07x09 - As I Have Always Been

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

SIMMONS: I designed a biological implant to suppress my memories.

Fitz is completely exposed.

They will k*ll him if they find him, so no one can know his location.

DEKE: Do you not know how to fix the time machine?

The jumps and the time we spend in any given time period are getting exponentially shorter.

If they keep getting smaller...

We sink.

♪♪

We stopped jumping.

♪♪

[SIGHS]

Think of it like a nap.

Sure it is.

[BEEP]

- [MACHINE HUMS]
- Wait. What's happening?

It didn't work.

[TIME DRIVE WHIRRING]

[GASPS]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[BEEP, LID HISSES]

[GROANS]

[THUD]

- [INHALES SHARPLY]
- Hey.

What are you doing up?

How long have you been here?

Well, I guess, uh... when did you go to sleep?

Since then.

Did we jump again?

I'm not sure.

Hey, w-where you going?

[RAPID BEEPING]

I've got damage to nearly all systems.

Trying to get a read on our location.

- What's happening?
- Time Drive overloaded.

Any chance that's st-century slang for "worked normally"?

Where are we?

Guys?

Anyone want to fill me in on...

that?

♪♪

♪♪

[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]

I was so much happier asleep.

Where's Coulson?

Charging.

Looks like something just fried the Quinjet's flight system.

We can't afford to lose that.

You anywhere nearby?

Hey, it's me. Everywhere's nearby.

I'm already here.

I'll check it out.

[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]

Simmons? Are you seeing this?

SIMMONS: Yes, radiation levels are off the charts.

We need to get out of this.

I don't want to alarm anyone...

Yeah, wouldn't want to spoil our feeling of Zen.

... but we're trapped in a time storm.

Are you just taking unrelated words and putting them together?

No, Bugsy, this is real.

It's just like Simmons said.

We jumped within a jump, and it tore a hole in space-time, and now we're being pulled in towards the vortex like we're circling a drain.

And if we go down that drain?

We'll cease to exist.

No, we'll cease to have ever existed or be reduced to the size of an atom.

Honestly, I have no idea how the science works here.

So it's pulling us in.

Yes. We're kilometers away.

- [ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]
- Aah!

♪♪

Mack!

I can't see! I can't see!

Hey, any idea what just hit us?

Radiation.

It shorted out the doors to the Quinjet.

I'm trapped inside.

[GRUNTS]

Mack? Are you okay?

I'm fine. Just deal with the Quinjet.

I'll help her.

I'll get Mack to Simmons. Can you...

Find a way out of here?

Yeah.

Let's hope so.

♪♪

DAISY: Simmons! [BREATHING HEAVILY]

What happened?

I'm sure it looks worse than it is.

You're literally blind.

It's a radiation flare.

I have something for the burns.

♪♪

- What?
- What?

Just some... tools Deke left lying around.

He's been doing a lot

since he got back from his time away.

ENOCH: Agent Simmons, would you like some help examining the Time Drive?

I would, yes. But Mack first.

No, fixing the Time Drive is the most...

Shut it. We can do both.

MAY: Just got hit with another flare.

I'm showing a fire, starboard side hallway.

I got it.

♪♪

[FIRE EXTINGUISHER HISSING]

Fire's out!

Great, but it won't be the last.

How are we supposed to prevent...

[TIME DRIVE WHIRRING]

♪♪

Is that supposed to...

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[BEEP, LID HISSES]

[GROANS]

[THUD]

Hey.

What are you doing up?

Wait. How...

How long have you...

Well, when did you go to sleep?

Since then.

Making sure you keep... resting.

[RAPID BEEPING]

I've got damage to nearly all systems.

Trying to get a read on our location.

What's happening?

Time Drive overloaded.

Any chance that's st-century slang for "worked normally"?

[VOICE ECHOES, FADES]

Where are we?

No way.

♪♪

[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]

I was so much happier asleep.

Looks like something just fried the Quinjet's flight system.

We can't afford to lose that.

- Oh, no.
- You anywhere nearby?

Hey, it's me. Everywhere's nearby.

I'm already here. I'll check it out.

[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]

MAY: Simmons?

There is a major brain fart happening.

- Are you seeing this?
- SIMMONS: Yes...

You guys, something is happening to me.

We need to get out of this.

I don't want to alarm anyone, but...

We're trapped in a time storm.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Yeah, you took the words right out of my mouth.

Being pulled into a vortex, circling the drain.

W... Yeah, we're kilometers away.

- How did you...
- Crap.

♪♪

Hey, any idea what just hit us?

She's trapped on the Quinjet.

That flare just shorted the doors.

She's right.

I'll help her get out.

What's going on with you?

I don't know.

But I do know that Simmons is working on the Time Drive schematics right now, and that's obviously connected.

Alright, good. Go talk to her.
We'll do what we can from here.

Okay.

♪♪

Simmons?

You guys okay?

[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]

I think I'm time-looping.

I-I've done this already.

I've done this already.

Oh, well, that's fun.

It's actually creepy.

I'll check you.

Is that Deke's gross ' s cologne?

Cue Enoch.

Agent Simmons, would you like some help examining the Time Drive?

Definitely. If you...

MACK: The flares keep coming.

There's a fire on the starboard side.

I got it.

Okay...

See?

♪♪

Mack, the fire's out again, but I think I need my head checked, 'cause...

[MACHINE PULSING]

[TIME DRIVE WHIRRING]

[GASPS]

[BEEP, LID HISSES]

♪♪

[DOOR OPENS]

- [RAPID BEEPING]
- I've got damage to nearly all systems.

Trying to get a read on...

Shut the cockpit door.

Watch the control panel.

... our location.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[MACHINE HUMS]

♪♪

DAISY: Hey.

Listen, okay, I need your help.

You won't believe this, but I keep...

Repeating the same events over and over again?

Yeah.

How long did it take you to figure it out this time?

♪♪

I was really hoping not to have this conversation again, but if you forgot everything we went through, I guess that means you d*ed again.

I d*ed?!

"Again"?

And always say it just like that.

We're the only two who remember, so each time you die in one of these loops,

you don't remember anything in the next reset, so then you have to learn everything all over again.

That's awful.

It's annoying. 'Cause who has to teach you every time?

This guy.

I've done it times so far.

We've done this times?

Oh, no. No, no, no.

You've d*ed times.

We've been through this loop times... or I should say that I know about.

That you know about?

'Cause you don't come power me up every time!

It's okay. Not your fault.

P.S., not a big fan of starting each loop powered down.

- Disconcerting.
- Why are we the only ones that are remembering these loops?

[EXHALES SHARPLY] Really not sure.

You've had theories.

The latest was that we're the only two who start each loop in a futuristic sleeping pod.

♪♪

- Speaking of which...
- [TIME DRIVE WHIRRING]

No, I'm not ready yet. Th...

Nothing we can do.
You'll get used to it.

[CHUCKLES]

Please come wake me up this time, 'kay?

♪♪

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

- [RAPID BEEPING]
- I've got damage to nearly all systems.

Shut the door! Sparks!

[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]

Okay. Where were we?

The Time Drive is stuck.

It keeps looping back on itself over and over again.

Like feedback?

I've been thinking about it like a record skipping.

♪♪

Every time I say that, you give me the same look.

Vinyl's back. You're supposed to know records again.

[GASPS]

[MACHINE HUMS]

- What about flying out?
- We tried it.

No navigation, radiation fried the controls,

and technically, space is irrelevant here.

So we narrowed it down to fixing the drive.

And we can't get far enough before everything resets.

How many loops now?

. But who knows?

Maybe th time's the charm.

Is that you trying to be optimistic?

- 'Cause it didn't work.
- Yeah, that... wasn't great. I'm sorry.

[GASPS]

And we're running out of time.

Another zinger.

You're serious.

We can't just keep looping until we get everything exactly right?

Practice making perfect?

Oh.

You haven't noticed the numbers.

You really are behind.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[BEEP, LID HISSES]

♪♪

It's me. Everywhere's nearby.

I'm already here. I'll check it out.

MAY: Simmons? Are you seeing this?

- SIMMONS: Yes...
- Time storm.

I don't want to alarm anyone, but...

Yep, time storm. Yeah, that's right.

Approaching the vortex, circling the drain.

- How far away are we?
- kilometers.

Thanks for asking.

♪♪

He's saying , but it was .

Used to be a lot more than that.

Each loop resets us, but it also brings the Zephyr a little closer to the vortex and destruction.

We're gonna run out of loops.

See above re: "Let's do this fast".

Okay, so, if the problem is that we never solve the riddle before time runs out, that means we have two options... we increase the time we have...

We tried that during loops through -ish.

- Dead end.
- ... or we solve faster.

Yes.

Got any thoughts on how to do that?

♪♪

- [RAPID BEEPING]
- I've got damage to nearly all systems.

Trying to get a read on our location.

Guys... stop!

Listen to me.

We are repeating time.

Sparks, Yo-Yo, Simmons, Deke.

[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]

Looks like something just fried the Quinjet's flight system.

Okay.

You nearby?

- Hey, it's me. Everywhere's nearby.
- "Hey, it's me. Everywhere's nearby".

- I'm already here. I'll check it out.
- "I'm already here. I'll check it out".

[DOOR OPENS]

"Radiation levels are off the charts".

SIMMONS: Radiation levels are off the charts.

We need to get out of this.

And Deke, who doesn't want to alarm anyone.

I don't want to alarm anyone, but we're trapped in a time storm.

See?

I know the future.

Let's talk.

♪♪

DEKE: We're kilometers away from the vortex already.

I don't know how many more loops that means we have.

I'm guessing not many.

Deke, is there any other information on the Drive we can find?

Anything Fitz might have left behind?

Let me check.

I'll be right back. It's...
It's, uh, hard to access.

♪♪

A loop?

You're the one with the Time Drive knowledge to fix it.

Without that implant in place, we could solve this.

We don't know that.

We can make a fairly educated guess.

- Did you tell them?
- No.

[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]

No. Never. Of course not.

I promised that I would keep your secret, and I did.

But what if we could just take it out temporarily?

They wouldn't need to know, and without that implant blocking your memory,

- maybe we could...
- Blocking your memory?

That sounds like something you should tell us about.

You guys followed me?

We don't have time for secrets.

An... An implant?

I told you, we can never know where Fitz is.

This ensures I don't.

We would never betray Fitz.

Nor would I, but the Chronicoms can get the information from us whether we want them to or not.

And if the stakes weren't so high, we wouldn't need to take that risk, but we have to know what you know.

[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]

Fitz wouldn't want us to sacrifice ourselves for him.

- I know that.
- Okay, think about this... once we get the answer, the loop will reset, and the implant will be back in place.

[SIGHS]

Do you have any proof this loop thing is actually happening?

Think of a fake word and just say it out loud.

Anything.

Phlebotinum. Phlebotinum.

Yeah, this isn't the first time we did that.

[SIGHS]

Okay. Let's go, before I change my mind.

[BEEP]

Only I can enter authorization to remove it.

[SIGHS]

Okay.

Here we go.

- [ZAP]
- [COUGHS]

[CLEARS THROAT]

Let's try that again.

- [ZAP]
- [COUGHING]

Are you okay?

I can't bre... I...

- [GASPING, COUGHING]
- S-Simmons. Simmons!

I'm going in there!

- [DOOR BEEPS]
- [COUGHING CONTINUES]

How did these doors become locked?

Simmons, open the door!

- Simmons, open the door!
- Open the door!

♪♪

Simmons...

♪♪

[TIME DRIVE WHIRRING]

[GASPS]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

COULSON, SIMMONS, DAISY: Phlebotinum.

Okay. Let's go, before I change my mind.

But this time, I'll be going in there with you.

This time?

So if whatever went wrong with that thing last time happens again, she can get you away from it.

[BEEP]

Okay, talk me through this.

Um... never actually done this before.

Cool.

Cool, cool, cool.

[COUGHING]

♪♪

[BOTH COUGHING]

♪♪

DAISY: It's gas.

- It's gas.
- DEKE: I'm going in there!

[DOOR BEEPS]

- Open the door!
- Open it!

- ENOCH: How did these doors become locked?
- DEKE: Open the door!

Open it!

[DOOR BEEPS]

DEKE: [COUGHING]

♪♪

[COUGHING STOPS]

♪♪

They're dead.

[BREATHING SHAKILY]

What a pain in the ass.

[GAS HISSING]

This does not appear to be a naturally occurring leak.

The cut is too neat and precise, as though it was made with a Kn*fe.

This was no accident.

It was deliberate.

Almost as if it was...

m*rder. Yeah. We get it.

♪♪

[TIME DRIVE WHIRRING]

[GASPS]

[SIGHS]

[BEEP, LID HISSES]

- [GROANS]
- [THUD]

[INHALES SHARPLY]

Hey. What are you doing up?

Did we jump again?

I'd say we're about kilometers away from the vortex.

[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES] Aah!

DAISY: Mack!

I'm sure it looks worse than it is.

You're literally blind.

[FIRE EXTINGUISHER HISSING]

- [TIME DRIVE WHIRRING]
- Is that supposed to...

[GASPS]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Huh.

Wait. I d*ed?!

"Again"?

I know this is upsetting for you,but I really just want to get back to the part where we're solving this again.

Not to minimize your pain.

Fair.

You didn't happen to catch how close we are to the vortex this time around?

I think Deke said it was, like, kilometers.

We're running out of time.

And someone here is willing to k*ll.

Just to keep us from unblocking Simmons' memory.

I mean, I'd ask who, but it's hard to ignore the super-obvious suspects.

So, you know about the implant?

Wait. What?! Did I tell you about it?

Please say that wasn't me.

The how doesn't matter.

What matters is that you guys are protecting a secret and someone tried to k*ll for it.

[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]

And you think it was one of us?

To be fair, you were the one k*lled, so that makes you less of a suspect.

Hang on. You think it was one of us?

Yes, we want to protect Leopold Fitz, but k*lling seems rather shortsighted and counterproductive.

If we get pulled into the vortex, we die, too.

We know it doesn't make logical sense, but someone did it.

I just don't think they'd resort to such drastic measures.

I mean, it doesn't make sense.

Okay. I could look for answers elsewhere.

We'll work on the Time Drive.

That means removing the implant, doesn't it?

[SIGHS]

I'll get the instruments.

Get it over with before I change my mind.

♪♪

I'm having a hard time believing that one of us would k*ll the others.

I don't believe it, either, but we don't have the full story.

Maybe someone was brainwashed.

Maybe someone was replaced by a Chronicom.

Wouldn't be the first time.

[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]

Bottom line is, someone k*lled Simmons and Daisy.

I watched them die.

I don't want to see that anymore.

What about Yo-Yo?

Wasn't her.

She's been trapped in the Quinjet each loop.

No, I mean as a solution.

Maybe she's fast enough to get the implant out of Simmons before someone can stop her.

Can you get her out of the Quinjet?

It's worth a sh*t.

I'll try it on the next loop.

[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]

Sorry to put you right to work once we get you out of here.

YO-YO: Don't be!

I don't like the idea that someone tried to hurt them.

Right?

I'm assuming it wasn't you, right?

You'd tell me.

I mean, Mack's been blind, Simmons d*ed a couple times.

It's hard to keep track.

Sounds like I missed a lot.

I was only in here for a few minutes.

Yeah.

How nice.

- [METAL CLANKS]
- Ah.

There we go.

[GRUNTS]

Okay. Tell me where to...

[TIME DRIVE WHIRRING]

Son of a bi...

- Phlebotinum.
- Phlebotinum.

So, you're saying we've tried this a couple times?

More than.

I'll get the scanner.

[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]

♪♪

[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]

[SIGHS] I've been looking for you.

You should be resting. What are you doing out of that bed?

♪♪

A time loop?

Fun, right?

It's why I wanted to stay with this team.

You ever have a day where something crazy doesn't happen?

It's been a while.

Reminds me of my SSR days.

We just need to get the implant out.

Wait. It's a trap.

- Well, we don't know that yet.
- No, we do.

You said somebody obviously went through the drawer, and Simmons was supposed to get the scanner, right?

- [ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]
- Yeah, until I told her I was gonna do it.

Every attempt so far has been on Simmons.

She's the one they're trying to k*ll.

Maybe, but we still need the scanner.

R-Right, but if I die,

I'll just, you know, reset, no problem.

If you die, you lose your memories, and we have to waste all this time relearning everything.

Time we don't have.

So... it's fine.

[GRUNTING]

Sousa.

♪♪

Hey, hey, hey, hey! Sousa!

[GRUNTS]

♪♪

[GASPS]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[BEEP, LID HISSES]

♪♪

We are no closer to knowing who's doing this.

Well, the upside is we're making progress...

thanks to Sousa.

[POUNDS]

Someone keeps trying to k*ll our people.

Why doesn't that piss you off? It should.

♪♪

I'm sorry.

[SIGHS]

I don't like watching you die.

I don't like watching any of you die...

over and over.

We will figure this out.
You know we will.

Sure. But in the meantime, it is soul-crushing.

If I even have a soul.

Don't talk like that again.

Of course you have a soul.

Don't say that.

Don't say "of course".

I'm not who I was.

I'm this thing.

I was Max Headroom for a year.

And you know what?

Being trapped in a time loop, watching my friends die, helpless to stop it... it's not some time-space anomaly.

It's a damn metaphor.

This is my life now.

Does it not occur to you that I might know something about watching my friend die over and over again?

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

- [ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]
- This is different.

Is it?

♪♪

I will watch all of you die, one by one.

Everyone I love.

Because someone decided I should.

♪♪

I'm a machine now.

I have programming, programming which won't even let me...

What?

♪♪

It's Enoch.

I beg your pardon?

COULSON: Simmons and Fitz wanted to protect their secret, and they had you on their side.

You could have had the power of suggestion programmed into you without your knowledge.

We would never pro...

And because your memory's blocked, you wouldn't remember it, either.

You could both genuinely believe you're innocent, but I don't think you actually are.

Enoch wouldn't do that. It...
It doesn't make any sense.

Everyone on this plane is my friend.

I would never harm any of you.

Not willingly.

But Simmons and Fitz are protecting something big... maybe fate-of-all-humanity big.

It's possible you were programmed with the idea that nothing, not even your friendship with us,

should get in the way of protecting humanity.

How do we know for sure?

We test it.

COULSON: Now, Enoch, if I'm wrong,

- [BEEPING]
- you won't have any problem with this.

- Aah!
- [GRUNTS]

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!

- Wait.
- Enoch, stop!

I... cannot... stop.

[GASPING] Enoch.

Enoch, I don't want this!

Explain!

You programmed me to protect the implant at all costs,

- even if I had to k*ll.
- [GRUNTS]

Even if I had to k*ll you.

♪♪

[RUMBLING]

♪♪

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

♪♪

Oh, dear.

[GASPS]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[LID HISSES]

[THUD]

[SIGHS]

SOUSA: Hey.

What are you doing up?

♪♪

Why do you care?

[SCOFFS]

Because you don't.

♪♪

I have to do something, and...

I don't know how.

Maybe we don't have to stop him.

If we can just get the memory zapper out of Simmons without Enoch finding out...

Then we never have to fight him.

We can do that, right?

You wouldn't ask me if there weren't lives at stake, would you?

Okay.

What can I do?

I just think it's weird that you need to be awake for this thing.

Not uncommon for brain surgery.

What?

Which this absolutely is not.

Just removing a little implant. So easy.

Guys, I think we've got a...

[MACHINE HUMS]

Okay, see, where we went wrong is we forgot...

Enoch starts each loop going to Simmons in the lab.

So he overheard us talking.

It's not a problem. Simple adjustment.

♪♪

Hello!

Agent Sousa.

Say, uh, question for you... what time is lunch served on this vessel?

I believe we are all free to dine at our own convenience.

R-Really? 'Cause, see, often, when you're on, say, a m-m*llitary ship, all of the soldiers will eat together.

D-Does wonders for morale.

You have been with us long enough now to know that meals are not taken in a group fashion.

Is there some reason you are creating false pretenses under which you might keep me in this location?

[SCOFFS]

Quick. Let's get things started before...

- well, that.
- [DOOR OPENS]

[MUFFLED] Sorry!

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Alright, well, stealth didn't work.

Let's try something more direct.

♪♪

Enoch. Hey.

[CHUCKLES] Funny thing... we have a-a situation that we wanted to talk to you about.

- We think you're gonna laugh.
- Or just at least see the irony in it.

He did not see the irony.

No. He did not.

♪♪

Enoch.

Jemma has something to ask you.

Go ahead, Jemma.

Enoch, I need you to do something for me, but it is going to require countermanding an order I gave you.

♪♪

In retrospect, I should have known

I'd make countermanding that order password-dependent.

I think it's time we get everyone in on the act.

♪♪

Enoch.

We need to talk.

♪♪

That did not go well.

Where'd he get all those weapons?

Deke's dead?

Very.

Do we need to be sad about that?

We do not.

[GASPS]

[BEEP, LID HISSES]

[THUD]

[INHALES SHARPLY]

Hey. What are you doing up?

Uh, well, believe it or not, I am stuck in a time loop, and I'm running out of ways to save us all.

Okay.

How can I help?

There's no time.

There's... [CHUCKLES]

[STAMMERS]

Actually... I can take a loop.

So, that wasn't hard for you to swallow?

The... The time loop?

Nothing seems to faze you.

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

It all fazes me... just m-maybe not my face.

Every time I ask you for help, you say yes.

Even if I don't ask, you're waiting here to make sure I rest or... whatever.

W-Why?

Be honest.

Honest?

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

I know your type.

My what, now?

I know people like you.

Some of my favorite people are people like you.

[INHALES DEEPLY]

Focused on the greater good, even at your own expense.

You want people to think you like being alone, even though you alway send up back with friends.

You hate losing.

Everyone hates losing.

Yeah, but you'll keep running at the problem full-tilt until you either solve it or slam headlong into a brick wall.

Some of those walls are literal.

I know.

But how does that...

Because when people like you run into those walls, you should have someone there to pick you back up.

And you...

you like to...

be that someone?

Not for everyone.

It helps if they're fun to be around

and if they say what they mean

and if they have that superpower

where they can rock things around,

which is very impressive.

That's, um...

that is awfully specific.

Mm-hmm.

♪♪

So, what's this problem you're trying to cr*ck?

You wouldn't ask me if there weren't lives at stake, would you?

No.

Okay.

What can I do?

Wait here. I'll go set up the procedure.

♪♪

[FOOTSTEPS DEPART]

Agent Sousa, you must not remove Jemma Simmons' implant.

Don't worry. I won't.

♪♪

[DOOR CLOSES]

Daisy will.

I cannot allow that.

We know you'll fight us.

That's why there's four of us.

You'll get by us...

or at least that's what we hear...

but it will take you a while.

Hopefully, just long enough.

[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]

♪♪

Come on, hurry up!
They're holding him off.

This will work.

It will, but it took too long.

No, it'll work. It'll...

[TIME DRIVE WHIRRING]

Oh, come on!

Next time, same thing, but faster.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[BEEP, LID HISSES]

[THUD]

[INHALES SHARPLY]

Hey. What are you doing up?

Uh...

I need you to do something for me.

Of course. What do you need?

[INHALES SHARPLY]

♪♪

That was nice. [CHUCKLES LIGHTLY]

♪♪

Now we need to trap a space robot.

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[DOOR OPENS]

Okay. What can I do?

Wait here. I'll go set up the procedure.

♪♪

Alright. No messing around this time.

We're kilometers from the vortex.

[BEEPING]

♪♪

♪♪

Okay.

Are your memories coming back?

What can we do to fix the Time Drive?

We got about two minutes to get the answer, assuming Enoch's still busy with Sousa and the rest.

[CHUCKLES LIGHTLY]

Jemma?

You okay?

It's Enoch.

He's the key.

He's been against you, but he's the key.

How?

His Electrochron Displacement Mechanism.

Chronicoms use it to regulate energy stability.

It could do the same for the Time Drive.

- It's compatible.
- [ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]

Great. Then let's get to it.

It's not that simple.

It would be like removing a human being's heart.

Taking it out would...

Taking it out would k*ll him.

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[GASPS]

- Simmons?
- [BREATHING HEAVILY]

Simmons? Are you okay?

[GASPS]

What have I done?

[VOICE BREAKING] Oh, my God.

[BREATHES SHAKILY]

- I'm sorry.
- Jemma, what are you remembering?

- What have I done?
- Jemma?

- Oh, my God. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
- Jemma, what is it that you remember?

[SOBBING]

No!

♪♪

- [RAPID BEEPING]
- I've got damage to nearly all systems.

Trying to get a read on our location.

[BEEP]

Everything's gonna be okay.

Trust me.

♪♪

Okay.

[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]

Looks like something just fried the Quinjet's flight system.

I'll check it out and let you know.

[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]

Simmons.

I need you to meet me in the LMD lab.

In a moment, Enoch's gonna join you.

Bring him.

SIMMONS: Alright.

How far are we from the vortex?

Wha...

We're less than one kilometer.

♪♪

Okay.

I need you to come with me.

[MACHINE HUMS]

Are you okay? You sounded...

Did you tell him yet?

No. I was about to.

Tell who what?

The vortex outside is about to k*ll us,

but we are stuck in a time loop

that is keeping us from breaking out.

So we need to act fast.

What do we need to do?

You were the one who told us.

Enoch has something called

an Electrochron Displacement Mechanism.

Yes.

I understand.

I don't. How could I have told you?

I don't even know what that is.

You do.

You forgot, but we helped you remember.

[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]

♪♪

Look, however they got there, if it's something we can use in the Time Drive, then I can figure it out.

[SIGHS] But there's a risk.

To Enoch.

Which is why we're here.

It is not an easy discussion to have.

No, there has to be another solution.

We have tried every possible angle.

- You can't just expect Enoch to sacrifice...
- [CLICK]

I believe this is what you need.

Enoch.

What did you do?

What needed to be done, apparently.

Enoch, you'll die.

And the rest of you will live.

I would like to think Fitz would do the same for me.

I would like to think all of you would.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

Mm.

♪♪

Oh, my.

I do not feel at all well.

[GRUNTS]

♪♪

[BEEPING, CLICKING]

What do you think?

There's no time to think.

Deke.

I think I can do it.

It's a good fit.

Whosever idea this was, she knew what she was doing.

♪♪

Okay.

Just need to make... one more adjustment.

MACK: Coulson, Daisy,

Deke says he can get the drive working.

We should be ready to jump out of the storm any minute.

[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]

We'll let you know.

Shouldn't you get to the Command Center

for the jump?

They'll be fine without us.

Does it hurt?

It does... a bit.

But it's not the physical pain that troubles me.

I am acutely aware that in my thousands of years observing humans,

I never used to feel lonely.

I have been alone many times.

To be candid, I preferred it.

But it wasn't until I met this particular team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents that being alone meant... feeling lonely.

And I don't care for it.

So...

I am feeling, as you might expect, some anxiety now.

You don't have to.

You're not alone.

Daisy and I will stay with you right up to the end.

♪♪

That is very kind of you.

But... it's that last part, isn't it?

You can stay with me up to the end, but you can't come with me at the end.

I will have to leave you.

And I will have to do that alone.

And I can't help wondering... when that happens... will I feel lonely?

I can say with some authority that you're not wrong.

Dying is lonely.

But the feeling is temporary... at least for the person dying.

The ones who are left behind... less so.

♪♪

I guess that's the one advantage to going first.

Yes.

It's different, watching your friends go before you, isn't it?

[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]

I have been through that, as well.

It can be harder to stay than to leave.

♪♪

I'm sorry, Philip J. Coulson.

♪♪

Enoch... the team will carry on the mission.

We will survive because of you.

Thank you.

You are most welcome.

But, Agent Johnson, while your friends will indeed survive, the team will not.

W-What do you mean?

♪♪

I have seen the future.

Carry on this mission and cherish it, for it will be your last mission together.

It...

That's... That's not possible.

I-I...

Enoch, this is my family.

Of course.

Yet this is the nature of family, isn't it?

I have seen it countless times on countless worlds.

People arrive, so we celebrate, and people leave us, so we grieve.

We do what we can with the time in between, but the cycle is always there.

No one escapes it.

[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]

Not even me.

Which means you're not alone.

You're a part of that cycle.

Like every other living thing.

♪♪

Fitz.

♪♪

He was my best friend.

And you were a good friend to Fitz.

You were a good friend to all of us.

As I have always...

♪♪

[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]

MACK: Jump successful, everybody.

We're safe.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

Don't overthink it.

Let the energy flow through you.

Let it fill you up.

And then... send it where you want it to go.

- [HUMMING, WHOOSHING]
- [GLASS SHATTERING]

[LAUGHS]

Brava!

My friend, Brava.

I've spent years feeling dangerous.

This is the first time I've liked it.

Good.

You know, your little sister is gonna be so impressed.

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