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Another strong episode that essentially it feels like wraps up the Framework

Spoiler!

This was a really intense episode as they keep piling up the cracking points for the major characters

On the plane where Simmon's and Daisy's bodies were being held we learned taht the Frame work integration uses a lot of power and Yo Yo is forced to decide to turn on the planes cloaking and guns which leaves them vulnerable.

There were a lot of really good character moments, as Coulson tries to convince May of the real world and somehow talks about making soap and coming across as a crazy guy.

Tripp realizing that he was a person in the other world and that he didn't date Daisy or Simmons.

There were also some really awkward moments, the exchange between Daisy and Hope was like a sledge hammer reminder that she isn't really Mack's kid.

Anyways this episode was all about tragedy and near tragedy.

We learn that there is a full blown rebellion against Hydra and our team is going to find the backdoor left by Radcliffe so they can escape hell.

Meanwhile Fitz being the evil jerk that he is basically offers Radcliffe what he's always wanted which is immortality via using the body building machine. Radcliffe pretty much sells his soul and tells Fitz where the portal is.

Meanwhile Simmons desperate to save Fitz learns that Aida's modification in Fitz's life is his father so so goes to confront old Daddy Thug and forces him to call Fitz to come to his house so she can confront him. In the ensuing struggle Simmons shoots Daddy while Fitz hears the whole thing over the phone and becomes determined to get his revenge (But seriously when has this whole hold a hostage and tell a person to come alone ever worked?)

They finally find the back door but Aida has changed it from a water fountain in a abandoned park to a vat of molten metal in the middle of a steel plant.

Lady Hydra meanwhile realizing that Fitz is going to chase the Shield team down and possibly get pulled back into the real world begins the process of building her body and transferring herself to it.

The whole returning to the world is harrowing as Daisy basically parts the Molten metal so the Shield team can jump through. Coulson gets gunned down before he can jump but he tells May that she has to have faith that its going to work before he falls through and wakes up in the real world.

May follows him through and they wake up in the oil well facility and see Aida is strapped in, Phil grabs a scalpel and we see the machine building her body so its the TADA race against time now.

Gemma is about to go through when Fitz confronts her with Radcliffe. Fitz accuses her of killing his father and that she means nothing to her, but she tries to apologize. Fitz then tells her to get on her knees and when she refuses he brutally knee caps her. Puts a gun to her head and demands that she tell him that she means nothing to him. But at that point in his moment of redemption Radcliffe throws Fitz through the portal and Fitz wakes up on the other side.

This was the tragedy of the events as Fitz is overcome with guilt and when the team tries to tell him that he basically killing Xs and O's he realizes that he killed real people like RadCliffe's old love and Mace. You can feel the misery rolling off of him and the guilt and the anguish.

One thing that I forgot was as each person went through the portal there was almost like a reset of the Framework in that world.

Ok the last two Mack and Daisy have a long conversation and though Mack realizes that Hope isn't real, and Hope isn't around in the other world Mack decides to stay in the FrameWork. He returns to the Shield base where he and Tripp talk to Hope about Kansas as in the wizard of Oz.

Daisy returns to the real world as the Shield Jet is basically burning.

Meanwhile Aida comes into the room and we see that Coulson had sawed the head off of the Robot. She's real and she's excited and she clearly really loves Fitz. May pulls a gun to kill her but AIDA is flesh and blood and can teleport like that Inhuman from a couple of years ago. She takes a overwrought Fitz with her.

Random thoughts

We didn't see Grant Ward in this episode so his final heroic ending might have been last week

The Framework is still active with Mack inside, have they written him out of the show, or is tragedy going to hit in a out of control framework and an event will force him back into the real world?

Fitz's dad was a complete thug until the end.

More Trump bashing as Daisy declares that she's sick of the whole fake news thing