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** DoubleSubverted with Hannah's firing. She didn't get fired, the President just pretended to fire her to give her a cover; then after her mission is done, she turns in her badge so she can hunt down Damian's killer on her own.
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Directed by Creator/ChrisGrimer
Written by Creator/TomGarrigus, Creator/JessicaGrasl, Creator/PierluigiCothran, Creator/PatrickCunnane, & Creator/TraceyRice
Written by Creator/TomGarrigus, Creator/JessicaGrasl, Creator/PierluigiCothran, Creator/PatrickCunnane, & Creator/TraceyRice
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ethan West may be abrasive, but he genuinely wants to help the Jennings family get Matthew back home.
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* UnwantedAssistance: Ethan West's fumbling assistance with the negotiations over Matthew Jennings ends up causing more problems than resolving them.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Chuck Russink serves as this for Hannah.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Chuck Russink serves as this for Hannah.
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* UnwantedAssistance: Ethan West's fumbling assistance with the negotiations over Matthew Jennings ends up causing more problems than resolving them.
them, until he and Kirkman can get on the same page.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Chuck Russink serves as this forHannah.Hannah as she infiltrates Minter's house.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Chuck Russink serves as this for
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* CommutingOnABus: Right after Ethan West was seemingly PutOnABus at the end of "Capacity", he returns once again. That said, there may have been a TimeSkip between episodes, as "Capacity" and "Target" seem to be several months to most of a year apart.
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* SpecialGuest: Creator/MichaelJFox as Ethan West ... [[CommutingOnABus again]].
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Kirkman negotiates the release of an American youth held abroad and threatened with hard labor over a minor crime. Meanwhile, Hannah continues her investigation into the source of the "Gamine" hacks and Kendra
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!!Tropes in this episode:
* BaitAndSwitch: Of a sort; the episode is framed to make you think that Agent Wells is breaking into Andrea Frost's house to gather evidence of the "Gamine" hacks, when it's really Dax Minter's house.
* BittersweetEnding: Dax Minter is outed as the "Gamine" hacker and arrested, while Matthew Jennings gets to come home to America, but Kendra's investigation of her former mentor leads nowhere good, and Andrea Frost leaves for San Francisco.
* BrokenPedestal: Kendra has one of these regarding her former mentor, not that it isn't justified.
* ButNowIMustGo[=/=]PutOnABus: Andrea Frost leaves D.C. long-term to head up a crucial project for her company in San Francisco, but not before a bit more ShipTease between her and Kirkman.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Dax Minter goes on a MotiveRant to explain that hacked and undermined Kirkman to weaken government oversight of tech companies like his own, so that corporations could operate "without interference". Kirkman isn't buying it.
* TheCracker: Dax Minter is behind the "Gamine" cyberattacks.
* DirtyOldMan: Not that he's particularly old, but Kendra's former mentor ''does'' show a pretty clear predilection for younger women throughout the episode. The ambiguous sexual misconduct ultimately sinks his potential nomination to the D.C. appellate court.
* FelonyMisdemeanor: Matthew Jennings spray-painted a smiley-face on a wall, for which he is [[DisproportionateRetribution threatened with years of hard labor in a prison camp]].
* KansasCityShuffle: Hannah's actions are revealed to be this; she and Kirkman had worked out the location of Minter's bug in the Oval Office, and staged her public harassment of Andrea Frost as well as her "firing" in the Oval Office to give the hacker the false impression that suspicion had fallen elsewhere. Wells then went to Minter and arranged to have him meet up with Frost so that she could gather evidence from his home while he was away. With his guilt assured, Kirkman and Wells then got Minter to come to the Oval Office on the pretense of a meeting in order to arrest him.
* TheReveal: Dax Minter was behind the "Gamine" cyberattacks, not Andrea Frost.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: An American youth being sentenced to years of imprisonment and hard labour? That hasn't been in the news lately, has it?
* TranquilFury: Kirkman, when confronting Dax Minter.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Chuck Russink serves as this for Hannah.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Kirkman makes it very clear that he takes Minter's attacks as a personal betrayal. Conversely, Minter resents Kirkman for maintaining and strengthening corporate oversight laws.
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!!Tropes in this episode:
* BaitAndSwitch: Of a sort; the episode is framed to make you think that Agent Wells is breaking into Andrea Frost's house to gather evidence of the "Gamine" hacks, when it's really Dax Minter's house.
* BittersweetEnding: Dax Minter is outed as the "Gamine" hacker and arrested, while Matthew Jennings gets to come home to America, but Kendra's investigation of her former mentor leads nowhere good, and Andrea Frost leaves for San Francisco.
* BrokenPedestal: Kendra has one of these regarding her former mentor, not that it isn't justified.
* ButNowIMustGo[=/=]PutOnABus: Andrea Frost leaves D.C. long-term to head up a crucial project for her company in San Francisco, but not before a bit more ShipTease between her and Kirkman.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Dax Minter goes on a MotiveRant to explain that hacked and undermined Kirkman to weaken government oversight of tech companies like his own, so that corporations could operate "without interference". Kirkman isn't buying it.
* TheCracker: Dax Minter is behind the "Gamine" cyberattacks.
* DirtyOldMan: Not that he's particularly old, but Kendra's former mentor ''does'' show a pretty clear predilection for younger women throughout the episode. The ambiguous sexual misconduct ultimately sinks his potential nomination to the D.C. appellate court.
* FelonyMisdemeanor: Matthew Jennings spray-painted a smiley-face on a wall, for which he is [[DisproportionateRetribution threatened with years of hard labor in a prison camp]].
* KansasCityShuffle: Hannah's actions are revealed to be this; she and Kirkman had worked out the location of Minter's bug in the Oval Office, and staged her public harassment of Andrea Frost as well as her "firing" in the Oval Office to give the hacker the false impression that suspicion had fallen elsewhere. Wells then went to Minter and arranged to have him meet up with Frost so that she could gather evidence from his home while he was away. With his guilt assured, Kirkman and Wells then got Minter to come to the Oval Office on the pretense of a meeting in order to arrest him.
* TheReveal: Dax Minter was behind the "Gamine" cyberattacks, not Andrea Frost.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: An American youth being sentenced to years of imprisonment and hard labour? That hasn't been in the news lately, has it?
* TranquilFury: Kirkman, when confronting Dax Minter.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Chuck Russink serves as this for Hannah.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Kirkman makes it very clear that he takes Minter's attacks as a personal betrayal. Conversely, Minter resents Kirkman for maintaining and strengthening corporate oversight laws.
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