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"Agent Coulson, I just wanted to say thank you very much for all of your help." "That's what we do. You'll be hearing from us." "From the Strategic Homeland..." "Just call us S.H.I.E.L.D.."
"You're at 114 Solenski Plaza, 3rd floor. We have an F-22 exactly 8 miles out. Put the woman on the phone or I will blow up the block before you can make the lobby."
"Dr. Selvig read an energy surge from the Tesseract four hours ago." "NASA didn't authorize Selvig to go to test phase." "He wasn't testing it, he wasn't even in the room. Spontaneous event."
"I'll brief you on everything when you get back. But first, we need you to talk to the big guy." "Coulson, you know that Stark trusts me about as far as he can throw me." "Oh, I've got Stark. You get the big guy."
"Mr. Stark, we need to talk." "You have reached the life model decoy of Tony Stark, please leave a message." "This is urgent." "Then leave it urgently."
"I gotta say, it's an honor to meet you, officially. I sort of met you, I mean, I watched you while you were sleeping. I mean, I was... I was present while you were unconscious from the ice. You know, it's really, it's just a... just a huge honor to have you on board." "Well, I hope I'm the man for the job." "Oh, you are. Absolutely."
"Uh... we've made some modifications to the uniform. I had a little design input." "The uniform? Aren't the stars and stripes a little... old fashioned?" "With everything that's happening, the things that are about to come to light, people might just need a little old fashioned."
"I'm sorry, boss. The god rabbited." "Just stay awake. Eyes on me." "No, I'm clockin' out here." "Not an option." "It's okay, boss. This was never gonna work if they didn't have something to..."
"Michael Peterson, factory worker. Married, one kid. Gets injured, gets laid off, wife jumps ship. Good guy, bad breaks. Best guess is, somebody tells him they can make him strong again. Make him super."
"Director Fury faked your death-- to motivate the Avengers." "Well, the death of a common ally is a particularly effective team builder." "Plus, it wasn't that much of a stetch. I stopped breathing for about 40 seconds." "Eight. It gets longer every time you tell it." "Yeah, well, you get shanked by the Asgardian Mussolini, You can tell it your way. I was looking at the big white light, and it felt like a lot longer than eight seconds."
"Excuse me." "Who the hell are you?" "A concerned citizen who happens to be a member of a giant bureaucratic organization that's tracking your every move."
"What happened to Agent Coulson? He's different." "Well, he's loosened up a bit. He nearly died before the Battle of New York." "But what did they do to him?" "I'm sorry?" "Never mind."
"Why are you here? You've been keeping something from us this whole time. And it wasn't just a boyfriend. You have a secret, Skye, and one chance to come out with it. That's now, or I'm done with you."
"You bend someone long enough and they break! Poor little Chan Ho Yin may have believed your lies, but not Scorch!" "Who?" "Oh, crap. They gave him a name."
"Working up a good sweat there, sir?" "I don't sweat. I glisten." "Blood pressure, heart rate, biochems all normal. All that's left is the blood sample." "You should know -- I'm not a fan of getting poked." "Tell me, sir, have you been feeling under the weather lately?" "Why?" "I just noticed from your chart that you're not due for a physical for another 3 months." "I made a mistake. Took a call from my physical therapist. Asked how I was feeling. I said, "a little rusty." Next thing you know, I'm wired to this hamster wheel." "Well, you can officially tell your physical therapist that you're fit as the proverbial fiddle, especially for a man of your age." "A man of my age? That's something you say to an old person."
"I got hurt once. Pretty bad. I-I died. Some say it was for only eight seconds, but I know it was more than that. I know I wasn't here anymore. I was there." "What's it like?" "It's beautiful."
"I know what the safety of a thousand men is worth. I know the importance of taking the Overkill Device out of play. But, I also know my men, and what they're worth!"
"You know, it would be nice if, for once, Thor and his his people sent down the 'God of Cleaning Up After Yourself'. They probably have a magic broom for this sort of thing."
"She took it upon herself to get them out. Said she could fix the problem. So she went in, crossed off the enemy force. Didn't say how." "Did she lose anyone in there?" "Herself."
"Whatever this is, whatever you think you’re doing, it won’t work. I won’t give you what you want." "You will. And what we want is simple: we want you to tell us about the day after you died."
"Let me die, please. Please. Please, I'm begging you let me die. Please! Please, let me die! Let me die, please! Please! Let me die! Please! Let me die!"
"I know you don't want to believe it, but you can't tell me nothing makes you doubt, makes you wonder what happened in Tahiti." "It's a magical pla... I keep saying that." "Don't you want to know why?" "Turn it...turn it on."
"When we started this, I told you that you might not like what you learn." "And I told you... That it can't be worse than what I've imagined." "It is."
"That's the thing about Skye. What I told her shattered her world. Her lifelong search lead to stories of murder and now it's too difficult to continue. Her search is over. Her story ends here. But you know what she said?" "Tell me." "She said no. Her story started here. Her whole life, she thought she wasn't wanted. That she didn't belong, that every family that took her in didn't want her to stay. Didn't care. But all that time, it was S.H.I.E.L.D. protecting her. Looking after her. That's what she took away from the story. Not the family she'll never have, but the one she's always had. Here I am telling her something that could destroy her faith in humanity, and somehow she manages to repair a little piece of mind. The world is full of evil and lies and pain and death, and you can't hide from it. You can only face it. The question is, when you do, how do you respond? Who do you become?"
―Phil Coulson telling Melinda May how Skye responded when he told her about he past.[src]
"She wasn't the first one to die. We were headed into the Hunan Province in China. Senior agent had called in an 0-8-4." "An object of unknown origin. We dealt with those before." "He said the entire village had died trying to protect this one. Avery and I were fresh out of the Academy. There were five of us running the back end until we lost communication with the first team. We had been searching. Found the senior agent up under a bridge. He managed to escape with a gunshot wound to the neck, but he bled out. He was still holding on to the 0-8-4. Poor thing was covered in blood. We thought she was dead too, but she was just asleep in a dead agent's arms." "Wait, the baby? The girl was the 0-8-4?" "If she had powers or something, we never witnessed it. The five of us helicoptered the kid off. Headed home. After we landed, we started getting crossed off." "Executed." "Tortured. Heads bashed in. Then when it came down to Avery and I, we realized that the only way to keep our people and the kid from being hunted-" "Was to erase her from existence." "Avery was smart. She used a lead agent's credentials to fake a level 8 clearance. She'd set up a nearly invisible protocol. The foster system was ordered to move the child around every few months." "But they still got to Avery." "She died protecting that secret." "And you left town." "I left everything. I mean whoever killed that kid's family and all those agents was a force to be recon with."
"Take Agent Garrett into custody! He's the murderer they call the "Clairvoyant". He's a traitor!" "Gentlemen, I know Agent Sitwell was in charge of filling your ranks, so at least a few of you know what to do in this situation... any time boys. Hail HYDRA."
"We were lucky enough to make it through. The Triskelion, the Hub... those battles are just the beginning of this war. HYDRA is out there now, but at least our team is still intact. We can fight them, and we will."
"The world needs us! HYDRA is out there! We cannot let them win! We cannot let them define us! Do you understand that? We are not agents of nothing! We are agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and that still carries weight! It has to carry weight! After everything we've been through, that carries weight!"
"This is just about everything we've been dealing with. And this connects them all. Cybertek built Deathlok, shipped items to Quinn, who was working for the Clairvoyant, who turned out to be Garrett, who planted Ward on our Bus because he wanted to know why I didn't stay dead. Should have drawn another chart for this part..."
"We have no authority to do this. We're no longer S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. We're..." "We're vigilantes." "I was gonna say, 'doing this because it's the right thing to do,' but... yeah. "
"Come on. We used to have fun like this in our youth. You know you enjoyed it." "Yes. Then life happened. Nostalgia's fine, but I'd rather deal with reality."
"I'm still a part of the team." "You th-... You are not, nor will you ever be a part of my team. You dumped FitzSimmons into the ocean. You murdered Victoria Hand and Eric Koenig, you deluded son of a bitch!"
"We may actually have a shot at finding the city." "Are you sure it's something you want to dig up?" "If we don't, HYDRA will. We need to get there first."
"What are we talking about? Tesseract-level power?" "Sure. I don't know what that is." "You realize we're talking life and death here." "I know. It's exciting, isn't it? I mean, both sides racing to the temple, life and death, flesh and blood, emotions! Who knows how it'll shake out? All I know is, my baby's gonna be right there in the center of it."
"Ooh, hats. I wish I was a hat guy. Some guys can really pull that look off, you know? ... What, too small?"
―Phil Coulson[src]
Dialogue
"I'm telling you sir, she looked exactly like Agent May. Expect for the freaky facial scar thing." "That was Agent 33. She was wearing a nanomask disguised as May, but May electrocuted her right in the face." "Oh, that is so badass!" "Sam, I'm on with the director! Thank you."
"You ever had the fried plantains here?" "From Tostones? Yeah, why?" "I heard about this place down the street where they put crab in them. I wouldn't mind trying that. You know, after we save the world."
"Look around you. Venders, selling their wares to bring home a modest income. Locals, buying fresh vegetables for dinner tonight. Tourists, on their one vacation a year." "Point?" "They are the point. The're the reason I'm here. The reason there's a S.H.I.E.L.D.. There are three million people on this island. I don't want HYDRA turning them into collateral damage."
"Two goals; stop the drill, find Skye." "Aren't you forgetting the third?" "What's that?" "Don't die out there. We tend to remind each other not to die." "I thought that was implicit." "He likes to hear it." "Who doesn't like to hear it?"
"Did you find Raina's body yet?" "There's a lot of rubble to dig through, but not yet. Whatever gas came out of that obelisk hit you, too. That's why we're being extra cautious. It's hard to make sense of all of this." "What? No, it - No, it isn't. We lost. We failed." "Skye, don't say that." "It wasn't because of HYDRA, it was because of me." "Don't blame yourself." "If I didn't go down there, you could have blown the place!" "That was one battle. This is a war." "And Ward and my father, the rotten core, the center of everything!" "We did not fail! Trip prevented a disaster, and Whitehall's dead. We cut off the head. And while HYDRA scrambles for a new one, I will crush them! I'm gonna make someone pay... whoever the hell it is."
"I shouldn't have to ask any of you to save one of our own." "You never ask! You just give your orders, no matter cracked up they are!" "Mack, you'd do well to remember your rank right now." "Really? Rank at a time like this? Why don't you shove your rank up your..." "Not helping, Hunter." "Guys, stop." "No, it's cathartic. Do you have any thoughts of your own on it, or do you just parrot his?" "Coulson's trying to stop HYDRA." "We didn't stop anything! We unleashed something on the planet!" "Please." "No one knows what happened yet." "It could have been a lot worse." "And Skye barely made it out alive!" "Thanks to Trip. He sacrificed his life, Mack!" "No! He traded his life for hers! And then he was shattered into a thousand pieces!" "That's enough! If Trip was here, he wouldn't be arguing, he wouldn't be bitching. He would be gearing up to do what needs to be done. Yes, we're dealing with forces we don't understand, but HYDRA I do understand. I want everyone ready when the sun comes up. End of discussion."
""You'll never take us alive"? Really? That's a little over the top, don't you think?" "I only had a day to come up with this whole thing. Besides, if I let you write the script, no one would say anything."
"I don't blame you, but I have been thinking about it, and I realized I've been wasting your talents." "Sir?" "Look, I know you love it under the hood of a car, but... we could really use you out in the field. You're a force to be reckoned with, Mack. Believe me." "Okay, but violence isn't really my thing. You know, that alien crap made me into something I'm not." "I know. But have you seen yourself? You're a little bit of a beast all the time."
"My mind is that of a lost adolescent. I can provide no information of value." "Not totally true. Judging by your clothes, we know you were undercover, probably something you learned after your last visit here. Your usual full-armor look is a little more... conspicuous." "So you are saying I wear that armor most of the time? Does this mean I'm a warrior?" "A good one." "A great warrior..." "It's just details that you're missing. You must remember things about your home world, right?" "Only basic lessons a child would learn." "The name of your sword? What about Thor?" "Um... I do not know this word, but when you say it, I want to smile. Why?" "Who can explain the mysteries of the Asgardian brain?" "I can."
"Sorry. The argument was going nowhere." "You back with us?" "Yes. My memories have returned. I am Lady Sif of Asgard, friend of the S.H.I.E.L.D." "Asgardian... well, that explains a lot." "It is true. We don't trust Kree. That is why I am here. When Heimdall saw that one landed on your world, Odin charged me of retrieving him." "So you came to pick a fight." "We know enough about Kree history to be concerned." "Well, then, if you know Kree history, perhaps you've heard the tale of Terrigenesis." "Of course. Ancient Kree descending on planets, altering the inhabitants to fight their war." "And Earth was one of them."
"You are a dangerous monster!" "I am no monster. I am sometimes dangerous, but only toward those who are deserving. (Softly, to Coulson) I do not actually know. Is it... only toward those who are...?" "No. That was... that was right." "Thanks. (To Cardozo) Answer his question, elderly man!"
"Coulson, your people make decisions based on logic." "Usually." "Usually. As do mine." "Leaving Skye with us is the logical choice, I promise." "No. No. That is not what I mean. Asgard is millennia beyond you in our pursuit of science and knowledge. And we have learned there are some things that can never be understood." "Is this little talk one of 'em?"
"I haven't worked with S.H.I.E.L.D. in a long while. I moved on for a reason." "It's a different S.H.I.E.L.D., Coulson's the director now." "Okay, but why me? Is this Skye that bad?" "She's that good; good agent."
"Let’s welcome Phil Coulson to the field. Here is a fun fact: he killed the man I had been plotting to kill for two and a half decades! Disappointment!"
"Sir, these people are on the Index, but they are not exactly gifted." "They were considered highly dangerous, larger part of the Index functions as more of a watch-list."
"This is not a decision that we arrived at lightly. I know Coulson, he was a good agent. At least he was before Fury injected him with alien DNA. Ever since, his behavior has grown increasingly more troubling. Can you honestly tell me that you don't share any of these concerns?"
"I'm sorry about everything that's happening, Skye." "Not your fault. The blame begins and ends with my dad." "Well, you wouldn't be the first person to have parents with misguided intentions." "Nope, just the first whose crazy dad lured her to an alien city to get earthquake powers." "Yeah."
"They know all of our protocols. We handed Mack the schematics of our base." "They don't know everything about this place. Not like we do." "She said she was working for S.H.I.E.L.D., Phil. The real S.H.I.E.L.D.." "What the hell does that mean?"
"I was wrong that day. We followed Fury's orders, hundreds of men and women who devoted their lives to this organization would be dead. If I had been the man in charge, they'd all be lost." "So now you all operate as what? Five friendly faces who agree on everything? I don't see the other four here talking to me... just you." "I have no desire to be the Director." "You think I did? Fury chose me." "He made you. You're literally his creation. He thought of himself as some sort of king who made damn sure he had an heir to the throne. Try and remember Project Insight was Fury's idea. Secrets are what brought S.H.I.E.L.D. down the first time, and we won't let that happen again." "If you wanted to talk to me, Agent Gonzales, you should have talked to me. You put spies on my team, invaded my base, hurt my people. Fury's secrets didn't bring down S.H.I.E.L.D., HYDRA did." "I wonder if you really believe that."
"You really think they're gonna help you?" "Every member of your team is a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. We'll let them make their own decisions." "Already made mine." "That's really a nice entrance."
"Can I let you in on a little secret? I've got a genuine, honest Abe, God-given superpower. You want to know what it is?" "I'm afraid to guess." "I can look at any man and tell him exactly what kind of car he should be driving." "Maybe I'll just look around." "Y-you know, I look at you, and I see a man who's played it safe his whole life, but lately feels like he's stuck in a rut. Life's lost its thrill. The kids are monsters. The wife's taken to muumuus. And now you're thinking, it's time to let the tiger loose." "(after stealing a jeep) Sorry, Eddie. Tiger's been loose for a while."
"I'm not going down without a fight. We're gonna find Skye and we're gonna take back S.H.I.E.L.D., and we're gonna need more than Honest Eddie's Jeep to do it." "You want to take their Quinjet, the two of us, while we're trapped in here, surrounded. Brilliant." "I have reinforcements on the way. We just have to hold down the fort until they get here." "Yeah, well, I have reinforcements of my own." "I.C.E.R.s only." "Oh, you can't be serious." "Those are S.H.I.E.L.D. agents out there. We're not gonna hurt them." "I somehow doubt they feel the same about us." "It won't come to that. It may not look like it, but this place was built to withstand a Hulk-sized force. On the other hand, let's just hope they didn't bring a...(a battering ram hits the safe house)" "...battering ram." "'Cause then we've only got about an hour."
"Maybe we should forget all this, head down to Mexico. We can lay low, enjoy the quiet life." "That's not an option. The problem is... there are no good options." "Well, maybe it's time for the bad ones."
"This would have been a piece of cake if you'd let us use these big boy guns. Now we have to get close enough to get shot by their big boy guns." "By the time they recognize us it'll be too late." "Then there's the small matter of who's gonna fly that thing. Do you even know how?" "I've watched May fly. I know a little." "How little?" "I can get us off the ground." "You do know there's more to it than that like getting us back on the ground... for example..."
"At some point, you might have mentioned that backup was a lethal cyborg." "Truthfully, I just wanted to see the look on your face when he showed up. Priceless." "Glad I amuse you." "You know I can hear you up here."
"We believe Ms. Belyakov posses enhanced strength. This is what happened when a Russian officer tried to stop her with his car. She fled Russia unharmed. Looks pretty strong to me, so it's important we don't spook her. Just a friendly chat to bring her in for evaluation. And if all goes really well, we gain an asset before the Russian's find her."
"Can we just address the elephant on the plane? I know. This is weird. Mistakes were made." "By you." "And people got hurt." "By you." "And I could stand here and explain again how myparents and brother left me vulnerable..." "We've all had our traumas, Ward. Didn't turn any of us into psychopaths." "Well, we all have our own ways of coping, don't we? For example, I was yours." "Watch it, Ward!" "Look, I'm just saying we all made mistakes. Coulson handed me over to my abuser, thank you. Skye shot me." "After you killed how many people?" "Yeah, and we were a team and a family, and you betrayed us!" "I know. It's what I regret the most. Not the lying, the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents I had to put down, and I'm sorry not even dropping you two in the ocean. It's this. My actions destroyed this. I'll regret that forever. 'Cause there were good times. Right? Before? I mean, for a while there, we were a good team. Weren't we?" "(after a dramatic pause) I'm still happy I shot you." "Yeah, me too." "Should've aimed for the face."
"I bet Gonzales wasn't happy when you said he wasn't invited to this chat." "Yeah, well, I wasn't too happy when he blew a hole in my base and kicked me out. We all live with disappointment, and right now, we have bigger problems." "Does that mean you found it?" "I'm guessing HYDRA doesn't know Loki's Scepter was the weapon that killed me, but I bet they know it can control minds." "In their hands, that's catastrophic. Coulson, please tell me you know where it is." "Sokovia. I'm pretty sure List is headed there right now. I've just sent you everything I found on Strucker's location." "Coulson, why didn't you just tell Gonzales why you really wanted to get onto the HYDRA base?" "Believe it or not, he puts every decision to a vote. (Hill Scoffs) I know. And I was pretty sure if I'd been honest, I'd have lost the swing vote, so I did what I had to do." "Last thing. Theta Protocol; is it ready?" "Yes, it is. Time to bring in the Avengers."
"I'm not a polar bear, Phil. So why is it colder than bloody blue hell down here, huh? And, uh, what's with the, uh... the doodad on my wrist, huh?" "That doodad monitors your vitals. I'll get you another blanket if you'd like, or maybe some hot cocoa." "Are you mocking me? torturing me after I willingly turned myself in?" "Torture isn't my thing, Cal, and surrender doesn't really seem like yours. Why did Jiaying send you?" "Do you have children, Phil?" "I do not." "Well, then you'll never understand what a father will do for his child, never imagine my pain when S.H.I.E.L.D. stole my daughter." "We've been over this. It wasn't S.H.I.E.L.D.... it was HYDRA. And didn't you get your vengeance back in the day? My understanding is you single-handedly killed a whole lot of people." "Oh... I suppose that's true." "I'm curious how you did it." "With style."
"Tell me you figured out what drugs Cal took, because my gut's saying everything ever made." "I haven't fully sequenced the formula yet, if only for the multitude of trace drugs found, but my initial list includes anabolic-androgenic steroids, a liver enzyme blocker, various metabolic enhancers, methamphetamines, what appears to be gorilla testosterone, and, no lie, a drop of peppermint. I think it's an ill-conceived attempt at super strength." "Other than Cap, every attempt has been ill-conceived."
"Could... could I get a glass of that water? Ohh. May I have another one to drink?" "That depends on your cooperation." "They just want to live in peace. Is that such a crime?" "Your wife assassinated a high-ranking S.H.I.E.L.D. officer, then staged it to look like we attacked them. Wake up, Cal. She's trying to start a war, and your daughter's gonna be caught in the middle of it." "I don't believe you. Neither of us would ever do anything to hurt our daughter." "No. But you'd do anything to protect her. Look at yourself. Whatever was in these ...is killing you. Was getting rid of you part of her peace plan?" "You got it all wrong, Phil. That little concoction is my own special formula. I took it of my own free will. You see, when my Daisy was stolen, I wasn't strong enough to protect her, so I started experimenting. If I wasn't born with Inhuman powers, then I would make my own. Best-laid plans. C'est la vie. I never got it quite right ...always missing something. Highly unstable. Made me a little moody. Could it kill me? Sure. But it was worth the risk." "You're here to take out some S.H.I.E.L.D. agents?" "No, I'm here to take out as many as I can."
"If you hurt anyone here, Daisy will never forgive you." "Stop calling her that!" "Sorry. I thought th... never mind." "She's "Daisy" to me and her mother... not you, not anyone else." "Fair enough, but my point is she's been led to believe that you're a monster." "Innuendos! Lies!" "Well, you did wipe out an entire village." "They were trying to hide her from me!" "It was Jiaying's idea to destroy that village, wasn't it? Just like this was her idea. She told you to take this. She didn't care if it killed you. She's using you to do her dirty work." "No! No! More lies!" "You've always done her dirty work. She's the real monster." "She's not like me." "No. She's worse." "She's not a monster!""
"Last time we met, you disarmed me with your evasive tactics." "I see what you did there." "No, I got it handed to you. Makes me wonder what else you've got up your sleeve." "No, really, I get it."
"Want to take me out? Come and get me. We'll settle this right now." "I have people who take care of that sort of thing for me now. No, I just wanted to hear the panic in your voice before you died. This isn't over."
"I figured out a way to track down Ward, but we got to go off book." "My specialty." "I'm not sure taking Hunter is really such a good idea." "You're going, too, Agent Morse. We need a pilot."
"How long till we reach HYDRA airspace?" "We're about 10 minutes out. Sir? About what happened back there..." "We got what we needed. End of story." "I understand. But that look on your face... I've seen it before. It's the same look Hunter had when he went after Ward." "Not sure I'm getting your point." "It's dangerous going into a mission that emotional. You need to be able to separate the job from your own feelings." "You're wrong. I've been keeping my feelings in check, and look what it got us. Rosalind's dead, Ward has Fitz and Simmons. My only regret is that I didn't kill that son of a bitch when I had the chance." "Coulson..." "Let me know when we're close."
"Feels real." "Feels like the others. It's not the hand. It's me." "Maybe you're not supposed to get over it. Some things you can't move past. They scar you, change you permanently." "I don't know what happened there, on that planet." "I do. You joined the cavalry."
"They've wiped out almost 30 square kilometers of forest just to make room for this place. You wonder why the planet's dying." "Got that right, mate. You and Jemma watch that documentary I mentioned?" "Oh, yes! The one about the Amazon? It ..." "And you'll talk about it later."
"Got to admit... this time stuff's always been a little over my head. Like in "Terminator," if John Connor's alive and able to send his friend back in time to save his mom to make sure he's born, doesn't that mean he doesn't have to?" "I, uh, I never saw the original "Terminator."" "You're off the team."
"The Sturnus vulgaris, or European Starling, one of America's scariest invasive species." "They're just birds." "Birds can be scary. Imagine a flock of a million coming to peck your eyes out with their tiny, little beaks."
"Is there something wrong, sir?" "You were there. You saw." ""We do what we have to do." That's your words." "Yeah. And that's what I've been telling myself." "And now you don't believe that that's true?" "It was true for you. You were left no choice on that planet. You did the right thing, but I crossed the line. Ward deserved to be punished, but no one deserves to have the life..." "No, he did deserve it. He did deserve to have his chest caved in...no question." "That's not the point. It was payback. That's not what we do here." "Well, what was the alternative? I mean, letting him live, letting him win?" "Don't you see? When I killed him, he did. I knew it would come back to haunt me, I just didn't think it would actually come back to haunt me."
"We were good together, and yet it took so little to split our team apart. I have failed them" "This is being a leader. You want to protect everyone but you can't. People get hurt. Today it wasn't your fault." "Doesn't feel that way."
"You want me to wear a suicide vest?" "It's only if Hive infects you. And, technically, a suicide vest is something you control." "So it's a murder vest."
"You're not a criminal." "That's exactly what I am. So you can keep your forgiveness in your pity because I shouldn't have either... Or your friendship." "Daisy... you were brainwashed." "So was Ward. We make the perfect pair."
"He claims he made a deal with the devil." "Which is nonsense." "You know, the rationalist in me wants to agree, but the skull on fire makes a pretty compelling argument for "hail Satan"."
"Fitz, that was not your call to make." "Absolutely, it is. Whose is it? It's not yours. You're not the Director anymore. I have just as much say in this as you do." "What are you so angry about?" "Because you used to make decisions like that all the time, and then you stepped down." "I did what was best for S.H.I.E.L.D." "Everybody is trying to do their best to prevent another tragedy like Lincoln. For you and Daisy, that meant throwing in the towel, but we built Aida to protect agents like him." "I didn't throw in the towel. I ran an illegal spy agency using powered operatives on American soil. Do you think the President loved that about me? I had to step down so that you could all continue in S.H.I.E.L.D." "You handed it over to a Director who betrayed Simmons! He sent her off, God knows where! We were having an argument. Now she's out there, alone, and I'm gone." "Listen to me. He would never hurt her. Everything's gonna be all right. We're gonna make sure of that." "All right, well, I need you in this fight, 'cause I got to get back to her." "I'm in this fight."
"Now it's just the two of us." "How many times have we been locked up together?" "Huh. Hard to say. First time by a robot, though." "You ever feel like you're living someone else's life?" "Every day." "Funny. You never show it." "That's 'cause I have an excellent poker face." "You're terrible at poker." "That's true. I'm too cautious don't take enough chances." "Maybe you should start." "I'll keep that in mind if we ever get out of here."
―Phil Coulson and Melinda May (Life-Model Decoy)[src]
"I'll call a press conference, resign, reinstate you as Director." "You're not going anywhere." "Excuse me?" "S.H.I.E.L.D. still needs a face. Sure, you lied, but you were good at it, even with a gun pointed at you, and that's not nothing." "So what do you... What do you want me to do?" "Same thing you've been doing Defend S.H.I.E.L.D. to the public, play the hero. Keep the title, handle the politics. I never loved that part, anyway. But when it comes to operations, make no mistake. From now on, I'm calling the shots."
"I was planning on coming down here, try to throw my weight around, force you to comply. I came up with some pretty good material, but I think the best place to start might be an apology. I know you don't want to hear "I'm sorry" anymore, so I apologize. Really, I do." "Okay." "Radcliffe took something from me, too. Her name is Melinda May. And she means everything to me. I wish there was another way. I'm trying not to make it personal because May would hate that, but I can't help it. It is."
"All of these things you've done, all of the energy spent, the hatred. And you know what the funny thing about it is? I have no idea who the hell you are. I've been on hundreds of missions in my time. This one you're so upset about, I was sent to retrieve an object. If I'm being honest, I don't even remember what it was. As far as I'm concerned, you're just another red shirt like so many others who tried unsuccessfully to stop me from saving the world. 'Cause that's what I do. So... cool origin story, bro, but this means nothing to me."
"Agent Coulson, I presume. Do you know who I am?" "The sick son of a bitch who kidnapped my people and seems to have more than a few skeletons in his closet?"
"A wise man once told me that a person can do anything once they realize they are a part of something bigger. It's taken me a while to understand that. For years, I was just a face in the crowd, a history teacher who spread HYDRA's lies. They seemed too imposing for only one person to fight. But now, I'm choosing to stand up. To become a part of something bigger. I really do believe that together, we can accomplish anything. Because the truth is... I'm not just a history teacher. My name... is Phil Coulson. And I'm an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D."
―Phil Coulson on a S.H.I.E.L.D. subversive broadcast[src]
"I haven't been totally honest with you about what happened when you were not around." "I knew something was up. What are you not telling me?" "I drank the bottle of Haig." "What?!"
"We'll have to go back to base." "That's a terrible idea." "I agree. The military, Aida, more LMDs are probably waiting for us." "Maybe, but I'm tired of hiding. Let's take the fight back home."
"I heard Mace was calling you in. You're signing the Sokovia Accords. That's a big step." "Yeah, one you never made me take. Secret Warriors, you said. Whatever happened to "Secret?"" "New boss, new rules." "I miss the old boss." "Think of it this way: now you can work with me instead of for me." "Mm, that doesn't make me feel better."
"I know it's a lot to get used to, but I think it's progress. With S.H.I.E.L.D. going public again, the new Director needs everyone, especially Inhumans, on his side." "And on his list."
"Take it to Mace. That's the procedure now. Guy's got it hard enough without me stepping on his toes." "But you're the one I trust." "But I had to earn that trust. Give him a chance. All that man wants is to be liked. Believe me."
"What's that?" "Something Coulson gave me the day I signed the Accords. He said it would help remind me that I'm not giving something up but gaining something." "A team."