- John Garrett: [Flexing his new Dethlok-tech robotic body] There's a reason why they say, "cut off the head." Now I'll be unstop...
- John Garrett: [gets vaporized by Coulson]
- Phil Coulson: [Holding the "0-8-4", the object that turned out to be HYDRA technology powered by Tesseract energy] Hey, guys! I found it. Told you it'd be in here.
- John Garrett: You remember that speech you used to give us, Nick, about how one man can accomplish anything once he realizes he can be something bigger? Well, now I am.
- Nick Fury: A part - a *part* of something bigger.
- John Garrett: Is that how it went?
- Phil Coulson: Not a great listener.
- Nick Fury: If you told me this whole Hydra path thing you took is because you misheard my damn "one man" speech...
- John Garrett: I am the key to the future of the universe. I'm the origin of all things.
- Nick Fury: [to Coulson] You got it right?
- Phil Coulson: Totally. Loud and clear.
- Jemma Simmons: I like to think about the first law of thermodynamics, that no energy in the universe is created and... none is destroyed.
- Jemma Simmons, Leo Fitz: None is destroyed.
- [Both smile]
- Jemma Simmons: That means that every bit of energy inside us, every particle will go on to be a part of something else. Maybe live as a dragonfish, a microbe, maybe burn in a supernova ten billion years from now. And every part of us now was once a part of some other thing - a moon, a storm cloud, a mammoth.
- Leo Fitz: A monkey.
- Jemma Simmons: [Smiles] A monkey. Thousands and thousands of other beautiful things that were just as terrified to die as we are. We gave them new life. Good one, I hope.
- Grant Ward: You're not gonna kill us with the bomb. You'd go, too.
- Skye: No. I have a weapon much better than a bomb that will absolutely destroy you.
- Grant Ward: And why's that?
- Skye: Because you slept with her, and she's really pissed off.
- [May attacks Ward]
- John Garrett: Fury! Well, hell... When was the last time anyone saw a tag-team wrestling match with four dead guys?
- Phil Coulson: I see only one dead guy in here.
- John Garrett: Oh, the power's all on this side of the room, fellas. Phil, I'm surprised you try and stop me. Of course, I don't blame you, Nick. You haven't seen the big picture, the big bang, the timeless frozen ocean, but Phil here has. We share a bond. We're blood brothers.
- Nick Fury: You didn't tell me he'd gone this crazy.
- Phil Coulson: He's really stepped it up a notch.
- Phil Coulson: You bring a noisemaker?
- Antoine Triplett: Sir, I bring the noise and the funk wherever I go.
- Phil Coulson: You got a chance to express all your feelings?
- Melinda May: Is he still breathing?
- Phil Coulson: Guess she kept some of it to herself.
- Melinda May: He's having trouble speaking. I think I fractured his larynx.
- Phil Coulson: Oh, good.
- [Walks up to Ward]
- Phil Coulson: Your attempt to cross off Fitz and Simmons failed, but Fitz may never be the same again. So I'm going to invent new ways to ruin the rest of your life. I will do whatever is necessary to get Hydra Intel from you, but your torture - it's going to be internal.
- Melinda May: And a little bit external.
- Phil Coulson: Sure. Some of that. But you devoted your entire life to a deranged narcissist who never gave a damn about anyone, and now he's dead. You've got the rest of your life to wrestle with the question - who are you without him?
- Phil Coulson: We only get one shot at this, so let's go over the plan one more time to make sure we're clear on exactly what we're doing, okay? Trip and I will crest the ridge, use a noisemaker to grab a three-wheel, maybe something with more fireworks, and open a window for you two. You crawl in, grab the dealer, force his hand. He'll get us our ace in the hole, and then Bob's your uncle.
- Skye: Roger that.
- Antoine Triplett: Makes it sound easy.
- Melinda May: Coulson, it's a solid plan you've mapped out, but it hinges on a gamble - a big one.
- Phil Coulson: And back up isn't coming. It'll be just the four of us. We'll be outmanned and outgunned. But Fury always said... a man can accomplish anything when he realizes he's a part of something bigger. A team of people who share that conviction can change the world. So, what do you say? You ready to change the world?
- Melinda May: No. I'm ready to kick some ass.
- Phil Coulson: That works, too.
- Phil Coulson: Hi, John.
- [Coulson punches Garrett]
- John Garrett: Hi, Phil.
- [Garrett knocks Coulson across the room]
- Phil Coulson: Well, that's new.
- Nick Fury: It was a "break glass in case of emergency" situation.
- Phil Coulson: Yes, but that emergency was supposed to be the fall of an Avenger.
- Nick Fury: Exactly.
- Phil Coulson: Stupid, stupid, stupid, and cruel, and very stupid!
- Nick Fury: I think you've made your point.
- Phil Coulson: Why bring me back in the first place. Clearly I didn't think it was the best idea. I warned you about people losing their minds.
- Nick Fury: Agent May was on top of the situation, she says you're fine. Aren't you? It was a break glass in case of emergency situation.
- Phil Coulson: Yes, but that emergency was supposed to be the fall of an Avenger.
- Nick Fury: Exactly. And I'm damned glad I did it too. When you wanna build something you need a strong foundation. You know how few people I trust, Coulson.
- Phil Coulson: You can count them on one hand.
- Nick Fury: And I'm not afraid to cut off fingers. The principle SHIELD was founded on was pure.
- Melinda May: Protection.
- Nick Fury: Protection. One word. Sometimes to protect one man from himself,other times to protect the planet against an alien invasion from another universe. It's a broad job description.
- Phil Coulson: No need to tell me.
- Nick Fury: But the belief that drives us all is the same. Whether it's one man, or all mankind.
- Phil Coulson: That they're worth saving.
- Nick Fury: That truth lives inside you, Coulson. Before it was torn apart, S.H.I.E.L.D. was a lot of moving parts. Guys like you were the heart. Now you'll be the head.
- Phil Coulson: What is it?
- Nick Fury: Toolbox. To help you build it back up.
- Phil Coulson: You want me to start over, rebuild S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Nick Fury: From scratch. Take your time, and do it right. You'll still have his back.
- Melinda May: Of course.
- Nick Fury: There's no one else I trust with this.
- Phil Coulson: Thank you, sir. How do you... How should I proceed?
- Nick Fury: That's up to you, Director.
- Phil Coulson: Sir?
- Nick Fury: You don't have to call me "sir", Coulson. Look at me. I'm dressed like I live under a bridge.
- Phil Coulson: What are you doing here?
- Nick Fury: Well, Simmons turned me onto that old-timey tracker Fitz left on your Bus. I went to great pains to make sure you didn't die the first time.
- Phil Coulson: Well, now's probably not the best time, but... I'd like to have a lengthy conservation with you about that. It might get loud.
- Nick Fury: And I owe you that. But right now, we owe Garrett a punch in the teeth, wouldn't you say?
- John Garrett: I order you to stand down. You must obey me. You need to to translate the words of creation. You don't wanna do this , Mike. Tell him, Phil.
- Phil Coulson: Mr Peterson is free to do whatever he wants.
- [Mike Peterson stomps Garrett in his face]
- Nick Fury: You think he learned his lesson?
- Phil Coulson: He learned something.
- Leo Fitz: You looked very peaceful sleeping. Didn't want to wake you, but I'm glad that you're up.
- Jemma Simmons: What's happening?
- Leo Fitz: I've spent the last hour trying to figure out why we sank. We're at the bottom of the ocean, in case you missed that bit.
- Nick Fury: The principle SHIELD was founded upon was pure.
- Melinda May: Protection.
- Nick Fury: Protection. One word. Sometimes, to protect one man against himself other times, to protect the planet against an alien invasion from another universe. It's a broad job description.
- Phil Coulson: No need to tell me.
- Nick Fury: But the belief that drives us all is the same, whether it's one man or all mankind.
- Phil Coulson: That they're worth saving.
- Melinda May: And you sir, where you heading now?
- Nick Fury: Trading in my birds eye view for two solid feet on the ground. This is the last time you'll be seeing me for a stretch.
- Phil Coulson: Your going to disappear. Nowhere to be found.
- Nick Fury: Nowhere? You know me better than that, Phil. I'll be everywhere.
- Phil Coulson: Fury alway said a man can accomplish anything when he realizes he's a part of something bigger. A team of people who share that conviction can change the world. So what do you say? You ready to change the world?
- Melinda May: No. I'm ready to kick some ass.
- Phil Coulson: That works too.
- Skye: I feel sorry for you... betraying the only people who gave you a chance at being a decent human being. Fitz was a hero because he still wanted to give you that chance after everything. But some people are just born evil, I guess.
- Grant Ward: Yeah. Yeah, maybe they are. I've learned things about you, Skye... history... things you'll want to know. You and I aren't that different.
- Skye: [Scoffs] You're not the evil I was referring to. Garrett is evil. You're just... weak, doing anything you're told. I hope Garrett orders you to walk into traffic.
- Jemma Simmons: Fitz, the glass!
- Leo Fitz: Yeah, it's bulletproof, pressure-resistant.
- Jemma Simmons: But the seal is 4-hydroxy-4-methyl-2-pentanone, I'm sure!
- Leo Fitz: Yeah, I know what you're thinking, but the flash point is too high for it to burn.
- Jemma Simmons: But medical ethanol has a low flash point, and it burns...
- Leo Fitz: Hotter. We could use the defibrillator as an ignition source...
- Jemma Simmons: And build a compressed explosive...
- Leo Fitz: To ignite the seal, the outside pressure will...
- Jemma Simmons, Leo Fitz: Blow the window in!
- [Start jumping up and down excited]
- Leo Fitz: Yes, yes, yes, yes! This really hurts my arm.
- Jemma Simmons: How did we survive the fall?
- Leo Fitz: The plane must have been in vertical flight mode, flying low. I managed to strap us to one of the backboards before we hit. And I broke my arm - same two places I broke it in second grade, which is strange.
- Jemma Simmons: What do you think it's like?
- Leo Fitz: Death? Well, depends on the method, really. Drowning's supposed to be quite pleasant in the end, apparently. Once the water fills up your lungs...
- Jemma Simmons: I mean after.
- Leo Fitz: Ah, yeah. Well, my mum always said that you shouldn't be afraid because it's just like the way life was before you were born which wasn't that bad, was it?
- Jemma Simmons: That's sweet. Though, apparently, I was miserable before I was born upside down, umbilical cord all wrapped around my head.
- Leo Fitz: But I couldn't find the courage to tell you. So, please. Let me show you. It's ok, Jemma. Jemma we have to hurry.
- Jemma Simmons: No.
- Leo Fitz: Take it. Take it.
- [Pushes button]
- Jemma Simmons: NO!
- Agent Kaminsky: If it isn't the Cavalry.
- Melinda May: [Kicks him in the stomach] Don't ever call me that.
- Phil Coulson: Trip, if the rest of us don't make it, I still want this place to burn.
- Antoine Triplett: I prefer you make it, sir.
- Phil Coulson: Me, too.
- John Garrett: There's a reason they say cut off the head. Now I'll be unstop...
- [Zap]
- Phil Coulson: He guys... I found it. I told you it'd be in here.
- John Garrett: You don't need to be set to default. You haven't left me alone all day.
- Mike Peterson: I was told never to leave your side, sir.
- John Garrett: I love you, too.
- Jemma Simmons: You were looking?
- Nick Fury: For my man, Coulson. Understand you're involved in a dispute I might wanna weigh in on.
- Ian Quinn: This is our strategy consultant, John Garrett.
- General Jacobs: I want full disclosure right now, or our boys will come in and shut you down. Why do I hear gunfire?
- John Garrett: You hear the dying breath of an old world, general. And a new world is coming. I've tasted it on my tongue.
- General Jacobs: This is your strategy consultant?
- Ian Quinn: He's... part-time.
- John Garrett: New strategy - you shut your mouth and give us everything we want.
- General Jacobs: You threaten a United States general, and there are consequences.
- John Garrett: Oh, you feel powerful now, don't you? But you're all just slaves who will serve our future.
- General Jacobs: Listen, you crazy son of a bitch...
- Ian Quinn: Gentlemen, perhaps a small demonstration will...
- John Garrett: Yes. Oh, yes. A demonstration.
- [punches in General Jacob's stomach]
- John Garrett: I've seen the future. I've glimpsed it through the eyes of every creature - dead, living, and yet to be. This is the beginning.
- Grant Ward: The beginning of what, John?
- John Garrett: The end.
- Phil Coulson: [after finding several Hydra super-soldiers in Ernest's Barber Shop] ... So, who do we talk to about getting a haircut?
- Jemma Simmons: Are you scared?
- Leo Fitz: Yeah. And I'm hungry, too.
- Jemma Simmons: Me too. Scared, not hungry.
- John Garrett: [Writing with a nail on a board] Just getting some ideas down. I can't keep everything in my head.
- Grant Ward: Got to be honest with you, John. Looks like you're kind of losing it.
- John Garrett: [Chuckling] I'm alive for the first time, thanks to you. Took some hits along the way, but we did it.
- Grant Ward: What the hell did you say to Garrett?
- Raina: I listened.
- Grant Ward: He's psychotic! Did you notice that? I just had to lock up six government officials because he butchered the seventh one. He completely lost it in there.
- Raina: You're wrong. Garrett's not lost. Far from it, he's connected now.
- Grant Ward: Don't tell me you're following him into this madness. His talk of evolution...
- Raina: I agree with him. *You're* the one who follows him.
- Raina: Ward's concerned you're going mad.
- John Garrett: The drug didn't just strengthen my body. It gave me clarity of mind. It gave me a vision of the world that's waiting beneath the surface of this world. You don't think that's mad, do you? You know exactly what I'm talking about. You always have.
- Raina: I have no allegiance to Hydra, Centipede, Cybertek, you. I was only ever interested in...
- John Garrett: Evolution. You know we're prehistoric creatures oozing out of the swamps, through the mist, clawing our way onto land so we can finally stand. Or plant roots. Or fly.
- Raina: Exactly. I was saddened to learn you weren't Clairvoyant. I had a question I didn't get to ask, but now...
- John Garrett: Now the truth is written on the back of my eyes. So go ahead, Flowers. Ask.
- Raina: What will I become?
- Phil Coulson: So what do ya say, ready to change the world?
- Melinda May: No. But I'm ready to kick some ass.
- Phil Coulson: Sir?
- Nick Fury: You don't have to call me sir, Coulson. Look at me. I'm dressed like I live under a bridge.
- John Garrett: Well hell, when was the last time anyone saw a tag-team wrestling match with four dead guys.
- Jemma Simmons: I like to think about the first law of thermodynamics, that no energy in the universe is created and... none is destroyed.
- Leo Fitz: None is destroyed.
- Jemma Simmons: That means that every bit of energy inside us, every particle will go on to be a part of something else. Maybe live as a dragonfish, a microbe, maybe burn in a supernova ten billion years from now. And every part of us now was once a part of some other thing - a moon, a storm cloud, a mammoth.
- Leo Fitz: A monkey.
- Jemma Simmons: [Smiles] A monkey. Thousands and thousands of other beautiful things that were just as terrified to die as we are. We gave them new life. Good one, I hope.