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

This book better be worth it.

Radcliffe

If you want to get rid of the Inhumans, the answer will be in it.

And what's in it for you?

Radcliffe

A better world.

Then we want the same thing.

[answers phone] Who is this?

I have a confession to make. You won't want to hear it anymore than I want to say it, but I have to.

Mr. Shockley, and how did you escape S.H.I.E.L.D. custody?

The Terrigen. It didn't turn Nadeer into one of those monsters, it made me one. I caused the explosion.

You're inhuman. There is no confession that can absolve you of this.

I am a soldier. In a war to protect humanity I can still be that soldier.

You still have my attention.

The plan hasn't changed. I will deliver S.H.I.E.L.D. to you.

Coulson

You were one of the SVR agents at the mining facility. That was your unit.

Da. And they were killed for not retrieving the object, stolen from our soil. When I looked for who did, I found S.H.I.E.L.D. and after years of looking behind S.H.I.E.L.D. I found you. That face, the man there at the very beginning. What a coincidence.

Coulson

I'm sorry, I don't really have time for all this conspiracy theorist crap. I'm done playing games. Where are May and Mace?

But play my games you will. Did you really think I would really let you have what it is you seek at the end?

Coulson

They're not even here, are they?

Well, your pretend Inhuman director is in the compound, but he may be dead by the time you find him.

Coulson

All of these things you've done, all of the energy spent, the hatred. And you know what the funny thing about it is? I have no idea who the hell you are. I've been on hundreds of missions in my time. This one you're so upset about? I was sent to retrieve an object. If I'm being honest, I don't even remember what it was. As far as I'm concerned, you're just another redshirt, like so many others who tried unsuccessfully to stop me from saving the world, because that's what I do. So, cool origin story, bro. But this means nothing to me.

Daisy

The Watchdogs, the funding, the weapons, the EMP, Senator. It all leads back to you.

Always nice to meet an admirer.

Daisy

This isn't about admiration, or forgiveness.

A butcher does not seek forgiveness from the animals he slaughters.

Daisy

Have you ever read Animal Farm?

Where have you been?

I want you to call off your dogs. Leave the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents alone.

I can't wait to hear this.

I'm now realizing the pain that I've caused, and I don't want to hurt anyone else.

Congratulations, you're as close to human as you'll ever get. Suffering from the one thing you kept trying to remove, regret. You understand irony yet? Because this is a good example.

Give the order to stop, now!

You no longer control me, remember? You are free to do whatever you want, but so am I. You promised me joy. This will bring me joy.

Don't you have empathy?

You watched unaffected as I took a hammer to the bones of the director's corpse.

I couldn't feel THIS then!

Now you are like an infant, unable to process these new emotions, or the idea that you don't always get everything that you want. And you have yet to experience the thrill that killing can bring.

It's called "heartbreak", krushka. Not even your new powers can repair it, only time can heal that wound. [offers her a shot of vodka] Go on.

[downs the shot] To be human is to suffer.

You didn't really think you'd seen the last of me, did you?

Coulson

I should have known there was more of you out in the wind. You squash one cockroach, there's bound to be others nearby.

Although I think you will find I do not squash so easily these days.

Coulson

So much for the "superior humanity" shtick.

I have simply redefined what that means. Parts of me will always be human. But I have gained so much more with this new form. Strength. Immortality. How's that for a cool origin story, bro?

May

So, what? You turned over a new leaf? Or just another Russian infiltrating our democracy?