Jemma Simmons quotes from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Simmons

May! You can't even walk!

May

But I can still fly.

Fitz

[breaks off] Sorry. Starting over, didn't mean to push too fast.

Simmons

Too fast? Fitz, it's been ten years. We can't waste any more time.

Fitz

Things are about to get complicated.

Simmons

You mean once we have sex?

Fitz

You didn't see Daisy. She acted like we were still best of pals, all while threatening to murder me.

Simmons

No, you're right. I didn't see that. I was much too busy listening to the disgusting face of Grant Ward act like my dead boyfriend.

Fitz

That's true. That sounds worse.

Simmons

Right. If this was a competition, then I'd win. I had to shoot him three times just to shut him up.

Simmons

You think I'm not romantic? I'm gonna do something with you on that island that will take your breath away.

Fitz

What is... eh... are... are you... what?

Simmons

Snorkelling!

Radcliffe

You ready?

Simmons

Hell, no, I'm not ready. We're about to kill May.

Radcliffe

We're about to save May.

Simmons

Whoever took this bullet out did an awful job.

Daisy

I don't get an A for effort?

Simmons

You haven't been to a proper doctor?

Daisy

Well you're hard to get an appointment with.

Simmons

Now I see why you've been spending so much time here.

Fitz

What?

Simmons

AIDA. She's beautiful.

Fitz

Is she? She's all right I guess. I prefer classical beauty myself.

Simmons

She's so real. Her conversational responses, her range of motion.

Fitz

Those are weird things to say about a person.

Simmons

Fitz, she's an android. You do know she's an android right?

Fitz

Of course I know that she's an android, because I helped out. Why do you think her dynamic reaction force is so low?

Agent Simmons?

Simmons

It's not good news, I'm afraid. The serum that's been giving you your strength... it is potentially lethal.

So you're saying it's a little risky?

Simmons

I'm saying it's Russian roulette. You've been fortunate so far, but the next injection might cause cardiac arrest. And if it doesn't, the one after is even more likely to kill you, and so on and so on until...

Jeez, don't sugarcoat it doc. [pause] And by that I mean: please, go ahead and sugarcoat it.

Simmons

I'm sorry. I know General Talbot was hoping to replicate what was done to Steve Rogers, but you'll never be Captain America.

Mack

[taking off the virtual reality head set] I like my video games as much as you, but this is too much.

Fitz

Yeah well, it's not like the Oculus Rift is a training exercise.

Mack

Yeah well, I doubt it's helping May run a triathlon.

Simmons

Mack!

Fitz

That's not how I meant it.

Mack

You built The Matrix prison and now May's stuck in it, like a brain scan.

Fitz

The Framework is a tool! That's all that it is, a tool.

Mack

Like AIDA was a tool?

Fitz

What are you trying to say? That all this is my fault?

Mack

What I'm saying is that if you didn't build a killer robot or a virtual world, this year would've been much easier for us. And whether you like it or not, that's the reality.

Fitz

I'm trying to help people, Mack.

Mack

I know you're not a bad person Fitz, but this gear has been used for some really bad things. You've got to think about the implications of what you create.

Fitz

Electricity is used to execute criminals. Does that mean we also shouldn't use it to power our hospitals?

Mack

That's not the same thing and you know it.

Fitz

There's always risk involved in science! That doesn't mean we don't pursue it anyway.

Simmons

We're going to save them.

Fitz

What if we can't? What if May suffers from permanent cognitive dysfunction or cerebral atrophy? Or she dies?

Simmons

Fitz...

Fitz

We don't know the adverse effects this could have on her brain. I did it to her. AIDA, the Framework, my fingerprints are all over these murder weapons. Mack was right.

Simmons

Mack was right, you do need to think about the implications of the things you create. But just because someone uses your ideas for evil does not make it your fault for creating it in the first place. You make things from the genius of your mind and the goodness of your heart, to help people! Don't let Radcliffe's actions corrupt that! You are not responsible for the twisted things he's done. Wrongs have been committed, now we make them right. Together.

Simmons

So, we fight our way through the trained military personnel, then the ultra-powerful android doubles of our friends, somehow make it to the Zephyr, which we can't fly, to escape the base and try to plug our minds into an alternate reality.

Daisy

Okay, well, don't say it out loud, because that made it sound way worse. Let's just keep it one thing at a time, okay?

Daisy

So we have to go. Now.

Simmons

Meet at the rendezvous right away. That's where I programmed the backdoor to get out. And listen, living in there too long may kill you, but dying in there will definitely kill you, so, be careful.

Daisy

You, too.

Simmons

And remember, even if our vitals are going haywire, do not–

Yo-Yo

Do not pull you out or wake you up, I know. It will cook your brains like huevos rotos.

Simmons

Cause permanent damage to the cerebral cortex, yes.

Yo-Yo

Just promise me you'll get our guys back, okay?

Simmons

I promise.

Simmons

Look at me. Do I look like I'm Hydra?

You look like a bag lady.

Daisy

Wait, are you still dead?

Simmons

No, I'm feeling much better.