Three things Marta didn't expect after she went on the run with Aaron.

Atlantis wasn't Cam's first choice for reassignment; he probably wasn't Atlantis' first choice for the new expedition leader either. Sometimes you work with what you've got anyway, even if what you've got includes seers, ill-advised rescue missions, replicators, wraith in the city and John Sheppard

With hotel rooms that are too big, scarves doing double-duty as rope, and though it doesn't quite work out like they planned, a day that still works out right in the end.

TJ wakes up too warm, the kind of too warm that means someone else in bed with him – an arm around his waist and soft breath against the back of his neck, skin to skin

When a rescue mission goes wrong, Cam struggles with his role in it and the challenges of being deputy civilian commander of Atlantis. Meanwhile, John and Cadman are more focused on the struggle to survive, and their fading hopes for rescue

John, coming back up after

John watches Cam and fantasises

Clint knows how to survive, how to pick himself up and keep going; after everything with Loki, that's something he's glad for. On the subject of which: he's also glad for Nick Fury, Natasha Romanov, and Smudge the cat. Not so much for Steve Rogers turning up on his doorstep though.

He thinks that he cares for her, he trusts her, and that it won't be easy, but it will be worth it

Life in Atlantis feels like a constant stream of either/or decisions, even when John doesn’t know they’re being made; fight or flight as a metaphor for their lives

A flash and a boom, and John's existing in a silent, dark world.

The team's back in Croatia for a mission, and Will's still questioning his life choices, even as he knits himself deeper into the team-pack-family he's joined

When the offer to transfer to Washington after the spy thing comes through, Colby decides, not completely un-influenced by a certain other person, to take it, hoping it will be a good way to put everything that happened in LA behind him.

Washington, though, doesn't prove to be all that easy, even without the shadow of his time as a spy hanging over him, and the freedom he's finally got to be himself isn't turning out quite like he always imagined it would. Plus, he's mostly failing to leave LA behind, between Megan's friendship and Amita's and Charlie's math smarts.

It's only a matter of time before something gives.

Clint and Natasha meet when she picks up her daughter from Clint's classroom, and talk out how they'll make it work

Clint knows how to survive, how to pick himself up and keep going; after everything with Loki, that's something he's glad for. On the subject of which: he's also glad for Nick Fury, Natasha Romanov, and Smudge the cat. Not so much for Steve Rogers turning up on his doorstep though.

Pepper gets to know Clint and Natasha, from we're-not-calling-it-girls'-night-out to friendly drop-ins to Italy

John's voice is the last one Cam expects to hear on the phone late one night

Phil's never really wanted to find his soulmate; then he ended up at SHIELD, which has more soul-matches than anywhere else in the US

Clint finds out that Coulson's alive; Bucky provides much needed comfort

Off the grid on a mission gone awry, the first thing Clint knows of the downfall of SHIELD is when his rescuer, James, hands over a newspaper article. James knows way more about Clint than he should, but Clint recognises the way James seems like he's running from something, and anyway, it's not like he's got a better bet for getting out of the country. So that's what his life has come to: fleeing the country in a train car, sleeping with an ex-brainwashed assassin - and then Natasha and Steve show up.