LMD Coulson III quotes from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Timeline's coming apart. We have to put it back. Nathaniel Malick's out there with quake powers and a new base. You made a promise to Daisy's mom that she wouldn't have to fight him alone. I think it's time to keep that promise.

I'll say it if no one else will. That's a Chronibomb.

Daisy

You won't believe this, but I keep...

Repeating the same events over and over again? Yeah. How long did it take you to figure it out this time? I was really hoping not to have this conversation again, but if you forgot everything we went through, I guess that means you died again.

Daisy

I died?! "Again"?

And always say it just like that. We're the only two who remember, so each time you die in one of these loops, you don't remember anything in the next reset, so then you have to learn everything all over again.

Daisy

That's awful.

It's annoying. 'Cause who has to teach you every time? This guy. I've done it 14 times so far.

Daisy

We've done this 14 times?

Oh, no. No, no, no. You've died 14 times. We've been through this loop 87 times, or I should say 87 that I know about.

Daisy

That you know about?

'Cause you don't come power me up every time! It's okay. Not your fault. P.S., not a big fan of starting each loop powered down. Disconcerting.

Someone keeps trying to kill our people. Why doesn't that piss you off? It should. I'm sorry. I don't like watching you die. I don't like watching any of you die... over and over.

Daisy

We will figure this out. You know we will.

Sure. But in the meantime, it is soul-crushing. If I even have a soul.

Daisy

Don't talk like that again. Of course you have a soul.

Don't say that. Don't say "of course". I'm not who I was. I'm this thing. I was Max Headroom for a year. And you know what? Being trapped in a time loop, watching my friends die, helpless to stop it, it's not some time-space anomaly. It's a damn metaphor. This is my life now.

Daisy

Does it not occur to you that I might know something about watching my friend die over and over again?

This is different.

Daisy

Is it?

I will watch all of you die, one by one. Everyone I love. Because someone decided I should. I'm a machine now. I have programming.

Daisy

Does it hurt?

Enoch

It does, a bit. But it's not the physical pain that troubles me. I am acutely aware that in my thousands of years observing humans, I never used to feel lonely. I have been alone many times. To be candid, I preferred it. But it wasn't until I met this particular team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents that being alone meant... feeling lonely. And I don't care for it. So, I am feeling, as you might expect, some anxiety now.

You don't have to. You're not alone. Daisy and I will stay with you right up to the end.

Enoch

That is very kind of you. But... it's that last part, isn't it? You can stay with me up to the end, but you can't come with me at the end. I will have to leave you. And I will have to do that alone. And I can't help wondering... when that happens... will I feel lonely?

I can say with some authority that you're not wrong. Dying is lonely. But the feeling is temporary... at least for the person dying. The ones who are left behind... less so. I guess that's the one advantage to going first.

Enoch

Yes. It's different, watching your friends go before you, isn't it? I have been through that, as well. It can be harder to stay than to leave. I'm sorry, Philip J. Coulson.

Daisy

Enoch, the team will carry on the mission. We will survive because of you. Thank you.

Enoch

You are most welcome. But, Agent Johnson, while your friends will indeed survive, the team will not.

Daisy

What do you mean?

Enoch

I have seen the future. Carry on this mission and cherish it, for it will be your last mission together.

Daisy

It... That's... That's not possible. I-I... Enoch, this is my family.

Enoch

Of course. Yet this is the nature of family, isn't it? I have seen it countless times on countless worlds. People arrive, so we celebrate, and people leave us, so we grieve. We do what we can with the time in between, but the cycle is always there. No one escapes it. Not even me.

Which means you're not alone. You're a part of that cycle.

Daisy

Like every other living thing.

Enoch

Fitz... He was my best friend.

Daisy

And you were a good friend to Fitz. You were a good friend to all of us.

Enoch

As I have always...

I've seen it all, bud, everything you did to me.

I'm sorry. Have we met?

Not yet, but I got a sneak peek at my future, and you play a big part in it. Here's a hint: you vaporize me with a space laser.

Garrett. Clever, digging up our greatest hits.

I'm not even mad. They let me watch you die a bunch of times. Made me feel better.

Oh, yeah? Which one was your favorite?

Uh... Oh. Long-haired creepo, stabbed you with a pointy stick. That was funny.

You haven't changed a bit. And I'm aware that statement makes no sense.

I'm sorry about your [Mack's] parents. They didn't deserve to die. But it's also the proof you needed.

Daisy

Proof?

You must realize it by now.

Proof that this is a new timeline.

He gets it. That old one that you were fighting to preserve is long gone. Director, you still remember growing up with your parents. Daisy grew up without a sister because I died alone weeks ago. Yet here we are.

May

I'm still getting used to the idea of you as a techie.

I'm still getting used to the idea of me as just "tech".

May

You really believe that?

No. Not really. Still figuring it out.

May

Me too. We're not the same people we were.

Pretty sure everyone would agree on that.

May

I'm wondering if we change the timelines or if they change us.

The Melinda May I know would never ask these philosophical questions.

May

Which is the point. How did I become this me?

I don't know. But I like this you. And if I'm completely honest, I like this me, as well.

The war's over.

Sibyl

You surrender?

We won. Fitz and Simmons are retaking the Lighthouse as we speak. [Noticing Sibyl smirking] Oh, a creepy smile. That's new.

Sibyl

So that's where they are. All available Hunters, disembark for the Lighthouse, where we have established a stronghold. All spacecraft, prepare to fire on previously targeted S.H.I.E.L.D. posts.

Now it's my turn to smile. We just needed you to enter your authorization.

Sibyl

Oh? And what comes next?

May

[Enters through the ceiling] The Cavalry.

Simmons

I vote we make this a tradition.

Mack

Yeah. I agree. We can't lose touch. We've been through too much together. A miracle we survived. Well, except for Coulson. And Fitz.

And Daisy.

Simmons

And May.

Yo-Yo

Geez, I was a zombie once.

Fitz

So was Mack, actually.

Yo-Yo

Really? Was I there for that?

Look, if this is a contest, I died like seven times.

May

Is that all?

Daisy

But I didn't even exist in Deke's timeline.

Yo-Yo

Aw, Deke.

Simmons

Deke.

Daisy

I miss that little weirdo.

Simmons

Yeah. We may see him again one day.

Mack

Look, I'm sure the D is doing just fine. He's probably playing Madison Square Garden right now.