- Skye: You haven't taught me how to hold up under torture yet.
- Grant Ward: We'll get to that. It's real fun.
- John Garrett: I was happy when I heard you'd made it through.
- Phil Coulson: So happy you had me tortured for three days to find out how I did it.
- John Garrett: I didn't enjoy that. Phil, this is me being honest.
- Phil Coulson: No, John, this is you being a psychopath.
- John Garrett: [to May] I know you'd follow him to the grave, so...
- [to Fitz]
- John Garrett: As for you, Agent Fitz, you'd hold a very high rank on our Tech Division if you volunteer. If not, you'd have no rank and a lot of pain. Of course, either way, your services will be required.
- Leo Fitz: You're gonna suffer for what you've done. And I... I plan on being a very big part of that.
- 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.
- Phil Coulson: [about Hydra] Cut off a head, two more will take its place.
- John Garrett: Is it a head? I thought it was a limb.
- Leo Fitz: No, no, no, it's a head.
- Phil Coulson: It's a head.
- Jemma Simmons: Are you mad? How can you be saying this?
- Victoria Hand: Hydra won't show mercy. Neither can we.
- Jemma Simmons: There is no way Coulson is Hydra! He is a good man, a friend!
- Victoria Hand: He's a liar! Agent Blake came to me with his suspicions - that Coulson and the other level eights were involved in some sort of conspiracy. Then Coulson sent him on an op that put him in the I.C.U.
- Jemma Simmons: Coulson is not capable of what you're insinuating.
- Skye: You should really look up the word "boring" in the dictionary.
- Grant Ward: You ready to hack the system?
- [shows Ward a bomb]
- Skye: Who said anything about hacking?
- Antoine Triplett: But hey, if we get questioned? Let me talk. You're a surprisingly bad liar.
- Jemma Simmons: I know, but I'm getting better at it.
- 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.
- Victoria Hand: Captain America has defeated the Helicarriers at the Triskelion. But his status is unknown.
- Phil Coulson: And S.H.I.E.L.D. has fallen.
- Victoria Hand: Hydra factions have taken control of our east African headquarters and the treehouse. And those are just the ones we know of.
- Phil Coulson: It's gonna be a scramble, a power grab.
- Victoria Hand: I'll head to the fridge. At least that facility is secure.
- Agent Weaver: Jemma. Thank God you're still alive.
- Jemma Simmons: What? What's wrong?
- Agent Weaver: The Hub still secure? Are you with your team? Get somewhere safe and lock the door.
- Jemma Simmons: What's happening?
- Agent Weaver: Have your commander report that the academy is under siege. We don't know how long Hydra's been inside S.H.I.E.L.D. But they are taking control!
- Jemma Simmons: Hydra? What? Where?
- Agent Weaver: Everywhere? Among us! If you survive, you know where to find me. Jemma, don't trust anyone!
- Phil Coulson: Drop the weapon.
- Melinda May: Coulson...
- Phil Coulson: Drop the damn weapon and kick it over the stairs, May! Now! NOW!
- Victoria Hand: You got something to say, Agent Shaw?
- Agent Shaw: Apologies, ma'am. I'm just having a hard time killing the people we once called friends.
- Victoria Hand: Once that encoded transmission went out, everything changed. You understand that, don't you? We swore allegiance to each other. And today, that loyalty will be tested. If you waver you die.
- Victoria Hand: He's not telling stories now, is he? You know what I'm thinking, Agent Garrett? I'm thinking the icebox or the fridge is a little too comfortable for you. Maybe we should put you a little deeper underground. What do you think, Agent Ward? You shot the wrong clairvoyant before. Care to shoot the right one?
- 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!
- Victoria Hand: The worst thing you can do right now is underestimate Hydra. They hide in plain sight; they earn our trust, our sympathy. They make us like them, and when you hesitate, they strike. If we're to survive, we must learn to strike first.