Hydra and the cyanide. Ooh I can answer this! They were yelling at each other about this in the show. They did check the teeth, I believe they said it was embedded in the cheekbone. Which is why he bashed his face on the table *which startled the hell out of me*
Ah, thank you for that. Of course I'm still wondering because...this probably wasn't a new tactic. Like, I understand ~plot point~ and all, but...the chances of hiding it in the cheekbone being a new trick isn't that high. It actually seems like a lot better idea than the teeth since the likelihood of accidental fracture is much lower (not like HYDRA gives a damn about losing its peons, but it's higher ups might care a bit more about their own lives). Like, their protocol should have been a dental x ray. And yeah I guess we could argue that they no longer had access to a dental x ray machine. But they have access to a special holding cell with force fields instead of bars so like...I don't know what to say about that.
I don't mean to sound harsh, though. I just have a great deal of fun pulling apart shows I enjoy. And lately a lot of stuff on AoS seems to be ~because reasons~.
And I mean, I can think of explanations for it turning out the way it did, but in the background the real reason is "we needed to get him out of the way after the convenient exposition because he's a potential problem to our plot."
Thank you for sending this to me. :)