History Recap / AgentCarterS2E4SmokeAndMirrors

Sousa and Peggy decide to confront the Arena Club head on, which is harder then it seems.

* MythologyGag: A golden figure of tragedy/comedy masks can be seen in Whitney's room, a reference to her supervillain moniker in the comics, Madame Masque.

Sousa and Peggy decide to confront the Arena Club head on, which seems harder then it seems.

* BigBrotherInstinct: Michael is the only one who really supports Peggy and her dreams of adventure, even when Peggy herself had given up on them.
* DisposableFiance: The flashback to Peggy's past reveals she was engaged in 1940 and nearly turned away the offer to join the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_Executive SOE]] so she could marry him. After her brother's death she became re-motivated to follow his advice, but her fiance was a coward who wouldn't join her in the war, so she broke off their engagement and the rest is history.

* {{Flashback}}: We see glimpses of Whitney's and Peggy's past. Turns out Peggy went from being a Bletchley Park codebreaker to military badass because her brother Michael recommended her for an espionage program, knowing she craved a life of adventure. In contrast Whitney grew up in poverty on the plains with an emotionally abusive mother who cared little for her science genius telling her looks is what anybody would care about.

* InstantSedation: When Jarvis accidentally gets stuck with one of the tranquilizer darts, he drops within seconds. This is not the case for their intended target, Mr. Hunt, who can still fight after one dart, recovers from the second dart to attack again, and only stays down when Peggy rifle butts him in the head.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Mr. Hunt, when captured By Peggy and Sousa, brags that this won't work on him, as he didn't break when tortured by the Japanese during WWII. Rather than go for limb breaking, though, Peggy injects him with what she claims is a strain of malaria that will kill him in minutes if he doesn't talk (it's actually a mutant strain of common cold invented by Howard.)

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Masters tells Peggy and the audience that even if she and her career survive taking on the Council of Nine, as we know from her appearances in ''Winter Soldier'' and ''Ant-Man'', her allies' fates are still up in the air.
* MythologyGag: A golden figure of tragedy/comedy masks can be seen in Whitney's room, a reference to her supervillain moniker in the comics.

* RedRightHand: The black cracks on Whitney's face become larger every time she uses her Zero Matter derived powers to kill.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich: Peggy never finishes cleaning up the mayonnaise that drops through Wilkes' hand onto her research.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Whitney Frost. She grew up in poverty on the plains with an emotionally abusive mother who cared little for her science genius telling her looks is what anybody would care about, and who blames her for her lover leaving her.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Mr. Hunt anticipates that the Council of Nine will kill him for confessing about them to the SSR, so he threatens Chadwick and Whitney to protect him or else he will reveal their own secrets to the Council and the public. Unfortunately for him, Hunt had no idea that Whitney had discovered a perfect way to kill him without leaving any evidence, through her powers.

* {{Flashback}}: We see glimpses of Whitney's and Peggy's past. Turns out Peggy went from being a Betchley Park codebreaker to military badass because her brother Michael recommended her for an espionage program, knowing she craved a life of adventure. In contrast Whitney grew up in poverty on the plains with an emotionally abusive mother who cared little for her science genius telling her looks is what anybody would care about.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Masters tells Peggy and the audience that even if she and her career survive taking on the Council on Nine, as we know from her appearances in ''Winter Soldier'' and ''Ant-Man'', her allies' fates are still up in the air.

* YouHaveFailedMe: What Whitney does to Mr. Hunt.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Masters tells Peggy and the audience that even if she and her career survive taking on the Council on Nine, as we know from her appearances in ''Winter Soldier'' and ''Ant Man'', her allies' fates are still up in the air.

* EvenEvilHasStandarts: Chadwick sounds ''horrified'' when Whitney kills Mr. Hunt.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Whitney Frost. She grew up in poverty on the plains with an emotionally abusive mother who cared little for her science genius telling her looks is what anybody would care about, and who blames her for her lover leaving her.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Whitney Frost. See {{Flashback}} above.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Whitney Frost. See FlashBack above.

* FlashBack: We see glimpses of Whitney's and Peggy's past. Turns out Peggy went from being a Betchley Park codebreaker to military badass because her brother Michael recommended her for an espionage program, knowing she craved a life of adventure. In contrast Whitney grew up in poverty on the plains with an emotionally abusive mother who cared little for her science genius telling her looks is what anybody would care about.

* FlashBack: We see glimpses of Whitney's and Peggy's past. Turns out Peggy went from being a Betchley Park codebreaker to military badass because her brother Michael recommended her for an espionage program, knowing she craved a life of adventure. In contrast Whitney grew up in poverty on the plains with an emotionally abusive mother who cared little for her science genius telling her looks is what anybody would care about.

Sousa and Peggy dig deeper into Whitney Frost's past.

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