22. Ascension

Complete story — includes the ending

Hive realizes that Lash has made Daisy impervious to his influence so, instead, he overpowers and abducts her. Giyera and James bring him the warhead, while many of the Primitives remain to kill the rest of S.H.I.E.L.D. May and Fitz infiltrate Zephyr One and free Daisy. Fitz kills Giyera, while Coulson and the others evade the Primitives and escape the base in the Quinjet, boarding Zephyr One. Coulson plans to send the warhead into space in the Quinjet to detonate safely; Daisy believes that she must go with it to atone for her actions under Hive's sway and fulfill her vision. She enters the Quinjet with the warhead, where she is confronted by Hive, but Lincoln throws her out and fries the jet's manual controls, ascending to space, where the warhead detonates and kills both him and Hive, thus fulfilling Daisy's vision. Six months later, Daisy has left S.H.I.E.L.D. and is operating as the vigilante "Quake", evading Coulson, who is no longer director of S.H.I.E.L.D. Radcliffe uploads his artificial intelligence AIDA into a Life Model Decoy.