Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV Series)

Orientation: Part 1 (2017)

Elizabeth Henstridge: Jemma Simmons

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• Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie : It's stupid. Just stupid.

  Phil Coulson : All right, I get it.

  Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie : Look, I'm just saying, what good is it having a state-of-the robotic hand if you don't have it on you when your kidnapped by Martians?

  Elena 'Yo-Yo' Rodriguez : Looks like he's got both hands to me.

  Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie : Ah, that's his civvy hand. It's just a prosthetic without all the cool doodads. It should've been a hook. At least you can stab things with a hook.

  Phil Coulson : Thought I was gonna be arrested.

  Elena 'Yo-Yo' Rodriguez : So, wait, that one doesn't have a blowtorch or the laser gun or anything?

  Phil Coulson : First of all, I'm not Inspector Gadget. And second of all, the authorities would've confiscated it. Prison's bad enough without being down an appendage.

  Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie : First rule of Boy Scouts is always come prepared.

  Jemma Simmons : How were we supposed to be prepared for this, Mack?

  Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie : I don't know, we gotta be prepared for everything, apparently. Look, not a day ago, I was trapped inside a-a computer-generated mind prison, and now... You know what? You know what, Coulson? I'm out. I'm out. We get through this, I am packing it in.

  Phil Coulson : Sorry, Mack. You already quit years ago.

  Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie : Yeah, well, I didn't quit hard enough. Look, I'm not comfortable at the pace at which we deal with new trials and tribulations.

• Jemma Simmons : Again, let's not postulate. Let's apply scientific principles and consider the evidence we have.

  Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie : Look, this is magic, okay? Can we all agree this is magic at play?

  Jemma Simmons : Magic is just science we don't understand yet.

  Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie : Ah, please. We just got zapped through space by Stonehenge, we're trying to rule out a flaming-headed demon from east L.A.? Science my ass.

• Jemma Simmons : Fury never said anything about deep space outposts being developed, did he?

  Phil Coulson : There was nothing like this in his black box.

  Elena 'Yo-Yo' Rodriguez : So, wait, S.H.I.E.L.D. doesn't have a space division called S.P.E.A.R. or something?

  [Couslon nods no] 

  Elena 'Yo-Yo' Rodriguez : Really? I always thought you guys had people hiding on the moon.

• Melinda May : Are you seeing what I'm seeing?

  Jemma Simmons : I know, May. I recognize all of these constellations.

  Melinda May : I meant that.

  [sees the remains of a destroyed planet Earth plus a school bus] 

  Jemma Simmons : No reason to send a message back to Earth.