Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013–…): Season 5, Episode 10 - Past Life - full transcript

The team has one final chance to return to their timeline, but their actions may have deadly consequences.

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

Do you see an Earth
that can be saved?

It's too late.
It's already been quaked apart.

We need to make sure
this world never comes to be.

Yeah. No matter what.

We found a literal piece of the puzzle.

The Monolith...
it's been fractured.

- The shard fits into the machine right here.
- This could be our way home.

Yeah, but the shard alone
isn't enough.

We need the whole Monolith.

You've seen what I can do.
All right? I can help.



You say his geokinesis is the key
to building a new Monolith.

That's the idea.

Won't matter if we can't make it
back to the Lighthouse.

Everybody buckle in!

- We spotted something that...
- Let me guess.

The Destroyer and her friends
are heading here.

- Yes, but how do you...
- Ready a squad.

Kasius, apologies,
but how did you know?

They have a seer
telling them what's to come.

Well, I have one of my own.

5x10 - Past Life.

No...

Tear the ship apart. Find them!

All clear.



Hopefully, we can say
the same for Enoch.

No lifeforms detected.

The diversion
seems to have worked.

They're still searching the ship.

Good. You're secure?

Yes. The machine will be online

by the time Flint
builds the Monolith.

Easier said than done.

So, one more time...
the machine uses the little piece

to trigger the bigger piece
through space?

Yeah, or time.

It mirrors the harmonic
resonant frequency of photons,

which can exist
out of spacetime.

Yeah, I... I hear you saying
words, but what... what do they...

If Flint can't construct the Monolith,
none of this matters.

Robin said he can, so I believe it.

We'll talk him through it
once we meet up with them.

We can't go yet. There
are still people in danger.

Coulson's on it. He's rescuing
the Inhumans right now.

But not the dead ones.

Look. When I was brought back,

I heard someone else
going through the same pain,

- the same process.
- Being revived? Who?

Some Inhuman. Has to be.

They're the only thing
Kasius values.

Look, if we don't find them, nobody
will. It's a whole other section...

Yeah, but right now, you need
to get on that trawler.

People are depending on you
to fly them up to safety.

Show me where to go, I'll go.

Tess is needed at the trawler.
You guys meet FitzSimmons.

I'll save whoever I can
and meet you at the rendezvous.

- Easy.
- Nothing about that sounds easy.

You two get that thing to Flint.

- We'll worry about survivors...
- And kill Kasius.

- Get them to safety.
- And then we kill Kasius?

When does that happen?

Because some of us aren't getting
out of here on a magic rock.

We won't leave until humanity's
in control of its future.

But in the meantime,
everyone do your job,

meet at the rendezvous point.

Mack, it's an Inhuman in pain.
I have to go.

- Elena, please...
- Look at you.

A few days ago, you were begging
for spare mushrooms.

Now you're the kid
who's saving the world.

Don't say that.

I liked it better when
I was flying under the radar.

Kid without hair...
you were never under the radar.

You'll do great.
Get back safe, okay?

Reading minds is not one of them.

Take care of the big guy.
He worries.

Shh. Shh.

I'm here.

I'm here... to care for
you as you've cared for me.

- Fix her.
- This damage is beyond repair.

You do it all the time for Inhumans,

the trash girl I sent
as my messenger. Fix her.

Terran biology is simple.
Sinara is Kree.

It won't work. You know this.

Stop defying me and fix her.

With respect, she's dead.

I don't know how to remedy
that for our kind.

Then I suggest you study
the condition more closely.

Fetch the Inhuman trainer.

Look at me, clawing at the walls
of my own mind.

I envy your sleep.

You rest while S.H.I.E.L.D.
stalks my every move.

Scavengers.

No, you're right.
They plot to destroy my enterprise

as they did the world my father
lusted after.

Tell me these scraps are not all
that was recovered from the ship.

From the old woman
you sent to the surface...

- years ago, who spoke of the prophecy.
- I remember.

She who predicted
they'd come through time.

- Yes. I think she intended them...
- To go back.

Of course.

Every word from my seer's mouth
confirms they would.

And if they're here, they have
yet to crack the world apart.

Well, picture it, Sinara.

To them, it's still lush, still whole.

Tye.

You've never seen
the Earth as it was.

My father...

who had better vision than
his race who shunned him,

called it a hidden blue gem.

He and his entire confederacy
wanted it for their own.

Gather my Inhumans,
a fighting force to crush S.H.I.E.L.D.

With them out of the past,

my father will then encounter
no resistance.

Earth waiting for his embrace.

Yes, but the remaining
Inhumans are barely trained.

My family has a tradition.

When all is lost...

you die with honor.

Drink the Odium.

It burns through the body.

All strength, no pain.

A fearsome last stand.

A brilliant flash
of light and splendor.

Go fight.

Until the last moment
when your heart bursts with rage.

If we ever get out of here...

I'm gonna tour my bike
down a very scenic highway

till the wheels melt off.

- Isn't that the thing that kids ride?
- It's a motorcycle.

Imagine a...
a rocket on two wheels...

- with a place to hold on.
- Sounds crazy.

Yeah, you'd dig it.

You know... Earth isn't
a bad place to grow up.

If you want to come...

you'd always have a home
with me and YoYo.

Yeah, well, still don't know how

I'm supposed to build
a time machine.

It's a portal, not a time machine.

And you'll build it with this.

- Let's go!
- Go, go, go!

Get the Inhumans to the trawler!

Guns, man! It's like cheating!

They shouldn't
give these to anyone

that's not a really,
really good person.

- You think there'd be a law.
- Daisy!

- What happened to you?
- Kasius freed me.

I feel no pain.

Aah!

Feel that?

You okay?

- Just a wardrobe malfunction. You?
- Yeah.

Turns out they have PCP in space.

I heard you were dead.

You look good for... dead.
I mean, I...

You don't look great, but you...
I mean, you've been

- through something, but...
- It's good to see you, too, Deke.

I've been
where you are right now.

Something like this...
changes you.

Yeah?

I keep questioning
what happened, what's real.

That's real,
and it's worth the cost.

Okay. This trawler's almost ready.
We should get to the rendezvous.

You okay flying them up
to the human levels?

I've been watching enough
to manage on my own.

I'll be back for Flint,
anyone else coming up.

Good. Now get out of here.

You were right.
We can fight back.

The ambush cost us the last
of our Inhumans.

But there's nowhere to go.
They will be caught. Trust me.

"Trust," he says, over and again.

Tye, the doctor, my royal guards...
failures, all.

- Even you, if I'm being honest.
- Sir. Sir, we need a plan.

Silence! Can't you see
we're discussing one?

I, too, have failed.

Lost Inhumans. Lost you.

The glory we sought evades us.

But if I pledge myself...

I could still give
my father everything he desired,

help elevate
the Kasius family name.

I know there's a path back to glory.

A path back to you.

My seer's knowledge has run dry...
that, or she has misled us.

Either way, it's time I used her

to send one last message
of my own.

Hello?

I'm here to help.

What's your name?

Elena.

It's good to see you.

This is a trick.

I thought the same thing when
I was standing where you are.

- This isn't real.
- I wish it were true.

An LMD or a Framework illusion...

- but it's me. I'm you.
- How? I...

I waited so long to see myself again,
still with hope in my eyes.

How are you alive?

They killed me,

brought me back
to take my blood, my DNA,

then again and again for years.

They revive me when they want,
kill me when they don't.

What? HHow? How many times?

I held on to the thought
of this moment.

- No. This is wrong.
- But this time,

when they asked me
how our team fought back,

I tried to give them
as little as I could.

But I knew you were close.

You and... Mack.

Mack. He's still alive.

Hold him for as long as you can.

What happens to Mack?
What happens?

I practiced so many times what to say.

I wanted to be better,
save you from the pain.

But seeing you...

- all the pain comes back.
- You've been here this whole time...

Stuck in the loop.

- Like you.
- The loop?

We make it back in time.

But then we bring
everything that's to come.

- I... I don't believe that.
- I know.

I don't think I did, either.

Until I was on fire,
reaching for Mack.

And then there was nothing there.

Well, you can tell me
how to stop it, right?

- How do we change it?
- I'm not sure you can.

Hello, again.
They have located me.

Repeat... they have located me.

We copy.
You sure they found you?

The evidence is highly suggestive.

We never should
have left him alone.

We're here forever if he loses
control of that machine.

Enoch, how long can you hold out?

I calculate 12 minutes.

What? That is not enough time.

That machine activates
a Monolith we haven't even built yet.

- We have to go secure the Zephyr.
- Damn it. Really?

We had to leave the machine
in the hands of some automaton?

I knew the moment
that I laid eyes on all of you

that it was gonna spell my downfall.

I'll go.

I'll secure the machine
and... save the weird robot.

Well, I'll come. It'd be better
if we take the plane together.

Yeah. No duh. But none of
the time travelers can go,

because you all need
to be at the rendezvous

when it's turned on,
so do the math.

You're one guy against the Kree.
You'll be massively outgunned.

I'm kind of trying to do the
whole hero thing here, man.

Is that your pep talk?

You guys get killed,
and who saves the world then?

I told my parents not to believe
in this roachcrap fairy tale,

and they went
and they died for it anyway.

And I'm probably next in line.

But there is no way in hell
that I am gonna let

some blue Kreeper destroy that
machine before I get to see

whether or not that damn thing
was worth any of this.

Look, I'm sure you put up a
good fight, but if my ride home

depends on that machine,
I'm gonna secure it myself.

You...
You drive me out of my skull,

this part of you... this
impetuous, bullheaded squabb...

I was offering backup, genius.

No, when the other side of you
is a friggin' hero

who can't help herself
but do good, then be great.

The world needs that person
to make it home.

Just try not to destroy it
when you get there.

- It was almost nice knowing you.
- And you're a pain in my ass.

- I'm not sure I'm ready for this.
- Okay.

Close your eyes
and concentrate on the stone.

Can you feel it?

- Yes. And I can move it.
- Not yet.

So, every part of the universe,
from the stars to this stone,

are basically made
from the same things.

And you're in touch with
its mineral composition.

You can manipulate it, yeah?

So now I want you to feel
how this stone is different

from others you've felt before...

but its internal structure.
Can you?

II know it's a stone.

But inside,
it's intricate, complex.

You know, parts hardened
by pressure, hollowed by loss.

I feel... gaps. Like...

Like someone carved patterns
at a micro level.

- It's beautiful.
- Yeah. That's right.

- He's good at this.
- Yeah. So are you.

It's a composite, we think.
Mostly limestone.

I can't generate rock.
No, that's okay.

We know where to find
plenty of limestone.

Okay. But if it's a composite,
what about the rest?

We have a plan for that.

- They're coming. We got to move.
- Let's go!

Hey, how are you
with confined spaces?

- I grew up in a tin can.
- Okay, good. What about vast ones?

- Hey.
- Submit and avoid pain!

- We got to run now.
- This was your way out?

Can't fight them all.

The rest need
to be afraid to follow us.

Whatever's coming,
I'm not afraid to hear it.

- Tell me how to fight.
- I want to.

I want to help
you fix the mistakes.

I want to tell you something
different than last time.

But the more I talk...

the more I hear my words
echo all over again.

It's okay. Take it slow.

- Just tell me what you remember.
- I remember feeling helpless.

Not being able to change
people's choices.

His choices.

- Mack?
- No. Coulson.

- How we looking?
- Almost done.

Yay.

All set. Express train to the
bottom of the Lighthouse, no stops.

Right to the belly of the beast.

Daisy, can't waste time.

I'm not coming.

I know you're scared
about going home.

No, I'm terrified. Look around.

Billions of people gone.

If there's a chance
I'm the cause... I can't go.

We can get through this together.

You don't even have
your powers anymore.

It's only a matter of time,
and you know it.

If there's an emergency
or if one of you are in danger,

I will need them,
and we will find a way.

If I go through that portal, you
know it's the beginning of the end.

- I don't.
- We made it back home, and we fought

to save the world from a
future we knew was coming.

- We have to fight.
- Of course.

But the more we fought...
the closer it came.

We don't even know you did this.

- I was right in the epicenter.
- I won't let you sacrifice yourself

because you're scared
of what's to come.

What's to come
is the end of everything.

If you can change the future here,
you can change it from back home.

But we know this solution works.
We can stop this today.

No, it's not about today.
It's about tomorrow.

Even if we solve this problem,
the world is never safe.

The job goes on. We go on.

The team makes one choice,
and it ruins everything.

A choice to do what?

- To save him.
- What do you mean?

- Please.
- Maybe I don't go with you.

You know it's the right move.

Coulson, as an Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.,
you trained me to fight.

Now I'm making my stand... here.

May trained you to fight.

I need you to lead.

Phil Coulson is dying.

And you have to let him.

Coulson... How? How does he die?

It's already begun.

He's sick, and he knows it.
We tried to stop it.

Loyalty... it cost us the world.

You heard all this, and still
you couldn't change anything.

I know. Stuck in the loop.

But you can forge a different fu...

Even as I say the words,
I realize I've heard them before.

Are you telling me
to go back and change the world,

or are you warning me that I can't?

You need to go. They're coming.

- No. Not yet.
- I hope you travel a path

to a world I've never seen.
Now go.

Not until you come with me!

Go! This is not my path.

Please! Please.

Go now!

They were sweeping the floor,
but never reported in.

We underestimated
their strength, sir.

Strength?
They cut off their heads.

They must answer for it.

They have nowhere to run.
We have their ship.

Next, we secure all of the trawlers

and squeeze the Terrans
until they drop at our feet.

No...

You okay?

Well... that worked.

My last experience will be a new one.

Where has this been
all my life, right?

Level three,
hidden in a wall cavity.

Yeah, now you tell me.

Well, that's not good.
What's it gonna take to fix you up?

I think, at this point, our
efforts would be best spent...

repairing that.

You got this. Just concentrate.

He's a bright kid.

Sorry I killed the guards
in front of him.

Yeah. It's good to see him
building something.

There's too much death
in this place.

And asking him to blow out
that window

and the Krees didn't help.

That wasn't me.
That was the fiancée.

- Fiancée?
- Two...

- Okay.
- Aah!

So, it's going
to feel strange at first,

- but your hearing will normalize.
- I can hear you.

I can hear... my voice.

What happened?

He ICE'd her.
She didn't want to come.

I'm not leaving anyone behind.

Where's YoYo?
She didn't find you?

- She's not with you?
- No, she was picking up some survivors.

She should be back by now.

She'll make it back.
She's strong.

Hurry. Who knows when
that portal's gonna open.

- You're Flint?
- Yes.

- You're gonna get us home.
- Yes. I am.

Good. What are you waiting for?

YoYo.

Let her go!

Mack, no.

Elena told me I'd find you here.

YoYo... what'd they do to you?

I've gotten to know Elena
quite well.

Pain can be so persuasive.

Mack, run! Leave! Go home!

I'm not leaving.
I said let her go!

Look at her tremble.

Perhaps she knows
what comes next for you...

for me? For all of us here,

standing on the edge
of timeless, violent glory.

No! No!

No!

Aah!

Take the Orchard!

- Slaughter the rest!
- It's not gonna happen.

Hyah!

I'm gonna beat your body
with your own skull!

She didn't deserve to die.

Raah!

Stop it! I'm trying to fix you!

It does one thing...
it opens a door.

- You'd think they'd make it simple.
- I think this vessel

is too damaged to power the Monolith.

- Then what can?
- Me.

My battery has sustained me
for more than 32,000 Earth years.

Modifying the cell stack
could create a thermal feedback

capable of delivering
more than enough power.

Thermal feedback?
What happens to you in that scenario?

I will expire knowing
I returned my friends home.

And then my battery chemistry

will consume my body
in an exothermal reaction

violent enough to decimate
several levels of the Lighthouse.

So it's not great for the guy

that's standing next to you
flipping the switch.

That person...
would be completely atomized.

Deke, come in.

I'm liking this plan less.

Yeah, we're here.

We got the Monolith built.
I think it might work.

How's the machine coming?

Yeah, all right.

It's great.
We found a fix for the machine.

Good. You were right
about taking the Zephyr.

Just make sure everyone's in place

the second we get it
powered on, all right?

We're only gonna get one shot at this.

Right. You know, your
parents would be proud of you.

I'll find out soon enough.

Well, we're about to give them
a hell of a show.

Thanks.
We'll have everyone in place.

That machine's going to explode.

- It's not safe down here.
- What?

You're welcome
to come back with us,

but if not, you got to leave now.

- Meet Tess at the trawler.
- Where? Which one?

But Mack, YoYo,
they're not back yet. I...

Tell them I had more work to do.

- Come on. I know the way.
- Thank you.

- Coulson, what's happening?
- Where are they?

Unh!

There's nothing
you can do to me.

Raah!

I want to watch
the light die in your eyes.

Hunh!

My father will see me.

He will have his world!

Not just the sliver
Quake left behind.

Silence.

Aah!

Aah!

Aah!

YoYo... she...

Mack.

How? You were killed.

Cant't be...

I'm so sorry you had to see that.
It wasn't me.

- But you were dead.
- No. I'm here.

And it's time to go home.

Just a few more.

I will be offline
sooner than anticipated.

Far sooner.
You need to patch in immediately.

Okay, okay. Just hang on.
We're going, we're going.

- Guys, we got a problem.
- What's wrong?

I'm using Enoch to power the machine,

but I'm losing him.
You got to launch now.

What? No, Deke, it's too early.

The team isn't back yet.

Enoch... Enoch, buddy, hang on.

I know that you've done
so much already,

but, please, please,
just hang on.

Guys, I'm buying
as much time as I can here!

Let's go!

The rock's gonna open!
Get here now!

I always knew
that working with you guys

was gonna blow up in my face!
It's about to get literal!

Come on, buddy.
Just hang together, okay?

You know she'll never
forgive you, right?

I have to hope.

We're losing him!
I'm out of time!

Son of a bi...

We'll return in a moment.

You sure
Deke didn't make it out?

He would have been standing
right in the middle of that explosion.

Maybe he at least
got the rock open.

Some of them
had to make it home.

They made it back.
I just know it.

Well... in any case,
we got a second chance.

Our friends from S.H.I.E.L.D.
gave us that, yeah?

Clean slate.

Future's up to us now.

There's a lot that needs fixing.

You're right.
Here's your blueprint.