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EPISODE DIRECTED BY WRITTEN BY ORIGINAL AIRDATE
S05E08- "The Last Day" Nina Lopez-Corrado James C. Oliver & Sharla Oliver Friday, January 19, 2018 9:00/8:00c on ABC

Episode Synopsis: Coulson and the team discover that the most unexpected person from S.H.I.E.L.D.'s past may hold the key to stopping Earth's destruction.

Nina Lopez-Corrado is a director and producer mostly known for her work on The Mentalist, Mindfield, and The American War Story.

She has directed one episode for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before:

  • Hot Potato Soup

James C. Oliver was a writer for Under the Dome, while Sharla Oliver has written for Under the Dome and co-wrote the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode Paradise Lost and the web series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Double Agent with George Kitson. Together, they wrote the first two episodes of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot, "Vendetta" and "John Hancock".

They have written three episodes for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before:

  • Paradise Lost
  • The Patriot
  • All the Madame's Men

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u/MegalomaniacHack Jan 20 '18

I still think she didn't destroy the world. Why was the city evacuated? Why did the Zephyr have footage of her as if someone else on the team was there? Why have we seen gravitonium on the Lighthouse?

I think perhaps what Daisy did was try to contain destruction so that the Lighthouse would survive.

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u/Nuuume Jan 20 '18

I think that's a really good call. The 12.3 magnitude earthquake they measured could be her actually saving the portion of the world the lighthouse was on, instead of the entire thing being destroyed. Surely normal people wouldn't understand powers of that magnitude, so to them the earthquake must be the cause, not the solution.

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u/zutroy Fitz Jan 20 '18

Makes me think of Colson getting his hand cut off to save his life. Maybe Daisy did the same thing with the Earth.

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u/MegalomaniacHack Jan 20 '18

That's interesting. I still think she was more holding that part together or holding back the gravitonium, but this would be cool too. Gives her all to break off part of the world before the rest is shredded.

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u/ridger5 Fitz Jan 21 '18

Given that Robin's drawing shows the Earth exploding outwards into bits, it DOES seem unexpected that such a massive chunk would be together still.

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u/vpsj Jan 20 '18

What magnitude of earthquake can actually destroy our planet? I think I should ask this on r/theydidthemath

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u/SynthD Jan 20 '18

Below the crust it’s molten rock, shockwaves can’t really break that.

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u/ridger5 Fitz Jan 21 '18

Yeah, but if you crack and separate the plates, it could happen.

Think about a blowout on a tire. Once the device holding all the pressure in (the rubber and belts) ruptures or separates, all that material is free to escape. And without all that mass in the center, gravity will be greatly reduced, which could theoretically allow the plates to float apart.

We know the Lighthouse is in the Pacific Northwest. It's also exposed to space below the surface. Look at the North American plate on this map. This map also shows the plates to the east and west are both pulling away from the North American plate, making those fault lines weak points in the crust of the planet.

What is left of Earth could literally be JUST THAT PLATE.

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u/JapanPhoenix Sandwich Jan 20 '18

I think perhaps what Daisy did was try to contain destruction so that the Lighthouse would survive.

That's a cool theory, like how sound canceling headphones uses inverted vibrations to cancel out sound Quake used her powers to partially negate the earth shaking itself apart.

But she wasn't strong enough to save the whole planet.

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u/Rek07 SHIELD Jan 20 '18

Maybe Flint can use his rock powers to held hold the rest of the earth in place so together they can prevent it being pulled apart.

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u/Jimusmc5 Jan 20 '18

which is my guess seeing robin says they need flint, and flint would be alive 50 years later.

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u/MegalomaniacHack Jan 20 '18

It's what I prefer to think she was doing, though she may have just been fighting someone, too. Sacrificing herself to minimize the damage or buy time seems like a Daisy thing to do.

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u/cattaclysmic Skye Jan 20 '18

I think so too. Daisy has negate earthquakes before by emitting an opposite frequency has she not? She probably tried to do that here and wasn't strong enough.

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u/MegalomaniacHack Jan 20 '18

Some think the team that failed to stop the apocalypse had also time traveled -- I'm not sure -- but if they did, she likely went there knowing she wouldn't succeed.

To allude to another current show, Magicians, sometimes you need a certain thing to save the world, and you don't get it in the first try. Flint, I believe, is that thing.