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"Strike Team Delta never has an extraction plan."
It gets tossed about sometimes among the more foolhardy SHIELD agents—baby agents, Natasha calls them, not even finding them worthy of a sniff, just the comment—as if anything Strike Team Delta does deserves to be emulated.
Handlers roll their eyes at the protest, Maria's mouth turns into a thin line, and Coulson in particular shuts that train of thinking down as fast as he can. Clint occasionally reminds them politely that Strike Team Delta is composed of Level 7 agents. Natasha usually reminds them impolitely that Strike Team Delta is composed of assassins—and she'd be happy to demonstrate.