Mack Mackenzie quotes from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Mack

The most dangerous kind of pain is the kind you can't feel.

Mack

All right, everyone. A toast. To those of you who've served since the very beginning. And to those whose journeys have just begun. To the agents we've lost in the line of duty. As well as those who have somehow returned. And to those who stand by us at our best and at our worst. Because without every single one of you, there is no S.H.I.E.L.D.

May

In the field you need to maintain control, whatever the situation: hostages, bombs about to go off.

Skye

So what you're saying is what I just did was puny and sad?

May

61 beats per minute, consistent the whole time. Not that puny. Speaking of not puny... here, I want you to get used to this, it's a sniper rifle.

Hunter

Pardon me, just one quick question, you went to S.H.I.E.L.D. academy, right?

May

You didn't. If you did, you would've known better than to shoot us.

Hunter

Apology number 470: I am very sorry Agent May...

May

Don't be sorry. Just wait.

Uh, we were just having a little wager, so did you...?

Skye

Go to the academy? Yeah, no.

Mack

Alright, well have fun with the inventory and remember: Koenig likes them neat.

Skye

Hey, at least you got away from your ex. The guy I had a crush on is now the psycho living in our basement.

Mack

You know, I wish I could relate, but all my exes are awesome [grins].

Hunter

Is that right? I seem to remember an entire year where you had to pretend you liked quinoa.

Mack

Oh, yeah... that was a dark time.

Fitz

He'll recover, he did before. Besides, brains never delete files, they just lose connections, but there's always a back up. It's just a matter of digging and finding them.

Mack

So you've got back up files too?

Simmons

Skye is my friend. She's different.

Fitz

Oh, yeah. Like I was your friend, and then I changed. How did you handle that?

Mack

Uh, t-the point is, secrets don't help any of us. Skye should have just come clean.

Fitz

What, and risked being locked up, studied, or who know what else? No, I wouldn't let her.

Simmons

Oh, you wouldn't let her.

Mack

We could have handled her in a way that could have kept everybody safe.

Morse

It wasn't fair to us, Fitz. We had a right to know.

Fitz

A right to know. What - is that the same way that Sif and the Kree had the right to know?

Hunter

I think the situation is a bit different, mate.

Fitz

No, you would have done to her exactly what they wanted to.

Simmons

You don't know that!

Fitz

Yes, I do know that! They would - you would - you'd "handle her"! Mack just said! Like, uh... like Skye's something to be locked up in a cage somewhere. We should be protecting her.

Mack

No, Fitz. We're the ones that need the protection from her.

Mack

You were right. For a while there, it all went to hell. It was bad. But now Bobbi and I work for an organization, an outlier that came out of the wreckage from what Fury left.

Hunter

What organization, Mack? Who the hell are you working for?

Mack

S.H.I.E.L.D. The real S.H.I.E.L.D.

Mack

What'd you do with Skye?

Follow me and I'll show you. [splits into 4 versions of herself and they move in different directions]

Mack

I can't wait to get off this boat.

Skye

[after seeing her mother kill S.H.I.E.L.D. agents] She just killed them. All of them. Didn't even think about it.

Mack

Yeah, I thought my mom was bad when she started watching Fox News.

Mack

What the hell took you so long?

Coulson

It's a big boat. With poor signage.

Mack

It's Gordon, right?

Gordon

And you are?

Mack

I'm the guy that kills Gordon.

Hunter

[on the Black Ops group who are capturing Inhumans] They're not Hydra. You know I've been digging, and my street sources tell me Hydra's gone silent. Eerily silent, yes, but-

Coulson

Yep. The Hydra finances we track are static; no money's changing hands.

Hunter

And by the looks of the hardware these gung-ho nutters are using, they're well-funded. [holds up one of their guns]

Coulson

So, if this woman's not Hydra, what is she?

Mack

[indicates her files] Everything else? I mean, look at this- two years, CIA-

Hunter

Is that MI6?

Mack

Yeah, at which time she was consulting with the CDC, apparently.

Coulson

All under different aliases.

Hunter

Hmmm- I like her.

Mack

How we supposed to track down someone like this? We can't look everywhere.

Coulson

If we can trace that hardware, that'll give us a place to start. [to Hunter] Take that down to Bobbi in the lab- have the team analyze it.

Hunter

Ohhh no, no, no- no, I- I'm not going anywhere near Bobbi. [Coulson and Mack give each other incredulous looks]

Coulson

Fine, I'll take it to her myself. [removes his mechanical forearm] I wouldn't want you to do anything that makes you uncomfortable.

Hunter

Yeah, I know that's sarcasm, and I'm choosing to accept your thoughtfulness at face value.

Coulson

Mack, you should head downstairs, assist Skye with intake.

Mack

Daisy.

Coulson

Daisy! Damn it. [shakes his head] Hard for us to get used to, huh? [Hunter and Mack shrug]

Mack

Mmmm... No, just you.

Daisy

This is my partner, Mack- we're just going to talk.

[to Mack] So- she's the greeting party, and you're the muscle, huh?

Mack

Believe me- she is the muscle.

Coulson

Simmons didn't have to go through quarantine- which is good, all things considered.

Mack

What exactly are these things that we're considering?

Bobbi

Everything that comes with being on another planet for months.

Fitz

Different atmosphere, different levels of oxygenation, different microgravity- every system in her body's out of whack. Cardiovascular, inner ear, respiratorial, got used to being... not here.

Coulson

Daisy, I need you to monitor all law-enforcement activity near Lincoln's last known location.

Daisy

How 'bout we take a team and go look for him ourselves-

Mack

No. The A.T.C.U.'s on a witch hunt for powered people.

Daisy

I'm not afraid of them.

Coulson

No, but they're terrified of you. Which makes them dangerous. Until we know where he is, you're not going out there.

Daisy

[annoyed] Permission to speak freely?

Coulson

[smiles] Do I have a choice?

Daisy

I could've talked him in, if you didn't put an unsolicited tracker under his skin.

Mack

If you didn't call to alert him, then-

Daisy

Why wasn't I told?

Coulson

We thought you were a little close to the situation.

Daisy

[angrily] Of course I'm close to the situation! You asked me to assemble a team, and I accepted. I didn't expect to be undermined-

Coulson

[curtly] You know what I didn't expect? A global outbreak, the A.T.C.U., their Inhuman manhunt. I didn't see all that coming, to be honest. I wanted to assemble a team, to get ahead of the problem, but that didn't happen. So, Daisy? [looks pointedly at her]

Daisy

I'll scan law-enforcement channels.

Coulson

Thank you.