"Stolen" is the tenth episode of the seventh season of the American television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Based on the Marvel Comics organization S.H.I.E.L.D., it follows a Life Model Decoy of Phil Coulson and his team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents as they race to stop the unraveling of history in the 1980s. It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and acknowledges the franchise's films. The episode was written by George Kitson and Mark Leitner, from a story by Mark Linehan Bruner, and directed by Garry A. Brown. Clark Gregg reprises his role as Coulson from the film series, starring alongside Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Elizabeth Henstridge, Henry Simmons, Natalia Cordova-Buckley, and Jeff Ward. "Stolen" originally aired on ABC on July 29, 2020, and was watched by 1.30 million viewers. Plot Stranded in 1983 due to a malfunctioning time drive, the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents plan to restore order to the timeline by defeating Nathaniel Malick and rescuing the Inhumans he has taken prisoner at the sanctuary, Afterlife. Noting that Agent Daisy Johnson could be erased from history if her mother, Jiaying, were to be killed, Director Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie instead sends LMD Phil Coulson into the facility with the teleporting Inhuman Gordon while he and Agent Elena "Yo-Yo" Rodriguez provide back-up. Meanwhile, Johnson learns from Melinda May that she had a sister named Kora, who committed suicide in the original timeline before she was born, but who has been rescued by Malick and turned into one of his acolytes in this version of events. At Afterlife, Malick uses the Chronicom Time Stream to look into the future. Using this knowledge, he recruits a young John Garrett and shows him his future wherein he betrays S.H.I.E.L.D. to join Hydra and Coulson kills him. Upon their arrival, Coulson and Gordon are captured, before Malick transfers the latter's powers to Garrett. Imprisoned with Coulson, Gordon teleports the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent to freedom, dying in the process. When Coulson fails to make contact, Mack and Yo-Yo enter Afterlife and free the captured Inhumans and Coulson, who tranquilizes Kora on his way out, before bringing them all to their headquarters, the Lighthouse. Meanwhile, Daniel Sousa convinces Johnson to speak with her mother, helping to reconcile the pair after Jiaying's death in the present during the main timeline. Malick and Garrett teleport into the Lighthouse, where the former, using the abilities he took from her in 1976, knocks