Raina quotes from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Raina

[to Edison Po] We all have to do things that make us uncomfortable...if we are ever to get our toy soldiers off the shelf.

Raina

I come as a friend.

English isn't my first language, but that word means something different than you think.

I spoke with the Clairvoyant.

Raina

And?

I'll share the information when the time is right.

Raina

I would love to hear much more than just information. Will you tell me what he's like?

Never. The last person who tried to learn these things got a knife for it. I don't want to have to do that again, Raina. You have such pretty eyes.

Raina

I don't believe I've had the pleasure.

Coulson

Lucky for you.

Raina

Now, after all you've sacrificed -

Coulson

Sacrifice is part of the job. I would give my life -

Raina

You didn't just give your life, you gave up your chance at a normal one, at love. And she did love you, Agent Coulson.

Coulson

How could you know that?

Raina

Do you miss her? Dinners at the Richmond. Do you miss hearing her play?

Coulson

One thing before we start: what is it with the flowers?

Raina

Who doesn't like flowers?

Raina

You're not Clairvoyant?

Hardly. But if it's any consolation, you weren't alone in believing, not by a long shot.

Raina

So you're a liar. You're a fraud.

An artist. A con artist, perhaps, but an artist all the same. Had to pull the wool over S.H.I.E.L.D.'s eyes somehow to do what we set out to do. Remember what that was?

Raina

To change the world.

Why don't you take a seat and let me show you how we're doing that? Oh, don't worry. I wouldn't dream of letting Ernesto cut your hair.

[Leaning in with a smile] Welcome to Hydra.

Raina

Hello?

Coulson

Who is this?

Raina

Agent Coulson, I'm glad you got my message.

Coulson

Raina, as I live and breathe.

Raina

It's been a while since we've spoken.

Coulson

I'm kind of in the middle of a manhunt; can we make this quick?

Raina

Why? You need time to trace this call, don't you? I take it then you haven't tracked down Mr. Creel or the item he stole.

Coulson

What do you know about that?

Raina

I know Hydra's about to get their hands on it.

Coulson

Congratulations.

Raina

Let me be clear - Mr. Creel is working for Hydra. I am not.

Coulson

Why the breakup? Bad dental plan?

Raina

Hydra has only one thing on their minds - world domination, which is so 1945.

Coulson

What do you want Raina?

Raina

It's what I don't want. Which is the obelisk falling into the hands of people who don't understand it.

Raina

I can help you -

Raina, I'm not like most of the people with whom you interact. I'm not easily confused. I've been around too long to lose sight of what's mine. I generally don't do my own dirty work anymore. We should all aspire to do only that which we enjoy, don't you agree? But in your case, I will make an exception.

Raina

Be honest, Skye. Haven't you ever felt lost or had that feeling that you were part of something bigger? Like you were special?

Skye

When you say "special," what you really mean is "alien."

Raina

Is that what you believe? We're human, Skye. We just have the potential to be more. But the Diviner? Now that is most definitely alien.

Skye

Where do you get this stuff? My father?

Raina

Partly. But my grandmother came from a long line of special people who believed in a story, about the blue angels that fell from the heavens. The ancients called them the Kree.

Skye

And what do the Kree want?

Raina

Change.

Raina, let's not lose our heads.

Raina

What happened to me?!

Metamorphosis, by the look of it.

Raina

I was supposed to become something divine, something transcendent. My grandmother said I'd be an angel, not some gnarled freak of nature covered in thorns.

You always did like flowers.

Raina

I can't live like this. My insides feel like gravel. I cut myself when I move. [crying] I can't live as this repulsive creature.

Then don't.

Skye

What happened to you?

Raina

Destiny, apparently. I wanted to be set free, but now I can't even bear the light of day. I dread being awake, but my sleep is filled with such horrible nightmares. Children are so afraid of monsters. They should know it's worse to be one.

Raina

I dream of Skye and her father at dinner. A bouquet of daisies. And she's so happy.

Lincoln

It's not a dream.

Raina

Don't give up hope just yet. Skye can save Lincoln. I saw her do it.

Skye

[confused] Wh - You've seen it?

Gordon

We think Raina's gift may allow her to see things before they happen.

Skye

I thought her gift was spinning really fast to collect gold rings.