“Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” Season 4 left fans with a major cliffhanger, and they’re going to have to wait a long while to find out if the team is really safe. The ABC drama is officially on hiatus until spring.

In last week’s episode, it was revealed that Coulson (Clark Gregg), Mack (Henry Simmons) and Fitz (Iain De Caestecker) were replaced with Life Model Decoys (LMDs). Though they tried to take down Daisy (Chloe Bennet) and Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge), the women escaped onto the Zephyr with just a few other agents. Meanwhile, LMD May (Ming-Na Wen) blew up the base to stop the other LMDs.

Though they escaped, Simmons and Daisy decided that the only way to save their friends from the Framework was to enter the alternate reality themselves. Aida (Mallory Jansen) made it so that the altered reality fixed a big regret for each agent.

Coulson was a teacher, and Mack got his daughter back. Others, however, were far more shocking. It seems Hydra won the events of “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” and May is working for the bad guys at the Triskelion. Daisy woke up to a boyfriend in her apartment, and it turns out it’s not Lincoln, but Ward (Brett Dalton). Simmons was not shown. Only her gravestone made an appearance. She also warned Daisy before going under that if you die in the Framework, you die in real life. What happens if you’re already dead when you get there?

Fans won’t find out the answer to that until Tuesday, April 4 at 10 p.m. EST. That’s when “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” Season 4 returns with episode 16.

While there is plenty to wonder about until then, it’s pretty clear that Simmons isn’t dead. However, her love Fitz seemed to be living the high life with someone else in the Framework. It’s just another obstacle for them to overcome.

“Their love is a forever love, to use a phrase that we use sometimes,” executive producer Jed Whedon told E! Online. “I don’t think anything will come between them, but that’s why we constantly put things between them, because the longing for them to be together is sort of the feeling that we’re addicted to as writers and hopefully the audience is addicted, too.”

Before worrying about romance, Simmons and Daisy will have to convince their fellow agents that this reality isn’t true. Their friends will be changed after experiencing the Framework. “I don’t want to spoil anything, but I will say that everybody is very different,” Whedon told IGN. “That’s all I’ll say. You can see, I think, from the end that their task of going in there and just sort of snapping their fingers and going ‘hey guys!’ might be a little harder than they thought.”

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