- Melinda May: All I did was tell Hand the truth. Skye is no use to us on this plane.
- Grant Ward: How can you say that?
- Melinda May: She's not. Not with all these agents here, over her shoulder, monitoring her every move.
- Grant Ward: You wanted her off the plane.
- Melinda May: Outside the system. That's how Skye works best. You don't have to assume the worst in me.
- Phil Coulson: I heard what you did for me. I think it's time that we remove this.
- [Talks to her wrist binder]
- Phil Coulson: Disengage bracelet.
- [Bracket comes off]
- Skye: Are you kidding me?
- Phil Coulson: I thought you'd like that.
- Victoria Hand: It's unprecedented, this kind of response for a level 8 operative, the sheer manpower involved. I've been on the phone all day Director Fury, Commander Hill; everyone wants an update. Frankly, I don't understand it. No single agent is that important.
- Grant Ward: Coulson is.
- Skye: [On the phone] Simmons, it's me.
- Jemma Simmons: [Loudly, for the benefit of the surrounding agents] Why, hello Dr. Nugent.
- Skye: Is someone there? God, don't try to lie. You are the worst at this. Remember our safe word.
- Jemma Simmons: Manscaping? Oh, I shouldn't have said that.
- Raina: It induces theta brain-wave frequencies to help uncover the secrets buried in the subconscious. If you cooperate, you can surf those waves.
- Phil Coulson: I've gone surfing. That is definitely not like surfing.
- Victoria Hand: You backed my decision to kick Skye off the plane.
- Melinda May: Seems like it worked out.
- Victoria Hand: Seems like you played me.
- Phil Coulson: Evening, Doctor.
- Dr. Streiten: Agent Coulson.
- Phil Coulson: You weren't operating on my heart. I know about Tahiti.
- Dr. Streiten: I was afraid this day would come.
- Phil Coulson: Because of what I'd do?
- Dr. Streiten: Because of what I've done. After New York, you weren't dead for 8 seconds or 40 seconds or whatever they put in your file. You were dead for... days.
- Phil Coulson: That's impossible.
- Dr. Streiten: It should be.
- Jemma Simmons: We have something for you.
- [Hands Skye a brown paper bag]
- Skye: You made me a sandwich?
- Jemma Simmons: Yes, it *is* that.
- Leo Fitz: It's a satellite phone damper resistant. You get one shot before your bracelet shuts it down.
- Jemma Simmons: So only call in case of emergency.
- Jemma Simmons: [to a SHIELD lab tech] I know the night-night rounds no longer affect the Centipede soldiers, but all we want to do is disable them, not kill them.
- Leo Fitz: I'm good with either, frankly.
- Lloyd Rathman: In my experience, a federal agent shows a badge.
- Skye: You want to see my badge?
- [Seems concerned for a second then takes his phone and speaks into it]
- Skye: SHIELD protocol six alpha victor.
- [phone gets locked]
- Skye: There. That's my badge.
- Lloyd Rathman: Great. Just got my high score in Tiny Wings.
- Phil Coulson: You will not get classified intel from me.
- Raina: I'm not interested in those secrets. The Clairvoyant can see within any agency, any government. He knows what the President dreams about at night. I want what you want to uncover a different secret, the secret SHIELD is keeping from *you*.
- Phil Coulson: What makes you so sure this machine will even work?
- Raina: It worked on me.
- Phil Coulson: One thing before we start - what is it with the flowers?
- Raina: Who doesn't like flowers? I'm glad you noticed.
- Raina: I know you don't want to believe it, but you can't tell me nothing makes you doubt, makes you wonder what happened in Tahiti.
- Phil Coulson: It's a magical place. I keep saying that.
- Raina: Don't you want to know why?
- Vanchat: 100% premium-grade Chitauri metal, as rare as it gets.
- Emily Deville: How'd you get your hands on this, Vanchat?
- Vanchat: It's what I do. Find alien scrap that no one else can, then offer it to people who fully appreciate my efforts.
- Emily Deville: Mm, I appreciate the hell out of them. You can name your price.
- [Device slides into the room]
- Emily Deville: Is that a rumba?
- [Device explodes]
- Skye: You're in a lot of trouble, Mr. Rathman.
- Lloyd Rathman: Who the hell are you?
- Skye: [Menacing] Agent Melinda May. With SHIELD.
- Raina: This is turning into an interesting day, isn't it?
- Phil Coulson: So, you're my friend now? 'Cause I've seen what you do to your "friends".
- Phil Coulson: Why was that machine messing with my brain?
- Dr. Streiten: After what you'd been through we wanted to restore the man you'd once been, so we gave you a pleasant memory of a beautiful island. We didn't want you to be that... thing.
- Phil Coulson: What did I become, Doctor? Tell me.
- Dr. Streiten: You'd lost your will to live. We tried to give it back. I'm sorry, Agent Coulson. Truly, I am.
- Edison Po: [after Coulson tries to escape, sees he's in a ghost town] The town that the bomb forgot. It was built in the '40s for nuclear testing, but when the cold war ended, the town was spared.
- Phil Coulson: Not exactly prime real estate.
- Edison Po: Mm, true.
- [Significantly]
- Edison Po: There's nothing but desert for hundreds of miles. But I really like it. It's nice here. The children are always playing
- [Solider comes up and grabs Coulson by the neck]
- Edison Po: ... Yet never make a sound.
- Victoria Hand: We're about to launch a major assault on a Centipede lab, and you want to take your team to the desert based on a hunch from Skye?
- Grant Ward: It's not a hunch.
- Leo Fitz: Skye followed the money from Vanchat back to Centipede.
- Jemma Simmons: Turns out they recently purchased a small development less than 100 miles from here.
- Victoria Hand: Well, that's great news for their real-estate portfolio, but we have confirmed activity at the lab. I'm taking a strike team to investigate.
- Lloyd Rathman: I'm calling my lawyer.
- Skye: Do that and my offer's off the table.
- Lloyd Rathman: What offer is that?
- Skye: Immunity. You walk free and clear. SHIELD doesn't touch a single asset. Not even your party boat in Key Largo.
- Lloyd Rathman: And if I say no?
- Skye: You spend the next five years in the fridge.
- Lloyd Rathman: [Confused] The fridge?
- Skye: It's worse than it sounds.