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

May

Where are you on this doppelganger?

Oh, I have several viable hypotheses. That's what scientists say when they don't know squat. Odds are, it's related to one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s previous mistakes, which I'm working my way through a very long list um, fear manifestations, nano-masks, Inhumans. Though I'm thinking I should revisit the file on those Life Model Decoys, which really shouldn't be a thing, by the way.

Mack

No argument here.

May

Could this guy be an LMD?

Well, if there's already been one of Phil Coulson, it seems like a possible explanation. But I would need to talk to the idiot who designed them.

You forgot to mention the fact that your former boss had died and come back to life before.

Mack

That's not what this is.

Are you sure? This LMD theory's not panning out. LMDs don't have DNA.

Yo-Yo

We didn't bring him back to life trust me. That was a hot topic.

Well, maybe he never died in the first place. You love secrets, Melinda. Anything you want to share?

Mack

Hey, take it easy.

May

I was there until the very end. He's gone. You have no right to question that. Find me a way to kill that thing out there pretending to be him. And if that's too hard, you know your way back to the bar.

That sounds nice right about now. And good luck sorting out this evidence alone.

Mack

Okay, that's enough. Now, is this the DNA you're talking about?

Yeah. This is a sample from the convenience store. At first, I thought it was alien radiation markers I've never seen, foreign methyl groups. Strip that all away, and what you have left is a 100-percent match for Phillip J. Coulson.

Yo-Yo

I've made hard choices before. Being right doesn't stop it from feeling wrong.

I know what you mean. Two years back, I got a call. Car crash.

Yo-Yo

Your husband?

Brain-dead, machines breathing for him. Tom didn't want that. His family fought me on it, but after a few days, I had them turn off the ventilator. They never will forgive me. It's the hardest choice I've ever made, but I took comfort in knowing it was the right one. And so should you.

I was driving. Then seeing something in the road. Then darkness.

An accident. I sat with you for days, hoping you would wake up.

I know.

What?

I heard every word that you said.

It's a lie, Benson!

Mack

Don't listen to it! It's not real!

When the doctor came in and said I was beyond helping, I heard that.

No.

When my dad and sister begged you to hold on longer, I heard that, too.

You were brain-dead.

I heard you say goodbye. I felt your hand on mine. You were so close, I could smell the liquor on your breath.

No, Thomas. I I-I didn't.

How much were you drinking that night?