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* LiteralMetaphor: When urging the team to prepare instead of acting rashly, Mace uses the phrase "sharpen our axes." Mack retorts that his axe is plenty sharp... and a [[MixAndMatchWeapon shotgun]].
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* DespairEventHorizon: The rider reveals that Mack has secretly abandoned all hope.

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* DespairEventHorizon: The rider reveals that Mack has secretly abandoned all hope.lost hope. [[spoiler:We later see Mack sitting on the floor, sadly looking at a photo. The viewers are only shown the back of the picture, where "Hope 4/18/06" is written, alluding that Mack has ''literally'' lost someone named Hope.]]
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* ContinuityNod: After reading the Darkhold, Aida designs an inter-dimensional gateway, and builds a portal within it. The process is identical to how the [[Film/DoctorStrange2016 Sorcerers of Kamar-Taj]] cast spells, and the finished portal is identical to one conjured by a Sling Ring. The dimensional disruption that nearly engulfs Coulson resembles the Mirror Dimension as well. The physical apparatus holding the portal resembles a device in Agent Carter, which enabled individuals JustOneSecondOutOfSync to be seen and heard. And Coulson, Fitz and Robbie's experiences in the "other dimension" are very similar to Jason Wilkes'.

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* ContinuityNod: After reading the Darkhold, Aida designs an inter-dimensional gateway, and builds a portal within it. The process is identical to how the [[Film/DoctorStrange2016 Sorcerers of Kamar-Taj]] cast spells, and the finished portal is identical to one conjured by a Sling Ring. The dimensional disruption that nearly engulfs Coulson resembles the Mirror Dimension as well. The physical apparatus holding the portal resembles a device in Agent Carter, which enabled individuals JustOneSecondOutOfSync to be seen and heard. And Coulson, Fitz and Robbie's experiences in the "other dimension" are very similar to [[Series/AgentCarter Jason Wilkes'.Wilkes]]'.

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* ContinuityNod: Through the Darkhold, Aida designs an inter-dimensional gateway, and builds a portal within it. The finished portal bears a resemblance to [[Film/DoctorStrange2016 Sling-Ring portals]]. The dimensional disruption pulling Coulson resembles the Mirror Dimension portals as well. The Container holding the portal resembles a similar device in Agent Carter. That device also allowed people out of phase with our reality be seen/touched. But only in the portal.
* DarkSecret: Senator Nadeer does '''not''' want anybody to know about her brother, not even the scientists helping him.

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* ContinuityNod: Through After reading the Darkhold, Aida designs an inter-dimensional gateway, and builds a portal within it. The finished portal bears a resemblance process is identical to how the [[Film/DoctorStrange2016 Sling-Ring portals]]. Sorcerers of Kamar-Taj]] cast spells, and the finished portal is identical to one conjured by a Sling Ring. The dimensional disruption pulling that nearly engulfs Coulson resembles the Mirror Dimension portals as well. The Container physical apparatus holding the portal resembles a similar device in Agent Carter. That device also allowed people out of phase with our reality Carter, which enabled individuals JustOneSecondOutOfSync to be seen/touched. But only seen and heard. And Coulson, Fitz and Robbie's experiences in the portal.
* DarkSecret: Senator Nadeer does '''not''' want anybody
"other dimension" are very similar to know about her brother, not even the scientists helping him.Jason Wilkes'.


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* JustOneSecondOutOfSync: Eli's machine going off throws Coulson, Fitz and Robbie into a dark AlternateDimension where they can see and faintly hear the normal world, but can only interact with objects personally connected to them in subtle ways.
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* ContinuityNod: Through the Darkhold, Aida designs an inter-dimensional gateway, and builds a portal within it. The finished portal bears a resemblance to [[Film/DoctorStrange2016 Sling-Ring portals]]. The dimensional disruption pulling Coulson resembles the Mirror Dimension portals as well.

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* ContinuityNod: Through the Darkhold, Aida designs an inter-dimensional gateway, and builds a portal within it. The finished portal bears a resemblance to [[Film/DoctorStrange2016 Sling-Ring portals]]. The dimensional disruption pulling Coulson resembles the Mirror Dimension portals as well. The Container holding the portal resembles a similar device in Agent Carter. That device also allowed people out of phase with our reality be seen/touched. But only in the portal.
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* ElectromagneticGhosts: Fitz, Coulson and Robbie aren't dead, but [[OurGhostsAreDifferent merely trapped between dimensions like Lucy and the others]]. The difference is their condition is so advanced they can't interact with their environment at all, except moments where they're incredibly desperate, then electronics respond. Robbie's car turns on its left turn signal as he's shouting for Daisy to go that way, and [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Aida]] picks up on Fitz's pleas that she read the Darkhold.
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* LethalHarmlessPowers: Eli can conjure carbon - so far only in the form of coal. He manages to kill four people by conjuring spikes of coal into their bodies from halfway down a hall.

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* LethalHarmlessPowers: Eli can conjure carbon - -- so far only in the form of coal. He manages to kill four people by conjuring spikes of coal into their bodies from halfway down a hall.



** The effects of the portal look very similar to the Tholian Web from ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', from an episode where Kirk is knocked into another plane of reality and is believed to be dead.
* TheStinger: In the final scene, we see Aida obessively creating a human brain shaped hologram.

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** The effects of the portal look very similar to the Tholian Web from ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', from an episode where Kirk is knocked into another plane of reality and is believed to be dead.
* TheStinger: In the final scene, we see Aida obessively obsessively creating a human brain shaped brain-shaped hologram.

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* ArbitraryScepticism: Daisy points out how quick Jeffrey is writing off Fitz, Coulson and Robbie as dead despite all the crazy stuff that has happened to far in their world.



* BrokenPedestal: After seeing the truth about his brother in the last episode, Gabriel now also has to cope with his uncle being a horrible person.



* DespairEventHorizon: The rider reveals that Mack has secretly abandoned all hope.



* MoralMyopia: Coulson calls Fitz out on illegally helping to create Aida, and Fitz then calls him out on breaking the rules all the time as the director, which Coulson writes off as IDidWhatIHadToDo.



* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Mack, the by far most reasonable and law-abiding member of Team Coulson, punches out an agent and rides off without permission, you know something is off.



* TheStinger: In the final scene, we see Aida obessively creating a human brain shaped hologram.



* WhatTheHellHero: As he's fretting over potentially dying and his last conversation with Simmons, Fitz calls out Coulson for stepping down and allowing Mace to take charge, especially since Fitz knows Mace is a traitor (which he fails to adequately explain). Coulson calmly points out that he wasn't exactly popular with the government for running a rogue agency right under their noses, and had to cut the deal to make sure S.H.I.E.L.D. could continue.

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* WhatTheHellHero: As he's fretting over potentially dying and his last conversation with Simmons, Fitz calls out Coulson for stepping down and allowing Mace to take charge, especially since Fitz knows Mace is (as he sees it) a traitor (which he fails to adequately explain). Coulson calmly points out that he wasn't exactly popular with the government for running a rogue agency right under their noses, and had to cut the deal to make sure S.H.I.E.L.D. could continue.
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** The effects of the portal look very similar to the Tholian Web from ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries, from an episode where Kirk is knocked into another plane of reality and is believed to be dead.

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** The effects of the portal look very similar to the Tholian Web from ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries, ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', from an episode where Kirk is knocked into another plane of reality and is believed to be dead.

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* ShoutOut: A subtle example, but the background music when Daisy is chasing Mack with the Hell Charger is fairly reminiscent of Music/JunkieXL's score to ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''.

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A subtle example, but the background music when Daisy is chasing Mack with the Hell Charger is fairly reminiscent of Music/JunkieXL's score to ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''.''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''.
** The effects of the portal look very similar to the Tholian Web from ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries, from an episode where Kirk is knocked into another plane of reality and is believed to be dead.
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* TheBet: Mention is made of a wager Coulson made with Fury over who's led the crazier life, with a ten year old bottle of expensive scotch on the line. After being knocked out of phase with reality and nearly sucked into an alternate dimension, Coulson tells May that the next time he meets the former Director, he's collecting the bottle.
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* LethalHarmlessPowers: Eli can conjure carbon - so far only in the form of coal. He manages to kill four people by conjuring spikes of coal into their bodies from halfway down a hall.

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* ContinuityNod: Through the Darkhold, Aida designs an inter-dimensional gateway, and builds a portal within it. The finished portal bears a resemblance to [[Film/DoctorStrange Sling-Ring portals]]. The dimensional disruption pulling Coulson resembles the Mirror Dimension portals as well.

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* ContinuityNod: Through the Darkhold, Aida designs an inter-dimensional gateway, and builds a portal within it. The finished portal bears a resemblance to [[Film/DoctorStrange [[Film/DoctorStrange2016 Sling-Ring portals]]. The dimensional disruption pulling Coulson resembles the Mirror Dimension portals as well.



* NinjaPirateRobotZombie: By the end of the episode, Aida is effectively a robotic sorcerer.

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* NinjaPirateRobotZombie: NinjaPirateZombieRobot: By the end of the episode, Aida is effectively a robotic sorcerer.



* StatusQuoIsGod: By the end of the episode Coulson, Fitz, Robbie, and Simmons are all home safe and sound, and the Rider is still inhabiting Robbie after temporarily leaving him for Mack during the episode.

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* MySkullRunnethOver: When given the Darkhold, Radcliffe gives it a quick skim and immediately gives up, as the scope of its knowledge is too great for any human to bear; as he puts it, if the internet is a garden hose, then the Darkhold is Niagara Falls. Aida's robotic brain, however, can efficiently process the information (printed in binary for her), allowing her to assemble a dimensional portal.



* OnceMoreWithClarity: A majority of the events on the episode for the SHIELD agents get replayed by showing Coulson, Fitz, and Robbie's side.

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* OnceMoreWithClarity: A majority of the events on the episode for the SHIELD S.H.I.E.L.D. agents get replayed by showing Coulson, Fitz, and Robbie's side.



* ShoutOut: A subtle example, but the background music when Daisy is chasing Mack with the Hell Charger is fairly reminiscent of [[Music/JunkieXL Junkie XL]]'s score to ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''.

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* ShoutOut: A subtle example, but the background music when Daisy is chasing Mack with the Hell Charger is fairly reminiscent of [[Music/JunkieXL Junkie XL]]'s Music/JunkieXL's score to ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''.


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* WatchThePaintJob: Daisy borrows the Charger to chase after Mack, and leaves a rather nasty scratch on the side when she scrapes it in an alleyway. She reminds herself that it's magical, self-healing car, but Robbie bemoans the fact that he needs to be driving for that power to work.
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* ContinuityNod: Through the Darkhold, Aida designs an inter-dimensional gateway, and builds a portal within it. The finished portal bears a resemblance to [[Film/DoctorStrange Sling-Ring portals]].

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* ContinuityNod: Through the Darkhold, Aida designs an inter-dimensional gateway, and builds a portal within it. The finished portal bears a resemblance to [[Film/DoctorStrange Sling-Ring portals]]. The dimensional disruption pulling Coulson resembles the Mirror Dimension portals as well.
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* WhatTheHellHero: As he's fretting over potentially dying and his last conversation with Simmons, Fitz calls out Coulson for stepping down and allowing Mace to take charge, especially since Fitz knows Mace is a traitor (which he fails to adequately explain). Coulson calmly points out that he wasn't exactly popular with the government for running a rogue agency right under their noses, and had to cut the deal to make sure S.H.I.E.L.D. could continue.
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** On the other hand, Robbie has altered his deal with the Rider, so that even when he gets vengeance on Eli, the Rider will stay with him. And Aida is developing some sort of brain using the device she designed with the Darkhold.
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** On the other hand, Robbie has altered his deal with the Rider, so that even when he gets vengeance on Eli, the Rider will stay with him. And Aida is developing some sort of brain using the device she designed with the Darkhold.

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SHIELD must deal with the disappearance of its agents after Eli Morrow's experiment.

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SHIELD S.H.I.E.L.D. must deal with the disappearance of its agents after Eli Morrow's experiment.
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* AndIMustScream: Nadeer's brother has seemingly been alive for ''months'' during the botched Terrigenesis process, as his terrified heartbeat seems to confirm.

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* AIIsACrapshoot: It's implied that the Darkhold didn't just teach Aida how to make an interdimensional gateway, but has given her true intelligence or driven her to design one, as the final shot has her assembling a brain using the gloves that she made the portal with.
* AndIMustScream: Nadeer's brother has seemingly been alive and conscious for ''months'' during the botched Terrigenesis process, as his terrified heartbeat seems to confirm.confirm. Once Simmons manages to calm him down, she's able to pull off enough of the cocoon to talk to him.



* DealWithTheDevil: Robbie makes a new deal with the Rider, who is unwilling to carry on their original contract after spilling the blood of all those who Robbie wanted vengeance against. Robbie promises the Rider to instead settle the Rider's scores, provided the Rider helps him settle his last one with Eli.



* DemonicPossession: The Rider abandoned Robbie and possesses Mack, as he is unwilling to be DraggedOffToHell with Robbie. Robbie convinces him to abandon Mack, who won't be able to sustain the Rider for very long, in exchange for agreeing to become a much more permanent host.



* DraggedOffToHell: Coulson, Fitz, and Robbie are trapped in a different dimension and slowly slipping into what is implied to be {{Hell}}. The Rider says he escaped from there and has no intention of going back.



* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: How Eli dispatches the four agents who attempt to stop him on his way out.
* InternalReveal: Radcliffe reveals to May (and unknowingly to Coulson) that Aida is an android/gynoid.

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* HisNameIs: Twice Fitz nearly reveals that he knows Mace is working with Nadeer on the side, once to Coulson and once to Mace himself, but each time he gets distracted. He does at least tell Coulson that Mace is a traitor, though he fails to explain why.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: How Eli dispatches the four agents who attempt to stop him on his way out.
out. From ''inside their bodies''.
* InternalReveal: InternalReveal:
** Fitz discovers that Mace is colluding with Nadeer.
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Radcliffe reveals to May (and unknowingly Fitz to Coulson) Coulson simultaneously) that Aida is an android/gynoid.



* StatusQuoIsGod: By the end of the episode Coulson, Fitz, Robbie, and Simmons are all home safe and sound, and the Rider is still inhabiting Robbie after temporarily leaving him for Mack during the episode.

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* StatusQuoIsGod: By the end of the episode Coulson, Fitz, Robbie, and Simmons are all home safe and sound, and the Rider is still inhabiting Robbie after temporarily leaving him for Mack during the episode.episode.
* WhamShot: Aida building a brain using the techno-magic she developed from the Darkhold.
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* AndIMustScream: Ellen Nadeer's brother has seemingly been alive for ''months'' during the botched Terrigenesis process, as his terrified heartbeat seems to confirm.

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* AndIMustScream: Ellen Nadeer's brother has seemingly been alive for ''months'' during the botched Terrigenesis process, as his terrified heartbeat seems to confirm.



* DarkSecret: Senator Nayder does '''not''' want anybody to know about her brother, not even the scientists helping him.

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* DarkSecret: Senator Nayder Nadeer does '''not''' want anybody to know about her brother, not even the scientists helping him.



* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: How Eli dispatches the four agents who attempt to stop him on his way out.



* PapaWolf: Jeffery is '''furious''' when Senator Nayder won't let him talk to Jemma and he immediately tries to get her back.

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* PapaWolf: Jeffery is '''furious''' when Senator Nayder Nadeer won't let him talk to Jemma and he immediately tries to get her back.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: By the end of the episode Coulson, Fitz, Robbie, and Simmons are all home safe and sound, and the Rider is still inhabiting Robbie after temporarily leaving it for Mack during the episode.

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* StatusQuoIsGod: By the end of the episode Coulson, Fitz, Robbie, and Simmons are all home safe and sound, and the Rider is still inhabiting Robbie after temporarily leaving it him for Mack during the episode.
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* DarkSecret: Senator Nayder does '''not''' want anybody to know about her brother, not even the scientists helping him.


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* PapaWolf: Jeffery is '''furious''' when Senator Nayder won't let him talk to Jemma and he immediately tries to get her back.
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* ContinuityNod: Through the Darkhold, Aida builds an inter-dimensional gateway, and builds a portal within it. The finished portal bears a resemblance to [[Film/DoctorStrange Sling-Ring portals]].

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* ContinuityNod: Through the Darkhold, Aida builds designs an inter-dimensional gateway, and builds a portal within it. The finished portal bears a resemblance to [[Film/DoctorStrange Sling-Ring portals]].
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* AndIMustScream: Ellen Nadeer's brother has seemingly been alive for ''months'' during the botched Terrigenesis process, as his terrified heartbeat seems to confirm.
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* DimensionalTraveler: The Rider seems to be the only one ([[AmbiguousSituation possibly besides Aida]]) who can see between the two dimensions and freely interact with those on both sides.



* OnceMoreWithClarity: A majority of the events on the episode for the SHIELD agents get replayed by showing Coulson, Fitz, and Robbie's side.

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* OnceMoreWithClarity: A majority of the events on the episode for the SHIELD agents get replayed by showing Coulson, Fitz, and Robbie's side.side.
* ShoutOut: A subtle example, but the background music when Daisy is chasing Mack with the Hell Charger is fairly reminiscent of [[Music/JunkieXL Junkie XL]]'s score to ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''.
* StatusQuoIsGod: By the end of the episode Coulson, Fitz, Robbie, and Simmons are all home safe and sound, and the Rider is still inhabiting Robbie after temporarily leaving it for Mack during the episode.

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* InternalReveal: Radcliffe reveals to May (and unknowingly to Coulson) that Aida is an android/gynoid

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* InternalReveal: Radcliffe reveals to May (and unknowingly to Coulson) that Aida is an android/gynoidandroid/gynoid.
* NinjaPirateRobotZombie: By the end of the episode, Aida is effectively a robotic sorcerer.
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*ContinuityNod: Through the Darkhold, Aida builds an inter-dimensional gateway, and builds a portal within it. The finished portal bears a resemblance to [[Film/DoctorStrange Sling-Ring portals]].


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*GodzillaThreshold: The Darkhold for May and Fitz.
*InternalReveal: Radcliffe reveals to May (and unknowingly to Coulson) that Aida is an android/gynoid

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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Coulson, Fitz, and Robbie are depicted in a sepia-like color pallete to identify that they are in an
* OnceMoreWithClarity: The sequence of events from the aftermath of Eli's experiment to Mack leaving the ''Zephyr'' is replayed by showing Coulson, Fitz, and Robbie's side.

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*ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Mace is pissed that Mack left the ''Zephyr'' before it took off, and without wearing a helmet to boot.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Coulson, Fitz, and Robbie are depicted in a sepia-like color pallete palette to identify that they are in an
an alternate space that does not interact with their previous world.
* OnceMoreWithClarity: The sequence A majority of the events from on the aftermath of Eli's experiment to Mack leaving episode for the ''Zephyr'' is SHIELD agents get replayed by showing Coulson, Fitz, and Robbie's side.
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*OnceMoreWithClarity: The sequence of events from the aftermath of Eli's experiment to Mack leaving the ''Zephyr'' is replayed by showing Coulson, Fitz, and Robbie's side.
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SHIELD must deal with the disappearance of its agents after Eli Morrow's experiment.

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