History Recap / AgentsOfSHIELDS3E8ManyHeadsOneTale

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Hunter poses as a recruited hacker who's cracked the Pentagon, Mossad, and Ashley Madison.

S.H.I.E.L.D. discovers what's really going on inside the ATCU and Rosalind's role in it, while Ward finds out a secret regarding HYDRA that no one else knows.

* BaddassBystander/BaldOfEvil: Of the {{Mooks}} that are sent after Ward at the beginning of the episode, the bald one gives him the most trouble.

** The ram sigil comes up again, this time being linked to HYDRA--over the centuries, the ram's curling horns were inverted and morphed into the skull-and-tentacles HYDRA logo.

** The cuffs Bobbi uses to summon back her batons are similar to the electromagnetic gauntlet Captain America uses to summon his shield back in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', as well as the wrist bands the Mark 7 Iron Man armor locks onto in the first ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' film.

** Ward mentions he had a pyromania problem in his childhood.
** Coulson being a collector of classic spy gear is brought up when Rosalind sees some of the collection in his office.

* ContinuityNod: Gideon Malick is confirmed to be the same character Powers Boothe portrayed as a member of the World Security Council in ''[[Film/TheAvengers2012 The Avengers]]''.

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Rosalind says that HYDRA involvement is impossible, and that the Science Division can't possibly be working against her. It's headed by her good friend Gideon Malick!...Who forbids her entering the facility for fear of "infection", designed the ATCU, and gave her the Tahiti intel....Ok, he's definitely HYDRA.

* GreenEyedMonster: Simmons yells at Fitz for ''not'' being this, and Fitz admits he is--but he's still going to try to bring Will back anyway.

** Gideon ran the Science Division of the ATCU with no oversight from its ostensible head beyond sending in weekly reports. Since Rosalind primarily focused on the day to day activities of the Operations division and never physically inspected Gideon's facilities to see what they were really doing (under the pretense that they were quarantined from nonessential personnel), she had no idea that the ATCU's Science division was secretly a HYDRA subsidiary until Bobbi broke in and reported it to Coulson.

* MetaOrigin: The backstory partially revealed here makes the Kree interference with ancient Earth the trigger for much of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. A particularly powerful Inhuman inspired the creation of HYDRA, one of HYDRA's leaders unearthed the Tesseract, and its members infiltrated SHIELD. Anything that HYDRA has touched can now be linked back to Kree creating the Inhumans.

*** Likewise, the five holes in the monolith were carved by HYDRA once upon a time, with the five stones extracted shared out among HYDRA leaders across the ages.

* SayingTooMuch: Coulson was on to Rosalind from the very beginning, when she mentioned TAHITI--something she couldn't possibly know about unless she had a high-level source in either S.H.I.E.L.D. or HYDRA. She just didn't know her source was HYDRA.

* SpottingTheThread: When they met, Phil had noted Rosalind referenced TAHITI and was immediately suspicious because the only people who should know about it was someone high up in S.H.I.E.L.D. or someone who had been HYDRA. When she denies ever having met anyone from S.H.I.E.L.D., he knows the information had to come from HYDRA.

* BaddasBystander/BaldOfEvil: Of the {{Mooks}} that are sent after Ward at the beginning of the episode, the bald one gives him the most trouble.