It has this way of getting inside your head and just making you crazy. Austin threw himself off a cliff. Brubaker set himself on fire. Taylor took an axe to the gear and then he came after me.
- That THING has been killing everyone that's come through here for centuries."
"How long have people known about the Monolith? And why keep sending people when there's no way back? It's as if they're being sacrificed!
- That's more like 100 meters. Unless there was some significant earthquake..."
"It doesn't want us to leave.
- Thousands of years ago, an Inhuman was born on this planet that was destined to rule it, so powerful, so fearsome that others were consumed with dread, and so they banished it from the Earth, sent it through the portal to a distant planet. HYDRA was founded with the sole purpose of engineering its return.
- How long you been here?"
"Feels like forever.
- —Grant Ward and Hive
- They had a chance to become something great, something beautiful, but in the end..."
"How do you know so much about it?"
"Because I was there.
- They have advanced, but they haven't changed."
"They?"
"Humans. But you're not human anymore, are you? You don't believe I am what they say. Once I'm strong enough... You will.
- These are the healthiest we could find. Lucio has frozen them in place for you. I hope they're acceptable."
"Yes. Well done."
"One will be your host?"
"I have a better use for them.
- I know you've had people killed. You've even considered shooting someone. But to drain a man's life with your own hand, to feel the life go out inside him... as Mr. Coulson did with me. That look in his eyes. A feeling so powerful, it scared him...
- —Hive to Gideon Malick
- This god has outlived..."
"I've met gods. Gods bleed.
- The world fears our kind of power because not everyone has it. Only billionaires can build iron suits. Only the military can make super soldiers, which can only lead to a war of its own, whereas I plan to apply a more, uh, collectivist philosophy.
- —Hive