diff --git a/assignment-client/src/Agent.cpp b/assignment-client/src/Agent.cpp
index 88897a0fed..bd368ef7c2 100644
--- a/assignment-client/src/Agent.cpp
+++ b/assignment-client/src/Agent.cpp
@@ -656,6 +656,8 @@ void Agent::queryAvatars() {
     ViewFrustum view;
     view.setPosition(scriptedAvatar->getWorldPosition());
     view.setOrientation(scriptedAvatar->getHeadOrientation());
+    view.setProjection(DEFAULT_FIELD_OF_VIEW_DEGREES, DEFAULT_ASPECT_RATIO,
+                       DEFAULT_NEAR_CLIP, DEFAULT_FAR_CLIP);
     view.calculate();
     ConicalViewFrustum conicalView { view };
 
@@ -876,18 +878,30 @@ void Agent::aboutToFinish() {
     DependencyManager::destroy<AudioInjectorManager>();
 
     // destroy all other created dependencies
-    DependencyManager::destroy<ScriptCache>();
 
-    DependencyManager::destroy<ResourceCacheSharedItems>();
     DependencyManager::destroy<SoundCacheScriptingInterface>();
-    DependencyManager::destroy<SoundCache>();
     DependencyManager::destroy<AudioScriptingInterface>();
-
     DependencyManager::destroy<RecordingScriptingInterface>();
+    DependencyManager::destroy<AnimationCacheScriptingInterface>();
+    DependencyManager::destroy<EntityScriptingInterface>();
+    DependencyManager::destroy<ResourceScriptingInterface>();
+    DependencyManager::destroy<UserActivityLoggerScriptingInterface>();
+
+    DependencyManager::destroy<ScriptCache>();
+    DependencyManager::destroy<SoundCache>();
+    DependencyManager::destroy<AnimationCache>();
+
     DependencyManager::destroy<recording::Deck>();
     DependencyManager::destroy<recording::Recorder>();
     DependencyManager::destroy<recording::ClipCache>();
 
+    DependencyManager::destroy<AvatarHashMap>();
+    DependencyManager::destroy<AssignmentParentFinder>();
+    DependencyManager::destroy<MessagesClient>();
+    DependencyManager::destroy<ResourceManager>();
+
+    DependencyManager::destroy<ResourceCacheSharedItems>();
+
     // drop our shared pointer to the script engine, then ask ScriptEngines to shutdown scripting
     // this ensures that the ScriptEngine goes down before ScriptEngines
     _scriptEngine.clear();
diff --git a/assignment-client/src/AssignmentClient.cpp b/assignment-client/src/AssignmentClient.cpp
index 76ff5ab2ed..c1943de2cc 100644
--- a/assignment-client/src/AssignmentClient.cpp
+++ b/assignment-client/src/AssignmentClient.cpp
@@ -129,17 +129,12 @@ void AssignmentClient::stopAssignmentClient() {
         QThread* currentAssignmentThread = _currentAssignment->thread();
 
         // ask the current assignment to stop
-        BLOCKING_INVOKE_METHOD(_currentAssignment, "stop");
+        QMetaObject::invokeMethod(_currentAssignment, "stop");
 
-        // ask the current assignment to delete itself on its thread
-        _currentAssignment->deleteLater();
-
-        // when this thread is destroyed we don't need to run our assignment complete method
-        disconnect(currentAssignmentThread, &QThread::destroyed, this, &AssignmentClient::assignmentCompleted);
-
-        // wait on the thread from that assignment - it will be gone once the current assignment deletes
-        currentAssignmentThread->quit();
-        currentAssignmentThread->wait();
+        auto PROCESS_EVENTS_INTERVAL_MS = 100;
+        while (!currentAssignmentThread->wait(PROCESS_EVENTS_INTERVAL_MS)) {
+            QCoreApplication::processEvents();
+        }
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/assignment-client/src/scripts/EntityScriptServer.cpp b/assignment-client/src/scripts/EntityScriptServer.cpp
index 272985093c..ef0c807bc4 100644
--- a/assignment-client/src/scripts/EntityScriptServer.cpp
+++ b/assignment-client/src/scripts/EntityScriptServer.cpp
@@ -583,15 +583,29 @@ void EntityScriptServer::handleOctreePacket(QSharedPointer<ReceivedMessage> mess
 void EntityScriptServer::aboutToFinish() {
     shutdownScriptEngine();
 
+    DependencyManager::get<EntityScriptingInterface>()->setEntityTree(nullptr);
+    DependencyManager::get<ResourceManager>()->cleanup();
+
+    DependencyManager::destroy<AudioScriptingInterface>();
+    DependencyManager::destroy<SoundCacheScriptingInterface>();
+    DependencyManager::destroy<ResourceScriptingInterface>();
+    DependencyManager::destroy<EntityScriptingInterface>();
+
+    DependencyManager::destroy<SoundCache>();
+    DependencyManager::destroy<ScriptCache>();
+
+    DependencyManager::destroy<ResourceManager>();
+    DependencyManager::destroy<ResourceCacheSharedItems>();
+
+    DependencyManager::destroy<MessagesClient>();
+
     DependencyManager::destroy<AssignmentDynamicFactory>();
     DependencyManager::destroy<AssignmentParentFinder>();
+    DependencyManager::destroy<AvatarHashMap>();
 
-    DependencyManager::get<ResourceManager>()->cleanup();
 
     DependencyManager::destroy<PluginManager>();
 
-    DependencyManager::destroy<ResourceScriptingInterface>();
-    DependencyManager::destroy<EntityScriptingInterface>();
 
     // cleanup the AudioInjectorManager (and any still running injectors)
     DependencyManager::destroy<AudioInjectorManager>();
diff --git a/libraries/recording/src/recording/Deck.cpp b/libraries/recording/src/recording/Deck.cpp
index 69a8587581..4d65f0eb1b 100644
--- a/libraries/recording/src/recording/Deck.cpp
+++ b/libraries/recording/src/recording/Deck.cpp
@@ -180,9 +180,7 @@ void Deck::processFrames() {
 #ifdef WANT_RECORDING_DEBUG
     qCDebug(recordingLog) << "Setting timer for next processing " << nextInterval;
 #endif
-    _timer.singleShot(nextInterval, [this] {
-        processFrames();
-    });
+    _timer.singleShot(nextInterval, this, &Deck::processFrames);
 }
 
 void Deck::removeClip(const ClipConstPointer& clip) {