It's been a while since Coulson has been taken, and Peter hasn't stopped following any lead he could find in order to find his uncle. His current lead is someone who has ties to Centipede and running away from Peter down the hallway of the building. He turns and tries to shoot Peter but he dodges every bullet by acrobating off the walls.

Peter uses the ceiling to stand on and grabs the man off the floor and raises him to his level.

"I'm gonna ask this once...where is Philip J. Coulson?" Peter questions and sees he's not talking.

"I can take you in hot, or I can bring you in cold." He threatens and pulls out the blade from his wrist and places it on his neck.

-

Back at the Bus, most of S.H.I.E.L.D. has taken over most command of the plane, including agent Victoria Hand.

"The Chitauri metal he was selling is an exact match to what Centipede used for their device." Simmons says happily they have a solid lead.

"We find Centipede, we find Coulson." Ward agrees.

"Great. Then Peter can maybe give the bad agent a break." Ava comments since Peter hasn't been himself ever since Coulson's been missing.

"Yeah, I mean, it's been 36 hours since Coulson has been taken. Last time he was this long without Coulson, it was when he was in Tahiti." Fitz states to her.

"What helped get him through it?" Ava asks them.

Fitz-Simmons think back and look to Ava. "You." They both infirm her.

"He spent those months training you, he barely remembered Coulson was gone." Simmons explains and that statement surprised Ava.

"Oh, joy. Hand is giving another briefing." Fitz says and they look to the monitors to see that she is.

"Any progress with the Vanchat guy?" Ward asks, referring to the man who Peter captured.

"Nothing actionable, agent Ward, but I have my best interrogator in there right now." Hand assures him. "Vanchat will talk, and rest assured, when he does, not a single stone will be left unturned until we take down Centipede."

"And find Coulson." Peter adds on when the alerts go off on the computers.

"Someone's hacking the system." Hand warns and they know exactly who.

Peter reaches Skye's room and opens the door to see her trying to hack but the bracelet isn't allowing her.

"Perfect timing, can you override this for me?" Skye asks Peter.

"What do you think you're doing?" Hand questions her .

"The money trail is the best lead to finding Coulson. I just need to gain access to Vanchat's financials, and from there, I should be able to trace Centipede's payments and then hack into their account." Skye explains to Hand.

"I want you off this plane immediately." Hand tells Skye.

"What?" The team asks, not understanding why she wants her gone as Hand walks away.

"I know I'm not some badass field agent like May, Ward, or S, but this is what I do." Skye says following Hand through the plane. "You can't just kick me off the mission. I will do whatever you say, all this protocol crap doesn't matter to me. All that matters is Coulson."

"Well, all this protocol crap matters to me." Hand informs her. "You're a distraction, and you're gone."

"Agent Hand, I know Skye's methods are unorthodox, but she's a member of this team." Ward states and they all agree she can help.

"S, your professional opinion." Hand asks and they all look to Peter. "Will she be of any use on this plane?" She asks and Peter thinks for a minute before deciding.

"No." Peter states and that shocks the team.

"Increase her restriction level. Confiscate her laptop and phone, then have her delivered to debrief." Hand tells the agents.

"I'll do it. I'm her S.O." Ward offers and Hand lets him.

-

Skye gets her things and heads for the doors with the team, all except Peter and May.

"I know Peter's worried about Coulson, but that was way out of line." Skye informs them.

"Not many people understand Peter, he's been trained in so many art styles and mental styles, there's no way to completely understand him." Ward tells her.

"Don't worry, when Coulson gets back, he'll get back to his normal self." Ava promises.

Fitz-Simmons bring her a bag that has a satellite phone damper resistant that will work through her bracelet.

"What am I gonna need this for? I'll be spending the next three days in a S.H.I.E.L.D. closet betting debriefed." Skye states to them.

"That's right. A few agents are coming to pick you up...in exactly 12 minutes." Ward replies and Skye now gets they're telling her to get out of here.

On her way out, she sees someone looking at Coulson's car. "Don't touch Lola." She warns him while leaving.

-

As to where Coulson is, he doesn't know himself as they have him hooked to a machine that's having him relive his days in Tahiti.

"It seems you passed out." Po tells Coulson as he sees him. "Now maybe you're ready to share what memories you're seeing."

Coulson tries remembering what happened, then it all comes back to him regarding everything. Peterson, giving himself up to save his team.

"I saw...Jordan...hitting that game-winner over the Russell in the '98 finals." Coulson lies, not wanting to give them what they want.

"Agent Coulson, were gonna turn the machine back on and open your mind. It's time to stop fighting it. If you don't, you won't survive the process." Po warns him.

"I'll let you kill me before I give you anything." Coulson states. "Seems like that's your jam anyway. Murdered Mike Peterson in front of his own son."

"Mr. Peterson chose that end. We gave him his life and his child unscathed. You're just upset because that man's death hit so close to home, seeing a boy lose a parent at such a young age." Po informs Coulson. "As you and your friends kid did." He states.

Coulson looks worried as he's talking about Peter. "What do you know about him?" He asks Po.

"We know everything that there is to know about Peter Parker. The Clairvoyant saw him, and what his powers possess, and who he is." Po says and now that isn't good news for anyone.

"I hate to break it to you, but your telepathic friend is a fraud." Coulson replies to Po. "Otherwise, he'd know whatever you're looking for, and I wouldn't be here."

"It's true. This is strange." Po agrees with him. "My friend can see that you died. You went cold. Your heart was torn to pieces, along with Peter's seeing his last family member dead. What the clairvoyant can't see is is what happened after. How you were brought back from the dead. For some reason, Agent Coulson, you're different. Why is that?"

Coulson doesn't give him anything and they start doing it the hard way.

-

Skye is trying to find a way not using technology to follow her own way to find Coulson and is reading a magazine about banking and finds a investor offshore account that's being questioned, Lloyd Rathman.

Skye sees the article and sees he could be her way to find Coulson. She located where he was gonna be and disguised herself as a valet and takes his car to find his home address.

She tries to find his home address with his online GPS but gets locked out because of the bracelet.

Skye quickly Paris and needs to find another way in.

"Okay, Skye, Jay need a plan B." She tells herself and notices the car has a personal emergency response built in and she gets her plan B. She starts driving again and drives into some road signs and gets a alert.

"Roadside assistance. We see you've had an accident."

"Yeah." Skye confirms. "Can you send somebody to tow me back to my house?" She asks.

"Of course. I'll dispatch someone right away." The person on the phone confirms for her and her plan is working.

-

Coulson gets dragged out of the machine and onto a bed and gets handcuffed and they leave him be. But what they didn't see was that he stole a plier and he starts picking the lock on the handcuffs. After all, he's the one who taught that skill to Peter.

-

Back on the Bus, Peter goes to interrogate Vanchat himself since nobody else is able to get anything out of him.

"Time to talk." Peter tells him. "The names of all your buyers, alphabetically would help."

"I'm not telling you anything." Vanchat states to him.

"That's how you want to play it?" Peter asks and buckles himself as the roof starts opening up, curtesy of Fitz-Simmons, and it starts pulling Vanchat into the air and he grabs onto the table.

"I've got all day." Peter tells him since he isn't being effected by the wind.

"All right! I'll talk!" Vanchat promises and Peter knew that would work and they shut the roof.

-

Coulson got out of the cuffs and waited for someone to unlock the door and he races outside to see he's in a town filled with mannequins in the middle of a desert somewhere.

"The town that the bomb forgot." Po informs Coulson who looks to see him on the porch. "It was built in the '40s for nuclear testing, but when the Cold War ended, the town was spared."

"Not exactly prime real estate." Coulson quips.

"True. There's nothing but desert for hundreds of miles." Po confirmed his worst fears. That just means there's nowhere else to run. "But I really like it. It's nice here. The children are always playing."

As he keeps talking, Coulson tries walking up to him, but one of his men interrupt him and stop him.

"Shall we get back to it, then?" Po asks regarding putting him back onto the machine.

-

Skye makes it to Lloyd's house and uses his garage opener to get inside and sees how many cars he owns while getting to his computer but knows she can't get on it without the bracelet blocking her.

She then uses his phone to call saying his car was stolen and he needs to return home and looks for anything she could use to blackmail him.

As soon as he returns, Skye was waiting for him by the doors. "You're in a lot of trouble, mr. Rathman." Skye tells him.

"Who the hell are you?" Rathman asks her.

Skye also spent some time to make herself look as much like May as she could. "Agent Melinda May with S.H.I.E.L.D." She lies to him.

"Look, clearly there's been a misunderstanding. I'm a legitimate businessman." Rathman tells her.

"S.H.I.E.L.D. has evidence your company has been siphoning funds into an offshore account for some bad people." Skye informs him.

"My clients' business is their business." Rathman replies to her.

"Well, my business is catching those guys, and if it turns out you've made a profit from any of them, S.H.I.E.L.D. is prepared to freeze all of your assets." Skye says.

"I'm calling my lawyer." Rathman says and takes out his phone.

"Do that and my offer's off the table." Skye warns him. "I'm offering immunity. You walk, free and clear. Say no, you spend five years in the Fridge." She warns him.

"What do you want?" Rathman asks.

"Follow me to your office we've got work to do." Skye says and as they pass the doors, Rathman activated his silent alarm.

-

Back on the Bus, they look into all the information Peter was able to get from Vanchat.

"His intel is paying off. We're pursuing every buyer of Chitauri metals around the globe. The largest being a warehouse in Sydney." Hand tells everyone. "This is our chance to take down Centipede. I want everyone on full tactical."

"And Agent Coulson?" Peter asks.

"If we're lucky, he's being held in Sydney." Hand tells him and dismisses everyone. "First, you send your friend off and she never arrives for her debrief, then you almost send Vanchat a million feet flying. Do we have a problem?" She asks him.

"You people weren't getting answers, so I stepped in being the best tactical guy on this Bus." Peter tells her.

"Without permission?" Hand questions.

"When have I ever followed protocol? Fury says it's what makes me a good agent." Peter states to her and leaves her.

Ava sees this as a chance to talk to him about what he did to Skye and pulls him into his bunk.

"Why'd you throw Skye off the plane?" Ava goes right to the point. "I know we have ups and downs, but wasn't that too far?"

"Skye works best outside of S.H.I.E.L.D. She won't be any help here with everyone looking over her shoulder." Peter explains to her and now she's starting to understand and sees he gave her a change to find her now what to Coulson.

May is at the wheel when she gets new coordinates and turns the Bus around and heads to the location where Coulson is being held.

-

Back with said Coulson, they have him reliving his memories until they find what they want.

"A.H.I.E.L.D.'s gonna Fine me before you break me." Coulson promises Po.

"Well, the Clairvoyant sees an end to all that." Po determines before tasering him again.

"He doesn't look so good." Raina states seeing Coulson bruised and tired.

"What took you so long?" Po asks her.

"I was tending to our other subject." Raina tells him.

"The persuasion skills I've spoken to the Clairvoyant so much about would be better served here with me, breaking him." Po replies.

"I would never use force to bend a man to my wishes."

"He's being difficult."

"He's being beaten."

"Into submission." Po exclaims. "The Clairvoyant requested it and will tell me to..." he gets Interrupted by a phone call and answers it seeing it's the Clairvoyant. "Yes? No. Well, I've only just begun/ my methods are sound. Right here. Yes." He says and hands the phone to Raina as the Clairvoyant wants to speak to her.

She takes the phone and listens to what he has to say. "I agree. Thank you." She says as the Clairvoyant uses a device to kill Po from wherever he is and has place Raina in control.

"This is turning into an interesting day, isn't it?" Raina asks Coulson.

"So you're my friend now? Because I've seen what you do to your friends." Coulson comments.

"Mr. Po? He was a murderer incapable of remorse." Raina tells him.

"I was thinking of mike Peterson, Chan Ho Yin, and all these threatening things I see you have on my nephew." Coulson explains to her, hoping maybe she has some answers to his questions,

"I have them what they asked for. Mike wanted to be a hero to his son." Raina defends.

"Did Akela Amador want a bomb in her head?" Coulson asks her.

"The people you work for are just as capable of using cruel means to reach a justified end." Raina justifies.

"And who do you work for, Raina?" He asks. "The Clairvoyant?"

"Yes. Today was the first time I personally made contact. My heart's still racing." Raina tells him.

"He has you building super soldiers."

"The Clairvoyant gives us guidance, formulas. Even gave us a perfect candidate to get everything we need to change the world. The world we need Peter Parker to show us the path." Raina explains.

"You need his blood to perfect the serum because he's already a super soldier. But you already have good enough soldiers, what's next? Make people strong, control them. You can even kill them, why do you need me or him?" Coulson questions.

"Peter is the perfect way to create soldiers without the formula. A drop of his blood will become the dominant DNA of anyone it's placed into. And after we have that, all we need to know is how to bring them back to life." Raina explains and now Coulson understands.

"You were killed. And now you're alive, we want to know how. Don't you?" Raina asks and Coulson doesn't understand. "I'd like to turn that machine on again. It induce the brain-wave frequencies to help uncover the secrets buried in the subconscious. If you cooperate, you can surf those waves."

"I've gone surfing. That is definitely not like surfing." Coulson informs to Raina.

"You've been resisting. Fight the wave and you'll drown. Your brain will fry." Raina explains.

"Then that's gonna happen, or my team will come and save me." Coulson replies. "Either way, you will not get anything from me."

"I'm not interested in those secrets." Raina informs Coulson. "The Clairvoyant can see within any agency, any government. He knows what the president dreams about at night. I want what you want. To uncover a secret. The secret S.H.I.E.L.D. is keeping from you. And you're clinging to the thing you have. Fond memories of your recovery."

"So this person you work for told you I died and have gaps in my memories. Ever think your mind reader is looking up symptoms online?" Coulson questions.

"I was also told it keeps you up at night, the thought of someone out there is still looking for your nephew, you crave answers about that plane crash that took his parents lives." Raina informs him and Coulson is starting to believe something is up with this Clairvoyant.

"They kept secrets for a reason. It was to protect Peter, so I would suggest leaving him alone. I trust S.H.I.E.L.D." Coulson informs her.

"But why is S.H.I.E.L.D. keeping details of your death from you?" Raina asks him. "They're your family. The only family you have except Peter. Now, after all you've sacrificed."

"Sacrifices are part of the job." Coulson informs her.

"You didn't just give your life, you given up a chance of Peter having a normal life." Raina states. "I mean, he had a taste of normalcy, and it got an innocent girl killed." She states referring to Gwen. "But you know how it feels to loose someone you love, so you two share that."

Coulson knows she's referring to the cellist who he was once dating. "And she did love you, Agent Coulson. Just as much as Gwen loved Peter."

"How could you possibly know that?" Coulson asks.

"Don't you two miss them? Clairvoyant says Peter never truly recovered from Gwen's death. Don't you miss those dinners at the Richmond? Do you miss hearing her play? You didn't even have a chance to say goodbye."

"I couldn't, I can't." Coulson states knowing it was Peter who has to break the news to Audrey about his death.

"She cried for days after Peter told her you died. It hurt both of them with a lie until they told him you were alive, and what he told her was a lie. And now they're still lying to you." Raina tells him. "I know you don't want to believe it, but you can't tell me nothing makes you doubt, makes you wonder what happened in Tahiti. Don't you want to know the truth?" She questions and Coulson knows it's time he got some answers.

-

With Skye, Rathman sees the information she wants him to look into. "You want me to hack into a Swiss bank account?" He asks her.

"Just need you to type in your private corporate I.D. to get me in the door." Skye explains his part of the plan.

"Letting you in there is a crime." He informs her. "How do I know you're not some criminal? In my experience, a Agent shows a badge."

Skye then takes his phone and waits for the bracelet to lock him out. "There's My badge." She tells him. "S.H.I.E.L.D.'s been watching you for some time, mr. Rathman. You're a prime exploit. The gambling, divorces, that money pit in the caymans. You're even behind on your child support payments."

"That's a clerical thing, she knows that." Rathman tells her.

"Does David know that?"

"David thinks I'm a cool dad."

"David thinks you're a jackass." Skye corrects him. "You've got to fix that, Lloyd. Kids need someone to look up to. Now, start typing."

They get interrupted by his security coming in and Skye uses the skills Ward taught her and steals his gun and aims at his partner.

"Okay, I'm typing. You S.H.I.E.L.D. guys don't mess around." Rathman comments before getting to work. "All right, were in, but you do realize you can't transfer these kinds of funds online."

"I'm not looking to transfer funds. I'm looking for transaction records." Skye explains to him. "Go to your account history. Need to open up a terminal emulator, see what kind of encryption they've got. If it's an SSL 256 or an A.E.S. twofish serpent, were in business."

"Account history, where's that?" He asks her.

Skye gets annoyed and sees he's hopeless and looks to the security guys and replaces one of them with Lloyd.

"Second line, press return." Skye works him through it.

"So, this Vanchat, is this the guy you're trying to bust?" He asks Skye.

"No, we already have him in custody. What I want to know who's recently paid Vanchat a lot of money. I backtrack those payments to the buyer's account and get a record of all the purchases she's made, maybe use it to track her down." Skye explains as he gets what she wants. "Let's see what you've been doing, Raina."

"So are we done here?" Rathman asks her.

"One last thing." Skye says and takes the keys to his car and leaves.

-

Fitz-Simmons have come up with a way to stop the Centipede soldiers powers when Skye calls on her satellite phone Simmons gave her and says she might have a location on where Coulson is.

"We're about to launch an assault on Centipede and you and your team want to follow a hunch from Skye?" Hand questions Peter.

"She did what she does best, and it's not a request. It's happening." Peter informs her. "You're taking the team to stop Centipede, I'm going to save Coulson." He says as he gets on his motorcycle and Ava grabs onto him and drives off with the others driving the S.H.I.E.L.D. jeeps.

-

"What makes you so sure this machine will even work?" Coulson asks Raina.

"It worked on me." Raina admins.

"Before we start, What's with the flowers?" Coulson asks since it's a strange fashion choice.

"Who doesn't like flowers?" Raina answers before staring up the machine.

Coulson then starts seeing he's back on the Helicarrier and sees he's bleeding out with fury and Peter in front of him and knows this is the day he died.

The scene then changes into Tahiti, nothing new for him when someone approaches with drinks.

"Listen to him!" He says and Coulson sees e gets replaced by a doctor. "Who orders this?"

"Director Fury himself." The woman giving him a massage answers and now Coulson is getting seriously confused.

Coulson keeps focusing and sees how everything is changing. The sun changes into a bright light, the table he's on turns into a surgical table. Even his words are getting changed.

Then, everything goes back to the beginning, seeing Peter's eyes break into tears as he takes his last breath, getting zipped into a body bag, seeing some form of a serum and surgical equipment everywhere.

"He's drifting." A female voice tells another person.

"This is wrong." The man from earlier states.

"Can you feel that?"

"Listen to him! Who ordered this?"

"Director Fury himself."

"This is wrong!"

The doctors keep arguing when Coulson looms up to a mirror and sees that his head is open and something is messing with his mind.

"Let me die, please." He hesrs himself begging. "Please, I'm begging you, let me die. Please. Please let me die. Let me die!"

-

On the roads, Peter and Ava are the first to arrive as a dozen of Raina's men come to stop them.

Ava then takes out both their Night-Night guns and starts shooting them down as Peter parks the motorcycle and starts hearing Coulson's screams and starts running to it.

"Stop fighting it, Agent Coulson." Raina asks as the doors open and Peter webs the men in the room quickly and sees Raina.

"It's for his own good." Raina tells Peter before he webs her and pulls her toward him and he gives her the strongest punch without killing her he could give and he runs to Coulson.

"Please, let me die!" Coulson begs and Peter doesn't understand what he's saying before he just stabs the machine with his blade and destroys it.

"Uncle C, it's me. Come back, please, I need you." Peter begs as he rips off his mask to see his uncle.

"Peter?" Coulson asks hearing his voice.

"It's me, I'm here." Peter says and he's happy to have him back and the people who took him.

-

They brought Raina to a S.H.I.E.L.D. squad who's bringing her to the Fridge. Coulson even removed Skye's bracelet so she won't be on any watchlist.

"Bet there won't be any flower dresses where she's going." Peter tells Ava.

"Amen to that, and I'm happy to see you're back to yourself." Ava tells him.

"Yeah, sorry about all that." Peter apologizes to her.

"No need to apologize. If it was my family, I'd been the same way." Ava informs him.

"Now all that's left is to find the Clairvoyant...before they get to us again." Peter says referring to what Coulson said about them wanting him to create unstoppable soldiers.

"Hey, if they want to get to you, they go through me first." Ava states while nudging his shoulder. "And I will never let them get to you. I promised you that, remember?"

"Yeah, you did." Peter says while smiling. "I ever tell you how it's been amazing, training and working alongside you?" He asks.

"No, I haven't heard that before." Ava informs him.

Peter nudges her shoulder back happy to have everything back to normal. At least their style of normal.