Deke agrees he has a way, but tells them to promise not to be mad at him as this mystery device is already in the Lighthouse. Before teleporting away, Simmons drops another bombshell on Fitz, happily informing him that he's a grandfather. She asks Atarah to let her friends go and assures her she will come willingly. They then decide to go through Dr. Franklin Hall's notes about the Gravitonium which could maybe uncover some clues about it.

Slowly regaining his skills, Fitz was able to get back into doing active field and lab work under Coulson's supervision, and played an important role in the conflicts with Despite having averted Aida's plan, it was at the cost of having become international fugitives, implicated for Mace's death, and the After the team managed to return to the present, Fitz had finally became engaged and married to Simmons. The team had traveled back to 1930s New York. The thing is I think that she has settled with Fitz because Will is dead.

She also packed him his favorite prosciutto and buffalo mozzarella sandwich with a hint of her pesto aioli for him to eat on the road along with a sweet message, reminding him to be safe. As the team reunites, Jemma looks hopefully into the containment pod for Will, but he isn't there. However, Fitz manages to convince Enoch to place bets and win them money, by calling him his best friend and saying this is what best friends are for, breaking the rules and putting it all on the line. Simmons starts panicking but is calmed down by Fitz who tells her they should pretend as if everything is normal so the LMDs don't suspect them. Then released the ferrets to create a distraction, allowing them to break in. Academy. He then captures her and puts her into the Theta Brain-Wave Frequency Machine, telling her he was going to take away her most important memories and hollow her out. He planned to access the Gravitonium buried deep within the Earth to enhance his powers. Fitz was captured by Hadad and his men but he managed to escape with the scroll by tricking them. And then in the episode where they sleep together its primarily Fitz who is questioning and worrying about how their relationship is going to change if they sleep together. She grabs Fitz and the two teleport to the naval base and rescue Mack who was still trapped in The Framework due to his unwillingness to leave his daughter. Viro questions him, asking if he thought of himself as a hero, but Fitz tells him that it was really about a woman, Jemma Simmons, and about looking her in the eyes again.
As they are working, Fitz, Simmons and Deke talk about the Multiverse Theory and Deke tells them that he is proof that they can move between them as he would remain in the present even if the loop breaks. He tells her he needs to access the main terminal and roughly pushes her away from the computers, saying that he couldn't find any notes from Dr. Hall and violently hits the computer. Coulson then enters the room, ready to close the rift, when he is stopped by a manifestation of Mike Peterson.

He was astounded at all the data collected. Coulson tasks Andrew Garner, a trained psychiatrist to talk to Jemma and work through her problems but she is still closed off.

Ward, Jemma and Coulson go to Ogygia and demand that Radcliffe help them escape this virtual reality but Radcliffe reveals that AIDA had managed to find a loophole in her programming, murdering him. At Jemma's insistence, Alistair calls Fitz and tells him he loves him, to Fitz's bewilderment and worry for his father caused by this uncharacteristic behaviour. However, a shockwave due to the duel between Quake and Talbot hit the building, which caused a heavy pile of rubble to fall over Fitz, who was buried underneath. The two began to argue until Fitz started to mention creating As the two argued due to the built up frustration of being trapped in the machine, Fitz asked Simmons what she was so afraid of, which causes Simmons to conjurer a memory of Fitz's death with Later, Fitz had dinner with Kasius and the rest of the potential bidders, where he engaged in conversation with several of the participants in the demonstration. Simmons tries to explain that she wanted to spare him the pain but he counters saying he could have shared that pain with her and helped. Following this, Mace sends Simmons, who was required to cover her head with a bag for this top secret mission, not telling Fitz or anyone else of her whereabouts, completely worrying him. Mack embraces her in relief as the three run back to the Monolith, which was successfully constructed by Flint. Daisy, tired of this conversation, quakes Madame Hydra out of the building where she falls quite a distance and breaks her spine. Meanwhile, Coulson who was on a path of revenge against Ward for murdering Rosalind Price, kidnaps his brother, Thomas, as leverage. Unbeknownst to him, this theory would be proven wrong in one of the team's later adventures over the years. Simmons vehemently spits out that the woman he loves is a AIDA then brings Fitz to a lovely apartment and tells him its to help him sort through his memories, saying she wants to decorate the place and build a life together with him, confessing that she loves him. Unfortunately, they were discovered by Boyle and Toad who grab them out of their hiding place and throw them on the floor. Ward who was in hiding with Jemma and Coulson was prepared to pull the trigger on The Doctor before he could hurt Agnes but Jemma begs him not to, saying that if he does that, she would lose Fitz forever. She attempts to convince Kasius that the servant's scars will heal over time but Kasius could not accept the imperfection of the scar on his forehead and immediately orders Sinara to execute him.

Daisy is fiercely against this idea and begs Simmons to reconsider, telling her they will find another way, but Simmons says there is no other way. However, Simmons' who was done with all the problems that came with AIDA and the significant amount of attention Fitz was paying this project, tells him to drop it.