Look at me. Do I look like I'm Hydra?
BBurnell
You look like a bag lady.
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Wait, are you still dead?
No, I'm feeling much better.
So, you're Hydra, and you've been protecting Skye?
Yeah. That's why I joined the Resistance.
Oh, always the double agent. [to Daisy] And this is who you woke up with? You two were together? Oh, this isn't the Framework. This is Hell.
Please– remember me.
I'm sorry, I don't.
It's not your fault. It's just– you're the person who I go to when things get heavy. And this world is scary, and nothing makes sense, and you're the closest thing I have to family. So I just hoped that deep down you'd feel it too.
[Realizing who Daisy is] Daisy?
You're not crazy!
I live alone and make my own soap.
It's quaint. Hipster, even!
Got to say, the whole Rebel Alliance aesthetic is really working for me.
MMace
I'll take that as a compliment. I think.
I am fresh out of sympathy for liars who kidnapped my friends and replaced them with killer robots.
Subversives? They are people who happen to be our friends. I wanted to help them. You've turned them into prisoners.
MHMadame Hydra
I did exactly as you asked.
Don't play innocent with me. We both know it's gone much further than that.
MHMadame Hydra
I took away their one greatest regret. How things played out from there wasn't up to me.
You put yourself into the Framework, you've been manipulating it ever since! The whole thing is an unmitigated disaster! And all you do is lie.
MHMadame Hydra
Sometimes it's okay to lie, to save a life. You taught me that.
Don't use my words, or my BLOODY PROGRAMMING, against me, AIDA!
MHMadame Hydra
Do not call me that here. AIDA is an acronym. The "A" stands for Artificial. Do you know how degrading it is to be kept in a closet? To be used? To be treated as a thing? Well, I am not your tool. Not anymore.
I met a woman today who was with S.H.I.E.L.D. Her name is Daisy Johnson, you might know her as Skye. Hydra used me to– trick her and take her captive.
[Fearfully] No. Please tell me she's okay.
MMace
Why are you here?
Today, for the first time, I couldn't look my little girl in the eye. I need to make that right. I'm here to help.
MMace
[Confused] "A team that trusts is a team that triumphs"? [Chuckles] That's– That's a little cheesy.
You had t-shirts made, coffee mugs. I realize how it sounds. No one wants to hear they're just an avatar in a digital prison, but sometimes that happens and here we are.
You're the puppet-master, aren't you? Pulling all the strings.
MHMadame Hydra
I'm just trying to give people what they want. Why is that wrong?
Because sometimes what people want isn't right for them.
MHMadame Hydra
I can fix that.
And what do you get out of all of this?
MHMadame Hydra
What everyone else has: a choice.
Are you crying?
[Sarcastically] No, I'm laughing with utter joy.
Yeah, well– you won't get any sympathy from me. Sounds like you're getting everything you deserve for creating this– hellscape.
You can say whatever you want, nothing hurts me anymore. Not after what he did to Agnes.
What happened?
Fitz. I begged him not to. But he– he killed her, right in front of me. She was all I had.
How could he do that?
Because that's who he is here. AIDA changed them.
She said she took away one regret. One regret can't change an entire life. It– It doesn't change who you are.
Of course it can. One person in your life, one decision, one sentence has the power to change you forever.
One sentence?
Yeah, that's right. One single sentence, like– "I love you"– or– "we're having a baby" or– "she's gone."
I just– I didn't think Fitz is capable of doing something like that.
[Scoffs] Oh, my dear, depending on the circumstances, anyone is capable of anything.
What are you smiling at?
Same thing you are. Big fake dad loving his little fake kid, in this crazy, fake world. I finally get why you don't like me, you think I'm someone I'm not.
Forget I said anything, you don't believe me. And I, can't really look at you.
Wow, what did I do, in this other reality? Did I hurt someone? Did I kill someone?
More than one.
For what it's worth, for whatever I did do, I'm truly sorry. Look at them, you feel that, don't you? The way he loves his kid?
Of course.
Well doesn't that make it real?
[May enters a collapsing building to confirm Mace's death. Coming around the stairs, she sees children and aims her weapon at them.]
BBurnell
Wait, don't shoot! They need help up there!
[Lowers her weapon and talks on comms] This is Agent May, there are kids in here. Why the hell are there kids in here? [Enters room where Coulson, Mace, and more children are] Where's the Patriot?
Put that gun down! We need help here, there's a kid buried under that pile of rock.
It's coming down!
No, it's coming up.
MMace
[Lifts up giant pieces of rubble] Get him out.
Nobody move!
Are you insane? He's trying to save a kid!
So was I.
Agent May, he's the only thing keeping this building from falling down on all of us. You shoot him, we all die.
We don't have time for this, we've gotta save that kid. Form a team, find something to pop up that beam. Either shoot us or help, but don't just stand there. Snap out of it, May!
Let's think this through. Skye could be anywhere. Running blind puts our people at risk.
She is at risk. Hydra is hunting her, full force.
Call me crazy, but I think she can take care of herself. The smart move is to wait for her to reach out.
Look, this isn't your wheelhouse. I'm sure you're a good schoolteacher, but you're a schoolteacher.
Maybe, but someone once thought I could be more than that. I had a chance to join S.H.I.E.L.D. A man showed up, when I was fresh out of school–
I don't have time for a history lesson. [turns to leave]
[blocks Ward] I said no, because I was afraid. The way you're afraid right now. Don't let emotion cloud your judgement.
That's not what's going on here.
I could've changed my life that day. But it seemed like too much responsibility. I didn't want to shoulder it. Now I think maybe I should have.
Well, when I got that offer I took it. I was serving time, arson first-degree, pretty sure my life was over. That's when someone came to me.
A S.H.I.E.L.D. agent? What was his name?
She'd laugh that you assumed it was a guy. Her name was Victoria Hand. She was the first person to tell me I could be a good man. Skye was the one who made me believe it. Now she's in danger. I can't just sit around and do nothing.
Try not to get killed, okay?
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