Berserk Button: Gravik merely mentioning G'iah is one to Talos, who ends up stabbing Gravik through the palm when he does it twice.
Booked Full of Mooks: When Gravik tells Talos during their parley that he's lucky not to have had G'iah sent back to him in a body bag, Talos furiously lunges at him only for every other person in the room to suddenly turn into copies of Gravik, revealing that they're all Skrulls. Talos swiftly backs down.
Broken Masquerade: Talos threatens to expose the Skrull presence on Earth to disrupt Gravik's plans.
Call-Back: Fury knows that "Talos" is actually Fairbanks because "Talos" calls him "Nick". As established in Captain Marvel, everyone calls him "Fury", even his mother. No exceptions.
Defiant to the End: G'iah shows no fear when faced with execution at Gravik's hand, instead using her seemingly final moments to condemn him as the Skrulls' true greatest enemy.
Gravik: Go on, turn around. G'iah: No. You will look at me. And you'll ask yourself, are you a leader of Skrulls or our worst enemy?
Easily Forgiven: Defied. Fury goes to Talos to tell him of his lead and recruit him to help, but Talos is understandably still angry with Fury after his rant in the previous episode, and tells him that if he's going to demand his help, he needs to apologize and all but take a knee in front of him while doing so. The situation is so serious that Fury complies. Talos accepts it, but they still have tension for the remainder of the episode.
Failed a Spot Check: Talos is so busy ranting at Fury over his "cleaning up your poop" jibe that he fails to realise they've arrived at Fairbanks' house, and confusedly asks Fury why they've stopped.
When G'iah is driving Gravik to the rendezvous with Talos, he gets a call and audibly verifies some details about an impending attack. He's barely out of the car before G'iah pulls out a burner phone and relays what she heard to a third party.
After the aforementioned hand stabbing, Gravik initially doesn't react, then makes an exaggerated expression of pain (Talos is so angry he doesn't notice). No sooner does Talos leave the room than Gravik pulls his hand free from the knife blade; it heals, demonstrating that he's already undergone the super-Skrull process.
As G'iah is riding her bike out of the compound, she notices that the guard booth at the entrance isn't occupied. Moments later, while riding through the woods, she's caught by Gravik.
Funny Background Event: When Gravik's injured hand heals in seconds, one of his guards (the Asian woman in blue on the right) is clearly impressed.
Hero of Another Story: Before Natasha Romanov joined S.H.I.E.L.D., Varra helped Fury fight against General Dreykov and the Red Room.
Impaled Palm: Talos stabs a knife through Gravik's hand, pinning it to a table. Gravik pulls the knife out through his hand and then regenerates, the glow identical to Extremis.
While infiltrating the home of the Skrull impersonating Commodore Fairbanks, Fury receives a message from Talos telling him he's subdued Fairbanks and to meet him in a certain room. It's actually Fairbanks impersonating Talos, having captured him — but Fury realises this because "Talos" calls him "Nick", and when he arrives, it's with Fairbanks' son as a hostage, forcing Fairbanks to let Talos go.
Fury:Nobody calls me "Nick", Bob.
Although Zachary is actually the son of the real Robert Fairbanks and not the Skrull imposter, the Skrull is nonetheless affected.
Never My Fault: Fury is forced to own up to Talos for his rant in the previous episode after trying to sidestep it when he first approaches Talos. Later, when Talos goes on his own rant in retaliation to Fury comparing the Skrull refugees to dogs needing to be taken care of by people, Fury doesn't apologize and instead distracts Talos with the fact that they're already at their destination. Fury later admits he's terrible at apologizing when Sonya demands her own apology from him.
Gravik, who up until now has mostly been calm and cool, becomes quite animated and boastful when talking to Talos one on one.
Talos demands Fury apologize to him for his rant in the previous episode when he tries to recruit him to help go after the Robert Fairbanks imposter. Fury becomes dead serious, leans in, and whispers exactly what Talos asked him to say. Talos is visibly shaken, realizing the gravity of the situation.
Fury: Help me, Talos, because I'm useless without you.
Papa Wolf: Talos increasingly becomes hostile towards Gravik every time he threatens G'iah in their parley, culminating in him stabbing Gravik's hand and threatening to snap his neck at the end of their conversation. He also shoots "Fairbanks" dead after he reveals he knows G'iah is The Mole.
The Password Is Always "Swordfish": After a failed attempt to extract the password from Fairbanks' impostor, and a mad scramble from G'iah to extract it from the mind of the real Fairbanks, it turns out to have been the name of his son, Zachary. Talos probably could have guessed that on his own, though to be fair, he only had one shot and needed to be certain.
Properly Paranoid: Gravik shows in this episode how prepared he is and how he anticipated certain threats to his plan, such as being well aware that Earth's heroes will respond when Gravik attempts to start a nuclear war, suspecting that G'iah is a traitor, and bringing some of his loyal followers with him to his meeting with Talos to protect himself.
The Reveal: Gravik's plan is turn the Skrulls into Super-Skrulls in order for them to become powerful enough to combat Earth's heroes by starting a nuclear war.
Spotting the Thread: Though it comes a bit late for the poor guy, Gravik admits Brogan couldn't have leaked the location of the specific safehouse they were going to use, so one of the other four in the car must have, and he correctly suspects G'iah.
That's an Order!: Invoked by Pagon (posing as the Neptune's lieutenant commander) when the captain questions the orders he's been given to fire upon the UN delegation plane.
Captain: I want to talk to CENTCOM. Pagon: These are CENTCOM's orders. Either you obey, or you'll be removed. Do you understand?
Underestimating Badassery: Gravik clearly underestimates humans. Talos himself warns him that despite what he may think, humans are no pushovers and they're at their most lethal when threatened, but he refuses to listen. Gravik deliberately choose to forget what happened to Loki, Ultron, and Thanos, despite being old enough to live all three incidents.
Wham Shot: After Talos impales Gravik's hand with a knife, Gravik pulls it out and his hand heals itself with the unmistakable glow of Extremis, revealing he's already put his Super Skrull plan into action.
Varra calls Fury out not for having left her behind during the Blip, which he couldn't control, but for having abandoned her and the rest of Earth to work on his space project, which he did entirely of his own volition.
Talos retorts to Fury's claim that their relationship over the last thirty years consisted of Fury cleaning up Talos' messes that while Fury is highly skilled and intelligent, he wouldn't have gotten nearly as far as he had without the aid of Talos and his Skrull operatives providing Fury with the intel and the leverage he needed to accomplish his goals in the first place.
Xanatos Gambit: Gravik's plan to nuke a 747 full of UN representatives turns out to have been a gambit that would've worked to his advantage whether successful or not. Had it succeeded, it would have started World War III just as he wants. When it fails, however, he knows that G'iah is the traitor and kills her.
G'iah: I heard about the failed strike. Our men need exfiltration. Gravik:I didn't fail. That plane would have been valuable. Finding the traitor was essential.
