Yeah. I'm aware that we rolled the dice with Coulson, and I still believe that we need him for this, but I will admit that I let my emotions get the best of me. I thought that Coulson was the only one who could keep us all on the same page. You would say that's proof that I can't do the job, that I shouldn't lead. Well, I agree. The truth is, I can't hold the team together. But he can. Coulson wants me to call the shots in his absence. Well, that's my decision. Mack should call the shots. He has the biggest heart. I mean, physically, but also, you know... You are our moral center. And, look, I never want to stop being a soldier. He's a general we can all rally behind. Anyone who thinks I'm 100% right about this, raise your hand? :[Everyone raises their hands.]
[Enters the room] Couldn't have said it better myself.
SimmonsOh, thank god.
Hold the applause. She didn't go through that for nothing. Time to suit up. So what do we do?
Remember how good it felt to walk in here when we first got back? The Zephyr has been the one place we've been able to call home these last few years.
I'll always miss the Bus.
I wish I would've known you guys back then.
Simmons
We were different people back then.
I spent a lot of years– Sorry. I've lived a life– surrounded by heroes. None bigger than all of you. Since the day you joined, same as anyone in the line of duty– heroes, because you– because we sign up to lose each other. To get close to good people– and have them taken away. We've all suffered losses. Never lose sight of that.
I never forget those we've lost.
Yeah. That's why we're putting that badge up in the cockpit. To never forget.
You don't have to forget. But you have to move on.
Simmons
No. With respect, sir, you're wrong. We don't move on. We hold that place in our heart, we close it off, we lock the door, we visit from time to time, but we don't move on. Even after we say goodbye.
[Under the influence of hallucinogens]
Do you remember when we first met?
Simmons
Yeah. You lived in a van.
Simmons
And it really smelled.
Simmons
Yeah. We called it the Fartmobile. You had, You had big hair.
You had big nerd face. What house are you in, hm? Gryffindor?
Simmons
Uh, Ravenclaw. Girl, please.
Simmons
[Waves a straw] Expecto Patronum! [Hallucinates a miniature Fitz in a monkey costume balancing on the straw] Hello, little monkey Fitz.
[Under a table, still under the influence of hallucinogens]
Simmons
Hey, I think my parents are mice.
Simmons
I'm sorry for dragging you across the universe.
Oh, no, don't be. It's good. It's only made us closer.
Simmons
I just miss Fitz so much.
Aw, yeah. I'm sorry. I wish I had my own Fitz. Well, not Fitz, but, you know...
Simmons
No, I know. You've had just awful luck in that department. It's so sad. But you are so strong now and so confident. I'm so proud of you.
Really? It means so much coming from you.
Simmons
You just mean so much. You're my best friend.
Simmons
Your skin is so soft.
[Later, after emerging from under the table]
Simmons
P-Pardon me, sir, but I have reason to believe that my husband, sorry, uh, my future husband is behind that door.
DDealer
And what reason is that?
Simmons
Uh, the the the dolphin told me in a secret signal only I can hear that was meant just for me.
There is no hope, only loss. Decommissioned. Hunted. I have become a cautionary tale used to steer children away from a life of crime and excess.
Would it be rude to turn him off? His constant complaining is giving me a headache.
Yeah, well, you are the Puff-Head who got high and shot up our super-threatening fuse box, so...
Never mind. Sorry I was wrong. The source of the headache is Piper. Definitely Piper.
Poor Fitz. Though now I walk alone, I will never forget my one and only friend.
Simmons
Your only friend? But you have us.
When last we met, I forcibly abducted your team and sent you all into a dystopian future.
Yeah, maybe not the best start, but in the end, you really came through.
Simmons
In the future, you sacrificed yourself for us. Without you, we never would have been able to get home and save Earth from destruction.
I have not seen this future myself, but there is only one logical conclusion. If anyone can solve the mysteries of time travel, it is Leopold Fitz.
Simmons
It's possible. Likely, even, but he hasn't done it yet, and the chances of him re-creating it are next to zero.
Simmons
If he did this, he'd have his whole life to figure it out and the end of the world as motivation.
AAtarah
You claim he is your best friend, but we are the last of our kind. You have knowledge that could aid us. What would motivate him to do what we need?
[Points at Simmons] Her. Put Jemma Simmons in danger, and Fitz can solve anything.
Simmons
Enoch was right. Fitz can't solve time travel without me, but not as a hostage, as his partner. Fitz and I, we're a team. Let the others leave, and I'll go with you.
No. No, no. Don't do this. We will find another way.
Simmons
But there isn't one. We're impossibly outnumbered. We're unarmed. Even if we make it to the Zephyr, there's a fleet of ships waiting to blast us into oblivion. This is the end of the road. You followed me for a year across the galaxy. I never would have made it here without you, but I won't keep putting you in danger. Thank you. Now go home.
No. Simmons, I, I can't leave you.
Simmons
You have to. Whatever happens, at least I'll be with Fitz. We'll have each other.
[Simmons is still her seven-year-old self. Fitz has figured out that they are in a mind prison.]
You are being, without a doubt, the supreme, absolute worst!
CSChild Simmons
You are a butt face!
Oh, that's charming. What is that? What are you hiding? Give it!
CSChild Simmons
No! It's our escape plan.
CSChild Simmons
Mononitrotoluene.
MNT? As in a precursor to TNT? This is a representational space. There's nothing to blow a hole in here, except the side of your brain. You're better off cooking up some cocaine or unicorn tears.
CSChild Simmons
I don't have a memory of either of those things to pull from. My supplies were limited.
How are you with spectral theory or eigenvalues?
CSChild Simmons
I'm still learning integrals.
Oh, are you? Well, it looks like someone's only gonna have two PhDs by the time they're 17, doesn't it?
CSChild Simmons
Time travel is science fiction, stupid!
Oh, grow up! You're the one that said it was possible, you little... Mm. Grow up. Just literally grow up. This is an adult problem. You and I are supposed to be unstoppable. Well, if you won't help me, I could turn to somebody else, couldn't I? I could imagine anything I want in this room. I could boot up an LMD. Maybe AIDA. She could really handle the computations...
Simmons
[Back to being an adult] Don't you dare.
[Meeting Coulson for the first time]
The powers that be have also recommended...
I told you. We're getting transferred to one of the poles.
Simmons
Shut up.
...have also recommended you for my team.
Simmons
This is an honor. Thank you for this opportunity.
Yeah, we would love the chance to discuss it and think about it more, I think, probably, alone.
Of course. Look. I know the field isn't for everyone. Some people want to remain behind the scenes. I get it. But to be out there, seeing the lives you're changing, you end up being the one most changed by it.
Simmons
I found him so inspiring that day. You still needed a push.
Yeah, well, look at what happened because of it. What was that thing you kept on saying? Um, Oh, yes, that's it. "Chin up, Fitz. There's nothing to be afraid of."
[Arguing]
You know, you hurt me just as much as I hurt you. I was dying on the inside when you left, abandoned me after my brain injury.
Simmons
Hey, that is not fair.
And then you get taken away by some rock, only to fall in love with some bloody astronaut...
Simmons
I was alone on a desert planet.
...who turned out to be Hive, by the way. Oh, and also, are we sure that that happened after you slept with him?
Simmons
Oh, my God.
Because, hey, the jury's still out on that one.
Simmons
Oh, you want to go there? At least he was a person! You built a robot girlfriend...
Well, that's bending the truth.
Simmons
...and, left to your own devices, turned into a Nazi dictator. Wait, is that is that bending the truth? No! No, it's not!
Yeah, and I suppose you’re the one that keeping me together.
Simmons
It would seem so. Yes.
Holier than thou, proving my point!
Simmons
Because you want to build everything your brain comes up with, so you can couch it in “helping mankind, helping friends.” But the Framework revealed the truth… it’s all ego.
Simmons
Yeah.
I would love to deal with ego.
Simmons
Would you?
Simmons
Why?
‘Cause your id’s out there chewing Mack’s head off.
Simmons
Oh, really? [Simmons looks outside the containment pod window]
We’re the same, Jemma. You just like to repress your bad thoughts and pretend that it’s not happening. Y-Your ego likes to pretend you’re Jane Goodall, saving helpless, little creatures like me.
[Preparing to face the manifestations of their dark sides]
We're gonna have to face those things out there. And we might actually die trying.
Simmons
Unstoppable together?
[They leave the containment pod and see their dark sides making out with each other]
Simmons
Okay. O-Okay.
[Their dark sides disappear just out of the camera frame apparently doing things that cannot be shown on broadcast television in the United States.]
[Mesmerized by what he is seeing] That is abso... Whoa. Oh. Oh, wow. Didn't know you liked that.
Simmons
[Also mesmerized] Didn't know you'd do that.
Simmons
Fitz, we're obviously made for each other, and, I'm sorry I can't give you back the time you missed. But I can give you me. Now and forever.
The whole universe couldn't keep me from you, Jemma Simmons. I am the luckiest man on any planet.
KKitson
My grandfather came to this planet with 20 Yookalian slaves and a dream.
KKitson
He built this planet's original settlement with their bare hands. A few ramshackle modules for his games, a small dome for his brothel, and then he kept building so that I, son and grandson of Kitson, would one day have an empire. And you put all that at risk. Using a synthetic to cheat. Bringing bounty hunters in to wreak havoc at my house of games.
Simmons
Surely a decent soul like you can understand. Somebody who's so proud of his own home.
KKitson
Decency doesn't put food into the mouths of my wives. No, I'm a gambler. And I'm also a man who will deal out a punishment.
Okay, okay. Just There's no need for that. We can work. I'm an engineer.
Simmons
Yeah. We both know alien languages. I'm a botanist, a chemist...
Yeah, and Enoch, here, is a super-advanced computer, so, we can be of use. Yeah. There's no need to kill us.
KKitson
Killing you is the use I have for you.
KKitson
Killing a synthetic is a wasted sport. He'll be sent to the brothels.
I do not know what I am feeling.
KKitson
You know what? I have something very special in mind for you Terrans. Hope you're not too attached to your heads.
[Simmons, Fitz, and another Gambler are in guillotines]
Simmons
After everything, this can't possibly be how we come to an end. No one would believe it.
GGambler
House always wins, don't it?
KKitson
Are you ready for a deadly game from the early days of Kitson? Three contestants put their lives in the balance. Now, who among them is strong enough to keep their blades from falling? Blades made from Veroovian steel the densest metal in the galaxy. The player that cannot hold the weight, will decapitate. The bets are in! Let the fun begin! Who will be the first to die? The scoundrel who tried to steal my most coveted brothel worker?
GGambler
Guilty as charged.
KKitson
Or will it be one of the Terrans? Criminals wanted for nefarious intergalactic deeds.
GGambler
[To Simmons] If I get out of this, I could use the company of a pretty lady.
[Nearly dropping the blade] Hey! Hey! Hey! Knock it off!
[Fitz and Simmons notice Enoch walking away]
Hey. Hey! Enoch. Where you going?
My mission is complete. The Earth was saved, and you have secured passage home. I have a new mission to find a home for my people.
Wait, you're just gonna leave without saying goodbye?
You humans have a saying. "Goodbyes suck." I thought I'd spare you.
Simmons
Thank you for everything, Enoch.
Thanks, Enoch. Even though you did totally disrupt my life.
[Hands Fitz a communicator] "Don't be afraid to call." Another of your expressions.
Yes, but use it only as needed, for I will not miss you very much, Leopold Fitz. I am bluffing.
Simmons
Well, so there was actually three monoliths, but they were destroyed. I thought it better not to mention anything before we arrive back on Earth.
How did they get on the base? And how were they destroyed?
Simmons
It's complicated, but they created these anomalies. But it did provide us with a beautiful wedding venue.
Simmons
You were, and you were dashing.
Oh, yeah, and brave, and I sacrificed myself for the lives of others. Well, looks like you married Mr. Perfect, doesn't it?
Simmons
Are you jealous of yourself?
Yep. Yes, I am. 'Cause he'll always be your first husband. I'm only ever gonna be the replacement.
Simmons
You do realize how ridiculous this sounds?
Yep, absolutely. [Pause] Have fun on your wedding night?
Simmons
Ohh! It was wonderful. I mean, obviously, you know, it will be nothing compared to the second time.
What? I wasn't enough the first time?
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