In an alley outside a grocery store, a homeless man named
Charlie whittles a wooden bird next to a small fire. A man comes out of the
store to address him, saying that he can’t stay there since they are about to
open. Charlie packs up his things but casually asks the owner if there was a
job available for him. The owner refuses to hire him and says that the best
thing he can do now is clear out for the customers. However, he has a soft spot
and attempts to offer Charlie money for some breakfast. Charlie desperately
tries to ward him off, but the man touches Charlie’s hand and begins convulsing
to Charlie’s horror. In the midst of it all, the man begins begging for “Daisy”
to save him and states that this is where he dies.
On the Zephyr One, the team tracks emergency calls to the
police, much the surprise to Lincoln, when they come across the same man
begging the officers to bring him Daisy Johnson to protect him from Hydra. Since
Daisy does not recognize the man, whose name is Edwin Abbott, they rush to the
scene to find out what happened. When they arrive, Edwin quickly latches to
Daisy as she introduces herself to the police. Daisy asks him how he knows her
name, but he responds that he heard it just now. He then warns her that Hydra
is going to attack, stating that he heard someone calling it out in the future.
Daisy’s confused at his ravings, but Edwin points out that this happened
because of Charlie, who’s still out by the alley. Suddenly, a Hydra ship
appears onto the scene. SHIELD and the police shoot at the plane, but it lowers
closer into the alley. Edwin looks to Daisy to protect him since this is where
he was going to die, but he is then shot by a rogue bullet and dies instantly.
Daisy quickly realizes that Charlie must be an Inhuman, one that Hydra is
after, and rushes to the alley. She’s too late to stop another claw from
capturing Charlie, but she touches his hand in the last instant and sees a
vision for herself. In the vision, she sees a crying woman, Fitz and Simmons
holding hands in the snow, Lincoln with blood covering his head, Daisy fighting
people in a security room, Coulson shooting towards her, and finally, Charlie
lying next to her on the ground as a wooden bird falls.
When Daisy comes to,
she sees the team and the wooden bird, realizing that she saw the future.
At the Hydra base, Malick shares a meal with the new and
improved Hive who has rejuvenated since sacrificing the innocent victims.
Malick remarks on the new look, but the Hive is more curious as to why Malick
went to the trouble. Malick states that his ancestors have long since awaited
the Inhuman’s return, but the Hive sees through that statement. With billions
of dollars and plenty of industry at his disposal, Malick could have anything
he wanted. Hive deduces that what the man truly wants is power. He states that
with Charlie’s help, they intend to seize that power, utilizing Coulson’s
disembodied robotic hand from Maveth.
Lincoln: I never saw the original Terminator.
Coulson: You're off the team.
Back at the Playground, the team reconfigure to try and
interpret Daisy’s vision. They are unsure as to how and why any of the events
occur with each debating whether or not the future can be changed. Fitz argues
that since the human being in the third dimension (reality) cannot comprehend
what happens in the fourth dimension (the future), it is set to happen as
predicted. Meanwhile, Daisy is more determined to alter the future for the sake
of saving Charlie, but May is less determined to focus on the future. Analyzing
the situation, Coulson tries to come up with a strategy that involves keeping
Daisy, who was at the center, out of the equation in favor of May, who was in
none of them.
Coulson and Lincoln try to analyze information on Charlie
with both of them remarking on the sense of time travel with things happening
because they already happened. Lincoln states that since every Inhuman gains an
ability based on a biological need, perhaps Charlie’s visions are meant to
alter the future through Daisy. The two discover the man was Charles Hinton and
find that he had a family. Lincoln warns Coulson that if the director did end
up shooting Daisy, he would kill him.
Fitz and Simmons work with Daisy to try and determine the
location of her visions as she remembers her moment with Charles. She believes
she sees a staircase and a billboard with the location on the roof. Despite the
confusion, she believes that whatever is supposed to happen is meant to happen
that night. May interrupts the group and reprimands Daisy for trying to affect
her future. Simmons confides in Daisy that she is trying to find Andrew. When
Simmons questions May on whether they could change the future, May states that
the only real feat would be changing the past.
The group is further interrupted when the team brings in a
woman, Charles’s wife, the same woman from Daisy’s vision. She reveals that the
two were married with an 18-month-old daughter before he walked out on them six
months ago. She describes an instant where a while ago she heard him screaming
and found him covered in some kind of crest. When she touched him, they both
saw terrible visions, one in particular leading up to her mother’s death. Every
time he came in contact with someone, he and the person would witness a death.
While he would try his hardest to make a difference, every one of his visions
would come true. Daisy then asks her about the wooden bird he carved which
resembled a robin. His wife reveals that their daughter’s name was Robin, and
he ultimately left because he would never be able to hold her without her
screaming. His wife then begins to tear up, fulfilling the first part of Daisy’s
vision.
Malick and Hive confront the board members at a company
called Transia on Coulson’s hand. Malick recognizes the technology as similar
to an exo-skeleton being created by the company and offers to buy out the
company itself. The CEO immediately refuses it as a waste of his time, but the
Hive steps in to convince him further. He forces Charles to touch the man,
showing a vision of the board members with their flesh being seared before his
eyes. The CEO, terrified of the vision, agrees to the terms if they would
leave. The Hive still sucks the lives of the board regardless. He then suggests
that Malick try on the exo-skeleton prototype, believing that Malick desires
true power.
Daisy still believes that she is needed on the scene with
the advantage of her powers and foresight. May then offers Daisy to help train
her in predicting what will happen in the security office by choreographing
what will happen. They perfectly time every officer’s movement, but they still
remain out of practice with Fitz and Simmons being a less than perfect stunt
team. Daisy grows less optimistic about the situation, believing that he powers
would have helped.
Malick tries the skeleton out, finding that he enjoys the strength
it gives him. The Hive then insists that Malick can feel more power by killing
the CEO, feeling the life drain from the victim like Coulson did with him.
Malick crushes the CEO’s skull.
The team continues to rehearse, though Fitz believes it’s
pointless since Daisy is destined to go. Nevertheless, May and the team finally
give a perfect time just as security finds the building for the Transia
company. When May prepares to leave, the base is interrupted with the surprise
return of Andrew who has surrendered himself to SHIELD. He states that he
believes that Lash is taking over, and his next change will probably be his
last. He wants to say goodbye to May.
With the new arrival, Coulson refuses to let May go to the
field. With no other field agent, Daisy is forced to go with the request that
everyone else stays behind to ensure a team. Fitz plans to take control of the
security field to keep an eye on what’s happening, but Coulson still demands
that the minute the mission is over that she returns to the base without trying
to be a hero.
May confronts Andrew after placing the potential vaccine
into Andrew’s I.V. Even Andrew recognizes the cure as a long shot, but he wants
to reconnect with May regardless in these final moments. He believes that a
little of Lash was always in Andrew and vice-versa, allowing him to be talked
down by May initially. Still, he fears that his last change will force him out
for good. He then offers himself to SHIELD, believing that despite his
murderous actions that Lash was fighting for a higher purpose.
Coulson: For god's sake, Skye, come home.
Daisy: It's Daisy, sir.
Coulson: Dammit, Daisy. Right.
The group attempt to spy on the building to find Hydra.
Right before the feed cuts off, however, they spot Ward still alive, though
Fitz immediately understands what’s happening. Once the vaccine is fully taken,
Andrew once again says to May that she was part of the best moments of his
life. At Transia, Daisy, as rehearsed, fights off the security officers. Right
before an officer shoots her from behind a one-way mirror, Coulson arrives to
take him down, his reflection fulfilling the illusion of him shooting Daisy.
Coulson abandons his demand that Daisy stay off the roof and instead orders her
to rescue Charles who is being taken since the rest of the team must find Ward.
The Hive and Giyera sneak out of the building with the Hive
stating that Hydra is to kill any SHIELD agents only if they are human. Fitz and
Simmons remain outside the building, noting that there’s not a cloud in the sky
to fulfill the vision of snow. Lincoln works to find Ward in the building while Daisy rushes to
the roof.
May remains behind with Andrew, noting that Daisy, like the
two of them, are trying to change the future. On the roof, Daisy finds Hydra
forcing Charles onto a helicopter before being slammed by Malick and his
exo-skeleton. She tries blasting him back with her powers but instead hits a
billboard, causing it to ignite. Lincoln spots Ward but is quickly knocked out
by Giyera telekinetically throwing a fire extinguisher. Andrew then makes his
final transition into Lash as May looks on mournfully.
Malick beats Daisy mercilessly, but Charles stops him by
giving him his own vision of the future. The distraction is enough for Daisy to
blast Malick aside, but Charles is badly hurt. Daisy recognizes that instead of
her saving him in the vision, he was meant to save him. She returns his wooden
bird carving, and Charles reveals that he wanted to protect his daughter from
his power but fears that she may one day have it herself. Daisy vows to protect
his daughter before having a final vision of the future involving a crate, blood in the air, a cross necklace, someone in space, and an explosion. Fitz
and Simmons finally realize that the snow in the vision was actually remnants
from the smoldering billboard. Nevertheless, they hold hands.
At the Hydra base, the Hive plans to invade the space where
the exo-skeleton is being manufactured, though the Hive states that is not
their main goal. Malick then calls Giyera to remind him that he works for him.
Giyera notes that for some reason, Malick seems scared.
S.H.I.E.L.D. Quotes
- May: You're hurting my brain
- May: (to Simmons) Fall down. Simmons: Oh, sorry.
- Coulson: Yeah, day got weirder.
- Simmons: I think we're supposed to hold hands now.
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