History Recap / AgentsOfSHIELDS3E21Absolution

* BeAllMySinsRemembered: Daisy refuses to let herself be forgiven for what she did under Hive's control. When Mack does so anyway, she breaks down sobbing in his arms.

* MotorMouth: Coulson has to read off an entire page of alpha-numeric gibberish, which Fitz then has to type in to an uplink console, in thirty seconds in order to abort the missile launch.

!!Tropes in this episode:

* CallBack:
** Daisy's traumatic experience of being enthralled by Hive is extremely similar to [[Series/JessicaJones2015 Jessica Jones' traumatic experience of being enthralled by Kilgrave]], [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything which is itself an allegory for sexual abuse]].
** Due to the effect of the memory machine on his brain, Hive quotes lines from several previous characters, including many of Ward's.

* EasilyForgiven: Everyone is willing to forgive Daisy for what she did under Hive's sway--except Daisy herself.

* HollywoodHealing: Coulson stops using the crutch too quickly for real life healing.

* {{Blooper}}:
** When Daisy steps onto the lift in her chamber, she's barefoot, but when she appears on the Quintet to face Hive, she has her shoes on (they were previously seen next to her bed).
** At some points in the fight between May and the Primitives, May faces three opponents despite Hive only sending two Primitives with Radcliffe.

* EasilyForgiven: Everyone is willing to forgive Daisy for what she did under Hive's sway... except Daisy herself.

* HeelFaceTurn: Radcliffe jumps at the chance to go over to S.H.I.E.L.D. as he has long realized how insane Hive is.

* VengeanceFeelsEmpty:
** Coulson tells Daisy that vengeance against Hive wouldn't help her, just make it worse, as he already had the experience with Ward.

** Hive, with Ward's memory, says that "revenge closure" doesn't work during his fight with Daisy... and then pauses, saying "Or will it? I can't remember," due to still being confused from the memory machine.

* CoDragons: With Alisha dead and Daisy's brainwashing cured, Giyera and James are now this for Hive.

* FakeOutOpening: The opening scene looks like another FlashForward with Coulson and Daisy trapped in a detention cell on Hive's prison planet, comments about them never realizing her vision of someone on the team dying meant ''everyone'' else on the team being killed, and Daisy wiring up some electronics that she thinks will take them back to Earth. Then Coulson tells her that [[EarthAllAlong they]] ''[[EarthAllAlong are]]'' [[EarthAllAlong on Earth]]. [[DreamIntro And then she wakes up.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: Radcliffe jumps at it when he has the chance, as he has long realized how insane Hive is.
* HollywoodHealing: Coulson stops using the crutch.

* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Averted with Radcliffe. Hive orders him to undo the missile override, even though he complains that he lacks the engineering or technical skills to do that. When he realizes [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Hive will kill him if he can't do it]], he grabs the missile manual and pretty much just stalls, then defects to S.H.I.E.L.D. the first chance he gets.

* RedShirt: The S.H.I.E.L.D. agents that are turned into Primitives.
* ShutUpHannibal: Elena gets a wordless one in when she uses her speed to plant a beacon at Hive's feet, allowing a gel-matrix cube to be dropped on him.

** Hive says the same thing during his fight with Daisy, quoting Ward... and then pauses, saying "Or will it? I can't remember," due to still being confused from the memory machine.
* VillainBall: Instead of just taking control of Lincoln and then Elena from the get-go, Hive decides to take a MenacingStroll and ends up right where they wanted to have him.

* WhamLine: Please... take me back.