The End (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, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, Henry Simmons, and Natalia Cordova-Buckley.

Deke Shaw advises Daisy Johnson to help unite the team and settle their differences.

Under coercion, Robin Hinton informs Glenn Talbot of a gravitonium deposit in Chicago, to which he commandeers Qovas's ship.

Jemma Simmons provides Phil Coulson with the Centipede serum, but he refuses to take it and discreetly hides it in Johnson's gauntlets while convincing her to face Talbot alone.

Discovering the serum, Johnson injects herself with it and uses her enhanced abilities to blast Talbot into space, thus changing the timeline.

While rescuing Polly Hinton and Robin from Qovas' ship, Leo Fitz is mortally wounded by falling debris.

[2] By killing Fitz in "The End", but revealing there was another still in space journeying to the future, Jeffrey Bell noted it helped solve "the one time loop problem we had".

Bell added, "It's also, emotionally, about the two senior members of the team, who in a sense have retired to Tahiti, and there they are watching the future of S.H.I.E.L.D.

"[3] Main cast members Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, and Henry Simmons return from previous seasons as Phil Coulson, Melinda May, Daisy Johnson / Quake, Leo Fitz, Jemma Simmons, and Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie, respectively.

[6] Also in the episode, Adrian Pasdar recurs as Glenn Talbot, who becomes the supervillain Graviton;[7][8] Lola Glaudini as Polly Hinton;[9] Lexy Kolker as young Robin Hinton;[10] Peter Mensah portrays the alien Qovas;[11] and Jeff Ward recurs as Deke Shaw, a character from the future.

[12] Despite the increase of synthesizers, Bear McCreary kept his established symphonic writing and characters themes "as the foundation of the score".

He said "Part of what happened was, they changed the release date... we move at a different schedule than they do and so suddenly everything was a week earlier, and so we had to make some adjustments and that's how we end up with our story."

[18] Matt Fowler of IGN praised the episode, saying the finale "delivered some really powerful moments" and was "a fitting, temporary end".

The Coulson/Daisy relationship is one of the best things this series has coddled and cultivated over the years so it was grand to see that "I love you" farewell at the end, as Phil left to "retire" on the beaches of (actual) Tahiti with May.