History Recap / AgentCarterS1E4TheBlitzkriegButton

* BreakThemByTalking: Dooley gets Colonel Mueller, who is sentenced to be hanged, to talk to him about Finow by telling him an anecdote about another hanging Nazi whose noose was improperly measured, leaving him dangling there slowly suffocating for almost half an hour. He then offers him a quicker way out: a cyanide pill.

* TheCameo: Creator/StanLee appears at the end, in a shoe-shining booth with Howard Stark. He asks him for his newspaper so he can read the sports section.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Dooley commends Thompson on his comment about if [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Hermann Göring]] is a good kisser (calling back an earlier quip where Dooley claimed he'd kiss Göring himself if it'd give him answers on this case.)

* VillainsNeverLie: Justified when Dooley interrogates Mueller. When the Colonel tells him all the Russians at Finow were already dead before his forces arrived, Dooley briefly wonders if he's lying to hide his crimes there. Mueller responds that he's killed men, women, and children, and there'd be no point in hiding a minor crime when he's already sentenced to die for his many worse ones.

-->'''Mueller:''' (''as doctors measure him'') They are measuring me for my new necktie. [...] May I offer you some water? (''gestures to toilet'')

* ContinuityNod[=/=]InternalHomage: How Dottie kills Mr. Mink is near-identical to how [[ComicBook/BlackWidow Natasha Romanoff]] took down a guard in ''Film/IronMan2'', and a hint that she too is from the same program. It even ends in a ThreePointLanding just like Nat's.

** Thompson later makes an unfortunately accurate for the times speech to Peggy about her efforts to prove herself are doomed because of her gender - which still doesn't justify why neither he nor Dooley has ever allowed her an opportunity to ''try''.

* JustThinkOfThePotential[=/=]OnlyInItForTheMoney: Howard Stark thinks the last sample of Rogers' blood can be turned into a cure for numerous diseases. He claims he wants it to better the world, but Peggy thinks he wants it to just to make even more money.

* MurderousThighs[=/=]NeckSnap: How Dottie disposes of Mr. Mink.
* MythologyGag: Ernst Mueller was a minor henchman of Baron Strucker's back in the 60s.

* PetTheDog: Thompson didn't have to let Sousa keep questioning the homeless man, but he did - and he actually got the guy to talk. Later on Thompson says to Sousa that even if the witness didn't know anything they could act on, he did a good job finding him.
* PhotoDoodleRecognition: Near the end, Sousa was still studying the photo showing Carter in a blond wig looking away from the camera. Then, he uses a pencil to darken the hair...

* YouHaveFailedMe: Mink's treatment of his thugs.

-->'''Mueller''': (''As doctors measure him'') They are measuring me for my new necktie. [...] May I offer you some water? (''gestures to toilet'')

* ContinuityNod / InternalHomage: How Dottie kills Mr. Mink is near-identical to how [[ComicBook/BlackWidow Natasha Romanoff]] took down a guard in ''Film/IronMan2'', and a hint that she too is from the same program. It even ends in a ThreePointLanding just Nat's.

* CyanidePill: Subverted. Dooley offer Colonel Mueller this if he gives info about what happens in the Battle of Finow. It turns out to be just a breath mint.

** Ms Fry's seemingly interminable lecture about the need for her to protect her tenant's virtue does include the rather valid point that Peggy keeps rather odd hours for the telephone operator she claims to be to everyone at the Griffith.
* JustThinkOfThePotential / OnlyInItForTheMoney: Howard Stark thinks the last sample of Rogers' blood can be turned into a cure for numerous diseases. He claims he wants it to better the world, but Peggy thinks he wants it to just to make even more money.

-->'''Peggy''': I think you're a man out for his own gain, no matter you're charging. You are constantly finding holes to slither into, in the hope of finding loose change, only to cry when you're bitten by another snake. You are a man who says "I love you" whilst looking over a woman's shoulder into a mirror. Steve Rogers dedicated his mind, his body, his life, to the SSR and to this country, not to your bank account. I made the same pledge, but I’m not as good as Steve was. I forgot my pledge running around for you like a corporate spy. So thank you, Howard, for reminding me who Steve was, and who I aspire to be. For all I know, you ''did'' steal your inventions.

-->'''Dottie''': Is that pistol an automatic? ''I want that''.

-->'''Peggy''': What's in the vial?
-->'''Stark''': Steve Rogers's blood.

* BreakingSpeech: Dooley gets Colonel Mueller, who is sentenced to be hanged, to talk to him about Finow by telling him an anecdote about another hanging Nazi whose noose was improperly measured, leaving him dangling there slowly suffocating for almost half an hour. He then offers him a quicker way out: a cyanide pill.

* CyanidePill: Subverted. Dooley offer Colonel Mueller this if he gives info about what happen in the Battle of Finow. It turns out to be just a breath mint.

* MookHorrorShow: The episode starts off in the POV of the {{Mook}}s who have Howard Stark held captive. One of their fellow Mooks is knocked out by some killer in the shadows, and when they try and find out who did this to him, they only end up being knocked out by the same killer, who, of course, is none other than Peggy. The scene is complete with spooky background music.

* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: When planning to assassinate Peggy at the Griffith, Mr. Mink comes to the lobby with flowers, claiming he wants to visit her. Ms. Fry, who meets him at the desk, demands his name, phone number, and professional information first. As soon as she looks up, he's already leaving.
* ShaggyDogStory: Mr. Mink and his quest for revenge. All he manages to do is look creepy and deliver a fully automatic revolver to a SheFu killer.

* YouHaveFailedMe: Mink's treatment of his thugs.
* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: There was no good reason for Howard to lie to Peggy about Steve's blood. He even admits as much to her, claiming lying's in his nature now since he had to cheat along the way to the top.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Dooley commends Thompson on his comment about if [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Joseph Goebbels]] is a good kisser (calling back an earlier quip where Dooley claimed he'd kiss Goebbels himself if it'd give him answers on this case.)

* BreakingSpeech: Dooley gets Colonel Mueller, who is sentenced to be hanged, to talk to him about Finnow by telling him an anecdote about another hanging Nazi whose noose was improperly measured, leaving him dangling there slowly suffocating for almost half an hour. He then offers him a quicker way out: a cyanide pill.

* VillainsNeverLie: Justified when Dooley interrogates Mueller. When the Colonel tells him all the Russians at Finnow were already dead before his forces arrived, Dooley briefly wonders if he's lying to hide his crimes there. Mueller responds that he's killed men, women, and children, and there'd be no point in hiding a minor crime when he's already sentenced to die for his many worse ones.

* BreakingSpeech: Dooley gets Colonel Mueller, who is sentenced to be hanged, to talk to him about Finow by telling him an anecdote about another hanging Nazi whose noose was improperly measured, leaving him dangling there slowly suffocating for almost half an hour. He then offers him a quicker way out: a cyanide pill.

Howard Stark returns to NYC and tasks Peggy with retrieving the Blitzkrieg Button, an {{EMP}} device that was confiscated from the ''Heartbreak'' by the SSR. Meanwhile, Chief Dooley goes to Nuremberg to interrogate a Nazi with valuable information, and Peggy is tracked by Mr. Mink, the man who smuggled Stark back into the country and tried to extort more money from him.

* {{EMP}}: The Blitzkrieg Button, supposedly. Howard Stark claimed to have built it to mass-blackout city lights, for use by Britain during The Blitz. But he couldn't figure out a way to turn them back on, so he fear triggering the device would short out all of New York's electricity permanently. However, Peggy manages to figure out he's lying and it doesn't blow when she presses the button.

* {{EMP}}: The Blitzkrieg Button. Howard Stark claimed to have built it to mass-blackout city lights, for use by Britain during The Blitz. But he couldn't figure out a way to turn them back on, so he fear triggering the device would short out all of New York's electricity permanently. However, Peggy manages to figure out he's lying and it doesn't blow when she presses the button.

-->'''Peggy''': I think you're a man out for his own gain, no matter you're charging. You are constantly finding holes to slither into, in the hope of finding loose change, only to cry when you're bitten by another snake. You are a man who says "I love you" whilst looking over a woman's shoulder into a mirror. Steve Rogers dedicated his mind, his body, his life, to the SSR and to this country, not to your bank account. I made the same pledge, but I’m not as good as Steve was. I forgot my pledge running around for you like a corporate spy. So thank you, Howard, for reminding me who Steve was, and who I aspire to be.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Dooley commends Thompson on his comment about [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Joseph Goebbels]] being a good kisser (given his use of a breath mint earlier as a fake CyanidePill).

* JustThinkOfThePotential / OnlyInItForTheMoney: Howard Stark think the last sample of Rogers' blood can be turned into a cure for numerous diseases. He claims he wants it to better the world, but Peggy thinks he wants it to just to make even more money.

* ThinkOfThePossibilities / CutLexLuthorACheck: Howard Stark think the last sample of Rogers' blood can be turned into a cure for numerous diseases. He claims he wants it to better the world, but Peggy thinks he wants it to just to make even more money.

* {{EMP}}: The Blitzkrieg button. Howard Stark claimed to have built it to mass-blackout city lights, for use by Britain during The Blitz. But he couldn't figure out a way to turn them back on, so he fear triggering the device would short out all of New York's electricity permanently. However, Peggy manages to figure out he's lying and it doesn't blow when she presses the button.

* JerkassHasAPoint: