During the fourth season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Dr. Holden Radcliffe and Aida built a Life-Model Decoy of former S.H.I.E.L.D. Director, Phil Coulson. This replica infiltrated the Playground along with LMD's of Jeffrey Mace, Leo Fitz and Alphonso Mackenzie as part of a plan to execute several known Inhumans for Anton Ivanov.
History[]
The Man Behind the Shield[]
When S.H.I.E.L.D. launched an operation to Russia to rescue Jeffrey Mace from the Watchdogs, the agents on the mission split up to search the SVR facility and find the Director. After the team had split up, Coulson, Fitz and Mack were ambushed and captured by Aida, who replaced the three of them with Life-Model Decoys. They, as well as the real Director Mace, were relocated to a submarine which fled shortly after. While Aida would plug the captives into the virtual environment of the Framework, the LMD's would return to the Playground and enact a plan to bring all known Inhumans on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s watchlist to one place where they could all be executed with ease.
Self Control[]
After returning to the Playground, the LMD's began planning to have the various Inhumans across the United States brought to them under the guise of protection from the Watchdogs, when in fact they intended to execute them as part of a deal with the Superior. However, Jemma Simmons noticed that the androids' entry into the base set off an alarm device designed to detect LMD's and attempted to undermine their plan. Daisy Johnson would also discover the deception and work together with Simmons.
After the Fitz LMD was discovered to have been shut down, Coulson killed three agents who witnessed the robot before they could alert the rest of the base. He then sent the Mack LMD to check on the fleet of Daisy duplicates that had been smuggled into the basement. Meanwhile, he reactivated the previously-discovered Melinda May LMD, revealing his true nature to her and their plan, expecting that she would help bring it to fruition.
Daisy and Simmons were able to enact a plan to escape to the Zephyr One after knocking out the base's power grid. When Coulson attempted to follow after them, the May LMD blocked his path, sitting atop a heap of oil barrels that had been wired to explode. May explained how the two androids had been programmed differently and that she was still capable of feeling fear, love and compassion. Realising that she wasn't going to be convinced, Coulson quickly drew his gun, but May pressed the detonator button just as quickly, setting off the bomb. The resulting blast destroyed both of them as well as a sizeable portion of the Playground, resulting in the Mace and Fitz LMD's being destroyed too.