Project T.A.H.I.T.I.

Project T.A.H.I.T.I. (Terrestrialized Alien Host Integrative Tissue I.) was a S.H.I.E.L.D. Level 9 project ordered by Nick Fury and overseen by Phil Coulson, who came to object to the project on the basis that it had unacceptable side-effects. It involved the harvesting of an alien corpse for medicinal purposes. The tangible results were only to be used if an Avenger had died. Since Fury considered Coulson just as important, he put the project in action after Coulson was killed by Loki during the Attack on the Helicarrier.
==History==
===The Beginning===
Project T.A.H.I.T.I. started in 2009, with the goal of creating a medicine that could resurrect individuals. The head of the project was Phil Coulson.Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 1.20: Nothing Personal
Project T.A.H.I.T.I. was located within the Guest House, guarded by Alpha and Beta. Inside the Guest House was a room labeled T.A.H.I.T.I. that contained a decaying Kree corpse being drained of its bodily fluids into multiple vials; each vial was labeled with different numbers for several serums but all with GH as the prefix, including GH.211, GH.289, GH.317, GH.319, GH.324 and GH.325. GH.325 has the effect of completely regenerating cellular tissue and implanting fragments of cellular memory of the host to the receiver.
===T.A.H.I.T.I. Patients===
Six S.H.I.E.L.D. agents with terminal illnesses were chosen by Phil Coulson to be the test subjects in the project. After each was injected with GH.325, their ailments ceased. However, before Coulson could sign-off their release, the patients began showing signs of insanity which included writing in symbols.
Coulson conferred with Doctor Goodman, suggesting ending the program and destroying the alien specimen. Goodman adamantly disagreed; she suggested that the genetic memory of the alien was implanting itself onto the patients, so the Memory Overwriting Machine could be used to scrub the brains and give the patients new lives. Coulson reluctantly agreed. The sixth patient, Sebastian Derik, feigned health and told Coulson that he did not want his memories erased. Coulson knew that he was carving the symbols into himself and gave him the procedure anyway. Phil Coulson regretted using the machine when he heard the screams that each person gave as they were kept conscious, with their skull caps removed, as their memories were changed.
Each person was released with no memory of the previous life as agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and their personal backgrounds were documented with the deaths of their pasts; Rebecca Stevens became known as Janice Robbins and had the history to match. The name of "Rebecca Stevens" was written to have died of cancer.Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 2.07: The Writing on the Wall
===Phil Coulson===
However, the side effects on test subjects were too extreme, and Phil Coulson resigned from his position and recommended the project's shutdown. However, that didn't stop the project. When Nick Fury decided to resurrect Coulson after the Battle of New York, he allowed Project T.A.H.I.T.I. to do it. As part of the recommended process, Coulson's memory of his resurrection was wiped; in addition, his memories of leading Project T.A.H.I.T.I. were also wiped. Fury then had Coulson's recommendation tape buried inside his "grave".
===The End===
Two years later Agent Phil Coulson ordered his team to find the location of the drug, Jemma Simmons and Leo Fitz traced down communications are locations visited by S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents before the Battle of New York in order to find the location, they identified the location as the guest house. The team, along with Phil Coulson and John Garrett came to the Guest House in order to heal Skye after she was fatally shot by Ian Quinn, he unwittingly brought the Clairvoyant there who was interested in how Coulson was alive after being fatally stabbed by Loki in the Attack on the Helicarrier.
Leo Fitz grabbed the vial labeled GH.325, because of research into Level 10 files he had conducted earlier. While Coulson was stunned at discovering that his life was owed to an alien, Garrett took other vials from the room. The Guest House was destroyed by a self-destruct bomb that was planted in case of infiltration.Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 1.14: T.A.H.I.T.I.
Coulson learned from Melinda May, who was ordered by Director Fury to watch Coulson for signs of deterioration or corruption,Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 1.17: Turn, Turn, Turn that Fury was not the head of Project T.A.H.I.T.I., as Coulson had assumed. Soon after, Melinda May found out that Agent Coulson himself was the head of Project T.A.H.I.T.I., and showed him a video of himself recommending its shutdown. Coulson finally got to talk to Fury after the defeat of the Centipede Project. Fury, May, and he talked and Fury said that he resurrected him because he needed him and considered him as important as an Avenger.Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 1.22: Beginning of the End
===Aftermath===
====The Clairvoyant====
John Garrett did experiments on corpses with the other GH vials hoping to use it in what was dubbed "Phase 3" of the Centipede Project. The results did not duplicate the results of GH.325, so he freed Raina for that effort.Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 1.18: Providence After Agent Grant Ward, with the help of Deathlok, decrypted Skye's Hard Drive, Raina was able to recreate GH.325, which was used to save Garrett after Fitz shorted out Garrett's biomechanics with an EMP.Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 1.21: Ragtag
====Words of Creation====
Phil Coulson chose to use the Theta Brain-Wave Frequency Machine to recall Project T.A.H.I.T.I. when the body of Janice Robbins was found with the carving on it. Coulson knew she was involved but could not remember how. Ultimately, he relearned, with the help of Skye and Jemma Simmons, all about the project he once supervised and how six S.H.I.E.L.D. agents with terminal illnesses volunteered for the procedure. All of these volunteers were killed by Sebastian Derik except Hank Thompson; Thompson would help Coulson subdue Derik and discover what the Words of Creation really were: blueprints to a Kree City.Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 2.07: The Writing on the Wall
===T.A.H.I.T.I. Protocol===
Phil Coulson used the knowledge of the project to implant false memories on people, calling it the T.A.H.I.T.I. Protocol. This protocol is based on the mind erasing part of the project, without injecting any serum derived from the G.H. so the patients did not go as insane. During the War on HYDRA, Coulson wanted to make a deal with Grant Ward, offering him an opportunity for the T.A.H.I.T.I. Protocol to erase all painful memories from his life, in exchange for getting him inside HYDRA. Ward accepted the offer and joined Coulson, together with Kara Palamas, however, he disappeared soon after the mission.Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 2.18: The Frenemy of My Enemy
After the Jiaying's Vendetta, Calvin Zabo, the father of Skye, went through the protocol, becoming Doctor Winslow.Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 2.22: S.O.S. Part Two
==Staff==
*Phil Coulson - Former Director
*Goodman - Researcher
==Known Test Subjects==
Project T.A.H.I.T.I.
#Rebecca Stevens - 2009
#Lewis Seaver - 2009
#Cameron Klein - 2009
#Patient 4 - 2009
#Patient 5 - 2009
#Sebastian Derik - 2009
#Phil Coulson - 2012
T.A.H.I.T.I. Protocol
#Calvin Zabo - 2015
==Appearances==
Appearances for Project T.A.H.I.T.I.
*Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
**Season Seven
***The New Deal (mentioned)
**Season Two
***Melinda (mentioned in flashbacks)
***The Writing on the Wall (flashbacks)
**Season One
***Pilot (mentioned)
***The Magical Place
***T.A.H.I.T.I.
***Turn, Turn, Turn (mentioned)
***Providence (mentioned)
***The Only Light in the Darkness (mentioned)
***Nothing Personal (mentioned)
***Beginning of the End (mentioned)
**Season Two
***The Writing on the Wall (mentioned)
***Melinda (mentioned)
***The Frenemy of My Enemy (mentioned)
***S.O.S. Part Two (mentioned)
**Season Three
***Laws of Nature (mentioned)
***Many Heads, One Tale (mentioned)
**Season Four
***What If... (mentioned)
***Identity and Change (mentioned)
**Season Five
***The Real Deal (mentioned)
***Best Laid Plans (mentioned)
**Season Six
***Code Yellow (mentioned)
==References==
Category:Projects
Category:S.H.I.E.L.D. Projects
Category:Project T.A.H.I.T.I.