History Recap / AgentCarterS1E7SNAFU

* NeverASelfMadeWoman: The men of the SSR have always believed that Peggy only had a job with them because she was sleeping with Captain America, so it's no surprise that they believe the only reason she would turn on them is because she's sleeping with Howard Stark.

* SoftGlass: Averted with Dooley's heroic sacrifice. He swipes Thompson's sidearm beforehand to fracture the window as he's running.

* IdiotBall: Despite Thompson's instructions for all of the agents to [[CombatPragmatist shoot to kill]] upon encountering "Dottie", but most of them don't anything of the sort. Sousa goes for the kill shot ''immediately'' after seeing that Thompson is not exaggerating.

* HatePlague: What the gas from [[MacGuffin Item 17]] generates. It's potent enough to get an entire movie theatre full of innocent bystanders to turn against each other, leaving no survivors. It was ''supposed'' to be "Midnight Oil", used to extend how long one can go without sleep. Instead, it immediately induces symptoms of extreme sleep deprivation, which includes extreme irritability.

* HeroicSacrifice: Chief Dooley is tricked into wearing an explosive vest, threatening to blow up the whole SSR office. After finding there's no way to get it off without it exploding sooner, Dooley chooses to throw himself out a window so as to get all his employees and collateral civilians out of its range.

* HeroicSacrifice: Chief Dooley is tricked into wearing an explosive vest, threatening to blow up the whole SSR office. After finding there's no way to get it off without it exploding sooner, Dooley chooses to throw himself out a window so as to get all his employees out of its range.

* TheBadGuyWins: Dr. Fennhoff / "Ivchenko" brainwashes Dooley with ease, gets his hands on [[MacGuffin Item 17]], escapes along with "Dottie" and murders Dooley by hypnotically forcing him into wearing an exploding vest. Both Leviathan agents then field-test Item 17 in a crowded movie theatre, which turns out to generate a HatePlague that causes everyone inside to turn on each other in an orgy of violence.

** There is Ivchenko's habit of ordering his pawns to do "one more thing", i.e killing themselves.

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Peggy has a rare moment of it when she and Jarvis use the table they're handcuffed to as a battering ram on the room's one-way mirror...then remember they're ''still'' handcuffed to the table so this does no good at all.

* IdiotBall: Despite Thompson's instructions for all of the agents to [[CombatPragmatist shoot to kill]] upon encountering "Dottie", but most of them don't anything of the sort. Sousa goes for the kill shot IMMEDIATELY after seeing that Thompson is not exaggerating.
* LeParkour: When Dottie needs to make lobby, and ''fast'', she springs between the outside railings of the central staircase. Just about all the SSR agents are too stunned to take a shot at her. By the time they get a bead on her, it's too late. Note that this is before Parkour was invented, hence why Sousa has no idea how to describe what is going on except to say that she is going down the stairs very fast.

* NeverASelfMadeWoman: The men of the [=SSR=] have always believed that Peggy only had a job with them because she was sleeping with Captain America, so it's no surprise that they believe the only reason she would turn on them is because she's sleeping with Howard Stark.
* OhCrap:

* [[WouldNotHitAGirl Would Not Shoot A Girl]]: When they investigate the building across the street, this is [[WouldHitAGirl averted]] with Thompson (who has experience against an incompletely trained Black Widow and dreads an encounter with a fully trained one) and Sousa (who becomes the first to ''survive'' a throw-down with Dottie), but many of the other agents hesitate to fire on Dottie. One pays the price for his mistake with his life.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Without her job to worry about, Peggy takes the opportunity to lay into the rest of SSR for the sexism she's suffered.

* GenreSavvy: Despite knowing their target is a woman, Thompson is fully aware of how dangerous Dottie might be, having seen what a child Black Widow can do back in Russia. Later on he mutters that there's probably a catch to defusing Howard Stark's latest malfunctioning invention.

* HatePlague: What the gas from [[MacGuffin Item 17]] generates. It's potent enough to get an entire movie theatre full of innocent bystanders to turn against each other, leaving no survivors.

* TheBadGuyWins: Dr. Fennhoff / "Ivchenko" brainwashes Dooley with ease, gets his hands on [[MacGuffin Item 17]], [[KarmaHoudini escapes along with "Dottie"]] and gets Dooley KilledOffForReal by hypnotically forcing him into wearing an exploding vest. Both Leviathan agents then field-test Item 17 in a crowded movie theatre, which turns out to generate a HatePlague that causes everyone inside to turn on each other in an orgy of violence.

* BrokenPedestal: Sousa's faith in Peggy is seriously broken, to the point that he's ready to believe she killed her own coworker Krzeminski. Gradually, though, his faith returns as her claims start to show themselves true.
* CassandraTruth: At first Peggy isn't believed regarding the claims of her good intentions and of Dottie's malevolent ones. As she comes fully clean, though, the SSR sees she has more to lose by revealing the truth and so decide to take her claims seriously.

** There is also Ivchenko's habit of ordering to do "one more thing".

* DownerEnding: See TheBadGuyWins above.
* DramaticIrony: [[TheMole Dr. Ivchenko]], [[ConsummateLiar of all people]], remarks behind the one-way mirror that Peggy is a pathological liar after she says that "someone else" [[note]]which the audience knows is Ivchenko himself[[/note]] is pulling Dottie's strings.
* EyeScream: Happens to at least one person during the Item 17 testing.
* FakePregnancy: Dottie pretends to be pregnant as a reason to buy a baby carriage, which is used to transport Item 17 to gas a theater with.

* HatePlague: What the gas from [[MacGuffin Item 17]] appears to generate. It's potent enough to get an entire movie theatre full of innocent bystanders to turn against each other, leaving no survivors.

* IdiotBall: Despite Thompson's instructions for all of the agents to [[CombatPragmatist shoot to kill]] upon encountering "Dottie", none of them do anything of the sort.
** Downplayed. Sousa goes for the kill shot IMMEDIATELY after seeing that Thompson is not exaggerating.
* LeParkour: When Dottie needs to make lobby, and ''fast'', she springs between the outside railings of the central staircase. Just about all the SSR agents are too stunned to take a shot at her. And by the time they get a bead on her, it's too late. Note that this is before Parkour was invented, hence why Sousa has no idea how to describe what is going on except to say that she is going down the stairs very fast.

* TheUnreveal: Subverted. Jarvis had provided information on all of Stark's inventions-gone-wrong, but he admits he knows nothing about the worst one, Item 17. However, a little later we get to see what it is: a gas-induced HatePlague that can cause a room full of people to turn violent and rip each other to pieces.

* CallBack: A cross-series one. Item 017 was one of the Hydra items captured and boxed up by the Howling Commandos during the raid on Dr. Reinhardt's lair on ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''.

* PrecisionFStrike: Peggy yells out: "Damn you, Howard!" after multiple ideas to free Dooley from the explosive vest turn out to be useless.

* KickTheDog: Dooley telling caps off a rebuffing of Jarvis' terms of confession with telling him he finds him "repulsive".

* LeParkour: When Dottie needs to make lobby, and ''fast'', she springs between the outside railings of the central staircase. Just about all the SSR agents are too stunned to take a shot at her. And by the time they get a bead on her, it's too late.
** Note that this is before Parkour was invented.

* CallBack: Item 017 was one of the Hydra items captured and boxed up by the Howling Commandos during the raid on Dr. Reinhardt's lair on ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''.
* DeadlyEuphemism: At the store, Dottie, pretending to be pregnant, asks for a pink blanket (implying a girl). The store lady responds Dottie's moving quickly since she doesn't look pregnant. Dottie responds: "It's happening sooner than you think", of course not meaning her "pregnancy".

* EyeScream: Happens to at least one person during the Item 17... testing.

** Faustus helps Dooley reconnect with his wife. And then kills him.

* CallBack: Item 017 was one of the Hydra items captured and boxed up by the Howling Commandos during the raid on Dr. Reinhold's lair on ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''.

* EyeScream: Happens to at least one person during the Item 17 testing.

** Private Ovechin, imagining he's back in a meadow with his mom, spots a hospital bed with a patient nearby, but Fennhoff tells him not to pay attention to it and it vanishes.

* CallBack: Item 017 was one of the Hydra items captured and boxed up by the Howling Commandos during the raid on Dr. Reinhold's lair on ''Series/AgentsOfShield''.