Pilot - (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)

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* Skye [voice]
* People of New York City
* Anthony Edward "Tony" Stark/Iron Man
* Thor Odinson
* Steven Grant "Steve" Rogers/Captain America
* Chitauri
* Robert Bruce Banner/Hulk

**Skye [voice]:** The secret is out. For decades, your organization stayed in the shadows, hiding the truth. But now we know they're among us. Heroes and monsters. ////// The world is full of wonders.

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* Ace Peterson
* Michael "Mike" Peterson
* Bernie
* People of New York City

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**Michael "Mike" Peterson:** Thanks, Bernie.

**Bernie:** You bet.

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**Michael "Mike" Peterson:** Ace, come and get it. What do you say we go out to your aunt Mindy's this weekend? You and Kisha can swim in the pond.

**Ace Peterson:** Sure.

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**Michael "Mike" Peterson:** You know, you got a birthday coming up in a couple of months. Who's your favorite?

**Ace Peterson:** I'm okay.

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**Michael "Mike" Peterson:** Hey. ////// Things are tight right now, but I'm gonna find something. Not back at the factory, but I got prospects. You and me what are we?

**Ace Peterson:** We're a team.

**Michael "Mike" Peterson:** That's right. So, who do you... ////// Are you okay? All right, Ace, look at me. I need you to stay here with Bernie, okay? People might be hurt, and I'm gonna see if they need my help. Stay with Bernie. Watch my boy!

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* Michael "Mike" Peterson
* Doctor Debbie

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**Doctor Debbie:** Help me. ////// Help me!

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* People of New York City
* Skye
* Michael "Mike" Peterson
* Doctor Debbie
* Skye [narrator]
* Ace Peterson
* Bernie

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**Skye [narrator]:** We can't explain everything we see. But our eyes are open. So what now? There are no more shadows for you to hide in. Something impossible just happened. What are you going to do about it?

(Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. logo)

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* S.H.I.E.L.D. agent

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**S.H.I.E.L.D. agent:** Agent Ward, there's been a development.

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* agent Grant Douglas Ward
* S.H.I.E.L.D. agent (voice)

**S.H.I.E.L.D. agent (voice):** It's The Rising Tide. They've pinned down the location of the package. We need to abort.

**agent Grant Douglas Ward:** I'm five minutes away from retrieving it.

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* S.H.I.E.L.D. agent

**S.H.I.E.L.D. agent:** So is everyone else.

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* agent Grant Douglas Ward
* S.H.I.E.L.D. agent (voice)
* People of Paris

**S.H.I.E.L.D. agent (voice):** They posted the coordinates online.

**agent Grant Douglas Ward:** If the job was easy-

**S.H.I.E.L.D. agent (voice):** Yeah, it wouldn't be any fun. Watch your six.

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* agent Grant Douglas Ward
* French Restaurant staff
* People of Paris
* S.H.I.E.L.D. agent (voice)
* French Restaurant guest

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**S.H.I.E.L.D. agent (voice):** Red tie, by the window.

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**agent Grant Douglas Ward:** Puis-je prendre votre verre, monsieur?

**French Restaurant guest:** Oui.

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* agent Grant Douglas Ward
* People of French

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* agent Grant Douglas Ward
* Beautiful woman
* Vanchat's men (1, 2, 3)
* S.H.I.E.L.D. agent (voice)

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**agent Grant Douglas Ward:** Your fireplace is broken.

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**S.H.I.E.L.D. agent (voice):** Ward, just a heads-up. We've got possible hostiles in your vicinity.

**agent Grant Douglas Ward:** Really?

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* agent Grant Douglas Ward

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* deputy director Maria Hill
* agent Grant Douglas Ward
* agent Kirk Skadden
* agent Phillip J. "Phil" Coulson

**deputy director Maria Hill:** What does "S.H.I.E.L.D." stand for, agent Ward?

**agent Grant Douglas Ward:** Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division.

**deputy director Maria Hill:** And what does that mean to you?

**agent Grant Douglas Ward:** It means someone really wanted our intials to spell out "SHIELD". ////// It means we're the line between the world and the much weirder world. We protect people from news they aren't ready to hear. And when we can't do that, we keep them safe. Something turns up like this Chitauri neural link. We got it before someone bad does.

**deputy director Maria Hill:** Any idea who Vanchat was planning to sell it to?

**agent Grant Douglas Ward:** I'm more interested in how this Rising Tide group found out about it. I thought they were just hackers. What changed?

**deputy director Maria Hill:** Everything's changing. A little while ago, most people went to bed thinking that the craziest thing in the world was a billionaire in a flying metal suit. Then aliens invaded New York and were beaten back by, among others, a giant green monster, a costumed hero from the '40s, and a god.

**agent Grant Douglas Ward:** I don't think Thor's technically a god.

**deputy director Maria Hill:** Well, you haven't been near his arms. The battle of New York was the end of the world. This now is the new world. People are different. They have access to tech, to formulas, secrets they're not ready for.

**agent Grant Douglas Ward:** Why was I pulled out of Paris?

**deputy director Maria Hill:** That, you'll have to ask agent Coulson.

**agent Grant Douglas Ward:** Uh, yeah. I'm clearance Level 6. I know that agent Coulson was killed in action before the battle of New York. Got the full report.

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**agent Phillip J. "Phil" Coulson:** Welcome to Level 7. ////// Sorry that corner was really dark, and I couldn't help myself. I think there's a bulb out.

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* people of New York City
* Michael "Mike" Peterson
* Skye

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* agent Grant Douglas Ward
* deputy director Maria Hill
* agent Phillip J. "Phil" Coulson
* S.H.I.E.L.D. agents
* S.H.I.E.L.D. computerist
* Michael "Mike" Peterson (on Tv)
* Doctor Debbie (on Tv)
* Skye (voice)
* Emil Blonsky/Abomination (on TV)
* Doctor J. Streiten

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**agent Grant Douglas Ward:** Director Fury faked your death, to motivate the Avengers.

**deputy director Maria Hill:** Well, he death of a common ally is a particularly effective team builder.

**agent Phillip J. "Phil" Coulson:** Plus, it wasn't that much of a stretch. I stopped breathing for about 40 seconds.

**deputy director Maria Hill:** Eight. It gets longer every time you tell it.

**agent Phillip J. "Phil" Coulson:** Yeah, well you get shanked by the Asgardian Mussolini, you can tell it your way. I was looking at the big white light and it felt like a lot longer than 8 seconds.

**agent Grant Douglas Ward:** Do they know? The Avengers, that Fury played them?

**deputy director Maria Hill:** They're not level 7.

**agent Phillip J. "Phil" Coulson:** I got out of the I.C.U., Fury stuck me in a grass shack in Tahiti. Rough gig. Mai tais, Travis McGee novels and a physical therapist whose command of English was...irrelevant.

**agent Grant Douglas Ward:** But something put you back in the game. ////// What's that?

**agent Phillip J. "Phil" Coulson:** That's a superhero, agent Ward.

**deputy director Maria Hill:** An unregistered gifted. Identity unknown.

**Skye (voice):** Your secret is out. For decades your organization...

**agent Phillip J. "Phil" Coulson:** Another little present from the Rising Tide.

**agent Grant Douglas Ward:** How are they getting this stuff before us?

**agent Phillip J. "Phil" Coulson:** Same way they cracked our RSA implementation. ////// They're good. So I need better.

**deputy director Maria Hill:** Agent Coulson has requistioned a mobile command unit, to which you are assigned.

**agent Phillip J. "Phil" Coulson:** Rising Tide is trying to draw us out. I think it's time they succeeded.

**agent Grant Douglas Ward:** You want me to cross them off?

**agent Phillip J. "Phil" Coulson:** Wow. No. I want to use them to get to him. This man’s world is about to get very weird. He’s gonna need some help.

**agent Grant Douglas Ward:** I’m sorry, I was trained from day one as a specialist. I go in alone, I get it done. Defusing a nuclear bomb – I’m your guy. A welcoming committee? Not my speed.

**agent Phillip J. "Phil" Coulson:** I know it’s not what you want. Agent Hill did a very detailed assessment of your last three missions. Combat – top grades. Espionage – she gave you the highest marks since Romanoff. Under “people skills” she drew a – I think it’s a little poop. With knives sticking out of it. That’s bad, right? And given your family history, I’m surprised it’s not worse. I think you’re the guy for this. If I’m wrong, you go straight back to your bombs.

**doctor J. Streiten:** Teams approved. Physicals are all fine. Fitz-Simmons is not cleared for combat. I’m told that won’t be an issue. Agent Ward here, he’s almost too fit.

**agent Grant Douglas Ward:** That’s an issue. That should be an issue. Maybe I can’t join the team. Because my –

**deputy director Maria Hill:** God, you are dismissed. ////// It was a porcupine, it was not a poop. It just means that he –

**agent Phillip J. "Phil" Coulson:** No, I'm pretty sure.

**deputy director Maria Hill:** And it’s not just Ward, your whole roster is sketchy.

**agent Phillip J. "Phil" Coulson:** Well, they're cleared.

**doctor J. Streiten:** I woul've been very happy not to clear you, Phil. I'd love for you to rest up some more.

**agent Phillip J. "Phil" Coulson:** I've had plenty of that, thanks.

**deputy director Maria Hill:** You sure?

**agent Phillip J. "Phil" Coulson:** You should go sometime.

**deputy director Maria Hill:** Where?

**agent Phillip J. "Phil" Coulson:** Tahiti. It's a magical place.

**deputy director Maria Hill:** Three days in and I’d be begging for an assignment.

**agent Phillip J. "Phil" Coulson:** Exactly.

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**doctor J. Streiten:** Tahiti. He really doesn't know, does he?

**deputy director Maria Hill:** He can never know.

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* Michael "MIke" Peterson
* Doctor Debbie (on Tv)
* Reporter (on Tv)
* Skye
* people of New York City

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**Doctor Debbie (on Tv):** Is there any way I can thank him? Are you sure, nobody saw him?

**Reporter (on Tv):** So, the identity of the hooded hero still remains unknown.

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**Skye:** Just act natural.

**Michael "Mike" Peterson:** What?

**Skye:** Just, pretend that we're talking.

**Michael "Mike" Peterson:** We are.

**Skye:** Good, 'cause you never know who's listening.

**Michael "Mike" Peterson:** I don't even know who's talking.

**Skye:** I'm Skye. And you're the hooded hero. Please tell me that you're not staying with that name.

**Michael "Mike" Peterson:** Wait, what? I'm not - I'm a factory worker.

**Skye:** Sure, by day. I saw you. You’re a hero. Like, a for real superhero – which is – I’m not, a groupie, stalker type, but… Oh my God, that is so cool! Okay, okay, chill. Just don’t, don’t draw attention. You’re in danger.