History Recap / AgentCarterS1E8Valediction

* FakeUltimateHero: While everyone in the SSR knows who really saved the day, the government decides to award all the credit to Agent Thompson, who, while the seniormost agent present, contributed the least to stopping Fennhoff's plan.

* HatePlague: Item 17 / Midnight Oil. Sousa accidentally gets a faceful of some left in a canister, and tries to kill Thompson before being held down long enough to come back to his senses. It eventually turns out that Dr. Fennhoff's plan is to drop a payload full of the gas into Times Square on the anniversary celebration of V-E Day, resulting in the slaughter of much of the population of New York.

* IgnoredEpiphany: In episode 5, Jack Thompson admits being ashamed of being rewarded for heroics he didn't perform, and starts recognizing Peggy's achievements more. At the end of this episode he's being lavishly praised for his supposed heroics on this case, considers telling them it was really Peggy's heroics... and says nothing, letting himself still take all the credit. Sousza is ''not'' impressed by this.

** Dottie has fled and no-one knows where she's gone.

* IdiotBall: Seriously, who thought putting Fennhoff in a cell with Zola was a good idea?
* IgnoredEpiphany: In episode 5, Jack Thompson admits being ashamed of being rewarded for heroics he didn't perform, and starts recognizing Peggy's achievements more. At the end of this episode he's being lavishly praised for his supposed heroics on this case, considers telling them it was really Peggy's heroics... and says nothing, letting himself still take all the credit.

* NeverFoundTheBody: Peggy knocks Dottie out a window onto the wing of a plane in what appears to be a DisneyVillainDeath. But after she's finished talking Stark down and heads back down to the hangar, Dottie's body is missing.

* VillainTeamUp: Zola proposes collaboration to Fenhoff

* AdultFear: In the midst of the carnage in the theater, Sousa spots an overturned stroller.

* UnexpectedCharacter: Arnim Zola's appearance was certainly unexpected.

* {{Futureshadowing}}: The final scene shows where the [[Series/AgentsOfSHIELD future Hydra]] will get its brainwashing "Faustus method" from.

* GoneHorriblyWrong: Midnight Oil was created by Stark to keep soldiers awake for days [[TheSleepless without needing sleep]]. Once created, staying awake became the least of patients' problems. Several tanks were stolen during a raid of one of Stark's labs, and then intentionally released...on the allied Russians, which led to the massacre at Finow.

** Dottie has fled and no one knows where she's gone.

* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Brother]]: Fennhoff's brother died horrifically at Finow, leading him to seek revenge against Stark for inventing Midnight Oil.

* {{Futureshadowing}}: The final scene shows where the future Hydra will get its "Faustus method" brainwashing method from.

* MyGreatestFailure: It turns out that Stark's greatest regret is not finding Steve Rogers after the ''Valkyrie'' went down in the Arctic. Fennhoff hypnotizes him into believing he's flying to Steve's location when he's really flying straight to Times Square carrying a cargo hold full of Midnight Oil gas.

** Fennhoff himself thinks he's outwitted both Thompson and Sousa, by knocking out the first agent and then compelling Sousa to drop him from gunpoint and killing Thompson instead. At first it seems it's working, only for Sousa to promptly knock Fennhoff down; he hadn't even heard the doctor's speech thanks to earplugs.

* DestinationDefenestration: At the end of their fight, Peggy kicks Dottie out of the window of the hanger's radio room.

* IdiotBall: Seriously, who thought putting Fennhoff in a cell with Zola was good idea?

* NeverFoundTheBody: Peggy knocks Dottie out a window onto the wing of a plane in what appears to be a DisneyVillainDeath. But after she's finished talking Stark down and heads back down to the hanger, Dottie's body is missing.

** Unless HYDRA is already in its early stages, with sympathetic agents working behind the scenes, and the choice of cellmates was entirely deliberate!

* IgnoredEpiphany: In episode 5, Jack Thompson admits being ashamed of being rewarded for heroics he didn't perform, and starts recognizing Peggy's achievements more. At the end of this episode he's being lavishly praised for his supposed heroics on this case, considers telling them it's was really Peggy's heroics... and says nothing, letting himself still take all the credit.

* GeneralRipper: The unseen General [=McGinnis=]. He ordered a raid on Stark's lab and stole Midnight Oil even though he knew it wasn't ready to be used on human soldiers.

* BrickJoke: After a long string of incorrect guesses, Howard finally remembers that "Dottie" was calling herself "Ida" during their one-night stand... well after that information was worth anything.

* IgnoredEpiphany: In episode 5, Jack Thompson admits being ashamed of being rewarded for heroics he didn't perform, and starts recognizing Peggy's achievements more. At the end of this episode he's being lavishly praised for his supposed heroics on this case, mentally considers telling them it's was really Peggy's heroics... and says nothing, letting himself still take all the credit.