With Werner von Strucker comatose and hospitalized, Melinda May returns to the Playground and learns Andrew Garner is at another facility, the Cocoon, re-assessing Joey Gutierrez.
Meanwhile, Leo Fitz recovers data from the phone Jemma Simmons took to the barren planet, and is deeply moved when he finds a recording of her talking about the history of their friendship and the future she imagined them sharing.
May awakens in a disused Culver University building, and Andrew explains that Jiaying's ledger was booby-trapped with a Terrigen crystal, which he accidentally triggered six months earlier, causing his Terrigenesis.
Phil Coulson arranges to attend a NORAD meeting with President Matthew Ellis, in the guise of Rosalind Price's consultant.
En route Price joins him aboard the new Zephyr plane, but her and Daisy Johnson's different attitudes to dealing with new Inhumans cause friction.
In November 2015, Marvel announced that the seventh episode of the season would be titled "Chaos Theory", to be written by Lauren LeFranc, with David Solomon directing.
[1] In November 2015, Marvel revealed that main cast members Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Brett Dalton, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, Nick Blood, Adrianne Palicki, Henry Simmons, and Luke Mitchell would star as Phil Coulson, Melinda May, Grant Ward, Daisy Johnson, Leo Fitz, Jemma Simmons, Lance Hunter, Bobbi Morse, Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie, and Lincoln Campbell, respectively.
[1] It was also revealed that the guest cast for the episode would include Constance Zimmer as Rosalind Price, Matthew Willig as Lash, Juan Pablo Raba as Joey Gutierrez, Powers Boothe as Gideon Malick, Jack Guzman as S.H.I.E.L.D.