Clark Gregg credited as playing...
Phil Coulson
- Phil Coulson: I heard what you did for me. I think it's time that we remove this.
- [Talks to her wrist binder]
- Phil Coulson: Disengage bracelet.
- [Bracket comes off]
- Skye: Are you kidding me?
- Phil Coulson: I thought you'd like that.
- Raina: It induces theta brain-wave frequencies to help uncover the secrets buried in the subconscious. If you cooperate, you can surf those waves.
- Phil Coulson: I've gone surfing. That is definitely not like surfing.
- Phil Coulson: Evening, Doctor.
- Dr. Streiten: Agent Coulson.
- Phil Coulson: You weren't operating on my heart. I know about Tahiti.
- Dr. Streiten: I was afraid this day would come.
- Phil Coulson: Because of what I'd do?
- Dr. Streiten: Because of what I've done. After New York, you weren't dead for 8 seconds or 40 seconds or whatever they put in your file. You were dead for... days.
- Phil Coulson: That's impossible.
- Dr. Streiten: It should be.
- Phil Coulson: You will not get classified intel from me.
- Raina: I'm not interested in those secrets. The Clairvoyant can see within any agency, any government. He knows what the President dreams about at night. I want what you want to uncover a different secret, the secret SHIELD is keeping from *you*.
- Phil Coulson: What makes you so sure this machine will even work?
- Raina: It worked on me.
- Phil Coulson: One thing before we start - what is it with the flowers?
- Raina: Who doesn't like flowers? I'm glad you noticed.
- Raina: I know you don't want to believe it, but you can't tell me nothing makes you doubt, makes you wonder what happened in Tahiti.
- Phil Coulson: It's a magical place. I keep saying that.
- Raina: Don't you want to know why?
- Raina: This is turning into an interesting day, isn't it?
- Phil Coulson: So, you're my friend now? 'Cause I've seen what you do to your "friends".
- Phil Coulson: Why was that machine messing with my brain?
- Dr. Streiten: After what you'd been through we wanted to restore the man you'd once been, so we gave you a pleasant memory of a beautiful island. We didn't want you to be that... thing.
- Phil Coulson: What did I become, Doctor? Tell me.
- Dr. Streiten: You'd lost your will to live. We tried to give it back. I'm sorry, Agent Coulson. Truly, I am.
- Edison Po: [after Coulson tries to escape, sees he's in a ghost town] The town that the bomb forgot. It was built in the '40s for nuclear testing, but when the cold war ended, the town was spared.
- Phil Coulson: Not exactly prime real estate.
- Edison Po: Mm, true.
- [Significantly]
- Edison Po: There's nothing but desert for hundreds of miles. But I really like it. It's nice here. The children are always playing
- [Solider comes up and grabs Coulson by the neck]
- Edison Po: ... Yet never make a sound.