History Recap / AgentsOfSHIELDS6E02WindowOfOpportunity

* WhatAnIdiot: Veteran operative with 20+ years of experience goes away during a mission to chase a lead, finds enemy truck/base and goes in without telling anyone that she did so, thus refusing S.H.I.E.L.D. team a chance to give her backup, intercept the truck, etc.

!!Tropes in this episode:

** A dark one to ''Film/AFunnyThingHappenedOnTheWayToThorsHammer''. In that One-Shot, Phil Coulson thwarted a convenience store robbery. Here, Sarge is the one robbing a convenience store.

* ContinuityNod: At the convenience store, Sarge's eyes stop on a pair of sunglasses similar to Coulson's before choosing a different pair.

* PragmaticVillainy: Sarge tries to talk Dana out of doing anything heroic so as not to complicate his operation, and he keeps her alive despite her pressing a silent alarm because she might be useful. Judging from his bemused reaction to Snowflake slaughtering the guards at the jewellery store, Sarge hadn't planned on killing anyone at all.

* WhatAnIdiot: Veteran operative with 20+ years of experience goes away during a mission to chase a lead, finds enemy truck/base and goes in without telling anyone that she did so, thus refusing S.H.I.E.L.D. team a chance to give her backup, intercept the truck etc.

* BatmanGambit: Fitz knows that there is no guarantee that the Controller will stick to his part of the deal, and could space him at any moment, so he engineers a way to force him into killing off his incompetent crew and his stowaways, and sabotages the airlock systems to only open the cargo bay door instead of the airlock.

** A dark one to ''Film/AFunnyThingHappenedOnTheWayToThorsHammer''. In that One-Shot, Phil Coulson thwarted a convenience store robbery. Here, Sarge is the one committing a robbery on a convenience store.

** Fitz gets one when he mentions that he knows what its like to be pragmatic about people's lives, from his time as the Doctor.

** This goes double for the entire Big Rig crew. We know next to nothing about them other than they have advanced tech, including cloaking, energy guns, and portal devices; and they escaped a planet that was slowly being destroyed.

* ThrownOutTheAirlock: The Controller tries to space his engineering crew save Fitz and Enoch because he doesn't feel like paying them when Fitz will do their work for free. When Fitz steps in the airlock with them to stop him, the Controller decides to space him, too, since he can hire more workers. Fitz, however, reprogrammed the doors so the cargo door on the other side would open, spacing the Controller and his goons, instead.

* WeirdCurrency: Invoked by Sarge when he goes on how "you can tell a lot from a world by its money." When an aide says it's "paper with faces on it," Sarge scoffs "great, one of ''those''" but says it's easier than dragging a load of coins around.

* MysteriousPast: Even Sarge's team don't know much of anything about him; Pax tries to get him to open up, but is told not to hold his breath. The most we get here is that Coulson's name "rings a bell".

** When she determines where the truck ''should'' be, she uses a handful of dirt to [[SeeTheInvisible detect it]].

* CallBack: [=LMDs=] are considered as a possible explanation for Sarge being a lookalike for Coulson.

* SpottingTheThread: May finds the cloaked truck.

* CoolShades:
** Sarge steals a pair of appropriately sinister sunglasses.
** On the bad guys side, Pax is the only one to bother much with Tinker's death, calling Snowflake out for going so carelessly through his belongings.
* DueToTheDead: The agents mourn Fox, with Keller in particular beating himself up over it.

* CoolShades: Sarge steals a pair of appropriately sinister sunglasses.

* OutOfCharacterAlert: Fitz exposes himself as an alien to the crew of the freighter when he expresses disgust at the snails they're transporting, which are a delicacy to the species.

* WorthlessYellowRocks: Sarge describes diamonds and other precious stones as being "trash". They're much more interested in common crystals that can be used to power their tech.

* ImposterExposingTest: The crew of the freighter asks where Fitz is from when they suspect he's lying about his identity. He claims to be from "really far North", which is an irradiated wasteland on their world.

* WorthlessYellowRocks: Sarge describes diamonds and other precious stones as being "trash".

* DramaticIrony: The ''Zephyr One'' arriving just as Fitz's ship leaves the system.

* WorthlessYellowRocks: Sarge describes diamonds and other precious stones as being "trash".

* BerserkButton: Marcus Benson inadvertently hits the team's and ''especially'' May's for insinuating that Coulson might've never died.
* ThisCannotBe: The team's reaction that Sarge's DNA is a 100% match for Coulsonn a man they know to be dead.

* ThisCanNotBe: The team's reaction that Sarge's DNA is a 100% match for Coulson a man they know to be dead.

* AbsenteeActor: Jemma, Daisy, and Piper don't appear in this episode.

* BerserkButton: Marcus Benson hits the team's and ''especially'' May's for insinuating that Coulson might've never dead.

* BerserkButton: Marcus Benson hits the team and ''especially'' May's for insinuating that Coulson might've never dead.