- [a light pole falls over]
- Lance Hunter: I barely touched it. I swear.
- Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie: Trust me, there is no universe on which I think you did that on your own.
- Lady Sif: My mind is that of a lost adolescent. I can provide no information of value.
- Phil Coulson: Not totally true. Judging by your clothes, we know you were undercover, probably something you learned after your last visit here. Your usual full-armor look is a little more... conspicuous.
- Lady Sif: So you are saying I wear that armor most of the time? Does this mean I'm a warrior?
- Melinda May: A good one.
- Lady Sif: A great warrior.
- Phil Coulson: It's just details that you're missing. You must remember things about your home world, right?
- Lady Sif: Only basic lessons a child would learn.
- Phil Coulson: The name of your sword?
- Melinda May: What about Thor?
- Lady Sif: Um... I do not know this word, but when you say it, I want to smile. Why?
- Phil Coulson: Who can explain the mysteries of the Asgardian brain?
- Melinda May: I *can*.
- Jemma Simmons: Skye is my friend. She's different.
- Leo Fitz: Oh, yeah. Like *I* was your friend, and then *I* changed. How did you handle that?
- Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie: Uh, t-the point is, secrets don't help any of us. Skye should have just come clean.
- Leo Fitz: What, and risked being locked up, studied, or who know what else? No, I wouldn't let her.
- Jemma Simmons: Oh, *you* wouldn't let her.
- Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie: We could have handled her in a way that could have kept everybody safe.
- Bobbi Morse: It wasn't fair to us, Fitz. We had a right to know.
- Leo Fitz: A right to know. What - is that the same way that Sif and the Kree had the right to know?
- Lance Hunter: I think the situation is a bit different, mate.
- Leo Fitz: No, you would have done to her exactly what they wanted to.
- Jemma Simmons: You don't know that!
- Leo Fitz: Yes, I do know that! They would - you would - you'd "handle her"! Mack just said! Like, uh... like Skye's something to be locked up in a cage somewhere. We should be protecting her.
- Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie: No, Fitz. *We're* the ones that need the protection from her.
- Lady Sif: Kava means keys.
- Phil Coulson: Keys?
- Lady Sif: A device used to unlock...
- Phil Coulson: Yeah. I know keys.
- Melinda May: Not bad. But once I'm pinned, you should try for a finishing blow.
- Skye: You want full "Mortal Kombat"?
- Melinda May: I want you to stop holding back, Skye.
- Skye: I didn't want to hurt you. I didn't want to *try* to hurt you. I feel like I'm constantly on the verge of... I don't know.
- Melinda May: Look... we lost Trip, and it hurts like hell, but you can't shut those feelings out. Can't sustain that.
- Skye: What's my option? l just might lose it right here?
- Melinda May: We've talked about this. Control. Embrace your emotions, your nerves. Use them... on your terms.
- Skye: I don't know. What I'm feeling... is pretty dark. I'm afraid I'm gonna go postal and tear your head off.
- Melinda May: Go for it. I promise you won't.
- Phil Coulson: I don't blame you, but I have been thinking about it, and I realized I've been wasting your talents.
- Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie: Sir?
- Phil Coulson: Look, I know you love it under the hood of a car, but... we could really use you out in the field. You're a force to be reckoned with, Mack. Believe me.
- Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie: Okay, but violence isn't really my thing. You know, that alien crap made me into something I'm not.
- Phil Coulson: I know. But have you seen yourself? You're a little bit of a beast all the time.
- Lady Sif: Coulson, your people make decisions based on logic.
- Phil Coulson: Usually.
- Lady Sif: Usually. As do mine.
- Phil Coulson: Leaving Skye with us is the logical choice, I promise.
- Lady Sif: No. No. That is not what I mean. Asgard is millennia beyond you in our pursuit of science and knowledge. And we have learned there are some things that can never be understood.
- Phil Coulson: Is this little talk one of 'em?
- Vin-Tak: Sorry. The argument was going nowhere.
- Phil Coulson: You back with us?
- Lady Sif: Yes. My memories have returned. I am Lady Sif of Asgard, friend of the S.H.I.E.L.D.
- [punches Vin-Tak]
- Vin-Tak: Asgardian - well, that explains a lot.
- Lady Sif: It is true. We don't trust Kree. That is why I am here. When Heimdall saw that one landed on your world, Odin charged me of retrieving him.
- Vin-Tak: So you came to pick a fight.
- Lady Sif: We know enough about Kree history to be concerned.
- Vin-Tak: Well, then, if you know Kree history, perhaps you've heard the tale of Terrigenesis.
- Lady Sif: Of course. Ancient Kree descending on planets, altering the inhabitants to fight their war.
- Vin-Tak: And Earth was one of them.
- Mr. Cardozo: You are a dangerous monster!
- Lady Sif: [Insulted] I am no monster. I am sometimes dangerous, but only toward those who are deserving.
- [Softly, to Coulson]
- Lady Sif: I do not actually know. Is it... only toward those who are...
- Phil Coulson: No. That was... right.
- Lady Sif: Thanks.
- [to Cardozo]
- Lady Sif: Answer his question, elderly man!
- Lady Sif: Yet you do not serve a king?
- Melinda May: Not really how it works with us.
- Lady Sif: I wonder if *I* serve the king as the great warrior you say I am.
- Melinda May: Odin? Oh, we know you do. You've met him.
- Lady Sif: Shut... up.