- Yelena Belova: Daddy, I'm so alone. I don't have anything anymore. All I do is sit, and look at my phone, and think of all the terrible things that I've done, and then I go to work, and then I drink, come home to no-one, and I sit and think about all the terrible things I've done again and again and I go crazy!
- Alexei Shostakov: Yelena, stop. We all have things that we regret.
- Yelena Belova: No, but I have so many!
- [bursts into tears]
- Yelena Belova: My first test at the Red Room... Anya, she was just a child, she was so small...
- Alexei Shostakov: So were you. I know. I know they were dark times... very, very dark times. but... before, you were such a special little girl. Did you know this? You walked into room and made it bright. You felt a lot of joy.
- Yelena Belova: [sees Alexei's limousine from afar while hiding in the middle of the desert, the limousine honks loudly] Oh no...
- John Walker: What? It's going right at us.
- Ava Starr: Who is that?
- Yelena Belova: [embarrassed, covering her face] It is no one, it's nothing.
- [the limousine keeps honking then stops in the middle of the desert, Alexei gets out and screams]
- Yelena Belova: Oh God.
- Red Guardian: YELENA! IT'S YOUR DAD! DON'T GO IN THE VAULT! VALENTINA'S GONNA BURN YOU ALIVE! YELENA!
- Red Guardian: Yelena, you know what you told me about why you wanted to be goalie in that terrible soccer team?
- Yelena Belova: [wipes away tear] So I wouldn't have to run as much?
- Red Guardian: Maybe that too. But you told me, "I want to be the person everyone relies on when they make a mistake."
- Red Guardian: Bob, if you hit me with that sign one more time...
- [gets whacked by a fast food sign]
- Bob: I WAS ON METH!
- Yelena Belova: Bucky, you have the wrong people. We have all done bad things.
- Bucky Barnes: Look, I've been where you are. The past doesn't go away. So you can either live with it for ever, or do something about it.
- Robert Reynolds: You were Captain America?
- John Walker: Yeah, why?
- Robert Reynolds: You're an asshole.
- Yelena Belova: [in the void where everyone has had to confront their biggest shame] Are YOU alright?
- Bucky Barnes: I'm fine, I had a great past, I'm totally fine.
- [first lines]
- Yelena Belova: There's something wrong with me. An emptiness. I thought it started when my sister died, but now it feels like something bigger. Just a void. Or maybe I'm just bored.
- [the Thunderbolts arrive on the top floor of the Watchtower to confront Valentina]
- Bucky Barnes: This ends today.
- Valentina Allegra de Fontaine: Congressman Barnes, wow. You know, I never really thought you'd have a promising political career, but less than half a term? Yikes.
- John Walker: We're taking you in, Val.
- Valentina Allegra de Fontaine: [scoffs] I don't think so, junior varsity Captain America.
- [Walker prepares to pull his handgun]
- Bucky Barnes: Walker.
- [Ghost approaches Valentina]
- Valentina Allegra de Fontaine: Oh, nice to see you, Ava.
- [Valentina looks at Yelena]
- Valentina Allegra de Fontaine: Yelena, you look awful.
- Yelena Belova: [smiling] Mhm.
- Valentina Allegra de Fontaine: You sure you're ready for that public-facing role you asked me about?
- Yelena Belova: Eat shit, Valentina. Where's Bob?
- Valentina Allegra de Fontaine: Look at you. You are all so adorable. Just think, I send you down there to kill each other, and instead, you make nice and you form a team.
- [Valentina notices Red Guardian]
- Valentina Allegra de Fontaine: Who's this old Santa?
- Red Guardian: I'm Alexei Shostakov. The Red Guardian.
- [pause]
- Valentina Allegra de Fontaine: What?
- Red Guardian: Yelena, being the hero, there is no higher calling. Your sister understood something about that.
- Yelena Belova: No, that's just a fairytale.
- Valentina Allegra de Fontaine: We're brought up with this belief that there are good guys and there are bad guys, but eventually you come to realize that there are bad guys and there are worse guys.
- Mel: I was in high school when the aliens came. And the Avengers.
- Bucky Barnes: High school, huh? I was, like, 90.
- Mel: Hah. It's kinda strange that it's all over now, right? I mean, the Avengers are gone? No one else is coming to save the day...
- Bucky Barnes: Maybe we could be the people that are coming...
- Bob's Mom: [as Bob's dad is abusing her in Bob's memory] Bobby, stop! You're making it worse! You always make things worse!
- Yelena Belova: I'm sorry.
- Red Guardian: What kind of super serum did you get?
- Bucky Barnes: I don't know, regular, Hydra.
- Red Guardian: Hydra? Ohhh, fancy. Mine was Soviet recreation, but is still good, you know?
- Valentina Allegra de Fontaine: It seems like you're a bit fixated on the hair.
- The Sentry: It's not just the hair, it's... everything. I feel like it should be a more collaborative effort? I mean, why should a god listen to...
- Valentina Allegra de Fontaine: I think you're throwing around the G word a bit too freely.
- The Sentry: Well, you said I'm all-powerful, stronger than all the Avengers combined, which includes at least one god, so...
- U.S. Agent: I'll have you know I was actually the official Captain America!
- Ghost: Yeah, for like two seconds.
- Red Guardian: What impressive friends you've assembled, Yelena.
- Yelena Belova: We're not friends, Alexei.
- Ava Starr: No, we're just disposable delinquents.
- Red Guardian: Whatever you are, the light inside you is brighter.
- Yelena Belova: You feel fulfilled?
- Alexei Shostakov: Aw, yeah. So full, so filled.
- [later on]
- Yelena Belova: You said you were fulfilled!
- Alexei Shostakov: I was lying, I was obviously lying!
- Red Guardian: [puts on Red Guardian helmet] So, Mr. Soldier, what's the plan?
- Bucky Barnes: The plan?
- [drives truck straight into the lobby]
- Bucky Barnes: [to Mel] You know who I am, so you know my story. You know I didn't have a choice in who I worked for. But you do.
- Congressman Gary: [reacts after Bucky pulls him aside with his metal arm] Ow, Bucky! You could just text me like a normal person!
- Bucky Barnes: This is a good location, we're in a blind spot from those 2 cameras.
- Yelena Belova: [tries to save Anya in her memory] Wait, stop!
- Anya: [attacks Yelena] It's too late for that, friend.