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

The Things We Bury (2014)

Reed Diamond: Daniel Whitehall

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• Werner Reinhardt : You must be dying to understand all the items you recovered. They're fascinating, no?

  Peggy Carter : I don't suppose you'll tell me where they came from.

  Werner Reinhardt : A myth from the East of a star that fell from the heavens; of blue angels who came bearing a gift for all mankind, meant to save the world.

  Peggy Carter : You don't strike me as a believer.

  Werner Reinhardt : Oh, I've based my whole life on it. History just has the details wrong.

  Peggy Carter : Then set history straight.

  Werner Reinhardt : These visitors... they didn't come to save the world. They came to conquer it.

• Werner Reinhardt : So, curiosity brings her back. Have you come to make a deal?

  Peggy Carter : With the devil? I considered it. As you've said, the skies might open up one day. Your work will be valuable. But if that day comes, I know who I'd want by my side. It isn't you.

  Werner Reinhardt : We could learn so much together.

  Peggy Carter : Instead, we'll forget... forget you, forget your work. When I leave, no one else will come, no one to hear your stories, study your deadly artifacts. You'll be buried.

  Werner Reinhardt : I seriously doubt that. Nothing stays buried forever.

• Calvin Zabo : Conquer? You heard "Conquer"? I think you got a bad translation. The way I understand it, it was "end" - to end mankind. Sparing a chosen few, needless to say.

  Daniel Whitehall : Hmm. And that's why it's called the Diviner.

  Calvin Zabo : Yeah. It decides who lives, who dies... who will inherit the Earth.

  Daniel Whitehall : And only someone who can carry the Diviner, is allowed to enter the city.

  Calvin Zabo : Or more importantly, the temple inside. But *I* can get you in.

  Daniel Whitehall : And if I let you take a team, where will you take them? How do you intend to find this city?

  Calvin Zabo : Well, I'll have to look everywhere really, really hard.

  Daniel Whitehall : I'm not giving you men and money on the off chance that you'll find this place. Or if you do, that you'll not take its true power for yourself.

  Calvin Zabo : Me?

  [scoffs] 

  Calvin Zabo : Nah! No, I'm not management material. I'll leave that power part to you.

  Daniel Whitehall : Then why? What do you have to gain?

  Calvin Zabo : I have nothing to lose. I've lost everything important to me. And I want to kill those who took it... and finally be reunited with my family.

  Daniel Whitehall : Reunited?

  Calvin Zabo : In the afterlife.

• The Doctor : [Talking about the obelisk]  Tell me what you do know, sir, and I'll fill in the blanks.

  Daniel Whitehall : I know that a special few can touch it without suffering. But I have yet to figure out how this weapon can be...

  The Doctor : [Interrupts]  Weapon? That's so small-minded.

  [Retracts slightly] 

  The Doctor : Uh, for someone with such a big mind. It's a key. It can kill, sure, but only to protect itself from those it doesn't divine... hence the catchy name... to be worthy.

  Daniel Whitehall : I'm interested in science, doctor, not folklore.

  The Doctor : [Continues]  ... Worthy of unlocking its true power.

  [Whitehall perks up] 

  The Doctor : Oh, I got your attention. There's a place, and if one of those special people you speak of takes this Diviner to that special place, it won't just kill. It will do something... scientifically speaking... much, much cooler.

• Peggy Carter : [Enters interrogation room]  Werner Reinhardt.

  Werner Reinhardt : That was a neat trick.

  Peggy Carter : I'm sorry. I don't follow, doctor.

  Werner Reinhardt : [Gestures to the pen on the desk in front of him]  It's a pen. You wanted to see what I would do with it. After all, there are so many uses, no? Escape, confession, homicide... suicide.

  Peggy Carter : It's true. I wanted to find out what kind of man you were. You didn't use the pen, so now I know.