Daisy Johnson is an Inhuman agent able to generate and control vibrations powerful enough to shatter stone and level structures, a gift that makes her one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s most dangerous assets. When the team's lost ally and friend is presented to her as a synthetic recreation, it is Daisy who cannot help herself, hitting the switch to bring him online and then bluntly telling him what he now is. Fully on board for the leap into the past, she takes to 1931 disguised as a Mountie and works the faceless dead alongside Deke, with little patience for an era that refuses to take a woman seriously. When the disguised hunters spring their trap, she keeps her abilities in check to avoid disturbing the timeline, fighting by hand until Deke's life is on the line, then loosing a concussive wave that hurls an enemy into a waiting truck to clear their escape.

At the grand political gathering that follows, the weight of her choice catches up with her, and she apologizes to the reactivated Coulson for pulling him back into a life he never asked to resume. The tension eases as the two move through the party together, finding an unexpected comfort in standing side by side again, and her gamely botched attempts at period slang lighten the evening even as the mission tightens. The team has fixed on the famed governor of New York as the enemy's mark, but the truth surfaces too late: the real target is an unremarkable young man they have left exposed, and Daisy reaches the scene only as his contact is gunned down.

Daisy and Coulson labor to keep Freddy's wounded contact alive in the back of Koenig's bar, looking to pull answers from her even as they fight to stabilize her, and when the hunters arrive they move the woman into a hidden room to ride out the search. It is Daisy the team leans on, in more ways than one. When Yo-Yo freezes and lets a falling bottle shatter rather than catch it, Daisy is the one who gets through to her, pressing gently until the agent admits the thing she is afraid to say aloud, that for a moment she simply could not move.

That same instinct to lead turns ruthless once she grasps who Freddy truly is. Reaching Deke by radio as he stands over the young man with a gun in hand, she reveals the boy's name and the HYDRA dynasty he is destined to father, then orders Deke to take the shot, judging the thousands his death might spare worth the damage to a timeline she is willing to break. Mack overrides her, reminding Deke that the Director gives the orders, and the standoff is swallowed by gunfire as the hunters descend. Daisy throws herself into the fight to drive them back, and in the chaos Freddy slips away to the fate the team is left to safeguard rather than stop.