- Phil Coulson: You really think they're gonna help you?
- Robert Gonzales: Every member of your team is a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. We'll let them make their own decisions.
- [May shoots Gonzalez with an Icer]
- Melinda May: Already made mine.
- Phil Coulson: That's really a nice entrance.
- Melinda May: They know all of our protocols. We handed Mack the schematics of our base.
- Phil Coulson: They don't know everything about this place - not like we do.
- Melinda May: She said she was working for S.H.I.E.L.D., Phil. The *real* S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Phil Coulson: What the hell does that mean?
- Gordon: What does it feel like, your gift?
- Skye: I don't know. Um... It's intense. Like 1,000 bees trapped inside of me. And I feel it all the time. It's always there. And I can't stop it.
- Gordon: Why would you want to stop it?
- Skye: Because I destroy everything around me.
- Gordon: That is simply not true. Every object in this universe gives off a vibration. Did you know that? Nothing rests. Animals, trees, people, even this ratty couch. And you - you have the ability to tap into those vibrations. Don't you see? You can become magnificent. But something's inhibiting you, constraining your energy.
- Skye: Uh, no. No, no. My, um - my friend's a scientist. She made these to protect me.
- Gordon: Or do they protect people from you?
- Skye: No, it's not like that. My powers, I-I can't control them. And when I try to, it hurts me.
- Gordon: Most gifts come with a price, but you could learn to manage it. I apologize. I'm saying too much. This is probably not the best place to continue our conversation. You don't have the tools and the understanding that you need just yet.
- Skye: To do what?
- Gordon: To be who you were always meant to be. Without fear, without pain. We can offer that to you.
- Skye: How?
- Gordon: I'll take you to a place where you can be with people like us.
- Skye: Us? How many are there?
- Gordon: You can learn about yourself, your gift. You can be safe. But only if you want to come. When you're ready, I'll find you.
- Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie: What's the plan? What are you even doing here?
- Isabelle 'Izzy' Hartley: Fury left us orders.
- Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie: To do what?
- Bobbi Morse: To save S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Bobbi Morse: I work for S.H.I.E.L.D. I do. I swear. But you don't.
- Melinda May: Try again.
- Bobbi Morse: What Coulson's doing here, this isn't S.H.I.E.L.D - not the real S.H.I.E.L.D., anyway.
- Melinda May: The last person who betrayed me - I broke his larynx. Hand that over.
- Robert Gonzales: Nice office. Lots of light.
- Phil Coulson: You haven't even delved into the record collection.
- Bobbi Morse: Got to get you a gun one of these days.
- Isabelle 'Izzy' Hartley: Save my bullets for the real fight.
- Robert Gonzales: I was wrong that day. We followed Fury's orders, hundreds of men and women who devoted their lives to this organization would be dead. If I had been the man in charge, they'd all be lost.
- Phil Coulson: So now you all operate as what? Five friendly faces who agree on everything? I don't see the other four here talking to me - just you.
- Robert Gonzales: I have no desire to be the director.
- Phil Coulson: You think I *did*? Fury chose me.
- Robert Gonzales: *He* made you. You're literally his creation. He thought of himself as some sort of king who made damn sure he had an heir to the throne. Try and remember Project Insight was Fury's idea. Secrets is what brought S.H.I.E.L.D. down the first time, and we won't let that happen again.
- Phil Coulson: If you wanted to talk to me, Agent Gonzales, you should have talked to me. You put spies on my team, invaded my base, hurt my people. Fury's secrets didn't bring down S.H.I.E.L.D., Hydra did.
- Robert Gonzales: I wonder if you really believe that.