- Phil Coulson: This new aircraft can stay in the air much longer than the old plane. Days, really. So, rapid response anywhere is...
- Daisy 'Skye' Johnson: You *love* your new toy, don't you?
- Phil Coulson: I very much love my new toy.
- Phil Coulson: Mack, you should head downstairs, assist Skye with intake.
- Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie: Daisy.
- Phil Coulson: Dammit. Hard for us to get used to, huh?
- Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie: [He and Hunter shake their heads] No. Just you.
- Leo Fitz: Okay, listen, because I'm only gonna say this once. I've already lost a friend. And it may sound strange, but to get her back I need to understand the properties of an ancient monolith. Now, I've learned it was buried in the Yucatan after being dragged around the Earth for a few hundred years. And originally found where there were artifacts, mostly worthless, except one. A scroll casing over a thousand years old. The casing holds a parchment which reportedly describes exactly what this monolith is, which is I want to know. Now, I tracked this scroll casing - not easy - through history to the Mosul Central Museum in Iraq, where it was taken by your extremist buddies when they ransacked the place this year. And, I'm ninety percent sure it's in this room. So. You can either hand it over in exchange for what's in there, or you can spill my guts in the sand and use the briefcase as a booster seat.
- [Heavy sigh followed by a nervous clearing of his throat]
- Leo Fitz: Totally your call.
- Daisy 'Skye' Johnson: We'll hafta to hit this thing with everything we've got.
- Alphonso 'Mack' Mackenzie: I need a bigger gun, I guess. Or, my axe. Maybe a shotgun/axe combination of some sort.
- Rosalind Price: The laws of nature have changed. And until the laws of man change to reflect that, we can only do what we feel is right.
- Phil Coulson: I agree... I think.
- Phil Coulson: [Fitz has just opened the casing and removed the scroll] Should we scan it? See if the computer can decipher what the...
- Leo Fitz: It's Hebrew. It's just one word.
- Phil Coulson: What does it mean?
- Leo Fitz: Death.