The final third of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 4 has had the good guys at a serious disadvantage.
Daisy and Jemma have spent the last several episodes trying to wake their friends up and find a way to return to the real world, but A.I.D.A. and her minions (unfortunately including Fitz) have gotten in their way.
The majority of the main characters were trapped inside A.I.D.A.’s digital framework without having any idea that they were living very different lives before they were captured and forced into a false reality.
Now, the show has finally revealed why A.I.D.A. is going to so much trouble to keep everybody occupied inside the framework, and it turns out that her master plan is devastatingly simple: she wants to be a real person, not an android or a digital construct.