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"The secret is out. For decades, your organization stayed in the shadows, hiding the truth, but now we know they're among us. Heroes... and monsters. The world is full of wonders... We can't explain everything we see. But our eyes are open. So what now? There are no more shadows for you to hide in. Something impossible just happened. What are you going to do about it?"
"She's a groupie, all the hacking into S.H.I.E.L.D., tracking powers. She might as well be one of those sweaty Cosplay characters crowding around Stark Tower."
"You seem nervous Agent Ward." "I'm calling to mind my training. There's no way I'm gonna reveal classified secrets to a girl who's hell-bent on taking us down." "Have you ever killed anyone?" "Yes, a few. High-risk targets. But they were terrible people who were trying to murder nice people. And I didn't feel good afterwards." "And does your grandmother know about these things?" "Gramzy?"
"Just act natural." "What?" "Just pretend that we're talking." "We are." "Good. 'Cause you never know who's listening." "I don't even know who's talking."
"How will you come at us? From the air? From the ground? How will you silence us this time? How can you? The truth is in the wind. It's everywhere. You cannot stop the Rising Tide. You will not find us. You will never see our faces but rest assured, we will rise against those who shield us from the truth. And nothing - nothing can stop us in the-" [Coulson and Ward break in] "Hey. What up?"
"You're in danger." "What do you mean danger?" "S.H.I.E.L.D." "Shield what? I should carry a shield?" "S.H.I.E.L.D. Government. Scary men in dark suits who come after guys like you."
"Skye, the girl is not qualified to be a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent." "That's why I invited her on as a consultant. S.H.I.E.L.D. does it all the time. Technically Stark is a consultant."
"I don't even know where we are going." "Peru. That's where the 0-8-4 was reported." "And an 0-8-4 is?" "Object of unknown origin, kind of like you. Team goes in, determines if it's useful or poses a threat. Last one turned out to be pretty interesting." "What was the last one?" "A hammer."
"Maybe, but I called with an equally pressing question for you, my S.O. What are we supposed to do if we have to pee?" "You broke protocol because you need a bathroom break?" "It was a really, really long drive, and everyone's nervous." "There's a container in the bottom of the blue chest." "Bottom of the blue chest. Not the water bottle?" "That's the one." "Did you never learn the thing that boy parts and girl parts are different, and our parts aren't penises?"
"The memory... Was it about your brother?" "Drop it." "Ward, if you ever need me, I am here-" "-To talk. Because that's what you do. You talk, and talk. Don't you ever get tired of hearing your own voice?!"
""It's not funny. I was sleeping peacefully. Very clever, Simmons." "I-I didn't do it!" "Oh, well Ward. I don't appreciate-" "Don't look at me!" "Ok, then Skye." "No!" "Well who then? The bunks should be off limits! No, don't laugh! Because I know it was one of you!""
"I know I'm not some bad-ass field agent like May or Ward, but this is what I do. You can't kick me off this mission. Listen, I will do whatever you say. All this protocol crap doesn't matter to me. All that matters to me is Coulson."
"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 agents 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 to lead agents credentials to fake a level 8 clearance. She'd set up a nearly invisible protocol. The foster system was ordered to move the kid 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."
"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?"
"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."
"What is your first name?" "Skye." "And what is your last name?" "Only name. No family. No family name to inherit." "You gave yourself the name 'Skye'?" "Well, the name they gave me at the orphanage was 'Mary Sue Poots'. So..."
"You know, I never gave you enough credit for this whole zen-warrior thing. But I got to admit, it'd be nice to feel nothing right now." "You think I don't feel anything?" "Look at you. You're a statue. And you and Ward had a thing. So if anyone should be furious..." "I'm furious. But I'm sure as hell not gonna waste it on a tantrum. I'm gonna mine it, save it... and when we find Ward, I'm gonna use every bit of it to take him down." "Wish I knew how to use that hate-fu." "I'm up most mornings at five."
"Ha ha, and no. It didn't work out because interspecies relationships are hard. I was a human, whereas she was a demonic hell-beast." "He doesn't like her." "You don't say." "She's pure evil." "Hey, at least you got away from your ex, the guy I had a crush on is now the psycho living in our basement." "You know, I wish I could relate, but all my exes are awesome." "Is that right? I seem to remember an entire year when you had to pretend you liked quinoa." "Yeah, that was a dark time."
"It's all connected. Everything. Ward has information about my father, who just happens to have the alien buzzkill device, which is somehow connected to the writing, that is related to the GH-serum that is in our blood. Like, we're pieces to a puzzle."
"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."
"He did it. You know Ward did it." "No doubt in my mind." "The senator should have let us help." "We tried. But he wanted nothing to do with us. All we can do now is try and catch Ward." "Or put the son of a bitch down."
"You're welcome. Now let's get out of here." "Yeah, me too! Come on!" "It's safer here. And I'm about to do something to Whitehall. I don't want you to see me like that." "I don't mind... seeing. Hell, I'm happy to help." "No. I get to do this myself."
"Stop it! Stop it or I'll shoot! Dad!" "He took something from me." "No. He saved you from killing more people. Now, get up and get away from him." "You have to finish what we started." "No, I don't. I'm not going down there. I'm not gonna change or transform or whatever the hell you think is gonna to happen." "Why can't you see it's a good thing?" "Maybe it's all the dead bodies laying around or the fact that HYDRA wants it. I'm gonna make sure the Obelisk never gets down into that city. And you're going to leave. This is your once chance to walk away. Or I will kill you." "Okay. I'll go. But I'll be waiting for you. After you chance, no one else will understand. They'll be afraid. Change is terrifying. But I'm your father, and I love you. I will always love you, Daisy."
"Your whole life... our whole lives have been leading up to his moment." "Sorry. I don't buy into the whole "this is your destiny" thing. We're taking the Obelisk, and we're leaving. There's too many lives at stake." "You got it all wrong. Whitehall, everyone has got it all wrong. This doesn't destroy. It gives life - new life. We finally get to find out what we become. (the Obelisk floats onto a pedestal)" "Make it stop." "I can't. Neither of us can now."
"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've been in quarantine before, and I know it can drive you absolutely nuts." "Thanks. I was beginning to feel like a leper." "Are you kidding? You managed to be taken hostage by three known murderers, you gunned Ward down, then were blasted by an alien chemical weapon and walked out unscathed. Leper? I think you're a rock star."
"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."
"Skye is my friend. She's different." "Oh, yeah. Like I was your friend, and then I changed. How did you handle that?" "Uh, t-the point is, secrets don't help any of us. Skye should have just come clean." "What, and risked being locked up, studied, or who know what else? No, I wouldn't let her." "Oh, you wouldn't let her." "We could have handled her in a way that could have kept everybody safe." "It wasn't fair to us, Fitz. We had a right to know." "A right to know. What... is that the same way that Sif and the Kree had the right to know?" "I think the situation is a bit different, mate." "No, you would have done to her exactly what they wanted to." "You don't know that!" "Yes, I do know that! They would--you would--you'd "handle her"! Mack just said! Like, uh... like Skye's something to be locked up in a cage somewhere. We should be protecting her." "No, Fitz. We're the ones that need the protection from her."
"Not bad. But once I'm pinned, you should try for a finishing blow." "You want full Mortal Kombat?" "I want you to stop holding back, Skye." "I didn't want to hurt you... I didn't want to try to hurt you. I feel like I'm constantly on the verge of... I don't know." "Look... we lost Trip, and it hurts like hell, but you can't shut those feelings out. Can't sustain that." "What's my option? I just might lose it right here?" "We've talked about this. Control. Embrace your emotions, your nerves. Use them... on your terms." "I don't know. What I'm feeling... is pretty dark. I'm afraid I'm gonna go postal and tear your head off." "Go for it. I promise you won't."
"What was in the case, Jemma?" "Something to help Skye." "Because you want to change her, is that it?" "Stop it. I don't want to change Skye, the Diviner did that. I'm just trying to fix her."
"Things change, that's what I'm saying, so maybe if you can learn to control this then you could have Avengers level powers. Something like Captain America even." "I think it best we keep in mind the unstable nature of Skye's power. If there is an Avenger equivalent right now, I'm afraid it's the Hulk." "Well, Hulk saved the world last I checked."
"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."
"What does it feel like, your gift?" "I don't know. Um... It's intense. Like 1,000 bees trapped inside of me. And I feel it all the time. It's always there. And I can't stop it." "Why would you want to stop it?" "Because I destroy everything around me." "That is simply not true. Every object in this universe gives off a vibration. Did you know that? Nothing rests. Animals, trees, people, even this ratty couch. And you... you have the ability to tap into those vibrations. Don't you see? You can become magnificent. But something's inhibiting you, constraining your energy." "Uh, no. No, no. My, um... my friend's a scientist. She made these to protect me." "Or do they protect people from you?" "No, it's not like that. My powers, I-I can't control them. And when I try to, it hurts me." "Most gifts come with a price, but you could learn to manage it. I apologize. I'm saying too much. This is probably not the best place to continue our conversation. You don't have the tools and the understanding that you need just yet." "To do what?" "To be who you were always meant to be. Without fear, without pain. We can offer that to you." "How?" "I'll take you to a place where you can be with people like us." "Us? How many are there?" "You can learn about yourself, your gift. You can be safe. But only if you want to come. When you're ready, I'll find you."
"Seven agents down, Calderon barely hanging on, and you want to defend that thing?" "What happened wasn't her fault. I was there. Calderon fired at her." "She was armed and hostile." "She was scared and defending herself." "I don't care if she was chasing butterflies. We can't wear kid gloves around something with powers of that magnitude."
"Imagine a thousand years of evolution taking place instantaneously. That's what happened to you after the mist. These treatments, we're helping your body adjust properly to the change. Transitioning you quickly and painlessly; I hope. We usually like to start the process right after the mist but..." "How long? How long, when can I go?" "You got places to be, people to see?" "I'm worried about my friends. I think they're in danger." "You're the one that's in danger Skye, remember? You're being hunted."
"Can you warm up food with your powers? Because that would be awesome." "I have never tried; but I did warm up a small pool once." "Any five-year-old can warm up a pool."
"Something bad happens every time I feel settled somewhere. I'm twenty-five and I have never spent more than two years anywhere. The second I made friends at the orphanage; gone. And God forbid I called a foster family home; pack your bags. I got the news on my birthday once, which is a complete farce because I don't even know when I was born." "I'm so sorry." "S.H.I.E.L.D. was the closest I ever came to having a family. I belonged there, saw what I could be. Even that ended with agents hunting me through the woods." "We're not going to turn on you, or abandon you. This is a safe place." "See, you say that but I know you're not being straight with me. Why do you care if I stay or go? And why are you..." "July second. You were born on July second."
"You know it's really impressive for Jiaying to take anyone under her wing." "Yeah?" "Yeah." "I like her. I just... I can't... What's her role here?" "Her role is, in charge. So really she must like you." "If she's in charge, how often does she train people?" "Since I've been here... let me see... never."
"Don't give up hope just yet. Skye can save Lincoln. I saw her do it." "Wh- You've *seen* it?" "We think Raina's gift may allow her to see things before they happen." "I thought her gift was spinning really fast to collect gold rings."
"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!" "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 won't give up. I can't give up." "None of us want to, Fitz, but..." "Fitz, you tried. Okay? You tried your hardest. Everybody knows that." "No. I missed something."
"Been thinking about your ATCU theory. Now, who took off before the convoy left, and who knew the exact route we were going to take?" "Banks." "He's got access to everything that ATCU learns about Inhumans." "We should tail him."
"You're doing good." "I'm not great at projecting authority. It's nice to talk Spanish, though. Reminds me of home." "Do you miss it?" "Especially Sundays. Mom cooks on Sundays."
"What's wrong, Tremors?" "Well, aside from the fact that this thing is ancient, I do not read Cyrillic." "Yet." "Forever the optimist." "Come on, Daisy. You can hack the Pentagon and shake the Earth. You're gonna let a few backwards letters trip you up?"
"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'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."
"I actually wanted to introduce you to a friend of mine, he has a practice near here, I think you'd get along, he likes animals too." "You're too kind." "I'm just keeping a promise."
"I only kill assassinos who deserve it. It's vengeance, chica." "For what? You killed a detective." "He had blood on his hands." "A teacher!" "A pedophile."
"You see, this is new for me. I've never been--" "A kidnapper?" "Caught. You know who I am, which is a problem. For both of us. A problem that has to go away."
"No doubt you got a death wish, coming back to find me after I let you live. You told me not to, said you deserved it, I'm just looking for proof that you do." "And then?" "My problem goes away, and your wish comes true."
"Calm down before you go all Carrot Top again." "Stress has nothing to do with it." "What exactly is "it"? Because I still don't buy the whole "sold my soul" story." "Well, I don't give a damn what you buy. I'm the one stuck with it." "So you want to get rid of it." "I thought that if I settled the score, took down the gangbangers that put Gabe in a wheelchair, it would go away. Didn't happen. So I started settling other people's scores."
"I don't get hurt. You gave me a pretty bad gash at the junkyard, now.." "Not a scratch." "I've been stabbed, shot, run over, twice. Next day I'm good as new."
"The Watchdogs have the right idea, so I struck a deal with them. Help them hunt and kill every Inhuman. Hunted like the animals that we are. And I'm gonna be the last one to go." "You hate yourself that much?" "I don't hate myself. I hate all of us."
"I know what you're doing. Trying to distance yourself from everyone else so they don't drown in your wake? I invented that move. It doesn't work, for one simple reason: Phil Coulson. He found me in that cubicle and dragged me out. He didn't give up on me, and he won't give up on you." "I never wanted that." "Mm-mm, no. You don't get to choose who cares about you. And Coulson... he's got a bigger heart than most. Lincoln wouldn't want you killing yourself over what happened."
"It is nice having someone here to talk to again - you, specifically." "Someone other than Fitz? Oh, well, of course, Fitz, but he has been rather distracted lately." "Distracted how?" "Aida. You know how boys can be with their robots." "Actually, I really don't."
"I must admit we make a pretty impressive pair." "Well, looks like we're stuck with each other." "Well, I was just trying to make the most of the precarious situation you put me in." "Is this when I get read the riot act?" "Not by me. However, if you're as smart as they say, then you'll know that, uh, I saved you from being thrown in prison." "You saved face. You turned it into a publicity stunt." "You already had plenty of publicity destruction of public property, assault, armed robbery-" "I never carry a weapon." "You are the weapon. The public was turning against you. Now? They look up to you. You're welcome... Okay, this isn't how I wanted this to go. Uh, we're both Inhuman. And as you say, we're stuck with each other, so why not make the most of it? I read your written statement, and I believe it. You were just trying to protect the innocent. And I know you're new here, but that's what S.H.I.E.L.D. is all about." ""New here?"" "It was a joke. I was making a joke to break the ice." "Got it."
"Seems they look up to you, too the "hero of Vienna". It's a nice pic." "Not as big a deal as they made it. They gave me too much credit." "You don't get to be modest and have a framed glamour shot on your desk." "Fair point."
"Look, we're a team now, and I have a saying: A tea-" "I read the motivational poster in the bathroom." "Good. Well, um, the team trust has been eroded for both of us, but I'm hoping we can earn it back tackle problems together within the administrative structure and start-" "You want to tackle problems? The Watchdogs enemy number one. I believe they're funded internationally. They have ties to people within the U.S. government." "I don't want to chase conspiracy theories." "It's not a theory if I can prove it." "I want to chase hard facts, like the fact that Senator Nadeer is aware of an Inhuman who's being held against his will." "Now we're talking."
"You know, I have to admit Jemma is much tougher than I had originally given her credit for." "Yeah, well, being in S.H.I.E.L.D. will do that to you. I think Simmons has been kidnapped like - three times since I've known her." "Really?" "Yeah, well, only twice on this planet."
"It's a high-pitch frequency caused by Shockley's cellular vibration." "The ramping up of his kinetic energy at an atomic level, and once it reaches a critical threshold, that massive energy transforms his body from a solid to a flammable gaseous state and then.." "Boom."
"I've been looking forward to facing one of you, readying myself. I strive for perfection. You are a genetic cheater." "I'm not a cheater. You're just playing by the old rules."
"Fitz. We were all in the Framework together. We understand how confusing and screwed up that world is. And trust me, it's gonna take me years to process everything that happened in there. But the one thing that I don't need time to understand is that we are all in this together. I tried to take the blame for everything not too long ago, I dyed my hair, I ran away... I thought that separating myself from the team would help me protect it. But in truth, I kind of just lost myself."
"Hello Daisy. I had a lot of time when you shattered my spine to think about what I'd do when I see you again. I decided it would be fun to watch you kill yourself." "Aida, seriously, therapy. Just consider it."
"I can't do what you're asking of me. I can't do it." "You've always been capable of more than you imagined. No. Not without you. You found me alone in an alley, and you gave me everything. A home, a belief, solid ground to stand on. But that was all you. You are what I believe in." "You believe in yourself, and you should." "No. You want a symbol? You are the symbol. There's no S.H.I.E.L.D. without you. There's nothing without you."
"It's quiet here in the mornings. Less strangers in suits running around." "Well, you should make room in that routine for uh, what's the word in English? Bureaucracy. Mace is going to want to grill you about your time off." "Yeah, he already has. Trying to set up meet and greets or whatever that is."
"The powers that be get twitchy when enhanced individuals choose their own missions. With Quake out there--" "Daisy has nothing to do with this, sir." "But she is the example of what not to be. A vigilante."
"Not cool, Yo-yo. Zephyr's about to take off and you're just gonna let me leave without saying goodbye?" "Are you going after Daisy again? Where are you headed?" "Well, intel says she's on the east coast. We got every USGS satellite and geological monitoring station on it so if she uses her powers, we'll know." "Does she get to be a S.H.I.E.L.D. pet too? Bagged and tagged like a stray dog."
"What the hell are you doing here? S.H.I.E.L.D. assign you to go after that weapon?" "No, they assigned me to paperwork. S.H.I.E.L.D. doesn't know about this. I'm here for Ramon." "The one who killed your cousin." "Sí."
"Mack said Coulson and him are also tracking your powers, the earthquakes. Look, Daisy, if I can help--" "No, no. One Inhuman fugitive is enough. If I need help your help, I'll find you." "Okay."
"Okay, so, this is the data from your watch, and this right here is the GPS coordinate that puts your location in the warehouse." "Here we are, breaking rules again." "Yep. But one click of a button and all Mace will know is whatever we tell him." "Do it."
"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."
