History Recap / AgentsOfSHIELDS1E20NothingPersonal

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Skye calls Ward a Nazi, which he denies. She reminds him Hydra was started by the Red Skull, Hitler's main scientist.

* ThrowItIn: [[http://www.assignmentx.com/2014/exclusive-interview-j-august-richards-on-marvels-agents-of-shield-part-1/ Apparently,]] J. August Richards improvised patting Ward on the cheek after restarting his heart.

** Ward/Skye is discussed at some length, includes kissing, and Ward stating that he likes the cover of "impatient boyfriend". Skye unlocks the hard-drive rather than let him die but whether this is because she doesn't want ''him'' to die or if anyone would do is ambigious.

* PantsPositiveSafety: When Agent Hill realizes her IncrediblyObviousTail have all been taken out, she hangs up her call to Pepper Potts and pulls a gun out of the small of her back. Oh, by the way, she had just came out of a Congressional hearing at a Department of Justice building, too.

* PantsPositiveSafety: When Agent Hill realizes her IncrediblyObviousTail have all been taken out, she hangs up her call to Pepper Potts and pulls a gun out of the small of her back. Oh, by the way, she had just came out of a Congressional hearing at a DepartmentOfJustice building, too.

* PantsPositiveSafety: When Agent Hill realizes her IncrediblyObviousTail have all been taken out, she hangs up her call to Pepper Potts and pulls a gun out of the small of her back. Oh, by the way, she had just came out of a Congressional hearing at a DepartmentofJustice building, too.

** When Skye delivers her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Ward in the diner, she echoes his words to her from "Turn, Turn, Turn": "I'm just trying to have an honest conversation for once."

* PantsPositiveSafety: When Agent Hill realizes her IncrediblyObviousTail have all been taken out, she hangs up her call to Pepper Potts and pulls a gun out of the small of her back. Oh, by the way, she had just came out of a Congressional hearing at a [[DepartmentofJustice DOJ]] building, too.

** When they're fixing the communications, Coulson opens a drawer in Koenig's office and sees a Night-Night Pistol. Later he uses it to take out Talbot and his special forces team.

* FakeShemp: The camera avoids Koenig's face as Simmons examines his coprse, presumably because it's not Patton Oswalt on the table.

* GodzillaThreshold: Coulson defied this trope in his final recording about the T.A.H.I.T.I. project. Even if an avenger was mortally injuried, the downside was too great.

--->'''Ward''': A lot of us lost a lot of respect for Fury when he promoted you to be his second in command. I mean, if he wanted eye candy, [[ComicBook/BlackWidow Romanoff]] could've done just as well.\\

* OhCrap:

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: As former Deputy Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. the government would love to stuff Maria Hill in a deep, dark hole and pry all her secrets out of her, but they don't want to mess with Tony Stark's army of lawyers. (Therefore by proxy, Tony and Pepper are invoking ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney off-screen.)

* WasItAllALie: Inevitable once Skye told Ward she knew about him. He insists that it wasn't. She has a hard time believing that. In fact when he claims that his feelings for her were real, she's ''sickened''.

* WhereItAllBegan: Skye tells Ward that the hard drive can only be decrypted in [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E1Pilot the café where she first met Mike Peterson.]] This trope was expoited by her and meant to buy time for Coulson to find her message and track them down.

** Coulson's reaction when Skye asks him how he got past Deathlok. "Deathlok's on this plane? New plan: Run!" Skye also got this when Deathlok intercepted her earlier escape attempt. Deathlok's [[TheDreaded good at causing these]].
** Also happens to Ward when he realizes that Skye has been stringing him along this whole time.
** And Hill when Coulson reveals that Garrett is not dead and Ward is HYDRA.

* GodwinsLaw: As Ward and Skye argue, she calls him a Nazi several times even though HYDRA doesn't really follow Nazi ideology or sport their imagery. Of course, being legitimately affiliated with the Nazis at one point (as well as just as evil as them, if not [[EvilerThanThou worse]]) makes the insults more justified than what's usual for this trope.

* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: No fight, but Skye tries this with Deathlok, pleading with him to remember who he really is. It doesn't work - Mike knows full well who he is, but he also bluntly states what the reality of the situation means for him and his family.

* ScreamDiscretionShot: Simmons is shown spotting the blood trails leading up to the supply room ceiling, but actually finds Koenig's body off-screen, and what's actually shown is Fitz's reaction to hearing her scream of alarm.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Although, as former Deputy Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. the government would love to stuff Maria Hill in a deep, dark hole and pry all her secrets out of her, they really don't want to mess with Tony Stark's lawyers. (Therefore by proxy, Tony and Pepper are invoking ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney off-screen.)
* ShipTease: Ward/Skye gets discussed at some length, though ShipSinking seems imminent, considering Skye's reaction to the news that Ward actually has feelings for her. Fitz/Simmons gets a nod at the end.
* ShipSinking: Ward/Skye gets rather spectacularly sunk. Skye calls him disgusting, a "lying backstabbing traitor", a Nazi, and a SerialKiller. When he insists he really does have feelings for her, she says she thinks she going to throw up.

** Another previous Whedon series gets referenced, as Coulson's "Huh" is the final scene is a lot like [[Series/{{Firefly}} Mal's reaction to River in the box]], as well as when [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Oz]] woke up after his first night as a werewolf.

* ShutUpHannibal: Aside from many pulled by Skye on Ward, there's also the tone Deathlok gives when he tells Ward what he does is JustFollowingOrders, [[NotSoDifferent just like him]].

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Deathlok and Ward appear to be a villainous example of this. They don't get along well, but need to work together to further Garrett's goals.

* VillainousBreakdown:
** Ward has at least a couple during the episode:

** Followed by one WhamLine after another, courtesy of the recording.

* WhereItAllBegan: Skye tells Ward that the hard drive can only be decrypted in [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E1Pilot the café where she first met Mike Peterson.]] Subverted, however, as this is a lie meant to buy time for Coulson to find her message and track them down.

* BullyingADragon: Ward threatens to kill Deathlok if he tries anything again, apparently forgetting that Deathlok is an armored, bullet-proof cyborg.

* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Skye completely lashes out at Ward on The Bus, both verbally ''and physically'', despite Ward easily having the ability to kill her.

* TheReveal: May gives Coulson a recording that reveals who was ultimately in charge of Project T.A.H.I.T.I.: Phil Coulson. It also shows that the purpose of Project T.A.H.I.T.I. was intended to save any of the Avengers if they were seriously injured or killed.

** As shown in the end of ''The Winter Soldier'', Hill is currently employed at Stark Enterprises. She also references to Tony's BadassBoast back in ''Iron Man 2'' by referring to it as privatizing world peace.

** It's more like [[WhatTheHellHero What the Hell,]] HeroAntagonist?, but Simmons (in something of a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for her generally very meek character) unflinchingly delivers one to Col. Talbot for deciding to pressure the team at Providence for more information instead of going after Ward, even after they've told him that Ward was an infiltrator, has stolen the Bus and taken Skye hostage.

'''Maria''': That's funny. I'll let her know you said that.

* FakeShemp: We never get a clear face shot of Koenig's corpse while Simmons is doing an autopsy. This likely means that it's not Patton Oswalt on the table.

* MsFanservice: Black Widow is directly referenced as such by Ward, who says that a lot of agents wanted her to be picked as Fury's right-hand eye candy instead of Hill.

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Skye calls Ward a Nazi, which he denies. She reminds him Hydra was started by The Red Skull, Hitler's main scientist.

* WhereItAllBegan: Skye tells Ward that the hard drive can only be decrypted in [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E1Pilot the café where she first met Mike Peterson.]] Subverted however, as this is a lie.

** Another previous Whedon series gets referenced, as Coulson's "Huh" is the final scene is a lot like [[Series/{{Firefly}} Mal's reaction to River in the box.]]
*** As well as when [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Oz]] woke up after his first night as a werewolf.

** It's more like [[WhatTheHellHero What the Hell,]] [[HeroAntagonist Hero Antagonist?]], but Simmons (in something of a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for her generally very meek character) unflinchingly delivers one to Col. Talbot for deciding to pressure the team at Providence for more information instead of going after Ward, even after they've told him that Ward was an infiltrator, has stolen the Bus and taken Skye hostage.

* GodwinsLaw: As Ward and Skye argue, she calls him a Nazi several times even though HYDRA doesn't really follow Nazi ideology or sport their imagery. Of course, being legitimately affiliated with the Nazis at one point (as well as just as evil as them) makes the insults more justified than what's usual for this trope.

* [[spoiler:ANaziByAnyOtherName: Skye calls Ward a Nazi, which he denies. She reminds him Hydra was started by The Red Skull, Hitler's main scientist.]]