- 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.
- Leo Fitz: Are you mental? I did explain what I meant using the Queen's bloody English!
- Grant Ward: I use normal English. Words like "duck" and "run" and "might blow us to pieces."
- Leo Fitz: Congratulations, Agent Ward, you managed to string three words together in a sentence.
- 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!
- Skye: Usually one person doesn't solve the solution, but 100 people with 1% of the solution? That will get it done. I think that's beautiful, pieces solving a puzzle.
- Grant Ward: You and I see the world differently.
- Skye: I have a small question, because I've been feeling like the tag-along hayseed rookie, but now I'm getting the sense that Ward doesn't know which one's Simmons and which one's Fitz, and they've seen even less gunfire than me and, I'm no rocket scientist but... is this your first mission together?
- Jemma Simmons: No, of course not, it's our second.
- Skye: I was your first? That's sweet.
- 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.
- Skye: Okay, we're sure, right? Everyone's sure?
- Jemma Simmons: We're all on board.
- Leo Fitz: Yeah, let's do this fast.
- Grant Ward: No turning back. No freezing up.
- Leo Fitz: Because if we do, then...
- Grant Ward: All of us die.
- Jemma Simmons: We know.
- Skye: Yeah.
- Leo Fitz: All right.
- Melinda May: [Revs engine] You guys talk a lot.
- 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
- Grant Ward: Where's your side arm?
- Melinda May: If I need a gun, I'll take one.
- Grant Ward: Right, I forgot I was working with the cavalry.
- Melinda May: Don't ever call me that.
- Grant Ward: [after they get attacked by a bunch of commandos] Should have taken more guns.
- Leo Fitz: [Tied up] This is my fault. Should have learned kung fu.
- Jemma Simmons: Oh, yeah, but I shouldn't have pushed you into the field in the first place. You weren't ready.
- Grant Ward: It was my job to makea proper threat assessment.
- Leo Fitz: [to Simmons] Uh, we. *We* weren't ready.
- Skye: This wouldn't have happened if Agent May wasn't on the stick. She would have busted out some of her ninja know how.
- Leo Fitz: Agent May? No. No, no. She transferred from administration.
- Skye: Well, I've seen her destroy a guy, so...
- [They all look at Ward]
- Grant Ward: You've heard of the cavalry?
- Jemma Simmons: Yeah.
- Leo Fitz: Yeah. Everyone at the academy talks about stor -
- [Sudden realization]
- Jemma Simmons, Leo Fitz: She's the cavalry?
- Melinda May: [Wakes up] I told you never to call me that.
- 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: Looks like Skye might end up as more than just a consultant, despite our reservations. She could turn into a solid asset... with some serious work.
- Melinda May: Well, if she wants to be a field agent, she'll need a supervising officer someone disciplined, someone good.
- [Smiles at Ward]
- Grant Ward: All right. I'll do it. Just to clarify, you were, uh, talking about me, right?
- [May smiles]
- Leo Fitz: [Showing Skye around the plane] Officially, it's an airborne mobile command station. But we call it the bus. We find it best to use shorthand when in the field. But everything has to be just so, you know, because of the danger.
- Skye: Yeah, I've been up here before, but I didn't see much because of the *bag* that Agent Ward put over my head.
- Jemma Simmons: Yes, so sorry about that.
- Leo Fitz: [Driving away from rebels] Slow down!
- Skye: You're joking, right?
- Leo Fitz: Ward, listen! We have to be careful.
- [about the 0-8-4]
- Leo Fitz: There's a binding energy structure that could overheat...
- Jemma Simmons: I could roll down a window!
- [Starts to do this, hear gunfire]
- Skye: Do NOT roll down a window!
- 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.
- Grant Ward: This area has lots of rebel uprisings.
- Skye: Yeah, people are fighting back against the government's mining policies. It's pretty kick ass.
- Grant Ward: [Sarcastic] Yeah, it's kick ass, all the violence.
- Skye: Peruvians have organized for the first time in decades. Thousands of suffering people who have never met uniting over a common idea? It's mind-blowing. That's what the Rising Tide is all about. Usually, one person doesn't have the solution. But 100 people with 1% of the solution - that'll get it done. I think that's beautiful - pieces solving a puzzle.
- 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.
- Skye: I have a small question. Because I've been feeling like the tagalong hayseed rookie, but now I get the sense that Ward doesn't know which one's Simmons and which one's Fitz, and they've seen even less gunfire than me, and I'm no rocket scientist, but is this your first mission together?