Brand New Day (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)

Clark Gregg reprises his role as Coulson from the film series, starring alongside Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Elizabeth Henstridge, Henry Simmons, Natalia Cordova-Buckley, and Jeff Ward.

's headquarters, the Lighthouse, with Daisy Johnson's sister Kora, an Inhuman with the ability to shoot energy beams from her hands.

Taking Agents Deke Shaw and Jemma Simmons prisoner, Malick uses a brain-scanning device to scan her memories and determine her husband's Leo Fitz's location.

Concurrently, Johnson plans to use a quinjet to reach Zephyr One and rescue Simmons and Shaw before being joined by Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie and Daniel Sousa.

Melinda May interrogates Kora, but inadvertently provokes her into knocking out the Lighthouse's power supply, enabling the Chronicom Sibyl to hack into its computer system and download a list of S.H.I.E.L.D.

aired in August 2019, showrunners Jed Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jeffrey Bell revealed that the seventh season would feature the team trying to save the world from invasion by the Chronicoms.

[7] Kevin Tancharoen was originally scheduled to direct the episode, but ultimately had to drop out because of other commitments and wanting a break before filming the series finale.

[8]: 58:01 Freyer wrote the scene between Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie and Daisy Johnson on the Quinjet to be reflective of what "the cast and the crew and us as writers were going through at the time", coming to terms with the series ending.

[8]: 1:04:25 With the season renewal, main cast members Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Elizabeth Henstridge, Henry Simmons, Natalia Cordova-Buckley, and Jeff Ward were confirmed to be returning from previous seasons as Melinda May, Daisy Johnson / Quake, Jemma Simmons, Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie, Elena "Yo-Yo" Rodriguez, and Deke Shaw, respectively.

As such, Henstridge and De Caestecker returned to Los Angeles to film some of their scenes after the panel, before being brought back to San Diego for the rest of Comic-Con.

Club said "the unexpected introduction of actual stakes outside the isolated existence of our heroes was a sharp reminder of how much heavy lifting the show has labored to get done en route to its finale."

Conversely, the scene with Mack, Daisy, and Sousa was a highlight for McLevy since it allowed the characters to "shoot the shit and reminisce, while also giving them a chance to open up about their fears and insecurities regarding the impending breakup of the team".

McLevy called the CGI of the destruction of the Triskelion "excellent", despite the rest of the episode being "stuck in the lackluster drab color palette and staging that so often plagued the series".

[25] Syfy Wire's Trent Moore enjoyed the fake out in the episode of Deke being set up to be the hero on the Zephyr, only "to be caught in the first 5 seconds".