“Together or Not At All” is episode seven of season five of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
In the previous episode, “Fun & Games”, Grill was killed by a new Inhuman, in self-defence as Grill was going to turn everyone over to the Kree. Tess was killed by the Kree for helping to keep that Inhuman, Flint, a boy she knew, from them. May was exiled to the surface – at Fitz’s apparent wishes, as it seemed she got Ben to communicate this to Fitz, Ben himself being killed later by Sinara. The auction for Daisy wasn’t going to go as planned, because Kasius’ brother turned up. So Simmons slit Kasius’ face, she and Fitz escaped with Daisy and Sinara was shot in the process. Simmons also proposed to Fitz; he said he had done the same whilst she couldn’t hear. Which she accepted, but in a not-believing way. Enoch had also headed to the surface, killing a Kree on the way.
This episode opens immediately after the end of the previous one. Fitz, Simmons and Daisy are fleeing. Fitz’s plan is to get to his spaceship and escape. Before they can get very far, the thing that Kasius put in her ear starts causing pain, so Fitz has to pull it out. They get within sight of Fitz’s ship. Which explodes. This is a problem.
Kasius is alive, but scarred, which he is not happy about. Sinara is not dead either. She is also not terribly happy with Kasius allowing her to be sent in to fight Daisy. Kasius’ brother, Faulnak, wants the Destroyer of Worlds brought to him, and sends his own man after her and the others. Kasius lets him take charge, because he needs his brother appeased, but wants Sinara to go after Daisy herself. Daisy doesn’t have her powers though, as Faulnak disabled them. Kasius’ relationship with his brother is definitely not good and more is revealed about the former’s past. Kasius is not considered to be a true warrior – by himself, too, as it happens – being far too concerned about how things look.
With the ship gone, Fitz, Daisy and Simmons are heading to find the others, who are also planning to make their move. May is on the surface which, despite not being pleasant, is oddly habitable, with air to breathe and full gravity (although Fitz and Simmons discover something that might be part of an answer). She is being hunted though, but Enoch is there to help. She is not that happy to see him, especially when May recognises his voice from “World’s End”. There are other things out on the surface too.
Deke turns up to help Fitz and the others. In “A Life Spent”, when Deke heard the recording of the transmission in “A Life Earned”, his attitude changed a bit, for he recognised the voice on it as that of his, supposedly dead, father.
So, with the band getting back together, the surface seems the logical place to go.