Back at the lab, Ava watches as the drones doing all of the work for them. "See, we designed each with their own capabilities, so some are recording the dimensions and textures of the room, some testing the matter density, radiation. I mean, one of them are basically just smelling." Simmons states as Fitz gets something.

"Oh, it looks like I've got something in something." He says.

"Who's got it?" Simmons asks him.

"Bashful." Fitz states while pointing at one of the drones as Ava walks over and finds a damaged security camera.

"It's a surveillance camera. And it looks like it was deep fried with a order with fires." She states seeing it.

"Yes, but that model has flash memory in case of blowouts." Fitz says waking over to her. "Now, I could sync that with data from the motion detectors, and with a little luck, get some images from before the blast."

"Yeah, I'm gonna need to get used to your science-y talk." Ava states to him since she didn't understand a word he just said.

"Snow's readingsome compounds that are..." Simmons says and stops when she sees something.

"Is it explosive?" May asks her.

Simmons picks up a compound that is damaged from the explosion.

"Not of this earth." Simmons explains.

-

Back on the Bus, Peter is giving it a shot to talking with Skye. "Okay, let's get the obvious out of the way, I'm Peter Parker. I'm the guy who tracked you down. You should be happy, took me a complete hour to trace it. Also, I'm an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., and this," He holds up the syringe, "is a little something I call QNB-T16. It's the top-shelf martini of sodium Pentothal derivatives. Brand new and extremely potent truth drug. The effects only last about an hour than get stuck in a long nap." Peter explains and sees her get tensed up and he ejected it into himself.

"Wow. Okay, that didn't hurt. I'm sorry, that was a lie. It did hurt, my skin is almost impenetrable, except for anything that could kill me, sadly, making it almost useless. But I mask my pain when I'm around others I don't know since they'll see me as the rest of the world does, like some kid who doesn't know what he's doing." Peter states and Skye looks in shock at what he's saying. "My god! This stuff gets faster the more they fix it." Peter states to her.

"They also said for you to ask me whatever you want since you don't trust us." He explains to her and she smiles. "Just remember I'm not revealing classified information to you so you could destroy my only home."

"Have you ever killed anyone?" Skye asks, interrupting him as he seems to space out for a second. "In my years of being an agent...I got only one person killed. It was an accident, I was trying to stop a psycho billionaire from terrorizing people. It was almost half a year ago and I still haven't gotten over it." He states to her,

"And what about your family? They know what you're doing?" Skye asks him.

"My only family left is Coulson. Except for a aunt who has Alzheimer's who barley remembers me every time we talk. From what I was able to put together, the rest of my family was hunted to get to me. Because of what you're doing. Some how word got out of my powers and they stopped at nothing until I became the last Parker. What do you have to say about that, Skye?" He asks her angry and she realizes she's putting innocent people like him in trouble.

-

At the factory, Mike Peterson, the enhanced they are after is trying to get his job back for his son, and it isn't going well.

"My hands are tied, Mike. It's company policy." The Forman explains to him why he was fired. "You didn't meet quota, I had to let you go."

"Gary, look, I got no choice. It's just me and my boy now." Mike explains and is being forced to beginning.

"There's no openings, Mike. And even if there were, I've got a hundred guys standing in like that are just like you, only they won't start bitching when their back hurts." Forman explains.

"I was injured, but I'm stronger now. I can handle twice the load I used to."

"What are you not hearing? You don't cut it. When I say I need things moved, I expect them to be." He states and Mike shoves the equipment he stated needing to be moved and shoves it across the room.

"Like that?" Mike asks him

"Are you out of your mind?!" Gary screams as mike throws him.

"These are people, Gary. Men! Not parts you replace when they break!" Mike states as he breaks another component.

"It's not me, it's the company. I'm not the bad guy!" Gary states to him.

"Yes, you are." Mike realizes. "It's simply now, just like we used to read about. You're the bad guy. And I'm the hero." He states and swings the compound.

-

Later, Peter is knocked out cold on the table and Skye is talking to Coulson. "So, What did he say?" Coulson asks Skye.

"He stated that he lost his parents, and all of his family members due to some unknown people, he's been to the most exotic places in the world and you're his last family member, he's been training a rookie agent for the last few months, and bluntly states he wishes you stayed in Tahiti a little longer." She lists everything Peter said to her.

"It's a magical place." Coulson states about Tahiti.

"I think I'm liking the way you guys work." Skye says.

"What about his?" Coulson asks and shows the news report on the enhanced man.

"He remains in critical condition." The reporter states and shows the footage of man attacking the owner of his workplace. "Employees couldn't identify the attacker, but security footage confirms that this man assuaged the factory foreman before damaging thousands of dollars worth of company equipment."

"This..this is not the man I met. He was...he just needs a break." Skye shares.

"Then give him one." Coulson states as Skye hands him his ID card she swiped from him earlier.

-

Coulson calls the rest of the team back and shares the information. "Meet Michael Peterson, factory worker, married, one kid. Gets injured, gets laid off, wife jumps ship. Good guy, bad breaks." Coulson says to the group. "Best guess is, somebody told him they could make him strong again, make him super."

"Who has the technology to do that?" Ava asks.

"And more importantly, why would they want to?" May asks.

"Fitz, what do we have from the security footage before the blast?" Coulson asks.

Fitz shows the footage he got and all they see is a man arguing with someone in a lab coat.

"What are we seeing?" Ward asks him, confused at what he's seeing.

"Well, the man is angry at the other man." Fitz states the obvious.

"The data is very corrupt." Simmons explains.

"Yeah, like Cold War Russia corrupt." Fitz jokes. "I can't sync the time code."

"What if you had the audio?" Skye asks him. "I was running surveillance on the lab. I had my shotgun mic pointed at the window before the blast. I have the digital files in my van. I couldn't get the background noise out, but..."

"You could clean that up, can't you?" Simmons asks Fitz understanding her. "Find a sync point and use cross-field validation."

"But I can't scrub for expression patterns." Fitz says and they start overlapping each other again and come to an agreement.

"We could use it." "That would be helpful." They state.

"Your vans here. You were right, not even Peter could decrypt the files. He said he was getting close before I sent him to you." Coulson states.

"The encryption 's coupled to the GPS. Get my van back to the alley, I'm in business." Skye explains.

"Agent May will escort you. Agent Ayala, go wake your commanding officer." Coulson tells them and they do as he says.

-

Skye is in her van and is sending the files to the Bus. "Audio file should be coming through. It's not compressed so it should take a minute." Skye says through her phone.

-

Back at the Bus, Fitz gets it on his computer. "Yeah, I'm getting it." He says as it comes onto his computer. "So, when you get back, I'll show you my thing. Athing, it's not...it's my hardware. My equipment!" Fitz states trying to correct himself. "Just...hang up." He says and does so.

"So the alien metal wasn't the explosion?" Ward asks Simmons as she examine it.

"Well, I assumed from the break pattern and dispersion that it was, but it's just dripping with gamma radiation." Simmons explains as she cracks it open and some type of fluid comes spewing out.

"Now it's actually dripping!" Simmons says happily as Peter walks in with Ava.

"So, What did I get us?" Peter asks Coulson.

"Skye's sending us the rest of her decrypted files on Centipede. But we have her audio. I've loaded it up." Fitz fills him in and keeps working.

"Nice work." Coulson comments to him and Peter smiles back.

"Now, using motion estimation, Bayesian interference, a beam splitter, and a little diffraction theory, our mystery man...appears." Fitz says as a hologram projection of the footage appears.

"The explosives in the case?" Ward asks seeing one of the men have a suitcase and Fitz plays the footage.

"Please calm down. Just let me check your vitals." The doctor tells the man.

"I feel fine. I want to feel more." The second guy says and he sounds a little out of it. "Where's the doctor? Where is she?!" He screams.

"If you don't settle down, I'll have you sedated." The doctor states to him.

"Where is she?!" He screams and smashes a chair. They freeze the footage at that time.

"Wait, Fitz, did you see that on his arm?" Peter asks him.

"Yeah, I saw it, too, just hold on." Fitz says and rewinds it and they see something attached to his hand.

"What does that look like?" Coulson asks.

"A centipede." Ward states seeing it.

"A centipede attached to his arm?" Ava asked confused by it.

"It's a intravenous filter for his blood." Simmons explains to Ava. "This goo is very similar to the serum Dr. Erksin developed in the '40s for the super soldiers project. And I also ran some tests, I'm reading alien metal, gamma radiation, even the serum Norman Osborn used to turn himself into the Green Goblin. Every known source of superpowers thrown into a blender.

"We need to see the origin of the blast." Coulson tells Fitz.

"Just play it on rewind, Fitz. It should be easier." Peter tells him.

-

With Skye, she takes one of her memory chips and hides it on her. "That should do it." Skye tells May and closes her computer.

"Let's head back." May says when she gets ambushed by Mike and he throws her away.

"Mike, what are you doing?" Skye asks him

"Saving you. From the scary men in dark suits. And you're gonna he'll save us." Mike tells her and she sees he brought his son with him and they get in the van.

"Don't cry. Okay? Stay strong for me, Ace." Mike tells his son as he closes the doors.

"What are we?" Mike asks his son.

"We're a team." Ace answers.

"That's right." Mike says as they drive off.

-

Back on the Bus, they watch the explosion in reverse and see the origin came from the man himself.

They watch as he gets reassembled and watches as his skin is breaking apart and Peter recognizes it.

"Isn't that what Aldrich Killian was doing with EXTREMIS?" Peter asks Coulson.

"New and completely unstable." Coulson states.

"Poor man didn't bring an explosive, he became an explosive." Ava says.

"And Mike has the America's stuff in his system." Simmons states.

"And judging by his strength, I'd say he has more than he did." Ward says.

"So any minute now, Mike is gonna go nuclear?" Peter asks.

"He'll take out anyone in a two block radius." Simmons states.

"Well, you wanted a bomb, Ward." Coulson tells him.

They begin to get ready to stop him as Fitz-Simmons find a solution.

"Sir, he didn't explode because he was angry. The two are connected. It's kind of a chemical surge. But if you calm him down, he'll get a minute at best. He will detonate within the next few hours." Simmons explains.

"You have a solution to stop it?" Coulson asks them.

"Isolate him, get him away from people."

"Or?" Coulson asks.

"Put a bullet in his brain." Fitz says.

"If he's dead, this irradiated metabolic process will stop." Simmons explains and Coulson looks to Peter and sees his sad expression on his face and Coulson is the only one who understands why he's like that.

"You need to come up with a third option. One that doesn't involve Mike's son loosing a father." Coulson states to them.

"We have a couple of hours at best, sir. There's no way we could possibly-"

"Don't ever tell me there's no way! It's on you. Get it done." Coulson tells them and sees Ward has a long raged shooter gun when he gets a call from May.

"May, why's the problem?" Coulson asks her.

"He took Skye." May tells them.

"You all right?" Peter asks her.

"We'll deal with that later, at length." May states. "Right now, we need to figure out where they went."

-

Skye And Mike are currently at the union station in her van deleting Mike's information from everywhere.

"How long is this gonna take?" Mike asks her.

"This is top speed. Trust me. It's not like I'm deleting s Facebook page. I'm bypassing the license bureau's A.E.S. Protected data stream. So chill" She states to him as she continues to do so.

"How do I know you can really do this?" Mike asks her.

"Because I've done it before." She tells him as she finishes deleting everything.

-

Back on the Bus, Fitz-Simmons are working on multiple ways to stop Mike from exploding and they're all failing.

"No, no, no!" Fitz yells as he runs more simulations.

"Just pretend it's an exam." Jemma tries helping him out as she works on her angle.

"Exam, Okay. Don't want an F. Because an F equals a massacre." He states as something appears on his computer. Peter looks at it and immediately understands what it is.

"What is this nonsense? Why are you making nonsense?!" Jemma asks Fitz as Peter runs to find Coulson.

"This isn't me! It's noise. Someone's hacking our secure channel." Fitz tells Simmons.

"It's longitude and latitude." Peter explains as he and Coulson walk past.

"Mike took Skye. She's telling us where." He explais and they place the coordinates in and follow it as Ava goes with them.

-

Back at the station, Skye is hoping they got the message as Mike starts sweating and heating up.

"We'll take the nice lady with us." Mike tells Ace. "We-we can't go to the airport, so we'll take a train. And there, she'll help us start over, make a new life, a better life, like I always said."

Outside the van, the team arrives and Peter is completely covered in his uniform.

"Look at this place. You're gonna risk thousands of lives over some nobody?" Ward asks Coulson as Peter and Ava stand on either side of the two of them.

"Nobody's nobody, Ward." Coulson states as they go to the van.

"Fitz-Simmons will think of something." Peter replies as Coulson pulls out a megaphone.

"Mr. Peterson, good morning." Coulson says to the van as people walk around them. "We're not a threat. We're here to help. But you're in danger, and we need to take you in." They give him a second when Peter's senses go off and he grabs Coulson and drop to the floor. Mike takes Ace and Skye and go inside of the station.

"Okay, plan, I'll talk him down, give Fitz-Simmons time, Ava you and Coulson get the people evacuated." Peter tells them as they get back up.

"Sounds like a plan." Coulson says as he gets back up.

"Why is he suddenly calling the shots?" Ward asks.

"You gut a better plan that doesn't involve putting a bullet in his head?" Peter asks and moves to find them.

-

Inside the station, Mike is dragging Skye and Ace through and Skye is looking for away out when she spots a group of guys walking their way and she kicks one of them between the legs. "You're right. He is a little bitch." She says to Mike and his friends start ganging up on Mike and he starts fighting them and Skye and Ace run off.

"Ace!" Mike calls his son as one of the men hit him with a metal bar and Mike throws him. Peter looks to see the man going flying across the station.

-

Outside, Ava sees people in a police car exiting with a gun and is confused why they're doing that when they stated nobody was to enter.

"Where are you going?" Ava asks herself as she follows the man around back.

-

Inside, Peter located Ace. "Hey, get him out of here." Peter says as an agent follows him.

"I want my daddy." Ace tells Peter.

"I promise, I'll make sure he's safe." Peter tells Ace as he puts on his mask and goes after Mike.

With Mike, he's looking for Ace when Ward comes up behind him and kicks his leg and puts him into a chokehold. "Listen, the stuff inside you is unstable. It'll kill you and everyone here!" He tries explaining the situation to Mike.

"Who's gonna miss us?" Mike asks and grabs Ward and throws him over his head. Mike spits Skye trying to get out the locked doors as the officer with the gun comes in and Mike comes flying in and the man aims at Mike. Before he could shoot him, Ava comes in and uses her claws gloves to take him down.

"We told them to hold fire." Ward states as he makes it to Ava.

"I don't think he's with us." Coulson replies to him. "Peter, May, we might have a third party here. He's gonna head down to the tracks. Only take the shot if you have to, Ward." Coulson states to Ward as he walks away to be ready.

Upstairs, Mike has Skye and are looking for Ace.

"You gotta stop!" Skye states to him. "These people can help you." She explains to him.

"The men in suits? They're your buddies now?" He asks her. "Where did they take my son?!" He asks and looks down below the railing and can't see anyone. Behind him, the second officer comes up and aims at Mike and shoots and misses.

"Get down!" Mike warns Skye and moves her as he gets shot and goes flying over the railing. Skye gets up to see the officer reloading his gun to take care of her when a web comes in and stops him and the gun gets pulled from his grasp as May comes in and easily takes him down.

Peter looks to see that Mike fell down and looks towards May.

"Go, you know what to do." She tells him and Peter runs inside to the railing and leaps over it and webs the ceiling and slowly descends to the ground as Mike is trying to get up. Peter walks towards him and shows he's unarmed.

"You think that means anything?" Mike asks him looking to see at least ten S.H.I.E.L.D. agents pointing guns at him.

"I know you got men everywhere waiting to put me down." Mike states to Peter. "I know how this plays out."

"I don't." Peter replies since it's usually him who all the guns are pointed at. "All I know is that you've got poison in your system. I know it's burning you up inside. Mike, the last guy who wore that exploded." He starts explains what he does know to Mike.

"I'm not like that other guy. I'm...it matters who I am, inside. If I'm a good person, if I'm strong." Mike explains and Peter starts remembering that's exactly what Erksin told Steve Rodgers in WWll.

"I have a clear shot." Ward says through the comms. "Do you copy?"

"I know you're strong, Mike. Your son knows it. But he needs you to let us help you."

"You took him! You took my wife, my job... my house. You think this is killing me?!" He shows the centipede on his arm making his point. "All over, there's people being pushed down, being robbed. One of them tries to stand up, you gotta make an example out of him."

"You bringing this building down on us gonna solve anything?" Peter asks as Coulson and Skye come up to him and stand a bit back.

"That's a lie! All you do is lie!" Mike states smashing the stand he fell on. "You said if we worked hard...if we did right l...we have a place. You people say it was enough to be a man. But there's better than man. There's gods. And the rest of us. What are we? They're giants. We're what they step on."

"I know. I've seen giants, up close. And that privilege cost me the chance at a normal life...and nearly everyone I know. But the good ones, the real deal, they're not heroes because of what we have that we don't. It's what we decide to do with it. You're right, Mike. It does matter who you are. But even with great power, there's great responsibility."

"I could, you know." Mike states while breaking down. "Be a hero." He explains and Peter's senses go off and he knows what it means and smiles at Mike.

"I'm counting on it. Our world needs more good people doing things for no reason." Peter states as a shot comes in and shoots Mike in the head.

Jemma and Fitz appears with Ward holding the gun with the serum to help Mike and Jemma is checking to see if it worked and he's alive and okay.

S.H.I.E.L.D. men come in to transport Mike to get the rest of the help he needs.

"Subject is in stable condition." Coulson tells Hill at the HUB. "All clear at union station."

-

Afterwards, Skye and Coulson bring Ace to his aunts so he could stay with family while waiting for Mike to completely recover and go home to his son.

"I told him his father was coming home." Skye tells Coulson as they walk towards Lola.

"He will." Coulson says as Mike was transferred to the same facility that helped Peter control his powers before. "We have some experience with this type of thing."

"He almost blew. We almost died."

"We ave some experience with that, too."

"Don't have it all mapped out."

"True, we didn't cut off the head of the centipede. And nobody is getting anything out of the man Ayala caught. Whoever sponsored that little experiment is still out there, among other things." Coulson explains as they get inside Lola.

"It's a brave new world. And a really old car."

"Lola can keep up. What about you? Have you thought about the offer?"

"Hitching a ride in the crazy plane? I'm not exactly a team player."

"We're not exactly a team. But we're in a position to do some good. You'd be a great help. And you'd be front row center at the strangest show on earth, which is, after all, what you wanted."

"I was able to hack S.H.I.E.L.D. from my van. You're gonna show me something new?"

He doesn't answer as his cellphone rings and answers it.

"Talk to me."

"Uncle C, we've got an 0-8-4." Peter tells him trough the speaker excitedly.

"Is that confirmed?" Coulson asks him.

"They want us to go confirm it." Peter explains to them.

"What's an 0-8-4?" Skye asks him as Coulson turns engine.

"You've got exactly ten minutes to decide if you really want to know." He tells her and starts pulling some switches.

"There's no way we can make it to the airfield in..." She stops herself as she sees Lola rising into the air and starts hovering.

"The tide is rising." Coulson tells her and puts his glasses on and flies off.