Fitz has been a most loyal companion. He and I have had many adventures together.
AAtarah
I am trying to save our entire race, and you are concerned about the welfare of one human. Why?
Because we have recently become best friends.
AAtarah
It seems Earth has made you soft.
I do not disagree that I have changed, but I believe it is for the better. One must change to grow.
AAtarah
I hardly recognize you anymore. The Enoch I invited into my charging pod was reckless but not a traitor.
I cannot believe I ever granted you access to my data port.
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.
It's possible. Likely, even, but he hasn't done it yet, and the chances of him re-creating it are next to zero.
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.
I've made hard choices before. Being right doesn't stop it from feeling wrong.
I know what you mean. Two years back, I got a call. Car crash.
Brain-dead, machines breathing for him. Tom didn't want that. His family fought me on it, but after a few days, I had them turn off the ventilator. They never will forgive me. It's the hardest choice I've ever made, but I took comfort in knowing it was the right one. And so should you.
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.
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.
You have to. Whatever happens, at least I'll be with Fitz. We'll have each other.
[Simmons has reverted to her seven-year-old self and fled to her childhood bedroom]
[Observing the posters on the wall] Well, you're just destined for the sciences, aren't you?
CSChild Simmons
I'm going to be a biologist and study cuttlefish. They can change their skin colors with chromatophores.
You're gonna do a lot more than that. Do you know who I am? [She nods] Well, then, you know that I'm a friend, so why did you run away? Why did you come here?
CSChild Simmons
This is where I learn the stars, memorize my chem tables, and work out problems in my head.
What kind of problems in your head?
CSChild Simmons
All kinds. My dreams float up to the stars, and my troubles are locked up tight in the music box.
Well, that's a nice little system. Is there anything troubling you now?
CSChild Simmons
[Holds a book] This one! Read me this one.
Okay. You want me to read you a bedtime story? You know, I-I think I should probably take you out of here, because this might be the madness that she [Atarah] was talking...
CSChild Simmons
[Screams] Daddy! The strange man in my room wants to abduct me and take me...
Shh-shh Shut your Shhhhhh. I'll read you the story. For the love of Pete...
CSChild Simmons
It's about a boy and his imaginary friend that are lost in the stars.
Is it, now? What's it called? [Sees that it is the Darkhold] That's not a good book. That's a bad book, bad story, very poorly written.
[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...
[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.
...have also recommended you for my team.
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.
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.
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.
...who turned out to be Hive, by the way. Oh, and also, are we sure that that happened after you slept with him?
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...
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!
Yeah, and I suppose you’re the one that keeping me together.
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.
I would love to deal with ego.
‘Cause your id’s out there chewing Mack’s head off.
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.
[They leave the containment pod and see their dark sides making out with each other]
[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.
[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.
The whole universe couldn't keep me from you, Jemma Simmons. I am the luckiest man on any planet.
So, this lady [May] was in love with this dead Coulson guy. Anyone else have a thing for him?
Yeah, I'm... Uh, this is too much. [Leaves]
Her, too, huh? Daddy issues?
You're talking about this Shrike creator that's coming. You told May it's a monster.
S.H.I.E.L.D.'s dealt with a lot of folks who thought they were gods. Just had egos. There's only one God.
Oh, I see. This is that kind of planet. One God controlling everything. Benevolent, right? To make you feel all warm inside when times get tough?
Whatever your fairy tale, I've seen gods up close, and I think you're gonna get that opportunity, too. Believe me. You're not prepared for this.
I'm prepared to protect my people from whatever's coming.
Your people? Hmm. They keep looking at me. You might want to get used to that.
Because by the end of the day, I'll be the one in charge.
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.
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.
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]
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.
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.
Prisoners give you any trouble?
Well, the big man [Jaco] seemed content on breathing his home planet's air, but the, uh the twitchy dude [Pax] wasn't too thrilled to find out, uh, we were tracking Sarge.
That's the first time I've ever heard you say that.
Call somebody a "big man".
I'm not used to going up against giants.
Well, now you know how the rest of us feel when we're talking to you. It involves a lot of looking up.
You know, I don't feel like a lot of people have been looking up to me lately.
You can't let Sarge get to you, Mack. Everybody at S.H.I.E.L.D. believes in you.
Wish I could say the same.
