The episode kicks off with the scene we saw earlier this week–students at the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy having a little fun, drinking and swimming after an exam, when the water around them starts to freeze as another student, whose studying they disrupted, starts to leave the area. Two girls get out of the pool, but the third student, a male, is caught in the ice and has to have help from the departing student in order to escape. Before the fourth student can leave, he gets the stinkeye from the other three.Back on the Bus, Coulson is looking at photos of his corpse.In the lab, it looks as though the pool was not frozen by a metahuman, but by a device that Fitz and Simmons helped to design years ago. Ward, Fitz, Simmons and Skye are going to go talk to students at the Academy while May and Coulson attend to “other matters.”The quartet meet up with Fitz and Simmons’s professor, who leads them off and tells Ward and Skye she’ll be back for them once Fitz and Simmons are set up for their lecture.Ward leads Skye off to a building where there’s a wall of Valor listing the name of lost Agents. She hovers over Bucky Barnes’s name. She tells Ward that she feels like she cheated her way in and doesn’t deserve to be a part of S.H.I.E.L.D. Ward tells her that all she needs to be a member is a commitment to the greater good, and that Coulson saw that in her when they first met.
