Interesting twists

I watched Agents of SHIELD last week and one particular scene keeps sticking with me.  When Coulson and Ward are questioning Skye, Coulson gets out the truth serum.  Then is a really nice twist, he gives it to Ward and lets Sky question him.  Why do I like this so much?

1. Lois McMaster Bujold uses a substance called FastPenta in her fiction.  Her protagonist (male) acknowledges at one point that interrogation with it can be a form of "mind rape".  
2. Ward is just the sort of power-happy creep who needs to get smacked down hard when he's young in order to grow up into a decent human being.
3. The truth serum with all its ugly implications comes out, Ward looks excited (yuck) and then the power dynamic is gleefully subverted.

Later in the week another new show, The Blacklist twisted the dynamic a different way when Liz is asked to profile herself.  There were several moments in the pilot, including this one, that reserved agency to Liz  even when it was uncomfortable.  The Liz character could have been a Mary Sue.  She's not.  I hope it continues.