- General Rick Stoner: You have selected nuclear attack. For your own health, safety, and radiation protection, all outer doors will remain sealed for 15 years.
- Melinda May: Did he just say 15 *years*?
- Phil Coulson: How was I suppose to know there would be an "alien invasion" option?
- Melinda May: You always listen to the whole menu. Always!
- Qovas: I'm here for what was promised the Gravitonium.
- Phil Coulson: Yeah, that's gonna be a hard pass. Maybe you haven't realized it yet, but this bunker it's apocalypse-proof. It can withstand a nuclear blast. We have years of food, water, and air.
- Agent Kim: [Aside to May] Is that true?
- Melinda May: Not good food.
- General Rick Stoner: Greetings, elite citizens of the Lighthouse. Project Reclamation has been triggered. It appears you're experiencing an apocalypse-level event.
- Melinda May: Aw, this guy again?
- General Rick Stoner: Please remain calm. This moment in human history is what this bunker was designed for.
- Phil Coulson: That actually *is* kind of reassuring.
- Phil Coulson: [Over the intercom] You may be noticing that the Lighthouse is going into lockdown mode. This is not a drill. The Lighthouse is keeping us safe. All exits, including the hangar, have been sealed to protect us from any outside intrusion. Which is good, 'cause there is currently a sizeable alien spaceship overhead.
- [pause]
- Phil Coulson: Oh, and due to a technical malfunction, the Lighthouse thinks we're under nuclear attack, so we may be trapped inside for 15 years... ish.
- Daisy 'Skye' Johnson: All settled?
- Tony Caine: Weird kid. Drew me a picture of a blue lady juggling someone's balls.
- Daisy 'Skye' Johnson: Pretty sure they were *her* balls.
- General Rick Stoner: Citizens of the Lighthouse, I bring you excellent news. The outer atmosphere shows no signs of contamination. Congratulations, you have survived the nuclear apocalypse. The planet is safe again.
- Leo Fitz: I'm not sure you actually know what "multiverse" means.
- Deke Shaw: That every choice we make spins out a different timeline into the cosmos, and right now, there are infinite parallel universes. But I am proof that you can move between them.
- Leo Fitz: Or you're proof that we are in one timeline, in a loop; an infinite, intractable, unchangeable loop.
- Jemma Simmons: But if we succeed in ridding the planet of Gravitonium, then we break that loop and prevent the Earth's destruction.
- Deke Shaw: Which is great, because that definitely won't affect me at all.
- [Fitz and Jemma share a look]
- Deke Shaw: Look, it's not like I'm just gonna blink out of existence. I lived in one timeline, but now I live in this new one, and I think I'm gonna stay in the one with the sun and tacos and all that, because that's the multiverse. That's science.
- Leo Fitz: Or you're a canary in a coal mine.
- Deke Shaw: I don't know what either of those things are.
- Elena 'Yo-Yo' Rodriguez: That's our exit. We're cut off.
- Glenn Talbot: Oh, come on. We can fight these Re-morons!