As always with new beginnings on this show, the status quo has radically shifted.
Things have changed for Phil Coulson and Mack, too.
The one-time directors of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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have been demoted to field agents over the time jump.
Coulsons excited to see the old team again, though, especially May (Ming-Na Wen).
From there, its time to check in with our favorite scientists.
This experiment is interrupted by Coulson and Mack.
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Coulson and Mack find out that the thugs attacked by Ghost Rider were Aryan Brotherhood.
Ghost Rider (now in human form) is interrogating his prisoner, and similarly befuddled by this connection.
He, too, is apparently trying to track down the mysterious cargo the Aryan Brotherhood thugs were delivering.
Then its time to check in on Elena.
She flirts with Mack, but unfortunately the new directors got regulations against fraternizing, too.
Elenas not exactly one for rules, though.
Apparently, that doesnt come without a cost.
For now, Daisy takes that more as helpful insight into the Ghost Rider case than actual advice.
Thanks to said regulations, Simmons is too busy to join Fitz and Radcliffe for the soccer game.
Which is unfortunate, because the good doctor has a big surprise in store.
A female body, to be exact.
Anakedfemale body, to be even more exact, which causes quite a shock for Fitz.
Luckily for him, Fitz shares that same scientific curiosity and agrees to hear Radcliffe out.
Speaking of, the new gadgets on Coulsons hand are proving quite useful in the field.
The only other clue is the infinity symbol sewn into the dead mens jackets.
The info from his prisoner didnt work out, so the rider decides to run him over.
I dont deserve to die!
Everyone says that, the remorseless rider, his eyes full of literal fire, responds.
Little does he know that Daisys inching closer to finding him.
But Daisy wasnt careful enough.
Shes been spotted in LA, and once that info makes its way back to S.H.I.E.L.D.
base, Simmons isnt happy about it.
Thats the hope, anyway; theres lots more experimenting to be done.
Coulson and Mack track the mysterious cargo to the Chinese gangsters just in time to see them open it.
Out emerges a glowing mist, which infects the four men.
A ghost womans face appears behind one of them and declares, a breath of fresh air.
This prompts some kind of illusion all the men start seeing each other with black, demonic faces.
They start viciously murdering each other.
They, of course, werent the real threat.
That ghost woman invisibly walks past May, causing the veteran agent to shiver.
Daisys tip was correct.
She finds the human rider in the salvage yard, and the two get into a scuffle.
The demon pins Daisy to the ground, and she asks him to kill her.
Unlike Daisy, though, Ghost Rider isnt in vigilante mode all the time.
When he shifts back into human form, hes got a wheelchair-bound little brother to take care of.
Everyones attached to something, Daisy notes from a distance.
