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* RecapByAudit: The film uses the device of Sam Axe being interrogated by the United States military about his activities in Colombia; the damages that resulted; and everyone involved.
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'''Adm. Maitland''': You were unaware?! You're a Navy SEAL, trained in battlefield awareness, and you [[FailedASpotCheck didn't see my '''name on the mailbox'''?!]]\\
'''Sam''': Well, sir, I wasn't exactly in that frame of mind when I was at your house. As you can imagine, I was otherwise occupied... [[ShuttingUpNow I'll stop talking now, sir.]]

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'''Adm. Maitland''': You were unaware?! You're a Navy SEAL, trained in battlefield awareness, and you [[FailedASpotCheck didn't see my '''name my]] '''[[FailedASpotCheck name on the mailbox'''?!]]\\
mailbox]]'''?!\\
'''Sam''': Well, sir, I wasn't exactly in that frame of mind when I was at your house. [[NotHelpingYourCase As you can imagine, I was otherwise occupied...occupied, sir]]... [[ShuttingUpNow I'll stop talking now, sir.]]



* FailedASpotCheck: Admiral Maitland lampshades the fact that Sam, a Navy Seal trained in battlefield awareness, didn't notice the admiral's name on the mailbox of his one night stand's house. Sam tries to defend himself by saying he was [[DistractedByTheSexy distracted]] by the time he was at the house, which doesn't help his case at all.
* FalseFlagOperation: Veracruz plans to destroy a medical clinic and blame the rebels; using the attack as a justification for receiving greater US military aid.

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* FailedASpotCheck: Admiral Maitland lampshades the fact that Sam, a Navy Seal trained in battlefield awareness, didn't notice the admiral's name on the mailbox of his one night stand's house. Sam tries to defend himself by saying he was [[DistractedByTheSexy distracted]] by the time he was at the house, [[NotHelpingYourCase which doesn't help his case at all.all]].
* FalseFlagOperation: Veracruz plans to destroy a medical clinic and blame the rebels; rebels, using the attack as a justification for receiving greater US military aid.



-->Only someone who isn't an aid worker could ask that. You get into this business because you want to make the world a better place, and it turns out that there's people out there who just want to make it worse, and we're outnumbered. By a lot.

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-->Only -->''Only someone who isn't an aid worker could ask that. You get into this business because you want to make the world a better place, and it turns out that there's people out there who just want to make it worse, and we're outnumbered. By a lot.''



* TrainingThePeacefulVillagers: Okay, so the Espada group isn't exactly helpless being armed with hunting rifles but the [[spoiler: twelve of them]] seem to react well enough to Sam's training on [[spoiler: [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball Football]] ]] tactics.

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* TrainingThePeacefulVillagers: Okay, so the Espada ''Espada'' group isn't exactly helpless being armed with hunting rifles but the [[spoiler: twelve of them]] seem to react well enough to Sam's training on [[spoiler: [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball Football]] ]] tactics.
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* ISurrenderSuckers

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* ISurrenderSuckersISurrenderSuckers: Sam's last ditch ploy is to go out alone, unarmed, to try and buy time for reinforcements to arrive. All he can do is take a beating.
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* AskAStupidQuestion: Sam wonders why Beatríz is working with the Espada Ardiente, because most girls her age are into makeup and shopping malls.
-->'''Beatríz:''' Do you see any shopping malls around here?\\
'''Sam:''' No, you blindfolded me, remember?


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** The plot gets kicked off when Sam accidentally sleeps with an admiral's wife (the sex part was intentional, not the her being an admiral's wife part) and the man retaliates by sending him to Colombia with an unclear, long-term, crap assignment.
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* FriendToAllChildren: While clearning out the clinic, Beatríz has trouble getting a child to hurry onto the truck. Sam steps in and, even with his limited Spanish, manages to charm the child and deliver her to her mother.

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* FriendToAllChildren: While clearning clearing out the clinic, Beatríz has trouble getting a child to hurry onto the truck. Sam steps in and, even with his limited Spanish, manages to charm the child and deliver her to her mother.

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* FunWithSubtitles: Sam speaks Spanish well enough, but even he admits he speaks on the level of a third grader. Thus the subtitles for his Spanish is represented in simple or broken English "Tired. Much tired."

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* FriendToAllChildren: While clearning out the clinic, Beatríz has trouble getting a child to hurry onto the truck. Sam steps in and, even with his limited Spanish, manages to charm the child and deliver her to her mother.
* FunWithSubtitles: Sam speaks Spanish well enough, but even he admits he speaks on the level of a third grader. Thus the subtitles for his simple, broken Spanish is represented in simple or simple, broken English "Tired. Much tired.""
* FunnyForeigner: Sam gets to be one in Colombia. He's dressed in an absurd uniform, speaking broken Spanish, and stumbling around the jungle.
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* MacGyvering: This is a Burn Notice! Sam and the doctor at the clinic have to put together bombs out of medical equipment and supplies. They both end up surprised at how good the doctor gets at improvising explosives.
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* TruthInTelevision: Graymail is a thing; threatening to release state secrets in order to manipulate the outcome of a legal proceeding.
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* NoYou: Sam gets in a shouting match with one of the officers running his not-a-trial.
-->'''Officer:''' You're talking to a superior officer!\\
'''Sam:''' ''You're'' talking to a superior officer!
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* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Everyone calls Sam "soldier". That's understandable for the civilians (and he protests once or twice), but not at all for his tribunal. Sam's in the navy. He's a ''sailor'', or a ''seaman''.

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* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Everyone calls Sam "soldier". That's understandable for the civilians (and he protests once or twice), but not at all for his tribunal. Sam's in the navy. He's a ''sailor'', or a ''seaman''.''seaman'', and they would call him that, or by his rank.
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* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Everyone calls Sam "soldier". That's understandable for the civilians (and he protests once or twice), but not at all for his tribunal. Sam's in the navy. He's a ''sailor'', or a ''seaman''.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: The two CIA guys in the outpost. They end up becoming recurring characters to replace Sam's FBI guys.
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* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Sam (slightly drunk) trying to explain his actions to his very pissed-off superior:
-->'''Sam''': Admiral sir, I was unaware that she was your significant other, sir...\\
'''Adm. Maitland''': You were unaware?! You're a Navy SEAL, trained in battlefield awareness, and you [[FailedASpotCheck didn't see my '''name on the mailbox'''?!]]\\
'''Sam''': Well, sir, I wasn't exactly in that frame of mind when I was at your house. As you can imagine, I was otherwise occupied... [[ShuttingUpNow I'll stop talking now, sir.]]

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