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13 best Agents of SHIELD episodes ranked from worst to best

By Wesley Bell

MARVEL AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. - ABC's "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." stars Chloe Bennet as Daisy Johnson, Elizabeth Henstridge as Jemma Simmons, Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson, Jeff Ward as Deke Shaw, Iain De Caestecker as Leo Fitz, Ming-Na Wen as Melinda May, Henry Simmons as Alphonso "Mack" MacKenzie, and Natalia Cordova-Buckley as Elena "Yo-Yo" Rodriguez. (ABC/Mitchell Haaseth)
MARVEL AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. - ABC's "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." stars Chloe Bennet as Daisy Johnson, Elizabeth Henstridge as Jemma Simmons, Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson, Jeff Ward as Deke Shaw, Iain De Caestecker as Leo Fitz, Ming-Na Wen as Melinda May, Henry Simmons as Alphonso "Mack" MacKenzie, and Natalia Cordova-Buckley as Elena "Yo-Yo" Rodriguez. (ABC/Mitchell Haaseth) /
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MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. – “Inescapable” – They’ve fought through space, time, and alternate realities to find each other, and now, closer than ever, only their own demons can stop FitzSimmons’ reunion on “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” airing FRIDAY, JUNE 21 (8:00-9:00 p.m. EDT), on The ABC Television Network. (ABC/Mitch Haaseth)AVA MIREILLE, IAIN DE CAESTECKER
MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. – “Inescapable” – They’ve fought through space, time, and alternate realities to find each other, and now, closer than ever, only their own demons can stop FitzSimmons’ reunion on “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” airing FRIDAY, JUNE 21 (8:00-9:00 p.m. EDT), on The ABC Television Network. (ABC/Mitch Haaseth)AVA MIREILLE, IAIN DE CAESTECKER /

9. Inescapable (Season 6, Episode 6)

After many attempts, Simmons and Fitz finally reunite. Waking up in a Cerebral Fusion Machine, they meet Atarah, a Chronicom who wants them to figure out time travel so she can save her home planet, Chronyca-2. Atarah explains that anything they need will materialize, and they will share their memories. Once she leaves, Fitz proposes to Simmons, unaware that a version of him has already done so, and she accepts. The pair discuss their space travels, but when Fitz tries to ask Simmons about the future, she transforms into a child version of herself and hides in a mental reconstruction of her childhood bedroom.

Fitz eventually gets Simmons to return to her adult form by threatening to conjure AIDA to help him. Fitz continues to ask Simmons what she’s hiding, and she begins to relive the memory of Fitz’s body getting brought back to the Lighthouse. Simmons tries to explain, but Fitz enters the memory anyway, unzipping the bodybag, only to see himself. Simmons explains that he died to prevent the end of the world, and when Daisy gives her the dead Fitz’s ring, he realizes they are already married. Coulson comes in to see the body, and Fitz learns that Coulson was sick and died in his absence.

They both travel to a shared memory from college but start to get hunted by The Doctor. After they escape back to her bedroom, Simmons starts panicking, and the music box where she stores all her projects opens, releasing a demonic version of her that also starts chasing them. They return to their memory of their first meeting with Coulson before getting separated and being chased by each other’s monsters. Simmon’s creature starts dissecting Fitz, and The Doctor tortures Simmons before they’re both saved by mental reconstructions of their friends.

They both end up in a containment pod and get into an argument over which one of them is more damaged, but it eventually turns into them confessing their love for each other. After leaving the pod, the pair reconcile, with Simmons giving him the other Fitz’s ring. Atarah returns, but they refuse to help her. She begins to threaten them before being knocked out by Enoch, who frees them from the machine.

The episode is one of the more inventive ones of the series. Using the concept of a shared memory space to explore all the things this version of Fitz missed out on was an imaginative choice that allowed them to fully explore how learning about those moments for the first time affected the character. It also has some incredibly well-done visual transitions that help blur the lines between the different memories. It balances the various tones of the episode wonderfully, bouncing between heavy emotional scenes to comedic moments in seconds.

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