Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Season 7

Daisy:
That's what I'm worried about. The butterfly effect. Just us being here, walking down the street, we could've already changed the course of events.

Deke:
Yeah, the butterfly effect is just one aspect of the multiverse branch theory. Personally, I subscribe to the Time-Stream idea.

Mack:
Let me guess. That's the one that lets you do whatever you want.

Deke:
Okay. Imagine time as a stream, right? And we were sticks that were thrown into it. The water, it... it moves us... it moves around us.

LMD Coulson II:
But it ends up in the same place.

Deke:
Right. Now, too many sticks thrown in and that will create what's called a dam, and... and that'll change the direction of the water forever, and that's bad. So as long as we can avoid that, we should be able to splash around a little bit and we're all good.

Mack:
Okay, I know where this is going. Agent Shaw, you will not be filing any patents. Is that understood?