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

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

A team centered around people with powers?

Seems I might just get my team after all.

Thousands of years ago,

an Inhuman was born on this planet

that was destined to rule it,

That others were consumed with dread,

and so they banished it from the Earth.

Hydra was founded

with the sole purpose of engineering its return.

He saved my life,

and I never would have survived without him.

Do you love him?

- Yes. - I can't hate him.

Why else would you fall for him? He did everything right.

And you dove

through a hole in the universe for me!

You're not Will.

Will died saving Jemma... from me.

Now you know how it feels, Coulson...

to watch someone you care for bleed out right in front of you.

And now I'm coming to put you down.

It's over, Ward.

Malick was right.

This is all meant to be.

I am part of a grand plan.

This can't be easy.

It's fine.

Can I ask, why here?

I want him to see where it happened.

Besides, I wasn't about to give him the location of our base.

And apparently, he didn't want to invite us to his house.

All clear.

- Mr. President. - Director Coulson.

Thank you for meeting me.

Long overdue.

Rosalind spoke highly of you.

She believed that I should be working with S.H.I.E.L.D.

I did always value her judgment.

I'll miss her.

I assume we're not here to share memories of a fallen friend.

This... this problem...

Rosalind said you called them Inhumans?

Heads of state calling, not sure what's happening.

Watchdog agencies hurling accusations.

Fox News won't shut up.

I don't need to tell you how delicate the situation is,

but we have to do something.

With all due respect, Mr. President,

we are doing something.

You're doing good.

I'm not great at projecting authority.

It's nice to talk Spanish, though.

Reminds me of home.

Do you miss it?

Especially Sundays.

Mom cooks on Sundays.

And you?

You have people?

Sort of. Not really.

Colonel Ramon.

I speak English, if it makes this easier.

It does. Thank you.

This way to my office.

We're following up a report.

Your officers were attacked by a powered assailant?

Yes. We're already overwhelmed by the guns, drugs,

and kidnappings, and now these things.

Are they really aliens?

It's a little bit more complicated than that.

But like everyone else, there are good ones and bad ones.

But when they are bad, we are powerless to stop them.

That convoy was loaded with weapons

that were supposed to help us fight whatever this is.

And now weapons are gone.

But we're here.

We've got a team on the ground, and we're here to help.

I don't know how it is that your agency still exists,

nor do I want to know,

but I appreciate your help.

Does that mean you're reauthorizing S.H.I.E.L.D.?

The public has a short memory but not that short.

The image of Helicarriers crashing down

on the nation's capital is hard to forget.

Then why is this meeting happening

if S.H.I.E.L.D. doesn't exist?

Because I need you to keep doing what you're doing.

Privately.

Publicly, the ATCU will still be the face

of my administration's response to advanced threats.

I'll appoint a new head to the agency,

one who understands they answer to you.

So we're your black-ops response.

Isn't black ops where you feel most comfortable?

I certainly prefer it to bureaucracy.

Okay, then.

We'll keep doing what we do,

and you'll keep pretending we don't exist.

Exactly.

- One last thing. - Mm-hmm.

Gideon Malick.

I can't help you.

He ordered this hit.

He's Hydra.

Even if you can prove any of that,

Gideon Malick has a stake in almost every country's economy.

He advises world leaders, he served on the World Council,

he spent a lifetime and a fortune building influence.

I can't pull that thread.

But you can let him walk free?

Rosalind bled to death right here.

Malick may have blood on his hands...

but my hands are tied.

Yours are not.

Is there any intel you're willing to give?

Never spent enough time with the man to get in his head.

Listen, I'm aware of your sacrifices.

I thank you for your service.

I'll be in touch when I've named a new head to the ATCU.

Sorry he didn't give you an angle to go at Malick.

Actually, he may have.

I've seen this before.

Protests in Beirut.

Urban rioting 101.

Child's play compared to the real issue -

Powers, wrong hands, again.

This could be something.

An entire armory's worth of military might

nicked from a police van,

right under the nose of the police

in less than four minutes.

The two of us, trained, experienced...

We can pull this off.

But all it takes is one tainted fish taco, and pff.

Unfair advantage, really.

Transmission starting now.

No offense intended.

Yeah, no, it's great, being hunted, feared.

It's a blast.

Metal scraping on an urban street...

A million and one possibilities.

Fitz?

I hate to bother you, but is there something I'm not seeing?

No.

You're right. It's, um... inconclusive.

Copy that.

So, as far as the police on the scene believe,

whoever attacked them was invisible.

Well, we've seen weirder.

Invisibility... Imagine the possibilities.

What are you imagining?

Nothing fun.

Get used to it.

We can't put the Terrigen genie back in the bottle.

Powers are the new normal.

I think you're just jealous.

Damn right I am.

Tell me you didn't try one of those little fish-oil pills.

I had my fingers crossed for x-ray vision.

I was just curious.

I wasn't the only one.

I mean, I-I thought about it.

I didn't actually do it.

Rehab was a bitch.

Man, you two deserve each other.

Let's fan out, cover more ground.

Pretty nifty magic trick you did there.

Manos. Arriba.

You'd think three years' high school Spanish...

All right, all right. Don't do anything stupid.

We're just here to...

How do you lose someone as big as Mack?

I don't know.

Same way one loses a truckload of weapons.

Well, good thing a grocery store down the street

is security-conscious.

Here we go.

Who's he looking at?

W-what did we just watch?

How accelerated, exactly?

Approximately 6 meters in a thirtieth of a second

that one frame of video is exposed.

So, very.

Well, catching her won't be easy.

I'll reconfigure the containment module,

- if we can even get her in there. - Thanks.

So, you do that remotely?

Exactly. The poly-tectic material

then adapts to the powers we're dealing with.

A necessity since Inhuman powers are so random.

Not true.

I'm sorry?

Powers aren't random.

We were taught that each is given to fill

an evolutionary need at the time.

Are you being serious?

To create equilibrium within the species.

Yin yang and all that.

At least, that's what we were taught.

Huh.