[Simmons is still her seven-year-old self. Fitz has figured out that they are in a mind prison.]
FitzYou are being, without a doubt, the supreme, absolute worst!
CSChild Simmons
You are a butt face!
Fitz
Oh, that's charming. What is that? What are you hiding? Give it!
CSChild Simmons
No! It's our escape plan.
Fitz
Give it now! What is it?
CSChild Simmons
Mononitrotoluene.
Fitz
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.
Fitz
How are you with spectral theory or eigenvalues?
CSChild Simmons
I'm still learning integrals.
Fitz
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!
Fitz
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...
[Back to being an adult] Don't you dare.
[Meeting Coulson for the first time]
The powers that be have also recommended...
Fitz
I told you. We're getting transferred to one of the poles.
...have also recommended you for my team.
Fitz
The f-field team?
This is an honor. Thank you for this opportunity.
Fitz
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.
I found him so inspiring that day. You still needed a push.
Fitz
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]
Fitz
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.
Fitz
And then you get taken away by some rock, only to fall in love with some bloody astronaut...
I was alone on a desert planet.
Fitz
...who turned out to be Hive, by the way. Oh, and also, are we sure that that happened after you slept with him?
Fitz
Because, hey, the jury's still out on that one.
Oh, you want to go there? At least he was a person! You built a robot girlfriend...
Fitz
Well, that's bending the truth.
...and, left to your own devices, turned into a Nazi dictator. Wait, is that is that bending the truth? No! No, it's not!
Fitz
Yeah, and I suppose you’re the one that keeping me together.
Fitz
Holier than thou, proving my point!
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.
Fitz
Oh, ego?
Fitz
I would love to deal with ego.
Fitz
Guess why?
Fitz
‘Cause your id’s out there chewing Mack’s head off.
Oh, really? [Simmons looks outside the containment pod window]
Fitz
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]
Fitz
We're gonna have to face those things out there. And we might actually die trying.
[They leave the containment pod and see their dark sides making out with each other]
Fitz
What the hell?
[Their dark sides disappear just out of the camera frame apparently doing things that cannot be shown on broadcast television in the United States.]
Fitz
[Mesmerized by what he is seeing] That is abso... Whoa. Oh. Oh, wow. Didn't know you liked that.
[Also mesmerized] Didn't know you'd do that.
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.
Fitz
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.
Fitz
That's inspiring.
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.
Fitz
We just want to go home.
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.
Fitz
Okay, okay. Just There's no need for that. We can work. I'm an engineer.
Yeah. We both know alien languages. I'm a botanist, a chemist...
Fitz
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.
Fitz
Is it?
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]
After everything, this can't possibly be how we come to an end. No one would believe it.
Fitz
I would.
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.
Fitz
[Nearly dropping the blade] Hey! Hey! Hey! Knock it off!
[Fitz and Simmons notice Enoch walking away]
Fitz
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.
Fitz
Wait, you're just gonna leave without saying goodbye?
You humans have a saying. "Goodbyes suck." I thought I'd spare you.
Thank you for everything, Enoch.
Fitz
Thanks, Enoch. Even though you did totally disrupt my life.
Fitz
Come here. [They hug]
[Hands Fitz a communicator] "Don't be afraid to call." Another of your expressions.
Fitz
This will contact you?
Yes, but use it only as needed, for I will not miss you very much, Leopold Fitz. I am bluffing.
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.
Fitz
How did they get on the base? And how were they destroyed?
It's complicated, but they created these anomalies. But it did provide us with a beautiful wedding venue.
Fitz
Guess I had to be there.
You were, and you were dashing.
Fitz
Oh, yeah, and brave, and I sacrificed myself for the lives of others. Well, looks like you married Mr. Perfect, doesn't it?
Are you jealous of yourself?
Fitz
Yep. Yes, I am. 'Cause he'll always be your first husband. I'm only ever gonna be the replacement.
You do realize how ridiculous this sounds?
Fitz
Yep, absolutely. [Pause] Have fun on your wedding night?
Ohh! It was wonderful. I mean, obviously, you know, it will be nothing compared to the second time.
Fitz
What? I wasn't enough the first time?
When the monoliths exploded, it opened this Fear Dimension. I fought a Kree, and I saw my mother, which was horrible, and you got married in a forest a few floors down. That was nice. The other you.
Fitz
It actually manifested living things? Flesh and blood?
Yes. Coulson went in, sealed it up.
Fitz
Maybe it wasn't a dimension. Izel said the monoliths had the power to create. Now, we know that one monolith was "space", another was "time". What if the third one was "creation"?
That's where our fears came from?
Fitz
Yeah, think about it. The physical stones blew apart. That doesn't... It doesn't mean...
...Doesn't mean that the energy went away. It could... The light could just be uncontained monolith energy.
Fitz
Exactly. Exactly. We're looking for a link. That could be it.
O-Okay, so you're saying that, when Coulson went in there with it...
Fitz
It's possible that the three energies combined to create another Coulson through space and time on some other planet years ago. And he was left there when our Coulson sealed the Gravitonium device.
If that's true, he doesn't know it.
Just saying, the other you thought it was a Fear Dimension.
Fitz
Yeah, well, he wasn't the smart one.
Fitz
Maybe we could hyper-stimulate our brains with some sort of chemical, and that way, if she [Izel] possesses us, she won't be able to put us into an unconscious state.
You're suggesting we all take amphetamines.
Fitz
Yeah. Yeah, okay, fine. I can see how that would be counterproductive.
Fitz
You copied tech that you never understood in the first place, and now we've got bugger-all to show for it!
We've got bugger lots. We are close.
Fitz
[To Simmons] You said our grandson was a delight.
Oh, you know what? You are just jealous that I came up with the big solve.
Fitz
No B.S. Foundation can hide the fact that you built this company not to advance science but to get rich!
I built this company because no one liked me!
Yes, he did. I built it because I've never belonged anywhere, because the place that I'm from doesn't even exist anymore and because all of my friends are gone. And the woman that I gave lemons to thinks that I'm a loser, so I went out into the world to try and be what everybody wants me to be, and she still thinks that I'm nothing! And my best friend turned out to be a spy, and my girlfriend turned out to be a psychopath.
Snowflake was not good for you.
I was talking about Sequoia. Oh. I mean, the family that I do have wants nothing to do with me.
Deke, we care about you. We do.
You say that and you try to be nice, but you didn't even want me to know that Fitz died.
I wanted to spare you the pain.
But I could've shared that with you. I could've helped. Even my own grandparents think I'm a joke.
[Enoch, disguised as Isaiah, has just rescued Fitz and Simmons from two Chronicom hunters]
Sorry. This must be confusing, best friend. But I had to take bold action.
Fitz
Enoch?
I found that bluffing was much easier if you kill someone and take their skin. There is a second wave of Hunters coming. I have a strategy that will save your lives and the lives of your fellow Agents, but, unfortunately, time is of the essence. We must act now.
Fitz
Yeah, of course. What?
This will be the hardest thing you have ever done.
Fitz
Nothing's ever easy with you, is it?
[Dramatically] Change the natural course of your lives forever.
[They have heard this before.]
Fitz
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[One person will have to stay behind to send the rest of the team to the main timeline]
I don't know if that matters. 'Cause this is the last mission together, isn't it?
Fitz
How could you know that?
Enoch told us. Before he died.
Fitz
Yeah, that's true. In fact, no matter what the outcome, this will be the last time we're all in the same room together. Ever.
I'll stay. I belong here. I've already been given the privilege of a second chance, of meeting all you fine people. It's only right. If the Army taught me anything, it's that you can't...
[Blows a raspberry] I'll stay. First of all, I'm the one with the scientific knowledge to be able to repatch the power. Danny boy over here is still impressed by a light bulb.
That's not accurate or nice.
And second, seems like you and Daisy have a real thing going, and I just want you to be happy. [To Fitz] And third, as long as you reconnect with Nana and then, you know, connect, then maybe you'll see me again someday. And honestly, I'm kind of a rock god here, anyway.
...
Watch over little Alphie, will you? Hell, watch over all of us.
You know I will. I don't...
You don't give up on friends. I know better than anyone. Thank you for everything, Agent Shaw.
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