Melinda May quotes from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

May

So we'll have to find our own way back.

Simmons

Well, I'm a biologist, but sure I can invent time travel. Just give me a minute.

May

You think we're gonna find something out there? Maybe a way back?

Coulson

I don't know. Maybe there is no way back.

May

That doesn't sound like you.

Coulson

Just managing expectations.

May

You're being fatalistic.

Coulson

Look, you know I'm not big on destiny, but maybe our destiny's here, in this time, helping these people.

May

It's not like I don't want to help. I do. But after that, I'm going home. I spent weeks in the Framework, strapped to a board, thinking I was Hydra. I've earned a night in my own bed.

Coulson

We need to talk.

Deke

"Say, Deke. How you doing? You look really good. Can we have a word?" See? It's not that hard. I was coming to find you guys, anyway, 'cause I haven't seen you in a little while.

Coulson

I was hoping Daisy was with you. Last we heard, she was looking for you.

Deke

Yeah. She found me. I was just with her a couple hours ago. And it's it's-it's all good. I-I helped her onto a lower medical floor. It's where we think your other friend is.

May

She never came back or checked in.

Deke

She said something about no further contact spy stuff. How'd she put it? "Silent mode"?

May

Going dark.

Deke

Yeah. That. And I told her that you'd wonder, and she said, "Get out of my way. This is what I do. My friend's life is on the line. I'll figure something out."

Coulson

Yeah. That sounds like Daisy.

Enoch

Hello! That is the third Vrellnexian I have eliminated in pursuit of you! Not to toot my own horn, as you would say.

May

I would never say that. Who the hell are you?

Enoch

My name is Enoch. Fitz sent me.

May

Fitz? How were you not eaten by those things?

Enoch

They have no interest in me, as I have no tender insides for them to extract.

May

[angrily] I thought Fitz was done building robots.

Enoch

I am not a robot. I am a sentient Chronicom from the constellation you know as Cygnus. I am here to aid you, you who will save humanity: Melinda May, Jemma Simmons, Phillip J. Coulson...

Coulson

Love what they've done with the place.

May

Looks like, uh, you had a rough landing.

Coulson

Yeah, can't recommend the airline. Inexperienced pilot, lot of turbulence, ran out of pretzels in coach.

Too late to stop it! There's so much blood.

Fitz

May, I've had it. I'm done. She can't control herself, she can't stop seeing how people die, keeps muttering about it...

May

Hold on!

Fitz

She just described Jemma's death. Why don't you tell me how I'm supposed to live with that?

I thought I already told you.

May

You know she can't help it. She sees death like her father, but she also sees a way out. That's why you designed the machine.

Fitz

Oh, you don't get it. Nothing... we do... matters. Because we can't change time.

May

You don't know that!

Fitz

Of course I do! Because we've tried! For all I know, we've tried a thousand times! Always ends the same. It's like a record that keeps on skipping, and we are repeating this loop again and again and again!

May

Fitz, take a breath!

Fitz

And every time, Jemma dies. They all die. Robin can't change it. Voss couldn't change it. Even Daisy couldn't change it. She saw the aftermath, and she still destroyed the world.

Fitz

To me, Robin was a little girl only days ago.

Simmons

We're not meant to see a life like this... at its beginning and end. It's too much.

Coulson

Maybe it makes us appreciate how short life really is.

Daisy

So, what now?

Deke

We live on this crashed airplane until the Kree or... or the roaches or the gravity storms finish us off.

Coulson

I think we can do better than that.

Daisy

Yeah, but at least that way, I don't go back in time and quake the world apart.

May

We do go back. Robin told me how. We can save everyone. Just one question, though. Who's Flint?

Enoch

Agent Coulson, we are evacuating to the caves for shelter, are we not?

May

Zephyr flies again, metal man.

Enoch

I am mostly plastic alloy. And Chronicoms do not have gender.

Coulson

I'm sorry she [Robin] had to go like that. You want to talk about it?

May

I, um... don't know where to start.

Coulson

An old woman tells you that she was your daughter and that you'll save the planet from cracking apart. Doesn't happen every day.

May

It's hard to believe.

Coulson

That we can do it?

May

That... I was a mom. I just... I can't see it.

Coulson

I can.

Daisy

Yeah. You'd be that no phone, no TV, 7:30 curfew kind of mom. [May scowls] You're kind of... proving my point with the face.

Enoch

As the gravitational forces accelerate, our chances of implosion are rapidly increased.

May

Tell me your primary function again?

Enoch

To observe and record the evolution of your species.

May

More observing, less sharing.

Deke

Guns, man! It's like cheating! They shouldn't give these to anyone that's not a really, really good person.

May

You think there'd be a law.

Fitz

What are you observing now?

Various potential threats. You'd be surprised how frequently S.H.I.E.L.D. is mentioned.

May

We have a small but active fan base.

May

Hey, could be worse.

Simmons

True. We could be enslaved by an alien sociopath in a dystopian future.

Mack

Or we could be trapped inside a virtual-reality fascist state.

Fitz

Or stuck at the bottom of the ocean.

Yo-Yo

Or stopping a crazy robot lady.

Simmons

Or falling out of a plane.

Mack

Fighting Daisy's mom.

Coulson

Or fighting Daisy's dad.

May

Or dancing.

Coulson

The last thing you need is to waste your time on another lost cause.

May

Who I waste my time on is for me to decide. It's not like you to just roll over. There has to be a way out of this.

Coulson

I've come to terms with it. I got a second chance. I made a difference in a few people's lives. I don't want to be greedy. It's time to make space for somebody else.

May

For Daisy.

Coulson

I won't be around forever, and despite appearances to the contrary, neither will you. We need fresh blood to lead the team.

May

It's more than a team, and you know it. None of us are giving up on you.

Coulson

Well, great, because I have every intention of walking back out of that basement. Just because I've made peace with dying doesn't mean I'm in a hurry. Now, you want to help me get into this gear Fitz has for me? It's super sexy.

You didn't really think you'd seen the last of me, did you?

Coulson

I should have known there was more of you out in the wind. You squash one cockroach, there's bound to be others nearby.

Although I think you will find I do not squash so easily these days.

Coulson

So much for the "superior humanity" shtick.

I have simply redefined what that means. Parts of me will always be human. But I have gained so much more with this new form. Strength. Immortality. How's that for a cool origin story, bro?

May

So, what? You turned over a new leaf? Or just another Russian infiltrating our democracy?