My 5x09 Rundown

This is totally the worst one I've done yet. I was fighting time.


5x09 “Best Laid Plans”

Written By: *Sorry

Directed By: *Sorry



Guys, that stupid job of mine is being more stupid than normal scheduling-wise so some scenes aren’t going to be as detailed as others, so I can fight the time.

I will mark certain scenes with a * so that you know I may have reworded some dialog or combined it and that some stuff may be missing (more than usual) and that there are gaps, but I will only do that when the information I leave out is not important to the episode.



Act 1

We open with two Kreepers stalking down a hallway, plasma guns drawn. They round a corner and rocks start flying at them but miss when they hit the walls. Gunner is throwing them. He throws one more and runs off in the other direction. The Kreepers pursue and end up coming into an ambush. Mack, Elena, Gunner, and a few others are waiting for them and open fire. Mack tells them to hold their fire after a few seconds. He then tells them “Nice work.”

Gunner wants to know why he, a guy named Gunner, got stuck throwing rocks. Mack replies, “Because you’re damn good at it.” Gunner then walks away and Elena remarks, “Enemy of my Enemy.” Mack says it puts things in perspective and that Gunner is fighting for a good reason.

Elena states, for the record, she likes Rebel Peacemaker Mack, too. He’s sexy. Mack asks, “Oh, is that right?” when Flint and some others walk towards them.

Flint: *sees the dead Kree* *gets excited* “Woah. Two more Kreepers. This is our floor now. No Blues allowed.” (So many hockey team jokes).

Mack tells Flint to slow down. They have a long way to go still. Flint walks away slowly, Elena tells Turtle Man to smile. They did good. Mack corrects her, saying they got lucky. “But now Kasius knows we’re still here. They’ll be back.”

Back in his den, Kasius just got that news: “The humans are alive? Impossible.” The Kreeper, who I presume has taken Sinara’s place in her absence, informs him that the humans killed the Vrellnexians and the Kree lost 8 soldiers. Kasius asks, “How can that be?” The Kreeper (Hek-Sel according to IMDB) tells him the humans have guns.

Kasius yells about where they found weapons on this cursed rock when two servitors, a male and female, are carrying a crate. The female drops her end with a loud thud. Kasius threatens her, saying if his items don’t make it onto his ship whole, neither will she. She nods, terrified and the two leave followed by Ava who is also carrying something.

Kasius grumbles about an uprising happening just as he was about to leave with the Destroyer in hand but ends up saying it’s no matter. He tells Hek-Sel to have the doctor awaken their latest acquisition. It is time to remind the humans that he is not their enemy. He is their God. (Somewhere, Loki doubled over laughing).

Cue Title Card.

A gravity storm is hitting Zephyr in an exterior shot. Coulson is busy opening panels and looking into them with a flashlight as Enoch is asking, “This Inhuman boy, Flint—you say his geokinesis is the key to building a new monolith, to your returning home?” Coulson, who didn’t actually look like he was paying attention, answers that technically Robin said that to May, but yeah, that’s the idea. Enoch asks how exactly that will work. Coulson tells him about the monolith shard and says something about its unique crystalline structure and that Flint can…but then Coulson remembers he’s not a sciencey person and cuts himself off, sighing and saying, “It’s a rock. Flint controls rocks. I don’t know.”

Enoch says they must hope that Flint stays safe while they wait out the intensifying gravity storms. He begins to say, “By my calculations,” but is cut off by Coulson who finishes the thought, while closing the panel and flipping a switch to turn it on, “It’ll last for weeks, and we need to evacuate. Right. You’ve been saying that. Kind of on repeat.”

The two then walk away and the camera cuts to the Command Center when Enoch and Coulson come in. Coulson tells everyone, “Whatever you’re doing, do it faster” and then asks how they’re lookin’.

Daisy is working with a piece of hardware the size of her hand when Fitz answers, “Terrible.” Zephyr One has been a crash site for nearly 80 years so it’s a mess.” Daisy adds that it will be a while till comms are up and running cause she’s sure generations of space rats have lived and died in here. As they talked, Coulson made his way to the front by the cockpit. Simmons chimes in by saying, “Not to ruin the mood but,” and takes a blanket off the computer station in the middle. “Avionics are online.”

Enoch had been looking towards everyone who spoke and now looks up at Coulson for clarification that they are evacuating to the caves, “Are we not?” Coulson doesn’t answer. May, standing behind Coulson, does. “Zephyr flies again, metal man.”

Enoch replies that he is made mostly of plastic and that Chronicoms do not have gender. May shoots him a look and Coulson tells him they do not have weeks. They’re gonna outrun the storm, pull the ground anchors, fly past as many roaches as they can, and land at the Lighthouse. Enoch observes that they are confident despite knowing this will surely end in their deaths. Daisy, grabbing a tool and walking back to where she had been, says they’re not gonna bury their heads in the sand while their friends are in danger.

Working at a panel behind the avionics station, there’s a burst of energy and the avionics station dies. Simmons says that rerouting must “have overloaded the MPDU.” Fitz says they need to try and bypass the subsystems and follows Simmons out of the Command Center. As thy leave, May hands Enoch a crate and orders “Plastic” to make himself useful and secure it in the back. Before he does, Enoch tells her that “plastics are quite useful (turns around and walks away) if not often appreciated.”

May stops to look at Robin’s drawings. Coulson gets closer and tells her “Sorry she had to go like that.” He asks if she wants to talk about it. May doesn’t know where to start. Coulson recounts the story about Robin telling May she was May’s daughter and saying that May will fix the world after dying (not how he said it) and says it doesn’t happen every day. May ends up saying it’s hard to believe that she was a mom. She just can’t see it. Coulson says, “I can.” Daisy joins in. “Yeah, you’re the no phone, no TV, 7;30 curfew kind of mom.” Coulson smiles and May glares. Daisy continues. “Kind of proving my point with the face.” Coulson then says for Robin’s sake, they need to make sure this world never comes to be. Daisy responds, “No matter what.”

May asks what they are going to do with Voss. Coulson says he left that up to Deke.

*Voss is in time out in his emptied storage locker when he turns around after hearing Deke’s footsteps. Deke enters with, I’m pretty sure, Grill’s gun. Deke accuses Voss of killing Owen. We learn that Owen and Voss were best friends, they always agreed to pull the team from the past but couldn’t agree on what to do when they got there because Owen thought they would come with a solution and Voss thought killing them was the solution. One day. Owen came at Voss with a knife and Voss killed him by putting the knife in his throat. Voss says, “You know he was capable of it.” Deke ends up saying it was all for nothing as he points the gun at Voss and says Voss hasn’t done a damn thing. Voss ends up shouting that they survived. They survived ten years in this hellscape and made sacrifices that Deke has no idea about, and now the people responsible are upstairs.

Voss: “We could finish it, and you want to kill me?”

The scene ends with Voss basically telling Deke that Deke isn’t a killer and that Kasius wants Quake. They should give her to him. *

At Salvage, YoYo is teaching Flint how to fire a handgun. Mack walks in and asks what’s going on. He gets the answer and then reaches over and rips the gun from Flint’s hands. Flint protests, saying the Blues will come back. Mack says when that happens, “They” will fight them. Not Flint. Flint says Mack has seen what he can do. He can help. Mack replies, “We’ll deal with it. End of discussion.” Flint says whatever man and walks away. Elena tells Mack that he knows Flint can handle himself and that he’s killed before. Mack knows that. He says now Flint is developing a taste for it. Elena says, “As long as he kills the bad guys.” Mack says Flint is not a soldier. None of these people are. Elena says they can teach them.

They fight with words until Mack says they need a plan, not a mob. Just then, Gunner enters and tells Mack Kasius has sent a messenger.

Walking through the crowd after Mack tells them to make room, Elena and Mack find that the messenger is Tess! She’s wearing a white turtle neck and doesn’t look so well.

They’re obviously a bit shocked. YoYo says, “Santo infierno…” and Mack just stares when Flint joins them. He hugs her saying her name and she seems to recoil at his touch. She looks a bit out of it but answers “I was” after Flint says he thought she was dead.

Act 2.

In Salvage, we learn that Tess fought and begged and was dragged to the Exchange where they stabbed her (“Knives are cold”). Mack tells her she’s okay. She’s safe. Tess doesn’t feel the same. Mack says she’s been put through a lot. Tess is jittery when she replies that she was dead and then screaming with her heart on fire while Kasius was there, smiling. Flint asks if Kasius is magic. Elena replies that SHIELD dealt with something like this before (So everyone knows about TAHITI-the worse kept secret ever because how does she know that?). Mack clarifies that in their time, they’ve seen Kree biology bring people back. Flint asks how that is possible and Tess answers, “Kasius said he smothered the fires of death with the blood of the eternal. That’s how he talks. It’s horrible.” Elena apologizes, copping to it being her who took Flint from the ceremony. Tess would have done it too if she could do what Elena can.

Flint is over this and suggests them getting in that elevator, going down, and kill “them” all. Mack shoots that idea down, saying they’ve been over this. Flint says “I have powers. You let me loose on this guy…” He’s interrupted by Mack who says absolutely not. Elena agrees with Flint. IF they take out Kasius this is all over. Kasius is just a man.

Tess hears this and says, “No. (pause) Kasius is a god. That’s why I’m standing here. As proof.”

Mack retorts that there is only one God, and Kasius for damn sure ain’t it.” He then fights with Elena again after she suggests her going and killing Kasius, and then killing him again if he comes back. Elena ends up remarking it wouldn’t be the strangest thing she’s ever done.

Tess stops their bickering by telling them they don’t get it. If Kasius doesn’t get what he wants, he’ll end the whole human race with the push of a button. After Flint asks, she then tells them Kasius wants Flint, everything he needs to keep breeding Inhumans, every child over the age of ten, and motivation for the Destroyer. She clarifies to Elena that Daisy is the Destroyer and that Kasius is working to get her back. Mack asks, “Motivation. You mean us?” Tess nods and says, “Or we all burn.”

We then cut back to a scene that is probably proof that Coulson is dying. He is sitting at a table with his hand off as he pokes and feels the area above his elbow and below his shoulder on his left arm. He stops when Daisy comes in and asks ‘Boss’ if everything is okay. He answers that his hand needed a little juice. Daisy walks to a desk as she says that comms are up. If they get a line of sight to the Lighthouse, they should be able to contact Mack and –crashing and rumbling. Daisy recovers from the shake and says, “The sooner the better.”

Coulson tells her the first thing they do is g downstairs, remove her inhibitor, and get her powers back. Daisy looks at him and says, “Yeah, maybe we don’t.” Coulson needs her at full strength. Daisy says he has her as an agent. Coulson starts to protest, but Daisy tells him he saw the video. She was there at everything; can they really take that chance? Coulson responds that SHIELD needs Quake. Daisy is tired of these names. If she’s not Quake, she can’t be the Destroyer of Worlds. Maybe she should just be Daisy Johnson-Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

They share a look for a second and she walks out of the room. He begins to unplug his hand’s charger saying, “Okay Phil. Back to work” as he connects it back to his arm and gets up.

*With Fitz-Simmons, Simmons wants Fitz to be careful. He keeps getting electrocuted because everything has been reconfigured and he doesn’t even know what he is looking at. Simmons looks at a tablet and then shows him saying she thinks she does. The tablet shows the plans for the next-Gen Zephyr, completes with RCS thrusters. These plans are theoretical and would be useless without artificial gravity. He opens a panel and they see tubes of Gravitonium. Simmons points out that it’s here, on the base, and everywhere. Fitz had been trying to figure out how Earth was held together. This explains it. (my words). Simmons said it would also maybe explain why it’s cracked apart. Then one thought leads to another and the two realize was that “it’s all true. Robin, May, it’s all true.” They did all of ‘this’ unless someone else just happened to come up with their same designs. They realize that this a causal loop paradox because they knew all this stuff when they built in the past because they’d already seen it. (Again, my words.) Fitz ends up saying that this is a bloody time loop. There’s nothing that they do that matters. They’re doomed to fail. Simmons sees proof that they make it back. *

Scene transitions to something big hitting the earth and sending debris flying onto the grounded Zephyr. Daisy thinks that one was a hospital. Enoch asks if this is the first time they’ve had building dropped on them. May answers, “No” as she walks past Coulson who gets excited when the avionics panel lights up. Daisy starts working with it when Deke walks in and Coulson noticed that Deke was gone a long time and asks if Voss is still among them. Deke replies that Voss knows stuff they don’t, he thought they might still need him.

Just then, May gets panels in the cockpit to light up (“Yes!”) and Fitz and Simmons run in. Coulson asks them if the engines are good to go. They’re about to tell him their discovery and that Zephyr has been upgraded when Zephyr shakes again and they’re all knocked around. Coulson asks if those upgrades will help them take off. Fitz starts to say ‘no’ but Coulson finishes his thought and says, “’Cause it’s time to fly!” and heads to the cockpit. May tells him to be ready to lift the ground anchors when they have ignition. Coulson goes to that panel and gets ready.

May engages the ignition and…nothing. There’s an electrical surge in the ceiling and the Zephyr’s engine may as well be a car engine when it won’t start. Coulson wants an explanation (“Talk to me, Fitz!”) and Fitz answers that the engines just blew out, so they can’t take off. Enoch takes this opportunity to once again advise that they evacuate to the caves. He’ll go first. As he gets up, another lurch knocks everyone off balance.

*Back at the Lighthouse, Mack, Elena, and Tess are still bickering. Tess tells them they need to go to Kasius. They are out of time. Mack says they are not going anywhere until they know exactly what they’re up against. Elena suggests that she go. They fight about this some more and Tess sys if they don’t go Kasius will make everyone a vacancy. When she’s done speaking, they come to panel. Mack points out that the best way for Kasius to kill them ‘with the push of a button’ is by remotely cutting their oxygen with a trigger. Elena says that is another reason t deal with Kasius quickly. Mack says to humor him and opens the panel. There’s nothing and while he goes to open the part behind the panel on the inside, Tess makes her argument again, and Elena says that Kasius could be bluffing. Tess tells her Kasius has wiped out entire floors before. Mack finally gets it to where he can see the bomb and quotes Kasius, “They’ll all burn.”

It’s a bomb on the O2 lines to the whole floor. If there’s one on this line, there must be one connected to every line on every human floor. There must be hundreds. Flint says Kasius could kill them in a flash. Mack corrects him, “Not just kill. Incinerate.” *

Act 3

Deke is packing a knapsack. Zephyr is jolted again so he says, “Time’s up” and hands it to one of two randos. They leave, passing Daisy who joins him. She tells him he’s finally starting to get a hold of this whole good-guy thing. Deke reflects on the timing of this (in time for the sky to fall) and asks what made her say that. She tells him, “Voss. You let him live.” He says that doesn’t mean he’s good. Maybe he’s spineless. She says killing is never the better option.

Deke replies, “If it can prevent more pain, maybe. I’m sure you’ve done it.” Daisy gives him a look as he goes to a bed and grabs stuff and comes back and tells her about his dad. He could be very violent, but only when he needed to be. You learn that in the Lighthouse. “A life spent, a life earned.” Daisy asks, “Never a life saved?” which is Deke’s point. Deke then asks, “Shouldn’t I be able to pull the trigger if I think that person could do more harm?” Daisy doesn’t think Voss is a threat to anyone but her. Deke then gets a hold of himself and says, “No, you’re right” and goes to leave, but before he does, he gives Daisy one more pointed look.

Scene cuts to a small scene where we see people getting ready to go into the caves. One guy is having his hands tied for some reason(?) as Deke comes in and tells another to go as far into the caves as they can and that they’ll be right behind them.

Then the scene changes to Coulson going to open Voss’s time-out cage. He’s brought handcuffs. Voss asks if he’s here to “waste” him for good. Coulson says that isn’t how he rolls and opens the cage. He steps back warning Voss to not push his luck and pulls out a gun, telling him he’s going into the caves and orders him to turn around. Voss listens to the command and puts his hands behind his back. Voss tells him that’s why he fails. He’s not willing to do what has to be done. Coulson says, clearly, he hasn’t read Coulson’s file and they’re not in the habit of killing unarmed people. (Unless they’re Ward.)

Voss turns around and says that killing Robin wasn’t easy. She was a friend. He finishes his thought saying, “You seem to be just fine with the continents you’ll let die.” Coulson asks what makes Voss certain that they cause it. Voss answers, “History. There was a light in the sky. Aliens is what I heard. SHIED tried to stop it and failed. Brought Hell to Earth. (Which time, Voss?)” Coulson responds by saying as that as cryptic prophecies go, Voss would give Robin a run for her money. Voss leans closer and tells him that was from Robin. It was the start and then “your girl finished it. Sadly, you’ll see for yourself.”

At some point, Deke entered and there’s another impact with the Zephyr. All three men are shaken but keep their balance. Deke says they need to go and grabs Voss and takes him out of the room with Coulson starting to follow with the same suspicious look he had in ‘Turn, Turn, Turn’ when he watched Ward go off with Hand and Garrett.

In the hallway, after we stop seeing Coulson in the background, Voss asks if Deke is waiting to get Daisy alone. Deke tells him to shut his trap. He’s not doing anything to anyone except maybe Voss. Deke hands Voss over to someone else as Voss is saying that Deke isn’t like them, he’ll do what’s right. By then, Coulson has caught up and tells Deke that now’s the time, he should go too. Deke says no. he’s come this far, he needs to see it through.

Back at Salvage, Mack is telling the rest of the rebellion that they have an impossible choice. He has the leaders of the different floors gathered and tells them he needs them with ‘us’. The bomb he’s holding took him all of an hour to disconnect, but it can’t be disabled, and it triggered remotely. He stops holding the bomb up and says Kasius’s demands must be met. His audience groans and sighs. They’re not happy with this news. Gunner voices his concern the loudest saying, “You want us to hand our kids to that lunatic? Hell no!” Elena says even if they were crazy enough to do that, they couldn’t trust Kasius to hold up his end of the bargain. Gunner yells, “Then we fight! Take him out!”

This riles up the crowd. Mack says it’s suicide, he’d burn them all but that doesn’t settle them down. So, Mack yells, “LISTEN!” which shuts them up. Mack continues, “YoYo and I are turning ourselves over to him. Gunner responds that Kasius will kill them, but is told maybe, or maybe they get close enough to take him out of the picture. Mack says there’s no other way. He adds that they won’t see them again but if they succeed, their children will be safe. Elena tells them the most important thing is that they keep their heads down and keep working.

The scene transitions to Tess and Flint in a corridor. Flint is pacing as Tess says tells him Kasius is insane, if they fail, he’ll invent new ways to punish them, to make them suffer. Flint tells her not to go to back and that he could sneak her on a different floor, Tess responds that they have nowhere to run. Flint can’t lose her again. He doesn’t have anyone else. They hug. Mack and Elena walk in.

Tess says she thinks he does and walks away. Flint turns to Mack and Elena and tries to get them to let him go with them, let him fight. Mack puts his hand on Flint’s shoulder and says there are other ways to fight. Remember what he said. Elena and Flint hug with Elena saying, “These people need you now.”

Back with the others, the gravity storm is getting worse and we see there are lines strewn across Zephyr on the outside (the anchors?). On the inside, in the Command Center, they are being knocked around still and Daisy says Z-One can’t take much more of this. Simmons says they should hope that “it’s here at all after the storm.” A thud knocks her and Daisy both onto a cot.

Camera pans to Enoch who informs them that the sensation of death is one that he has to experience. May says, through gritted teeth, that maybe she can help him with that.

Just then Coulson and Deke walk in and Coulson shouts that almost everyone is gone. “Let’s move!”

May hears this and starts to pack quickly, grabbing the carved robin. When she turns around with it in her palms, it floats in the air for a few seconds and then drops. This gives Simmons an idea and she tells them to cut the anchors. Deke asks if she hit her head. Simmons restates her statement: “Cut the ground anchors. Let a gravity wave take us. That’s how we get in the air.” May yells back that they can’t fly without engines. Simmons replies that maybe they don’t have to.

Coulson then calls Simmons’ name and moves to get closer to her. Simmons moves in kind and tells him, “The upgrades—Zephyr One has Reaction Control System thrusters, meaning capable of maneuvering in space.” Fitz then chimes in adding that if they can get high enough, they can break through Earth’s diminished gravity. They could fly in space straight to the Lighthouse.

Deke yells “No!” and goes on asking if that could actually work. Coulson is quiet as he watches FitzSimmons do their whole ‘talk science to each other thing’ as they rattle off all things that can’t happen for it to work and they finish saying, if they don’t do this, that, or the other thing, they’re in. They finish with a fist bump. Daisy says, “same” and Deke says he used to be really good at self-preservation

Coulson turns around and asks May if she can pilot them through a gravity storm. She makes a face and Daisy points it out saying, “Another mom face.” Coulson says to May, “You can do this.” And then says to everyone, “We can do this.”

Scene cuts to two guys trying to open Zephyr’s side door. One guy tells the other guy to put his back into it. They get it open and someone else comes in. They tell the person that they’re going the wrong way. They have to get underground. The person stands aside and the two leave. One of them tell the person that they’re on their own. The person takes off their mask and goggles and we learn that the person is Sinara.

Act 4

Kasius, while sitting alone in the viewing area of the Crater, is told that his messenger has returned. Kasius says, “Wonderful. Send them in.” He turns around and frowns when he sees Tess is alone. It appears he did not properly warn Tess of the consequences of her failure. Tess is shifting her weight from one foot to the other and looking down. She’s terrified. Tess apologizes and says they wouldn’t come. Kasius says that maybe she should burn along with the rest of her kind for coming empty handed. Tess shows him what’s in her hand and says she’s alone but not empty handed. She’s holding a vial of blood and a Terrigen crystal. Kasius takes them from her and asks she got those. She tells him she gave them his message. They insisted on sending one back.

Scene cuts to the (now it really is the TAHITI lab) lab and we see dead Kree as Mack cocks shotgun axe. Tess’s voiceover tells Kasius that they’re holding Kasius’s research floor until he comes and meets them.

The camera back on Kasius, he says he won’t meet them. He’ll send a battalion to grind their bones to dust. Tess tells him that’s “the thing. If you don’t meet them, they’ll burn your ability to breed another Inhuman.” The camera cuts to Elena and Mack putting a bomb on a wagon filled with stuff from the lab. Tess adds, “With the push of a button. That’s how they wanted me to say it.” Kasius grabs her throat and begins to choke her. He changes his mind, however and lets her go. She falls to the floor and Kasius walks away and tells the guard to bring her.

Scene cuts to Zephyr. Coulson is walking in the Command Center when a panel falls from the ceiling and hits him on the side of the face, knocking him onto the avionics panel. Daisy saw it and runs to him followed by Deke who sees the damage and says that is definitely going to get infected. Daisy asks him if he’s okay. Coulson answers as he feels the wound and says he’s been worse, but he’s been better too. Coulson walks around the computer station and sits down next to Enoch who is telling them that as the gravitational forces accelerate, their chances of implosion are rapidly increased.

May rushes as fast as she can to look at Coulson’s face, but he waves he gives her a thumb up and May commands Enoch to tell her his primary function again. He does as Coulson puts on his harness. May says “More observing, less sharing” and heads to the cockpit. Fitz and Simmons come in. Fitz announces that thrusters and artificial gravity are ready. They’ll have about 10 minutes of power to both. Simmons shouts to not fire the thrusters until they’re at the very edge of the atmosphere or they will most certainly die. As they say all this, they are buckling themselves in. May says “Great! Everybody, buckle in.” We see everyone do just that (and Fitz even checks to see if Simmons harness is tight).

May goes to a panel and switches it. All lights turn green except for the anchor indicator lights. The anchors are stuck. They can’t lift off. Daisy undoes her harness and says she’s on it. Deke follows her.

At the Lighthouse, Mack and YoYo are pushing a wagon with the lab stuff. YoYo tells him not to look at her like that. They agreed to do this. Mack says, “Yeah, as long as they keep their heads.” Elena says they’re not the ones who’ll lose their heads. Mack replies that there is no way to know how Kasius activates his explosives, so until they see the controls…He is cut off by Elena who quotes him, “Don’t do anything rash, stay calm, and don’t kill anyone, Yo-Yo.’ Yes, I remember many of your stern warnings.”

Mack says that’s good because she doesn’t exactly do well around people like this as he lines the hallway with a wire from the bomb. Elena basically replies that no she doesn’t do well around evil men who kidnap and torture defenseless women and children. Mack hopes Flint is alright. They put a lot on him today. Elena points out that the people like him, if anyone can keep them together it’s him. Mack says he’s a kid. She says that she wasn’t much older when she ‘started out’. “He’ll be fine. You know I’m right.” They hear a door open and Mack looks at her quickly and says, “Please.” She turns to the hallway and says, “No promises.”

We see the Kree enter with Tess. Kasius is holding his nose as if he doesn’t like the smell. Mack says that isn’t what he pictured. Kasius recognizes YoYo. “How peculiar.” She calls him a space mime. Mack holds the trigger high and says, “Nobody moves!”

Kasius says they think they are invincible, but in the end, they will submit. Mack orders Kasius to give them the controls to his explosives upstairs or his Inhuman making days are over. Kasius tells them to throw themselves at his feet so he will consider bringing them back after having them slaughtered.

This makes Elena laugh. Mack glares at her and then she tells Kasius that they are not scared of him. She accuses him of hiding behind stronger men and forcing them to do his bidding. She calls him a coward. As he does, we see Tess look at Kasius in the background as she plans her next move. Kasius calls it ironic that they would trade Inhumans for humans when that very deal was brokered ages ago. He then says the one defining trait of their kind is that they will always turn on one another.

Back on Zephyr, Daisy makes her way to the cargo bay as a camera operator obviously shakes the camera. We see Deke behind her as she goes to a panel and flips a switch from some struggle. Turning around, she is struck by Sinara. Deke hides. Sinara tells Daisy that Kasius misses her. A big impact with Zephyr knocks them around again and some stuff falls on Deke.

A few seconds later, Zephyr breaks free and flies in the air.

Act 5

Sinara and Daisy’s fight becomes a zero-grav fight. We cut to the rest of Zephyr, where May is struggling to control the aircraft and stuff starts to shift and break free from the walls as an alarm blares. Fitz yells to May to hit the gravity. She does, and we see Sinara and Daisy fall face first on the upper deck of the cargo bay. They fight as Deke tries to reach for a box. Eventually, the railing breaks and they end up on the lower cargo hold deck.

Scene cuts back to May who is struggling even more. Camera pans to Coulson and Enoch. Enoch would begin vomiting right now if he had a stomach. (So why did you have food in your house, then?)

Coulson then shouts, “Thrusters!? Talk to me, Fitz!” and looks over at Fitz-Simmons. Fitz says they are not high enough. Simmons apologizes for this terrible idea.

Back with the standoff at the Lighthouse, YoYo tells Kasius that he loves forcing their choices and asks what it’s like to be on the other side for once. Kasius tells them that any minute now Sinara will secure the Destroyer and they will have no choice but to surrender.

Back on Zephyr, that hasn’t happened yet as Sinara and Daisy are still fighting. As they fight. We see Deke working to get to the crate and trying to get it open.

Back at the Lighthouse, Kasius tells Mack and Elena to stand down or experience death like Tess many, many times. Mack asks him if he knows he’s a real piece of work. Kasius answers that he is a god to be feared and that humans beg to be ruled and that without him, Humans would have perished long ago. Mack guesses he’s not a New Testament guy because vengeance and torment are tools of the Devil. Elena adds, “And of the weak.”

Kasius replies with “You want a Devil…” and Elena ends up telling him he’s no god, no devil. He’s just a cruel, sad, little blue man. She asks why they don’t skip to the part where she ends this?

Back on Zephyr, Daisy makes her way up the ladder after Sinara tells her she isn’t supposed to kill her but oh, well. Sinara starts to go up it too but is caught by the claw things that caught May and Enoch. Deke pulls her down and Deke says he knew he would regret this as they begin to fight.

At the Lighthouse, Kasius tells Elena to spare the theatrics because she would dare make such a brazen attempt with so many lives on the line. We then hear Flint tell him he really does talk funny. Elena smiles as Flint joins them. Mack asks if it’s done. Flint nods and asks if he gets to. fight now.

Now that they are all there, Kasius shows them the controls and tells them to surrender or make their play. Elena chooses play. A forcefield blocks her attempt to get to Kasius though. Kasius ends up saying he promised suffering. Now it’s time to make good on that promise.

Back in the cargo bay, Deke gets kicked to the floor after telling Sinara to consider him impressed. Sinara looks up at Daisy and then the scene shifts to the others. May shouts “Now?” and Fitz responds in kind. May engages the thrusters and I can’t wait for the 20-minute discussion about airplane physics.

Back in the cargo bay, Sinara lifts in the air and heads straight for Daisy. Daisy impales her with the broken railing, though; Sinara’s theme dies down.

In the rest of Zephyr, everybody has a quiet moment as they enjoy the peace and quiet of the not-shaking anymore aircraft.

Back on the Lighthouse, Mack holds his own trigger and threatens to do it. Kasius does the same and is about to push his own red…I mean blue button telling them to remember that they did this. He does, and we see that Gunner and the others had put all of Kasius’s bombs on Level 25.

We see a lot of extras scream and shake as the bombs explode. Tess runs over with Mack, Flint, and Elena. Kasius realizes they were stalling. Mack confirms this and tells him it took a long time to get the explosives on Level 25. Kasius realizes that means they moved the people up. We see Gunner go to his wife and baby.

Elena tells them the humans worked together and Flint tells him now “they are free.” Kasius says this is over, but Mack says no it’s not, the ass kicking has just begun. He pushes his own trigger and they disappear in their own ensuing explosion.

Kasius shouts “NO!” as the camera shakes.

Tag Scene

*In what’s possibly the longest tag scene to date, Daisy tries and finally gets a hold of Mack. Deke doesn’t want to split the rock shard in half but is told by Simmons that they need it in two places at once. Coulson asks Mack if they have Flint. We learn that Kasius has a ‘Seer’ of his own.*

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Adding this because it bothered me; At one point Tess runs over to Mack, Elena, and Flint's side.
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On Jan 28, 2018 10:29 AM, "Mechelle Huber" <huber.mechelle@gmail.com> wrote:
5x09 “Best Laid Plans”

Written By: *Sorry

Directed By: *Sorry



Guys, that stupid job of mine is being more stupid than normal scheduling-wise so some scenes aren’t going to be as detailed as others, so I can fight the time.

I will mark certain scenes with a * so that you know I may have reworded some dialog or combined it and that some stuff may be missing (more than usual) and that there are gaps, but I will only do that when the information I leave out is not important to the episode.



Act 1

We open with two Kreepers stalking down a hallway, plasma guns drawn. They round a corner and rocks start flying at them but miss when they hit the walls. Gunner is throwing them. He throws one more and runs off in the other direction. The Kreepers pursue and end up coming into an ambush. Mack, Elena, Gunner, and a few others are waiting for them and open fire. Mack tells them to hold their fire after a few seconds. He then tells them “Nice work.”

Gunner wants to know why he, a guy named Gunner, got stuck throwing rocks. Mack replies, “Because you’re damn good at it.” Gunner then walks away and Elena remarks, “Enemy of my Enemy.” Mack says it puts things in perspective and that Gunner is fighting for a good reason.

Elena states, for the record, she likes Rebel Peacemaker Mack, too. He’s sexy. Mack asks, “Oh, is that right?” when Flint and some others walk towards them.

Flint: *sees the dead Kree* *gets excited* “Woah. Two more Kreepers. This is our floor now. No Blues allowed.” (So many hockey team jokes).

Mack tells Flint to slow down. They have a long way to go still. Flint walks away slowly, Elena tells Turtle Man to smile. They did good. Mack corrects her, saying they got lucky. “But now Kasius knows we’re still here. They’ll be back.”

Back in his den, Kasius just got that news: “The humans are alive? Impossible.” The Kreeper, who I presume has taken Sinara’s place in her absence, informs him that the humans killed the Vrellnexians and the Kree lost 8 soldiers. Kasius asks, “How can that be?” The Kreeper (Hek-Sel according to IMDB) tells him the humans have guns.

Kasius yells about where they found weapons on this cursed rock when two servitors, a male and female, are carrying a crate. The female drops her end with a loud thud. Kasius threatens her, saying if his items don’t make it onto his ship whole, neither will she. She nods, terrified and the two leave followed by Ava who is also carrying something.

Kasius grumbles about an uprising happening just as he was about to leave with the Destroyer in hand but ends up saying it’s no matter. He tells Hek-Sel to have the doctor awaken their latest acquisition. It is time to remind the humans that he is not their enemy. He is their God. (Somewhere, Loki doubled over laughing).

Cue Title Card.

A gravity storm is hitting Zephyr in an exterior shot. Coulson is busy opening panels and looking into them with a flashlight as Enoch is asking, “This Inhuman boy, Flint—you say his geokinesis is the key to building a new monolith, to your returning home?” Coulson, who didn’t actually look like he was paying attention, answers that technically Robin said that to May, but yeah, that’s the idea. Enoch asks how exactly that will work. Coulson tells him about the monolith shard and says something about its unique crystalline structure and that Flint can…but then Coulson remembers he’s not a sciencey person and cuts himself off, sighing and saying, “It’s a rock. Flint controls rocks. I don’t know.”

Enoch says they must hope that Flint stays safe while they wait out the intensifying gravity storms. He begins to say, “By my calculations,” but is cut off by Coulson who finishes the thought, while closing the panel and flipping a switch to turn it on, “It’ll last for weeks, and we need to evacuate. Right. You’ve been saying that. Kind of on repeat.”

The two then walk away and the camera cuts to the Command Center when Enoch and Coulson come in. Coulson tells everyone, “Whatever you’re doing, do it faster” and then asks how they’re lookin’.

Daisy is working with a piece of hardware the size of her hand when Fitz answers, “Terrible.” Zephyr One has been a crash site for nearly 80 years so it’s a mess.” Daisy adds that it will be a while till comms are up and running cause she’s sure generations of space rats have lived and died in here. As they talked, Coulson made his way to the front by the cockpit. Simmons chimes in by saying, “Not to ruin the mood but,” and takes a blanket off the computer station in the middle. “Avionics are online.”

Enoch had been looking towards everyone who spoke and now looks up at Coulson for clarification that they are evacuating to the caves, “Are we not?” Coulson doesn’t answer. May, standing behind Coulson, does. “Zephyr flies again, metal man.”

Enoch replies that he is made mostly of plastic and that Chronicoms do not have gender. May shoots him a look and Coulson tells him they do not have weeks. They’re gonna outrun the storm, pull the ground anchors, fly past as many roaches as they can, and land at the Lighthouse. Enoch observes that they are confident despite knowing this will surely end in their deaths. Daisy, grabbing a tool and walking back to where she had been, says they’re not gonna bury their heads in the sand while their friends are in danger.

Working at a panel behind the avionics station, there’s a burst of energy and the avionics station dies. Simmons says that rerouting must “have overloaded the MPDU.” Fitz says they need to try and bypass the subsystems and follows Simmons out of the Command Center. As thy leave, May hands Enoch a crate and orders “Plastic” to make himself useful and secure it in the back. Before he does, Enoch tells her that “plastics are quite useful (turns around and walks away) if not often appreciated.”

May stops to look at Robin’s drawings. Coulson gets closer and tells her “Sorry she had to go like that.” He asks if she wants to talk about it. May doesn’t know where to start. Coulson recounts the story about Robin telling May she was May’s daughter and saying that May will fix the world after dying (not how he said it) and says it doesn’t happen every day. May ends up saying it’s hard to believe that she was a mom. She just can’t see it. Coulson says, “I can.” Daisy joins in. “Yeah, you’re the no phone, no TV, 7;30 curfew kind of mom.” Coulson smiles and May glares. Daisy continues. “Kind of proving my point with the face.” Coulson then says for Robin’s sake, they need to make sure this world never comes to be. Daisy responds, “No matter what.”

May asks what they are going to do with Voss. Coulson says he left that up to Deke.

*Voss is in time out in his emptied storage locker when he turns around after hearing Deke’s footsteps. Deke enters with, I’m pretty sure, Grill’s gun. Deke accuses Voss of killing Owen. We learn that Owen and Voss were best friends, they always agreed to pull the team from the past but couldn’t agree on what to do when they got there because Owen thought they would come with a solution and Voss thought killing them was the solution. One day. Owen came at Voss with a knife and Voss killed him by putting the knife in his throat. Voss says, “You know he was capable of it.” Deke ends up saying it was all for nothing as he points the gun at Voss and says Voss hasn’t done a damn thing. Voss ends up shouting that they survived. They survived ten years in this hellscape and made sacrifices that Deke has no idea about, and now the people responsible are upstairs.

Voss: “We could finish it, and you want to kill me?”

The scene ends with Voss basically telling Deke that Deke isn’t a killer and that Kasius wants Quake. They should give her to him. *

At Salvage, YoYo is teaching Flint how to fire a handgun. Mack walks in and asks what’s going on. He gets the answer and then reaches over and rips the gun from Flint’s hands. Flint protests, saying the Blues will come back. Mack says when that happens, “They” will fight them. Not Flint. Flint says Mack has seen what he can do. He can help. Mack replies, “We’ll deal with it. End of discussion.” Flint says whatever man and walks away. Elena tells Mack that he knows Flint can handle himself and that he’s killed before. Mack knows that. He says now Flint is developing a taste for it. Elena says, “As long as he kills the bad guys.” Mack says Flint is not a soldier. None of these people are. Elena says they can teach them.

They fight with words until Mack says they need a plan, not a mob. Just then, Gunner enters and tells Mack Kasius has sent a messenger.

Walking through the crowd after Mack tells them to make room, Elena and Mack find that the messenger is Tess! She’s wearing a white turtle neck and doesn’t look so well.

They’re obviously a bit shocked. YoYo says, “Santo infierno…” and Mack just stares when Flint joins them. He hugs her saying her name and she seems to recoil at his touch. She looks a bit out of it but answers “I was” after Flint says he thought she was dead.

Act 2.

In Salvage, we learn that Tess fought and begged and was dragged to the Exchange where they stabbed her (“Knives are cold”). Mack tells her she’s okay. She’s safe. Tess doesn’t feel the same. Mack says she’s been put through a lot. Tess is jittery when she replies that she was dead and then screaming with her heart on fire while Kasius was there, smiling. Flint asks if Kasius is magic. Elena replies that SHIELD dealt with something like this before (So everyone knows about TAHITI-the worse kept secret ever because how does she know that?). Mack clarifies that in their time, they’ve seen Kree biology bring people back. Flint asks how that is possible and Tess answers, “Kasius said he smothered the fires of death with the blood of the eternal. That’s how he talks. It’s horrible.” Elena apologizes, copping to it being her who took Flint from the ceremony. Tess would have done it too if she could do what Elena can.

Flint is over this and suggests them getting in that elevator, going down, and kill “them” all. Mack shoots that idea down, saying they’ve been over this. Flint says “I have powers. You let me loose on this guy…” He’s interrupted by Mack who says absolutely not. Elena agrees with Flint. IF they take out Kasius this is all over. Kasius is just a man.

Tess hears this and says, “No. (pause) Kasius is a god. That’s why I’m standing here. As proof.”

Mack retorts that there is only one God, and Kasius for damn sure ain’t it.” He then fights with Elena again after she suggests her going and killing Kasius, and then killing him again if he comes back. Elena ends up remarking it wouldn’t be the strangest thing she’s ever done.

Tess stops their bickering by telling them they don’t get it. If Kasius doesn’t get what he wants, he’ll end the whole human race with the push of a button. After Flint asks, she then tells them Kasius wants Flint, everything he needs to keep breeding Inhumans, every child over the age of ten, and motivation for the Destroyer. She clarifies to Elena that Daisy is the Destroyer and that Kasius is working to get her back. Mack asks, “Motivation. You mean us?” Tess nods and says, “Or we all burn.”

We then cut back to a scene that is probably proof that Coulson is dying. He is sitting at a table with his hand off as he pokes and feels the area above his elbow and below his shoulder on his left arm. He stops when Daisy comes in and asks ‘Boss’ if everything is okay. He answers that his hand needed a little juice. Daisy walks to a desk as she says that comms are up. If they get a line of sight to the Lighthouse, they should be able to contact Mack and –crashing and rumbling. Daisy recovers from the shake and says, “The sooner the better.”

Coulson tells her the first thing they do is g downstairs, remove her inhibitor, and get her powers back. Daisy looks at him and says, “Yeah, maybe we don’t.” Coulson needs her at full strength. Daisy says he has her as an agent. Coulson starts to protest, but Daisy tells him he saw the video. She was there at everything; can they really take that chance? Coulson responds that SHIELD needs Quake. Daisy is tired of these names. If she’s not Quake, she can’t be the Destroyer of Worlds. Maybe she should just be Daisy Johnson-Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

They share a look for a second and she walks out of the room. He begins to unplug his hand’s charger saying, “Okay Phil. Back to work” as he connects it back to his arm and gets up.

*With Fitz-Simmons, Simmons wants Fitz to be careful. He keeps getting electrocuted because everything has been reconfigured and he doesn’t even know what he is looking at. Simmons looks at a tablet and then shows him saying she thinks she does. The tablet shows the plans for the next-Gen Zephyr, completes with RCS thrusters. These plans are theoretical and would be useless without artificial gravity. He opens a panel and they see tubes of Gravitonium. Simmons points out that it’s here, on the base, and everywhere. Fitz had been trying to figure out how Earth was held together. This explains it. (my words). Simmons said it would also maybe explain why it’s cracked apart. Then one thought leads to another and the two realize was that “it’s all true. Robin, May, it’s all true.” They did all of ‘this’ unless someone else just happened to come up with their same designs. They realize that this a causal loop paradox because they knew all this stuff when they built in the past because they’d already seen it. (Again, my words.) Fitz ends up saying that this is a bloody time loop. There’s nothing that they do that matters. They’re doomed to fail. Simmons sees proof that they make it back. *

Scene transitions to something big hitting the earth and sending debris flying onto the grounded Zephyr. Daisy thinks that one was a hospital. Enoch asks if this is the first time they’ve had building dropped on them. May answers, “No” as she walks past Coulson who gets excited when the avionics panel lights up. Daisy starts working with it when Deke walks in and Coulson noticed that Deke was gone a long time and asks if Voss is still among them. Deke replies that Voss knows stuff they don’t, he thought they might still need him.

Just then, May gets panels in the cockpit to light up (“Yes!”) and Fitz and Simmons run in. Coulson asks them if the engines are good to go. They’re about to tell him their discovery and that Zephyr has been upgraded when Zephyr shakes again and they’re all knocked around. Coulson asks if those upgrades will help them take off. Fitz starts to say ‘no’ but Coulson finishes his thought and says, “’Cause it’s time to fly!” and heads to the cockpit. May tells him to be ready to lift the ground anchors when they have ignition. Coulson goes to that panel and gets ready.

May engages the ignition and…nothing. There’s an electrical surge in the ceiling and the Zephyr’s engine may as well be a car engine when it won’t start. Coulson wants an explanation (“Talk to me, Fitz!”) and Fitz answers that the engines just blew out, so they can’t take off. Enoch takes this opportunity to once again advise that they evacuate to the caves. He’ll go first. As he gets up, another lurch knocks everyone off balance.

*Back at the Lighthouse, Mack, Elena, and Tess are still bickering. Tess tells them they need to go to Kasius. They are out of time. Mack says they are not going anywhere until they know exactly what they’re up against. Elena suggests that she go. They fight about this some more and Tess sys if they don’t go Kasius will make everyone a vacancy. When she’s done speaking, they come to panel. Mack points out that the best way for Kasius to kill them ‘with the push of a button’ is by remotely cutting their oxygen with a trigger. Elena says that is another reason t deal with Kasius quickly. Mack says to humor him and opens the panel. There’s nothing and while he goes to open the part behind the panel on the inside, Tess makes her argument again, and Elena says that Kasius could be bluffing. Tess tells her Kasius has wiped out entire floors before. Mack finally gets it to where he can see the bomb and quotes Kasius, “They’ll all burn.”

It’s a bomb on the O2 lines to the whole floor. If there’s one on this line, there must be one connected to every line on every human floor. There must be hundreds. Flint says Kasius could kill them in a flash. Mack corrects him, “Not just kill. Incinerate.” *

Act 3

Deke is packing a knapsack. Zephyr is jolted again so he says, “Time’s up” and hands it to one of two randos. They leave, passing Daisy who joins him. She tells him he’s finally starting to get a hold of this whole good-guy thing. Deke reflects on the timing of this (in time for the sky to fall) and asks what made her say that. She tells him, “Voss. You let him live.” He says that doesn’t mean he’s good. Maybe he’s spineless. She says killing is never the better option.

Deke replies, “If it can prevent more pain, maybe. I’m sure you’ve done it.” Daisy gives him a look as he goes to a bed and grabs stuff and comes back and tells her about his dad. He could be very violent, but only when he needed to be. You learn that in the Lighthouse. “A life spent, a life earned.” Daisy asks, “Never a life saved?” which is Deke’s point. Deke then asks, “Shouldn’t I be able to pull the trigger if I think that person could do more harm?” Daisy doesn’t think Voss is a threat to anyone but her. Deke then gets a hold of himself and says, “No, you’re right” and goes to leave, but before he does, he gives Daisy one more pointed look.

Scene cuts to a small scene where we see people getting ready to go into the caves. One guy is having his hands tied for some reason(?) as Deke comes in and tells another to go as far into the caves as they can and that they’ll be right behind them.

Then the scene changes to Coulson going to open Voss’s time-out cage. He’s brought handcuffs. Voss asks if he’s here to “waste” him for good. Coulson says that isn’t how he rolls and opens the cage. He steps back warning Voss to not push his luck and pulls out a gun, telling him he’s going into the caves and orders him to turn around. Voss listens to the command and puts his hands behind his back. Voss tells him that’s why he fails. He’s not willing to do what has to be done. Coulson says, clearly, he hasn’t read Coulson’s file and they’re not in the habit of killing unarmed people. (Unless they’re Ward.)

Voss turns around and says that killing Robin wasn’t easy. She was a friend. He finishes his thought saying, “You seem to be just fine with the continents you’ll let die.” Coulson asks what makes Voss certain that they cause it. Voss answers, “History. There was a light in the sky. Aliens is what I heard. SHIED tried to stop it and failed. Brought Hell to Earth. (Which time, Voss?)” Coulson responds by saying as that as cryptic prophecies go, Voss would give Robin a run for her money. Voss leans closer and tells him that was from Robin. It was the start and then “your girl finished it. Sadly, you’ll see for yourself.”

At some point, Deke entered and there’s another impact with the Zephyr. All three men are shaken but keep their balance. Deke says they need to go and grabs Voss and takes him out of the room with Coulson starting to follow with the same suspicious look he had in ‘Turn, Turn, Turn’ when he watched Ward go off with Hand and Garrett.

In the hallway, after we stop seeing Coulson in the background, Voss asks if Deke is waiting to get Daisy alone. Deke tells him to shut his trap. He’s not doing anything to anyone except maybe Voss. Deke hands Voss over to someone else as Voss is saying that Deke isn’t like them, he’ll do what’s right. By then, Coulson has caught up and tells Deke that now’s the time, he should go too. Deke says no. he’s come this far, he needs to see it through.

Back at Salvage, Mack is telling the rest of the rebellion that they have an impossible choice. He has the leaders of the different floors gathered and tells them he needs them with ‘us’. The bomb he’s holding took him all of an hour to disconnect, but it can’t be disabled, and it triggered remotely. He stops holding the bomb up and says Kasius’s demands must be met. His audience groans and sighs. They’re not happy with this news. Gunner voices his concern the loudest saying, “You want us to hand our kids to that lunatic? Hell no!” Elena says even if they were crazy enough to do that, they couldn’t trust Kasius to hold up his end of the bargain. Gunner yells, “Then we fight! Take him out!”

This riles up the crowd. Mack says it’s suicide, he’d burn them all but that doesn’t settle them down. So, Mack yells, “LISTEN!” which shuts them up. Mack continues, “YoYo and I are turning ourselves over to him. Gunner responds that Kasius will kill them, but is told maybe, or maybe they get close enough to take him out of the picture. Mack says there’s no other way. He adds that they won’t see them again but if they succeed, their children will be safe. Elena tells them the most important thing is that they keep their heads down and keep working.

The scene transitions to Tess and Flint in a corridor. Flint is pacing as Tess says tells him Kasius is insane, if they fail, he’ll invent new ways to punish them, to make them suffer. Flint tells her not to go to back and that he could sneak her on a different floor, Tess responds that they have nowhere to run. Flint can’t lose her again. He doesn’t have anyone else. They hug. Mack and Elena walk in.

Tess says she thinks he does and walks away. Flint turns to Mack and Elena and tries to get them to let him go with them, let him fight. Mack puts his hand on Flint’s shoulder and says there are other ways to fight. Remember what he said. Elena and Flint hug with Elena saying, “These people need you now.”

Back with the others, the gravity storm is getting worse and we see there are lines strewn across Zephyr on the outside (the anchors?). On the inside, in the Command Center, they are being knocked around still and Daisy says Z-One can’t take much more of this. Simmons says they should hope that “it’s here at all after the storm.” A thud knocks her and Daisy both onto a cot.

Camera pans to Enoch who informs them that the sensation of death is one that he has to experience. May says, through gritted teeth, that maybe she can help him with that.

Just then Coulson and Deke walk in and Coulson shouts that almost everyone is gone. “Let’s move!”

May hears this and starts to pack quickly, grabbing the carved robin. When she turns around with it in her palms, it floats in the air for a few seconds and then drops. This gives Simmons an idea and she tells them to cut the anchors. Deke asks if she hit her head. Simmons restates her statement: “Cut the ground anchors. Let a gravity wave take us. That’s how we get in the air.” May yells back that they can’t fly without engines. Simmons replies that maybe they don’t have to.

Coulson then calls Simmons’ name and moves to get closer to her. Simmons moves in kind and tells him, “The upgrades—Zephyr One has Reaction Control System thrusters, meaning capable of maneuvering in space.” Fitz then chimes in adding that if they can get high enough, they can break through Earth’s diminished gravity. They could fly in space straight to the Lighthouse.

Deke yells “No!” and goes on asking if that could actually work. Coulson is quiet as he watches FitzSimmons do their whole ‘talk science to each other thing’ as they rattle off all things that can’t happen for it to work and they finish saying, if they don’t do this, that, or the other thing, they’re in. They finish with a fist bump. Daisy says, “same” and Deke says he used to be really good at self-preservation

Coulson turns around and asks May if she can pilot them through a gravity storm. She makes a face and Daisy points it out saying, “Another mom face.” Coulson says to May, “You can do this.” And then says to everyone, “We can do this.”

Scene cuts to two guys trying to open Zephyr’s side door. One guy tells the other guy to put his back into it. They get it open and someone else comes in. They tell the person that they’re going the wrong way. They have to get underground. The person stands aside and the two leave. One of them tell the person that they’re on their own. The person takes off their mask and goggles and we learn that the person is Sinara.

Act 4

Kasius, while sitting alone in the viewing area of the Crater, is told that his messenger has returned. Kasius says, “Wonderful. Send them in.” He turns around and frowns when he sees Tess is alone. It appears he did not properly warn Tess of the consequences of her failure. Tess is shifting her weight from one foot to the other and looking down. She’s terrified. Tess apologizes and says they wouldn’t come. Kasius says that maybe she should burn along with the rest of her kind for coming empty handed. Tess shows him what’s in her hand and says she’s alone but not empty handed. She’s holding a vial of blood and a Terrigen crystal. Kasius takes them from her and asks she got those. She tells him she gave them his message. They insisted on sending one back.

Scene cuts to the (now it really is the TAHITI lab) lab and we see dead Kree as Mack cocks shotgun axe. Tess’s voiceover tells Kasius that they’re holding Kasius’s research floor until he comes and meets them.

The camera back on Kasius, he says he won’t meet them. He’ll send a battalion to grind their bones to dust. Tess tells him that’s “the thing. If you don’t meet them, they’ll burn your ability to breed another Inhuman.” The camera cuts to Elena and Mack putting a bomb on a wagon filled with stuff from the lab. Tess adds, “With the push of a button. That’s how they wanted me to say it.” Kasius grabs her throat and begins to choke her. He changes his mind, however and lets her go. She falls to the floor and Kasius walks away and tells the guard to bring her.

Scene cuts to Zephyr. Coulson is walking in the Command Center when a panel falls from the ceiling and hits him on the side of the face, knocking him onto the avionics panel. Daisy saw it and runs to him followed by Deke who sees the damage and says that is definitely going to get infected. Daisy asks him if he’s okay. Coulson answers as he feels the wound and says he’s been worse, but he’s been better too. Coulson walks around the computer station and sits down next to Enoch who is telling them that as the gravitational forces accelerate, their chances of implosion are rapidly increased.

May rushes as fast as she can to look at Coulson’s face, but he waves he gives her a thumb up and May commands Enoch to tell her his primary function again. He does as Coulson puts on his harness. May says “More observing, less sharing” and heads to the cockpit. Fitz and Simmons come in. Fitz announces that thrusters and artificial gravity are ready. They’ll have about 10 minutes of power to both. Simmons shouts to not fire the thrusters until they’re at the very edge of the atmosphere or they will most certainly die. As they say all this, they are buckling themselves in. May says “Great! Everybody, buckle in.” We see everyone do just that (and Fitz even checks to see if Simmons harness is tight).

May goes to a panel and switches it. All lights turn green except for the anchor indicator lights. The anchors are stuck. They can’t lift off. Daisy undoes her harness and says she’s on it. Deke follows her.

At the Lighthouse, Mack and YoYo are pushing a wagon with the lab stuff. YoYo tells him not to look at her like that. They agreed to do this. Mack says, “Yeah, as long as they keep their heads.” Elena says they’re not the ones who’ll lose their heads. Mack replies that there is no way to know how Kasius activates his explosives, so until they see the controls…He is cut off by Elena who quotes him, “Don’t do anything rash, stay calm, and don’t kill anyone, Yo-Yo.’ Yes, I remember many of your stern warnings.”

Mack says that’s good because she doesn’t exactly do well around people like this as he lines the hallway with a wire from the bomb. Elena basically replies that no she doesn’t do well around evil men who kidnap and torture defenseless women and children. Mack hopes Flint is alright. They put a lot on him today. Elena points out that the people like him, if anyone can keep them together it’s him. Mack says he’s a kid. She says that she wasn’t much older when she ‘started out’. “He’ll be fine. You know I’m right.” They hear a door open and Mack looks at her quickly and says, “Please.” She turns to the hallway and says, “No promises.”

We see the Kree enter with Tess. Kasius is holding his nose as if he doesn’t like the smell. Mack says that isn’t what he pictured. Kasius recognizes YoYo. “How peculiar.” She calls him a space mime. Mack holds the trigger high and says, “Nobody moves!”

Kasius says they think they are invincible, but in the end, they will submit. Mack orders Kasius to give them the controls to his explosives upstairs or his Inhuman making days are over. Kasius tells them to throw themselves at his feet so he will consider bringing them back after having them slaughtered.

This makes Elena laugh. Mack glares at her and then she tells Kasius that they are not scared of him. She accuses him of hiding behind stronger men and forcing them to do his bidding. She calls him a coward. As he does, we see Tess look at Kasius in the background as she plans her next move. Kasius calls it ironic that they would trade Inhumans for humans when that very deal was brokered ages ago. He then says the one defining trait of their kind is that they will always turn on one another.

Back on Zephyr, Daisy makes her way to the cargo bay as a camera operator obviously shakes the camera. We see Deke behind her as she goes to a panel and flips a switch from some struggle. Turning around, she is struck by Sinara. Deke hides. Sinara tells Daisy that Kasius misses her. A big impact with Zephyr knocks them around again and some stuff falls on Deke.

A few seconds later, Zephyr breaks free and flies in the air.

Act 5

Sinara and Daisy’s fight becomes a zero-grav fight. We cut to the rest of Zephyr, where May is struggling to control the aircraft and stuff starts to shift and break free from the walls as an alarm blares. Fitz yells to May to hit the gravity. She does, and we see Sinara and Daisy fall face first on the upper deck of the cargo bay. They fight as Deke tries to reach for a box. Eventually, the railing breaks and they end up on the lower cargo hold deck.

Scene cuts back to May who is struggling even more. Camera pans to Coulson and Enoch. Enoch would begin vomiting right now if he had a stomach. (So why did you have food in your house, then?)

Coulson then shouts, “Thrusters!? Talk to me, Fitz!” and looks over at Fitz-Simmons. Fitz says they are not high enough. Simmons apologizes for this terrible idea.

Back with the standoff at the Lighthouse, YoYo tells Kasius that he loves forcing their choices and asks what it’s like to be on the other side for once. Kasius tells them that any minute now Sinara will secure the Destroyer and they will have no choice but to surrender.

Back on Zephyr, that hasn’t happened yet as Sinara and Daisy are still fighting. As they fight. We see Deke working to get to the crate and trying to get it open.

Back at the Lighthouse, Kasius tells Mack and Elena to stand down or experience death like Tess many, many times. Mack asks him if he knows he’s a real piece of work. Kasius answers that he is a god to be feared and that humans beg to be ruled and that without him, Humans would have perished long ago. Mack guesses he’s not a New Testament guy because vengeance and torment are tools of the Devil. Elena adds, “And of the weak.”

Kasius replies with “You want a Devil…” and Elena ends up telling him he’s no god, no devil. He’s just a cruel, sad, little blue man. She asks why they don’t skip to the part where she ends this?

Back on Zephyr, Daisy makes her way up the ladder after Sinara tells her she isn’t supposed to kill her but oh, well. Sinara starts to go up it too but is caught by the claw things that caught May and Enoch. Deke pulls her down and Deke says he knew he would regret this as they begin to fight.

At the Lighthouse, Kasius tells Elena to spare the theatrics because she would dare make such a brazen attempt with so many lives on the line. We then hear Flint tell him he really does talk funny. Elena smiles as Flint joins them. Mack asks if it’s done. Flint nods and asks if he gets to. fight now.

Now that they are all there, Kasius shows them the controls and tells them to surrender or make their play. Elena chooses play. A forcefield blocks her attempt to get to Kasius though. Kasius ends up saying he promised suffering. Now it’s time to make good on that promise.

Back in the cargo bay, Deke gets kicked to the floor after telling Sinara to consider him impressed. Sinara looks up at Daisy and then the scene shifts to the others. May shouts “Now?” and Fitz responds in kind. May engages the thrusters and I can’t wait for the 20-minute discussion about airplane physics.

Back in the cargo bay, Sinara lifts in the air and heads straight for Daisy. Daisy impales her with the broken railing, though; Sinara’s theme dies down.

In the rest of Zephyr, everybody has a quiet moment as they enjoy the peace and quiet of the not-shaking anymore aircraft.

Back on the Lighthouse, Mack holds his own trigger and threatens to do it. Kasius does the same and is about to push his own red…I mean blue button telling them to remember that they did this. He does, and we see that Gunner and the others had put all of Kasius’s bombs on Level 25.

We see a lot of extras scream and shake as the bombs explode. Tess runs over with Mack, Flint, and Elena. Kasius realizes they were stalling. Mack confirms this and tells him it took a long time to get the explosives on Level 25. Kasius realizes that means they moved the people up. We see Gunner go to his wife and baby.

Elena tells them the humans worked together and Flint tells him now “they are free.” Kasius says this is over, but Mack says no it’s not, the ass kicking has just begun. He pushes his own trigger and they disappear in their own ensuing explosion.

Kasius shouts “NO!” as the camera shakes.

Tag Scene

*In what’s possibly the longest tag scene to date, Daisy tries and finally gets a hold of Mack. Deke doesn’t want to split the rock shard in half but is told by Simmons that they need it in two places at once. Coulson asks Mack if they have Flint. We learn that Kasius has a ‘Seer’ of his own.*