Spoilers ahead for the fifth episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 7, called “A Trout in the Milk.”
The episode did finally drop a clue about Simmons, but one that raised more questions than it answered, and hers isn’t the only plot currently shrouded in mystery.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. arrived in the 1970s in “A Trout in the Milk,” only to find a very different decade than they expected based on what they knew of history.
While the music and fads seemingly stayed the same, Hydra’s timeline moved up by about 40 years thanks to the Chronicoms’ interference, and the agents were tasked with more or less the plot of Captain America: The Winter Soldier on top of all their other complications.