These Melina quotes offer glimpses into her past, her views on family, control, and the harsh realities of her life.
Melina Quotes
Melina on Family and Relationships
“I didn’t raise my girls to fall in traps.”
“Oh, maybe so. But if you got soft, it wasn’t on my watch.”
“Seeing as our family construct was just a calculated ruse that only lasted three years, I don’t think that we can use this term anymore, can we?”
“You got fat. But still good.”
“Natasha, don’t slouch.”
“You’re going to get a back hunch.”
“Eat a little something, Yelena, for God’s sake.”
“You know, it’s like when you told them that they could stay up late to catch Santa Claus.”
“Yes. It did. Good boy, Alexei. Good boy.”
Melina on Control and the Red Room
“You can’t defeat a man who commands the very will of others. You never saw the culmination of what we started in America. Nor did you.”
“We infiltrated the North Institute in Ohio. It was a front for S.H.I.E.L.D. scientists. Actually, it was Hydra scientists at that time. In conjunction with the Winter Soldier project, they had dissected and deconstructed the human brain to create the first and only cellular blueprint of the basal ganglia. Was the hub for cognition. Voluntary motor movement, procedural learning. We didn’t steal weaponry or technology. We stole the key to unlocking free will.”
“Oh, I am explaining that the science is now so exact, the subject can be instructed to stop breathing and has no choice but to obey.”
“Yes, all right. Well, don’t worry, Alexei could’ve survived 11 more seconds without oxygen. Good boy. Now, you go back, back home where it’s safe.”
“You go. You go back home, back home where it’s safe. Good boy, Alexei. The world functions on a higher level when it is controlled. Dreykov has chemically subjugated agents planted around the globe.”
“Now you’ll know how Dreykov stayed above the radar all these years.”
“Probably down to cold storage. Dreykov still has the widows under his control, so you have to expose them to this antidote.”
“Even if you locate the database and get him to show you the key, you won’t be able to take it from him. For years, Dreykov has implemented a pheromonal lock in all widows, even me. So, as long as we can smell him, then we won’t be able to hurt him.”
“Not enough. This is basic science. Natasha, to block receptors in olfactory center, you have to sever the nerve.”
“Precisely what I was thinking.”
Melina on the Past and Reality
“What were you? If I was his architect, you were his partner. You were his business partner.”
“No, you weren’t abandoned. You were selected by a program that assessed the genetic potential in infants.”
“I believe a bargain was struck, your family paid off. But your mother, she never stopped looking for you. She was like you in that way. She was relentless.”
“Dreykov had her killed. Her existence threatened to uncover the Red Room. Normally, the actions of one curious civilian wouldn’t warrant an execution, but, as I said, she was relentless.”
“I’ve always found it best not to look into the past.”
“Why does a mouse born in a cage run on that little wheel? Do you know I was cycled through the Red Room four times before you were even born? Those walls are all I know. I was never given a choice.”
“Tell me, how did you keep your heart?”
Melina in Action and Crisis
“Back home where it’s safe. Come on. Go on.”
“Welcome to my humble abode. Make yourself at home. Let’s have a drink.”
“I am putting away my weapon.”
“Let’s drink.”
“Come in.”
“Stop breathing.”
“Hmm… No. That’s not my department.”
“I’m not lying.”
“Don’t give me that…”
“Stop with the politics.”
“I had no idea.”
“Where are you going?”
“Don’t. You won’t survive.”
“Let’s stop this.”
“I’m sorry, I already alerted the Red Room. They’ll be here any minute.”
“I’m sorry.”
“Let’s not keep him waiting.”
“Request clearance for landing.”
“(IN ENGLISH) We’re touching down in one minute.”
“Alexei.”
“I designed these cells myself.”
“Yes, I’m afraid so. But wait, shh, I’m on comms with Yelena. Yelena, it’s me. It’s Mama. You have a two-inch blade concealed in your beltline.”
“Outside right hip.”
“Don’t throw a fit. There wasn’t time.”
“You don’t have earpiece.”
“Because it wasn’t part of the plan.”
“You are aware that you are still a global fugitive, yes?”
“Instruct them to confine us on level zero. Once I’m out, I can activate the landing protocol, we can descend within the hour. Ah, problem. I only have one earpiece set.”
“Yelena, slight change of plan. I completely demolished one of the engines and we are going into a controlled crash.”
“We have to go.”
“Oh, no, no, no.”
“We’ve lost control.”
“Do you see the girls?”
“We need to go back.”
“I am clearly injured.”
“You got something to say?”
“I’d just mess it up.”
“We can’t split up. You’re so pigheaded.”
“Hey. Hey. You take care of yourself, okay?”
“Don’t worry. I got this.”
“I know.”
“Don’t worry. We’re bringing her with us. Come. Come with us.”