History Recap / AgentCarterS2E10HollywoodEnding

* FailedASpotCheck: When Whitney arrives at the Zero Matter rift that has just opened up, she immediately begins trying to absorb it, while somehow failing to notice the utterly ''massive'' piece of Stark technology aimed right at her.

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: If Whitney wasn't DrunkOnTheDarkSide already, she takes it UpToEleven in this episode.

* MolotovTruck: The Zero Matter rift is closed by sending Howard Star's hovercar into it with the gamma cannon's core inside, then blowing it up. They even blow up the car by sticking a rag into the gas tank and lighting it on fire, just like a Molotov cocktail.

* {{Cliffhanger}}: Thompson is shot, seemingly fatally, by a gloved person in a suit who takes the M. Carter file.

* HeroicSacrifice: One is required to engage the manual emergency shutdown on the rift generator. Peggy, Howard, and Wilkes each volunteer, and argue with each other over who should be the one to do it. Meanwhile, Sousa just wordlessly goes over to do it while everyone else is arguing. He survives though.

!! Tropes in this episode:

* HeroicSacrifice: One is required to engage the manual emergency shutdown on the rift generator. Peggy, Howard, and Wilkes each volunteer, and argue with each other over who should be the one to do it. Meanwhile, Sousa just wordlessly goes over to do it while everyone else is arguing. He survives though.

* IdiotBall: When Sousa approaches the Rift Generator to manually shut it off, he ties himself to a lamp post in an attempt to prevent being sucked into the rift when it closes. The remaining team members simply stand by and watch him struggle for several minutes and no one thinks to go over to the lamp post and make sure his tether stays secure. Even though the camera shifts to it several times showing that it is indeed working loose. This naturally leads to the mad scramble to catch his tether when it comes free.
* JustThinkOfThePotential: Howard believes that studying the Zero Matter will have great benefits...though Peggy believe he's more interested in his bank account.

** In Whitney Frost's final scene in the mental hospital, her face is scarred through self-harm--in her insanity, she's trying to replicate the Zero Matter facial cracks. In Marvel comics, Whitney Frost is a super-villain named [[http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Giuletta_Nefaria_%28Earth-616%29 Madame Masque]], who wears a golden mask to cover the scars she got in an accident.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: By the end of the episode Sousa declares the Isodyne case closed, however, the fates of the 4 surviving members of the Council of Nine are left completely unmentioned.

* AlasPoorVillain: Whitney meets such a pitiful end locked up in an insane asylum, with her once brilliant mind shattered. It's really hard not to feel sorry for her.

* YouGetMeCoffee: In an ironic (and karmic) twist of fate, this ends up being Jack Thompson's role in the heroes' plan. [[GracefulLoser He takes it well, though]].

* ForgedMessage: After photographing all of Whitney's notes on the rift generator, Samberly alters one equation (turning a 6 into an 8) in the hopes that the need to find and fix this will slow Whitney down enough to ensure that the SSR completes the generator first. The SSR does build their generator first, though whether or not Samberly's altering the equation contributed is never specified.

* IdiotBall: When Sousa approaches the Rift Generator to manually shut it off, he ties himself to a lamp post in an attempt to prevent being sucked into the rift when it closes. The remaining team members simply stand and watch him struggle for several minutes and no one thinks to go over to the lamp post to secure his tether. Even though the camera shifts to it several times showing that it is indeed working loose. This naturally leads to the mad scramble to catch his tether when it comes free.

* YouGetMeCoffee: In an ironic (and karmic) twist of fate, this ends up being Jack Thompson's role in the heroes' plan.

* AlasPoorVillain: Whitney meets such a pitiful end locked up in an insane asylum, with her once brilliant mind shattered, it's really hard not to feel sorry for her.

* HeroicSacrifice: Sousa attempts one of these. Thankfully, he survives.

* NeverFoundTheBody: Vernon's fate after Wilkes explodes isn't seen, although it's presumed he died.

* SelfHarm: At the end, Whitney is shown with multiple scratches on her face, apparently as a result of her trying to dig out her zero matter scar. Manfredi brings roses for her but is stopped by the orderly for fear that she would use the thorns to scratch her face up some more.

* MythologyGag: The last scene of Peggy saying her (premature) farewell to Jarvis shows a cinema in the background where the movie's featured actress is "Mary Kane" (one letter off from [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Mary Jane]]).
** In Whitney Frost's final scene in the mental hospital, her face is scarred because the absence of zero matter makes her scratch it all the time. In Marvel comics, Whitney Frost is a super-villain named [[http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Giuletta_Nefaria_%28Earth-616%29 Madame Masque]], who wears a golden mask to cover the scars she got in an accident.

** When Whitney Frost in the mental hospital, we see that her face is scarred because the absence of zero matter makes her scratch it all the time. In Marvel comics, Whitney Frost is a super-villain named [[http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Giuletta_Nefaria_%28Earth-616%29 Madame Masque]], who wears a golden mask to cover the scars she got in an accident.

* {{Cliffhanger}}: Thompson is shot, perhaps fatally, by someone in a suit who takes the M. Carter file.

* SkewedPriorities: Howard Stark multiple times. When Manfredi shows up with Jarvis at gunpoint he pleads with him... to let Jarvis set down the mustard he had asked him to bring first before negotiations. Later on he pulls the rest of the scientists into a discussion on what to name the device they're using to open a rift into the Zero Matter dimension, while they're racing against the clock to construct it.

* ContinuityNod: Howard finally got [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger that]] FlyingCar working.

* ShoutOut: Tommy Fontana'name seems to be modified from [[Film/{{Scarface 1983}} Tony Montana]].