History Recap / AgentsOfSHIELDS1E14TAHITI

* BerserkButton: Hurting Skye is one for all of Team Coulson.

* FunWithAcronyms: Played with; the meaning of "T.A.H.I.T.I." is never explained.

* OneWordTitle: Played with because of the acronym T.A.H.I.T.I. is never explained.

* NotSoStoic: The normally calm and unflappable May delivers the above NoHoldsBarredBeatdown

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Two guards are killed and a facility housing a potential source of a HealingPotion is destroyed in the team's effort to save Skye. The loss is considered unfortunate by Team Coulson, but the fact that they broke into a secure facility they had no jurisdiction over, prepared to do whatever it took to save their teammate, is washed over. The narrative treats it as them doing what had to be done to save a teammate.
* PunchClockVillain: The guards at the Guest House are clearly friendly, ordinary men doing their jobs. Whether they know what they're guarding is unclear, but they know it's more important than one girl's life. They express some admiration that Coulson's team managed to get past the door, and one of them even warns them about the timer before he dies.

* SadisticChoice: Quinn reveals he shot Skye as a ploy to force Coulson to discover the means behind his resurrection, since she cannot be saved by ordinary medical intervention. Either he finds the secret and thus gives that knowledge to the Clairvoyant, or he lets Skye die to prevent that from happening. Time will tell if saving Skye will allow the Clairvoyant to duplicate the process, given its source is buried under a mountain's worth of rock.

-->'''Garrett''': It turns out the only psychic power your buddy has shown is the ability to predict that if you tell a rich, entitled dirtbag he's going to get away with murder, he'll believe it.

* SpySpeak: When the team arrives at the Guest House, they are greeted with "How was the drive from Istanbul?" None of them know the counterphrase, it's not listed in SHIELD's database, and the guards refuse to respond in any way other than repeating it.

* FunWithAcronyms: Played with; The meaning of "T.A.H.I.T.I." is never explained.

NotSoStoic: The normally calm and unflappable May delivers the above NoHoldsBarredBeatdown

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Whoever designed the base's self-destruct. Not only are any intruders locked behind bullet-proof glass with enough explosives to literally bring down the mountain, but the timer is just that, a timer--Ward wastes a few minutes trying to disable it before finding out it's not connected to the detonator in any way. Additionally, the guards turn on the timer first and then engage hostiles. If they succeed, they turn it off. If they take too long, boom. If they lose, too much time will have gone past for the hostiles to stop the bomb.

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Two guards are killed and a facility housing a potential source of a HealingPotion is destroyed in the team's effort to save Skye. The loss is considered unfortunate by Team Coulson, but the fact that they broke into a secure facility they had no jurisdiction over, prepared to do whatever it took to save their teammate, is washed over. The narrative treats it as them doing what had to be done to save a teammate. [[spoiler: Later episodes show that Garret and Ward are EvilAllAlong HYDRA agents while Coulson, the loyalist, tried to get medical attention for one of the injuried guards.]]

* OneWordTitle
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Two guards are killed and a facility housing a potential source of a HealingPotion is destroyed in the team's effort to save Skye. The loss is considered unfortunate by Team Coulson, but the fact that they broke into a secure facility they had no jurisdiction over, prepared to do whatever it took to save their teammate, is washed over. The narrative treats it as them doing what had to be done to save a teammate.

* ItsAllMyFault: Fitz, Ward, and Coulson all feel some measure of personal responsibility for Skye getting shot. May, on the other hand, blames the guy who shot her and retaliates accordingly.

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Two guards are killed and a facility housing a potential source of a HealingPotion is destroyed in the team's effort to save Skye. The loss is considered unfortunate, but the fact that they broke into a secure facility they had no jurisdiction over, prepared to do whatever it took to save their teammate, is washed over. The narrative treats it as them doing what had to be done.

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Two guards are killed and a facility housing a potential source of a HealingPotion are destroyed in the team's effort to save Skye. The loss is considered unfortunate, but the fact that they broke into a secure facility they had no jurisdiction over, prepared to do whatever it took to save their teammate, is washed over. The narrative treats it as them doing what had to be done.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Dr. Steiten has disappeared following Coulson's confrontation with him.

* PostMortemOneLiner: Garrett tells a dead mook "No hard feelings, Bob" after looking at the ID on his corpse.

** Coulson and Garrett both want Quinn and it escalates to Ward and Tripplet coming to blows, but once they talk things over they agree to work together.

* BritishStuffiness: After Garrett jokes to Fitz about them walking into horrible death in the secret lab, he reacts to Fitz's horrified look by saying that "you Brits are too serious". Though subverted when Fitz recovers his composure enough to give one of his usual sardonic jokes right back, to Garrett's amused approval.
* CoolPlane: The Bus' coolness gets lampshaded. After seeing the fully stocked minibar, Triplett jokes to Ward that the brig where they're holding Quinn must be between the jacuzzi and the squash court.
* ConcealmentEqualsCover: The two guards at the Guest House hide behind a wire-frame shelf with objects on it, and a shelf that seems to be open except for boxes on it. They're perfectly safe as long as they're behind this (fairly flimsy) cover. Of course, the whole "office" was designed to facilitate an ambush, so it might be genuinely bulletproof.

* ExtremeMeleeRevenge: May gets this on Quinn.

* PunchClockVillain: The guards at the Guest House are clearly friendly, ordinary men just doing their jobs. Whether they actually know what they're guarding is unclear, but they know it's more important than one girl's life. They express some admiration that Coulson's team managed to get past the door, and one of them even warns them about the timer before he dies.

** This habit (though not specifically this instance) comes back to bite them in "Turn Turn Turn." [[spoiler: Due to their habit of disobeying orders and a variety of other less-than-straight-laced actions, Agent Hand thinks they're all members of HYDRA.]]

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Two guards are killed and a facility housing a potential source of a HealingPotion are destroyed in the team's effort to save Skye. The loss is considered unfortunate, but the fact is they broke into a secure facility they had no jurisdiction over, prepared to do whatever it took to save their teammate, is washed over. The narrative treats it as them doing what had to be done.

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Two guards are killed and a facility housing a potential source of a HealingPotion are destroyed in the team's effort to save Skye. The loss is considered unfortunate, but the fact is they broke into a secure facility they had no jurisdiction over prepared to do whatever it took to save their teammate is washed over. The narrative treats it as them doing what had to be done.