Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Turn, Turn, Turn Recap With Spoilers

"Turn, Turn, Turn," opens with a shot of a plane flying over the clouds. Agent Garrett is inside. He becomes flanked by two other aircrafts. Garrett radios for confirmation that the aircrafts are friendly, but gets no response. The aircrafts fire missiles at him and he begins taking evasive maneuvers. The two missiles hit each other and explode behind him. He looks and realizes he was just fired on by S.H.I.E.L.D. drones. Back on the Bus, we pick up where the last episode left off, with Coulson and Skye holding Agent May at gunpoint. Coulson wants to know where May rerouted the plane. May denies having anything to do with the plane turning around, but no one believes her. May says that S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters can override the planes' controls. She says she can fix it if she can get back to the cockpit, but no one is willing to let her try it. Coulson asks about the encrypted hardline and May says it was a direct line to Nick Fury. May says that's all she can tell them because she is under orders from Fury. May points out that Fitz was toying with the Bus's cables. Coulson asks for an explanation. Fitz tells him he was trying to talk to Simmons at the Hub, but Coulson doesn't understand why he needed an encrypted line for that. Fitz says that Simmons is trying to find out how GH 325 works and May asks who Simmons is talking to. Coulson tells Fitz to open the door and tells Skye to get into the system and see if she can figure out where the Bus is headed. Once Fitz opens the door, Coulson demands to know who Simmons is talking to because she may be in danger. We cut to Simmons at work in a lab at the Hub. Agent Triplett enters. They begin chatting, noting the amount of action going on around the Hub. Simmons has been told that it's a level 8 operation, though it is actually the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and she says she's surprised to have the room to herself. Triplett asks her what she's working on but Simmons quickly turns off her equipment to hide it. Triplett asks if she's hiding something, which Simmons denies. Triplett brings up GH 325 and says it didn't come up in the dispatches and that she didn't bring it up when Agent Blake was crushed by Deathlok, saying that blood is on her hands if she chose to hide it. Simmons says she knows and closes the door. She explains that people died to keep the secret and that's why they were trying to keep the research in house, but that she hit a dead end. She's looking to upload Skye's gene scans and to covertly contact Agent Weaver at S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy for some help. She asks Triplett to keep everything between the two of them to avoid trouble. Triplett says his level six clearance will give them access to a secure line. Triplett says that, if they're questioned, he should do the talking because Simmons is a surprisingly bad liar. Simmons says she know, but that she's getting better at it. Back on the bus, Skye is on her laptop and saying that there is noise across all S.H.I.E.L.D. channels. Coulson questions May, but she says she doesn't know what's going on. Coulson doesn't believe her. Garret's voice comes through the com. He tells them about the drones on his tail. Coulson shoots May and asks Fitz if he can rewire the Bus's weapons. He says yes. Coulson tells Skye to decode the signal. Coulson and Fitz carry May, in handcuffs, into the holding room with Ward. Ward asks what happened and Coulson says she's a sleeper and that she's been reporting on them the whole time. Fitz is laying down cable for the reroute job. He gets the controls live and tells Coulson. Coulson begins warming up the guns. Garrett gets in close to the Bus and flies just over, giving Coulson a clear shot that takes out one of the drones. Coulson and Garrett work out a plan for Garrett to "play dead" so that they can get the other drone, but Garret let's Coulson know that he's running on fumes. Garrett comes straight at the bus and Coulson fires straight at him. Garrett does a barrel roll and the shot takes out the other drone.

Back in Agent Hand's control room, she's informed that the drones are down and that Garret is docking with "S.H.I.E.L.D. 616" (presumably the designation of the bus, also an Easter egg reference to the mainstream Marvel Comics universe, known at Universe 616). Hand simply plans to kill off Garrett with the rest of Coulson's crew whenever they land. One of Hand's agents, name Shaw, voices second thoughts about killing their former friends, but Hand reminds them all that they swore allegiance to each other, that the encoded message that went out changed everything, and that to waver in their commitment is to die. Back on the Bus, Skye is decrypting the code. Garret asks the obvious question of, "What the hell?" Coulson tells him that they're in the dark. Garret tells him the Bus being brought to the Hub, where the drones came from. Coulson realizes that Hand is the Clairvoyant and clues in Garrett. Garrett can't believe it. Garrett agrees that she's gone nuts, but says it doesn't make sense for her to suddenly reveal herself if she's been doing such a good job of hiding so far. Skye finally decrypts the code: "Out of the shadows, into the light," followed by the word "Hydra." Fitz says he thought Hydra was beat after World War II, but the agents know the slogan: "Cut of a head, two more will take its place." Sort of. They argue about the wording a bit. They decide that Hand must belong to Hydra. They grapple with the scale of this, how Hydra has infiltrated the heart of S.H.I.E.L.D. Garrett suggests parachuting out, but Simmons is at the Hub. They decide to go in, even if the odds are against them. Garrett suggests letting their specialist out to help. At the Hub, Hand can't find Triplett and Simmons. They're setting up communication with Weaver. Weaver is panicked when they get her on the line. She tells Simmons to get somewhere safe and that Hydra has taken over. Weaver tells Simmons that she'll know where Weaver will be if they make it through. Weaver tells Simmons not to trust anyone. Triplett locks the door. Triplett says she's only doing what Weaver suggested. Simmons asks how she knows she can trust Triplett. Triplett turns it around, pulling out a knife and questioning Simmons' secret research. Triplett gives Simmons the knife, says that if she tries to kill him with it he'll know he can't trust her. They try to get Coulson and Garrett on the line. May is waking up. Ward asks about her being an informant. She says she can't say anything until Fury gives the go ahead. Ward and May begin arguing about Ward's emotions versus May's informing. May brings up killing a man in cold blood. Ward says it was to protect the team, but May says it was to protect Skye, which would be okay if he had shot the right person. Coulson comes in and says they've repaired May's line. He says now is the time to make things right. Coulson and May go to the cockpit. Coulson demands she get Fury on the line. Ward comes out and Garret tells him that Hand is the Clairvoyant. May tries the line, but gets someone who isn't Fury. The voice tells her Fury is dead. Bullets begin coming into the Bus. The team goes on the move, arming up in the locker room. Ward asks about Fury, but Garrett says he's a hard man to kill. Garrett asks if there's anything on the plane they don't want Hydra to get. Coulson is taking a bullet out of May and asks, again, for an explanation. May says Fury asked her to keep an eye on him for signs of any problems from his procedure and to keep him updated. He asks if she knew about Tahiti. Her silence says yes. Coulson wants to know how she could do it, after he assembled the team and May reveals that she was the one who actually assembled the team. She determined what was needed and gave an assessment to Fury, who gave parameters to Coulson for how the team would come together and function. May tells him what was needed: a doctor who could repair his body, a technician to reprogram his brain, and a specialist to help put him down if it was necessary (describing Simmons, Fitz and Ward). She says she was doing it to protect Coulson, not for Fury, because he means a lot to her. She says she had nothing to do with Hydra or the Clairvoyant. Coulson wants to believe her. Ward comes in and says they stopped shooting. Hydra wants the Bus and will send in a strike team.

Ward brings up everything on the Bus's hard drive, info on all the dangerous technology they've found on their missions. They decide to backup and then wipe the hard drive clean. Back at the Hub, soldiers burst in and put Triplett and Simmons at gunpoint. The strike team moves into the bus. Coulson's team has already escaped through the bottom. Skye hands the backup drive to Ward for protection. Ward and Skye split from the team. May is still cuffed. Hand is with Simmons and Triplett. She explains Hydra's infiltration of high level S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. She offers them a choice: to swear loyalty to Hydra or die like Fury did. Triplett attacks a soldier and puts a knife on Shaw. Hand says that's the right answer and that she now trusts seven people. Her team drops their guns. They were apparently testing Simmons and Triplett to make sure they were loyal to S.H.I.E.L.D. Unfortunately, Hand believes that Coulson is part of Hydra. In the Hub security room, agents see on the camera that Coulson and May have been captured. There's a buzzing at their door and Garrett comes in with the two of them, acting like he caught them. They then ambush the security team and put them down with icers. Fitz goes to the computer to find Simmons. Hand goes back to the control room. They report that they can't find Coulson and his team. Hand suggests that they should have just blown the plane up, but Simmons calls her mad. Hands says they need to be as merciless as Hydra. Simmons says Coulson is not Hydra but Hand says he's a liar. Agent Blake voiced suspicions that Coulson and other level 8 agents were part of a conspiracy. The operation that Coulson sent Blake on, that put him in the hospital, confirmed her suspicions. Hand's soldier lists all of Coulson's crimes, concluding with Ward killing the "Claivoyant." Hand says that S.H.I.E.L.D. must learn to strike first. Ward and Skye are hiding out. The way to the computer Skye need's is crowded with soldiers. Ward plans to go in to clear a path for her. He says if he dies, he might deserve it for killing an innocent man. Skye gives Ward her icer. They begin talking about a potential relationship if they survive and note their personal miscommunications so far. She says that when he makes it back, they'll have a drink. Before he goes, she kisses him, just in case he dies. Ward goes out, icers blazing, then turns to hand-to-hand combat, taking down soldiers left and right. He's finally taken down and the remaining soldiers pile on top of him. We cut to Skye, still hiding, and Ward comes back in. He asks if she's ready to hack the system, but she has an explosive device. She's not planning on hacking.

Back in the security room, Garrett is suggesting killing Hand without questioning her, but Coulson is hesitant, especially after what happened with Ward and their supposed Clairvoyant. Garret recounts all of Hand's sins as the Clairvoyant, including Mike Petersen, Skye, ad Coulson being brainwashed like the girl in the flower dress. Coulson realizes that he never said that Raina had been in the machine. He told that to nobody. He puts it together that Garrett showed up right after Skye was shot, so that he could lead the Clairvoyant to the cure. Garrett tries to talk his way out of it, but realizes he's been made. Soldiers burst into the room. Coulson tells the soldiers that Garrett is the Clairvoyant and to take him into custody. Garrett notes that Agent Sitwell filled the soldiers' ranks and so some of them should know what to do. Four of the soldiers kill all the others. Garrett says "Hail Hydra" and the soldiers echo it back. Coulson realizes that Garrett must have killed the men in his unit when they began to suspect him. Garrett doesn't plan to kill them now and begins explaining how Hydra has infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D.'s top brass. Garrett explains that he's not a true believer, but that he sensed a changing tide and wanted to be on the right side. He tells Coulson that even he has been serving Hydra all along. Garrett tells his men to shoot Coulson and his team, but the lights start to flicker. Skye's explosion goes off and the power goes out. May takes down the soldiers while Coulson fights with Garrett. A soldier pulls a gun on May, but Fitz shoots him from under a table. Garrett gets Coulson on the ground at knife point, but Fitz slides him a device that takes Garrett down. Hand bursts in with more soldiers. She heard everything that went on between Coulson and Garret and now knows Coulson isn't Hydra. S.H.I.E.L.D. takes Garret away. Triplett is screaming at him and Coulson fills in Ward. Hand is filling Coulson in on the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Captain America beat the Operation Insight helicarriers, but he is now unaccounted for and Hydra has control of several S.H.I.E.L.D. bases. Coulson notes that there will be a power grab. Hand is going to the Fridge to keep it secure. Hand will put Garrett in an Icebox cell there, and Ward wants to go with her to "turn the key." He wants to see Garrett suffer. Hand tells Coulson they may be the highest ranking agents left and she gives him a secure communicator. Garrett is being marched off with Hand and Ward behind him. Ward gives Coulson one last look. Back on the Bus, the team is reacting to the news. Coulson tells them to start putting the plane back together. May asks if she's still wanted on board. Coulson says she's not a friend, but she is an ally. He says that next, they plan to survive. On the aircraft shuttling Garrett and Hand to the Fridge. Hand is considering shooting Garrett, or letting Ward do it. Ward gets up, loads his gun and shoots the other two guards, and then Agent Hand. The Hydra insignia flashes across the screen at the end, in place of the usual S.H.I.E.L.D. logo. In the last scene, Garrett is droning on telling old war stories, but Ward just stares silently at Hand's bleeding body on the floor.