History Recap / AgentsOfSHIELDS1E20NothingPersonal

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Deathlok nearly killing Ward with the heart attack-inducing device.

** Also the tone given over [[BerserkButton his shooting Lola]].

** Aside from many pulled by Skye on Ward, there's also the tone Deathlok gives when he tells Ward what he does is JustFollowingOrders, [[NotSoDifferent just like him]].

** This doubles as a ContinuityNod to a similar question from Romanoff to Pierce in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''.

** "FZZT" establishes that there's an alert to the cockpit's display screens when the cargo bay ramp is lowered in mid-flight, which is how Ward knew Simmons intended to jump to her death and was able to save her in that episode, an event he later identifies as securing the team's trust in him. In this episode, the same alert is what clues the now-villainous Ward in to the fact that Coulson is on the plane rescuing Skye, though fortunately for them on this occasion he arrives too late. The shot of Skye struggling to put on a parachute before Coulson stops her is also reminiscent of the exchange between Fitz and Ward from the scene in the earlier episode.

** Just before Hill departs, Coulson starts to tell her "Tell Stark I said hi," before catching himself, and remembering that Stark thinks he's dead.

** When Skye delivers her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Ward in the diner, she concludes "I'm just trying to have an honest conversation for once" -- which is word-for-word what Ward said to her in "Turn, Turn, Turn" when he wanted to [[VillainousCrush discuss his feelings with her]].

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: A bullet-ridden, flying, smoking Corvette drops out of the sky and lands on the curb in front of the Nokia Live theater, and the only person who reacts to it is the oblivious parking attendant stationed there, who tells Coulson that parking there costs $20. Which Coulson then pays.

:: This doubles as a ContinuityNod to a similar question from Romanoff to Pierce in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''.

:::This doubles as a ContinuityNod to a similar question from Romanoff to Pierce in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''.

:: This doubles as a ContinuityNod to a similar question from Romanoff to Pierce in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''.

-->'''Skye:''' (''watching Ward have an induced heart failure'') He's a murderer.\\

** This doubles as a CallBack to a similar question from Romanoff to Pierce in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''.

** Maria Hill says that with Stark Industries, they're working on [[Film/IronMan2 privatizing world peace.]]

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Garrett accurately predicts that Skye wouldn't let Ward die to protect the information on the hard drive, even knowing that he was never on their side.

* WhamLine: One after another, courtesy of the recording.
-->'''Coulson:''' Huh!

:: This doubles as a CallBack to a similar question from Romanoff to Pierce in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''.

* CryForTheDevil: When Skye tells Ward she'll ''never'' give him what he wants and turns away, he looks genuinely heartbroken.

* InternalHomage: Just as in the pilot, someone needs Skye's. Realizing that threatening her directly isn't going to work, they instead use their technique on Ward, despite him being their nominal ally. The difference is, Coulson's interrogation technique involves a (presumably faked) truth serum; Garrett's involves causing heart attacks.