“Rewind” is episode five of season five of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
In the previous episode, “A Life Earned”, Daisy and Simmons were questioned by Kasius in front of an Inhuman who can read minds, to see if they told the same story. Which they did, saying that they were the only ones who came from the past, despite Simmons not being able to hear what Daisy said thanks to whatever Kasius placed in her ear. This is because the Inhuman also had the power to send thoughts, and told Simmons what Daisy said. This was because he was able to read Kasius’ thoughts, and Kasius, once he gets enough wealth to leave, plans to destroy everything as he does.
At the end of the episode, Daisy was being paraded for Kasius’ upcoming auction of her, when someone in a helmet said that the Destroyer of Worlds – which is what Deke called her in “Orientation: Part Two” – as she is the one who apparently destroyed the Earth – should fight to the death. This someone then took their helmet off, revealing them to be Fitz. The same age as he was. So, how did he get to the future? Bar the regular way of living every day.
This episode starts in the diner at the end of the season four finale, “World’s End”, as Coulson and the others are abducted. Fitz is saying that it’s all his fault, when the lights come back on and he discovers that the others have all vanished. Then Talbot’s people arrive and take Fitz, wanting to know where the others are.
The people who arrested Fitz want to know where the others went, and what happened during the two minutes that the security cameras were out. Fitz, of course, has absolutely no idea what happened. Of course, his questioners don’t really believe that. Fitz, instead, postulates that the people who took him have the others. Talbot is not the one in charge as an LMD of Daisy shot him in the head. The woman in charge, General Hale, tells Fitz that if he doesn’t cooperate he’s going to be with them for a very long time. Fitz says that he wants to find the others as much as Hale’s people do, and he says he will help them, and that he is also willing to answer for what he actually did (which was all in the Framework admittedly). So the general agrees to let him help.
Fitz, despite being watched, does manage to get messages out – which were carefully analysed before they were posted to a football fanzine. After six months, Fitz’s answer to Hale as to what happened to Coulson and the others is that they were abducted by aliens. Which actually happens to be the truth. Then his attorney turns up – Hunter, who was last seen in “Parting Shot”. And they immediately get into an argument over the relative merits of Manchester United vs. Liverpool. Fitz has a complicated month-long escape plan, but Hunter blows a hole in the wall instead. Fitz does want to find the others, so the first step is to locate the truck that took them away in “Orientation: Part One”. And the strange, bald (and probably alien) man. Who is strangely cooperative and explains the others are in the year 2091. Sent to fulfil a prophecy. Hale’s people are following Fitz. The strange man, ‘Enoch,’ says he can take Fitz to the same place he took the others – a lighthouse. Just not when. To get to when, Fitz will take a slow way.
Most of the episode is spent in the past with Fitz trying to get to the future. And everyone else. It is only in the post logo scene that events take place in the future again.