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What happened next was unexpected. That was why Skye and the others deliberately analyzed the video in the place where Coulson was resting.

Coulson took the laptop and pulled up a video.

"This was recorded on the street outside Midtown Science and Technology High School, six seconds after we lost the target. Look at where he was looking..."

The footage was not from professional surveillance equipment, merely a store's self-installed anti-theft camera. The quality was barely passable, but they could still see the boy raise his head, glance at the camera, and smile.

"What does that tell us?" Coulson asked.

"It tells us he's arrogant and doesn't take S.H.I.E.L.D. seriously." Fitz looked furious, but her eyes were full of schadenfreude.

Simmons glared at her. "We're talking business!"

"It means he doesn't care about being exposed. He just doesn't like being followed." Skye thought for a moment. "That means the boy is someone we can communicate with. There's no need to take drastic action."

Coulson gave an awkward laugh. "We never intended to use drastic measures. We only sent a rookie team to watch him, mainly to train them. I just didn't expect..."

"You didn't expect to run into a wall, right?" Skye twisted the knife at just the right moment.

"It wasn't exactly running into a wall. It was just the kind of operational failure rookie teams often have, same as you guys back then." Coulson refused to back down. "When you first started out, you were even worse than they were."

Coulson's counterattack struck straight at Skye, Simmons, and Fitz's weak spot.

Back then, they had practically stepped on every textbook example of mistakes they should never have made. Fortunately, their