In a series of flashbacks, a teenage Ward is seen meeting Garrett at a juvenile detention facility, where he is being held after trying to burn down his family's home. After agreeing to join the secret organization Garrett says he works for, Ward is left in the wilderness alone, forced to survive for months until Garrett returns. Garrett eventually tells him about Hydra's presence within S.H.I.E.L.D., and Ward agrees to join. In the present, the team connects Project Centipede, Garrett, and others to one commonality: Cybertek. Coulson and May infiltrate Cybertek to activate Skye's trojan she left on the hard drive, only to find file cabinets instead of mainframes. However, they learn that Garrett was the first subject for "Project Deathlok", which began in 1990. As such, Garrett's implants are failing. With a few months to live, he is desperate to complete the Project Centipede serum in order to save himself. Coulson's team finds the Hydra base in Cuba, but Garrett's men have already left, with the exception of several Centipede soldiers. Ward captures Fitz and Simmons, who had split from the others to find the Bus, but Fitz is able to use an EMP device to short out Garrett's body. The dying Garrett orders Ward to kill Fitz and Simmons, who hide from him in a locked room. Ward struggles with following through on the orders, deciding to eject the room into the ocean. Raina injects Garrett with the synthesized Guest House drug to work with his Project Centipede serum. Initially, the drug seems to cause an Extremis reaction, before Garrett stabilizes and claims to "feel the universe". In Washington, D.C., Ian Quinn proposes the sale of Deathlok soldiers to the US government, using Mike Peterson's assassination of a Colombian drug lord as evidence of the program's success.