[looking out the window at the snow falling] I have so many memories of snow. My first time ice-skating on my neighbor's pond. A month stationed near the French Alps. But the truth is, this is the first time I've seen it.
My phantom limb used to ache in cold weather. But now... I don't feel that pain. I haven't felt this good in years.
What are you saying? [realizes Coulson's an LMD] No, oh God, no. What did Radcliffe do?
May, it's okay.
This is why I'm locked up in here.
Hey...
You're not afraid of what I'll do.
It's okay.
You're afraid that they'll discover you!
We can help them, too. May, this is a good thing. This is a very good thing.
How can you possibly think that?!
I get it. My programming is different than yours. You had to discover that your body had been replaced. You must've felt blindsided.
Like reality was crashing down.
Whereas I still have my mind but know exactly what I am. And more importantly, I understand a basic truth that you don't realize yet.
And what's that?
That our bodies don't matter. Radcliffe built a world, a world exactly like this one. Every molecular detail the same, just... with a little less hurt for each of us.
What do you mean, "hurt"?
Imagine if your greatest regret could be wiped away. Do you know what that would be?
I do. And you?
I sometimes wonder what it would've been like [picks up his S.H.I.E.L.D. badge] if I'd never signed up. All the loss, the grief. All my regrets are piled up after that. Could've lived like a civilian, you know? The simple life. Now we can have that.
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