

"I didn't know how to tell you, and I didn't think I should," Coulson admitted. At some point, sir, your heart will just stop beating."

I can only surmise that it is progressing at a rapid rate. RELATED: Did Agents of SHIELD Just Set Up the Thunderbolts?Īsked if there was anything they could do to fix it, Simmons added, "The tissue is already dead. It's tissue that appears to have been dead for several years." It isn't caused by anything I've ever seen. The MRI shows necrotic tissue branching out from the scarred area surrounding Coulson's life-threatening - life-ending injury to his heart and left lung," she explained with a waver to her voice. Simmons was able to fix him up, but she discovered the true extent of the damage in the process. As he fought back amid a flurry of protestations, he found himself unable to breathe and collapsed. However, when activated, the gravity device would pull anything near it into the fear dimension, meaning the mission might result in death - or worse.Ĭoulson volunteered immediately. Someone would have to go to the tear in space-time in order to insert a gravity device of Fitz's design, which would temporarily close it until he was able to come up with a more permanent solution.

RELATED: Agents of SHIELD’s Ghost Rider Is ‘Vanilla,’ Says Spirit of Vengeance Directorįortunately, Fitz came up with a fix, but one with a price. Even as they spoke, the bleed from the fear dimension grew worse, quickly spreading to the upper levels. This tear in space-time opened a small doorway to what Fitz described as a "fear dimension," which caused the team's worst fears to manifest in the Lighthouse. The subsequent explosion leveled all three Kree monoliths, creating a tear in space-time. The beginning of the episode found Fitz inspecting the damage of the Kree beacon, which General Hale had wired to blow.
