Shadows Quotes

Dum Dum Dugan: I'll give them an "A" for effort.

Jim Morita: Guten tag, boys. All right, nice and calm. No sudden moves or we'll tie a blasting cap to your... Hey, Dugan, what's the German word for "nuts"?

Dum Dum Dugan: I don't know, Jim. But tie a blasting cap to them, I bet we'll hear it.

Peggy Carter: These assets are now under the protection of the Strategic Scientific Reserve. They'll be hidden out of sight, indefinitely... as will you.

Hydra Officer: Cut off one head, two more shall grow in its place.

Peggy Carter: Then I guess we'll keep cutting them off.

Phil Coulson: [imitating Brigadier General Talbot] It's Private Tilden, isn't it?

Private Tilden: Yes, sir.

Phil Coulson: Well, I don't care I about this register or that. I want General Jones and his friends sent directly to the ordnance depot to meet me.

Billy Koenig: Go bigger. Go bigger.

Phil Coulson: ...Or I'll have you so deep in horse manure, son, you'll need a damn snorkel.

Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie: Operation didn't go well, I take it?

Antoine Triplett: [with irony] What gave you that idea?

Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie: It's a shame, man. I was hoping that agent you were scoping out would have some tech we could use.

Antoine Triplett: Sorry, Mack. No new toys.

Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie: You get *any*thing?

Antoine Triplett: A new enemy.

Skye: [to Trip who is wearing a military uniform in disguise] General?

Antoine Triplett: C'mon, girl. You know I look good.

Lance Hunter: The mystery I'd like to solve is, why should we be paying you so much? This looks like a box. Sorry... a picture of a box... a picture of a box you don't have.

Roger Browning: The government has it, along with thousands of other assets they've seized from S.H.I.E.L.D., and they don't know what to make of half of them. I worked in a S.H.I.E.L.D. containment facility that had hundreds of boxes that look just like this. But this is the only one that has a level 10 classified file dedicated to it.

Isabelle 'Izzy' Hartley: You're selling us a needle in a haystack.

Roger Browning: Finding the haystack is up to you. I know your reputation. I'm sure you'll be fine. What I don't appreciate is you changing the terms on me now.

Isabelle 'Izzy' Hartley: We're asking for clarification, Browning. You're the one who changed the terms, bringing more than the two guards we agreed upon.

Roger Browning: [Confused] I only brought two guards.

[Creel comes up behind them and attacks]

Isabelle 'Izzy' Hartley: Sir, Mark's down. Third party, possibly Hydra, and we're out in the open. What are our orders?

Phil Coulson: Go dark.

Brigadier General Glenn Talbot: We witnessed the single greatest intelligence collapse in recorded history, George. We have a duty to the American people to hunt down those responsible. So, no, I don't sleep most nights.

George Stephanopoulos: General Talbot, you said you have S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel and weaponry locked in a secure facility, so is it fair to say that S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Hydra terrorists who poisoned its ranks have been defeated?

Brigadier General Glenn Talbot: The corrupt institution has been dismantled, yes. We cut down the tree, we pulled up the roots, but let's just say I'll rest easier when we throw it all on the bonfire.

Melinda May: You're the man in charge, but I'm in charge of you, remember? I had two rules.

Phil Coulson: Avoid field operations...

Melinda May: ...And check in with me every few days. It's been two weeks.

Phil Coulson: And I'm flying back out tonight. I have to focus on recruitment. It's starting to wear me down.

Melinda May: The hours?

Phil Coulson: The numbers. Between the traitors, military detainees, and the sell-outs in the private sector, the people who could possibly be considered loyal to S.H.I.E.L.D. is not impressive. And they're scattered all over the damn globe.

Melinda May: Well, you have no choice but to meet them face-to-face, get a read on them.

Phil Coulson: I know, and I prefer it. But flying economy blows.

Melinda May: Hartley, Hunter, Idaho.

Isabelle 'Izzy' Hartley: What's the word?

Melinda May: In his office.

Idaho: The director requests an audience?

Lance Hunter: Oh, the man doesn't do requests. And, listen, when we get in there, no matter what you do, don't look him in the eye.

Idaho: [Concerned] Really?

Lance Hunter: Nah, he's all right.

Isabelle 'Izzy' Hartley: But you should both focus on not saying anything overly stupid.

Idaho: Yes, ma'am.

Lance Hunter: I'm not making any promises.

Phil Coulson: What's your assessment of Hartley's people?

Melinda May: You know what I think. They're mercenaries, here for the money.

Phil Coulson: But what's your assessment?

Melinda May: They're *good* mercenaries.

Antoine Triplett: It's a little bit strange. I mean, they're exactly the same. You really think they were just twins? Come on.

Skye: I have heard all your theories, Trip.

Antoine Triplett: And Koenig's always mentioning other brothers. Every day, another brother. If he brings up one more brother, I don't know what I'm gonna do.

Billy Koenig: There's an inertial confinement laser barrier down there, Which is cool. Now this button turns it soundproof. This button makes it opaque.

Skye: Just tell me there isn't an "off" button I can accidentally hit.

Billy Koenig: You'll be safe. I promise.

Phil Coulson: I want to make your job easier. Chasing us is a waste of resources, general. We're the good guys, and we can help you catch the bad guys.

Brigadier General Glenn Talbot: Kidnapping me and tying me up in your honeycomb kill room is not helping your case. Do you think I'm an idiot?

Phil Coulson: Oh, no. You're the real deal. But you're surrounded by people who constantly underestimate the threat they're up against. Me and my people swore an oath we don't intend to break: to protect the innocent, to watch out for people... people like your son.

Brigadier General Glenn Talbot: How dare you bring my family into this.

Phil Coulson: We save lives, including yours, whether you like it or not.

Phil Coulson: I know it was a risk. If we went down today, we'd probably be down for good. But now we have a chance to survive. We have soldiers willing to sacrifice, but they need weapons. The enemy has the advantage. We need one of our own.

Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie: You risked that for a quinjet?

Phil Coulson: No. For what we can do with one. Disappear. Become ghosts. That's how we have to live now... in the shadows, to save people, even when they don't know it, don't want it.

Leo Fitz: Look at Koenig, running analysis. Well, it looks like we've got our new golden boy.

Jemma Simmons: "New"? As opposed to the original?

Leo Fitz: Yes! Me. And I've been sidelined.

Jemma Simmons: No. Well, I mean, maybe, but in the way that a player is sidelined due to injury in a football match.

Leo Fitz: Football or American football?

Grant Ward: I went through a... rough stretch. First pair of pants they gave me had a... a button on the back. They took that away. But you fold a piece of paper just right, it gets sharp. When they took that away, I started running at the walls.

Skye: You should have run faster.