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

As I Have Always Been (2020)

Clark Gregg: Phil Coulson

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• Daisy 'Skye' Johnson : Does it hurt?

  Enoch : It does. A bit. But it's not the physical pain that troubles me. I am acutely aware that in my thousands of years observing humans, I never used to feel lonely. I have been alone many times. To be candid, I preferred it. But it wasn't until I met this particular team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents that being alone meant *feeling* lonely. And I don't care for it. So I am feeling, as you might expect, some anxiety now.

  Phil Coulson : You don't have to. You're not alone. Daisy and I will stay with you right up to the end.

  Enoch : That is very kind of you. But it's that last part, isn't it? You can stay with me up *to* the end, but you can't come with me *at* the end. I will have to leave you. And I will have to do that alone. And I can't help wondering when that happens, will I feel lonely?

  Phil Coulson : I can say with some authority that you're not wrong. Dying *is* lonely. But the feeling is temporary. At least for the person dying. The ones who are left behind, less so. I guess that's the one advantage for going first.

  Enoch : Yes. It's different, watching your friends go before you, isn't it? I have been through that, as well. It can be harder to stay than to leave. I'm sorry, Philip J. Coulson.

  Daisy 'Skye' Johnson : Enoch, the team will carry on the mission. We will survive because of you. Thank you.

  Enoch : You are most welcome, But, Agent Johnson, while your friends will indeed survive, the *team* will not.

  Daisy 'Skye' Johnson : W-What do you mean?

  Enoch : I have seen the future. Carry on this mission and cherish it, for it will be your last mission together.

  Daisy 'Skye' Johnson : It... That's, that's not possible. I-I... Enoch, this is my family.

  Enoch : Of course. Yet this is the nature of family, isn't it? I have seen it countless times on countless worlds. People arrive, so we celebrate, and people leave us, so we grieve. We do what we can with the time in between, but the cycle is always there. No one escapes it. Not even me.

  Phil Coulson : Which means you're not alone. You're a part of that cycle.

  Daisy 'Skye' Johnson : Like every other living thing.

  Enoch : Fitz. He was my best friend.

  Daisy 'Skye' Johnson : And you were a *good* friend to Fitz. You were a good friend to *all* of us.

  Enoch : As I have always...

• Phil Coulson : That did not go well.

  Daniel Sousa : Where did he get all those weapons?

  Melinda May : Deke's dead?

  Daisy 'Skye' Johnson : Very.

  Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie : Do we need to be sad about that?

  Daisy 'Skye' Johnson : We do not.

• Phil Coulson : To be fair, you were killed, so that makes you less of a suspect.

• Phil Coulson : I was really hoping not to have this conversation again, but if you forgot everything we went through, I guess that means you died again.

  Daisy 'Skye' Johnson : I died? "Again"?

  Phil Coulson : And always say it just like that. We're the only two who remember, so each time you die in one of those loops, you don't remember anything in the next reset, so then you have to learn everything all over again.

  Daisy 'Skye' Johnson : That's awful.

  Phil Coulson : It's annoying. 'Cause who has the teach you every time? This guy. I've done it 14 times so far.

  Daisy 'Skye' Johnson : We've done this 14 times?

  Phil Coulson : Oh, no. No, no, no. You've *died* 14 times. We've been through this loop 87 times - or should I say 87 that I know about.

  Daisy 'Skye' Johnson : That you know about?

  Phil Coulson : 'Cause you don't come power me up every time! It's okay. Not your fault. P.S., not a big fan of starting each loop powered down. Disconcerting.

• Enoch : They're dead.

  Phil Coulson : What a pain in the ass.