The Agents of SHIELD team jumped to a new time period at the end of season 7, episode 4, and here's where they ended up for season 7, episode 5. The final season of Agents of SHIELD is taking Coulson and the rest of SHIELD throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline. Agents of SHIELD season 7 began in 1931 with the return of Patton Oswalt's Koenig and then jumped to 1955, marking the return of Agent Carter's Daniel Sousa (Enver Gjokaj) in the process.
Agents of SHIELD season 7's episodes 3 and 4 have taken place in the 1950s, as the team once again tries to prevent the Chronicoms from changing the timeline so SHIELD can't stop them from transforming Earth into their new home. After preventing the Chronicoms from using a SHIELD space weapon, the most recent episode of the series saw the team faced with the looming death of Sousa. Instead of letting him die, Agents of SHIELD saved Sousa's life by faking his death. Not only is Sousa now still alive, but he'll begin working with the team in a brand new decade.
At the very end of the latest Agents of SHIELD episode, the SHIELD team travels forward in time yet again aboard Zephyr One. The team isn't exactly sure where they've traveled to at first, but they eventually hear “No More Mr. Nice Guy” by Alice Cooper playing over the radio. The song was released in 1973, so that is the earliest year that Agents of SHIELD season 7 episode 5 will begin in. The promo for the upcoming episode, unfortunately, doesn't add any more teases of the specific year the team is now in, but Sousa does confirm that they are in the 1970s, which eliminates the possibility that "No More Mr. Nice Guy" was playing on the radio several years after its release.
The new mission taking place in the 1970s won't only present Agents of SHIELD with the chance to mirror genre styles from that decade, but it should give the characters a very different challenge as well. Before going to the 1970s, the Chronicoms struck a deal with Wilfred Malick. The partnership very well could alter the timeline to make Hydra an even bigger threat when the SHIELD team steps into the new decade. That is, unless the changes that have been made to the timeline so far can still be classified as ripples and not waves to preserve the time travel guidelines.
With the 1970s confirmed as the third setting Agents of SHIELD will visit in its first five episodes of season 7, it will be fascinating to see how long they stay there. The 1930s and 1950s stories only lasted two episodes apiece and the same might prove to be true for the 1970s. Season 7 will consist of 13 episodes as a whole, so Agents of SHIELD still has plenty of time to visit many other decades and MCU events before the series finale.