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* ProperlyParanoid: ButtMonkey Talbot may still be, but you sure can't blame him for suspecting everyone at Team Coulson to be an android.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted; when Aida tries to rape Fitz after he rejects her, its treated as horrifying and the moment where they need to get him out of there. He's visibly shaken after, and Jemma gets over her own discomfort following his time as 'The Doctor' to console him.


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* FrameUp: Apparently Ivanoff decided to do this to Daisy while she was in the Framework. After Mace's death, Ivanoff took a hammer and mutilated the body, in such a way that once the body washed up on a beach, Daisy was blamed because the damage to his bones resembled her powers. Now the world suspects she's leading a traitorous faction of SHIELD agents.

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* AmbiguousSituation: AIDA confirms that being woken up from the Framework essentially leaves the surviving members of Team Coulson with two lives worth of memories, but how this will affect them in the future is unknown. Coulson and May seem to shrug off the experience (for the most part, the history buff in Coulson is ecstatic about seeing a Cold War russian submarine after coming to, but he was a fan of that stuff anyway); however, Fitz is completely traumatized by the experience and doesn't know how to reconcile the life he led in the Framework with the one in the real world.
* AnticlimaxBoss: Zigzagged with Ivanov. When he comes upon the recently-freed Coulson and May, he no-sells bullets and easily fights both of them until Coulson deploys his hard-light shield. Moments later, they realize there is more than one Ivanov-bot nearby.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Aida quickly regrets making herself human -- as she can't handle any kind of emotional pain.

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* AmbiguousSituation: AIDA confirms that being woken up from the Framework essentially leaves the surviving members of Team ActuallyADoombot: Ivanov was already a remote-piloted LMD, but when Coulson decapitates him with two lives worth of memories, but how this will affect them in the future is unknown. Coulson and May seem to shrug off the experience (for the most part, the history buff in Coulson is ecstatic about seeing a Cold War russian submarine after coming to, but he was a fan of that stuff anyway); however, Fitz is completely traumatized by the experience and doesn't know how to reconcile the life he led in the Framework with the one in the real world.
* AnticlimaxBoss: Zigzagged with Ivanov. When he
his energy shield, another Ivanov LMD comes upon the recently-freed Coulson and May, he no-sells bullets and easily fights both of them until Coulson deploys his hard-light shield. Moments later, they realize there is more than one Ivanov-bot nearby.
in. He has quite a few.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Aida quickly regrets making herself human -- human, as she can't handle any kind of emotional pain.pain. This drives her to make others feel that pain if she must.



* TheBusCameBack: Just before TheStinger, the Ghost Rider comes back

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* TheBusCameBack: Just before TheStinger, the Ghost Rider comes backback.
* ComboPlatterPowers: Aida's body is practically stuffed with Inhuman powers. She has teleportation, SuperStrength, ShockAndAwe, and a HealingFactor. There may be even more than that. This is the product of Framework Fitz experimenting on Inhumans with those powers.
* CurseCutShort: May calls Coulson a "piece of sh--" for drinking the bottle of wine Fury gave him without her, which is cut off by Ivanov firing torpedoes at the oil rig.
* CuttingTheKnot: Rather than keep trying to kill Coulson and May, Ivanov just has two copies make a token effort while he leaves in the submarine and then sinks the entire rig behind him.



* DrowningMySorrows: Ivanov offers Aida vodka after she returns upset at Fitz's rejection.



** Fitz calls AIDA out for trying to use this, ''hard''. AIDA tries to defend herself by saying that what she said wasn't ''technically'' a lie, but Fitz tells her that it was still manipulation and that it was still wrong. AIDA, of course, laughs it off as if it was nothing, now able to be human at last, which makes Fitz very uncomfortable.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: AIDA, on Fitz's urging, takes it upon herself to undo the damage she had caused as far as she possibly can, despite her initial fears of death, not only directly confronting an Ivanov Doombot but even saving Mack from drowning on the sinking oil rig without considering the risks involved in unplugging him from the Framework by force. Too bad she quickly goes into full {{Yandere}} mode the instant Fitz brings up Simmons to her...
* HeroWithBadPublicity: S.H.I.E.L.D. ''again''. The explosion at the Playground, and with a small handful of agents uncounted for are labeled as suspected terrorists for having caused led by Daisy; which is why the plane couldn't refuel or recharge. Indeed, the LMD infiltration was so successful, it even fooled ''Talbot''.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Having been imprisoned in the Framework since the end of the Ghost Rider arc, May has no idea who Ivanov is, as he was introduced late in the LMD arc.

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** Fitz calls AIDA Aida out for trying to use this, ''hard''. AIDA Aida tries to defend herself by saying that what she said wasn't ''technically'' a lie, but Fitz tells her that it was still manipulation and that it was still wrong. AIDA, of course, laughs Aida doesn't see it off as if it was nothing, important now able to be human at last, that she's human, which makes Fitz very uncomfortable.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: AIDA, Aida, on Fitz's urging, takes it upon herself to undo the damage she had caused as far as she possibly can, despite her initial fears of death, not only directly confronting an Ivanov Doombot but even saving Mack from drowning on the sinking oil rig without considering the risks involved in unplugging him from the Framework by force. Too bad she quickly goes into full {{Yandere}} mode the instant Fitz brings up Simmons to her...
confirms he still loves Simmons.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: S.H.I.E.L.D. ''again''. The explosion at the Playground, Playground attracted the attention of the government, who found quite a few dead robots and with a several injured agents. The small handful of agents uncounted for are labeled as suspected terrorists for having caused led by Daisy; which and since Daisy is among them, her powers are seen the likely cause of the mess. This is why the plane couldn't refuel or recharge. Indeed, Now Talbot has no idea who to trust because anyone could be a robot.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: As
the LMD infiltration was so successful, it even fooled ''Talbot''.
''Zephyr'' is taking off to escape Aida, Daisy offers to let Talbot and his men come if they drop their guns. Thinking better of trying to test their guns against her powers, Talbot backs off and lets the ''Zephyr'' leave.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Having been imprisoned in the Framework since the end of the Ghost Rider arc, May has no idea who Ivanov is, as he was introduced late in the LMD arc. She also doesn't know how the Ghost Rider arc ended. Coulson fills her in on both.
* MesACrowd: Ivanov has multiple copies of himself running around, and presumably has the means to make more. Given that Ivanov orders the copies of himself around, it appears he only directly controls one while the others are just drones or have copies of his personality.



* OffWithHishead: Coulson activates his energy shield while it's lined up with Ivanov's face, cutting the front part of his head off. Unfortunately, there's more of him and that trick only works once.
* OhCrap: Fitz is in a perpetual state of terror once Aida loses her temper, knowing that with her powers ''everyone'' is screwed.



* TheStinger: [=YoYo=] wakes up in the Framework stripped to an operating table in a collapsing building, without her powers.
* SuperpowerLottery: Aida gave herself every power from every Inhuman that HYDRA studied inside the Framework.
* WomanScorned: Aida '''''flips out''''' when it's revealed that Fitz choses Jemma over her.

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* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: In the Framework, Yo-Yo wakes up strapped to an operating table while the building she's in is burning.
* TheStinger: [=YoYo=] Yo-Yo wakes up in the Framework stripped strapped to an operating table in a collapsing building, without her powers.
* SuperpowerLottery: Aida gave herself every power from every Inhuman that HYDRA studied inside the Framework.
Framework. So far, she has teleportation (Gordon), ShockAndAwe (Lincoln), SuperStrength, and a HealingFactor.
* TeleportSpam: Aida uses her teleportation to get behind people and kill them.
* WomanScorned: Aida '''''flips out''''' when it's revealed that Fitz choses still loves Jemma over her.
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*AnticlimaxBoss: Zigzagged with Ivanov. When he comes upon the recently-freed Coulson and May, he no-sells bullets and easily fights both of them until Coulson deploys his hard-light shield. Moments later, they realize there is more than one Ivanov-bot nearby.


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*TheReveal: Aida's powers somehow were copied or extracted from the Inhumans that HYDRA captured and tested in the Framework. It gets worse when she snaps from realizing Fitz still loves Jemma, and start using ''more'' than one power.
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* TheStinger: YoYo wakes up in the Framework stripped to an operating table in a collapsing building, without her powers.

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* TheStinger: YoYo [=YoYo=] wakes up in the Framework stripped to an operating table in a collapsing building, without her powers.
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* TheStinger: YoYo wakes up in the Framework stripped to an operating table in a collapsing building, without her powers.
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* TheBusCameBack: Just before TheStinger, the Ghost Rider comes back

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Aida quickly regrets making herself human -- as she can't handle any kind of emotional pain.



* WomanScorned: Aida '''flips out''' when it's revealed that Fitz choses Jemma over her.

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* SuperpowerLottery: Aida gave herself every power from every Inhuman that HYDRA studied inside the Framework.
* WomanScorned: Aida '''flips out''' '''''flips out''''' when it's revealed that Fitz choses Jemma over her.
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: S.H.I.E.L.D. ''again''. The explosion at the Playground, and with a small handful of agents uncounted for are labeled as suspected terrorists for having caused led by Daisy; which is why the plane couldn't refuel or recharge.

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* HeroWithBadPublicity: S.H.I.E.L.D. ''again''. The explosion at the Playground, and with a small handful of agents uncounted for are labeled as suspected terrorists for having caused led by Daisy; which is why the plane couldn't refuel or recharge. Indeed, the LMD infiltration was so successful, it even fooled ''Talbot''.
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* HeelFaceTurn: AIDA, on Fitz's urging, takes it upon herself to undo the damage she had caused as far as she possibly can, despite her initial fears of death, not only directly confronting an Ivanov Doombot but even saving Mack from drowning on the sinking oil rig without considering the risks involved in unplugging him from the Framework by force.

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* HeelFaceTurn: HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: AIDA, on Fitz's urging, takes it upon herself to undo the damage she had caused as far as she possibly can, despite her initial fears of death, not only directly confronting an Ivanov Doombot but even saving Mack from drowning on the sinking oil rig without considering the risks involved in unplugging him from the Framework by force.force. Too bad she quickly goes into full {{Yandere}} mode the instant Fitz brings up Simmons to her...
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* NotSoDifferent: Fitz realizes that he's not so different from Ward -- all it took was an evil father figure to strip away any goodness.


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* WomanScorned: Aida '''flips out''' when it's revealed that Fitz choses Jemma over her.
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* BerserkButton: Simmons's itchy trigger finger moves almost as soon as she sees Aida with Fitz.
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* HeelFaceTurn: AIDA, on Fitz's urging, takes it upon herself to undo the damage she had caused as far as she possibly can, despite her initial fears of death, not only directly confronting an Ivanov Doombot but even saving Mack from drowning on the sinking oil rig without considering the risks involved in unplugging him from the Framework by force.
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: S.H.I.E.L.D. ''again''. The explosion at the Playground, and with a small handful of agents uncounted for are labeled as suspected terrorists for having caused led by Daisy; which is why the plane couldn't refuel or recharge.
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* OutOfTheFryingPan: Team Coulson (sans Mack) got themselves out of the Framework... and into a sinking ''oil rig'' '''and''' a submarine controlled by the enemy.

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* OutOfTheFryingPan: Team Coulson (sans Mack) got themselves out of the Framework... and into a sinking ''oil rig'' '''and''' a submarine controlled by the enemy. Daisy and Jemma, meanwhile, are on the Zephyr...which has little power and is being shot down.

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* AmbiguousSituation: AIDA confirms that being woken up from the Framework essentially leaves the surviving members of Team Coulson with two lives worth of memories, but how this will affect them in the future is unknown. Coulson and May seem to shrug off the experience (for the most part, the history buff in Coulson is ecstatic about seeing a Cold War russian submarine after coming to), however, Fitz is completely traumatized by the experience and doesn't know how to reconcile the life he led in the Framework with the one in the real world.

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* AmbiguousSituation: AIDA confirms that being woken up from the Framework essentially leaves the surviving members of Team Coulson with two lives worth of memories, but how this will affect them in the future is unknown. Coulson and May seem to shrug off the experience (for the most part, the history buff in Coulson is ecstatic about seeing a Cold War russian submarine after coming to), to, but he was a fan of that stuff anyway); however, Fitz is completely traumatized by the experience and doesn't know how to reconcile the life he led in the Framework with the one in the real world.



* ExactWords: After May remarks that Coulson will have to give her mouth-to-mouth if an epinephrine shot leaves her unconscious, Coulson gets awkward, remembering the kiss he had with LMD May. Unaware of what happened, May asks if her LMD made a move on Coulson or tried to kill him. Since LMD May ''did'' try to kill him, Coulson [[SureLetsGoWithThat puts it down to that.]]

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* ExactWords: ExactWords:
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After May remarks that Coulson will have to give her mouth-to-mouth if an epinephrine shot leaves her unconscious, Coulson gets awkward, remembering the kiss he had with LMD May. Unaware of what happened, May asks if her LMD made a move on Coulson or tried to kill him. Since LMD May ''did'' try to kill him, Coulson [[SureLetsGoWithThat puts it down to that.]]
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**Fitz calls AIDA out for trying to use this, ''hard''. AIDA tries to defend herself by saying that what she said wasn't ''technically'' a lie, but Fitz tells her that it was still manipulation and that it was still wrong. AIDA, of course, laughs it off as if it was nothing, now able to be human at last, which makes Fitz very uncomfortable.
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* AmbiguousSituation: AIDA confirms that being woken up from the Framework essentially leaves the surviving members of Team Coulson with two lives' worth of memories, but how this will effect them in the future is unknown. Fitz seems completely shaken up from the experience while May and Coulson shrug it off for the most part. How Fitz will react to reconcile his feelings from real life and the Framework currently remains ambiguous, since he was the only one who was irredeemably evil on the other side and is completely traumatized over what he had to go through.

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* AmbiguousSituation: AIDA confirms that being woken up from the Framework essentially leaves the surviving members of Team Coulson with two lives' lives worth of memories, but how this will effect affect them in the future is unknown. Fitz seems completely shaken up from Coulson and May seem to shrug off the experience while May and Coulson shrug it off for (for the most part. How part, the history buff in Coulson is ecstatic about seeing a Cold War russian submarine after coming to), however, Fitz will react to reconcile his feelings from real life and the Framework currently remains ambiguous, since he was the only one who was irredeemably evil on the other side and is completely traumatized over what by the experience and doesn't know how to reconcile the life he had to go through. led in the Framework with the one in the real world.
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* AmbiguousSituation: AIDA confirms that being woken up from the Framework essentially leaves the surviving members of Team Coulson with two lives' worth of memories, but how this will effect them in the future is unknown. Fitz seems completely shaken up from the experience while May and Coulson shrug it off for the most part. How Fitz will react to reconcile his feelings from real life and the Framework currently remains ambiguous, since he was the only one who was irredeemably evil on the other side and is completely traumatized over what he had to go through.
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* ExactWords: After May remarks that Coulson will have to give her mouth-to-mouth if an epinephrine shot leaves her unconscious, Coulson gets awkward, remembering the kiss he had with LMD May. Unaware of what happened, May asks if her LMD made a move on Coulson or tried to kill him. Since LMD May ''did'' try to kill him, Coulson puts it down to that.

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* ExactWords: After May remarks that Coulson will have to give her mouth-to-mouth if an epinephrine shot leaves her unconscious, Coulson gets awkward, remembering the kiss he had with LMD May. Unaware of what happened, May asks if her LMD made a move on Coulson or tried to kill him. Since LMD May ''did'' try to kill him, Coulson [[SureLetsGoWithThat puts it down to that.]]
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* ExactWords: After May remarks that Coulson will have to give her mouth-to-mouth if an epinephrine shot leaves her unconscious, Coulson gets awkward, remembering the kiss he had with LMD May. Unaware of what happened, May asks if her LMD made a move on Coulson or tried to kill him. Since LMD May ''did'' try to kill him, Coulson puts it down to that.

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* OutOfTheFryingPan: Team Coulson (sans Mack) got themselves out of the Framework ... and into a sinking ''oil rig'' '''and''' a submarine controlled by the enemy.

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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Having been imprisoned in the Framework since the end of the Ghost Rider arc, May has no idea who Ivanov is, as he was introduced late in the LMD arc.
* OutOfTheFryingPan: Team Coulson (sans Mack) got themselves out of the Framework ...Framework... and into a sinking ''oil rig'' '''and''' a submarine controlled by the enemy.
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* DidntSeeThatComing: Coulson's currently not aware that The Superior is now a LMD controlled by a BrainInAJar. Needless to say he's at a disadvantage during their fight.
* OutOfTheFryingPan: Team Coulson (sans Mack) got themselves out of the Framework ... and into a sinking ''oil rig'' '''and''' a submarine controlled by the enemy. [[spoiler:It looks like the submarine's going to be damaged at some point too.]]

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* DidntSeeThatComing: Coulson's currently not aware that The Superior is Ivanov's now a an LMD controlled by a BrainInAJar. Needless to say say, he's at a disadvantage during their fight.
* OutOfTheFryingPan: Team Coulson (sans Mack) got themselves out of the Framework ... and into a sinking ''oil rig'' '''and''' a submarine controlled by the enemy. [[spoiler:It looks like the submarine's going to be damaged at some point too.]]
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* OutOfTheFryingPan: Team Coulson (sans Mack) got themselves out of the Framework ... and into a sinking ''Zephyr'' '''and''' a submarine controlled by the enemy. [[spoiler:It looks like the submarine's going to be damaged at some point too.]]

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* OutOfTheFryingPan: Team Coulson (sans Mack) got themselves out of the Framework ... and into a sinking ''Zephyr'' ''oil rig'' '''and''' a submarine controlled by the enemy. [[spoiler:It looks like the submarine's going to be damaged at some point too.]]
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* OutOftheFryingPan: ...And into a sinking Zephyr ''and'' a submarine controlled by the enemy. [[spoiler:It looks like the submarine's going to be damaged at some point too.]]

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* OutOftheFryingPan: ...And OutOfTheFryingPan: Team Coulson (sans Mack) got themselves out of the Framework ... and into a sinking Zephyr ''and'' ''Zephyr'' '''and''' a submarine controlled by the enemy. [[spoiler:It looks like the submarine's going to be damaged at some point too.]]]]
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* OutoftheFryingPan: And into a sinking Zephyr ''and'' a submarine controlled by the enemy. [[spoiler:It looks like the submarine's going to be damaged at some point too.]]

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* OutoftheFryingPan: OutOftheFryingPan: ...And into a sinking Zephyr ''and'' a submarine controlled by the enemy. [[spoiler:It looks like the submarine's going to be damaged at some point too.]]
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* Didn'tSeeThatComing: Coulson's currently not aware that The Superior is now a LMD controlled by a BrainInAJar. Needless to say he's at a disadvantage during their fight.

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* Didn'tSeeThatComing: DidntSeeThatComing: Coulson's currently not aware that The Superior is now a LMD controlled by a BrainInAJar. Needless to say he's at a disadvantage during their fight.
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Coulson and the team's victory in the Framework is short-lived, as an even deadlier enemy looms against them all.

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Coulson and the team's victory in the Framework is short-lived, as an even deadlier enemy looms against them all.all.

*Didn'tSeeThatComing: Coulson's currently not aware that The Superior is now a LMD controlled by a BrainInAJar. Needless to say he's at a disadvantage during their fight.
*OutoftheFryingPan: And into a sinking Zephyr ''and'' a submarine controlled by the enemy. [[spoiler:It looks like the submarine's going to be damaged at some point too.]]
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Coulson and the team's victory in the Framework is short-lived, as an even deadlier enemy looms against them all.

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