Post by caseyrook AKA Mechelle on Jan 21, 2018 22:06:11 GMT
5x08 “The Last Day”
Written By: James C. Oliver and Sharla Oliver
Directed By: Nina Lopez-Corrado
Trivia Fact: The girls that play 2018 and 2022 Robin are sisters.
Act 1
The episode opens with 2018 Robin walking in the Zephyr’s Command Center as alarms are going off as everyone is in crisis mode. Simmons is shouting that three more cities have just gone dark and that ‘it’ is spreading to fast. ZEPHYR ONE 2018 (this font represents what time and place cards show up on screen.)
May is saying that the Lighthouse is still 200 miles out. Robin hides when she is notices by a black agent who tells her she is not supposed to be there and asks where her mother is. Simmons stops what she was doing and goes to him and tells him in a quieter voice that Polly didn’t make it this far. Simmons goes back to what she is doing and smiles at Robin. Robin then goes to May who is in the pilot’s seat. May tells her to back down with the others because it’s not safe up here. Robin tells her it’s okay. “We survive the crash.” May is in the middle of asking what crash? When the Zephyr begins to crass with everyone being knocked to the side. Simmons shouts that there’s a gravity storm heading right for them. May tells Robin to sit down and buckle up and she does.
As she sits, young Robin says, “There’s something else I need to,” and 2091 Robin finishes, “to remember.”
2091 Robin is talking to May as she holds the carved Robin and says sorry and then asks. “W-what did you ask?”
May asks her how she is even here. 2091Robin (I’m gonna specify to help me keep it straight) tells her she told her (May) they’d survive the crash. May says, “The crash? I’m not sure I know what you are,”
Before she can finish she is interrupted by Voss who tells May to not ‘be put out’ if she can’t follow Robin’s train of thought and that Robin’s life is like a deck of cards shuffled out of order. He explains that Robin is a seer alright, but nowadays she can’t separate past, present, and future. Voss introduces himself as Samuel Voss with an extended hand and May gets up and shakes it. He apologizes for the rough rescue saying you have to act fast when gravity storms start to kick up.
May notices the other people suiting up and preparing to go out. Voss and his men are preparing to go collect May’s friends from the surface. He knows they made it onto the surface because 2091 Robin told him a decade ago.
May and 2091 Robin exchange looks, and May sees the Trawler crashing to the surface. On fire, naturally. Voss tells her not to worry, Robin told him they survive this crash too.
Cue Title Card
The Zephyr’s side door opens, and people come in. The second person walks in and tales off their hood and goggles. It’s Coulson. He looks around for a few seconds and then May comes in. He tells her he loves what they’ve done with the place and they hug. May comments about the rough landing. Coulson quips about not recommending the airline and about the inexperienced pilot and running out of pretzels in coach. May finds it funny and then sees Daisy.
They hug and Daisy remarks about it being crazy that Zephyr survived on the last remaining chunk of Earth. May says it must have been en route to the Lighthouse when it crashed. Coulson wonders if that means some of them survived the end of the world. Daisy doubts she made it and then winces as she looks at her hurt right arm. May and Coulson look at it too and May tells her to go to medical. It’s in the same place.
Daisy walks away, and Coulson is glad they finally found some allies. He asks if May got any answers about who they are or why they brought them here. May only got more questions. She has a lot to catch him up on. Coulson takes her arm and they walk off screen as Fitz, Simmons, and Deke enter.
Deke is saying they don’t understand, “they’re not just dead. As far as everyone in the Lighthouse was concerned, everybody that came up here was torn to scraps. (pause) But they’re all still alive and living in an actual airplane.” Fitz and Simmons take off their hoods and goggles and Simmons tells Fitz his design really stood the test of time.
Deke is impressed that Fitz designed this and can’t imagine what was like to fly. Fitz says technically he was the engineer, not the pilot and chuckles. Deke says, “Oh. That’s still cool I guess.”
Just then Voss sees Deke from the walkway above the cargo bay and is shocked to see him, asking (loudly), “Is that Deke Shaw?” as he goes down the ladder, saying he looks like his father 20yrs ago.
Deke recognizes him too and more hugging happens. They exchange words, and Voss expresses his surprise at Deke tagging along with these folks. As he and Deke walk away from Fitz Simmons, Voss says Deke can tell him all about it and says he’s surprised Deke is the only of theirs (“ours”) to make the trip. Voss then asks about Virgil and Deke gives him the bad news and says he’s been playing catch up ever since and then says he feels like Virgil could have told him Virgil was exchanging messages with Deke’s dead dad. Voss defends this telling him they didn’t know who to trust. Deke responds, “Clearly,” and asks so, where is he?
Voss tells him Deke’s dad was transmitting from a radio tower. He’ll be back in a few days and will be happy to see Deke. Deke asks, “Will he?” and Voss ends up saying that if anything was to blame for they way Deke and his dad left things, it was the Lighthouse because Deke’s dad never held “any of that” against Deke.
At the Lighthouse, Kasius is asking Sinara and bug bulky rando Kree if there were any signs of life in the down Trawler. He then asks more questions, getting angrier, and says the Destroyer of World is proving to be quite resourceful after pointing out that if they went up there, they must have the means to survive. He throws a tablet on the table, startling the main black servitor lady (Ava according to IMDB). Kasius then asks Sinara if she wants to go after Daisy. Sinara does and Kasius says to reclaim their property. If she’s dead, then at least they will have a trophy.
Sinara has all resources at her disposal. While she’s away, Kasius will focus on the human traitors who aided the escape. They’ve been far too lenient with those who serve them. Kasius hands Sinara a glass of wine and they drink after Kasius says it’s clear they require a firmer hand. Next Kasius says they’re disobedience must be punished, and all eyes fall on Ava who is having the worst day ever.
Sinara: “A Renewal?”
Kasius: “No, retribution. (pause) This ends today.”
In the human levels of the Lighthouse, the lights go off and, like the Enterprise in an emergency, everything lights up red.
YoYo, Mack, and Flint have reached a corner when this happens. YoYo remarks that it’s not like someone didn’t pay the electric bill. Flint says the Kreepers are playing games. Mack says it’s more like and endgame and that they need to move quickly to get to Level 3 where Fitz hid those weapons. Elena is still grouching about the giant space bugs being on that level. Flint hasn’t seen those things and he still doesn’t want to. Flint points to the service tunnels and says they are the way up.
As they walk, Gretch comes up to Flint and blames him for the Kree cutting the water and now the lights. YoYo tells her that Flint didn’t ask for any of this. Soon, a mob forms and it’s made clear that they want Flint on the same level with the other Inhumans because he is the cause of all their troubles.
Mack shouts and gets in front of Flint and Elena, who slowly back up and get away, and warns the mob that they don’t want to go down this road. Mack then walks backwards, staring them down.
Back on Zephyr, Coulson is saying it all makes sense that Robin is the reason is the reason they’re here and that she’s the connection between the two points in time. May points out that the problem is that for Robin, those two times are indistinguishable
They come to Fitz and Simmons who have been talking to Robin. Fitz says the decades haven’t made her easier to understand and Simmons says she’s still like a little girl and that it’s best not to crowd her.
Coulson and May go to her and sits down. Coulson tells her hello and says they’ve had a long journey to get to her. He’s wondering if she could tell them why she brought them here. He asks what they are supposed to do. Robin tells him she’s already told her mom everything. May says she’s been in and out since she been there and that according to Robin, they were taken from the diner because that was the last time they were all scene together.
Coulson: “That doesn’t bode well.”
2091 Robin: “Phillip J. Coulson.” *They both look at her* “He can bring all the pieces together.”
Coulson: “Pieces of what?”
2091 Robin: *Puts down pencil, holds out hand which Coulson takes* “This is the day it all ends.”
Act 2 (Nice advertising ABC.com, showing a Black Panther trailer during the ads. Doesn’t that mean you’re losing money?)
In the Zephyr’s cargo bay, Daisy is talking about how the lady who sees the future says there isn’t one, “Super.” Coulson says it’s unfortunate that the only people who have answers are unreliable, dead, or want them dead.
May: “So, status quo?”
Daisy tells them the homicidal blue bloods are the most pressing issue since they made a splash when they broke out of the lighthouse. Coulson hopes Mack and YoYo are holding their own and then says they’re going to come to blows with Kasius soon, and that the question is: who strikes first. Then he says it’d be nice to have Quake back with them when that happens.
Daisy shows them her Inhibitor and says she won’t be quaking anything with that thing on. Coulson and May both take a look at it simultaneously.
Daisy will have Fitz and Simmons look at it. Coulson and May will work with Robin to see what shakes loose.
Daisy walks down a corridor (past an old containment pod) and finds Deke who is sitting on the floor against a supply cage. She says that she thought she had a lot to process, this all must be blowing his mind. In more words than this, he basically says it is and that despite what they were taught growing up, you can live up here on the surface, and even that batty old lady made it. Daisy tells him he should have mentioned that old lady can see through time. Deke thought she was crazy..., and dead.
Virgil used to bring Robin tea and listen to her stories until Kasius sent her and Deke’s dad topside. Daisy tells him sorry, but Deke explains he was more bitter than sad because his dads theories got his mom killed so it was good riddance when Deke’s dad sent up too and now they (the team) have actually showed up.
Daisy says it sucks when your parents get to tell you, “I told you so.” Deke says he wants his dad to forgive him. Daisy replies that from her experience he probably wants the same thing. Deke asks for clarification and Daisy tells him about not meeting Cal until she was in her 20s and how he wanted to make up for lost time. It was a bit of a rocky start, but she Cal “got there” she says after Deke asked. (She left out the part where her dad’s entire memory was erased…)
Back at the Lighthouse, Mack, Flint, and Elena have made it to Level 3. Mack and Flint have lined up in a hero shot (because JD loves those) and Elena appears from a recon run, saying it’s clear. They start to walk but Flint doesn’t move. He’s having second thoughts because of the roaches (Mack says they made it off this floor before, they’ll do it again) and how everyone on the tenth floor wants him dead. The roaches at least would be faster.
Elena goes to him and tells him about her asshole friends being asshole friends (4x03 “Uprising) even though she didn’t do anything wrong. And neither did Flint.
Mack gets their attention and indicates to a Kree spraying something around the corner. Flint points out that is the stuff the Blues spray to keep the V’Rellnexians away. They want to know what he is doing on this floor. Mack would feel safer with a weapon in his hand.
Back on Zephyr, Simmons is feeling good to be back on the Zephyr. Fitz wishes it were in the right time. Simmons responds that it’s better than being in a silent alien slave bunker.
They enter the Lab. Simmons asks if he can believe all those things survived the apocalypse. Fitz doesn’t answer. He sees the isochronus cyclotron but with resonant super conducting coils. Jemma looks up and sees it too and finishes his sentence. Simmons wonders what it does.
Voss and someone else enter (Voss points out a box for the guy to take) and informs that it opened the porta that brought them here. Hearing this news, FitzSimmons simultaneously barrage Voss with questions. Voss cuts them off saying he was warned they are full of questions. They are also partial to answers (You’re on the wrong show then, Fitz). Voss tells them Deke’s old man, Owen, put it together. Voss doesn’t think Own even got his own head around it.
Jemma catches his wording and picks up on the fact that Owen didn’t design it. Voss explains that Owen built it from old schematics. It drew a years’ worth of battery reserves and they didn’t think it did anything. “Sure enough, here you are. Heroes from the past.” He takes a monkey wrench and leaves before turning back, telling them “welcome him” and closing the door.
When he’s gone, Fitz says Deke’s father will maybe have more information when he gets back, but until he does. They. Are. On. Their. Own.
(I hate kissing)
Back with 2091 Robin, Coulson is asking her if Mack and YoYo are in danger. Robin does not answer, and Coulson asks May if she thinks Fitz’s new friend could help. May calls Enoch’s name and motions for him to come over. Enoch stops writing in his journal and does. May says he spent time with Robin when he was a little girl and asks how he got her to open up.
Young Robin mostly spoke only to her mother. She only spoke to Enoch occasionally after he spent days by her side. Hearing this, May and sighs and Coulson closes his eyes and shakes his head. Enoch finishes by saying patience is a Chromicon’s greatest tool. Coulson asks. “And for those of us with a limited life span?”
Enoch apologizes saying Robin’s gift id powerful, but it cannot be forced. Sometimes all one can do is wait. Coulson says that is not always an option. May and Coulson then leave while Coulson takes May’s arm.
They walk a few feet into the Command Center. Coulson tells her, that if they can’t get Robin to talk they need to shift gears because their people in the Lighthouse need back up. May agrees but points out that Daisy doesn’t have her powers and she’s not winning any fights with that hole in her leg.
Coulson thinks May looks pretty spry for someone who was born over a hundred years ago. May glares at him for that. He tells her that they always make it through somehow.
“And if not,” She cuts him off by saying she’s not willing to lose anyone (she uses the word ‘I’). He tells her that is not all on her. She asks, “Then what is? If I can’t protect the team the what? I’m not a scientist. I can’t fly a dead aircraft.”
Coulson: “You’re the one I trust to always trust to have my back.”
May is about to counter that, when Robin leaves the cockpit and brings them a picture. She hands it to Coulson who says, “Robin, I’m sorry. We need more than a drawing. We need help.”
May asks her what Robin is trying to tell them. 2091 Robin doesn’t answer, just nods her head at the picture.
That camera lingers on that picture and the scene transitions to the past with a less artistic copy of that same picture. May is saying the “population is barely holding on by a thread and the water filtration system,”
Fitz: “Could go any minute just like the solar power-power arrays.”
Simmons: “And if we lose supplemental power, we lose climate control, kicking off a series of cascading failures. We’re hanging by a thread.”
Through all this, the camera has panned up from the drawing to show May, Fitz, and Simmons sitting around a table. Then it shows Robin sitting off to the side drawing.
The Lighthouse 2022
May: “Then we hang on as long as we can. Minimize the damage. But Robin said there’s another way.”
Fitz is annoyed. “Oh, not the girl’s bloody time machine again. It’s impossible. You cannot change time. It’s fixed.”
May: “What if It’s not. She’s been right about everything else, and for us to even have a chance, you and Simmons have to design the machine.”
Fitz says they’ll spend decades on the schematics and asks what will happen if they don’t finish the job? Simmons answers that they’ll trust someone will carry on after them.
May is saying they have to give themselves the chance when Robin brings her a drawing and says it is to remind her. May tells her, “Not today, Robin” and Robin looks at Fitz and Simmons and tells them they gave “them everything you could.” Fitz picks his head up off the table and looks at her.
In the Lighthouse, the three have found the cache and Mack and Flint are rooting through and stocking up. Mack says “Hello, gorgeous,” to Shotgun Axe and then tells Flint the axe makes it easier to chop heads off after Flint said he doesn’t get it and asked if the axe made it harder to shoot.
Elena comes back. She scouted the whole floor. She can’t say V’Rellnexian and ends up saying, “The roaches are gone.”
Mack isn’t happy to hear this. That means the Blue Man Group sent them somewhere else. They go to the door and hear the echoes of distant screaming because the Kree have released the roaches downstairs.
A jump cut later, they’re walking the corridors of Level 10, having to step over the bodies of roach victims. They hear loud a woman scream.
Act 3
On the Zephyr, Coulson is pointing out to Voss that they are like post-apocalyptic Eagle Scouts. Voss isn’t sure what that means but he likes it. May looks at everything and points out that this all must have taken them years to salvage. Voss has been wanting to take on the Blues his whole life (Home games are played at the Scottrade Center, Voss) so if they’re here to help, they just might be the saviors of humanity after all.
May takes a sheet of metal that has been forged into a machete. May is up to that challenge and says so before finding the rock that is a piece of the monolith. She and Coulson look at it and Coulson says the last time he saw a piece like this, it sent to them to the future. He asks how they got a piece of the Monolith.
Voss informs them that they’ve held to that for a long time. It became something of a symbol for anyone who believed in the prophecy. Coulson says it’s more than a symbol. If they find more of those, it could give them a shot at getting home.
Voss tries to get their attention off the rock, after May says maybe Robin can tell them where the rest are, saying that’s the only piece they’ve ever seen. Coulson replies that the others are out there somewhere. Voss then asks if they think they should focus on something more achievable like storming the Lighthouse or showing Kasius out of an airlock first? Coulson responds, “Absolutely. But Fitz and Simmons need to see this.” Voss gives them a look after they walk away.
In what’s left of the Zephyr’s Lab, Simmons is scanning Daisy’s inhibitor with what looks like an ultra-sound scanner as Deke and Fitz watch. Fitz notices Jemma’s face and comments about how it is not a happy face. The inhibitor has embedded itself in the greater auricular nerve. Even if they had the sophisticated tools and neurosurgeon necessary, the slightest error when taking it out could paralyze Daisy. Daisy sighs and facepalms and says, “Okay, so we leave it alone, then.”
Coulson and May come in. We get a closer look at the rock and see that it is from the top of the monolith because it has a portion of the red stripes. Coulson says they’ve found a literal piece of the puzzle. Simmons is quick to take it and immediately knows the monolith has been fractured. Deke wants to know where they found it. May tells him Voss had it in his locker. Coulson informs the scientists that the survivors who believed in the prophecy held onto it for years.
Fitz is quick to realize that the rock goes into the center of the ‘time machine’. The non sciencey people (mostly Daisy) are like, what are we looking at? And Fitz tells them the shard goes in the center. Simmons says this could be the way home after speculating that this is how the machine targeted the monolith across time. Fitz says they’d need the whole monolith. Coulson says it’d be great if Robin could help them fill the blanks here and has Daisy go talk to Robin because she knew her first and might be able to get through to her. During all this, Deke quietly heads out of the room. May say, “If this helps them us get home, maybe none of this happens.”
Back at the Lighthouse, the show is continuing its horror movie aesthetic. Mack, Flint, and Elena are walking down a corridor and hear a woman scream. It’s Gretch who is close to being eaten by a roach in Grill’s Salvage because we haven’t been in Salvage in this episode yet. Flint gets the roach’s attention and Mack and Elena shoot it with sooo many holes. Flint goes to Gretch and Mack decapitates it. Flint gets the shotgun axe now.
Elena suggests getting everyone to safety room by room. Mack shoots down that idea. It’d take too long, even for Elena. He has another idea. He needs Elena to go get something from upstairs and needs access to the air-filtration system. Flint can take him there. Flint asks what they’re going to do.
Mack: *wipes off the axe and cocks the shotgun* “We’re going to take back the floor.”
The scene transitions to 2022 Robin walking fast down a corridor of the Lighthouse, trying to keep up with May. She is saying, “Flint, Flint, Flint, Flint,” when May tells her not to fall behind.
They stop walking when they hear YoYo shout “Get out of my way!” and everyone goes to the side to make a path for her. She is holding an axe when May asks her what she is doing. YoYo says she is doing something she should have done a long time ago. May says she can’t because working with them is their only option. They need their power generators, their water filtration systems.
Elena interrupts to say, “Who cares what they’re offering? It’s not worth our freedom. We both know they want to enslave us.” May tells her to think about what Robin predicted, what will happen if she fights. Elena counters that Robin predicted they will save the world. “Look at us now.” May says they need her with them.
As May says this, we see 2022 Robin continuing to say, “Flint, Flint, Flint,”
Elena asks May who this “Us” is? They change their name and whisper in the shadows. “Whatever happened to SHIELD?” May says they are doing the best they can. 2022 Robin continues her chant and then says (loudly) “Flint would understand.”
Elena shouts at her that there is no Flint. “Seriously, she needs to stop talking about people who won’t be born for another 50 years. “May sighs and then goes to speak to Robin at her level. “Robin, now is not the time.”
Robin says that no listens to her. “Mack will help Flint.”
As she’s about to get on a lift, Elena yells that “Mack is gone! And he is never coming back.”
May: “Please. Have faith.”
Elena: “Sorry, Melinda, but I stopped believing a long time ago.”
Back on Zephyr, Voss is working with a pipe. Deke comes in and asks what they are doing with the shard. Voss answers that he doesn’t know what Coulson and May are doing but they have their priorities way out of whack.
Deke is mad, and we learn that that rock belonged to his mom. After she died, his dad always kept it close and wouldn’t have left it behind. Deke asked for that rock before the Blues exiled his dad so that he could have something to remember her by, but his dad said that he couldn’t trust Deke with it. During this, Voss tries to say that maybe his dad just left it because of the gravity storms or something. He then tells Deke that he needs “to calm down.”
Deke says Voss needs to stop lying to him because his dad wouldn’t leave it in Voss’s locker. He asks what Voss did to his father. Voss answers by being the third person to hit Deke in the head, only he uses a wrench instead of a fist.
Act 4
Mack and Flint are looking at the air filtration vent. The Blues have shut the power off to the box that controls the whole floor. It’s not a problem however, because Fitz knows how to pack for any occasion. Mack grabs something from Flint’s front pocket, hooks it up, and powers up the box. Mack then takes the gas canisters that YoYo got them, and throws them into the vent where the fan blows the gas into vents on the level. Flint is worried it’s not enough to drive the roaches away. Mack says it’s enough to get them in one room. Mack says now they don’t do anything.
In Grill’s Salvage, Elena speaks to the gathered roaches in Spanish and uses her power to place splinter bombs on every V’Rellnexian. She smiles as they all disintegrate. Flint says, “Woah” and Mack says, “Dial it back a notch, Pebbles.” HE’S BEEN NAMED! HE’S ONE OF THEM NOW!
Back on Zephyr, Daisy has come to see 2091 Robin. And for some reason, her forehead is bleeding? Anyway, Daisy tells Robin that her dad would be glad that she still has the carved robin and then apologizes because she promised Robin’s dad that she would protect Robin and couldn’t do more. She then said that her life in the Lighthouse and then here couldn’t have been easy.
Robin says her mother always kept her safe and that there was something she was supposed to tell her. Daisy asks if she could tell her and then asks about what Robin had previously told Coulson or about the pieces of the monolith and where they can find the rest.
Robin: “Time, it’s—it’s running out.”
Daisy: “Running out for what? What are we supposed to do? What…”
Robin: *Hides under covers*
Voss then appears behind Daisy. He’s been listening in and tells her that he’s had his fair share of those conversations. Robin has important things to say, just doesn’t always say them at the right time. Daisy gets up and leaves the cockpit, closing the curtains behind her. Daisy tells Voss she has been trying to be patient with her but it’s hard when the last thing she predicted was their imminent doom. Voss tells Daisy to let Robin rest and that he might have the answers that she’s looking for.
In the lab, Fitz and Simmons discover a piece in the machine that is a laser vibrometer. It locks onto the monolith through space-time by measuring resonant frequencies and locking on to the ones in the monolith. Fitz tells that she was right and says he’ll fil in the others before finding that the door is locked. He asks if she locked the door. She didn’t.
We see May and Coulson walking down a corridor. They hear Fitz start to bang on the door and call out for Coulson. They pick up the pace around a corner and find the door guarded by two guys. If May and Coulson don’t put up a fight, they don’t have to die.
Back with Voss and Daisy, (I’m skipping dialog here) Voss is working at a laptop. He tells Daisy it must be weird to see the world after what happened. She tells him she couldn’t break a planet apart even if she wanted to. Voss says, “Well, somehow it happened.” Daisy counters that the history books could be wrong. Voss says he’s sorry, but they didn’t.
He then shows her a video clip that was found on the hard drive of the Zephyr. It’s footage of Daisy quaking a Quinjet from the outside and then running off. This was the last time anyone saw Daisy Johnson alive.
Daisy says, “And then?”
He tells her that after the city was evacuated, Quake walked in 12.8 on the Richter scale, and the world cracked like an egg.
Daisy starts to ask how she could do that, but Voss interrupts to say that’s the question. Voss says when you look at this moment and all the suffering that took place after, you can’t help but wonder if it can’t be prevented. He then looks straight at her and cocks his head.
2091 Robin then peeks her heard through the curtains and says, “It’s too late to stop it.”
Scene transitions to 2022 Robin saying the same thing and that there’s so much blood. as Fitz holds her hand and walks in hurry to May. Fitz has had it and is done. Robin can’t control herself, she can’t stop seeing people die, and keeps muttering about it.
May tells him to hold on and stands up from the table. Fitz points his finger at May and tells her that Robin just described Jemma’s death and then says, “Why don’t you tell me how I’m supposed to live with that.
Robin says she thought she already told Fitz that. May tells Fitz that he knows she can’t help it. She sees death like her father, but she also sees a way out. It’s why Fitz designed the machine.
Fitz says she doesn’t get it and then starts to rip the schematics off the wall why while saying Nothing. They. Do. Matters. Because they can’t change time. May yells that he doesn’t know that. He says of course he does and yells, “Because, we’ve tried.”
This scares Robin who goes and hides behind May and grabs her arm and pulls her around the table as Fits yells that for all they know, they’ve tried 1000 times already and it always ends the same. It’s like a record that keeps on skipping. He punches a box on a shelf as he says that they’ve repeated the loop again and again and again.
May: “Fitz, take a breath!”
Fitz does but then continues, “And every time, Jemma dies. They all die. Robin can’t change it. Voss couldn’t change it. Even Daisy couldn’t change it. She saw the aftermath and she still destroyed the world.” WHERE THE Fitz IS COULSON IN THIS DAMN TIMELINE!?!?!?!? WHY HASN’T HE BEEN REFERENCED AT ALL!?
With Fitz mentioning Daisy, 2022 Robin begins chanting her name now too and says, “He has a knife.”
Back in 2091 on the Zephyr (my head hurts, guys) Daisy is saying she’ll make sure none of this happens. Voss says they can tempt fate or make sure she never makes it back. Daisy then sees the people creeping up on her and asks, “What is this?” and sees that Voss has a knife. He answers, “It’s your life for the lives of billions.”
Fight scene happens. Robin says this is the last day and then is stabbed by Voss after he apologizes to her saying he can’t have Robin give Daisy the answers.
Act 5
We start immediately with May and Coulson kicking ass. It appears that for once, Coulson is the best fighter in the room because May is fighting half bent over because of her leg. (Coulson totally kicks a guy hard when the guy is down, btw) Their attackers dispatched, they hear Daisy and May tells him to go. She’ll catch up.
Coulson shows up to Daisy’s fight saying, “And here I thought we were getting along,” and then just grabs the woman fighting Daisy and pushes her hard into the containment pod wall. He takes a few punches at Voss before Daisy pins Voss and hold the knife to his chest. Coulson then takes Voss and pins his arms behind his back.
May shows up and rushes (at least tries to rush) to Robin. Turning her over, May is shocked to see the stab wound. She tells her they’ll take care of her and then helps Robin sit up in her arms telling her she’s okay.
Robin: “Mom?”
May: “I’m sorry, she’s not here but I’ll stay with you.”
Robin: “You always promised you’d be here at the end.”
Scene changes to 2022 Robin calling for ‘mom’ while she’s in bed at the Lighthouse. May stops writing at her desk and asks if everything is alright. Robin can’t sleep. May then snuggles into bed next to her and asks if Robin wants to talk about it.
Robin wishes she never got this power. May says it’s a lot to have going on in her head. Every night Robin closes her eyes and sees people hurting, people dying, even May. May says she knows. It’s okay.
Robin asks if she’s not afraid. May is a little but Robin will be there at her side, just like she’ll be there for Robin in the end.
Robin doesn’t want to lose May too. May reminds her that they are special, they never have to say goodbye.
Back on the Zephyr in 2091, May realizes she raised Robin. Robin tells her that they lived together after Polly was gone. May asks, “Why me?’
Robin says, “Because you weren’t afraid of what I could do. You always said I had a gift. And that, one day I could help save the world.
2022 Robin tells May that she’s supposed to tell May something; how she can get back home. May tells her that’s right but not today because it’s too early. May says to tell her when they are back on the Zephyr, years from now.
Robin says May won’t remember her then. May says to remind her that she has an important job to do and that…
2091 Robin: “…You are needed for more than you realize.”
May touches 2091 Robin’s face and asks her what she is supposed to do.
May in 2022 is saying, “And when that day comes, you have to tell me how to get back. You tell me your vision of us saving the world.”
2022 Robin says she’s never seen that vision. May says that she will. May will stay with 2022 Robin until she falls asleep.
2091 Robin says she knows May can save the world. May was right. Robin has seen it. She just hasn’t lived it yet. Robin starts to fade but May shakes her gently and asks, “How? How do we get back?”
Robin tells her.
Voss, Coulson, and Daisy watch. Voss wants Daisy to remember this moment when she destroys the world and remember that he tried to stop her. Daisy takes Voss away and Coulson gets closer as he watches and listens in.
Robin finishes telling May, and then says she thinks she can go back to sleep now with a smile on her face.
May is crying when she looks up at Coulson and says, “This is what she meant. *voice breaking* The day it all ends.”
Back on the Lighthouse at Grill’s Salvage, Flint announces to everyone that the Roaches are dead. They are safe now.
They all come out from Grill’s office. Mack tells them if they want to survive, they can’t let Kasius pit them against each other anymore. As he says this, Elena gets the Metric installation thing off Grill’s desk. She comes out asking, “Whose first?” Gretchen is the first to hold out her arm.
Back on Zephyr, Daisy frees Deke from Voss’s locker. She thought he’d be dead. Deke says that maybe Voss didn’t want anymore of Deke’s families blood on his hands. Daisy realizes that means Voss killed Deke’s dad. She says she’s sorry. Deke just hopes Robin helps them find their answers. Daisy says, “I think we’re on our own.”
Scene cuts to May who is putting the carved robin in Robin’s hands and covering her up with the blanket. Coulson and standing and staring off into space when Deke and Daisy enter the cargo bay. Fitz, Simmons, and Enoch are there too. Enoch is writing something as usual in this episode.
Fitz says to him, Robin was a little girl only days ago. Simmons says they are not meant to see a life like this, at it’s beginning and end. Coulson has snapped out of it and turns around. He says, “Maybe it makes us appreciate how short life really is.” (Says the guy who died and yet is here.)
Daisy asks, “So what now?”
Deke: “We live on this crashed airplane until the Kree—or the roaches or the gravity storms finish us off.”
Coulson thinks they can do better than that. Daisy agrees because at least that way she doesn’t go back in time and quake the world apart.
May enters and says they do go back. Robin told her how. They can save everyone. She has one question though: “Who’s Flint?”
Tag Scene
Sinara has made her way onto the Zephyr. Kasius is watching on a tablet screen. He is surprised to see that they survived and prays that The Destroyer of Worlds doesn’t encounter VRellnexians on the surface because those creatures can be quite ravenous. Sinara takes off her mask and looks into it, asking for her orders. Kasius answers to follow their trail. If she encounters any human survivors, she knows their weakness. Show no mercy.