Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-112155-20151209000111/@comment-27288126-20151211203900

SHIELDAgent154 wrote: Can someone explain to me how Coulson and the other's survived the missile barrage in the timespan given in the episode. And how is the containment pod inside the Portal Chamber? Isn't it a ways away near the HYDRA camp that they set up outside the Castle? The timelines were little de-synchronized for dramatic effect. The pod was indeed in the camp, as you can see, they have launched from the camp, which is also the time It had to get to the other side of the portal. They probably circled around the Hydra forces, but it will still take them at least one minute, which is probably enough for It to assimilate ward and get thru the portal, once there, it had either managed to escape the castle or survived the explosion. I don´t think there is another portal which It went thru, but it is still a possibility.