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* AbsenteeActor: Brett Dalton is absent for the fifth episode this season (and the third consecutive one).
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Karla is able to slice a guard's throat with a swipe of her razor nails, which it should be noted aren't made of any special material.

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* AGlassInTheHand: Cal crushes a coffee mug as he rants about losing his daughter.


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* AGlassInTheHand: Cal crushes a coffee mug as he rants about losing his daughter.
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* HeroicRROD: The method that Skye developed to control her powers didn't so much shut them down as it did focus them internally. She ends up with hairline fractures from her hands all the way up to her clavicles and ruptured capillaries in her arms.

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* HeroicRROD: The method that Skye developed to control her powers didn't so much shut them down as it did focus them internally. She When she loses control at the stadium and focuses on her hands, she ends up with hairline fractures from all along her hands all the way arms and up to her clavicles and clavicles, along with numerous ruptured capillaries in her arms.capillaries.



** The braces on Skye's arms after she wrecks them to control her powers resemble Quake's gauntlets.

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** The braces on Skye's arms Skye wears after she wrecks them to control damaging her powers arms resemble Quake's gauntlets.
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'''Mack''': S.H.I.E.L.D. The real S.H.I.E.L.D.

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'''Mack''': S.H.I.E.L.D. The real ''real'' S.H.I.E.L.D.

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* CatFight: Karla vs. Morse. Karla has [[FemmeFatalons razors on her fingers,]] but Morse knows [[KickChick how to fight like a woman,]] so it's no real surprise that she wins.



* DesignatedGirlFight: Bobbi and Karla end up squaring off in a locker room.



** Mack and Bobbi are revealed to be working for "the real S.H.I.E.L.D.," who will be a big player in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''.

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** Mack and Bobbi are revealed to be working for "the real S.H.I.E.L.D.," who will who'll be a big player in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''.



* GenreSavvy: Cal doesn't buy May's threat to shoot Skye. After all the time they spent raising her, they wouldn't turn on her just like that.

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* GenreSavvy: Cal doesn't buy May's threat to shoot Skye. After Skye, knowing that after all the time they spent raising her, they wouldn't turn on her just like that.



* TitleDrop: in the short conversation between Gordon and Cal at the end of the episode

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* TitleDrop: in In the short conversation between Gordon and Cal at the end of the episodeepisode:

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Mack and Bobbi are revealed to be working for "the real SHIELD," who will be a big player in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: {{Foreshadowing}}:
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Mack and Bobbi are revealed to be working for "the real SHIELD," S.H.I.E.L.D.," who will be a big player in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''.



* ForgotAboutHisPowers: With just a word, Angar could have stopped the final battle cold in its tracks, since no one was wearing any ear protection. Lucky he didn't say an word while Coulson was taking him down.
* HeroicRROD: The method that Skye developed to control her powers didn't so much shut them down as it did focus them internally. She ended up with hairline fractures from her hands all the way up to her clavicles and ruptured capillaries in her arms.

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* ForgotAboutHisPowers: With just a word, Angar could have stopped the final battle cold in its tracks, since no one was wearing any ear protection. Lucky he didn't say an word while Coulson was taking does punch him down.
in the throat at the first opportunity, but that still required Angar to let Coulson get that close in the first place.
* GenreSavvy: Cal doesn't buy May's threat to shoot Skye. After all the time they spent raising her, they wouldn't turn on her just like that.
* HeroicRROD: The method that Skye developed to control her powers didn't so much shut them down as it did focus them internally. She ended ends up with hairline fractures from her hands all the way up to her clavicles and ruptured capillaries in her arms.

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* ContinuityNod: Dr. Gardner works at Culver University, the same college that [[Film/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner and Betty Ross]] once worked at.



** Dr. Gardner works at Culver University, the same college that [[Film/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner and Betty Ross]] once worked at.
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** The braces on Skye's arms after she wrecks them to control her powers resemble Quake's gauntlets.
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* CatFight: Karla vs. Morse. Karla has [[FemmeFatalons razors on her fingers,]] but Morse knows [[KickChick how to fight like a woman,]] so it's no real surprise that she wins.

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* AGlassInTheHand: Cal crushes a coffee mug as he rants about losing his daughter.



* AGlassInTheHand: Cal crushes a coffee mug as he rants about losing his daughter.

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* AGlassInTheHand: Cal crushes ForgotAboutHisPowers: With just a coffee mug as word, Angar could have stopped the final battle cold in its tracks, since no one was wearing any ear protection. Lucky he rants about losing his daughter.didn't say an word while Coulson was taking him down.
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* TitleDrop: in the short conversation between Gordon and Cal at the end of the episode
-->'''Gordon''': You're a science experiment. You're not one of us.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Mack and Bobbi are revealed to be working for "the real SHIELD," who will be a big player in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''.
** Simmons suggests the word "Gifted" has become obsolete, and they need a new term for people like Skye with natural-born abilities. Fitz had already called her heartbeat "Inhuman."

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* BrownNote: Angar's voice induces instant catatonia.

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* BrownNote: Angar's voice induces instant catatonia.catatonia, not only in humans but seemingly any living thing that can hear it. He drops a flock of birds in addition to the high school students he was using it on.
* DumbMuscle: Francis Noche. He used special steroids to give himself super strength, but as a consequence his intelligence was affected.



* NotMeThisTime: During one of her sessions with Gardner, the Bus starts shaking and he assumes her to be responsible. Skye is sure this isn't her powers doing this; it's the Bus taking off.

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* NotMeThisTime: During one of her Skye's sessions with Gardner, the Bus starts shaking and he assumes her to be responsible. Skye is sure this isn't her powers doing this; it's the Bus taking off.

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* FemmeFatalons: Karla grafted razor blades to her fingers.
* AGlassInTheHand: Cal crushes a coffee mug as he rants about losing his daughter.



* NotHelpingYourCase: For all of Cal's rhetoric on how unfairly S.H.I.E.L.D. treats the gifted, the people he recruited (All people who had deliberately used their powers to commit crimes, most of them violent ones) are pretty much the reason ''why'' S.H.I.E.L.D. felt the need to monitor and control gifted people so closely.

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* NotHelpingYourCase: For all of Cal's rhetoric on how unfairly S.H.I.E.L.D. treats the gifted, the people he recruited (All (all people who had deliberately used their powers to commit crimes, most of them violent ones) are pretty much the reason ''why'' S.H.I.E.L.D. felt the need to monitor and control gifted people so closely.closely.
* NotMeThisTime: During one of her sessions with Gardner, the Bus starts shaking and he assumes her to be responsible. Skye is sure this isn't her powers doing this; it's the Bus taking off.
* PsychoSerum: The source of Cal's powers.



** Mack and Bobbi are working for a different, previously unknown faction of S.H.I.E.L.D which considers itself to be the ''real'' S.H.I.E.L.D.

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** Mack and Bobbi are working for a different, previously unknown faction of S.H.I.E.L.D D. which considers itself to be the ''real'' S.H.I.E.L.D.



* VolumetricMouth: Angar's jaw can unhinge, allowing him to stretch his mouth far wider than a normal human's.



'''Mack''': SHIELD. The real SHIELD.

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'''Mack''': SHIELD. S.H.I.E.L.D. The real SHIELD.S.H.I.E.L.D.
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** Coulson's pre-S.H.I.E.L.D. past: His father was a science teacher and high school football coach from Wisconsin.
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* HeroicRROD: The method that Skye developed to control her powers didn't so much shut them down as it did focus them internally. She ended up vibrating her arms until her bones shattered and capillaries ruptured.

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* HeroicRROD: The method that Skye developed to control her powers didn't so much shut them down as it did focus them internally. She ended up vibrating with hairline fractures from her arms until hands all the way up to her bones shattered clavicles and ruptured capillaries ruptured.in her arms.

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* BigDamnHeroes: Gordon teleports in and abducts Cal.
* BodyHorror: Karla's fingers with the razor blade grafts and Angar's mouth that has been covered for ''years'' and has an unnaturally hinged jaw.

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* BigDamnHeroes: Gordon teleports in and abducts Cal.
Cal, thus allowing Coulson's team to deal with the other superhumans.
* BodyHorror: Karla's fingers with the razor blade grafts blades grafted to them and Angar's mouth that has that's been covered for ''years'' and has an unnaturally hinged jaw.



* TheMasquerade: Gordon shows up to kidnap Cal, because his crusade against S.H.I.E.L.D. carried the risk of exposing his society or group of superhumans attempting to live in secret.

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* TheMasquerade: Gordon shows up to kidnap Cal, Cal because his crusade against S.H.I.E.L.D. carried the risk of exposing his society or group society/group of superhumans attempting to live in secret.


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* TheSlowWalk: May does one before her fight with Francis.
* VillainsOutShopping: Cal and his group of superhumans stop for breakfast at a diner during their road trip.
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* SeriousBusiness: Simmons claims that the main reason that she's so upset about Fitz hiding Skye's secret was because he falsified research data to do so.

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* SeriousBusiness: Simmons claims that the main reason that she's so upset about Fitz hiding Skye's secret was because he falsified research data to do so.so.
* WhamLine:
-->'''Hunter''': Who are you working for?\\
'''Mack''': SHIELD. The real SHIELD.
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* HeroicRROD: The method that Skye developed to control her powers didn't so much shut them down as it did focus them internally. She ended up vibrating one of her arms until the bones in it started to shatter.

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* HeroicRROD: The method that Skye developed to control her powers didn't so much shut them down as it did focus them internally. She ended up vibrating one of her arms until the her bones in it started to shatter.shattered and capillaries ruptured.
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* NotHelpingYourCase: For all of Cal's rhetoric on how unfairly S.H.I.E.L.D. treats the gifted, the people he recruited are pretty much the reason ''why'' S.H.I.E.L.D. felt the need to monitor and control gifted people so closely.

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* NotHelpingYourCase: For all of Cal's rhetoric on how unfairly S.H.I.E.L.D. treats the gifted, the people he recruited (All people who had deliberately used their powers to commit crimes, most of them violent ones) are pretty much the reason ''why'' S.H.I.E.L.D. felt the need to monitor and control gifted people so closely.
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** Dr. Gardner works at Culver University, the same college that Bruce Banner and Betty Ross once worked at.

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** Dr. Gardner works at Culver University, the same college that [[Film/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner and Betty Ross Ross]] once worked at.
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** Mack and Bobbi are working for a different, previously unknown faction of S.H.I.E.L.D which considers itself to be the ''real' S.H.I.E.L.D.

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** Mack and Bobbi are working for a different, previously unknown faction of S.H.I.E.L.D which considers itself to be the ''real' ''real'' S.H.I.E.L.D.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: For all of Cal's rhetoric on how unfairly S.H.I.E.L.D. treats the gifted, the people he recruited are pretty much the reason ''why'' S.H.I.E.L.D. felt the need to monitor and control gifted people so closely.



* TheReveal:

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* TheReveal:NotHelpingYourCase: For all of Cal's rhetoric on how unfairly S.H.I.E.L.D. treats the gifted, the people he recruited are pretty much the reason ''why'' S.H.I.E.L.D. felt the need to monitor and control gifted people so closely.
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** Mack and Bobbi are working for a different, previously unknown faction of S.H.I.E.L.D.

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** Mack and Bobbi are working for a different, previously unknown faction of S.H.I.E.L.D which considers itself to be the ''real' S.H.I.E.L.D.
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* AmicableExes: May and Gardner.
* BigDamnHeroes: Gordon teleports in and abducts Cal.
* BodyHorror: Karla's fingers with the razor blade grafts and Angar's mouth that has been covered for ''years'' and has an unnaturally hinged jaw.
* BrownNote: Angar's voice induces instant catatonia.


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* LethalChef: May, according to Gardner.
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** Cal experimented on himself to try to make himself stronger so he could take on the people who killed his wife. His unstable personality was a side-effect.
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* SeriousBusiness: The main reason Simmons is so upset about Fitz hiding Skye's secret was because he falsified research data to do so.

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* SeriousBusiness: The Simmons claims that the main reason Simmons is that she's so upset about Fitz hiding Skye's secret was because he falsified research data to do so.
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** Mack and Bobbi are working for a different, previously unknown faction of S.H.I.E.L.D.

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** Mack and Bobbi are working for a different, previously unknown faction of S.H.I.E.L.D.D.
* SeriousBusiness: The main reason Simmons is so upset about Fitz hiding Skye's secret was because he falsified research data to do so.

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* HeroicRROD: The method that Skye developed to control her powers didn't so much shut them down as it did focus them internally. She ended up vibrating one of her arms until the bones in it started to shatter.
* JerkassHasAPoint: For all of Cal's rhetoric on how unfairly S.H.I.E.L.D. treats the gifted, the people he recruited are pretty much the reason ''why'' S.H.I.E.L.D. felt the need to monitor and control gifted people so closely.



* MythologyGag: Karla Faye Gideon appeared in Daredevil as a woman who lied to protect her abusive husband from Daredevil.

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* MythologyGag: MythologyGag:
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Karla Faye Gideon appeared in Daredevil as a woman who lied to protect her abusive husband from Daredevil.Daredevil.
** Dr. Gardner works at Culver University, the same college that Bruce Banner and Betty Ross once worked at.
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** Coulson's pre-S.H.I.E.L.D. past: His father was a science teacher and high school football coach from Wisconsin.
** Mack and Bobbi are working for a different, previously unknown faction of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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Cal assembles a team of people from the S.H.I.E.L.D. Index to send a message to the world and to Coulson. Skye gets a psychological evaluation from Dr. Gardner, May's ex-husband. Hunter discovers more about Bobbi and Mack's secret.

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!!Tropes in this episode include:

*TheMasquerade: Gordon shows up to kidnap Cal, because his crusade against S.H.I.E.L.D. carried the risk of exposing his society or group of superhumans attempting to live in secret.
*MythologyGag: Karla Faye Gideon appeared in Daredevil as a woman who lied to protect her abusive husband from Daredevil.

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