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* SherlockScan: With only one visit to Dooley's office, Ivchenko can deduce that the SSR chief is having marital problems due to having [[ExiledToTheCouch a bed, toothbrush, and shaving tools in his office]] and the presence of a downturned photo frame while another with two kids in it is still standing.
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** Agent Rick wonders if something is up when he notices Ivchenko's been spending a really long time in Dooley's office, even if they appear to be just talking. Unfortunately for him, [[DeathByGenreSavviness his suspicion isn't enough to stop him from becoming Ivchenko's next victim a scene later]].
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** Agent Rick Yauch wonders if something is up when he notices Ivchenko's been spending a really long time in Dooley's office, even if they appear to be just talking. Unfortunately for him, [[DeathByGenreSavviness his suspicion isn't enough to stop him from becoming Ivchenko's next victim a scene later]].later]].
* HiddenInPlainSight: A major theme of this episode.
** Ivchenko says early on that little girls are trained into Black Widows [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything because females are often overlooked]].
** Peggy suspects Leviathan's agent that ruined Howard Stark was a FemmeFatale that seduced him to slip past his defenses. It's not until it's too late that she realizes she too overlooked the true culprit: her neighbor "Dottie".
** By being a secured asset with the SSR, Ivchenko is in the perfect place to manipulate the SSR from within. Thompson and Yauch even spot Ivchenko hypnotizing Dooley, but neither of them do anything about it.
** The SSR hadn't suspected Peggy to be a double agent until now, only an overly ambitious secretary.
** Angie and Dottie are both basically dismissed by the SSR as just overly emotional women.
* HiddenInPlainSight: A major theme of this episode.
** Ivchenko says early on that little girls are trained into Black Widows [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything because females are often overlooked]].
** Peggy suspects Leviathan's agent that ruined Howard Stark was a FemmeFatale that seduced him to slip past his defenses. It's not until it's too late that she realizes she too overlooked the true culprit: her neighbor "Dottie".
** By being a secured asset with the SSR, Ivchenko is in the perfect place to manipulate the SSR from within. Thompson and Yauch even spot Ivchenko hypnotizing Dooley, but neither of them do anything about it.
** The SSR hadn't suspected Peggy to be a double agent until now, only an overly ambitious secretary.
** Angie and Dottie are both basically dismissed by the SSR as just overly emotional women.
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* LookBothWays: Ivchenko hypnotizes Agent "Ricky" to get intel about the Stark tech, then has him go to his favorite bar, order a glass of finest bourbon, enjoy it as the best ever, then walk into traffic.
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* LookBothWays: Ivchenko hypnotizes Agent "Ricky" Yauch to get intel about the Stark tech, then has him go to his favorite bar, order a glass of finest bourbon, enjoy it as the best ever, then walk into traffic.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Sousa inadvertently screws up Ivchenko's hypnosis on Dooley by interrupting their meeting. Neither he nor Dooley realize the chief was only seconds away from becoming a brainwashed puppet.
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* ChekhovsGun: Dottie uses Carter's tranquilizing lipstick from the first episode [[SweepsWeekLesbianKiss against her]].
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* HypnoPendulum: Ivchenko rubs the ring on his right hand while hypnotizing subjects.
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* HypnoPendulum: Ivchenko rubs the ring on his right hand while hypnotizing subjects. The soundtrack also adopts an [[HellIsThatNoise odd, background whine]], so there may be some high-frequency mind-whammy at work.
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* CastingCouch: The man who was interviewing Dottie for an acting job was clearly trying to maneuver her into trying this until she decided to kill him.
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* [[invoked]]SheReallyCanAct: In-universe. We first see Angie practicing for an audition, but her line reading is fairly stiff. When she needs to distract the SSR, though, Angie wills herself to turn out the waterworks and burst into tears over a fake anecdote about her grandma, making the agents too uncomfortable to keep questioning her. Peggy overhears it, and encourages her to keep trying out for theater after that.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: When Ivchenko has no further use for his hypnotized subject, he orders him to kill himself so he can't tell the SSR anything.
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* GenreSavvy: Agent Thompson realizes that Peggy can easily take out the team sent into the automat, since he just fought with her in Russia. He waits for her at the alley exit, but unfortunately for him, she takes him out as well. Later, he handcuffs her while she's still groggy, over Sousa's protest.
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* GenreSavvy: GenreSavvy:
** Agent Thompson realizes that Peggy can easily take out the team sent into the automat, since he just fought with her in Russia. He waits for her at the alley exit, but unfortunately for him, she takes him out as well. Later, he handcuffs her while she's still groggy, over Sousa'sprotest.protest.
** Agent Rick wonders if something is up when he notices Ivchenko's been spending a really long time in Dooley's office, even if they appear to be just talking. Unfortunately for him, [[DeathByGenreSavviness his suspicion isn't enough to stop him from becoming Ivchenko's next victim a scene later]].
** Agent Thompson realizes that Peggy can easily take out the team sent into the automat, since he just fought with her in Russia. He waits for her at the alley exit, but unfortunately for him, she takes him out as well. Later, he handcuffs her while she's still groggy, over Sousa's
** Agent Rick wonders if something is up when he notices Ivchenko's been spending a really long time in Dooley's office, even if they appear to be just talking. Unfortunately for him, [[DeathByGenreSavviness his suspicion isn't enough to stop him from becoming Ivchenko's next victim a scene later]].
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* GenreSavvy: Agent Thompson realizes that Peggy can easily take out the team sent into the automat, since he just fought with her in Russia. He waits for her at the alley exit, but unfortunately for him, she takes him out as well.
** Later, he handcuffs her while she's still groggy, over Sousa's protest.
** Later, he handcuffs her while she's still groggy, over Sousa's protest.
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* GenreSavvy: Agent Thompson realizes that Peggy can easily take out the team sent into the automat, since he just fought with her in Russia. He waits for her at the alley exit, but unfortunately for him, she takes him out as well.
**well. Later, he handcuffs her while she's still groggy, over Sousa's protest.
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* WomanScorned: Suspecting that Howard might have had his intel compromised thanks to a FemmeFatale, Peggy and Jarvis go about inquiring his most recent girlfriends. Cue a montage of all of them slapping Jarvis upon recognizing him.
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* WomanScorned: Suspecting that Howard might have had his intel compromised thanks to a FemmeFatale, Peggy and Jarvis go about inquiring his most recent girlfriends. Cue a montage of all of them slapping Jarvis upon recognizing him.him.
* YankTheDogsChain: Just when it seems Angie's tricks worked and Peggy can get away safely, Dottie intercepts her and botches Peg's escape, causing her to be captured by the SSR.
* YankTheDogsChain: Just when it seems Angie's tricks worked and Peggy can get away safely, Dottie intercepts her and botches Peg's escape, causing her to be captured by the SSR.
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* GenreSavvy: Agent Thompson realizes that Peggy can easily take out the team sent into the automat, since he just fought with her in Russia. He waits for her at the alley exit, but [[spoiler:unfortunately unfortunately for him, she takes him out as well.]]
* LookBothWays: Ivchenko hypnotizes Agent "Ricky" to get intel about the Stark tech, then has him go to his favorite bar, order a glass of finest bourbon, enjoy it as the best ever, then walk into traffic.
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** Doubles as a KickTheDog, Ivchenko hypnotizes Agent "Ricky" to get Intel about the Stark tech, then has him go to his favorite bar, order a glass of finest bourbon, enjoy it as the best ever, [[spoiler:then walk into traffic.]]
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** Doubles as a KickTheDog, Ivchenko hypnotizes Agent "Ricky" to get Intel about the Stark tech, then has him go to his favorite bar, order a glass of finest bourbon, enjoy it as the best ever, [[spoiler:then walk into traffic.]]
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* GenreSaavy: Jack realizes that Peggy can easily take out the team sent into the automat, since he just fought with her in Russia. He waits for her at the alley exit, but [[spoiler:unfortunately for him, she takes him out as well.]]
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* GenreSaavy: Jack GenreSavvy: Agent Thompson realizes that Peggy can easily take out the team sent into the automat, since he just fought with her in Russia. He waits for her at the alley exit, but [[spoiler:unfortunately for him, she takes him out as well.]]
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* GenreSaavy: Jack realizes that Peggy can easily take out the team sent into the automat, since he just fought with her in Russia. He waits for her at the alley exit, but [[spoiler:unfortunately for him, she takes him out as well.]]
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Dottie uses Peggy's knockout lipstick against her.
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-->'''Dooley:''' You're telling me one woman took out an entire team of highly trained government agents?
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-->'''Peggy:''' We're gonna need a list of all of the women Howard has dated in the past year.
-->'''Jarvis:''' There's not enough ink in the world for that.
-->'''Jarvis:''' There's not enough ink in the world for that.
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-->'''Peggy:''' We're gonna I need you to get me a list of all of the women that Howard has dated entertained in the past last year.
-->'''Jarvis:'''There's not I don’t think there’s enough ink in the world for that.whole of New York to complete that request.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Throughout the season, Peggy has been trying to gain the respect of her male colleagues, to get them to treat her as an equal. At the end of the episode, where they now know she's a OneWomanArmy, but also think she's a dangerous criminal in league with a traitor, having her handcuffed to a desk, about to be interrogated by Thompson and Sousa, Dooley's last instructions to them are, "Don't go easy on her because she's a woman." And we already know, "Don't go easy" can include the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique.
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* ShoutOut: Angie performs a monologue from ''Theatre/ADollsHouse'' in the café.
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* ShoutOut: Angie performs a monologue from ''Theatre/ADollsHouse'' in the café.diner.
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In cahoots, not in cohorts. A cohort is the ancient Roman regiment equivalent..
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* BaitAndSwitch: Dottie secures a room on the other side of the street from the SSR headquarters, and points a rifle right at Chief Dooley's window. At that same moment, Ivchenko opens the window while chatting with Dooley, and it appears Dottie is about to snipe him for leaking Leviathan intel. But instead she starts flashing a light to let him know she's there, and Ivchenko secretly hand-signs to her to give her further instructions, revealing they're in cohorts.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Dottie secures a room on the other side of the street from the SSR headquarters, and points a rifle right at Chief Dooley's window. At that same moment, Ivchenko opens the window while chatting with Dooley, and it appears Dottie is about to snipe him for leaking Leviathan intel. But instead she starts flashing a light to let him know she's there, and Ivchenko secretly hand-signs to her to give her further instructions, revealing they're in cohorts.cahoots.
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* PetTheDog: Dooley takes Peggy aside to chastise her for hijacking his interrogation of Ivchenko, to which Peggy protests by explaining her theory about Leviathan. After hearing it, Dooley softens and orders to to keep investigating that theory. It surprises Peggy entirely to hear him suddenly encourage her ideas.
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* PetTheDog: Dooley takes Peggy aside to chastise her for hijacking his interrogation of Ivchenko, to which Peggy protests by explaining her theory about Leviathan. After hearing it, Dooley softens and orders to her to keep investigating that theory. It surprises Peggy entirely to hear him suddenly encourage her ideas.
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* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Jarvis and Peggy investigating several of Stark's ex-girlfriends, most of whom Jarvis had to expel personally.
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* ThePornomancer: Tons of jokes abound about Howard Stark's extreme playboy antics.
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* ThePornomancer: ReallyGetsAround: Tons of jokes abound about Howard Stark's [[ThePornomancer extreme playboy antics.antics]].
-->'''Peggy:''' We're gonna need a list of all of the women Howard has dated in the past year.
-->'''Jarvis:''' There's not enough ink in the world for that.
-->'''Peggy:''' Okay, fine! Then, all of the women from the past six months?
-->'''Jarvis:''' Sounds good. Let's start with the Western hemisphere.
-->'''Peggy:''' ''(sighs)''
-->'''Peggy:''' We're gonna need a list of all of the women Howard has dated in the past year.
-->'''Jarvis:''' There's not enough ink in the world for that.
-->'''Peggy:''' Okay, fine! Then, all of the women from the past six months?
-->'''Jarvis:''' Sounds good. Let's start with the Western hemisphere.
-->'''Peggy:''' ''(sighs)''
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* ScarsAreForever: Peggy figures the FemmeFatale that ruined Howard Stark would have scars on her wrist from handcuffing herself to bed like Black Widows do. It's only just before she falls unconscious at Dottie's hands that she realizes her neighbor is the one with the scars.
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* ScarsAreForever: Peggy figures the FemmeFatale that ruined Howard Stark would have scars on her wrist from handcuffing herself to bed like Black Widows do. It's only just before she falls unconscious at Dottie's hands that she realizes discovers her neighbor is the one with the scars.
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* ButtMonkey: Jarvis is very reluctant to accompany Peggy in questioning Stark's ex-girlfriends, as he was the one sent to escort them away. Sure enough, most of them slap, punch, and kick him upon seeing him again.
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* ScarsAreForever: Peggy figures the FemmeFatale that ruined Howard Stark would have scars on her wrist from handcuffing herself to bed like Black Widows do. It's only just before she falls unconscious at Dottie's hands that she realizes her neighbor is the one with the scars.
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* ThePornomancer: Tons of jokes abound about Howard Stark's extreme playboy antics.
** Peggy receives a list from a jeweler of all the woman Howard Stark has bought bracelets for in the last six months. Jarvis comments that the list looks shorter than he expected, but it still looks to be more than three pages long.
** The duo investigate his past flames who live in New York, with Jarvis expressing relief that they won't have to travel so far as to inquire his more distant "exotic" playmates.
** An entire montage plays of angry ex-girlfriends of Howard Stark.
** Peggy receives a list from a jeweler of all the woman Howard Stark has bought bracelets for in the last six months. Jarvis comments that the list looks shorter than he expected, but it still looks to be more than three pages long.
** The duo investigate his past flames who live in New York, with Jarvis expressing relief that they won't have to travel so far as to inquire his more distant "exotic" playmates.
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While Peggy's search for Howard's thieves continue, the SSR finds damning evidence linking Carter herself to their investigation. Likewise, Leviathan agents make their move against her and the SSR.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Dottie secures a room on the other side of the street from the SSR headquarters, and points a rifle right at Chief Dooley's window. At that same moment, Ivchenko opens the window while chatting with Dooley, and it appears Dottie is about to snipe him for leaking Leviathan intel. But instead she starts flashing a light to let him know she's there, and Ivchenko secretly hand-signs to her to give her further instructions, revealing they're in cohorts.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Subverted. When going through the list of Howard Stark's most recent girlfriends, Peggy crosses out the most famous names out of doubt that they could really be undercover Leviathan assassins. Jarvis responds that the look he saw in Creator/GingerRogers's eyes as she left [[DeathGlare looked pretty murderous to him]].
* TheBusCameBack: After being arrested at the end of Episode 2, Sheldon [=McFee=] returns to be interrogated by Sousa. He's been in jail in the time in between.
* FemmeFatale: Dottie turns out to have posed as one, in order to seduce secret intel out of Howard Stark.
* HypnoPendulum: Ivchenko rubs the ring on his right hand while hypnotizing subjects.
* KissOfDeath: In the previous episode, Dottie stole Peggy's "Sweet Dreams" knockout lipstick. Here she encounters her coming down the hallway, and [[LesYay gives her a big kiss on the lips]] to knock her out so she can kill her.
* TheMole: Ivchenko turns out to be a willing agent of Leviathan, not a ReluctantMadScientist as he claimed. By casually gaining trust from Chief Dooley, he's ready to strike for Leviathan from within.
* OneWomanArmy: Peggy is attacked in L&L's Automat by numerous SSR agents, which she gives all gives a pretty through beating. Dooley is incredulous to hear she kicked the stuffing out of all of them.
* PetTheDog: Dooley takes Peggy aside to chastise her for hijacking his interrogation of Ivchenko, to which Peggy protests by explaining her theory about Leviathan. After hearing it, Dooley softens and orders to to keep investigating that theory. It surprises Peggy entirely to hear him suddenly encourage her ideas.
* [[invoked]]SheReallyCanAct: In-universe. We first see Angie practicing for an audition, but her line reading is fairly stiff. When she needs to distract the SSR, though, Angie wills herself to turn out the waterworks and burst into tears over a fake anecdote about her grandma, making the agents too uncomfortable to keep questioning her. Peggy overhears it, and encourages her to keep trying out for theater after that.
* WomanScorned: Suspecting that Howard might have had his intel compromised thanks to a FemmeFatale, Peggy and Jarvis go about inquiring his most recent girlfriends. Cue a montage of all of them slapping Jarvis upon recognizing him.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Dottie secures a room on the other side of the street from the SSR headquarters, and points a rifle right at Chief Dooley's window. At that same moment, Ivchenko opens the window while chatting with Dooley, and it appears Dottie is about to snipe him for leaking Leviathan intel. But instead she starts flashing a light to let him know she's there, and Ivchenko secretly hand-signs to her to give her further instructions, revealing they're in cohorts.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Subverted. When going through the list of Howard Stark's most recent girlfriends, Peggy crosses out the most famous names out of doubt that they could really be undercover Leviathan assassins. Jarvis responds that the look he saw in Creator/GingerRogers's eyes as she left [[DeathGlare looked pretty murderous to him]].
* TheBusCameBack: After being arrested at the end of Episode 2, Sheldon [=McFee=] returns to be interrogated by Sousa. He's been in jail in the time in between.
* FemmeFatale: Dottie turns out to have posed as one, in order to seduce secret intel out of Howard Stark.
* HypnoPendulum: Ivchenko rubs the ring on his right hand while hypnotizing subjects.
* KissOfDeath: In the previous episode, Dottie stole Peggy's "Sweet Dreams" knockout lipstick. Here she encounters her coming down the hallway, and [[LesYay gives her a big kiss on the lips]] to knock her out so she can kill her.
* TheMole: Ivchenko turns out to be a willing agent of Leviathan, not a ReluctantMadScientist as he claimed. By casually gaining trust from Chief Dooley, he's ready to strike for Leviathan from within.
* OneWomanArmy: Peggy is attacked in L&L's Automat by numerous SSR agents, which she gives all gives a pretty through beating. Dooley is incredulous to hear she kicked the stuffing out of all of them.
* PetTheDog: Dooley takes Peggy aside to chastise her for hijacking his interrogation of Ivchenko, to which Peggy protests by explaining her theory about Leviathan. After hearing it, Dooley softens and orders to to keep investigating that theory. It surprises Peggy entirely to hear him suddenly encourage her ideas.
* [[invoked]]SheReallyCanAct: In-universe. We first see Angie practicing for an audition, but her line reading is fairly stiff. When she needs to distract the SSR, though, Angie wills herself to turn out the waterworks and burst into tears over a fake anecdote about her grandma, making the agents too uncomfortable to keep questioning her. Peggy overhears it, and encourages her to keep trying out for theater after that.
* WomanScorned: Suspecting that Howard might have had his intel compromised thanks to a FemmeFatale, Peggy and Jarvis go about inquiring his most recent girlfriends. Cue a montage of all of them slapping Jarvis upon recognizing him.
