History Recap / AgentsOfSHIELDS3E12TheInsideMan

* AbsenteeActor: Creator/HenrySimmons does not appear as Mack in this episode, despite being listed in the opening credits.

* TeetchClenchedTeamwork: Talbot doesn't much like working with Coulson. He even clenches his teeth at the end when he tells Coulson to "Call me Glen... sometimes."

* AbsenteeActor: Henry Simmons does not appear as Mack in this episode, despite being listed in the opening credits.

* FanDisservice: Brett Dalton's fully naked in a Terminator pose as Hive rejuvenates its host body... while being surrounded by five [[StrippedToTheBone bloody, smoking skeletons]] and covered by liquefied human flesh.

** Lance insensitively but correctly points out that May's professional, mission-first attitude didn't apply when Andrew was the one in danger.

!! Tropes in this episode:

* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: Creel, last seen working for HYDRA, is reintroduced as Talbot's body guard, which raises the suspicions of Hunter and the rest of S.H.I.E.L.D. It's revealed that HYDRA [[IHaveYourWife has Talbot's son]] and Creel is his minder. It's later revealed that Creel ''is'' actually on the side of good now, and is Talbot's contingency plan for getting his son back.

* FanDisservice: Brett Dalton's fully naked in a Terminator pose as Hive rejuvenates its host body ... while being surrounded by five [[StrippedToTheBone bloody, smoking skeletons]] and covered by liquefied human flesh.

* FeeFiFauxPas: Talbot is quite an ugly American at the summit, calling a traditional Taiwanese robe a dress to his host's face and complaining about everyone's unpronounceable names, much to Coulson's embarrassment. It's likely at least some of it was his trying to clue Coulson in that something was wrong.

* HesBack: Hive restores his body to full health after gorging himself on five ordinary humans.

* IdiotBall: Talbot has this glued to him throughout the episode. A list: he doesn't tell Coulson that Creel is his bodyguard which leads to a fight. He expects Malick to double-cross him yet his only counter-plan is to hope that Creel saves him after it happens. Despite all the times that he spends with Coulson he doesn't hint that anything is wrong. His leadership of the ATCU does not start on a positive note. To a larger extent, Malick and by extension all of HYDRA throughout history have been carrying one; they're so fixated on the idea of 'power' and bringing Hive back to Earth that it apparently never occurred to any of them that Hive was exiled to Maveth ''for a reason''.

* TheImmune: Creel is, thanks to his powers, the only non-Inhuman human so far to survive touching a Diviner--aside from Hartley and Coulson, who had [[LifeOrLimbDecision limbs cut off]] to stop the spread of otherwise fatal petrification.
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Daisy and Lincoln's sparring match is rife with this, and [[{{UST}} would have led to the former]] if not for Simmons' timely interruption.

* TheUnreveal: Exactly what Hive does to 'convert' both the HYDRA Inhumans isn't clear; it appears to induce some kind of mind control, but they retain enough free will to be disgusted with his gorging on humans.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: After over half a season of flirting, Daisy & Lincoln finally have sex.

* TheBadGuyWins: While S.H.I.E.L.D. rescues Talbot's son, Malick succeeds in gaining the favor of the nations working together on the Inhuman issue, and is guiding them towards gathering all the Inhumans in one place.

* IdiotBall: Talbot has this glued to him throughout the episode. A list: he doesn't tell Coulson that Creel is his bodyguard which leads to a fight. He expects Malick to double-cross him yet his only counter-plan is to hope that Creel saves him after it happens. Despite all the times that he spends with Coulson he doesn't hint that anything is wrong. His leadership of the ATCU does not start on a positive note.

* TheUnreveal: Exactly what Hive does to 'convert' both the HYDRA Inhumans isn't clear; it appears to induce some kind of mind control, but they retain enough free will to be disgusted in his gorging of humans.

* RightForTheWrongReasons: Hunter's suspicions of Creel being treacherous, while ultimately disproven, ''do'' lead the the team to find Talbot's son and to discover that the whole summit is a HYDRA trap.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The last one saw of May, she was heading off on a motorcycle to the follow the truck that had Talbot's son in it. When she shows up next, she's calmly driving the completely undamaged truck back to the hotel and kicks the body of the driver out.

* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: Creel, last seen working for HYDRA, is reintroduced as Talbot's body guard, which raises the suspicions of Hunter and the rest of S.H.I.E.L.D. It's revealed that HYDRA [[IHaveYourWife has Talbot's son]] and Creel is his minder. It's later reveal that Creel ''is'' actually on the side of good now, and is Talbot's contingency plan for getting his son back.