanna do.
She's using me to get to you.
Everything I did, ignoring you...
letting you touch me...
taking me hostage...
that was all planned.
The grand seduction of Werner Von Strucker.
Gain his trust...
by any means necessary.
You made the right decision.
She doesn't care about you. Or me.
She only wants what's in your head.
But whatever she's planning,
it's not gonna be any different than Hydra or S.H.I.E.L.D.
Unless...
Unless what?
It doesn't have to be her team.
It could be our team...
only she wouldn't know until it was too late.
I don't wanna be a part of any team.
- I just wanna go somewhere far away. - With all of those bad memories?
Maybe the key is to bury them under...
newer, happier memories.
If you're not here tomorrow...
I'll understand.
But if you are...
Davis has us in hover mode.
You sure you don't need me down there?
We need someone on the thing that's actually supposed to be in the air
in case the bottom drops out on us.
And I trust you way more than Davis to fly that crazy rescue.
I hear you and don't disagree.
Hey, Coulson, don't forget to breathe your oxygen.
Five minutes without it, you'll get really loopy.
Okay. Cameras on.
- May, Fitz, you reading this? - Copy that.
- Crystal clear. - Yeah. Copy that. Looking good.
Gotta admit, it's kinda cool. Walking around on a ship
- 25,000 feet up in the sky. - Fitz, how is this even possible?
When the gravitonium was supercharged, most likely by a lightning strike,
it created an applied gravity field on the ship.
Same way the Gravity Puck works.
That means there's gotta be gravitonium there somewhere.
Well, deck one is clear.
I think we found the crew.
That looks like severe hypoxia.
Just keep moving.
We're in the engine room.
Looks like someone's been here before us.
Coulson.
Where's the gravitonium?
Whoever they were, they didn't go home empty-handed.
What's keeping the ship in the air if there's no gravitonium?
It's not possible.
- Guys, get down here! - What is it?
Gravitonium.
Not all of it though.
It's about the size of a softball.
Must've got separated from the rest.
Okay, well, it might be enough for the air, but there's a problem.
- There is always a problem. - You can't touch it or move it.
It's generating the gravity field that's keeping you in the air.
- We're not gonna leave it here. - Is there a plastic box anywhere?
- Yeah. We got something. Why? - Okay. Listen to me.
If you can box it up without touching it, you might be able to get it off the ship.
- Might? - You got about 90 seconds
before the gravity field dissipates.
After that, real gravity is gonna take over
and the ship's gonna fall out of the sky.
Should be enough time.
All right.
Hey, Mack Hammer?
Can't touch this.
- Now is not the time. - Sorry. Couldn't resist.
Clock's ticking.
Let's go before this floating ship drops miles into the ocean.
I'm on a mission with the two things I fear most,
drowning and heights.
No, make that three things.
- What are those things? - One of Hale's flying monkeys.
There's another one.
They've got us flanked.
Mack!
They need to get off that ship. They don't have much time.
You've got less than a minute. Get the hell out of that ship!
Working on it.
Oh.
Mack, run for it.
Go to the Module. I'll take care of these guys.
- We gotta get out! - We don't have time for this.
Go! I know what I'm doing.
It's hammer time.
This is not the Mack I used to know.
I'm on my way in. And I'm bringing a couple of guests.
- General Hale? - What is it?
Some of the old Sleeper Mechs recently came back online.
Which ones?
The ones you left on the Principia in case anyone found 'em.
We should have blown that out of the sky
- when we had the chance. - No, it's too risky.
We don't know enough about the gravitonium.
It could've responded like a nuclear reactor
- and set the ozone on fire. - Well, now someone knows about it. Who?
S.H.I.E.L.D.
You know, I wouldn't have believed if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes.
Thanks again for your help, Mr Caine. Sorry we had to drag you along.
I got to see a flying boat and a robot fight. Best day ever.
We'll have someone take you home in a Quinjet when you're ready.
Thank you. Thanks a lot.
Good to see you again, Tony. Take care.
Good to see you too, Mack. And hey, about that Deathlok program,
your friends were asking about it too.
So, I'm gonna do some diggin'. See what else I can find.
- Anything, no matter how small. - You got it.
I'm sorry about yesterday.
I don't know who that was.
No need to apologise. Recovery takes a toll.
Physically and emotionally.
I'm just trying to not lose faith.
We're gonna change things.
That's the spirit.
Oh, I'm just holding onto that thing in case of emergency.
But don't beat yourself up while you're trying to heal.
Go slow.
The steps you take don't need to be big,
they just need to take you in the right direction.
Oh, can we help you with something?
What's wrong, Deke? Did you see another ghost from your past?
No, it wasn't a ghost. I...
I saw you standing there, and...
How are you?
Would... I... And, um, they're... they're...
They're back. That's what I came to tell you.
Okay.
What?
Nothing. Is that a new sweater?
- Yo-Yo. - Hey, you're up.
One ball of gravitonium.
Thank you.
Deke, are you coming? Or is this another play day?
- Yeah, after you, Grandpa. - I think they're growing on each other.
I just hope there's enough gravitonium for them to work with.
And I think it's safe to say General Hale has the rest.
I'm starting to think she's more than just an overzealous general.
I think you're right.
Guess what I got you?
I don't know. I'm stumped.
Oh, so we're doing those jokes now? No. No more of that.
Or I won't share these with you.
That's right, I got you somethin' else.
Arms.
I thought about what you said.
You're right...
the future's ours.
Then you should see who else we've got.
One of your father's old experiments.
But I don't need to tell you that.
You remember everything.
Nice work.
How did you convince him to stay?
I told him the truth.