Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. S4E20 "Farewell, Cruel World!" Recap

When Daisy and Simmons entered the Framework, their bodies were left to be protected by Rodriguez on the Zephyr One aircraft. Since connecting the Framework to the plane is draining a significant amount of power, Rodriguez has to shut off the plane's cloaking ability, which means Ivanov and his men can find the plane.

In the Framework, Simmons is struggling with the idea of leaving Fitz behind but Daisy implores her to see that they have to save the rest of the team for the time being, since this version of Fitz is putting them all in danger as the head of Hydra. Simmons later runs away from the base and visits Fitz's father Alistair to try to get to Fitz. She forces him to call Fitz and when he warns Fitz of Simmons' presence, a struggle ensues and Simmons is forced to kill him with Fitz still on the call hearing the whole thing unfold. Fitz begins hunting Simmons while incentivizing Radcliffe to help by offering to send him through the machine which would restore his living body.

Ophelia is panic-stricken and initiates the sequence to be transferred into her new body. Daisy leads the rest of the group to Radcliffe's exit point, where she, Coulson, and May manage to cross back into the real world. Fitz arrives at the exit point and confronts Simmons and tries to kill her but it stopped by Radcliffe, who has come to regret everything since the Darkhold corrupted his mind. He send Fitz through the exit point and then Simmons, whom he apologises to for everything. Mack decides to stay in the Framework, not wanting to live in a world without Hope.

Fitz is horrified at all the things he did inside the Framework, overcome with remorse for all the people he hurt and people he killed. The newly human version of Ophelia confronts the group, and teleports away with Fitz.

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. airs on Tuesdays on ABC at 10/9c.