History Recap / AgentsOfSHIELDS4E15SelfControl

** Also, when Yo-Yo asks LMD Mack what is wrong he answers that she is in danger, which is techincally very true.

** The one thing an LMD of an Inhuman can't duplicate is an Inhuman's power, so Daisy gives Jemma [[ImposterExposingTest a light quake]] to prove that she's real, and so that she can 'feel' Jemma's human skeleton.

** It seems at first that Daisy didn't have a LMD after the reveal that the fourth LMD wasn't her but Fitz, only to later be revealed that there's ''a whole fleet'' of Daisy [=LMDs=].

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Unlike [[TomatoInTheMirror LMD May]], the LMD's of Mack, Fitz, Jeffrey and Coulson know what they are, and the moment they drop the act they become ''scary''.

* BrainInAJar: Ivanov is reduced to a head in a jar controlling an LMD of himself remotely.

* EvilerThanThou: [[LadyMacbeth Aida]] finally decides to overthrow Radcliffe, as has been foreshadowed for a while now.

* Fanservice: Let's just say this is a very good episode for all the Daisy fans out there...

** The trick Daisy uses to confuse LMD Mack as to which of the duplicates is the real her is similar to the one used by Bruce Wayne to get the drop on Ducard during the League of Shadows test in ''Film/BatmanBegins''.

** Aida finding a LogicBomb in her programming and solves it via homicide is one to ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''.

*** Coulson is a schoolteacher writing on a chalkboard. He finishes writing and turns around, revealing it to say "Inhumans: Why we fear them."

* WoundedGazelleGambit: When Fitz cuts his wrist open to prove he's not an LMD, he winds up slicing an artery. When Jemma sweeps down to help stop the bleeding, he shows his true colors.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Unlike [[TomatoInTheMirror LMD!May]], the LMD's of Mack, Fitz, Jeffrey and Coulson know what they are, and the moment they drop the act they become ''scary''.

* BondVillainStupidity: If LMD!Fitz had restrained Jemma instead of counting on the sedatives, then the plan might have worked.

** LMD!Coulson regrets that the plan didn't work without bloodshed.

** Also, when Yo-Yo asks LMD!Mack what is wrong he answers that she is in danger, which is techincally very true.
* FailedASpotCheck: LMD!Fitz doesn't notice that he's walked under a suspended engine until Jemma hammers the winch holding it up and crushes him.

* MyGreatestFailure: According to LMD!Coulson, the real Coulson's biggest regret is signing up with S.H.I.E.L.D. in the first place, abandoning the chance of a normal life.

*** It can also be considered as the show's own meta-spin on Marvel's ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' series, [[spoiler: with the agents' different lives kickstarting the ''Agents of HYDRA'' arc]].

** Daisy emerging from the shadows to blast an unflinching LMD!Mace with a shotgun is extremely similar to Sarah Connor's final confrontation with the T-1000 in ''Terminator 2: Judgement Day'' (especially given the shout-outs to the Terminator films back at the start of the LMD arc)
* TokenGoodTeammate: LMD!May performs a HeroicSacrifice against LMD!Coulson.

* WorldGoneMad: The Framework is a world where HYDRA has taken over the world. And that's not even getting into the individual lives of Team Coulson.

* WorldGoneMad: The Framework is a world where HYRDA has taken over the world. And that's not even getting into the individual lives of Team Coulson.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Seems to be a theme of the Framework, as everyone hooked in is living a life without their greatest regret. With the exception of Mack living a normal life with Hope, it goes from the bizarre (Coulson as a teacher spreading Inhuman hate, Fitz rich but dating someone other than Jemma, Daisy is dating Ward) to the horrifying (May is a senior agent of HYRDA, and Jemma is dead).

* NominalImportance: Agent Prince gets a name for the first time; he and the other (surviving) named background agents ([[ThoseTwoGuys Piper and Davis) are the only ones to escape the Playground with the main characters.

** In a meta-sense, the Framework is the show's own spin on Marvel's ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' series, [[spoiler: therefore kickstarting the Agents of HYDRA arc]].

* ShoutOut:

* AudibleSharpness: The knife that [[spoiler: Aida draws right before cutting Radcliffe's wrists]].

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: Aida's calm declaration that she knows how to "solve both problems" to fix the paradox in her programming, specifically [[spoiler: by killing Radcliffe and uploading his mind]]; given his brief OhCrap reaction, the foreshadowing isn't lost on him either.

** Daisy takes down a couple of [=LMD=] with sonic KameHameHadoken, destroying [=LMD=] Mack like [[Manga/DragonBallZ Gohan did to Cell]].

* TomatoInTheMirror: Teased - when talking to Daisy, Jemma briefly notes that she could be an LMD herself and not even know it. [[spoiler: She's not]].

** The one thing an LMD of an Inhuman can't duplicate is an Inhuman's power, so Daisy gives Jemma a light quake to prove that she's real.

* WhamShot: Each of the team members' lives in the Framework:
** Daisy gets a text to wake up her boyfriend. She assumes it's Lincoln, but on her way to the bed, she passes by a photograph of herself with Grant Ward.
** Coulson is a schoolteacher writing on a chalkboard. He finishes writing and turns around, revealing it to say "Inhumans: Why we fear them."
** Mack is outside his house. He reaches out of frame to pick something up; when he lifts it up, it's shown to be a little girl's bike.
** Fitz is apparently a very wealthy man, getting out of a limo while wearing a nice suit, and helping an unknown woman get out of the limo, who isn't Jemma, because...
** Jemma is dead.
** May is looking out a window. As the camera pulls out, the building is shown to be the Triskelion...with HYDRA's emblem on it.

** Radcliffe's lineup of captive agents in the Framework resembles Pre-Crime's dream-plugged prisoners in Film/MinorityReport.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Unlinke [[TomatoInTheMirror LMD!May]], the LMD's of Mack, Fitz, Jeffrey and Coulson know what they are, and the moment they drop the act they become ''scary''.

* AlternateReality: The Framework reality, which is a complete copy of the real world, but with major changes.

* LotusEaterMachine: The Framework sends a person to an AlternateReality without his/her biggest regrets in life. Stay too long in this reality, and your physical body perishes eventually.

** The Framework's AlternateReality is similar to Comicbook/ScarletWitch's ''Comicbook/HouseOfM'' event in the comics.

** Invanov gets torn apart to a BrainInAJar and then his mind is linked to an all-new LMD body.

** Even LMD Mack, whose body gets partially desintegrated by Daisy's shockwave, is hinted to be rebuilt soon.

* AlternateReality: In the Framework reality, which is a complete copy of the real world, but with major changes.

** In the Framework, Coulson is a schoolteacher. Coulson is the principal of [[Franchise/SpiderMan Peter Parker's]] school in ''WesternAnimation/{{Ultimate Spider-Man}}''

** LMD!Fitz gets crushed and stabbed by Jemma, but LMD!Mack and LMD!Coulson easily rebuild him.
** Even LMD!Mack, whose body gets partially desintegrated by Daisy's shockwave, is hinted to be rebuilt soon.
-->'''LMD!Fitz:''' This is gonna take a while.

** In the Framework, Coulson is a schoolteacher. [[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan Why are we not surprised?]]

* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: The LMD's take control of the base and manipulate the human agents into hunting Jemma and Daisy.
* AlternateReality: [[spoiler: In the Framework reality, HYDRA is in charge.]]

** In the Framework, Daisy thinks her boyfriend is Lincoln only to discover it's Grant Ward!

** [[spoiler: Melinda May working for HYDRA in the Framework reality brings to mind Steve Rogers' controversial line "Hail HYDRA" in Nick Spencer's run in the ''Captain America'' comics. For bonus points: memory manipulation was also heavily involved.]]

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Radcliffe's insistence on having LMD May be a perfect replica of the original except for her command to secure the Darkhold and to preserve human life is what allows her to make the choice the real May would when that command is no longer in effect.

** Invanov get's torn apart to a BrainInAJar and then his mind is linked to an all-new LMD body.
** LMD!Fitz get's crushed and stabbed by Jemma, but LMD!Mack and LMD!Coulson easily rebuild him.
** Even LMD!Mack, whose body get's partially desintegrated by Daisy's shockwave, is hinted to be rebuild soon.

* WhamEpisode: Aida kills Radcliffe and turns Ivanov into an LMD, LMD May blows up the Playground, and Daisy and Jemma jump into the Framework to find the other members of the team, in a BizarroWorld. [[ArsonMuderAndJaywalking And there's six weeks until the next episode]].

* ExactWords: Radcliffe tells Aida that he sees no difference between a mind that once belonged to a now-dead body living in the Framework and a living person plugged into the Framework. So Aida mortally wounds him and plugs his dying body back into the Framework, in order to simplify her standing orders to protect both Radcliffe and the Framework.

* TheUnreveal: Fitz's female companion is left a cliffhanger for the next arc. Also, some leaves cover the date of death on Jemma's gravestone.

** It seems at first that Daisy didn't have a LMD after the reveal that the fourth LMD wasn't her but Fitz, only to later be revealed that there's ''a whole fleet'' of Daisy LMDs.

* ContinuityNod:
** [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier The Triskelion]] is still standing in the Framework.
** Androids infiltrating the highest S.H.I.E.L.D. ranks leading into a grand ParanoiaFuel parallels the show's [[ComicBook/{{Hydra}} HYDRA]] arc that started in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''.

** [[spoiler: Melinda May being an Agent of HYDRA brings to mind Steve Rogers' controversial line "Hail HYDRA" in Nick Spencer's run with the ''Captain America'' comics. For bonus points: memory manipulation was also heavily involved.]]

** Daisy and Jemma get plugged into the Framework, and they discuss with Yo-Yo the very adverse effects of staying too long, dying, or being interrupted while in the middle of the simulation. much like in ''Film/TheMatrix''.

* ActuallyADoombot: Fitz returned from the rescue mission as an LMD, too. Daisy, on the other hand, did not.

* AlternateReality: [[spoiler: Remember Zola's "New World Order" monologue? In the Framework, HYDRA is in charge.]]

* ContinuityNod: [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier The Triskelion]] is still standing in the Framework.

* GoneHorriblyWrong: Aida, which has been foreshadowed for a while now.

* HijackedByGanon: After being mostly absent for the season, the [[WhamShot shot of the Triskelion]] implies that the Framework is tied to ComicBook/{{Hydra}}.

* MythologyGag: The Framework's AlternateReality is similar to Comicbook/ScarletWitch's Comicbook/HouseOfM event in the comics.
** Androids infiltrating the highest S.H.I.E.L.D. ranks leading into a grand ParanoiaFuel parallels the show's {{Comicbook/HYDRA}} arc that started in Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier.
** [[spoiler: Melinda May: Agent of HYDRA brings to mind Steve Rogers' controversial line "Hail Hydra." For bonus points: memory manipulation was also heavily involved.]]

** ''Film/TheMatrix''. Daisy and Jemma get plugged into the Framework, and they discuss with Yo-Yo the very adverse effects of staying too long, dying, or being interrupted while in the middle of the simulation.

** May is looking out a window. As the camera pulls out, the building is shown to be the Triskelion...with Hydra's emblem on it.