They all return to the Bus with some minor bruising but no life threatening injuries after the crash that occurred earlier.
"Sir, Amador attacked you and your people. Whatever regard you hold for her isn't reciprocated." Ward states to Coulson. "She just kicked us in the teeth."
"How's the team?" Coulson asks Peter.
"A little shaken, but nothing broken." Peter is happy to say.
"It might take our people some time before they could refocus now." Ward states to him when Skye approaches them. "I think I can recover the data signature of that encrypted broadcast. I don't understand it yet, but that's how she was watching us." Skye explains to them.
"I'll give you a hand." Peter offers his help. "Maybe we can start watching what she's seeing faster." He explains and they leave to get to work.
"You were saying?" Coulson asks seeing they're still focused.
After half an hour, Peter and Skye were able to get trough. "This is weird. It's the same feed that was watching us in the van. Here, I'll put it on the monitor." Says Peter and they pull it up.
"Maybe the lens broke when she rammed us." Simmons suggests but what they see in the footage is a Amador looking into a mirror.
"Are we recording this?" Coulson asks them and Peter starts recoding.
"How are we seeing this? I don't see a camera." Ava asks and states seeing only Amador.
They watch as Amador pics up a tool and the tool leans closer to the camera but also towards her eye.
"It's her eye. She's the camera." May realizes when Amador closes her eve and they see through her skull and sees her eye is a entire device wedged in her head.
"It switches to backscatter when she closes her eyes." Fitz realizes and Skye looks to Ward. "You're a robot. Can you do that?" She asks him as a joke and Peter laughs at it.
"Who has tech like this?" Ward asks anyone.
"We don't. Not like this, that small and internal." Fitz tells him. "That's at least a decade ahead of anything I've seen. Thought, now that I've seen it, I could maybe approximate it, the backscatter x-ray, a micro-transceiver that somehow doesn't fry her brain, an internal power source. All miniaturized. Honestly, it's...genius."
"We have to bring her in." Coulson tells them.
"We have to take her out." May disagrees with him. "She's a weapon. I'll call H.Q. see if we can bring a task force in to help us." She tells Coulson.
"Our team can handle this." Coulson interjects.
"I get it. You feel responsible, maybe you pushed her too hard. But she tried to kill four members of our team." May states.
"If she wanted to kill, she would've done it and gotten it over with." Peter states to Ava while watching Amador's facial muscles remembering his training with Natasha to be observant of your opponent. "Something else is going on here." He explains to her while the others argue. "She isn't doing this by herself."
They watch as she's writing something on a piece of paper. "Can I sleep?" The note reads and Peter is thinking he's right. "Why does she have to ask for permission?" Simmons asks when a message appears on the camera. "Stand by".
"She's not being watched. She's being controlled." Coulson realizes and turns back to the others. "We have to find her. We'll take shifts watching the feed. Sooner or after, she'll look at something that will clue us in on her location."
"Wait. I might have something." Peter tells them and he rewinds the feed and it shows a receipt for room service dinner at the Crown Regent Hotel.
"Nice eye, Peter." Coulson congratulates him. "We got a location. We need a way of getting her out." He tells them and Peter has an idea.
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At the hotel, an hour later, Amador is woken up when her light is turned on and she looks to see May watching her. "Whoever's monitoring you, do they have audio?" May asks her.
"No. But they'll use facil recognition to determine you're a S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent." Amador informs May.
"So I don't have to introduce myself." May states.
"Did Coulson send you?" Amador asks.
"More or less." May replies since this is Peter's plan. "I'm bringing you into S.H.I.E.L.D., you'll get a fair trial, and no one else gets hurt."
"You have no idea, do you?" Amador asks her regarding the device.
"We know you receive orders." May tells her what they do know.
"Then you know that once they see you, only one of us gets to walk out of here. They built in a fail-safe." Amador tells her and May sees Peter was right about there being more than it seemed.
"Either I kill you...or they kill me." Amador tells May and this wasn't hiw they wanted this to go, but they were prepared for it when the door breaks down and Peter holds up a Night-Night gun and shoots her.
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After what feels like hours for her thatAmador starts waking up in the containment room on the Bus and she sees Coulson sitting in a chair.
"Hello, Akela." Coulson greets happy that Peter accounted for the event. "You're safe now." He tells her and she sits up.
"Give it a minute. We hit you with a powerful dendrotoxin." He tells her as she's confused why they haven't killed her yet.
"There's a kills witch in my eye." Amador tells him. "Why hasn't my handler blown it yet?" She wonders out loud.
"As far as your handler knows, you fought Agent May, payout both went down, then you got up and left the building to complete your mission." Coulson tells her. "How?" She asks.
9we hijacked your feed. One of my agents is wearing a set of glasses mimicking your implant. Right now it's transmitting his point of view as if it were yours. It even has backscatter imaging." Coulson states as Skye and Ward left earlier to complete the mission with Peter behind the screen watching with Ava in the Bus in the labs.
"I get messages from my handler." Amador explains. "We're receiving those, as well." Coulson replies to her. "My agents on his way to the Todorov building, completing your mission while we disable the failsafe in your eye. I promise, they can't see you." Said Coulson as she looks to him.
"How long have they been monitoring you?" He asks.
"Years." She answers. "Why are you doing this, Coulson?" She wonders not seeing what he has to gain.
"I need to know why a proxy card is worth thirty million-"
"No, why are you doing this? Why help me?" She corrects herself and him. "Where's the I told you so?"
"That's not who I am and you know it. I'm just glad you're alive." Coulson tells her.
"Vanchat would have never caught us if I'd just done my job. I should've listened to you, trust my team the way you insisted. If I had...they might still be alive." She states while starting to tear up.
Ward parks their vehicle outside the Todorov building with Skye in the back working on keeping the charade of Ward being Amador. "I think this is some research facility, wonder what's going on to cost thirty million in cash." Ward says to Skye.
"We wireless?" Ward asks Skye and she detaches the cord from his glasses and Ward waits to complete her mission.
"How'd you manage to escape?" Coulson asks Amador while bringing her water. "I didn't escape." She explains to him. "Got caught in a crossfire, went down. Woke up in some half-assed triage bay, blind in the eye. Spent the next four years alone in a cage at the bottom of a copper mine." She explains while taking some water.
"We looked for you. Heard rumors you'd been taken to Shanxi province." Coulson tells her.
"When a team finally came, I thought it was you at first, but..they weren't S.H.I.E.L.D." She tells him remembering everything. "Who were they?"
"Don't know, even to this day, but they were organized." Amador tells him. "Took me to a clinic. I had multiple surgeries. U til one day I could see out of both eyes again. I was grateful, until I realized what they did to me. Someone watched my every move. I had no idea until the messages started appearing. Then the assignments came after. Mostly came down to stealing something, following someone, breaking into someplace. I tried ignoring them, but when I did, I'd get this pain in my head. And now when I think about my years in the cage...I miss it." She confesses because back then she didn't have to do horrible things to the world and she could sleep in peace.
"I know you're tired, but I need your help." Coulson tells her.
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Skye starts getting a message on the screen and closes the footage. Location confirmed. Proceed to delta S. The message reads.
"Testing backscatter." Ward says and pushes a button on his glasses and they seem to work.
"You're good to go." Skye says and hands him the card and he leaves to figure out what's here.
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"Come on, Akela. You've never spoken to or met anyone in person?" Coulson asks her. "No, only contacts are the messages I receive from the Englishman." Amador tells him and that gets Coulson's attention.
"The Englishman? You're handler? How do you know he's English?" He asks her.
"Just by the way he phrases things. Lift instead of elevator, boot instead of trunk." She explains and Coulson understands.
"What else do you know about him?" Coulson asks.
"He's late 30s, early 40s. Uses dated references, disk drive instead of flash drive. Burma instead of Myanmar."
"How's his typing?" Coulson wonders, maybe that can narrow down a few others.
"Clumsy. It's like he's taking his time with it, makes a lot of mistakes. He stops halfway through some words and continues, like he's reaching across the keyboard." Amador tells him.
"Might have a missing arm. Maybe a accident." Coulson puts together and Amador smiles.
"I forgot how good you are." She tells him and is called by Simmons.
"Sir, were ready down here." She says and Coulson knows she's talking about the surgery. Coulson gets up to leave to talk to them but stops by Ava and Peter.
"Peter, I need you and Ayala to find out who's fingers on the trigger and stop them incase Ward bets caught." Coulson tells them. "We'll get on it now." Peter says and loads up the computer to start with what she told Coulson and he leaves to talk to Fitz-Simmons.
"So he must be local to know where to bring her easily quick." Ava suggests.
"So that squares down from the four corners of the earth." Peter replies.
"You have any ideas where he could be transmitting from?" She asks while Peter pulls up a map.
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"I've had a running algorithm every time Skye gets a message, we get closer to our guy." Peter tells her as they get another message and shorter range to look. "See?" Peter asks her and she's constantly impressed.
Back in the building, Ward is going past security hoping not to look at any reflective surfaces and scans his card and goes inside. "Approaching Delat 3." Ward tells Skye and moves past security and into a office and sees someone at a desk.
Skye in the car gets the message through. Target sitted. Stand by. It reads and she gets confused. "What do they mean, target?" She asks Ward.
"It's never good, especially for the target." Ward tells her while hiding from site. "Let's hope it's a knockout and not kill." He hopes.
"You should get out of there." Skye suggests and Ward isn't planning on it.
"I've already come this far, I'll finish it. No matter what." He tells her and he didn't know what the next message was. Seduce him.
Ward is now frozen to what he has to do now. "Help." Was all he says in response. "I'm just gonna knock him out." Ward states and heads towards the door.
"Ward, wait. We might need him to get through the next door." Skye tells him. "Remember, they're expecting seduce not kill."
Ward looks at the man behind the desk and can't believe he agreed to do this mission. "I don't think I'm his type."
Skye decides to help him as much as she can by zooming in to get a look at him. "Cheap haircut. 5 o'clock shadow. Nope, odds are you guys play for the same team." She states regarding what he's into.
"You're gonna have to bromance him." Skye suggests. "Talk sports, vodka, Victoria secret catalog. Be friendly, Agent Ward. Can you do friendly?" Skye wonders as Ward enters and the man gets up from his desk and starts arguing in Russian and they start talking.
"Show me your identification." He tells Ward as he starts searching his pockets for something to keep him distracted.
"How about that game last night?" Ward asks him and he doesn't reply.
"Your I.D." He tells Ward and Ward tries explaining how he left it home after meeting two girls and he doesn't even flinch.
Ward just gives up and goes to knocking him out. He then takes his card and enters the room and sees two people working and they look at him.
Ward looks around the room and sees chalkboards and equations everywhere. He keeps focusing when a he looks and sees what looks like a sorta subway map and a camera goes off on his glasses.
Mission complete. It reads and he knows it's time to leave but he's still confused to what he just did.
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A blimp finally appears on Ava's handheld device of the trader while she holds onto Peter's back.
"They sent another message, we got a location." Ava tells Peter while he's driving a motorcycle down the streets, that he knows how to drive since he was ten (courtesy of Natasha) and head to the location.
"He's just a few blocks from here." Peter says seeing the location.
"Somewhere in Victory Square. One more message and we will have his precise location." Peter says while speeding up to make it before he could escape.
They make it to Victory Square and they get another ping as they get off the motorcycle.
"It says he's 20 meters from us." Ava says and they look up to see a someone with only their left hand exiting a home. He's got short blond hair, prescription glasses, looks like he's entering his 40s and it seems that his left arm is missing.
"I think we have him." Peter replies and they start head towards the man, but as soon as he sees Peter he pauses.
"Peter Parker, Agent S." He tells them and they're completely confused to how he knows Peter and his secret code name.
"How do you know who I am?" Peter asks him while getting his gun ready from under his shirt.
"I have a message for you." The man tells him and Ava also gets her gun ready. "You can't hide in the shadows forever. We will catch you. You won't be shielded forever." He tells Peter just before a flash of light goes off in his eye and he drops to the floor dead.
Peter is just standing there in shock to what he told him. The people who he was told about, the people who took down his parents plane and killed them to find him. They're still out there, and they know where to find him.
"The man was a former scientist who fell off the grid a few years ago. A dr. Curt Conners." Coulson tells everyone as Amador has the bomb out of her eye now.
"My handler was as trapped as I was." Amador states realizing the truth. "Which means the real threat is still out there." Coulson states.
"S.H.I.E.L.D. is trying to decipher what was written on that chalkboard. Nobody's never seen anything like it. Some think it's alien language, some think it's some sort of equation." Coulson tells her as Amador's ride is here.
"You'll get a fair trial, I promise." Coulson tells her. "I plan on testifying. And a few other people will gladly." Coulson explains since Peter also offered.
"Thank you." Amador tells Coulson and is taken out.
Peter is still in shock to what that man said while sitting on the couch on the living floor with Ava across from him. "Nobody, outside a handful of people know about Peter Parker and Agent S being the same guy. An even fewer number know Peter Parker even exists." Peter explains his fear to Ava.
"I was told stories about why I don't have parents for years. Some said they had to go away and couldn't contact me. It wasn't until when I was about eight, when I was told the truth. They were killed in a crash while heading to the HUB to check on some secret encoded message that went down with them. I assumed they got what they were after when they died, until today...they were after me. It's always been me. I was just a few months old at the time my parents died. But they knew I would grow up to be different. Now I know they're out there and actually know I'm a S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent, I now feel like I have to watch over my shoulder every second." Peter drones on as Ava just pulls him into a hug.
"You're not gonna be alone, Peter." Ava tells him making a promise. "You won't face this alone." She states knowing if someone tries to take Peter, they'll have to go through a dozen people before getting to him.
But the question remainsis who's out there that has access to S.H.I.E.L.D. and knows who Peter is? And why do they want him so badly to be patient to wait over ten years to get him?
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