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	''At the same moment a big explosion occurs at the top floor of a nearby building. Flames flow out the building with debris. Peterson protects his son with his body. People are panicking, running and screaming everywhere. Peterson look his son to check if he is okay.''		''At the same moment a big explosion occurs at the top floor of a nearby building. Flames flow out the building with debris. Peterson protects his son with his body. People are panicking, running and screaming everywhere. Peterson look his son to check if he is okay.''
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			\| Are you okay? All right, Ace, look at me. I need you to stay here with Bernie. Okay, people might be hurt, and I'm gonna see if they need my help. (''He leaves his boy to Bernie'') Stay with Bernie. (''to Bernie'') Watch my boy!
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			''Peterson leaves the two and runs to a back alley. He lifts his eyes to the top floor, and can hear female screams.''
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		⚫	\| Help me! Help me!
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			''Peterson looks around him, and starts to punch some bricks with his fists. The bricks shatter, and Peterson rock climbs the building's wall. until he reaches the top window. He puts his hood on, and eventually jumps inside the room surrounded by flames.
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	Are you okay? All right, Ace, look at me.
	I need you to stay here with Bernie.

	Okay, people might be hurt,
	and I'm gonna see if they need my help.

	Stay with Bernie. Watch my boy!

⚫	~~WOMAN:~~ Help me! Help me!

	(GRUNTS)

	(COUGHS)

	WOMAN: Help me! Help me!

	(COUGHING)

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	SKYE: The secret is out.
			{{comment}}
			'''EXT–NEW YORK CITY, DAY'''

			''A view of New York City with the clouds speeding up and the Stark Tower visible on the right side of the picture, with only a "A" remaining, as it was following the Battle of New York.''
	For decades, your organization stayed
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			\| The secret is out. For decades, your organization stayed in the shadows, hiding the truth.
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			''View of a windowed tower with the clouds on the background, then a lot of people crossing pedestrians.''
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		⚫	\| But now we know. They're among us.
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			''View of Iron Man flying and his chest's miniature ARK reactor, then from Thor's hammer and Captain America's shield.''
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		⚫	\| Heroes...
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			''View of a yellow cab upside down, a Chitauri warrior, and the Hulk.
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		⚫	\| ... and monsters.
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			''View of the streets from the sky.''
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			'''EXT–EAST LOS ANGELES, CA, DAY'''

			''In a street, Mike Peterson is buying a hamburger from a mobile food dealer, his son Ace is watching a store front with the Avengers' action figures exposed. Peterson pays the seller.''
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		⚫	\| Thanks, Bernie.
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			''He comes to Ace and gives him the hamburger.''
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			\| Ace, come and get it. (''Ace takes the hamburger.'') What do you say we go out to your Aunt Mindy's this weekend? (''Ace is still looking at the store front.'') You and Keisha can swim in the pond.
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		⚫	\| Sure.
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⚫	Heroes.

⚫	~~And~~ monsters.

⚫	The world is full of wonders.

⚫	- Thanks, Bernie.
⚫	- You bet.

	Ace, come and get it.

	What do you say we go out to your
	Aunt Mindy's this weekend?

	You and Keisha can swim in the pond.

⚫	Sure.

	You know, you got a birthday
	coming up in a couple of months.

	Who's your favorite?

	I'm okay.		I'm okay.

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SKYE: The secret is out.

For decades, your organization stayed
in the shadows, hiding the truth.

But now we know. They're among us.

Heroes.

And monsters.

The world is full of wonders.

- Thanks, Bernie.
- You bet.

Ace, come and get it.

What do you say we go out to your
Aunt Mindy's this weekend?

You and Keisha can swim in the pond.

Sure.

You know, you got a birthday
coming up in a couple of months.

Who's your favorite?

I'm okay.

Hey.

Things are tight right now,
but I'm gonna find something.

Not back at the factory,
but I got prospects.

- You and me, what are we?
- We're a team.

That's right. So, who do you...

(PEOPLE SCREAMING)

Are you okay? All right, Ace, look at me.
I need you to stay here with Bernie.

Okay, people might be hurt,
and I'm gonna see if they need my help.

Stay with Bernie. Watch my boy!

WOMAN: Help me! Help me!

(GRUNTS)

(COUGHS)

WOMAN: Help me! Help me!

(COUGHING)

SKYE: We can't explain
everything we see,

but our eyes are open.

So what now?

There are no more shadows
for you to hide in.

Something impossible just happened.
What are you going to do about it?

Agent Ward,
there's been a development.

It's the Rising Tide.

They've pinned down the location of
the package. We need to abort.

I'm five minutes away from retrieving it.

So is everyone else.
They posted the coordinates online.

If the job was easy...

Yeah, it wouldn't be any fun.
Watch your 6.

Red tie, by the window.

(SPEAKING FRENCH)

(WOMAN SINGING IN FRENCH)

(DOOR UNLOCKS)

(DEVICE WARBLING)

(BEEPING)

Your fireplace is broken.

(DOOR OPENS)

(MAN SHOUTS IN FRENCH)

(GRUNTS)

DUMONT: Ward, just a heads up.

We've got possible hostiles
in your vicinity.

Really?

HILL: What does S.H.I.E.L.D. stand for,
Agent Ward?

Strategic Homeland Intervention,
Enforcement and Logistics Division.

And what does that mean to you?

It means someone really wanted
our initials to spell out "shield."

It means we're the line
between the world

and the much weirder world.

We protect people from news
they aren't ready to hear.

And when we can't do that,
we keep them safe.

Something turns up,

like this Chitauri neural link,

we get to it before someone bad does.

Any idea who Vanchat
was planning to sell it to?

I'm more interested in how this
Rising Tide group found out about it.

I thought they were just hackers.
What changed?

Everything's changing.

A little while ago, most people
went to bed thinking

that the craziest thing in the world was
a billionaire in a flying metal suit.

Then aliens invaded New York and
were beaten back by, among others,

a giant green monster,
a costumed hero from the '40s,

and a god.

I don't think Thor is technically a god.

Well, you haven't been near his arms.

The Battle of New York
was the end of the world.

This, now, is the new world.

People are different.

They have access to tech, to formulas,
secrets they're not ready for.

Why was I pulled out of Paris?

That you'll have to ask Agent Coulson.

Yeah. I'm clearance Level 6.

I know that Agent Coulson was killed
in action before the Battle of New York.

Got the full report.

Welcome to Level 7.

Sorry, that corner was really dark
and I couldn't help myself.

I think there's a bulb out.

Director Fury faked your death,
to motivate the Avengers.

Well, the death of a common ally is
a particularly effective team builder.

AUTOMATED VOICE: Say "cheese."

Plus, it wasn't that much of a stretch.

I stopped breathing
for about 40 seconds.

Eight.
It gets longer every time you tell it.

Yeah, well, you get shanked by
the Asgardian Mussolini,

you can tell it your way.

I was looking at the big white light,

and it felt like a lot longer
than eight seconds.

Do they know? The Avengers?
That Fury played them?

They're not Level 7.

Got out of the ICU, Fury stuck me
in a grass shack in Tahiti.

Rough gig. Mai Tais,
Travis McGee novels,

and a physical therapist whose
command of English was irrelevant.

WARD: But something
put you back in the game.

What is that?

That's a superhero, Agent Ward.

An unregistered Gifted.
Identity unknown.

SKYE: The secret's out.
For decades, your organization...

Another little present
from the Rising Tide.

How are they getting this
stuff before us?

Same way they cracked our
RSA implementation.

They're good.

So I need better.

Agent Coulson has requisitioned
a mobile command unit,

to which you are assigned.

Rising Tide is trying to draw us out.

I think it's time they succeeded.

You want me to cross them off?

Wow. No.

I wanna use them to get to him.

This man's world is about
to get very weird.

He's gonna need some help.

I'm sorry. I was trained
from day one as a specialist.

I go in alone, I get it done.

Defusing a nuclear bomb, I'm your guy.

A welcoming committee? Not my speed.

I know it's not what you want.

Agent Hill did a very detailed
assessment of your last three missions.

Combat, top grades.

Espionage, she gave you the highest
marks since Romanoff.

Under "people skills," she drew a...

I think it's a little poop
with knives sticking out of it.

- What?
- It...

That's bad, right?

And given your family history,
I'm surprised it's not worse.

But I think you're the guy for this.

If I'm wrong,
you go straight back to your bombs.

Team's approved. Physicals are all fine.

Fitz-Simmons is not cleared for combat.
I'm told that won't be an issue.

Agent Ward here, he's almost too fit.

That's an issue.

That should be an issue.
Maybe I can't join the team because...

God, are you dismissed.

It was a porcupine. It was not a poop.

It just means that you need...

No, I'm pretty sure.

And it's not just Ward.
Your whole roster is sketchy.

Well, they're cleared.

I would've been very happy
not to clear you, Phil.

I'd love for you to rest up some more.

I've had plenty of that, thanks.

You sure?

You should go sometime.

Where?

Tahiti. It's a magical place.

Three days in,
I'd be begging for an assignment.

Exactly.

Tahiti.

He really doesn't know, does he?

He can never know.

Is there any way I can thank him?

Are you sure nobody saw him?

MALE ANCHOR: So, the identity of the
Hooded Hero still remains unknown.

Researchers at UCLA Medical Center
released a study today, which shows...

- Just act natural.
- What?

Just pretend that we're talking.

- We are.
- Good.

'Cause you never know who's listening.

I don't even know who's talking.

I'm Skye. And you're the Hooded Hero.

Please tell me
that you're not staying with that name.

Wait, what? I'm not...
I'm a factory worker.

(SKYE CHUCKLES)

Sure, by day. I saw you. You're a hero.

Like, a for real superhero, which is...

I'm not like a groupie-stalker type, but...

(GIGGLES) Oh, my God! That is so cool!

Okay, okay, chill. Just don't...
Don't draw attention.

You're in danger.

You got the wrong guy, lady.

No, you've got the wrong approach.

The cute girl from the hospital
is dying to thank you,

and possibly "thank" you,
(CLEARS THROAT) and you're hiding!

The clip of you rescuing her
has had the most hits

since that puppy with vertigo,
and you can't even find a job.

What do you mean about danger?

S.H.l.E.L.D.

"Shield" what? I should carry a shield?

S.H.l.E.L.D. Government.

Scary men in dark suits
who come after guys like you.

They knew about the Battle of New York
before it even happened.

And then cleaned it up before anyone
could ask any real questions.

Overnight. How long do you think
it'll take for them to clean you up?

And you wanna know why I'm hiding?

What if you didn't hide?

What if you got in front of this
and let people know that you're a hero?

I'm just a guy.

Well, a guy like that gets work,
gets perks.

I can help. I'm great with computers.
Like, weirdly great.

I mean, I could help you create
a whole new identity, or...

A mask!

Okay!

Also, we could just stick with the hood.

Listen. You cannot walk away from this.

With great power comes

a ton of weird crap that you
are not prepared to deal with.

Now, my office is...

You have an office?

Yes, I have an office. It's a mobile office.

It's a van. I live in a van. By choice!

But it's always in the alley
around the corner, free Wi-Fi,

and you can come by any time.

Thank you.

They're coming for you...

...Mike.

COULSON: Agent May.

No.

So you've been briefed?

I'm not going back in the field.

Yeah, you've got such
a nice set-up here.

You ever thought about adding a moat?

I just need you to drive the bus.

Liaise ground transpo,
some on-site supervision.

This isn't a combat op.

Then you don't need me.

I do.

'Cause we'll be running ourselves.

Picking the ops, making the calls.

No red tape.

This is where they actually make
the red tape, isn't it?

I always wondered.

Melinda.

You're really just asking me
to drive the bus?

I'm not asking.

But it's a really nice bus.

FITZ: Whoa, whoa, whoa, watch it!
That's the Night-Night Gun!

SIMMONS: Well, it's on my stuff
and it doesn't work,

and there's no way we're calling it
the "Night-Night Gun."

The bullets work.

Non-lethal, heavy stopping power,

break up under
the subcutaneous tissue.

Yeah, with a dose of only
0.1 microliters of dendrotoxin.

I'm not Hermione, I can't create
instant paralysis with that.

- You should've run the specs by me...
- The bullets are hollow.

-...before building the molds.
- It's a marvel I can keep them

from breaking apart in the chamber.

Have you ever heard of physics?
Or what's the other one? Inertia?

Fitz-Simmons?

- Fitz.
- Simmons.

I'm Engineering, she's Bio-chem.
Agent Ward?

Coulson said I'd need my comm
receiver encoded.

I don't know if you've worked
with that model before.

(DEVICE SHATTERING)

It's brand new.

He'll repurpose the l.D.l.S. chip.

Don't need the external receiver for
the inner ear comms anymore.

So, how does it...

Embedded sensory-neural silicone
matched to your DNA. It's very posh.

So, are you excited to be coming on
our journey into mystery?

It's like Christmas.

(TIRES SCREECHING)

FITZ: One of Coulson's
old S.H.l.E.L.D. collectibles.

Flame-throwers, world's first GPS.
He's mad for this crap.

Don't touch Lola.

And he calls it a girl's name.

Lola's not just a collectible, you know?

People tend to confuse the words
"new" and "improved."

This mobile command, they were in
heavy rotation back in the '90s,

but then we got a Helicarrier.

Hey, did you hear the one about
the guy who's afraid of flying?

I've done a night jump into a drop zone
under heavy fire, sir. I can handle it.

That was a joke. The first part of a...

I'm not gonna tell it now.

If you plan to unpack, make it quick.
Wheels are up in five.

We may have a hit on one of
the Rising Tide's routing points.

Good. We need to do some catching up.

Is that who I think it is?

She's just the pilot.

Melinda May is just the pilot.

Come on, sir.
What game are you really playing?

Better stow your gear.

SKYE: How will you come at us?
From the air?

From the ground?

How will you silence us this time?
How can you?

The truth is in the wind.

It's everywhere.

You cannot stop the Rising Tide.

You will not find us.

You will never see our faces,
but rest assured,

we will rise against those who shield us
from the truth.

And nothing, nothing,
can stop us in the...

Hey. What up?

You guys are making a big mistake.

You don't look that big.

COULSON: Sorry for the lack of finesse.

Agent Ward here has had a little history
with your group, the Rising Tide.

I don't know what you...

Okay.
There are two ways we can do this.

Oh. ls one of them the easy way?

No.

Oh.

COULSON: What's your name?

Skye.

What's your real name?

That can wait. It's another name
we need. A certain hero.

What makes you think I know that?

Well, you made a little mistake.

The phone you filmed
the Hooded Hero with

had the same cryptographic signature
as a few of the Rising Tide posts.

Wow, yeah. Was that a mistake?

Or am I now sitting in the center of your
secret headquarters? What is this?

A plane? I got inside.

And by now you've discovered you can't
beat the encryption on my equipment,

so you got nothing.

We have a fairly strong coincidence.

You being on the scene
right before it went up in flames.

Wanna tell me what my team
is gonna find there?

COULSON: How did you know
the hooded man was in the building?

WARD: Did you blow it up
to draw him out?

Did you?

That's not our style.

I was just kidnapped by your style.

S.H.I.E.L.D. covered up New Mexico,
Project Pegasus.

Of course you'd be
covering up Centipede.

(MOUTHS) Centipede?

Holy no way.

(CHUCKLES)

You don't know what that is.

Billions of dollars of equipment
at your disposal,

and I beat you with a laptop
that I won in a bet?

You need to think about your friend.

We're not the only ones interested
in people with powers.

We'd like to contain him, yeah.

The next guy will wanna exploit him,

and the guy after that
will wanna dissect him.

What is Centipede?

(SIGHS)

Yeah, I get it, but...
Listen, Doctor, people saw me.

They saw what I can do.
If I went public, that might be good.

I mean, your product works.
It works amazingly, and...

Yeah, yeah, I know what I signed,

but if we got out in front of this, maybe...

Then what? You want me to go
crawling back to the factory?

I couldn't even get workman's comp
from those crooks. I don't think...

Yeah... Doctor, I just thought...

Okay.

This was a lab.
Was this leased as a lab?

Self-empowerment center.

With a top-of-the-line motion sensor
security system.

Ah. So a secret lab?

And a superhero. Not a coincidence.

So was this explosion sabotage?
Was it meant for him?

Or are they just in over their heads?

Yep. Working the problem.
Ladies, if you'll just... Sorry.

If you're gonna be in the field,
Agent Fitz,

you have to get your hands dirty.

- No, I don't.
-(BEEPING)

(WHIRRING)

Heigh-ho. Off to work you go.

Centipede. It was chatter on the web,
and then,gone.

I traced the access point MAC address
to that building.

What were you after?

The truth. What are you after?

World peace.

You pseudo-anarchist hacker types
love to stir things up,

but you're never around for the fallout.

People keep secrets for a reason, Skye.

Well, just because
you're reasonable and firm

doesn't mean that you're not
a evil faceless government tool bag.

Just give us your guy's name.

He's not my guy!

You understand he's in danger.

Then let me go! Let me talk to him.
Me, not the T-1000 here.

You wanna be alone with him.
Of course.

She's a groupie.
All this hacking into S.H.l.E.L.D.,

tracking powers, she might as well be

one of those sweaty cosplay girls
crowding around Stark Tower.

What? I would...

It was one time.

Ward.

Is it the girl?
She getting under your skin?

Sir?

Or is it the assignment?

Are you so anxious to get out of this

that you'd deliberately blow
an interrogation?

Give me a minute alone with her,
you'll have your answers.

She's an asset.

She is such an... Wait, asset?

We don't know anything about her.

Do you appreciate
how often that happens?

That never happens.

We need what she knows.

SIMMONS: See, we designed each
with their own capabilities,

so some recording the dimensions
and textures of the room,

and then some testing the
matter density, radiation.

I mean, one is basically just smelling.

FITZ: Whoa, whoa, whoa.
I've got something in something.

SIMMONS: Who's got it?

Bashful.

Aw.

Surveillance camera. Deep-fried.

Yes, but that model has flash memory
in case of brownouts.

Now, I could sync that with data
from the motion detectors,

and, with a little luck, get some images
from before the blast.

And by "luck" I mean
"unappreciated genius."

Yeah, we'll need it. Snow's reading
some compounds that are...

Oh, my God.

Explosive?

Not of this Earth.

This is QNB-T-16.

It's the top-shelf martini
of sodium pentothal derivatives.

It's a brand new
and extremely potent truth drug.

Don't worry,
the effects only last about an hour.

And you'll have a nice little nap,

and we'll have
all the answers to our... Hey!

What the hell!

I'm sorry, did that hurt?

No. But you've lost your mind.

You should never do that to a member
of your team.

And yes, it did hurt a little bit.

But I always try and mask my pain
in front of beautiful women

because I think it makes me seem
more masculine.

My God, this stuff works fast.

Don't trust us?
Ask him whatever you'd like.

Wait a minute. Wait, you can't just...

This is definitely not protocol!

You seem nervous, Agent Ward.

I'm calling to mind my training.

There's no way I'm gonna reveal
classified secrets

to a girl who's hell-bent
on taking us down.

Have you ever killed anyone?

Yes, a few. High-risk targets.

But they were terrible people

who were trying to murder nice people.

And I didn't feel good afterwards.

And does your grandmother know
about these things?

Gramzy?

My hands are tied, Mike.
It's company policy.

You didn't meet quota,
I had to let you go.

Gary, look, I got no choice.
It's just me and my boy now.

There's no openings, Mike.
And even if there were,

I got 100 guys standing in line
that are just like you,

only they won't bitch
when their back hurts.

I was injured, but I'm stronger now.
I can handle twice the load I used to.

What are you not hearing?
You don't cut it.

When I say I need things moved,
I need“.

(GRUNTS)

Like that?

Are you out of your mind?

These are people, Gary.

Men. Not parts you replace
when they break.

It's not me, man. It's the company.
I'm not the bad guy.

I'm not the bad guy, man.

Yes, you are.

It's simple now.

Just like we used to read about.

You're the bad guy.

And I'm the hero.

Did Agent Ward give you anything?

He told me he's been to Paris,
but he's never really seen it

and that he wishes you had
stayed in Tahiti.

It's a magical place.

Ward doesn't like your style.
I kind of think I do.

What about his?

...remains in critical condition.

Employees could not identify
the attacker,

but security footage confirms that
this man assaulted the factory foreman

before damaging thousands of dollars'
worth of company property...

This is wrong. This is not the guy I met.
He was...

He just needs a break.

Then give him one. What have you got?

COULSON: Michael Peterson.
Factory worker, married, one kid.

Gets injured, gets laid off,
wife jumps ship.

Good guy, bad breaks.

Best guess is, somebody tells him
they can make him strong again.

Make him super.

Who has the tech to do that?
And why would they want to?

Fitz, what do we have from the
security footage? Before the blast.

MAY: What are we seeing?

Well, the man is angry at the other man.

The data is very corrupt.

- Yeah, like Cold War Russia corrupt.
- Yeah.

I can't sync the time code without...

What if you had the audio?

I was running surveillance on the lab.

I had my shotgun mic pointed at
the window before the blast.

The digital file's in my van.

There's too much background noise
for me, but you could probably...

You can clean that up, can't you?

Find a sync point and use cross-filed
validation to find...

But I can't scrub for expression patterns
when the VITC is all...

SIMMONS: Well, is there
a chrominance subcarrier?

Yeah, attached to the back porch.
Brilliant.

- That audio would be great.
- We will take that audio, please.

Thank you very, very much.

Your van's here. But you were right.
We couldn't decrypt the files.

The encryption's coupled to the GPS.

Get my van back to that alley,
and then I'm in business.

Agent May will escort you.

And on your way out, wake up Ward.

You're...

Wow, you're him.

I'm glad you're doing okay.

Yeah. Thank you. They're beautiful.

What the hell are you doing here?

I don't know where to go, Doctor.

Everything's getting...
I know what's right, I do.

But no one will listen to me.

I volunteered because
you said things would change.

You said you could keep it together.

Our first subject lost it,

walked into the lab
with a freaking bomb...

I'm not like him.

Well, tell that to your foreman
in the ICU.

I saved you!

You exposed me!

You exposed the program.

The people who gave me this
technology, they are very serious

and they do not want to be revealed.

Mike Peterson needs to disappear.

You're right.

I'm not him anymore.

I'm someone else now.

Please. You're juiced, Mike!

And you're losing it
just like the last guy.

(SIGHS) God, this is a disaster.

No.

It's an origin story.

Audio file should be coming through.

It's not compressed,
so it might take a minute.

-(BEEPING)
- Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I'm getting it.

So, when you get back,
I'll show you my thing.

A thing. It's not... It's my hardware.
My equipment! Let's hang up.

So the alien metal wasn't the explosive?

Well, I assumed from the break pattern
and dispersion that it was.

But it's just dripping with
gamma radiation and...

Ugh!

Now it's actually dripping. Fun!

So what did that get us?

Skye's sending us the rest of her
decrypted files on Centipede,

but we have her audio. I've loaded it up.

Nice work.

Using motion estimation,
Bayesian inference,

a beam splitter and a little
diffraction theory,

our mystery man appears.

It's like magic, but it's science.

Explosives in the case?

DOCTOR: Please, calm down.
Just, let me check your vitals.

I feel fine. I want to feel more.

Where's the doctor? Where is she?

If you don't settle down,
I'll have you sedated.

Where is she?

Wait, did you see that on his arm?

COULSON: What does that
look like to you?

A centipede.

It's an intravenous filter for his blood.
This goo, sir?

Very similar to the serum Dr. Erskine
developed in the '40s for the...

Super-soldiers.

I'm reading alien metal,
gamma radiation, the serum.

Every known source of superpower,
thrown in a blender.

We need to see the origin of the blast.

Run it back from the last point recorded.

That should do it.

Let's head back.

All right. Let me just...

(GRUNTS)

Mike!

What are you doing?

Saving you.
From the scary men in dark suits.

And you're gonna help save us.

"Us"?

Don't cry, okay? Stay strong for me, Ace.

What are we?

We're a team.

That's right. Now drive!

EXTREMIS. It's new.
Completely unstable.

Poor man didn't bring an explosive.

And Mike has the same stuff
in his system.

Well, judging by his strength level,
a lot more.

So any minute now, Mike is gonna...

He'll take out anyone
within a two-block radius.

Well, you wanted a bomb.

Sir? He didn't explode
because he was angry.

The two are connected.

Well, it's kind of a chemical surge,

but calming him down
will buy him a minute at most.

He will detonate within
the next few hours.

Solution?

Isolate him? Get him away from people?

Or?

Put a bullet through his brain.

If he's dead, this irradiated
metabolic process will stop.

You need to come up
with a third option.

One that doesn't involve Mike's son
losing a father.

We have a couple of hours at most.
There's no way that we could possibly...

Don't ever tell me there's no way!

It's on you. Get it done.

May'-

He took Skye.

You're all right?

We'll deal with that later. At length.

Right now we need to figure out
where they went.

(KEYS CLACKING)

How long is this gonna take?

This is top speed, trust me.

It's not like I'm deleting
a Facebook page.

I'm bypassing the License Bureau's
AES protected data stream. So, chill.

How do I know you can really do this?

I've done it before.

Come on, give me more paralysis,
less rigor mortis! Come on!

No,no,no.

Just pretend it's an exam.

We're taking an exam.

- An exam? Yeah.
- Yeah.

Okay. I don't want an
"F" equals a massacre.

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

-(BEEPING)
- Whoa!

Oh, no! What is this nonsense?
Why are you making nonsense?

This isn't me!

It's noise. Someone's hacking
our secure channel.

It's longitude and latitude.

Mike took Skye.

She's telling us where.

We'll take the nice lady with us.

We can't go to the airport,
so we'll take a train.

And there, she'll help us start over.

Make a new life. A better life.
Like I always said.

Look at this place.

You're gonna risk thousands of lives
over some nobody?

Nobody's nobody, Ward.
Fitz-Simmons will come through.

Mr. Peterson, good morning.
We're not a threat, we're here to help.

But you're in danger and
we need to take you in.

What did you do?

You're right, he is a little bitch!

- Go on, get her! Get her!
- Ace, get back.

Man, get out the way, man!
Come on! Come on, now.

Ace !

(SCREAMING)

Tell dispatch we need backup!

(SIREN WAILING)

Hey. Let's get him out of here.

Help my daddy.

- I promise.
- Come on, honey.

Ace ! Ace !

Look. The stuff inside you is unstable.
It'll kill you and everyone in here.

Who's gonna miss us?

(ALARM RINGING)

We're at the north entrance, May.

We told them to hold fire.

I don't think that's us.

We may have a third party here.

He's gonna head down to the tracks.
You stay high, I'll go low.

Only take the shot if you have to, Ward.
Ward!

If I have to.

(TRAIN HONKING)

You've got to stop.
These people can help you.

The men in suits?
They're your buddies, now?

Where'd they take my son?

Get down!

(GRUNTING)

You think that means anything?

I know you got men everywhere waiting
to put me down.

I know how this plays out.

I don't.

I know you got poison in your system.

I know it's burning you up.

Mike, the last guy who wore
that exploded.

I'm not like that other guy. I'm...

It matters who I am, inside,
if I'm a good person, if I'm strong.

I have a clear shot. Do you copy?

I know you're strong.

Your boy knows it.
He needs you to let us help.

You took him!

You took my wife, my job, my house.

You think this is killing me?

All over, there's people
being pushed down, being robbed.

One of them tries to stand up,
you got to make an example out of him.

You bring this building down on us,
will that help them?

That's a lie! All you do is lie!

You said if we worked hard,

if We did right,

we'd have a place.

You said it was enough to be a man.

But there's better than man.

There's gods.

And the rest of us, what are we?

They're giants.

We're what they step on.

I know.

I've seen giants up close.
And that privilege cost me.

Nearly everything.

But the good ones, the real deal?

They're not heroes because of what
they have that we don't.

It's what they do with it.

You're right, Mike.

It matters who you are.

I could, you know?

Be a hero.

I'm counting on it.

COULSON: Subject is
in stable condition.

All clear at Union Station.

(DOG BARKING)

(KIDS LAUGHING)

(SIGHS)

I told him his father was coming home.

He will.
We have some experience with this.

He almost blew. We almost died.

We have some experience
with that, too.

You don't have it all mapped out.

True. We didn't cut off the head
of the Centipede.

Whoever sponsored that little
experiment is still out there.

Among other things.

It's a brave new world,
and a really old car. (CHUCKLES)

Lola can keep up.

What about you?
Have you thought about the offer?

Hitching a ride on the crazy plane?
Not exactly a team player.

We're not exactly a team.
But we're in a position to do some good.

You'd be a great help.

And you'd be front row center at
the strangest show on Earth,

which is, after all, what you wanted.

I was able to hack S.H.I.E.L.D.
from my van.

Are you gonna show me
something new?

(CELL PHONE RINGS)

Go.

Sir? We've got an 084.

Is that confirmed?

They want us to go in and confirm it.

What's an 084?

(ENGINE STARTS)

You've got exactly 10 minutes to decide
if you really wanna know.

There's no way we can make it to
the airfield in...

(WHOOSHING)

...10 minutes.

The tide is rising.