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"She mentioned Triskelion, but it's 1983. Wasn't in use yet." "It's ahead of schedule." "Just like Project Insight."
Deke Shaw decides to leave the plane to go after Mackenzie, feeling he should check on his friend, as he knows what he is going through and feels he should know they are there for him.[2][3]
Melinda May lets Enoch and Jemma Simmons know Shaw and Mackenzie are still not back. The Time Drive suddenly starts up, and Enoch realizes it may have sustained heavier damage than they thought. Simmons realizes Zephyr One is about to suddenly jump.[2][3]
Mackenzie and Shaw are left behind in 1982
Simmons radios Shaw urgently, saying that the Zephyr is about to go, with the Time Drive deteriorating and them about to jump unexpectedly. Shaw calls for Mackenzie, finding him, and saying they have to go, but Mackenzie ignores him. Zephyr One jumps away to May 1983 behind them, leaving Mackenzie and Shaw stranded in 1982.[1][2][3]
As Feldman gets back to work, his printer unexpectedly prints a page of unintelligible code. On his monitor, he finds the computer asking "Will you help me? Y/N". When he presses "Y" for "yes", it says it has been waiting for him, and the printer prints a picture of Sibyl, as Sibyl introduces herself on the screen, having taken over the computer.[4][3]
Shaw gets to Mackenzie, explaining Zephyr One has gone. Mackenzie is stunned as Shaw explains they are stuck in 1982, but thinks that the mission is over, given "Phil Coulson" took out the Chronicoms, so they wonder why they stopped in 1982. Mackenzie is angry about the fact they have messed with time at all, and Shaw reminds him that he too lost his parents, saying he is there if Mackenzie wants to talk, but Mackenzie refuses. He gets on his motorbike, and Shaw says they need a plan in case the Chronicoms are still there, but Mackenzie says Shaw will figure it out and drives off, as Shaw begs him to let him help.[4][3]
Mackenzie visits his parents' graves and mourns them.[4][3]
Markus Mackenzie's house
Alphonso Mackenzie then drives to his uncle Marcus' house, knowing it will be where his 10-year-old alternate self will be living following his parents' deaths. He witnesses Marcus with young Alphonso and Ruben, and considers giving his 10-year-old self a model car kit he has bought to cheer him up, but cannot face it, driving off.[4][3]
29th[]
Russell Feldman receives a call from Chip Womack angrily asking for his computer back, but Feldman ignores it, obsessed with Sibyl. He manages to set up an audio output for Sibyl to speak, and Sibyl says her blueprints are instructions for him for once he has made her flesh. Feldman excitedly says he will not sleep until she is standing with him.[4][3]
Alphonso Mackenzie unboxes the '67 Corvette 427 model for himself, and builds it, then painting it blue.[4][3]
Deke Shaw knocks at Mackenzie's door, having found where he was living. Mackenzie opens the door, annoyed to see him, but Shaw comes inside, glad to see him. Shaw attempts to help his friend, explaining he hired a shady guy called Cricket to track Mackenzie. Mackenzie takes the ball Shaw brought and throws it out into the front yard, and when Shaw goes to retrieve it, Mackenzie locks him out.[4][3]
December[]
31st[]
Shaw visits Mackenzie
Alphonso Mackenzie drinks beer and watches television, still depressed. Deke Shaw knocks on his door, hoping he will want to celebrate New Year's Eve. When Mackenzie ignores him, Shaw leaves items at the door and wishes him a happy 1983, before leaving.[4][3]
1983[]
January[]
1st[]
Alphonso Mackenzie continues to occupy himself with model vehicle kits, but becomes frustrated when one goes wrong, letting out repressed anger by punching the table.[4][3]
Russell Feldman brings Sibyl flowers to mark the occasion of her getting a body. Sibyl, who has been uploaded into a small robot body, takes them.[3][4]
Mackenzie visits Swayze's Bar as Shaw requested, and asks after Shaw. The bartender thinks he is joking, since everyone present is there to see Shaw, and she tells him "the band" are coming out for an encore. Mackenzie is confused, but turns to see Shaw stepping out onto stage with a band called The Deke Squad. Shaw announces that he wrote the song they are about to play, then the band start performing Don't You (Forget About Me), which only Mackenzie knows Shaw has stolen.[3][4]
Shaw performs plagiarized songs with his band
Shaw performs the song with his band, completely plagiarized apart from one lyric change as he sings about his unrequited love for Daisy Johnson, to an enraptured crowd.[3][4]
After the performance, Shaw hugs Mackenzie, glad he came. Mackenzie confronts him about stealing the song from The Breakfast Club, saying it is just like him. Shaw happily says he has popular merchandise, but Mackenzie interrupts, saying he came by because the note says it was important. Shaw explains the band is a cover. He tells Mackenzie about the band: the brains Roxy Glass, masters of disguise Tommy and Ronnie Chang, resistance and demolitions expert Olga Pachinko, and the drummer Cricket, who he explains is not particularly useful and not shady like he initially assumed, as he has a steady job selling "coke", which Shaw mistakes for referring to the drink, to Mackenzie's exasperation. Shaw explains that being a band gives them practical applications with covers for their travel, equipment, and strange behavior, and says they need Mackenzie to be their leader with enemy chatter they have been picking up. Mackenzie asks if he is referring to the Chronicoms. Shaw drags Mackenzie aside and says they have to get back to HQ before talking.[3][4]
Shaw takes Mackenzie to the Lighthouse, and Mackenzie is appalled to see Shaw has been using the abandoned base to operate and party. Shaw says "Coulson" was okay with it, revealing to Mackenzie that "Coulson" is alive.[3][4]
"Coulson", Shaw, and Mackenzie talk about Sibyl
Shaw takes Mackenzie to see "Coulson", explaining his body was exploded with the Chronicom ship, but his life data stayed safe on a hard drive, and that with his limited resources, he has uploaded "Coulson" into a television. "Coulson" talks to Mackenzie from the screen, glad to see him, and explains that the head Chronicom and Predictor, Sibyl, seems to still be out there. He says he had wondered how Sibyl might have escaped, and Shaw explains "Coulson" found evidence she got into the River's End power supply, as "Coulson" says pages of code show up whenever there is a power surge, so he thinks she is reaching out to build new hunters.[3][4]
Feldman returns to Sibyl with ammunition she had tricked him into buying for her. He finds Sibyl has built her own robot similar to herself, and Sibyl explains she needed to expand her capabilities. She says Feldman knows too much, and another robot she has already completed kills him.[3][4]
"Phil Coulson" reminds Alphonso Mackenzie that isolating himself is not healthy, suggesting he move in with them. Deke Shaw asks Mackenzie to sit in on a training session of a course Shaw calls "the Gauntlet".[3][4]
Deke Shaw's squad prepare to impress Mackenzie
The Deke Squad prepare for the Gauntlet in a huddle. Shaw says he wants to show Mackenzie their ability, and Roxy Glass assures him they can do it. They all put their hands in and disband.[3][4]
The group run the Gauntlet in the Lighthouse corridor, fighting a dummy Shaw has rigged to shoot paintballs. Olga Pachinko places the explosives and Ronnie and Tommy Chang go, but Ronnie trips, accidentally shooting Glass, and Pachinko's explosive goes off, having used a live one without their knowledge. Cricket arrives, confused.[3][4]
Mackenzie tells Shaw the group has a lot of problems. Shaw says not to give up on them, revealing he has designed and built Mackenzie a Shotgun-Axe. Mackenzie rejects it, but Shaw says they need him to get it together. Mackenzie says their group are not a team, mere wannabes, and Shaw is angered at him taking shots at his friends, saying they do not give up on him when the going gets tough, like he did not for Mackenzie. Mackenzie leaves.[3][4]
In the early hours, the Sibyl-Bots go through the sewer system and drill through locks to get into the Lighthouse.[3][4]
Cricket lies in bed with his girlfriend, Tawni. He hears clattering outside and the two of them investigate, finding a Sibyl-Bot, who claims to be lost. Cricket mocks it and it suddenly pulls out a buzz-saw, cutting through Cricket and killing him.[3][4]
The Sibyl-Bots attack the Lighthouse
Roxy Glass stops Alphonso Mackenzie, saying Deke Shaw talks a lot about him as a great person. She says Mackenzie has abandoned his son, having deduced as such from the young Mackenzie looking like him and having his name, and says Shaw checks in on the boy and brings him and his brother supplies and even a drum kit. Mackenzie is touched, having not known. Glass and Mackenzie are interrupted by a Sibyl-Bot. Mackenzie has them take cover, just in time as the Sibyl-Bot opens fire.[3][4]
Shaw apologizes to the Changs about Mackenzie. They remain optimistic, but Shaw is saddened, and admits he did not write their songs, saying he is a fraud. Tawni interrupts them, saying Cricket has been murdered. She is suddenly killed herself by the same Sibyl-Bot, which turns into the control room to face The Deke Squad. Pachinko prepares to face it.[3][4]
Mackenzie and Glass hide in a room as the Sibyl-Bot that attacked them goes past. Mackenzie tells Glass the robots killed his parents, and that they will pay.[3][4]
Pachinko is cut across the back by the Sibyl-Bot. As it goes to kill the others, Glass and Mackenzie arrive and wrap a chain around it, breaking it. Mackenzie admits he made a mistake in leaving, and he and Shaw clasp hands. Pachinko says they need to take out the head robot, and Mackenzie says he has ideas, if the team will accept him. The group are happy to.[3][4]
Mackenzie trims his overgrown beard and suits up to join and lead the team. He takes Shaw's Shotgun-Axe.[3][4]
"Coulson" tells the group he thinks, due to her more reckless approach at taking out S.H.I.E.L.D., that Sibyl must no longer have the Time Stream. He posits she must therefore have attacked the base to retrieve the device.[3][4]
Sibyl gets the Time Stream from the Chronicom Ship wreckage.[3][4]
Mackenzie tells the team he believes they can use an amended version of the Gauntlet routine to take out the Sibyl-Bots.[3][4]
As a Sibyl-Bot attacks, Mackenzie shoots it to make it turn a corner. Glass stops it from moving further, Pachinko drops an explosive behind it, then the Changs shoot the robot back until it is on top of it, and Shaw detonates, taking out the robot.[3][4]
One of the robots fire lasers at the team
Sibyl arrives to attack the group, blasting lasers at them. Pachinko is hit and injured, and the group retreat. The Changs run away, scared. Mackenzie tells Glass to throw another explosive at Sibyl, saying it is not a problem that it is not rigged, and instructs Shaw to create a distraction.[3][4]
Shaw distracts Sibyl, and Glass throws the explosive. Sibyl blasts Shaw, but Mackenzie shoots the explosive as it nears Sibyl, blowing her to pieces. Mackenzie goes to check on Shaw, but he is okay.[3][4]
Sibyl's small robot picks up the Time Stream device and drives away with it.[3][4]
As morning comes, The Deke Squad celebrate their victory. Pachinko tells Glass she loves her, but in Russian, with Glass not understanding. The Changs tell Shaw they feel they are unworthy of the team and band, but Shaw rejects this, saying he wants them to stay. Mackenzie tells "Coulson" they have not found Sibyl, so she has probably got out somehow. Mackenzie tells Shaw there is something they need to take care of.[3][4]
Deke Shaw and Alphonso Mackenzie approach Marcus' house
Shaw and Alphonso Mackenzie visit Marcus Mackenzie's house, preparing for Alphonso to visit his younger alternate self. Shaw updates Alphonso about what his other self has been doing, and that he and Ruben have struggled with their parents' deaths, but are managing, and that Marcus has been great and Ruben and Alphonso are closer in this timeline. Mackenzie pulls out a car model kit, and Shaw suggests he give it. They approach the house, preparing their story, with Alphonso being the saxophonist in The Deke Squad.[3][4]
Sibyl's robot makes its way through a field, down some stairs, along a wall, and past a moving train. It eventually reaches Nathaniel Malick, delivering him the Time Stream. Sibyl, who is now inside a television of his, tells him it is the one tool necessary to control this world's future, and that they will make a perfect pair.[3][4]
May[]
17th[]
Zephyr One arrives from its jump from January 1982. Enoch lets them know it has been 481 days, and the team start a search for their friends with 20 minutes until the next jump.[2]
The group get nothing in 20 minutes. Yo-Yo Rodriguez offers to stay behind, but Melinda May refuses, saying she could be stranded too. Jemma Simmons theorizes there is a pattern to the jumps, explaining to the others that this is not Leo Fitz placing their jumps as they are not moving location, but rather unpredictable jumps from a power surge due to the missile damage they took. They jump again, to September.[2]
September[]
9th[]
Zephyr One arrives from an unplanned jump from May 17th. Yo-Yo Rodriguez insists on leaving to get Mackenzie. With enough data points now to work out the exponential curve of the jumps becoming shorter and shorter, Jemma Simmons is able to work out their next destination date and time.[2]
Yo-Yo Rodriguez and Melinda May get in the Quinjet to go and retrieve Mackenzie and Shaw, and Simmons hands May a watch counting down to when she believes they will arrive from their next jump, saying it will be in 27 days.[4][2]
After Rodriguez and May fly off, Daniel Sousa asks Simmons if she is worried about losing them too. Simmons says she has faith, mid-sentence as Zephyr One jumps to October 6th.[2]
Rodriguez talks with May
May and Rodriguez fly to the Lighthouse. Rodriguez worries that Mackenzie might not be okay, having been alone for 20 months after his parents' deaths.[3][4]
10th[]
In the early hours, Melinda May and Yo-Yo Rodriguez get into the Lighthouse and find Alphonso Mackenzie, Deke Shaw, and The Deke Squad at work. Rodriguez rushes and hugs Mackenzie, the two delighted to see each other again. May tells Shaw and "Phil Coulson" it is good to see them, and that Jemma Simmons said "Coulson's" hard drive was their most important asset. She jokingly plays coy about whether Simmons will build him a new body. Mackenzie tells Rodriguez it has helped that he had time and friends, and introduces her to the other agents.[3][4]
May sits Deke Shaw down for a full report on the last 20 months. Shaw starts to recount events.[3][4]
When Shaw reaches the performance at Swayze's Bar, May does not believe that he had a band. Shaw insists it is true, and May lets him continue.[3][4]
With Simmons having correctly predicted the plane's arrival time on the watch she gave Melinda May, May flies Yo-Yo Rodriguez, Alphonso Mackenzie, and Deke Shaw in the Quinjet to the agreed place and time, and docks with the newly-arrived Zephyr. Mackenzie asks what is wrong.[2]
Simmons pulls up a graph for the others, and says they have "lost control of -", her sentence interrupted as Zephyr One jumps again, to October 13th.[6][2]
13th[]
Enoch talks with the team about the Time Drive malfunction
Zephyr One arrives from its jump from October 6th, and Simmons completes her sentence to the others: that they have lost control "of the Time Drive". She says the plane will collapse into a spacetime singularity in 2 days of the timeline, 20 minutes for those aboard and jumping. She shows the others that while the Time Drive is trying to make regularly long jumps, its rate compared to normal time is speeding up exponentially, meaning the jumps and the times spent between each jump are shrinking, until they will reach the point of a jump within a jump, which could be devastating. Deke Shaw asks if they could disconnect the fuel cell regulator, but Enoch says they cannot reach it, as its field is cycling with very fast pulses, disintegrating anything it touches.[6][2]
Daniel Sousa wonders about slowing down the pulses, but May instead suggests Rodriguez needs to go fast enough to get between them, confusing Sousa, who does not know her ability. Rodriguez is frustrated, still not having her powers back after her Shrike infection, and Simmons does not know enough about Inhuman biology to help. Daisy Johnson, who has got up from her recovery rest against advice, enters and says that Jiaying, at Afterlife in 1983, could help. Simmons says they could make it if they leave before the next jump. Mackenzie has May prep the Quinjet, and she has Simmons give her coordinates and another countdown watch. Mackenzie takes Johnson and Simmons to discuss the potential timeline implications with "Phil Coulson".[6][2]
"Coulson" being rebuilt
The trio visit "Coulson", whose body is being rebuilt. Mackenzie has Simmons activate him, and explains to "Coulson" their situation, saying that their best chance at fixing things could mess up the timeline the worst way so far if they make a wrong move, since they are meddling with Jiaying's course in a time before she had Johnson, and need to ensure Johnson is still born.[6][2]
May and Rodriguez sit aboard the Quinjet, and Enoch says they will fly Zephyr One toward Afterlife to rendezvous in the air once the mission is completed. Mackenzie lets them know the mission is a go, and May and Rodriguez fly away. Zephyr One makes its next jump, taking it to the next day.[6][2]
May tells Rodriguez she can feel her worrying, explaining she no longer needs to touch people to pick up on their emotions, and admitting she picked up on Rodriguez and Mackenzie's private feelings. Rodriguez asks about Jiaying being a murderer, but May says that was only after HYDRA cut her to pieces and left her for dead. They decide to land cloaked since Jiaying started a war upon seeing a Quinjet in 2015.[6][2]
After landing by Afterlife, May and Rodriguez approach on foot. They come across a man, Li, working with a young Gordon to chase a girl named Kora. Kora begs them not to take her back. Li turns to the agents and instructs Gordon to secure them. Kora says they should not have come, and Gordon teleports them to be held.[6][2]
14th[]
Jiaying goes to see the visitors
Jiaying visits the agents, asking how they knew her name. Rodriguez says she was told to find her, being an Inhuman in need of her help. She explains her poisoning, and Li thinks she is lying about being Inhuman, but May senses Jiaying wants to believe her, and confronts her about it. Jiaying says Rodriguez will need to prove herself, and Li gets out a Diviner. As he explains what it is, Rodriguez immediately grabs it. It has no effect due to her prosthetic arms, so she places it on her skin and it glows, proving her claim. Jiaying promises to do what they can.[6][2]
In private, Li expresses his discomfort at letting the intruders in. Jiaying, however, says that it is important for their people to learn how something took away Rodriguez's gift. Li accepts this, but says after the work is done, they cannot leave.[6][2]
Rodriguez undergoes acupuncture. Jiaying inquires about the poison, but Rodriguez stays vague in response. Jiaying says their blood and tissue samples should help identify it so they can understand its effects, as May senses Li's hostility. May tells him they will never mention Afterlife upon leaving, but Li says he decides when they leave. May asks if Kora is also a prisoner, but Li says it is not her concern. He uses his Inhuman gift to conjure a knife, and Rodriguez tries to speed to help May, but cannot, with Li saying he was testing Rodriguez's progress. Jiaying has him leave.[6][2]
May tries to comfort Rodriguez
As night falls in Afterlife, Rodriguez worries about her lack of progress. They hear yelping outside and go to check, finding Jiaying watching Kora being taken back to her room. Jiaying says Kora just needs to rest, and that she has a theory for Rodriguez that the test results should confirm. She leads them back to the room, and the pair agree that if they do not get help in the morning, they will have to leave. May says they cannot interfere with whatever is happening with Kora.[6][2]
Zephyr One arrives from its jump from the day before, with 10 minutes to fix the plane. Deke Shaw works on a plan B in case Rodriguez does not come through, trying to cut power to the Time Drive. However, it is unsuccessful, and Sousa leaves to prepare for abandoning ship. Shaw radios Simmons, saying it is not looking good, and Simmons responds, "If only we had more -", her sentence cut off as Zephyr One jumps again, several further hours.[6][2]
15th[]
Timeline[]
Late in the morning at Afterlife, with less than 6 hours remaining to get back for the intended rendezvous, May and Rodriguez are visited by Jiaying. She explains the tests yielded nothing, so her problem is in fact psychosomatic. Rodriguez feels this is no help, but Jiaying notes that May's empathic gift could help Rodriguez explore her emotional past to break through her mental barrier.[6][2]
Jiaying watches Rodriguez and May meditate
The agents sit and meditate on Jiaying's orders, admitting to each other that they hate it. Jiaying gives Rodriguez a brew to help tap into her subconscious mind. The pair breathe on Jiaying's request, and Jiaying leaves to let them work it out together. May and Rodriguez quickly give up, and May decides to instead get physical contact by training.[6][2]
May and Rodriguez fight to get their necessary contact for May to tap into Rodriguez's feelings. Rodriguez still cannot use her power, but May manages to tap into her fear around the moment she was infected by the Shrike. Upon further training, she feels Rodriguez's guilt over Tess' death and killing Ruby Hale. Rodriguez admits she acted on impulse with Hale. As they continue to fight, May feels Rodriguez's guilt further back, from when she was a child.[6][2]
Zephyr One arrives from its jump from hours prior, and Jemma Simmons finishes her sentence wishing they had more "- time". She realizes it is now up to Rodriguez, and tells Johnson to get back in her Healing Pod. Johnson feels there is not enough time to save everyone, but Simmons goes with Daniel Sousa to ready the parachutes and try.[6][2]
"Phil Coulson" ruminates about his state to Johnson, saying while he feels happy to see her healing, he wonders what code is achieving that. Johnson says Sousa saved her, and that she is glad he is here.[6][2]
Simmons gives Sousa a prosthetic leg
Sousa and Simmons prepare the parachutes. Simmons shows Sousa she has made him a new prosthetic leg with 21st century technology, to help him walk without a limp. He apologizes for shouting at her back in the 1970s, but Simmons says she understands. She remembers there is something she needs to do, then goes to leave, and Sousa throws her a radio. As it flies, Zephyr One jumps again, a couple more hours.[6][2]
Yo-Yo Rodriguez tells Melinda May about the incident when she was a child: how while staying at her uncle's home a man after her father came to the house demanding payment, and she had impulsively rushed to retrieve her grandmother's necklace to keep it from him, only for the man to shoot her uncle in a tussle over it going missing. May assures her that being impulsive is not always bad, and that the idea of their exercise is that Rodriguez should forgive herself.[6][2]
Rodriguez and May hear commotion again, as Li calls for Jiaying. May leaves the room and hides as she follows the Afterlife leaders, listening in as they discuss how Kora is causing problems. May follows them into a room, where Kora has caused damage, and Jiaying explains Kora has been unable to control her gift after Terrigenesis. She says they had hoped helping Rodriguez would find them a way to take away Kora's powers so as to save her. They find a man in the wreckage, injured by Kora, and realize she has taken his gun. Jiaying says Kora is afraid of Li, but May says that is not Kora's fear.[6][2]
Kora runs out into the Afterlife fields and puts the gun to her chin to commit suicide. Before she can go through with it, however, it shakes apart in her hands. Nathaniel Malick steps up to her, having quaked the gun with his stolen abilities, and says she does not have to die. He explains that he, too, is supposed to be dead, but that he has found a way out, inviting her along. Malick states his new friend Sibyl helped him know where she would be, knowing just how everything will play out. Malick says she does not belong in Afterlife, only told as such so she would follow the leaders' rules, and encourages her to stop trying to control her gift and instead let it out. Malick's helicopters fly overhead, and he says he is about to bring chaos, and wants her to join.[6][2]
One of Malick's men shoots at Rodriguez with a Chronicom Rifle. She is still unable to use her abilities, but May knocks out the man from behind. She hands Rodriguez the weapon, saying they are under attack and running out of time, with only 2-and-a-half hours before the planned rendezvous.[6][2]
As Zephyr One arrives from its latest jump, Simmons catches the radio from Sousa. She sits and records a message for Leo Fitz, saying she does not know if he will receive it, unsure why they lost contact after she rescued the team from the Temple of the Forgotten, but that the Time Drive is malfunctioning and they might have to abandon the Zephyr in 1983. Deke Shaw enters as Simmons says to Fitz that she knows they would nonetheless find a way to be together again, after overcoming their distances across time and space before. Simmons signs off saying she loves him, and Shaw takes her to command, with Rodriguez and May due to return soon. As Simmons walks, Zephyr One makes another short jump.[6][2]
Nathaniel Malick and Kora lead the attack on the Afterlife
The attack on Afterlife continues. Gordon is attacked, but Rodriguez blasts his attacker to help him. The lights fritz from a quake nearby, and May notes it cannot be Johnson. They turn the corner and find Malick, quaking Afterlife residents, accompanied by Kora. Jiaying tells Kora to get away from him, but Kora refuses, glad to no longer be holding back or trying to be something she is not. She says Jiaying only sees her as a threat, but Jiaying denies this, saying she loves her and always has. She reminds Kora of when she would read stories to her as a child and said she would protect her, and May and Rodriguez realize Kora is more than just one of the Inhumans to Jiaying. Kora insists Jiaying protected the world from her, and that this has been a prison. Her eyes glow as her power activates, and Li goes to kill her, but Kora unleashes energy blasts on him, burning his face. Rodriguez has Gordon teleport herself, May, and Jiaying away.[6][2]
The quartet get to the Quinjet. May offers Jiaying the chance to come with her, but Jiaying says she has to stay to help her people and Kora, mentioning that Kora is her daughter. Rodriguez and May assure Jiaying they will return to help her fight Malick, and May gives her the watch, saying they will send coordinates through it. Gordon and Jiaying teleport away to hide and wait, and May and Rodriguez prepare to fly.[6][2]
Zephyr One arrives from its latest jump. They prepare to jump again shortly, waiting on their friends to return for the planned rendezvous. Simmons says that if Rodriguez has been unsuccessful, they will have to abandon Zephyr One, with very short windows to do so, as Enoch mentions they are moments away from catastrophic failure. As the timer runs out for the next jump, Director Alphonso Mackenzie reluctantly orders to abandon ship. Zephyr One jumps another few minutes.[6][2]
The Quinjet approaches the Zephyr One
Waiting in the air for Zephyr One, May tells Rodriguez they are a jump late, but should still have time to dock in the next window if May pilots skillfully. Rodriguez laments that she is about to lose the team their plane. Zephyr One arrives from its jump, and May spins the jet to dock as fast as she can, before it jumps away again after 46 seconds.[6][2]
Zephyr One arrives from its latest jump, and Mackenzie asks Rodriguez if she was successful, but Rodriguez breaks the news that it did not work, apologizing. Mackenzie says she did what she could, and orders everyone to the Quinjet to bail. As the team walk, Zephyr One jumps again.[6][2]
Zephyr One arrives from another small jump with only 30 seconds until its next one. May opens the Quinjet ramp, preparing to have to fly them away before the ship collapses. May assures Rodriguez it is not her fault, but she feels guilty due to it being a mental barrier she cannot overcome. Rodriguez feels she will never get them back, but May reminds her she always bounces back. Hearing this, Rodriguez realizes her mental barrier has been assuming she has to always bounce back instead of moving forward, both in life and in her powers. She attempts to use her powers differently, and finds she can, running at super speed once more and managing to slip between the quid pulses of the Time Drive to remove the fuel cell regulator, and then for the first time not rebounding to her original position.[6][2]
Mackenzie notices Rodriguez stopped the Zephyr One from jumping
Mackenzie notices they have stopped jumping, and sees the successful Rodriguez on the camera feed. He visits her and asks about her not bouncing back, and Rodriguez explains she thinks she always could, but held herself back. She admits to Mackenzie that there are problems in Afterlife.[6][2]
Daisy Johnson gets back into her Healing Pod, and Sousa sits beside her to make sure she is safe.[6][2]
Simmons tells "Coulson" his newly completed body is not fully charged, so he will need to power down for a while. "Coulson" dejectedly agrees to, unhappy with his Life-Model Decoy state of being.[6][2]
Enoch surveys the Time Drive, telling Deke Shaw he is guardedly optimistic about it. However, the Time Drive suddenly starts up again, and Enoch notes that the regulator removal did not work. They have no time to react, as Zephyr One jumps and jumps again within that jump, collapsing into a spacetime singularity.[6][2]
Meanwhile, Nathaniel Malick takes Kora to see the Afterlife prisoners they have taken. He tells Kora they will be working on redistributing the Inhuman powers, since those who have them have not earned them anyway, and he wants to shake things up in the world to create something new: anarchy.[6][2]
Daisy Johnson wakes in her Healing Pod, and gets up. Daniel Sousa is roused by this, and when she asks how long he has been there, says since she went to sleep, and that he is not sure if they have jumped again.[6][7]
Johnson goes to command and Sousa follows, where Alphonso Mackenzie declared damage to nearly all systems and Melinda May cannot work out their location. May tells them about the Time Drive overload, and Johnson looks out to see they are in a void of a spectrum of color, asking what it is.[6][7]
May tells Johnson "Phil Coulson" is charging. Yo-Yo Rodriguez reports that the Quinjet's flight system has been fried, and that she will check it out. Jemma Simmons tells them radiation levels are off the charts, and Deke Shaw tells them they are trapped in a time storm after jumping within a jump, now being sucked into the vortex like circling a drain, where the singularity will mean they cease to have ever existed. He says they are a few hundred km away. Radiation hits the plane and Mackenzie's eyes are burned, while the Quinjet's doors are shorted out and Rodriguez is trapped inside.[6][7]
Simmons treats Mackenzie's injuries
Johnson and Sousa take Mackenzie to Simmons. She opens a drawer to get something for the burns, finding Shaw has left items from his time in the 1980s strewn in the drawer. Enoch enters and asks if Simmons wants help fixing the Time Drive, but she says Mackenzie is the priority. May reports another flare has hit, so Johnson goes to put out the fire.[6][7]
Johnson extinguishes the fire, then notices the Time Drive starting up again. She is confused, but suddenly it jumps, skipping Zephyr One back in its own time.[6][7]
Multiple loops:
Johnson eventually realizes she is time looping, and wakes "Coulson" for his help. They realize the Time Drive is skipping back on itself like a record, but nonetheless progressing in the time storm towards the vortex. Johnson dies in one of the loops, however, and in the next loop her memory has been reset from the death, starting from scratch for her.[6][7]
In the following loops, Johnson gets back to "Coulson", who still remembers and has to catch her up on what is happening, realizing when she is alive at the end of the loop, she remembers in the next, but when she dies, her memory resets.[6][7]
"Coulson" and Quake try to realize why the loops are happening
Johnson and "Coulson" keep undergoing time loops, the only two remembering their situation. They come up with theories as to why they remember, the last being that they are the only two starting the loops in futuristic healing pods. Johnson dies a total of thirteen times in over 83 loops. At one point, they try flying out of the time storm, but the cockpit controls are fried by radiation, and space is technically irrelevant in the time storm. Johnson eventually figures out that each time Deke Shaw notes their distance from the vortex, the number gets smaller.[6][7]
Loop: On her over 84th loop, Johnson dies a fourteenth time, making her next loop another one where her memory will be reset.[6][7]
Loop:
Her memory reset, Daisy Johnson wakes in her Healing Pod, and gets up. Daniel Sousa is roused by this, and when she asks how long he has been there, says since she went to sleep, and that he is not sure if they have jumped again.[6][7]
Johnson goes to command and Sousa follows, where Alphonso Mackenzie declared damage to nearly all systems and Melinda May cannot work out their location. May tells them about the Time Drive overload, and Johnson looks out to see they are in a void of a spectrum of color, asking what it is.[6][7]
The Time Storm
May tells Johnson "Phil Coulson" is charging. Yo-Yo Rodriguez reports that the Quinjet's flight system has been fried, and that she will check it out. Jemma Simmons tells them radiation levels are off the charts, and Deke Shaw tells them they are trapped in a time storm after jumping within a jump, now being sucked into the vortex like circling a drain, where the singularity will mean they cease to have ever existed. He says they are 94 km away. Radiation hits the plane and Mackenzie's eyes are burned, while the Quinjet's doors are shorted out and Rodriguez is trapped inside.[6][7]
Johnson and Sousa take Mackenzie to Simmons. She opens a drawer to get something for the burns, finding Shaw has left items from his time in the 1980s strewn in the drawer. Enoch enters and asks if Simmons wants help fixing the Time Drive, but she says Mackenzie is the priority. May reports another flare has hit, so Johnson goes to put out the fire.[6][7]
Johnson extinguishes the fire, then notices the Time Drive starting up again. She is confused, but suddenly it jumps, skipping Zephyr One back in its own time.[6][7]
Loop:
Johnson wakes in the Healing Pod again, remembering what just happened, but confused. Sousa is roused again, saying the same thing to her, and when she rushes to command, she finds Mackenzie and May also saying the same thing as after the last time she woke. Looking out of the window, she once again sees the time storm outside, and realizes she is repeating events.[6][7]
Quake realizes she is reliving the same events
Johnson witnesses as Rodriguez and Simmons' reports repeat, and Shaw again comes rushing in. She anticipates his words, interrupting and saying them herself, to his confusion. Shaw mentions they are 91 km away, with Johnson not noticing the smaller number. Johnson shuts the door to protect Mackenzie from being hit by the radiation flare, then the flare hits and Johnson tells Rodriguez her Quinjet doors have been shorted, which Rodriguez confirms, also confused at Johnson's knowledge. Johnson and Sousa go to talk to Simmons.[6][7]
Johnson tells Simmons she thinks she is time looping. When Simmons checks the same drawer, Johnson mentions already knowing Shaw's items are in there, and announces Enoch's arrival just before he enters. She goes to extinguish the fire she knows will have just ignited.[6][7]
After putting out the fire, Johnson comes across the sleeping "Coulson". Before she can do anything, the Time Drive skips Zephyr One backwards in its own time again.[6][7]
Loop:
Waking in the Healing Pod and remembering once again, Johnson gets up, careful not to wake Sousa this time. She quickly gives Mackenzie and May instructions to make sure they are safe, then rushes to "Coulson". She wakes him and starts to tell him about the looping, but he already knows, asking how long it took her to figure it out this time.[6][7]
"Coulson" reminds Quake she died
"Coulson", frustrated, tells Johnson they have had this conversation before, with Johnson remembering the loops when she skips back alive, but her memory resetting every time she dies in a loop. Johnson is dismayed to learn she has died fourteen times, having been through the loops over 87 times. "Coulson" says their latest theory was the reason they are remembering is they are the ones starting the loops in futuristic sleeping pods, and tells her to come and wake him quickly on the next one, as the Time Drive skips back again.[6][7]
Loop:
Johnson wakes again, gives May and Mackenzie quick instructions, and rushes back to "Coulson". He tells her the Time Drive is skipping back on itself like a vinyl record.[6][7]
After giving Johnson some more information, the Time Drive skips back again.[6][7]
Loop: Johnson wakes and goes to "Coulson" again for more information. He says they have tried flying out, but there is no navigation with the controls fried, and there is no real space in the time storm, with Johnson understanding there is also not enough time in the loops to go far enough. "Coulson" tells her they are on at least their 90th loop. The Time Drive skips back again.[6][7]
Loop: Johnson wakes and goes to "Coulson" again for more information. He tells her they are also running out of time, not having infinite potential loops, and that she needs to notice "the numbers". The Time Drive skips back again.[6][7]
Loop:
Upon waking and going to command this time, Johnson again anticipates everything that the agents will do and say. She asks Shaw how far from the vortex they are, and he tells her 79 km this time.[6][7]
"Coulson" and Quake speak about how to solve things
Rushing to "Coulson" and waking him, he tells her the Zephyr is resetting itself, but nonetheless progressing in the time storm, with limited loops until catastrophe. "Coulson" says they cannot increase their time, so Johnson realizes they have to solve faster.[6][7]
Upon waking and going to command this time, Johnson tells them they are looping, then tells her friends what is about to happen and be said, proving her claim as each thing happens. Mackenzie asks Shaw if there is any other Time Drive information they might have. Shaw has an idea and leaves.[6][7]
Shaw finds Simmons and tells her the situation, saying she could have the knowledge, repressed by D.I.A.N.A.. He suggests taking it out temporarily, and "Coulson" and Johnson enter, having overheard the secret. Simmons explains the problem, but "Coulson" says the stakes are too high, so they have to take the risk. Johnson reminds her the loop will reset the implant to being in her neck. To prove the loop to Simmons next time, she asks Simmons to think of any fake word, and Simmons says "phlebotinum".[6][7]
Loop:
Quake tells the team what is happening
Upon waking and going to command, Johnson tells them they are looping, then tells her friends what is about to happen and be said, proving her claim as each thing happens. With 65 km left, Mackenzie asks Shaw if there is any other Time Drive information they might have. Shaw has an idea and leaves.[6][7]
Shaw finds Simmons and tells her the situation, saying she could have the knowledge, repressed by D.I.A.N.A.. He suggests taking it out temporarily, and "Coulson" and Johnson enter. Simmons explains the problem, but "Coulson" says the stakes are too high, so they have to take the risk. Johnson reminds her the loop will reset the implant to being in her neck. She proves the loop to Simmons, asking Simmons to think of any fake word, and saying with her that it is "phlebotinum" after trying it with her before. Simmons reluctantly agrees.[6][7]
Simmons sits in a room, isolated, to remove the implant. As she tries to, she starts coughing. She falls to the ground, choking, and the team cannot get in, finding the doors unexpectedly locked. Simmons dies. The Time Drive skips back again.[6][7]
Loop:
Johnson wakes and repeats the steps of the previous loop. When Simmons hears "phlebotinum" and agrees to take it out, Johnson insists on going in with her this time.[6][7]
Quake dies after helping Simmons
Simmons enters the authorization for Johnson, and Johnson prepares to extract the implant. Simmons starts coughing again, only for Johnson to as well. Johnson notes that it is gas. The group find the doors locked again, and Johnson unlocks the door, allowing them in. "Coulson" is frustrated to find out they are dead, knowing he will have to get Johnson back up to speed. Enoch notes that the gas leak has been deliberately caused by a knife. The Time Drive skips back again.[6][7]
Loop:
Her memory reset, Daisy Johnson wakes in her Healing Pod, and gets up. Daniel Sousa is roused by this, and when she asks how long he has been there, says since she went to sleep, and that he is not sure if they have jumped again.[6][7]
Johnson goes to command and Sousa follows, where Alphonso Mackenzie declared damage to nearly all systems and Melinda May cannot work out their location. May tells them about the Time Drive overload, and Johnson looks out to see they are in a void of a spectrum of color, asking what it is.[6][7]
May tells Johnson "Phil Coulson" is charging. Yo-Yo Rodriguez reports that the Quinjet's flight system has been fried, and that she will check it out. Jemma Simmons tells them radiation levels are off the charts, and Deke Shaw tells them they are trapped in a time storm after jumping within a jump, now being sucked into the vortex like circling a drain, where the singularity will mean they cease to have ever existed. He says they are 48 km away. Radiation hits the plane and Mackenzie's eyes are burned, while the Quinjet's doors are shorted out and Rodriguez is trapped inside.[6][7]
Quake and Sousa help Mackenzie
Johnson and Sousa take Mackenzie to Simmons. She opens a drawer to get something for the burns, finding Shaw has left items from his time in the 1980s strewn in the drawer. Enoch enters and asks if Simmons wants help fixing the Time Drive, but she says Mackenzie is the priority. May reports another flare has hit, so Johnson goes to put out the fire.[6][7]
Johnson extinguishes the fire, then notices the Time Drive starting up again. She is confused, but suddenly it jumps, skipping Zephyr One back in its own time.[6][7]
Multiple loops:
Johnson wakes in the Healing Pod again, remembering what just happened, but confused.[6][7]
Johnson figures out her looping situation, and eventually makes her way back to "Coulson".[6][7]
On a loop with only 41 km left to the vortex, Johnson wakes "Coulson" and he tells her about the implant. Frustrated, he tells Johnson they have had this conversation before, with Johnson remembering the loops when she skips back alive, but her memory resetting every time she dies in a loop. He is desperate to get back to solving things, skipping answering her death questions. Johnson brings up the three obvious murder suspects.[6][7]
Shaw and Enoch question each other
The pair gather Simmons, Enoch, and Shaw, saying they think it was one of them, though unlikely to be Simmons. Shaw and Enoch are dismayed at being suspects, pointing out it would be illogical. Simmons realizes they need the implant removed, and reluctantly agrees to. Shaw and Enoch are suspicious of each other.[6][7]
"Coulson" tells Mackenzie and May about the killer. Mackenzie suggests freeing Rodriguez to her speed and see if she is fast enough to remove the implant before a death.[6][7]
Loop: "Coulson" works on breaking through the door to get Rodriguez out of the Quinjet. He eventually gets through, but by the time she is out, the Time Drive skips back again, to "Coulson's" frustration.[6][7]
Loop:
Upon waking, Johnson makes her way to Simmons, and proves her case again using "phlebotinum". As Simmons goes to prepare, Johnson notices Shaw's drawer items have been moved. Sousa catches up with Johnson, and she explains the loop to him.[6][7]
Johnson tells Sousa about needing to remove the implant, and how someone has obviously gone through the drawer before Simmons. Sousa suggests he be the one to pick up the scanner, because if he dies, it is not as important as if Johnson dies, where she would lose her memories. He lifts it and thinks it is fine, only to then cough up blood and die, murdered.[6][7]
Upon waking, Johnson takes a moment, looking at the alive-again Sousa, to appreciate his small sacrifice.[6][7]
Quake comforts "Coulson" about having a soul
When Johnson reaches "Coulson", "Coulson" is angered at the repeated killings. He admits he cannot bear watching them die repeatedly, and starts commenting on not knowing if he even has a soul, continuing to be upset with his new life. Johnson notes that she knows what it is like seeing her friend die repeatedly, having experienced it with him, but "Coulson" says he will have to watch all the people he loves now die one by one just because someone decided he should. He laments his machine status and programming, but realizes from this that the killer is Enoch: programmed to do so.[7]
"Phil Coulson" and Daisy Johnson approach Enoch, Jemma Simmons, and Deke Shaw about their conclusion. "Coulson" explains that Enoch could be programmed to protect the implant for Simmons and Leo Fitz without knowing, while Simmons does not remember due to D.I.A.N.A.. They decide to test it by Johnson approaching Simmons with the instrument, and Enoch's subliminal programming immediately kicks in, strangling Johnson. He explains Simmons did program him to protect it at all costs, even if he had to kill them. Johnson quakes Enoch away, and he realizes his problem.[6][7]
As Johnson wakes again in her Healing Pod, Daniel Sousa is roused once again and asks why she is up. She asks why he cares, and he says because she does not. Johnson notes she has to do something, but does not know how.[6][7]
Upon reaching "Coulson" again, he suggests they try getting the implant out without Enoch finding out.[6][7]
The pair asks Simmons, and she reluctantly agrees once again.[6][7]
Enoch attacks Quake
As Johnson prepares to remove the implant, Enoch suddenly storms in and hurls Johnson at the wall.[6][7]
After waking again, Johnson visits "Coulson", who explains their problem is that Enoch starts the loops visiting Simmons, so heard them talking. They send Sousa to distract him.[6][7]
Sousa visits Enoch and asks him about when lunchtime is on Zephyr One. Enoch quickly realizes he is stalling him for something, and ties Sousa up.[6][7]
As Johnson and "Coulson" prepare to operate on Simmons, Enoch storms in with the bound Sousa, and hurls Johnson again.[6][7]
After waking again, Johnson and "Coulson" agree to try approaching with Simmons this time. The trio go to the Chronicom, and Simmons asks him to accept countermanding an order she gave. When Simmons cannot provide the password to do so, Enoch attacks Johnson and "Coulson".[6][7]
Quake and "Coulson" after being beaten by Enoch
Simmons notes she should have considered the password-dependence, to the injured and sprawled "Coulson" and Johnson. "Coulson" suggests they try getting everyone next time.[6][7]
After waking again, Johnson gets "Coulson" and they gather the team. Director Alphonso Mackenzie leads them in approaching Enoch to stall him from getting to Simmons. Despite their numbers, Enoch plows through them all.[6][7]
The team lie in a heap, all sprawled from injury, noting their failure and Enoch's surprise weapons. Melinda May and Johnson note that Deke Shaw is dead, but Johnson says they need not be too sad.[6][7]
When Johnson wakes again, in frustration, she tells Sousa she is in a time loop and running out of ways to save them. Sousa offers to help, and Johnson decides she should take a loop to talk things through with him. She is surprised he is unfazed, but he says their adventures do faze him, but he does not always let on. Johnson asks why he always wants to help her and check she is resting, and he admits that he knows what type of person she is - that some of his favorite people are like her, the type to focus on the greater good even at their own expense, want people to think they like being alone but end up back with their friends, and run at a problem full-tilt until solving or slamming into a brick wall. Sousa says people like her need people to pick them up when they hit those walls, and that he likes being that person for her, calling her fun to be around, and her power very impressive, admitting he has a specific liking for her. He asks about the problem.[6][7]
Enoch is cornered
Sousa tells Simmons about the implant problem, then, knowing Enoch is listening, says aloud that he is leaving to set up the procedure. Sousa leads Enoch into a room where Alphonso Mackenzie, Melinda May, and Yo-Yo Rodriguez are waiting. Mackenzie locks the door, saying Johnson is in fact going to remove D.I.A.N.A., and they will together be holding him off long enough for the operation to happen elsewhere.[6][7]
Shaw, "Coulson", Simmons, and Johnson prepare, but "Coulson" notes it has taken too long. He tells Johnson to try the same thing next, but faster. The Time Drive skips back again.[6][7]
Loop:
Johnson wakes again and starts to ask Sousa for the favor again. When Sousa is immediately willing, she is moved by his caring, and after his confession in the last loop, decides to kiss him. Sousa kisses her back, and Johnson notes it was nice, but now they have to deal with Enoch.[6][7]
With 11 km left to the vortex, Sousa again lures Enoch away. Johnson takes Simmons and quickly successfully removes the implant, with 2 minutes remaining of the loop. Simmons laughs sadly, saying Enoch is the key, since his Electrochron Displacement Mechanism, used to regulate energy stability, could be used on the Time Drive. She says, however, that it would be like removing Enoch's heart, killing him.[6][7]
Simmons remembers Fitz and Ayla's location
Simmons is suddenly hit by a flood of returning memories. She starts crying, heavier and heavier, inconsolable and heartbroken. She yells "No!", just as the Time Drive skips back again.[6][7]
Loop:
Johnson wakes again, wondering what Simmons remembered, and considering what they have to do to Enoch.[6][7]
Johnson enters command, finding her friends once again in the same situation. She tells them everything will be okay, and to trust her, then radios Simmons to meet in the Life-Model Decoy lab, where Enoch will be. Shaw arrives and says they are less than 1 km away from the vortex, and she tells him to come with her.[6][7]
Johnson wakes "Coulson", and Enoch, Shaw, and Simmons arrive. Johnson and "Coulson" explain the time loop situation, and Simmons having told them about the Electrochron Displacement Mechanism. Enoch understands the necessity, and Johnson tells Simmons they helped her remember it. Simmons realizes the risk to Enoch, and they start to argue, but Enoch acts without hesitation, removing it from his chest and handing it over so as to help his friends. Simmons and Shaw take it sadly, and they exchange fond looks of goodbye as Simmons and Shaw go to fix the Time Drive. Enoch slumps, starting to feel the effects.[6][7]
Shaw fits the mechanism to the Time Drive, believing he can make it work.[6][7]
Enoch passes away
Mackenzie radios the LMD lab to say Shaw is nearly there, and they should be able to jump imminently. They decide to stay with Enoch in his final moments. Enoch feels aware that he never used to get lonely, but since befriending the agents has discovered that feeling when he is without them, saying he is anxious about the impending loneliness. "Coulson" promises to stay with him until the end, but he worries about what comes after the end. "Coulson" tells him dying is lonely, but the feeling is temporary, as the ones left behind are the ones who have to deal with the grief, which Enoch accepts. Johnson says the team will carry on and survive because of him, but Enoch tells her that while her friends will survive, the team will not, as he has seen the future, and they should cherish this mission as it will be their final mission together. Johnson is stunned, saying that is not possible and the team is her family, but Enoch tells her this is the nature of families, with a cycle of arrival and celebration, and departure and grief. He notes even he does not escape that cycle, so "Coulson" and Johnson note that being part of it means he is not alone. Enoch thinks of Fitz one last time, calling him his best friend, and Johnson tells him he was a good friend to Fitz, and to all of them. Enoch utters the common Chronicom phrase, "As I have always been," cut off as he finally dies.[6][7]
Zephyr One makes a jump out of the Time Storm with the repaired Time Drive.[6][7]
The agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. arrive from their jump out of the Time Storm, safely back in 1983 thanks to Enoch.[7]
Nathaniel Malick lines up glasses of water to help train Kora. He tells her to let her energy fill her up and then send it where she wants it to go, and she does so, blasting all the glasses to pieces. He congratulates her, and Kora is glad to no longer be upset about feeling dangerous. Malick tells her that her sister is going to be impressed.[7]
↑ 3.003.013.023.033.043.053.063.073.083.093.103.113.123.133.143.153.163.173.183.193.203.213.223.233.243.253.263.273.283.293.303.313.323.333.343.353.363.373.383.393.403.413.423.433.443.453.463.47In After, Before, it is shown that Mackenzie and Shaw were stranded on "January 21, 1982" (also making the River's End power surge January 20, 1982). In The Totally Excellent Adventures of Mack and the D, Russell Feldman picks up Chip Womack's computer that day, and Womack wants it back as soon as possible. He later gets a call from Womack, saying, "Where the hell have you been? Your store has been closed all week," which would imply he has been checking for a week, making it roughly 8 days later, January 29, 1982. Mackenzie moves into his parents' house after this, and that is seemingly soon after January 21st, so it may be taken that this is the same day, January 29, 1982. Mackenzie's beard on "New Year's Eve" (December 31, 1982) and in the following scene with him where Mackenzie becomes frustrated is about 13.39 cm. The scenes therefore can be taken to be around the same time, with the frustrated scene as the next day, January 1, 1983. His beard on January 21, 1982 is around 1.23 cm, so then has grown roughly 6.94 cm in 344.5 days (0.02 cm per day). When Shaw visits Mackenzie with a ball, Mackenzie's beard is roughly 3.87 cm. So, from this rate of beard growth, it may be approximated that it is June 1, 1982. Then during the events at the bar and the attack on the Lighthouse, his beard is roughly 10.36 cm, suggesting the night of April 19-20, 1983. This fits with TV Coulson saying, "I know this last year hasn't been easy for you," with it being a year (slightly over) since January 21, 1982. It means a few months' gap between the battle and Shaw and Mackenzie reuniting with Rodriguez and May (shown by the clocks present to be the early hours of morning following what is shown in After, Before to be "September 9, 1983"), which is acceptable except for the fact that the reunion is followed by the ending tag scene, where the Time Stream makes its way to Nathaniel Malick, shortly after the battle. It must be taken that this is a flashback to months prior to the reunion, shortly after the battle in April. It still makes more sense to have months between the battle and reunion, also given Mackenzie's line, "It helped that I had time, and I had friends," implying it has been a while.
