Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV Series)

0-8-4 (2013)

Clark Gregg: Phil Coulson

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• Nick Fury : Really? Really, Coulson? SIX DAYS? It only took you six days to take a completely renovated piece of state-of-the-art machinery and turn it into scrap?

  Phil Coulson : My team acted with my authority.

  Nick Fury : Authority! Don't talk to me about authority. Do you know how much this plane cost? It got a bar!

  [Looks at it sadly] 

  Nick Fury : A really nice one. Talking to me about authority. You know, I have the authority to downgrade your ass to a Winnebago!

  Phil Coulson : I'm aware of that, sir.

  Nick Fury : Well, I want it fixed. Just like you found it. So don't have Fitz-Simmons going making modifications, like a, a damn fish tank.

  Phil Coulson : Yes, sir.

  [after Fury leaves] 

  Phil Coulson : Yeah, we're going to have to kill the fish tank.

• Skye : I don't even know where we are going.

  Phil Coulson : Peru. That's where the 0-8-4 was reported.

  Skye : And an 0-8-4 is?

  Phil Coulson : 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.

  Skye : What was the last one?

  Phil Coulson : A hammer.

• Phil Coulson : We still need to iron out the kinks, but Ward you can speak 6 languages, Simmons you have 2 PHD's in fields I cannot pronounce, and Fitz you ARE a rocket scientist, so work it out.

  [Leaves] 

  Skye : [shouts after him]  I'm... I'm good at stuff too!

• Phil Coulson : [about Skye]  Imagine what she'll do with our resources.

  Grant Ward : I am. That's exactly what I'm imagining during this frown. You brought me on for risk assessment. She's a risk.

  Phil Coulson : I'm calling this. But your frown will be on record.

• Skye : Sweet ride.

  Phil Coulson : I earned a little good will from Director Fury when I got hit right before the battle of New York.

  Skye : You took a bullet?

  Phil Coulson : Ish.

• Grant Ward : Skye, the girl is not qualified to be a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent.

  Phil Coulson : 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.

• Camilla Reyes : Oh, Phil, you're not even aware. Your re-newed idealism, your collectables, your air-borne man-cave; surrounding yourself with young, attractive agents - you're having a mid-life crisis.

  Phil Coulson : [Mostly to himself]  More of an after-life thing really.

  Camilla Reyes : And I'm not even going to mention the red Corvette.

  Phil Coulson : Her name is Lola.

  Camilla Reyes : [laughs]  Of course it is.

• Phil Coulson : Whose idea was it to blow a hole in the plane?

  Grant Ward : It was everyone's idea, sir.

  Phil Coulson : Nice work

• Phil Coulson : Do you need anything before I go check on the device fueled by evil that's sitting in our cargo hold?

  [May is silent] 

  Phil Coulson : This was fun.

• Skye : What happened with Reyes, anyway?

  Phil Coulson : She's being held at a S.H.I.E.L.D. detainment facility. I expect the Peruvian government will negotiate for her release. She probably won't spend much time in jail.

  Skye : No, I mean what happened with you and Reyes? You guys totally did it back in the day, right?

  Phil Coulson : [Smiles slightly]  That's classified.

• Grant Ward : We've been called in to investigate a 0-8-4. We all know what that means.

  Phil Coulson : Yes, we do. It means we don't know what that means.

• Skye : What exactly am I signing up for?

  Phil Coulson : Like I said - front-row seat to the craziest show on earth.

• Phil Coulson : There was an elegance to things back then. With everything around us changing so quickly, it doesn't hurt to have a few touchstones to the past. Reminds me what's important.