History Recap / AgentsOfSHIELDS3E9Closure

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: For whatever off-screen torture Simmons had to endure, she only came out with a scratch on her cheek.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Coulson is ''very'' upset that Ward killed Rosalind. He's aware enough to step down as Director and appoint Mack

* DareToBeBadass: Malick urges Ward to rise above petty concerns of revenge and take charge, which convinces Ward to lead the mission to recover the ancient Inhuman.

* EvilerThanThou: Thomas claims that Grant was the worst out of a whole family of terrible people.

* WhiteSheep: Thomas is the only member of the Ward household who's ''not'' an utterly awful human being.

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: This trope is invoked by Ward when he kills Rosalind. It was deliberately to make Coulson watch her die.

* RealityEnsues: Coulson skydives into the portal from above... and is launched up from the other side at the same speed,[[note]][[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out.]][[/note]] eventually tumbling down a cliff and hitting his head on a rock. It's a miracle he was simply ''knocked out'' as a result. Thankfully, a sandstorm ensures that Ward and his team don't see any of this.

* NotSoDifferent: Ward says this word-for-word about him and Coulson. He's none too happy to find out how right he is when Coulson tells him he kidnapped Thomas. It's shown in a kind of funny way too when both of them have a temper tantrum and throw away their phones at one point.

!!Tropes in this episode include:

--> '''Thomas:''' Dad needed a walker to get around. Who was he gonna hurt?

** [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E21Ragtag Once again]], Ward has captured Fitz and Simmons, although he's even ''more'' unhinged this time around.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Rosalind is sniped in the neck by Ward during an intimate dinner with Coulson. Banks also meets his end when Giyera takes control of his gun and shoots him at the Distant Star facility.

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Coulson really walks the line between black and white, to the concern of his team. He recognizes this and its why he puts Mack in charge of SHIELD for the mission's duration.

--> '''Grant:''' I know this is tough to hear, but sometimes, you got to do a bad thing for the right reasons.\\

* NeckLift: Coulson does this to Hunter for failing to kill Ward, since he's still upset about Ward killing Rosalind. Bobbi talks him down.

* PunchAWall: Coulson does it and with his [[SuperStrength robotic hand]], no less.
* RealityEnsues: Coulson skydives into the portal from above... and is launched up from the other side at the same speed,[[labelnote: A note]][[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out.]][[/labelnote]] eventually tumbling down a cliff and hitting his head on a rock. It's a miracle he was simply ''knocked out'' as a result. Thankfully, a sandstorm ensures that Ward and his team don't see any of this.

* StormingTheCastle: SHIELD prepares to do this, literally, with HYDRA's current base in the English castle from "[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E2PurposeInTheMachine Purpose in the Machine]]".

* SympathyForTheDevil: Daisy tells Coulson that she completely understands how Ward was manipulated by Garrett into joining HYDRA, with a CallBack to her own experience being taken in by her own mother, and that having a screwed up childhood as both of them had explains why he turned out the way he did. She still doesn't think the adult Ward deserves any mercy.

* TheReveal: It really was Grant all along who pushed Thomas down the well but both Ward parents were still horrible people.