History Recap / AgentsOfSHIELDS6E10Leap

* AbsenteeActor:
** Due to her having been locked up in S.H.I.E.L.D. custody prior, Snowflake is nowhere to be seen here.
** The Chronicoms are once again absent.

** There isn't actually a Fear Dimension as Fitz hypothesized. The rift is actually the Monoliths' power of manipulating Space, Time, and Creation mixed together. The reason why it primarily manifested the heroes' fears is that human minds, while incredibly creative, lack the knowledge and control to harness the power of creation beyond basic impulses, like projecting their own personal horrors.
** Sarge and Izel come from a realm where the inhabitants have no physical form, but long to experience one. When Coulson went in to seal off the dimensional rift last season, the act of conquering his fear subconsciously unlocked the potential to wield the Creation monolith, which sent a copy of his body back to the spirits' realm in the distant past, becoming an unwilling host to one of its inhabitants. With an echo of Coulson's memories confusing him, Sarge's only drive was to hunt down Izel, another like him.

** There isn't actually a Fear Dimension as Fitz hypothesized. The rift is actually the Monoliths' power of manipulating Space, Time, and Creation mixed together.
** Sarge and Izel come from a realm where the inhabitants have no physical form, but long to experience one. When Coulson went in to seal it off, a copy of his body was made and then became an unwilling host to one of its inhabitants, who then was transported across space and time, landing on another planet in the past. With an echo of Coulson's memories confusing him, Sarge's only drive was to hunt down Izel, another like him.

* WeaksauceWeakness: Izel can't voluntarily leave a body she's posessing; she has to injure it or be injured.

!!Tropes in this episode:

** Due to her having been locked up in SHIELD custody prior, Snowflake is nowhere to be seen here.

** Izel notes after possessing Yo-Yo that she could slit all their throats in the blink of an eye, which is exactly how [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS5E18AllRoadsLead Yo-Yo killed Ruby]] in Season 5.

--->'''Elena:''' ''(confused look at Daisy)''\\

** Sarge's shadowy flashbacks of his family are actually moments that Coulson shared with people like May and Daisy in life.
** When Deke comments about how the destruction of the three monoliths formed a gateway to a dimension where incorporeal entities exist, Fitz notes that it isn't the first time they have dealt with 'spirits' - namely Ghost Rider.

* IfIWantedYouDead: Izel tells Sarge that she could've easily killed him long ago-- but she wants him to join her.

* RealityEnsues: Even if Sarge knows what Izel is saying is true, he's not going to give up his beliefs, which he's had for centuries, right away. In fact, he holds onto them stubbornly to keep himself sane because they're all he knows.
* RedHerring: The last we see of Izel before the face-off is her possessing Deke and heading to Control to find the Director, so when everyone confronts everyone else, the viewers believe he is the 'mole'. Turns out Deke saying he has no secrets because he's chatty is a misdirect as well, considering neither Piper nor Deke know who Izel moved to, and accuse each other of being possessed by her. Fitz's comments pique Mack's radar, and Fitz can't answer his question, so Izel is forced to come out into the open.

* WeCanRuleTogether: Izel offers this to Sarge after she seemingly reveals his true origins to him and their shared history. He rejects the offer, so she leaves him to stew in [[VillainousBreakdown his madness]].

* CompleteImmortality: Seems the energy beings Izel and Sarge are a part of are unable to die. Any physical damage they take they can heal, and it would appear that outside of a KryptoniteFactor there is no way to permanently put them down.
* DidYouJustHaveSex: {{Inverted|Trope}}; one of the things May remembers before her black out was that it was clear Mack and Elena were about to have sex.

* IdentityAmnesia: It's finally revealed that Sarge is a non-corporeal being from a dimension full of them who desperately want bodies. The Monolith sent a copy of Coulson's body through when he used it to stop everyone's fears last season, and upon possessing it their memories got mixed up so that he now thinks his lover Izel is actually his mortal enemy, while Coulson's memories of his team (particularly May and Daisy) are confused for being his family.
* IfIWantedYouDead: Izel tells Sarge that she could've easily killed him long ago - but she wants him to join her.

** Davis when he realizes he can't remember anything after being on Izel's ship until seeing May in the corridor.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: May killing Sarge, an unarmed man in cold blood [[DoesNotLikeGuns with a gun]], is something that's ''very'' out of character for her, which everybody takes notice of since her preferred MO is a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. They later make the observation that Davis's memory of her being kind and advising him to go to bed is also highly unlike her.

* RedHerring: The last we see of Izel before the face off is her possessing Deke and heading to Control to find the Director, so when everyone confronts everyone else, the viewers believe he is the 'mole'. Turns out Deke saying he has no secrets because he's chatty is a misdirect as well, considering neither Piper nor Deke know who Izel moved to, and claim each other is her. Fitz's comments pique Mack's radar, and Fitz can't answer the question, so Izel is forced to come out into the open.

** There isn't actually a Fear Dimension that Fitz hypothesized. The rift is actually the Monoliths' power of manipulating Space, Time and Creation mixed together.

** Since unwilling hosts are troublesome/dangerous for the energy beings to possess long term, the purpose of the Shrike is to create billions of hosts who have had their own will destroyed (making them in effect "willing" hosts).

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Mack realizes they can use this to find out whom Izel is possessing. Izel ultimately outs herself as possessing Fitz when unable to answer Mack's question of [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E3MakingFriendsAndInfluencingPeople where Simmons was working undercover]] when he joined.
* SpottingTheThread: Deke spots the Shrike crystal that Piper (possessed by Izel) carries.

* IdentityAmnesia: It's finally revealed that Sarge is a non-corporeal being from a dimension full of them who desperately want bodies. The Monolith sent a copy of Coulson's body through when he used it to stop everyone's fears last season, and upon possessing it their memories got mixed up so that he now thinks his lover Izel is actually his mortal enemy.

** When Daisy and Elena question Davis, he mentions surviving [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS6E03FearAndLoathingOnThePlanetOfKitson "the great puff incident of 2019"]]

* DontAsk: Daisy's advice to Elena regarding [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS6E03FearAndLoathingOnThePlanetOfKitson "the great puff incident of 2019"]]
* DramaticDislocation: How Sarge escape his restraints.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: May killing Sarge, an unarmed man in cold blood with a gun, is something that's ''very'' out of character for her, which everybody takes notice of since her preferred MO is a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. They later make the observation that Davis's memory of her being kind and advising him to go to bed is also highly unlike her.