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

Turn, Turn, Turn (2014)

Ming-Na Wen: Melinda May

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• Melinda May : Fury knew you'd want me to join up, asked me to keep an eye on you.

  Phil Coulson : Looking for what?

  Melinda May : Signs of physical or mental deterioration, to keep him updated. It's that simple.

  Phil Coulson : Did you know about Tahiti? How could you do that to me? After all we've been through, the years we spent together in ops...

  Melinda May : He said it was essential you couldn't know.

  Phil Coulson : The time I spent sifting through ashes with you in Bahrain? I gave you a second chance when I assembled this team...

  Melinda May : I assembled this team.

  Phil Coulson : What?

  Melinda May : I evaluated what was needed, and I gave the assessment to Fury, and he gave you parameters for your unit.

  Phil Coulson : What was needed, May?

  Melinda May : Someone who could repair your body, a technician who could reprogram your brain, and a specialist to help me put you down if it had to be done. But I didn't do it for Fury. I did it for you, to protect you! I - You mean a lot to me. A lot. To hear you were dead... you may not believe me, but that's the truth. And I have nothing to do with the clairvoyant or this Hydra threat we're up against. Hopefully this helps prove that.

  Phil Coulson : I want to believe you... But you've used that against me this whole time.

• John Garrett : I'll say it again. Best bet to save her - use the ventilation system to get above the sit room. Drop down using Fitz's sweet, little mouse hole, and put two bullets through Victoria Hand's heart.

  Leo Fitz : Yeah, it's an option, sir.

  Phil Coulson : Without questioning?

  John Garrett : Questioning what? Whether she wants to kill us fast or slow?

  Phil Coulson : Last time we did that, we shot the wrong man.

  John Garrett : Because she wanted us to! Phil, this is a battle for S.H.I.E.L.D.'s soul, and we're on the front lines. History will remember us this day.

  Phil Coulson : That's right. It's for S.H.I.E.L.D.'s soul. And murder without consideration is a sure...

  John Garrett : "Consideration"? Consider this. She had one of my men killed with a bomb rigged to his gas pedal. The other two were floating in the hotel pool, and they weren't doing the backstroke.

  Melinda May : But we can just as easily ice her.

  John Garrett : You don't put someone like her on ice. She had Skye shot in the stomach - in the stomach - because she was curious. Mike Peterson - burned alive and turned into some kind of freak. She tortured you, using the same machine she used to brainwash that bitch in the flower dress. And right now, she's probably doing the same to Agent Simmons. Oh, I've considered it, my friend.

  Leo Fitz : No. Simmons will be fine.

  John Garrett : Just being realistic, kid.

• Phil Coulson : Drop the weapon.

  Melinda May : Coulson...

  Phil Coulson : Drop the damn weapon and kick it over the stairs, May! Now! NOW!

• Melinda May : I don't know where we're headed. And I can't get Fury on the line because Fitz cut the line!

  Leo Fitz : Skye told me to!