rather than bring them in. Johnson overpowers the Mack LMD and discovers through the security footage that Coulson, Mack and the Director are LMDs. She encounters Simmons and, after doubting and threatening each other, both verify that the other is not an LMD by Johnson gently quaking Simmons. They plan to find their replaced friends, whose minds have been uploaded to a virtual world, the Framework, by Dr. Holden Radcliffe. Radcliffe himself has been spending time in the Framework, leaving his LMD assistant Aida to carry out his plans in the real world alongside their benefactor and protector Ivanov. After Ivanov was crippled in a fight with Johnson, Aida manages to keep his severed head alive while giving him a new android body to remotely control. Having arrived at a paradox while trying to follow her prime directives of protecting the Framework and protecting Radcliffe (whom she believes will one day turn off the Framework out of regret), Aida slits her creator's wrists and kills him while leaving his mind to live in peace in the Framework. The LMDs convince the other agents that Simmons and Johnson are the LMDs while Simmons finds Agents Piper, Davis and Prince and tries to tell the truth. Johnson overpowers the LMDs and the agents believe Simmons after seeing Mack's mechanical parts. They all plan to escape the base to Zephyr One, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s plane. At the base entrance, they find the May LMD, whom Coulson had been keeping in storage and the Coulson LMD had awakened. The latter tasked the May LMD with detonating explosives if the agents tried to escape; however, since she was initially programmed with the real May's personality, she instead lets them go. The agents successfully take off in the Zephyr, just as the May LMD detonates the explosives, destroying all the LMDs and the base. Johnson and Simmons hack into the Framework from the Zephyr, while Piper, Davis, Prince and Rodriguez watch over their bodies. They find a different world due to Radcliffe changing one regret for each living person that had been uploaded to it: Johnson is in a relationship with the dead traitor Grant Ward, who is alive in the Framework; Simmons is dead; Fitz is rich; Coulson is an anti-Inhuman school teacher; Mack lives with his daughter, Hope, who is alive in the Framework; and May works for Hydra, who have replaced S.H.I.E.L.D. Production Development In