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The secret is out.

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

Now we know.

They're among us.

Heroes.

And monsters.

The world is full of wonders.

Thanks, Barney.

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 going to 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 wish?

Are you okay?

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

Okay, people might be hurting. I'm going to see if they need my help. Stay with

Bernie. Watch my boy!

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 Wart, there's been a development. It's the rising tide.

They 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.

The job was easy. Yeah, it wouldn't be any fun.

Watch your six.

Red tie by

the window.

Thank you.

The fireplace is broken.

Ward,

just a heads up. We've got possible hostiles in your vicinity.

Really?

What does SHIELD 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 Von Schott 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's technically a god. 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.

Uh, yeah.

I'm clearance level six.

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

Got the full report.

Welcome to level seven.

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.

Stretchy. 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.

Did they know?

The Avengers? That Fury played them? They're not level seven.

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.

Something put you back in the game.

What is that?

That's a superhero, Agent Ward.

An unregistered gifted.

Identity unknown.

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 want to use them to get to him. This man's world is about to get very weird.

He's going to need some help.

I'm sorry.

I was trained from day one as a specialist.

I go in alone, I get it done.

If fusing 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 mark since Romanoff.

Under people skills, she drew a... I think it's a little poop with knives

sticking out of it. What?

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.

Fitzsimmons 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 have been very happy not to clear you, Phil.

I'd love for you to best 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.

I can thank him.

Are you sure nobody saw him?

So the identity of the Hooded Hero still remains unknown.

Researchers at UCLA Medical Center released a study today... Is that

natural? What?

Just pretend that we're talking.

We are.

Good. You should 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 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 of 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.

And you're hiding.

The clip of you restroomers had the most hits since that puppy with vertigo. And

you can't even find a job.

What do you mean about danger?

Shield. Shield what?

I should carry a shield? Shield.

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 they 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 want to 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. A mask.

Okay.

We could just... Also, we could just stick with the... 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.

Agent May.

No. So you've been briefed.

I'm not going back in the field.

Yeah. You got such a nice setup 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.

And you don't need me.

I do.

Because 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.

Whoa,

whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, watch it!

That's the night-night gun.

What? It's all 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 the dose

of only 0.1 microliters of dendritoxin i'm not hermione i can't create instant

paralysis with that you should have run this back so long physics

fitzsimmons

fitzsimmons i'm engineering she's biochem agent ward

Colson said I did my converse over encoded.

I don't know if you've worked with that model before it's Brand-new and we

purpose the idea yes chip don't leave the external receiver for the energy of

comms anymore How does it embedded since we knew all silicon much to your DNA?

It's very posh So are you excited to be coming on our journey into mystery?

It's like Christmas

One of Coulson's old shield collectibles.

Flamethrowers, 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 going to 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 start your gear.

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...

You guys are making a big mistake.

You don't look that big.

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, it's more than the easy way.

No.

No.

What's your name?

Skye. What's your real name?

I 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 was 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.

Want to tell me what my team is going to find there?

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

Did you blow it up to draw him out?

Did you?

That's not our style.

I was just kidnapped by your style.

She'll cover up New Mexico, Project Pegasus. Of course you'd be covering up

Centipede.

Holy no way.

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 want to exploit him, and the guy after that will want to

dissect him.

What is Centipede?

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 we're gonna go crawling back to the factory. I couldn't even get workman's

comp from those crooks. I don't think Yeah, yeah, doctor. I just thought Okay

This

was a lab was this Lisa's 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 his explosion sabotage? Was it meant for him? Or were they just in over

their heads?

Yeah, working that problem, ladies. Have you just heard me?

You're going to be in the field, Agent Fitz.

You have to get your hands dirty.

No, I don't.

I'll fucking go.

Senate B, 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 back. 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 want to be alone with him. Of

course.

She's a groupie. All this hacking into S.H.I.E.L.D., tracking powers. She might

as well be one of those sweaty cosplay girls crowding around Stark Tower.

What?! I would... It's one time.

Ward. Is it the girl?

Is she getting under your skin? Sir.

Or is it the assignment?

Are you so anxious to get out of this that you deliberately blow an

interrogation? Give me a minute along with her. You'll have your answers.

She's an asset.

She is such an asset.

Wait, asset?

We don't know anything about her.

Do you appreciate how often that happens?

That never happens.

We need...

Which she knows.

See, we designed each with their own capabilities, so, um, some recording the

dimensions and textures of the room, and then some testing the matter density,

radiation, I mean, one is basically just smelling.

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

Who's got it?

Uh, Boschville.

Oh.

Surveillance camera.

Deep fried.

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

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... Explosive?

Not of this earth.

This is QNB T16.

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.

What the hell?

I'm sorry. Did that hurt?

No.

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 for a beautiful woman 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.

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 going to 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.

We're trying to murder nice people.

I didn't feel good afterwards.

And did your grandmother know about these things?

Gramsci?

Hands are tied, Mike. It's company policy.

You didn't mean 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 a hundred guys standing in line that are just like

you, only they won't bitch when they're backers. 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'm... 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 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... 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?

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?

What are we saying?

Well, the man is angry at the other man.

The nature is very corrupt. Yeah, like Cold War Russia corrupt.

I can't sync the time code without... What if you're 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 and 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 crossword validation. I can't scrub for expression

patterns when the vet sees me. Is there a permanent subcarrier? Yeah, attached

to the back porch. Brilliant.

That audio would be great. 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... Oh, wow, you're him.

I'm glad you're doing okay.

Oh, yeah.

Thank you.

You're beautiful.

What the hell are you doing here?

I don't know where to go, doctor.

Everything's getting... I know it'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.

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.

It's a disaster.

No.

It's an origin story.

Audio file should be coming through. It's not compressed, so it might take a

minute. Uh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm getting it.

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

Oh, thing. It's not, it's my hardware. My equipment. Let's hang on.

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.

Oh, now it's actually dripping.

Fun. So what did that get us?

Sky's sending us the rest of our decrypted files on Centipede, but we

have our audio. I've loaded it up.

Nice work.

Using motion estimation, Bayesian inference, a beam splitter, and a little

diffraction theory.

A mystery man.

It appears.

It's like magic.

But it's science.

Explosives in the case?

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?

Did you see that on his arm?

What does that look like to you?

A centipede.

It's an intravenous filter for its 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.

Bet you do it.

Let's head back.

Mike, what are you doing?

Saving you from the scary men in dark suits.

And you're going to 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.

I'm judging by his strength level a lot more.

So any minute now Mike is going to... 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.

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.

Meg. He took Skye.

You all right?

We'll deal with that later.

At length.

Right now, we need to figure out where they went.

How long is this going to take?

Stop 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.

Give me more paralysis.

Less rigor mortis. Oh, come on!

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Just pretend it's an exam.

We're taking an exam. An exam? Yeah.

Okay. Don't want an F.

F equals a massacre.

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 sky.

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 show up and start over.

Make a new life.

A better life.

Like I always said.

Look at this place.

You're going to risk thousands of lives after some nobody.

Nobody's nobody, Ward.

Fitzsimmons 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?

Right, he is a little bitch.

Ace, get back.

Let's get him out of here. Oh, my daddy. I promise.

Ace!

Ace!

Look,

the stuff inside of you is unstable.

It'll kill you and everyone in here.

He's gonna miss us.

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 going to 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.

You've got to stop.

These people can help you. The men in suits?

They're your buddies now? Where did they take my son?

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'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.

It could, you know.

Be a hero.

I'm counting on it.

Subject is in stable condition.

All clear at Union Station.

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.

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.

Lola can keep up.

What about you?

Have you thought about the offer?

Did you know I like crazy playing?

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.

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 going to show me something now?

Go. Sir, we've got an 084.

Is that confirmed?

They want us to go in and confirm it.

What's an 084?

You've got exactly ten minutes to decide if you really want to know.

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

The tide is rising.