Now, this right here is my favorite kind ofAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D.episode: All about FitzSimmons!
Everything starts out wonderfully.
Thats where things start to get complicated.

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Thoughts and memories become manifest.
Once Fitz realizes thats how their prison works, he figures out how to get Simmons back to normal.
But her return makes the revelation of Fitzs death inevitable.
From there, we go to one of FitzSimmons very first meetings, when they were still university students.
But things that arent cute or awkward are bubbling under the surface.
When the Doctor shows up with some armed HYDRA agents, FitzSimmons take shelter in her childhood bedroom.
So Mack saves Fitz, while Daisy saves Simmons.
I know that Simmons line I never knew pain until I met you!
Which continues the Eros-or-Thanatos dynamic between May and Sargethat the show explored last week.
Speaking of which, Altarah enters the mind prison.