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

The Return (2017)

Mallory Jansen: Aida

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• Aida : Do you think they'll ever be able to forgive me? Perhaps they need to make me feel pain to understand theirs.

  Leo Fitz : They may be able to forgive you. It's me they won't forgive. They shouldn't.

  Aida : We both did things we regret. I know you're struggling with who you were, and...

  Leo Fitz : No, I'm not. I'm struggling with who I am. I did those things, not some other man or decoy. Me.

  Aida : It was learned behavior, programmed into you by an overbearing father figure.

  Leo Fitz : Just like Ward.

  [pause] 

  Leo Fitz : I'm just like Ward.

  [walks to the bed and sits] 

  Leo Fitz : How could she even look me in the eye? How could she stand the sight of me at all? How can she stomach it? The memory of seeing me shoot that woman.

  Aida : You know, the reason I wanted to get closer to you in the first place was... to try and understand what you two felt for each other, you and Jemma. And I finally do.

  Leo Fitz : Yeah, what we felt. Past tense, because my future with Jemma's dead, killed that too.

  Aida : It's okay, it's okay.

  Leo Fitz : There isn't room in my heart for two people. You were everything to me.

  Aida : I know. But as devoted as I was to you in the Framework, I understand you better now. How deeply you love.

  Leo Fitz : You do understand me, don't you?

  Aida : Yes, Leopold. Now I do. It's sad, but beautiful. Like a pain that feels good, if that makes sense.

  Leo Fitz : Yeah, you understand that my love will never fade.

  Aida : Yeah, I know. Poor thing, you're a romantic, and there's only room in your heart for...

  Leo Fitz : Her.

• Anton Ivanov : It's called "heartbreak", krushka. Not even your new powers can repair it, only time can heal that wound.

  [offers her a shot of vodka] 

  Anton Ivanov : Go on.

  Aida : [downs the shot]  To be human is to suffer.

• [Ophelia teleports to Ivanov's submarine] 

  Anton Ivanov : Where have you been?

  Aida : I want you to call off your dogs. Leave the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents alone.

  Anton Ivanov : I can't wait to hear this.

  Aida : I'm now realizing the pain that I've caused, and I don't want to hurt anyone else.

  Anton Ivanov : Congratulations, you're as close to human as you'll ever get. Suffering from the one thing you kept trying to remove, regret. You understand irony yet? Because this is a good example.

  Aida : Give the order to stop, now!

  Anton Ivanov : You no longer control me, remember? You are free to do whatever you want, but so am I. You promised me joy. This will bring me joy.

  Aida : Don't you have empathy?

  Anton Ivanov : You watched unaffected as I took a hammer to the bones of the director's corpse.

  Aida : I couldn't feel THIS then!

  Anton Ivanov : Now you are like an infant, unable to process these new emotions, or the idea that you don't always get everything that you want. And you have yet to experience the thrill that killing can bring.

  Aida : Maybe I'll experience that now - with you.

  Anton Ivanov : Destroy this body, sure. It was designed only for killing. My head, which you severed, is controlling many of these machines now. And you don't know where it is. So do what you want this body. My plan is in motion. And nothing can stop it now.

• Aida : [standing in bliss on the shore with the waves washing over her feet]  I had no idea. I've only emulated human reactions, but to actually feel! The warm sand, the water rushing over me.

  Leo Fitz : I feel like I'm gonna throw up.

  Aida : I'm sorry, you must feel overwhelmed. Two lives worth of memories.

  Leo Fitz : Only one type of person can do those things.

  Aida : You did what you had to do, in order to survive the Framework. But it was a simulation. An illusion created by Radcliffe.

  Leo Fitz : You were there, alongside me the whole time, allowing horrific acts of violence to be carried out in your name.

  Aida : You're implying I had a choice. I was a slave, programmed to make the adjustments Radcliffe required. The world changed from there. All I did was try to fit into it.

  Leo Fitz : No, you lied about everything.

  Aida : I told you the truth about this world.

  Leo Fitz : Yeah, but you manipulated me.

  Aida : Every decision you made was your own. Besides restoring your relationship with your father, the only other change I made in your life was... introducing myself!

  Leo Fitz : First day of class at Academy.

  Aida : Befriending you, trying to understand what it felt like to connect with someone. But I wasn't able to actually feel anything, until today. I'm feeling love, wonder, joy for the very first time and I think my heart might burst from it. At last I get to make my own choices, and the first thing I choose Leopold is you.