History Recap / AgentsOfSHIELDS4E20FarewellCruelWorld

* YankTheDogsChain: All Team Coulson (sans Mack) escape from the Framework... only for Aida to settle into her new body and teleport herself and Fitz away from the rig before him and Jemma can be reunited. Meanwhile, Jemma and Daisy are awake, but Daisy has to telll Yo-Yo that Mack is still in the Frameworkd, and ''Zephyr One'' is being attacked by Ivanov's goons.

* TheAtoner: Radcliffe saves Jemma from being killed and throws Fitz into the backdoor, but he knows that it's nowhere near enough to make up for everything he's done.
* BackFromTheDead: Fitz offers this to Radcliffe to get him to reveal the location of the backdoor. Radcliffe complies, but only because he knows the only way to save Fitz is to disconnect him.

* BigDamnHeroes: Radcliffe stops Fitz from killing Jemma then throws him into the backdoor.

* FakeDefector: Radcliffe seems to be swayed by Fitz's offer of immortality through Aida's Project Looking Glass machine, but in fact merely intends to get Fitz to the backdoor so he can disconnect him.
* AGlitchInTheMatrix: When Coulson is sent through the backdoor, it sends out a ripple which exposes the Framework as a computer construct to everyone in attendance. May (who didn't fully believe it) and Mack (who had literally only heard about it minutes before) are predictably stunned.

* ItsAllMyFault: Said word by word by Radcliffe as he throws Fitz into the backdoor.

* LoopholeAbuse: Radcliffe built the Framework backdoor as an immovable pool of water disguised as a park fountain. Aida couldn't get rid of it, so instead she had a steel mill built over the park with a smelting pool directly on top of the exit, making it suicide to dive in. Daisy is able to quake the molten metal aside to get around this.

* PistolWhipping: Radcliffe does this to Fitz after stopping him from killing Jemma. It doesn't knock him out, merely disorients him enough that Radcliffe can toss him into the backdoor without Fitz putting up a struggle, since Radcliffe is still weakened from being beaten and tortured, and Jemma's on one leg from a gunshot wound.

* SmashCut: When Jemma hears that Alistair is still part of Fitz's life in the Framework, she asks May if May still has access to Hydra personnel files. Cut to Jemma pulling a gun on him at his home address.

* YankTheDogsChain: All Team Coulson (sans Mack) escape from the Framework... only for Aida to settle into her new body and teleport herself and Fitz away from the rig before him and Jemma can be reunited. Meanwhile, Jemma and Daisy are awake, but Daisy has to telll Yo-Yo that Mack is still in the Frameworkd, and their ''Zephyr'' is being attacked by Ivanov's goons.

* DoubleMeaningTitle: The title of the episode is "Goodbye, Cruel World". The cliched usage of this phrase is when a character is dying and leaving behind a less than pleasant life, but here it means that the team are leaving the Framework (the cruel world).

* BecomeARealBoy: Aida succeeds in creating herself a living, organic body.

* BittersweetEnding: More on the "bitter" side. While Coulson, May, Fitz, Daisy and Simmons escape the Framework, Mack chooses to stay, Fitz is traumatized by his actions within and is kidnapped by Aida, who has successfully transferred her consciousness into a living organic body.
* CallBack: When Coulson goes to destroy Aida's body to trap her in the Framework, he laments that all he has is a small surgical knife while Mack had a shotgun-axe.
* CasanovaWannabe: When Tripp talks with Daisy about the real world, he asks if he was involved with any of the women on her team. When she says no, he asks why she's want to go back to such a bleak world. She finds it funny, but he's still striking out.

* FakeDefector: Radcliffe seems to be swayed by Fitz's offer of immortality through Aida's Project Looking Glass Machine machine, but in fact Radcliffe merely intends to get Fitz to the backdoor so he can disconnect him.
* AGlitchInTheMatrix: When Coulson is sent through the backdoor, it sends out a ripple which exposes the Framework as a computer construct to everyone in attendance.

* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Jemma tries to get through to Fitz at the steel mill, but killing Alistair has made Fitz completely unwilling to hear her out.

* NakedOnArrival: Aida's new body is built without clothing, but she left herself a bathrobe to take care of that problem.y
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Fitz, still disoriented from the switch to the real world, sees Aida and assumes she's Ophelia from the Framework. He stumbles over to her, keeping May from getting a clear shot and allowing Aida to teleport them both away.
* OffWithHisHead: Coulson cuts off Aida's head when he sees her connected to the Framework, but it's too late, as she has already transfered into her new body.
* PistolWhipping: Radcliffe does this to Fitz after stopping him from killing Jemma. It doesn't knock him out, merely disorients him enough that Radcliffe can toss him into the backdoor without Fitz putting up a struggle.

* SmashCut: When Jemma hears that Alistair is still part of Fitz's life in the Framework, she asks May to look up his file. Cut to her pulling a gun on him at his home address.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Aida is ''not'' happy that Jemma killed Alistair, as it's the ''one'' thing that could really derail her plans for Fitz.

* VillainousValor: Alistair refuses to give in to Jemma's demands that he get Fitz to come alone, instead telling Fitz to send a strike team before trying to overpower Jemma himself. He gets shot for the trouble, ruining any attempt by Jemma to get through to him.

* YankTheDogsChain: All Team Coulson (sans Mack) escape from the Framework... only for Aida to settle into her new body and teleport herself and Fitz away from the rig before him and Jemma can be reunited.

* NakedOnArrival: Aida's new body is built without clothing, but she left herself a bathrobe to take care of that problem. Apparently she predicted that her human self would actually have a nudity taboo, since [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS4E1TheGhost her robot self sure didn't]].

* YankTheDogsChain: All Team Coulson (sans Mack) escape from the Framework... only for Aida to settle into her new body and ''teleport herself and Fitz'' away from the rig before him and Jemma can be reunited.

* IChooseToStay: Mack stays in the Framework, refusing to abandon his daughter there when she's dead in the real world.

* NakedOnArrival: Aida's new body is built without clothing, but she left herself a bathrobe to take care of that problem.

The team races against time to escape the Framework before Aida gets free will and tries to destroy it. However, not everybody is ready or willing to leave.

* BecomeARealBoy: Aida succeeds in creating herself a body.

* FakeDefector: Radcliffe seems to be swayed by Fitz's offer of immortality through Aida's machine, but in fact Radcliffe merely intends to get Fitz to the backdoor so he can disconnect him.

* OffWithHisHead: Coulson cuts off Aida's head when he sees her connected to the Framework, but it's too late and she transfers into her new body.

* ContinuityNod: While bleeding out, Coulson tells May that [[Film/TheAvengers2012 "This seems oddly familiar"]].

* {{Cliffhanger}}: The ''Zephyr'' is being fired upon by a jet sent by Ivanov and doesn't have the power to defend itself, while Aida manages to kidnap Fitz by teleporting to parts unknown.

** Fitz is deeply traumatized by his actions in the Framework, as he's the only member of the team who didn't turn against HYDRA before exiting. Not only that, he was responsible for the worst atrocities, and knew full well the true nature of HYDRA.

* RealityEnsues: Fitz is deeply traumatized by his actions in the Framework, as he's the only member of the team who didn't turn against HYDRA before exiting. Not only that, he was responsible for the worst atrocities, and knew full well the true nature of HYDRA.

* RealityEnsues: Fitz is deeply traumatized by his actions in the Framework, as he's the only member of the team who didn't turn against HYDRA before exiting.

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: All but Mack have escaped the Framework, but Aida's gotten what she wanted from it and now she's free to do whatever she wants with Fitz as a prisoner.

* TheAtoner: Radcliffe saves Jemma from being killed and throws Fitz into the backdoor, but he knows that it's nowhere near enough to makeup for everything he's done.

* BigDamnHeroes: Radcliffe stops Fitz from killing Jemma then throws into the backdoor.

* ItsAllMyFault: Said word by word as Radcliffe as throws Fitz into the backdoor.

* RealityEnsues: Fitz is deeply

* YankTheDogsChain: All Team Coulson (sans Mack) escape from the Framework ... only for Aida to settle into her new body and '''teleport herself and Fitz''' away from the rig before him and Jemma can be reunited.

The team races against time to escape the Framework before AIDA gets free will and tries to destroy it. However, not everybody is ready or willing to leave.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Aida is ''not'' happy that Jemma killed Alistair, as it's the ''one'' thing that could really derail her plans for Fitz.

* SpannerIntTheWorks: Aida is ''not'' happy that Jemma killed Alistair, as it's the ''one'' thing that could really derail her plans for Fitz.

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The team races against time to escape the Framework before AIDA gets free will and tries to destroy it. However, not everybody is ready or willing to leave.

The team races against time to escape the Framework before AIDA gets free will and inevitably tries to destroy it. However, not everybody is ready or willing to leave.