History Recap / AgentsOfSHIELDS3E13PartingShot

* AbsenteeActor: Creator/LukeMitchell and Creator/BrettDalton do not appear, though both of their characters are mentioned.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Bobbi impersonates a Russian soldier after taking his uniform, though she stands out as she appears to be the ''only'' female soldier in the group.

** Hunter doesn't bother convincing his interrogator of his innocence.

* HowWeGotHere: The episode opens with Bobbi and Hunter being interrogated by Russian officials, and the episode as a whole explains what they were doing that got them arrested.

* AbsenteeActor: Luke Mitchell and Brett Dalton do not appear, though both of their characters are mentioned.

* GratuitousRussian: Plenty of example, but the keyboard and the code on the screen really take the cake. Daisy has no idea how to read it.

* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: May gives one to Hunter since he tends to make his friends and family a greater priority than S.H.I.E.L.D missions or "the greater good". Hunter turns this around on her by telling her that he pities her for having such a philosophy.

* DownerEnding: Bobbi and Hunter prevent Malick from executing a coup in Russia, but in order to keep US–Russian relations from falling apart, they have to let themselves be disavowed.

* ChekovsGun: Coulson points out that two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents assassinating Malick in the middle of a Russian military outpost would be an act of war. They don't kill Malick, but three Russian officials wind up dead, two of them at their hands, and it takes a backroom political deal that costs Bobbi and Hunter their careers to prevent it from being treated as an act of war.

** While most reviews/recaps consider it a shout out, when Bobbi calls Daisy "sestra", she's actually calling Daisy her sister, as sestra is Russian for sister.

!!Tropes in this episode:

* BilingualBonus: When Bobbi says what the subtitles translate as "a little slow" in Russian, the actual word she uses is "asses" (as in the animal).

** Hunter claims that he and Bobbi have never once had a real vacation, as opposed to time spent together that overlapped with a mission--including their honeymoon. At the end of the episode, now that they're out of the spy business, they are seen trying to plan an actual vacation.

* ExactWords: Used multiple times by Bobbi and Hunter to avoid telling the truth. Examples are the mushroom picking, which Hunter genuinely does, the fact that SHIELD was dismantled, etc.

* IncrediblyObviousTail: Hunter and Bobbi have no problem identifying the intelligence agent who is monitoring them--the only clean-cut guy dressed in a business suit in the bar--but given that he makes absolutely no attempt at disguising himself and is pretty blatantly observing them, it's likely that his presence is more a reminder to them that they are out of the game and will be watched.

* MythologyGag:
** The Inhuman of the Week is named General Androvich. On Earth-616, Simas Androvich is the name of a Russian mutant called Iron Curtain, though this Androvich doesn't have the same powers.

* BilingualBonus: When Bobby says what the subtitles translate as "a little slow" in Russian, the actual word she uses is "asses" (as in the animal).

** The Prime Minister is obviously aware that Hunter and Bobby ''are'' part of S.H.I.E.L.D., and neither the president nor Coulson have a believable way to convince him otherwise.

** At the beginning, Bobby says what kind of cheeseburger she wants. Toward the end, Hunter tells her she could probably use a cheeseburger now.

* HiddenDepths: Hunter gets three. Firstly, its becoming apparent that, in spite of his own loose morals, he's growing increasingly wary of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s more morally grey actions (working with Ward back in Season 2, running a mission with Carl Creel/The Absorbing Man, and merely spying on Malick rather than taking him out). Secondly, he knows a surprising amount about mushrooms and mushroom soup; he uses it as apparent BlatantLies to the Interpol investigator, but evidently ''does'' actually make pretty good soup and names an obscure mushroom only grown in the specific area they ran the mission. Thirdly, he's apparently somewhat of an environmentalist, as he recommends an environmental documentary about the Amazon to [=FitzSimmons=].

** Hunter doesn't even seem to try to convince his interrogator of his innocence.
** The Prime Minister is obviously aware that Hunter and Bobby ''are'' part of S.H.I.E.L.D., and neither the president nor Coulson really have a believable way to convince him otherwise.

* ExactWords: Used multiple times by Bobbi and Hunter to avoid telling the truth. Notably, S.H.I.E.L.D. is no longer a US Government agency.

* GratuitousRussian: Plenty of example, but the keyboard and the code on the screen really take the cake.