Much to the considerable surprise of everybody there, Hale had then immediately held up her hands and surrendered herself to Quake and May, with Quake expressing her doubt that Hale was being genuine in her surrender. Before Hale could do anything, however, they all witnessed Ruby's corpse floating up into the air due to all the Gravitonium still inside of her body. Once they were alone, Hale ordered Ruby to gain Strucker's trust by any means so they could learn all of the secrets he held, suggesting that Ruby seduce Strucker if that's what it would take.Believing that her phone was at risk of hacking, Hale then had herself drove by However, while they were driving Hale suddenly found the car had gone up a ramp into the invisible Hale was then taken inside of the interrogation room where she was eventually joined by Unsatisfied with this response, Coulson then looked Hale in the eye and questioned whyWith this, Hale smiled as she then finally revealed the truth to agent Coulson about the entire situation, telling him that she had always been in control of the situation as allowing Once onboard the Quinjet, Hale took the controls while the Superior ordered Coulson to put on a mask and hand over his own As much of what Coulson was saying was correct, Hale confirmed that the operation was not run by the Air Force and was instead being run by Despite Hale using her usual technics of putting her hostages off guard by sending Hale showed Coulson to alien teleport, which he claimed was a bad idea to use, pointing to the Arriving on the mysterious alien ship across deep space, Hale then introduced Coulson to Hale explained the chamber was designed to make someone better than ever While Creel expressed his excitement over the test, he questioned what Hale had wanted him to do with this, to which Hale then noted how Hale noted that Creel would give them answers, noting the one man who knew enough about Gravitonium was While Creel suffered from the side effects of placing his hand inside of the Gravitonium, finding he could not shake visions of the final moments of The decision to send Ruby after the escapees soon proved to be a risky one, however, as Hale had found her daughter attempting to kill the Hale traveled through her teleportation device and caught up with Ruby just as she was defeated in combat by Ruby furiously objected to being locked away yet again, despite Hale then reminding her over how she went against her orders and tried to murder the Ruby began crying as Hale acknowledged that she had been asking a lot from her recently, to which Ruby claimed that she had been asking the impossible. Dove Cameron Breaks Down Her Shocking First Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Much like Hale and Ruby used to be on good terms, eating lunch together and Ruby doing her best to make her mother proud. While going through the corridors of the Academy, Hale entered the cafe and sat down next to As the bell rang, Hale and Sitwell gathered their things and went to a class where During Whitehall's lecture, he opened the floor up to the students to make suggestions for some improvements, turning to Hale, however, was unaware that her statement had greatly angered Strucker who felt humiliated by having Whitehall praise Hale's suggestion over his own and began plotting his revenge. She and Johnson tried to work together to talk Ruby down after she went mad from infusing a small portion of the Gravitonium and was utterly devastated when Hale was capable of expressing regret for actions she caused, apologizing to Coulson for getting Rodriguez's arms chopped off, and later expressing regret for all of her actions as HYDRA's minion following Ruby's death, knowing that she had a choice to have her and Ruby lead a normal life, but instead chose to continue serving her loyal cause, which ended up ruining her life and leading to her own inevitable death. In order to stop Talbot from continuing to rant at her mother, Ruby responded by holding her Chakram up to Talbot's throat while Hale reminded Talbot of how his career within the Air Force was over and his wife and son were now afraid of him due to his unpredictable temper. With Steger dead, Hale then calmly informed Ruby that now they alone were the final surviving members of HYDRA.Hale, however, had Talbot transferred to the remains of the In order to stop Talbot from continuing to rant at her mother, Ruby responded by holding her When Hale noted what Johnson had done to Talbot, Fitz claimed that Johnson was not to blame as a Dissatisfied with his answers, Hale ordered him to be imprisoned and submitted to a Lie Detector, where he insisted that he did not know where Following yet another failure of both Lucas and Evans when Fitz and Hunter had successfully managed to Just as Hale prepared to walk out of her room, however, Ruby then questioned if her mother was, in fact, a good person or not, noting it was not too long ago that While walking across her facility's hallways, Hale was then greeted by Although Hale insisted that they had already had them where they wanted them, Ruby noted that Seeking to enhance her own strength before going back into conflict against S.H.I.E.L.D., Hale then tracked down Investigating a tip-off they had received, Hale and Hale then requested any of the security footage their station might have of the recent encounter in order to see for herself if it really was Johnson before she then asked about Having examined the cell, Lee confirmed that there was no record of Shaw, leading them to believe he could be a Hale ordered Strucker to let Ruby go, warning that their Mechs would kill him if he did not obey her. Hale then sat down next to Whitehall explained that as HYDRA's leadership was impressed by her strength of character following her fight with Strucker, they had recommended her to engineer the Following the death of Whitehall, Hale continued having Ruby trained for leadership at the Once Ruby had completed her combat training for the day, she sat down with Hale to enjoy eating lunch together as Ruby questioned where the HYDRA leadership had decided to send her, with Hale confirming that it was still under discussion. Hale then explained that since he had attacked With Strucker still demanding an explanation, Hale informed him that he gained if enhanced memories sinceStrucker then finally dropped his knife and told Hale to go to hell, not wishing to help her build her better world.