- Daisy 'Skye' Johnson: [crying] You can't just die for me like this. It's... it's wrong!
- Lincoln Campbell: I don't know, saving the girl I love and the world at the same time? Feels pretty right to me.
- Phil Coulson: Now all we have to do is decide who goes and who stays to hold off a wave of primates and Hive the Terrible.
- Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie: Well, I'd like to be in the fight.
- [wields shotgun-axe]
- Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie: Built this damn thing for a reason.
- Hive: I'll shed this host and take you, and march down to announce to the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents that I finally succeeded in defeating the great Alveus. The day is won. No need to remain concealed in the shadows.
- Phil Coulson: Yeah, you sound just like me.
- Hive: You know, killing me won't make the pain go away. Or will it? I can't remember.
- Daisy 'Skye' Johnson: I don't want you to die. I want you to suffer.
- Phil Coulson: I'm just a distraction.
- [Hive attempts to attack Phil Coulson but discovers he is just a hologram]
- Phil Coulson: I said I was willing to die, sure, but I certainly don't want to. I picked up this little move from my misguided buddy Blake. Figured I could get an egomaniac who'd been alone for 1,000 years to chat.
- [Hive finds the projector of the hologram]
- Phil Coulson: Plus, I always wanted to do this.
- [leans forward with his hand out]
- Phil Coulson: 'Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only' -
- [hologram cuts out]
- Jemma Simmons: What happened?
- Elena 'Yo-Yo' Rodriguez: Mack lit me on fire.
- Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie: It's a long story.
- Holden Radcliffe: It's not a hunch; it's science!
- [He says, as he heads out into the hallway to prove his point. Which he does]
- Phil Coulson: You better follow him.
- [Turning to the rest of the team and sighing]
- Phil Coulson: He has no idea where he's going.
- Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie: [after Coulson has stated that he is going solo on the mission] If May were here...
- Phil Coulson: She'd give me a very dirty look, yeah.
- [He acknowledges, but heads out anyway]
- Holden Radcliffe: We make a pretty good team. Here at the Strategic Homeland... what comes after Homeland?
- Elena 'Yo-Yo' Rodriguez: Just say SHIELD.