Daisy Johnson quotes from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

If Hydra doesn't form, then S.H.I.E.L.D. doesn't form in response.

Daisy

Well, because it doesn't have to. I mean, think about all the future lives we'll save if there's no Freddy Malick.

We can't disrupt the timeline. If we take out Malick, something even worse could rise up in his place.

Daisy

But then we'll just deal with it when we get back, right?

Simmons

To a future we won't recognize... Killing Malick was the Chronicoms' intent. They do know the consequences.

Daisy

And we'll only know what happens if he lives. None of this is pretty.

Yo-Yo

But why does it have to be a live-or-die situation? Can't we stay here awhile, uh, be a good influence for him, change his heart?

Simmons

Technically, that would still be killing the historic Malick, who...

Daisy

Has no heart.

Simmons

I need some alcohol. 90 proof or better.

I like the way this bird sings.

Simmons

I'm a biochemist, not a bird. I also need some salt, some cork, something made with silver. Let's hope it's not what I fear.

Simmons

I know what it is. By heating the compound inside an alcohol-based solution, I was able to produce a decomposition reaction, separating and isolating...

Whoa, cut... cut... cut to the chase. I'd like to get this package before Christmas.

Simmons

The compound is part of a formula that first appeared in Germany during World War II.

D... During World War II? I think you're half-cocked from the moonshine.

Simmons

It was synthesized by a German scientist named Abraham Erskine.

I don't like where this is going.

Simmons

And first used by a man named Johann Schmidt.

Daisy

The Red Skull.

Simmons

Freddy Malick is about to deliver the key ingredient used to create the Super Soldier Serum.

You give a name like that to your juice, it better have a helluva kick.

You have no idea.

Daisy

If we don't stop him, he's gonna build up Hydra and create the Red Skull.

He already did. We can't fix the mistakes of the past.

Yo-Yo

Why not?

I'm beginning to think you people are crazy. Hydra? Red Skull? Super Soldier Serum? Sounds like something out of the funny papers.

Daisy

Yeah, well, there's nothing funny about it.

We can't stop it.

Daisy

Yes, we can.

I mean we shouldn't. I'm sorry.

Daisy

With all due respect, it's not your call to make. Mack is the Director, and he doesn't have all the information.

Daisy

Now that I know what you are, I will ask you one more time. Where is Freddy gonna end up?

On the right side of history. You can't stop progress.

We don't want to stop anything. We just want to find our friends.

Well, then you can go to Hell.

Wait. Wait. I know where that is. I've been there.

Yo-Yo

I'm sure you have.

No, no. Hell's Harbor. Where the double-crossers go to double-cross the double-crossers.

[Sees Daisy in his office] Who the hell are you?

Daisy

Who I am is on a need to know basis.

I need to know.

Daisy

Ah, no, you don't. Because I don't exist and we never met. Now, can you shut the door, please?

Not to be rude, but it's been one of those days, so produce some credentials or I'm gonna put you in handcuffs.

Daisy

Here. [Shows him a card] I should inform you that's not my real name. My initials are "C", "I", and "A". Catch my drift?

Subtle, but yeah, I get it. I'm also gonna call your bosses in Foggy Bottom and confirm it. [Picks up a phone]

Daisy

Oh, please do. I'm sure they would love to learn how two moles walked into this base on your watch. Let me guess. They rolled in with flawless ID cards, made a beeline for the scientists... for some routine questioning?

[Puts down the phone] How'd you know that?

Daisy

CIA. We know all. Even about you, Mr. Sousa. How you were a scout for the 28th infantry till you took shrapnel at Bastogne, worked at Isodyne Energy, took down Hugh Jones and the Council of Nine. And those are just the investigations that I am cleared to talk about.

Why are you really here? Is this about the report I sent you guys?

Daisy

I can neither confirm nor deny that.

Well, I hope so. Because if S.H.I.E.L.D. has been infiltrated with sleepers post-World War II, we need to root it out right now, before it takes hold.

Daisy

Look, all I can say is that you are not crazy. And the people that you have locked up [Simmons and LMD Coulson II] might be the key to proving it.

The lady pretending to be Carter? Worst fake accent you've ever heard.

Daisy

You should tell her that.

Daisy

What happened to blending in?

I just don't understand the functional appeal of those... elephant... pants.

Daisy

You mean the bell-bottoms?

Sure. How do people in your time function with all the extra fabric around their feet?

I got news for you. This isn't actually our time period.

Daisy

Well, fortunately, there's unfashionable squares in every decade, so you are... set.

And nobody seems to look you in the eye now.

May

Wait 'til they all get cellphones.

So, I was thinking, how do you guys know I was supposed to die in 1955?

It's in the history books.

Yeah, but... but what if you always plucked me out of time? Does that mean I always survive? And if we end up in your present, will we even be in the same timeline?

Daisy

I'd stop thinking about it. Your brains will spill out.

Enoch

Come with me if you want to continue to exist!

Daisy

Enoch, you're here.

Enoch

Yes. As I have been for the last 40 years. Now buckle up.

Sorry we left you behind, thanks for the lift, and sweet ride.

Enoch

Thank you. Consumer Reports gave this vehicle a five-star safety rating, and its fuel economy is best in class.

Daisy

My head. Ohh, I can barely... Feels like there's cement running through my veins.

Drugs. Haven't been this messed up since the field hospital.

Daisy

I want to hear that story when I can remember it. [Tests her powers] I can't quake. Malick's little psycho...

Psycho? That's unfair... and very well-timed. Wow. Right as I'm walking in. Hi. Nathaniel. Uh, the two of you took me hostage... changed my life.

Daisy

Yeah. Uh, will you unchain us, and we can hug it out? And Hydra and S.H.I.E.L.D. can be together at last.

Hydra? I-I look like Hydra to you? Take a look at Ron's suit. Guy's here 'cause he's got mouths to feed, not 'cause he worships a space octopus. No. Religion's not really my thing.

I don't want to know what your thing is, kid.

But it's you, Daniel. You're my thing. Whoa. Come on. Danny. You know. I know. Daisy here can move things without touching them. And you? You either fought the Krauts in diapers or you're aging much slower than the other 60-somethings I know.

Daisy

You won't believe this, but I keep...

Repeating the same events over and over again? Yeah. How long did it take you to figure it out this time? I was really hoping not to have this conversation again, but if you forgot everything we went through, I guess that means you died again.

Daisy

I died?! "Again"?

And always say it just like that. We're the only two who remember, so each time you die in one of these loops, you don't remember anything in the next reset, so then you have to learn everything all over again.

Daisy

That's awful.

It's annoying. 'Cause who has to teach you every time? This guy. I've done it 14 times so far.

Daisy

We've done this 14 times?

Oh, no. No, no, no. You've died 14 times. We've been through this loop 87 times, or I should say 87 that I know about.

Daisy

That you know about?

'Cause you don't come power me up every time! It's okay. Not your fault. P.S., not a big fan of starting each loop powered down. Disconcerting.

Someone keeps trying to kill our people. Why doesn't that piss you off? It should. I'm sorry. I don't like watching you die. I don't like watching any of you die... over and over.

Daisy

We will figure this out. You know we will.

Sure. But in the meantime, it is soul-crushing. If I even have a soul.

Daisy

Don't talk like that again. Of course you have a soul.

Don't say that. Don't say "of course". I'm not who I was. I'm this thing. I was Max Headroom for a year. And you know what? Being trapped in a time loop, watching my friends die, helpless to stop it, it's not some time-space anomaly. It's a damn metaphor. This is my life now.

Daisy

Does it not occur to you that I might know something about watching my friend die over and over again?

This is different.

Daisy

Is it?

I will watch all of you die, one by one. Everyone I love. Because someone decided I should. I'm a machine now. I have programming.

May

Deke's dead?

Daisy

Very.

Mack

Do we need to be sad about that?

Daisy

We do not.

Daisy

Every time I ask you for help, you say yes. Even if I don't ask, you're waiting here to make sure I rest or... whatever. Why? Be honest.

Honest? I know your type.

Daisy

My what, now?

I know people like you. Some of my favorite people are people like you. Focused on the greater good, even at your own expense. You want people to think you like being alone, even though you always end up back with friends. You hate losing.

Daisy

Everyone hates losing.

Yeah, but you'll keep running at the problem full-tilt until you either solve it or slam headlong into a brick wall.

Daisy

Some of those walls are literal.

I know.

Daisy

But how does that...

Because when people like you run into those walls, you should have someone there to pick you back up.

Daisy

And you... you like to... be that someone?

Not for everyone. It helps if they're fun to be around and if they say what they mean and if they have that superpower where they can rock things around, which is very impressive.

Daisy

That's, um... that is awfully specific.

Daisy

Does it hurt?

Enoch

It does, a bit. But it's not the physical pain that troubles me. I am acutely aware that in my thousands of years observing humans, I never used to feel lonely. I have been alone many times. To be candid, I preferred it. But it wasn't until I met this particular team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents that being alone meant... feeling lonely. And I don't care for it. So, I am feeling, as you might expect, some anxiety now.

You don't have to. You're not alone. Daisy and I will stay with you right up to the end.

Enoch

That is very kind of you. But... it's that last part, isn't it? You can stay with me up to the end, but you can't come with me at the end. I will have to leave you. And I will have to do that alone. And I can't help wondering... when that happens... will I feel lonely?

I can say with some authority that you're not wrong. Dying is lonely. But the feeling is temporary... at least for the person dying. The ones who are left behind... less so. I guess that's the one advantage to going first.

Enoch

Yes. It's different, watching your friends go before you, isn't it? I have been through that, as well. It can be harder to stay than to leave. I'm sorry, Philip J. Coulson.

Daisy

Enoch, the team will carry on the mission. We will survive because of you. Thank you.

Enoch

You are most welcome. But, Agent Johnson, while your friends will indeed survive, the team will not.

Daisy

What do you mean?

Enoch

I have seen the future. Carry on this mission and cherish it, for it will be your last mission together.

Daisy

It... That's... That's not possible. I-I... Enoch, this is my family.

Enoch

Of course. Yet this is the nature of family, isn't it? I have seen it countless times on countless worlds. People arrive, so we celebrate, and people leave us, so we grieve. We do what we can with the time in between, but the cycle is always there. No one escapes it. Not even me.

Which means you're not alone. You're a part of that cycle.

Daisy

Like every other living thing.

Enoch

Fitz... He was my best friend.

Daisy

And you were a good friend to Fitz. You were a good friend to all of us.

Enoch

As I have always...

[Regarding his new prosthetic leg] I think I'm a fan of the 21st century.

Daisy

Yeah, don't get your hopes up. We make a mean prosthetic, but, uh, fascism is back.

You mean the thing I helped wipe out 10 years ago?

Daisy

Yeah. The past won't leave us alone.

Yeah, Mack caught me up. You know, you said her name to me when Malick was doing a number on you. "Jiaying."

Daisy

Hydra did the same thing to her. They cut her up, they took her power, in my past and in her future. She can heal herself, live a long time.

Malick thought that's what I could do. He's after the real thing now.

Daisy

Did Mack say anything about what happened with her and I? Yeah, well, things got really bad, and it's a long story. But it came to an end.

Maybe now's your chance to experience what she was like before that. You should talk to her.

Daisy

No, I shouldn't. She can't know who I am.

Why not?

Daisy

Because of the timeline...

The timeline is screwed. Pardon my French. And look who you're talking to: a guy who served under "I Like Ike" and was supposed to be dead by now.

Daisy

Ike?

Point is, you got a rare opportunity here. I got a list of people long gone by now I'd do anything to have one last stolen moment with. Regardless of what space-time has to say about it.

Jiaying

Kora lost control. There were accidents. The more I tried to help, the more she pulled away.

Daisy

That must be hard. Being so close to someone and not being able to reach them.

Jiaying

The others, they wanted her gone. But they don't see what I do. Kora has a good heart. She's worth saving.

Daisy

Well, she's lucky to have you.

Jiaying

My power has allowed me to live a long life. I used to think it was my greatest gift, but I was wrong. It was her. [Off Daisy's look] Sorry. Did I say something?

Daisy

Growing up, I never knew my mom. And when I finally found her, she wasn't who I'd hoped she would be.

Jiaying

She hurt you. I can't speak to your mother's reasons, but for me, sometimes, trying to do the right thing comes out all wrong.