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

Mack

I met a woman today who was with S.H.I.E.L.D. Her name is Daisy Johnson, you might know her as Skye. Hydra used me to– trick her and take her captive.

Ward

[Fearfully] No. Please tell me she's okay.

Why are you here?

Mack

Today, for the first time, I couldn't look my little girl in the eye. I need to make that right. I'm here to help.

Daisy

Mack?

Daisy

Mack.

Mack

I'm here to help you– not the woman who held my daughter hostage.

Daisy

May is the only reason I'm alive. She helped me escape. Hydra messed with her head, but she's fighting back now.

Mack

How do you know she's not lying?

Coulson

[Enters and stands between Mack and May] Not a good time to be holding guns on our allies. [Hydra agents request a situation report over the radio] We have to go, now. Mack, I get it. These wounds don't heal overnight, but for reasons I can't fully explain, I trust this woman. [Lowers Mack's rifle] And so should you.

Mack

Wake up! There is no back door, just like she's not Moses about to take you to the Promised Land.

Daisy

That's it. What if I quake that thing?

Simmons

And part the Red Sea.

Mack

They did not just go and use the Bible against me.

Daisy

Mack, you said it yourself, this world is not real. And in the real world you're in danger, right now.

Mack

What about Hope? Is she in danger?

Daisy

No, things are different there.

Mack

Different? How?

Daisy

Hope isn't alive in our world. I'm so sorry... I don't know what happened, it's not something you talk about.

Mack

No, that doesn't make any sense. She's alive here, why would it be different there.

Daisy

AIDA, she made changes in this world to keep us from fighting back. She fixed your biggest regret.

Mack

Then I'm staying.

Daisy

Mack.

Mack

I don't want to live in a world without Hope.

Daisy

But, it's not real. You saw it with your own eyes, it's a computer program. All of it. Even Hope.

Mack

[shakes his head] She laughs at my jokes, we watch movies together, when she's sad... When she's sad I hold her. No, she's real to me.

Mack

The good news is that Talbot is alive, he's in a coma, but alive.

Yo-Yo

The bad news is they know we're here and they're on their way.

Fitz

Yeah, you should go while you can.

Coulson

Yeah, we're all going.

Fitz

Nah, I'm gonna stay. This is my fault, AIDA, the LMDs, all the deaths. Those aren't on S.H.I.E.L.D., those are on me. And I can explain that I built the LMD that shot Talbot, that way–

Daisy

Fitz! We were all in the Framework together, we understand how confusing and screwed up that world is. And trust me, it's gonna take me years to process everything that happened in there. But the one thing that I don't need time to understand is that we are all in this together. I tried to take the blame for everything not too long ago. I dyed my hair, I ran away. I thought that separating myself from the team would help me protect it, but in truth I kind of just lost myself. And you, you were the one who pulled me back in. This is not on you, okay? We all lost ourselves in there. And yeah, it might take you a long time to forgive yourself, but speaking on behalf of the team: you have nothing to apologize for.

May

If there's a price to pay, we pay it, together.

Simmons

I'm in.

Coulson

Well, I don't have many details, but I do know we're in space.

Mack

Yeah, that makes sense. That's one thing we haven't done yet.

Mack

Look, I'm just saying, what good is it having a state-of-the robotic hand if you don't have it on you when your kidnapped by Martians?

Yo-Yo

Looks like he's got both hands to me.

Mack

Ah, that's his civvy hand. It's just a prosthetic without all the cool doodads. It should've been a hook. At least you can stab things with a hook.

Coulson

Thought I was gonna be arrested.

Yo-Yo

So, wait, that one doesn't have a blowtorch or the laser gun or anything?

Coulson

First of all, I'm not Inspector Gadget. And second of all, the authorities would've confiscated it. Prison's bad enough without being down an appendage.

Mack

First rule of Boy Scouts is always come prepared.

Simmons

How were we supposed to be prepared for this, Mack?

Mack

I don't know, we gotta be prepared for everything, apparently. Look, not a day ago, I was trapped inside a-a computer-generated mind prison, and now... You know what? You know what, Coulson? I'm out. I'm out. We get through this, I am packing it in.

Coulson

Sorry, Mack. You already quit years ago.

Mack

Yeah, well, I didn't quit hard enough. Look, I'm not comfortable at the pace at which we deal with new trials and tribulations.

Simmons

Again, let's not postulate. Let's apply scientific principles and consider the evidence we have.

Mack

Look, this is magic, okay? Can we all agree this is magic at play?

Simmons

Magic is just science we don't understand yet.

Mack

Ah, please. We just got zapped through space by Stonehenge, and we're trying to rule out a flaming-headed demon from east L.A.? Science my ass.

Coulson

We should split up.

Mack

Oh, hell no. We are sticking together, one hundred percent. Have you never seen an Alien movie?

Daisy

Mack, it's the best way to cover the most ground.

Mack

Okay... okay, you see, that's exactly what they say before they get picked off one by one. And you know who the first one will be.

Mack

Ready, and go.

Yo-Yo

You should see your "go-face" in slow-motion. Classic.

Mack

You're showing off.

Yo-Yo

If you got it, flaunt it.

Mack

You're gonna leave us here to die?

That's the hope.

Mack

If we don't, you and me are gonna have a conversation.

Yo-Yo

Where's an axe when you need one, huh?

Coulson

Still too soon.

Mack

That is not something to joke about.

Mack

When Hope died, the real Hope, she never came home, and, still, it took me weeks before I could walk into her nursery and take everything away, but I did it eventually.

Yo-Yo

It must have been hard.

Mack

But this Hope, my Hope in the Framework, she, uh... This is harder. I miss her so much. It's so much worse. Imagine that. I survived the pain of losing my real child, but I can't get over the pain of losing a fake one, so what kind of a father does that make me? Maybe Gunner was right about me. Maybe I really am already lost. I...

Yo-Yo

Hey. Hope might not have been real, but your love for her was. And that makes you a great father and a good man.

Well, how come I don't have my powers yet?

Yo-Yo

You have your power. It just hasn't revealed itself.

How long did yours take?

Yo-Yo

Oh, it was a total disaster. I crusted over three weeks earlier, after eating fish soup and tacos.

What are tacos?

Mack

What the hell kind of future is this?

Yo-Yo

Tacos are a food. Anyways, I had told myself this was just a dream. And then my cousin Francisco calls with bad news about his mom. I was upset, so I went to get a beer, and... whoosh! I'm back on my couch, beer in one hand. I realize I need a bottle opener, and whoosh again... I'm back on my couch, bottle opener in the other hand.

What did you think was happening?

Yo-Yo

My heart was beating so fast, I thought someone had put cocaine in my beer.

Mack

Whoa. Dial it back, Escobar.

Yo-Yo

I got so worried, I told my cousin Francisco to come over. He spent countless hours talking me out of an exorcism.

Fitz

Okay, if you guys really are gonna go fight a bunch of alien warriors, then you might be interested to know that, in the past, I hid a crate of S.H.I.E.L.D. tech in a wall on the base.

Mack

Oh, that's what I'm talking about. Thanks, Turbo.

Yo-Yo

Where?

Fitz

Level three.

Mack

Oh, you got to be kidding me.

Yo-Yo

You mean the level infested with aliens that suck your blood?

Fitz

Well, how was I... I feel like I'm not getting enough credit here. I have traveled through time and space to find you. I think we're moving past that bit a little bit too quickly.

Mack

Turbo, Turbo, Turbo, we wouldn't expect anything less. Thank you.

Yo-Yo

"Don't do anything rash, stay calm, and don't kill anyone, Yo-Yo." Yes, I remember your many stern warnings.

Mack

Okay. 'Cause we both know you don't exactly do well around people like this.

Yo-Yo

Evil men who kidnap and torment defenseless women and children? No, I don't.