“All the Comforts of Home” is episode eleven of season five of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
In the previous episode, “Past Life”, Yo-Yo had met another version of herself, one that had already been back to the past, been killed and brought back to life by the Kree. That future Yo-Yo told the past Yo-Yo that Coulson is dying and that they need to let him die, otherwise the Earth will be destroyed. Flint managed to create a new monolith and everyone assembled to travel back into the past. Even Daisy, despite her desire to stay in the future so that she couldn’t destroy the Earth in the past. So Coulson iced her and took her anyway.
This episode opens in the past in a teenager’s room with a poster of Quake on the wall. General Hale enters the room and talks to the teenage girl in it – her daughter, Ruby. Ruby wants to know if her mother is one of the good guys, because Hale is tracking down S.H.I.E.L.D. and they used to be the good guys. The general is perhaps not a good guy because, in “Rewind”, she had a ‘You have failed me’ moment with Lt. Evans and Lt. Lucas who hadn’t managed to catch Fitz, shooting both of them in the head. Which is not normal U.S. military practice, and not what the lieutenants expected.
The team arrives in what still looks like the Lighthouse, causing them to initially think they are still in the future, but Fitz recognises it as the place that he came with Enoch. So they are back in the present once again. Then a recorded video message fires up, with a General Rick Stoner of S.H.I.E.L.D. saying that the world as they know it has come to an end, and this facility has been prepared for them. Which is a bit troubling, but the message dates from 1972 and an eventuality that never happened.
They decide to check out the facility and discover three monoliths. And Noah, another sentient chromicon, one who knows Enoch, because the latter told him about the place. Noah says that the facility is a good place to keep the monoliths secure. From it, he can monitor the planet and observe potential threats. There is a report of an Asgardian and a subtle dig about a politician who is trying to delete his FBI file (guess who that is). One of the threats is of alien contact; there is a light in the sky in St. Louis, Missouri, which would seem to be the light that Voss spoke of in “The Last Day”.
The opening logo has the Earth intact once more, but there are cracks spreading across the planet. The team is going to head to check out the light, but Daisy is going to stay behind so that she doesn’t destroy the planet. The rest of them steal a VW camper van – but they plan to leave it once they get to Zephyr One – to assuage Mack’s feelings if nothing else. Daisy discovers that they are all on everyone’s most wanted lists.
Deke, who it seems was not killed when Enoch exploded next to him, has also made it back into the past, despite not being near the monolith when it activated. He demonstrates and ignorance of local money, and the effects of alcohol, which naturally gets him into trouble.
According to Fitz and Simmons, the light in the sky appears to being sent by a beacon similar to the one that Hive used to summon the Kree in “Failed Experiments”. Which is not good.
There are a few surprises in store.