“The Magical Place” is episode eleven of season one of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
There was a four week (or quite a lot longer than that in some areas; like several months) gap between the previous episode, “The Bridge”, and this episode (due to a mid-season break, something that really annoys me).
At the end of “The Bridge” Agent Coulson had been kidnapped by Centipede (the mysterious organisation behind the serum that Mike Peterson took), who wanted to find out how he had been brought back to life after Loki stabbed him through the heart in The Avengers. Whenever Tahiti is mentioned Coulson automatically says “it’s a magical place.” Centipede wants to find out what really happened, and just what Coulson’s “magical place” is, and so does Coulson – and so do I frankly. I’m not sure we have completely, although we do learn more. Coulson wasn’t in Tahiti – not exactly a big surprise there – and he was dead for a lot longer than was said – also, no great surprise.