While Coulson gives Price a tour of the Playground, Daisy Johnson uses a device smuggled into the ATCU with Andrew Garner to hack their mainframe, and Lance Hunter and Bobbi Morse visit to deal with the security breach, disguised as an FBI team.
Morse sneaks away to investigate the part of the facility where the Inhumans are being held, but instead finds vitamin supplements containing Terrigen, discovering that they are given to all ATCU staff.
Updated on the situation, Coulson interrogates Price, suspecting she is Hydra, but she claims innocence of administering Terrigen to her staff, and reveals that Malick, her business partner, is responsible for overseeing the captured Inhumans.
Investigating the Distant Star symbol, Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons find variations over the centuries, and learn of a group who have been sending people through the Monolith for hundreds of years.
Meanwhile, Ward breaks into the Strucker vault and finds a waiting Malick, who shows him the family treasure: pieces of the Monolith carved centuries earlier.
He claims that Red Skull did not create Hydra - the organization was instead founded in ancient times by the worshippers of a powerful Inhuman, whose enemies feared him so much that they banished him to another world using the Monolith.
In November 2015, Marvel announced that the eighth episode of the season would be titled "Many Heads, One Tale", to be written by executive producer Jed Whedon and DJ Doyle, with Garry A.
[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.