History Recap / AgentCarterS1E8Valediction

* LackOfEmpathy: Nothing better illustrates this of Fenhoff than when he's hypnotizing Howard Stark. Fenhoff can tell that Stark, the object of Fenhoff's hatred and revenge, does feel genuine, sincere remorse over what happened at Finow. It doesn't stop Fenhoff from carrying out his plan of hypnotizing Stark into committing an even worse atrocity in New York.

* LackOfEmpathy

* 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 and during a raid of one of Stark's labs, and then intentionally released...on the allied Russians, which led to the massacre at Finow.

* 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 and mistakenly released during a raid of one of Stark's labs, which led to the massacre at Finow.

* TheSleepless: Item 17 / Midnight Oil was ''supposed'' to enable people to function for days without sleep. Instead, it causes an amplified version of the [[HatePlague mental breakdowns]] caused by [[TheInsomniac prolonged lack of sleep]].

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

* IgnoredEpiphany: In episode 5, Jack Thompson admits being ashamed of being rewarded for heroics he didn't perform, and starts recognized 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.

* 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.

* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Brother]]: Fennhoff's brother died horrifically at Finow, leading him to seek revenge against Stark for inventing Midnight Oil (Strangely, the Doctor does not seem interested in tracking down the General responsible for Midnight Oil being used at Finow over Stark's objections).

* DueToTheDead: Peggy goes to the Brooklyn Bridge and [[spoiler:empties the last vial of Steve's blood into the water, both letting Steve go and bringing a small part of him back to his home]].

** Dr. Fennhoff is imprisoned and forcefully kept from speaking. But his prison roommate is [[spoiler: another talented supervillain, Dr. Arnim Zola]], [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier and we know what he ends up doing]].
* UnexpectedCharacter: [[spoiler: Arnim Zola's appearance]] was certainly unexpected.

** Dr. Fennhoff is imprisoned and forcefully kept from speaking. But his prison roommate is another talented supervillain, Dr. Arnim Zola, [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier and we know what he ends up doing]].

** Dr. Fennhoff was imprisoned and forcefully kept from speaking. But his prison roommate is another talented supervillain, Dr. Arnim Zola, [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier and we know what he ends up doing]].

* HatePlague: Item 17 / Midnight Oil, which was originally intended to keep soldiers awake for days without needing sleep. 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.

** Peggy is now respected by his coworkers, and may or may not go on a date with Sousa. Thompson has been promoted to Deputy Director.

* OutGambitted: Stark's plan to capture Leviathan is for the SSR to hold a press conference declaring his innocence in hopes of drawing the bad guys out. Sure enough, an assassination attempt occurs, but it turns out Leviathan wasn't even trying to kill him, instead luring him into a police car to capture him.

** Dr. Fennhoff was imprisoned and forcefully kept from speaking. But his prison roommate is another talented supervillain, Dr. Arnim Zola, [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier and we know what he ends up doing]].

* HatePlague: Item 17, which was originally intended to keep soldiers awake for days without needing sleep. 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.

* HatePlague: Item 17, which was originally intended to keep soldiers awake for days without needing sleep. 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 much of the population of New York.

* HatePlague: Item 17, which was originally intended to keep soldiers awake for days without needing sleep. Sousa accidentally gets 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 Dr. Fennhoff's plan to drop payload full of the gas into Times Square on the anniversary celebration of V-E Day, and so slaughter much of the population of New York.

* MyGreatestFailure: It turns out Stark's greatest regret is not finding Steve Rogers after his plane 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 deadly gas.

As Dr. Ivchenko and Dottie reach the endgame of their ultimate plan, Howard Stark makes a surprise return to help Peggy and the SSR avert disaster.

!! Tropes
* MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll: How [[spoiler:Arnim Zola]] likes to think of imprisonment in America. It is the land of opportunity after all...
* NeverFoundTheBody: Cut up and bleeding good from falling through plate glass and a high fall onto a solid metal plane wing, but Dottie still does the mysterious disappearing act villains are infamous for doing.
* SentryGun: A low-tech version is used as a distraction. Put up a mounted gun, aim it in the general direction of a target (but not actually hit them), have the gears set to operate the firing mechanism until empty and move the barrel slightly.
* WhatAnIdiot: Dealing with dangerous Stark Tech[[note]]that just recently killed his boss[[/note]] for a whole season and what does Sousa do? Pick up a mysterious canister with his bare hands and hold it near his face.

* WhatAnIdiot: Dealing with dangerous Stark Tech (that just recently killed his boss) for a whole season and what does Sousa do? Pick up a mysterious canister with his bare hands and hold it near his face.