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

Seeds (2014)

Clark Gregg: Phil Coulson

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• Phil Coulson : That's the thing about Skye. What I told her shattered her world. Her lifelong search led to stories of murder, and now it's too difficult to continue. Her search is over. Her story ends here. But you know what she said?

  Melinda May : Tell me.

  Phil Coulson : She said no-her story started here. Her whole life, she thought she wasn't wanted, that she didn't belong, that every family that took her in didn't want her to stay, didn't care. But all that time, it was S.H.I.E.L.D. protecting her, looking after her. That's what she took away from the story-not the family she'll never have, but the one she's always had. Here I am, telling her something that could destroy her faith in humanity, and somehow she manages to repair a little piece of mine. The world is full of evil and lies and pain and death, and you can't hide from it-you can only face it. The question is, when you do, how do you respond? Who do you become?

• Phil Coulson : But I'm tired of secrets, so I'm glad we're here. We need to root out all the secrets.

  Melinda May : Agent Ward and I have been having sex.

• Phil Coulson : Alright what's up?

  Melinda May : You tell me?

  Phil Coulson : You're talking, more than ever.

  Melinda May : 'Cause you're not.

• Agent Lumley : We were headed into the Hunan province of China.A senior agent had called in an 0-8-4. An object of unknown origin.

  Phil Coulson : We've dealt with those before.

  Agent Lumley : He said the entire village had died trying to protect this one. Avery and I were just fresh out of the Academy. And there was five of us just running the back end, until we lost communication with the first team. We went searching. We found the senior agent under a bridge. He he managed to escape with a gunshot wound to the neck, but he bled out. He was still holding on to the 0-8-4.

  [Breathes] 

  Agent Lumley : Poor thing was covered in blood. We thought she was dead, too, but sh-she was just asleep in the dead agent's arms.

  Phil Coulson : [Stunned]  The baby? The girl was the 0-8-4?

• Phil Coulson : the world is full of evil and lies and pain and death, and you can't hide from it you can only face it. The question is when you do, how do you respond? who do you become?

• Phil Coulson : Can you reach the North campus parking garage? We think Donnie Gill and his device may be trapped in the center of the storm.

  Grant Ward : That's not far from where I am. I can get there.

  [Opens the door to an insane storm and shuts it again] 

  Grant Ward : Yeah, I can't get there.

• Phil Coulson : [On the phone]  Agent Phil Coulson with SHIELD. We've never actually met, but I'm familiar with your work - all of it.

  Ian Quinn : So, this is a "getting to know you" call?

  Phil Coulson : No, just a message that the first time your aircraft drifts over any country allied with SHIELD, we will shoot you out of the sky.

  Ian Quinn : So this is a courtesy call. Well, thank you, Agent Coulson.And I have a message for you. The Clairvoyant told me to say hello.