The next day they decided to tell everyone. Skye was so excited, her parents knew she wouldn't want to keep it to herself. The rest of the team was thrilled for her, they all saw how much she wanted to find her family and now she had them. And she wanted to go by the name her parents gave her. She was now called Daisy.
But they had to get back to work sooner than they wanted to. Coulson has a feeling that Thomas Nash, given that computers spoke for him, was just a puppet, an innocent man. Daisy confirmed his suspicions. The Clairvoyant knew everything that would happen and did happen except for how Coulson had been brought back from the dead. Because only Fury knew that.
"He doesn't have powers, he has security clearance. He's an agent of SHIELD." Coulson's eyes were wide.
He marched straight to the cage and grilled Ward. He had shot Nash and thought he knew who the real Clairvoyant is. Something wasn't adding up here.
Then the worst came. He found out May had an encrypted hardline through Daisy who looked completely devastated. He didn't want to believe she might be working for the Clairvoyant but he didn't have time to put his hurt feelings first. She wouldn't hurt Daisy, he knew that much.
They cornered her down in the cargo bay where she had an icer aimed at him.
"It's not what you think it's just an icer." She held up her hands.
"Well this ones not, it's real." Phil warned her.
Then Daisy appeared. The look on her face shattered May's heart.
"May." She whimpered.
"Daisy, I'm not the Clairvoyant." May said.
"How do I know that?" She should have known better. Of course this would happen right when she found her parents.
"Just listen to him."
"Look, let me explain everything. But not here."
"Why?" Coulson demanded. "You have to check with your boss first? Using that encrypted phone? Who's on the other end of that line?"
"I can't say." May simply said.
"It's okay, I think I know. It makes sense why Deathlock left you alive but put Blake in critical condition."
May realized what he was saying and was devasted.
"You think-?" She stammered. "You really think I would do that to you? To Daisy?"
"Stop lying! Who's the real Clairvoyant?"
At that moment the plane jerked and everyone lost their balance.
"What's happening?" Coulson demanded.
"I don't know I didn't do it Phil!" May yelled. "I don't know what's happening."
"If you're not doing this who is?" He yelled back. "Drop the weapon! Kick it over to the stairs! Now!"
May did what she was told and Coulson came down the stairs.
"I didn't set this new course." May told them. "Let me check the instrument panel and I'll be able to-"
"No way!" Coulson yelled. "You're not going anywhere until you explain what's going on."
"It's not me!" May screamed.
"Then why did you have an encrypted hard line?"
"Let's take a breath."
"Let's not!"
"It was a dedicated line to director Fury. That's the truth."
Coulson looked shocked.
"I've been trying to get him on the line for weeks."
"You were reporting to him?" Daisy asked.
"That's all I can tell you." May softened looking at her daughter.
"That's all you can tell us?!" Coulson said angrily.
"I'm under orders!" May yelled back.
"We're not headed to Fury anymore."
"I don't know where we're headed. And I can't get Fury on the line because Fitz cut the line!"
"Daisy told me to!" Fitz chimed in.
"Someone was talking to the real Clairvoyant." Daisy added.
"You were in the walls Fitz." May turned on him. "You wanna tell me what you were doing tampering with the plane's sat cable?!"
"Oh sure! Because that's relevant! Don't try to turn this around on me." Fitz threw back.
Coulson kept the gun aimed at May and turned to look at Fitz.
"Fitz?" He asked.
"I was trying to talk to Simmons at the Hub." The young man admitted.
"And you needed an encrypted line?" Coulson asked. "What's so secret?"
"You tell me!" Fitz replied. "Simmons and I know you two have been whispering about the drug that saved your life! Simmons is just trying to figure out how the damn thing works!"
"Fitz," May said with wide eyes, "who is she talking to?"
"Fitz open the door." Coulson said.
Fitz fought him on it, refusing to.
"We can't get anything sorted out until you open the damn door! Daisy hook your laptop up to our systems. See if you can pull up any SHIELD communications. I want to know where this plane is heading and why." Coulson instructed Daisy.
"Coulson..." May tried to step forward.
"You stay put!" Coulson yelled. Then he turned to Fitz. "Now tell me who Simmons is talking to. Because if it isn't someone we trust, she's in big trouble."
Daisy hooked her laptop up and found nothing but noise across all the SHIELD channels.
"What do you mean noise?" Coulson asked.
"I mean literal noise across all the SHIELD channels." Daisy said and showed him.
He turned on May, who he still had a gun pointed at.
"You want to fill us in? We root you out, a mole, and suddenly our plane shuts down."
"I don't know what's happening you have to believe me!" May said.
"I don't." Coulson stated.
That was when they started hearing staticky talk over the communications.
"Enemy aircraft on my tail. Over." A familiar voice said.
"Garrett?" Coulson asked.
"Coulson I'm under attack. SHIELD drones. Repeat, SHIELD drones are on my ass we're not getting along. Do you copy?" Garrett said.
"Copy. What's going on? We've lost control of our aircraft." Coulson said.
"Hell if I know." Garrett replied. "Tell me you got guns on that thing. Coming to you."
Looking back and forth between May and the radio, Coulson made a decision and used an icer on May to knock her out.
Daisy jjumped and stared at her mother, horrified.
"I'm sorry. But we can't trust her." Coulson said sadly.
"Would she...she wouldn't...she's my mom." Daisy stammered.
"I don't think she would hurt you. But I don't know and I can't let anything happen to you or anyone else." Coulson told her.
Daisy nodded, tears welling in her eyes. Coulson told her to decode the signal and get ahead of whatever was happening so they wouldn't be surprised anymore, and told Fitz to wire the guns to manual control to help Garrett.
The two men picked May up and carried her to the cage.
"What happened?" Asked Ward who was still sitting in there.
"She's a sleeper." They set an unconcious May down gently. "I mean the other kind of sleeper."
"Wait what are you saying?" Ward asked.
"She's been reporting on us." Coulson answered.
Fitz got the guns hard wired and they took the two SHIELD drones out, after which Garrett joined them on the plane and asked what the hell was going on.
Coulson told them they had no clue what was happening it where they were going, and Garrett said they were headed straight for the Hub.
Daisy almost had the code cracked, she said it was a repeating pneumonic key.
"Those drones came straight from the Hub." Garrett said.
"Victoria Hand." Coulson realized.
"What?" Garrett asked.
"The Clairvoyant." Fitz answered him.
"I thought Ward capped that guy." Garrett said.
"I think Ward shot the wrong man. I think Nash was an unwitting decoy meant to end our investigation. I think the Clairvoyant is a SHIELD agent." Coulson explained.
"And you think Hand is the clairvoyant? She's a hard ass and a buzz kill at parties but I don't think she's capable of this." Garrett said.
"Excuse me but didn't she just try to shoot you out of the sky?" Coulson asked.
"Don't get me wrong she's definitely gone nuts but she's been hiding in plain sight the whole time. Why reveal herself now?" Garrett questioned.
"Guys." Daisy got their attention.
She had deciphered the code.
"Out of the shadows, into the light." Coulson said.
They all stared at the screen, which now read HYDRA.
They were all confused. Hydra had been defeated decades ago and the signal was coming from a SHIELD source. That meant there were Hydra members within SHIELD.
Garrett wanted to jump ship but Simmons and Tripp were both at the Hub and in danger. This meant letting Ward and May out to deal with whatever they would find at the Hub.
May woke up with a splitting headache and to Ward staring down at her.
"Coulson said you're in informant. Want to elaborate on that?" He said angrily.
"No I don't. Damn icer." She sat up.
"You're good. I always heard you were good. But man. Reporting on us, on your daughter. Did you still keep it going after you found out about that little bit of information?" Ward asked.
If May's head hadn't been pounding she might have gotten up and punched him with her cuffed hands.
"Don't bring her into this." She growled.
"I'm just saying, you've been going behind Coulson's back and reporting to God knows who, on all of us. And you have a kid with him. I wonder what you would do to anyone else." He leaned back in his chair.
"I had your backs! I'm not conning anyone!" May yelled.
"You always said don't let your emotions get the best of you. But look at you." Ward challenged.
"You shot a man in cold blood and let your emotions get the best of you! Which would have been okay, if you hadn't shot the wrong man." May said.
Coulson suddenly opened the door.
"Fitz repaired your direct line. If you can make things right, nows your chance. Cause you can't make it worse." He told May.
They had just arrived at the Hub and were landing. Coulson marched May to the cockpit where May said she was ordered to make these reports alone.
"They're taking out our guns! Get director Fury on the line or I'll march you out there first!" Coulson told her.
Sighing. May picked up the phone, but someone else answered.
"This is a direct line to Fury. Who is this?" May was confused.
"Director Fury is dead." The voice said and hung up.
That's when the bullets started raining in. One struck May in the arm and, despite his anger, Coulson grabbed her and pulled her down.
Once they could, they rushed out and Coulson took May to medical to get the bullet out of her arm not so gently. During this he grilled her about why she was reporting to him.
She told him Fury told her to watch him, make sure he didn't show signs of physical or mental deterioration after being brought back to life.
Coulson stared, "did you know about Tahiti?"
When May couldn't look him in the eye he had his answer.
"How could you do that to me? After I helped you sift through the ashes of Bahrain?"
"He said you couldn't know." May told him.
"I gave you a second chance when I assembled this team." Coulson raised his voice.
"I assembled his team!" May yelled back. She said she had evaluated what was needed and given it to Fury, who in turn gave it to Phil.
"But I didn't do it for Fury I did it for you to protect you I-" she paused. "You means a lot to me. We were married, we have a daughter. To hear you were dead...you may not believe me but that's the truth."
"I want to believe you. But you used that against me this whole time." Coulson growled.
Ward came in and informed them that there were no more shots fired and that Fitz had wired the ramp so they would have to pry it open to get in.
They wiped the bus completely clean of everything they didn't want Hydra to get ahold of and used Fitz's mouse hole invention to drop out and escape.
Ward and Daisy were going to the nerve center to disable their systems. He instructed everyone else to only use icers since everyone there was under orders and they didn't know who was Hydra or not. Everyone else was going to find Tripp and Simmons and get them out. May tried to tell her daughter to be careful but Daisy wouldn't even look at her.
Garrett wanted to go straight for Hand and take her out. May begged Phil to let her help but he wouldn't take the cuffs off her. They made their way to controls to try to find where Simmons and Tripp were and faked being captured by Garrett to get in, icing them agents once inside.
Once again, Garrett wanted to kill Hand without questioning. Coulson found it really odd that he kept pushing for this.
Garrett went on to list the crimes of the Clairvoyant, including using the same machine on Coulson and Raina, something Coulson had never told him.
It all clicked into place. Garrett was the clairvoyant. Quinn had said they would lead the Clairvoyant to the cure and they did, when Garrett went with them to get the drug to save Daisy.
"Phil, you need to take a second and..." Garrett stopped and laughed a little. "Damn."
Men stormed the room and told them all to freeze.
"Take agent Garrett into custody! He's the murderer known as the Clairvoyant!" Coulson commanded.
"Gentlemen," Garrett began, "I know agent Sitwell was in charge of filling your ranks so at least a few of you know what to do in this situation. Any time now."
Several of the men fired on their fellow agents, shocking Coulson and his team.
"Hail Hydra." Garrett said casually and shrugged.
"Hail Hydra!" The other men said in response.
May and Coulson looked at each other. What had they gotten themselves into? What had they sent their daughter into? Was she safe?
Garrett went on to explain everything, how he had decided to turn on SHIELD one day, while Coulson insulted him repeatedly.
He approached May.
"I know you'd follow him to the grave. So..." he nodded.
"As for you." He moved on to Fitz.
Garrett wanted Fitz to join him. He was smart, but Fitz refused.
"Alright. Let em have it! But shoot that one in the knee caps." He instructed the agents.
May and Coulson prepared for a fight, but at that moment they felt a boom and the lights flickered. One more boom and the main lights went out, leaving the emergency lights on.
Coulson grabbed a wrench and started swinging at Garrett, anger flowing through him. May did the best she could with her hands cuffed.
At the last second she turned around and saw a gun aimed at her, just as the man was about to shoot shots rang out from behind him.
Fitz had shot the man three times and then dropped the gun as if it burned him. May was grateful, she had been about to be killed.
All the agents but Garrett taken down, Coulson was on the ground with the other man holding a knife over him.
"Coulson!" Fitz said and passed something to him and ducked. May recognized it and ducked as well. Coulson set it off and Garrett was thrown aside, knocked out by the weapon.
That was when SHIELD agents stormed the room.
"We're not Hydra." Coulson said as he stood up, bloody and bruised.
"I know. We heard everything." Hand marched in.
"Who is? How deep does it go?" Coulson asked, afraid to know the answer.
They walked out and saw a line of people walking by. Daisy came around a corner and hugged Coulson, when she let him go May stared hopefully at her. Daisy looked at her father.
"It's okay, she's not what I was afraid she was." Coulson said.
Daisy sobbed happily and threw herself at her mother.
May embraced her gratefully, happy to see her safe.
"Thank you for taking care of her." May said to Ward over Daisy's shoulder, seeing he was beaten to hell while her daughter didn't have a scratch on her.
Ward nodded and then noticed Garrett in the line of Hydra agents waking by. His mouth opened, shocked. Coulson took him by the arm and explained.
He looked devastated, May actually felt really bad for him. Garrett had been his mentor when he first came into SHIELD.
Ward went along with Hand to lock Garrett in the Fridge and left the rest of the team to pick up the pieces at the Hub.
Daisy tried to restore the planes systems and the rest of the team made off the patch up the plane. Things were going smoothly, they were on their way to getting the plane flight worthy when the military informed them they were coming to sort everything out which sounded like a waste of time to Coulson.
So they got up in the air as soon as possible and had Daisy completely erase anything and everything about everyone on their team in order to disappear and stay off the government's radar. And he had all of their badges collected.
When Daisy brought them to him she seemed upset. She admitted how big it was for her to get the badge and now it was worthless.
"I'm sorry, I know how hard this must be for you. You literally gave your life to SHIELD." Daisy said.
"I was younger than you when Fury recruited me. Some days it feels like yesterday, other days a lot longer." He replied as he opened the small safe behind his desk and stuffed their badges inside.
Daisy saw something glow on his badge and stopped him.
"Is that your badge?" She asked.
He pulled it out and saw a set of numbers on it.
"They look like coordinates." He said.
"To where?" She asked.
"I don't know. But there's only one person who could have sent these. And this is totally his style." He said.