After the commercial break we flash back to the announcement of the view from the left side of the train, and we see Ward getting into costume as a steward.  When communications go out he heads out into the hallway but is stopped by a pretty lady who asks for his help getting her tiny suitcase into her cabin.  He has better things to do, but she’s insistent so he picks up the bag and heads inside, where she pulls a gun on him.  He was ready for that, however, and knocks it out of her hand before taking out the guards hiding in the room.  He has a quick internal debate about hitting a woman in the face before deciding to hit her in the stomach instead.  On the way to meet up with Coulson he tells Simmons to meet up with Fitz and Skye, before jumping off the train once again with Coulson.

After the train magically vanishes, Ward and Coulson find May’s special goggles in the dirt beside them.  They investigate the device that was thrown at them, wondering how it could have made the train disappear.  Coulson suggests a cloaking device while Ward guesses that it might have opened a portal.  Coulson hopes not, because “I can’t deal with Asgard today.”  One thing seems to be clear, however: the Clairvoyant knew they were coming.

They need to get back to the Bus, and they come across an old, abandoned truck.  Coulson thinks the keys might be inside, because people are very trusting in the country, but it turns out the truck is already running and has been hotwired.  They make it back to the Bus and make contact with Russo.  He’s a bit bloody and looks like he’s been attacked, and he says that they were betrayed and heads to meet up with them.  Coulson goes off to get the Bus up and running while he leaves Ward to analyze the grenade device.

Ward puts it on the holotable and nothing happens.  It won’t even respond to his sweeping gestures and insistent “holotable on!”  After some investigation he finds a power switch on the side and it jumps to life, the display full of a variety of items.  He clears away the clutter, leaving the grenade displayed in the center when Coulson joins him.  Coulson comments on how tricky these holotables can be, and that he has trouble even figuring out how to turn them on.  He asks Ward to zoom in and what follows is some seriously talented physical comedy.  Both Ward and Coulson try every possible gesture to get the display to zoom in, from pinches to sweeps and everything in between, before finally deciding just to upload the scan to HQ and forget about it.

Before they can get to work on something else, Ward stops Coulson to talk about his relationship with May, even if it may be the wrong time for it.  Ward says that he would have preferred if Coulson hadn’t found out, but Coulson says that it’s happening between two of his agents on board his plane, and that he deserved to know.  Ward objects that “it” never actually happened on board the plane, but Coulson doesn’t care.  He warns Ward that if the relationship interferes with their mission or with any operation that he’ll send Ward off to Alaska.  Oh, and, “If it’s really just sex, Ward, you should get more comfortable using the word.”  Ahh, Coulson, never too busy to drop some wisdom.  Russo finally arrives, but before he can say anything he falls over dead, revealing a bloody Melinda May behind him, who tells the duo, “Wheels up in 5.”

We flashback again to the train announcement, and we see May watching the guards and the package from the roof.  The guards start to relocate, but when May tries to tell the crew this she realizes the coms are down.  Suddenly shots ring out and she sees she’s been spotted.  She pulls a cord on her outfit which looses a parachute that pulls her from the train and safely deposits her on the ground (providing tonight’s worst visual effect).  She follows the train and finds Ward and Coulson laying beside the tracks, where they landed after their jump, but they’re frozen and their faces have weird purple lines on them.  It turns out the grenade didn’t make the train vanish, it just froze them and when they awoke they thought no time had passed.

May throws down her goggles and sets off to find a way to get them to safety.  She discovers an old, abandoned truck and hotwires it, but before she can drive back to them she’s trapped by Russo, who knocks her out cold.  She wakes up hanging from the ceiling in some kind of warehouse, where Russo reveals that he’s being paid by Cybertech in order to ensure the safe delivery of the package.  He asks her where Coulson and Ward are, and she sarcastically smiles when he calls her sweetheart.  He realizes that she’s not going to cooperate, so he pulls out a knife and stabs her in the shoulder with it!  She tells him “that’s just what I needed,” and when he turns her back she pulls herself up, removes the knife and cuts herself free.  She takes out the guards like the badass we know her to be but Russo escapes.  She tracks him down just as he reaches the Bus, and when she sees a gun in his hand she throws a knife into his back.  Coulson and Ward are shocked and want an explanation, but May tells them to get the plane ready while she gets a shower.

Ward notices she’s hurt and offers to help stitch her up, but she’s not interested in his help.  She goes to do it herself but Coulson comes in and saves us from watching May do her own stitches.  She calms down a bit as he cleans and dresses her wound, and tells him that she found them knocked out and that they looked ridiculous.  Coulson asks if Russo hurt her anywhere else, which earns a “you’ve got to be kidding” sort of smile.  Ward interrupts to say he’s getting the plane ready to go, and refuses May’s help when she offers it.

SHIELD discovers that the train stopped somewhere in the countryside, and when they arrive they find no trace of Skye or FitzSimmons, or of the package.  Coulson notices that one of the train’s windows looks like it has had the grime wiped off of it by a hand, and they head inside to investigate.  They find Fitz and Skye’s computers all shot up but everyone missing.  Out of nowhere Simmons jumps up, yelling for Fitz and Skye to get down as she fires the night night pistol in all directions.

For the last time we flash back to the train announcement, as we see Skye and Fitz monitoring the operation on their computers.  Skye wonders whether the package might contain an 0-8-4, but Fitz reminds her that 0-8-4’s are objects of unknown origin, but that they know the package came from Cybertech.  Skye wants to know more about 0-8-4’s, and Fitz tells her that he’s known them to be weapons, spacecraft or energy sources, but no matter what they are they’re always dangerous.  He reassures her that they can handle whatever’s in the package, but he doesn’t realize that she has other motivations for asking.  She questions whether an 0-8-4 could be a person, and while he says he’s never heard of that before it’s theoretically possible, but the he wouldn’t want to meet the person who was one.

The coms go down once more, and a guard bursts in and starts shooting up the car, destroying their equipment as Fitz and Skye dive for cover.  Fitz tries to shoot him with the night night pistol but misses, and the three of them engage in a brief struggle before the guard pulls out another one of the stun grenades.  Just then Simmons barges in, and seeing the grenade she covers it with her body, thinking she’s sacrificing herself in order to save Fitz and Skye.  It’s a really touching moment that passes quickly, as the grenade goes off and stuns her and the guard.  Fitz investigates and determines that it uses a toxin that’s similar to the one they invented for the night night gun.

They decide to hide Simmons safely away, with Fitz saying, “Look at her little face, she’d be so embarrassed.”  They shoot the guard several times with the night night gun just to make sure he doesn’t wake up before Simmons, and then put the gun in her hand so she’ll have protection when she wakes up.  The train stops and Skye cleans the window so they can watch the Cybertech group get off.  Simmons has another tracker and they use it to follow the package to a nearby villa, where they discover Ian Quinn is waiting.

Skye wants to go in and find out what’s going on, and she is determined not to let Quinn escape.  She tasks Fitz with disabling their vehicles while she breaks in.  She shoots a guard several times with the night night gun while Fitz makes his way under a car and goes to work.  Skye overhears that the package is waiting downstairs for Quinn and when she heads down to investigate she discovers something surprising.  In addition to the mysterious box is a large tube, and inside the tube is a battered and burnt Mike Peterson!

Before she can do anything about it, Quinn shows up and disarms her, saying that the Clairvoyant told them to watch out for her.  He lets Mike out of the tube where Skye can see how badly he has been burned and that half of his right leg is gone.  Quinn says that he knows Mike has orders, and then he opens the package.  Inside is a metallic device, which he attaches to the stump of Mike’s leg.  It attaches itself, painfully it seems, to Mike’s body, encasing the remains of his thigh in armor and extending a mechanical leg to the floor.

Quinn tells Mike that he knows Mike won’t hurt him because of Mike’s orders, but wonders whether he would stop Quinn from hurting Mike if he wanted to.  He then puts his gun in Mikes hand and wonders whether he could make Mike shoot Skye, but Mike says, “Those aren’t my orders.  She’s not who I’m supposed to kill.”  Mike leaves, and out of nowhere Quinn shoots Skye in the stomach.  She staggers forward and grabs him for support and he shoots her again as she falls to the floor.  He tells her that he’s sorry, but he has orders too.  She lays there, bleeding to death, and softly trying to call for help while trying to make her way to the door.

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