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* AccompliceByInaction: The aim of the "replacement service" is to cultivate these; they create a hostile situation where passengers will have to choose between standing up to injustice or remaining compliant, then kill everyone who chooses to stand up, with the intention of making sure society is made up mostly of people who won't challenge the status quo.
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* DeadlyEuphemism: The "replacement service" turns out to refer to KillAndReplace.
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* KillAndReplace: The train passengers who openly defied authority are gassed to death, and replaced with identical clones. This has apparently been happening for quite a while now.
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* DrivingQuestion: The plot is driven by the question who stole Elena's purse.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: The group of characters who speak up against the bullying teacher get killed for their civil courage.
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* IllNeverTellYouWhatImTellingYou: Wilma refuses to give up her and Cleo's name but then fluffs it when addressing Cleo by her name.
* SinisterSuffocation: There is an intense moment of Raymond strangling Finn which gets interrupted by Mossy's return.
* SomeonesTouchingMyButt: Elena complains that she has been touched while the lights were out. Then her purse is found missing.
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* YouDidntSeeThat: Finn asks the survivors to sign something agreeing that officially, the events on board the train never happened.
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* YouDidntSeeThat: Finn asks the survivors to sign something agreeing that officially, the events on board the train never happened.happened.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Said by Wilma when the lights suddenly go out.
* ZippingUpTheBodybag: At the end, the death of the three victims is confirmed by their body bags being zipped up.
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* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Said by Wilma when the lights suddenly go out.
* ZippingUpTheBodybag: At the end, the death of the three victims is confirmed by their body bags being zipped up.
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there is no methaphor here. covered by Exact Words
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* ExactWords: The passengers are told they're waiting for a replacement service. They are - a replacement for those who will fail the "test" and be killed.
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* ExactWords: The passengers are told they're waiting for a replacement service. They are - a replacement for those who "replacement service." While this term is familiar to anyone who's traveled by bus or train in the UK, it's literal here: the "disruptive" passengers will fail the "test" and be killed.replaced by doppelgängers.
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* LiteralMetaphor: The passengers are waiting for a "replacement service." While this term is familiar to anyone who's traveled by bus or train in the UK, it's literal here: the "disruptive" passengers will be replaced by doppelgängers.
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they are probably less than 10 years apart
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* IntergenerationalFriendship:
** Cleo, a young woman in her late 20s/early 30s, is good friends with middle-aged Wilma.
** Mossy bonds with the much older Elena.
** Cleo, a young woman in her late 20s/early 30s, is good friends with middle-aged Wilma.
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**IntergenerationalFriendship: Cleo, a young woman in her late 20s/early 30s, is good friends with middle-aged Wilma.
** Mossy bonds with the much older Elena.Wilma.
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** Mossy bonds with the much older Elena.
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* KillTheLights: The lights go out in the carriage before Elena's purse is stolen, and while this seems like a simple theft, it's a setup that ultimately leads to the deaths of three people.
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* LightsOffSomebodyDies: The lights go out in the carriage before Elena's purse is stolen, and while this seems like a simple theft, it's a setup that ultimately leads to the deaths of three people.
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* WrongAssumption: Raymond assumes Finn is at best a thief who has Elena's purse in his bag, and at worst a terrorist who may have a bomb. He is actually some representative of a sinister organisation, or the government, that kills people who are identified as too disruptive; and the bag contains gas masks to protect the designated survivors.
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* KillAndReplace: The essence of the "replacement service": any "disruptors" are killed, and replaced by compliant doppelgängers.
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* KillAndReplace: The essence of the "replacement service": any "disruptors" train passengers who openly defied authority are killed, gassed to death, and replaced by compliant doppelgängers. with identical clones. This has apparently been happening for quite a while now.
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* LifeSavingMisfortune: If not for arguing with Cleo, Wilma might have been convinced to join her in standing up for Finn, and then would have been killed.
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* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Harold talks about passengers on a broken down train in Germany who were forced into cannibalism when emergency services couldn't reach them. Wilma jokes that she'd rather eat her own prosthetic breasts than have to eat Harold.
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* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Harold talks tells an UrbanLegend about passengers on a broken down broken-down train in Germany Berlin who were forced into cannibalism when emergency services couldn't reach them. Wilma jokes that she'd rather eat her own prosthetic breasts than have to eat Harold.
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** Wilma refers to ''Film/KramerVsKramer'' when her vote becomes the deciding one on whether to open Finn's bag.
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* DeadlyGas: Edith, Cleo, and Mossy are killed with poison gas after they are judged to be too disruptive because they stood up for Finn. [[spoiler:Gerry doesn't wear a mask, but survives the gas, presumably because he is a replacement and is immune to it.]]
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* DeadlyGas: Edith, Cleo, and Mossy are killed with poison gas after they are judged to be too disruptive because they stood up for Finn. [[spoiler:Gerry Gerry doesn't wear a mask, but survives the gas, presumably because he is a replacement and is immune to it.]]
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* DeadlyGas: Edith, Cleo, and Mossy are killed with poison gas after they are judged to be too disruptive because they stood up for Finn. [[spoiler:Gerry doesn't wear a mask, but survives the gas, presumably because he is a replacement and is immune to it.]]
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* LovableSexManiac: Wilma frequently talks about sex and makes perverted jokes.
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* FreezeFrameBonus: When Wilma chooses to side with Raymond against Finn, Finn can very briefly be seen putting his hand in his bag. It's likely he was adding another gas mask for Wilma since she is now not going to be replaced.
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* FreezeFrameBonus: When Wilma chooses to side with Raymond against Finn, Finn can very briefly be seen putting his hand in his bag. It's likely he was adding He may have added another gas mask for Wilma Wilma, since she is now not going to be replaced.
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* EvilReactionary: Raymond is one, and is very much of the opinion that discipline and obedience should be enforced on others. This is likely why he isn't replaced despite his willingness to speak out and be unpopular.
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** Raymond is doing a word puzzle in the newspaper, and comes up with answers like "fake", "actor," "taskforce," etc. Finn points this out and uses it as "proof" that Raymond is up to something, but it's actually Finn who is.
* FreezeFrameBonus: When Wilma chooses to side with Raymond against Finn, Finn can very briefly be seen putting his hand in his bag. It's likely he was adding another gas mask for Wilma since she is now not going to be replaced.
* FreezeFrameBonus: When Wilma chooses to side with Raymond against Finn, Finn can very briefly be seen putting his hand in his bag. It's likely he was adding another gas mask for Wilma since she is now not going to be replaced.
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** Gerry's ridiculous-sounding story about how aliens supposedly abducted him at a bus stop foreshadows that there's something going on aboard the train. Since he himself turns out to be one of the replacements, it's possible that what he remembers as an alien abduction is actually when he was killed.
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** Gerry's Harold's ridiculous-sounding story about how aliens supposedly abducted him at a bus stop foreshadows that there's something going on aboard the train. Since he himself turns out to be one of the replacements, it's possible that what he remembers as an alien abduction is actually when he was killed.
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* ReplacementGoldfish: Anyone who is identified as disruptive is killed and instantly replaced by a more docile double. This previously happened to Gerry and Harold; and happens to Edith, Cleo, and Mossy at the end of the episode.
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* CreatorCareerSelfDeprecation: [[CastingGag Steve Pemberton plays]] Wilma, a flamboyant DragQueen who tells off-color and sexual jokes even as Raymond gets more and more aggressive towards both Finn and Mossy. Cleo calls her out on making everything a joke and refusing to see this as a serious situation. Though Wilma defends herself, the fact that she sides unknowingly with the bad guys suggests that her role is a [[SelfDeprecation self-deprecating]] commentary on Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith's brand of BlackComedy where nothing is "off-limits", but which doesn't actually change anything.
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* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The three people who end up turning against Finn and Mossy. Elena is nice. She bonds with Mossy and is kind to everyone, though it noticeably doesn't change the outcome as she doesn't actually act on it when it comes down to it. Raymond is mean; he has barely-suppressed anger issues and gets physically aggressive. Wilma is "in-between." She's not as kind as Elena, and she's pretty snippy, flippant, and blunt, but she also doesn't participate in Raymond's overt bullying or physical aggression, and it's suggested the only reason she doesn't join the others is her argument with Cleo.
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* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The three people who end up turning against Finn and Mossy. Elena is nice. She bonds with Mossy and is kind to everyone, though it noticeably doesn't change the outcome as she doesn't actually act on it when it comes down to it. Raymond is mean; he has barely-suppressed anger issues and gets physically aggressive. Wilma is "in-between." She's not as kind as Elena, and she's pretty snippy, flippant, and blunt, but she also doesn't participate in Raymond's overt bullying or physical aggression, and it's suggested the only reason she doesn't join the others is her argument with Cleo.
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doesn't seem to fit with his character; Violet Glaswegian covers it better imo
* KillAndReplace: The essence of the "replacement service": any "disruptors" are killed, and replaced by compliant doppelgängers.
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* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The three people who end up turning against Finn and Mossy. Elena is nice. She bonds with Mossy and is kind to everyone, though it noticeably doesn't change the outcome as she doesn't actually act on it when it comes down to it. Raymond is mean; he has barely-suppressed anger issues and gets physically aggressive. Wilma is "in-between." She's not as kind as Elena, and she's pretty snippy, flippant, and blunt, but she also doesn't participate in Raymond's overt bullying, and it's suggested the only reason she doesn't join the others is her argument with Cleo.
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* NotTheFirstVictim: Cleo, Mossy, and Edith aren't even the first victims of the "replacement service" in the train carriage. Gerry, and possibly Harold, were replaced first. It's also heavily implied that both of ''them'' were far from the first replacements.
* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The three people who end up turning against Finn and Mossy. Elena is nice. She bonds with Mossy and is kind to everyone, though it noticeably doesn't change the outcome as she doesn't actually act on it when it comes down to it. Raymond is mean; he has barely-suppressed anger issues and gets physically aggressive. Wilma is "in-between." She's not as kind as Elena, and she's pretty snippy, flippant, and blunt, but she also doesn't participate in Raymond's overtbullying, bullying or physical aggression, and it's suggested the only reason she doesn't join the others is her argument with Cleo.
* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The three people who end up turning against Finn and Mossy. Elena is nice. She bonds with Mossy and is kind to everyone, though it noticeably doesn't change the outcome as she doesn't actually act on it when it comes down to it. Raymond is mean; he has barely-suppressed anger issues and gets physically aggressive. Wilma is "in-between." She's not as kind as Elena, and she's pretty snippy, flippant, and blunt, but she also doesn't participate in Raymond's overt
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* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The three people who end up turning against Finn and Mossy. Elena is nice. She bonds with Mossy and is kind to everyone, though it noticeably doesn't change the outcome as she doesn't actually act on it when it comes down to it. Raymond is mean; he has barely-suppressed anger issues and gets physically aggressive. Wilma is "in-between." She's not as kind as Elena, and she's pretty snippy, flippant, and blunt, but she also doesn't participate in Raymond's overt bullying, and it's suggested the only reason she doesn't join the others is her argument with Cleo.
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** Finn repeatedly talks about government spying and the passengers being surveilled and tracked, which is all true, and ''he's'' involved.
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** Harold's story about how aliens supposedly abducted him at a bus stop foreshadows that there's something going on aboard the train. Since he himself turns out to be one of the replacements, it's possible that what he remembers as an alien abduction is actually when he was killed.
** Harold sings a song from ''Theatre/TheMikado'' about "societal offenders" who are "underground" and "never will be missed." Cleo, Edith, and Mossy are ultimately killed ("underground"), and won't be missed because they are substituted with identical replacements. This previously happened to Harold himself.
** Harold sings a song from ''Theatre/TheMikado'' about "societal offenders" who are "underground" and "never will be missed." Cleo, Edith, and Mossy are ultimately killed ("underground"), and won't be missed because they are substituted with identical replacements. This previously happened to Harold himself.
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* InfallibleBabble:
** Finn tells everyone that "they" are watching and tracking society. He's ignored by all of the other passengers. He's missing out, of course, that he's one of "them."
** Harold sings a song from ''Theatre/TheMikado'' about "societal offenders" who are "underground" and "never will be missed." Cleo, Edith, and Mossy are ultimately killed ("underground"), and won't be missed because they are substituted with identical replacements. This previously happened to Harold himself.
** Gerry's ridiculous-sounding story about how aliens supposedly abducted him at a bus stop foreshadows that there's something going on aboard the train. Since he himself turns out to be one of the replacements, it's possible that what he remembers as an alien abduction is actually when he was killed.
** Finn tells everyone that "they" are watching and tracking society. He's ignored by all of the other passengers. He's missing out, of course, that he's one of "them."
** Harold sings a song from ''Theatre/TheMikado'' about "societal offenders" who are "underground" and "never will be missed." Cleo, Edith, and Mossy are ultimately killed ("underground"), and won't be missed because they are substituted with identical replacements. This previously happened to Harold himself.
** Gerry's ridiculous-sounding story about how aliens supposedly abducted him at a bus stop foreshadows that there's something going on aboard the train. Since he himself turns out to be one of the replacements, it's possible that what he remembers as an alien abduction is actually when he was killed.
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* ContinuityNod: Wilma performs at The Purple Sock, a gay club first mentioned in ''[[{{Recap/InsideNo9S8E5TheLastWeekend}} The Last Weekend]]''.
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* ContinuityNod: Wilma performs at The Purple Sock, a gay club first previously mentioned in ''[[{{Recap/InsideNo9S8E5TheLastWeekend}} "[[{{Recap/InsideNo9S8E5TheLastWeekend}} The Last Weekend]]''.Weekend]]."
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** Wilma also mentions ''Series/{{Columbo}}'', Music/TaylorSwift, and [=OnlyFans=].
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While travelling on the Metro late at night, Gerry, Edith, Wilma, Cleo, Raymond, Elena, Harold, Mossy, and a paranoid young man who refuses to give his name are stranded when their train breaks down. They are left to wait for a replacement service. During a temporary blackout, Elena's purse is stolen; and when the lights come back on, Raymond takes it upon himself to investigate. He decides that if the other passengers have nothing to fear, they have nothing to hide ...
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* AffablyEvil: After Edith, Cleo, and Mossy are killed, Finn is polite and friendly to the survivors and even apologises for inconveniencing them.
* AlienAbduction: Harold claims that he was abducted by aliens who put ''something'' sinister [[AnalProbing up his bottom]].
* AllThereInTheManual: Finn and Mossy refuse to identify themselves to the other passengers, and are named in the credits only.
* TheBadGuysWin: While it's not clear who was responsible for the events on the train, they kill three people who are identified as too much of a threat to the status quo; replace them with identical lookalikes; and erase all traces. This has clearly happened many times before, including to Gerry and Harold, and will happen again because of the people who in Finn's words "don't get involved."
* BrokenSmile: Wilma gives one as she goes off with the replacement Cleo.
* CampGay: Wilma is one and says that her drag persona is partly a way of dealing with the homophobia she experiences.
* CloudCuckoolander:
** Harold, although he [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight turns out to be much more aware of events than he looks.]]
** Gerry, who among other things thinks the famous actress Creator/LesleyManville was in an amateur dramatic society's play, and repeatedly insists there is a "sex pest" around even when Elena makes it clear no one touched ''her''. As with Harold, this may be a side effect of being one of the replacements.
* ContinuityNod: Wilma performs at The Purple Sock, a gay club first mentioned in ''[[{{Recap/InsideNo9S8E5TheLastWeekend}} The Last Weekend]]''.
* CrazyHomelessPeople: While it's never stated whether Harold is homeless, Wilma assumes he is, and dismisses him as this trope.
* CruelTwistEnding: Edith, Cleo, and Mossy are all killed when they are identified as "disruptors" for trying to stand up to Raymond. They are replaced with identical clones, and no one will ever know what happened to them. It turns out that this has been done to many other people, including Gerry and Harold. Elena, Wilma, and Raymond survive but are left traumatised, especially Elena.
* DeadlyGas: Edith, Cleo, and Mossy are killed with poison gas after they are judged to be too disruptive because they stood up for Finn.
* DragQueen: Jonathan performs as a drag queen called Wilma Dickshow.
* ExactWords: The passengers are told they're waiting for a replacement service. They are - a replacement for those who will fail the "test" and be killed.
* ExtremeDoormat: Elena has elements of this, and Finn praises her for being especially compliant.
* FagHag: Wilma calls Cleo out on being one.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** The synth soundtrack suggests the episode having a sci-fi element, long before one ever appears.
** Finn repeatedly talks about government spying and the passengers being surveilled and tracked, which is all true, and ''he's'' involved.
** The station and inside of the train are covered in security posters warning passengers that they're being watched on CCTV. There are announcements on the train about this as well.
** Edith tells Gerry to do something about Raymond, pointing out that Gerry used to organise strikes at his workplace. He says that was a long time ago and he's changed now. It turns out this is because he was previously replaced as well.
** Raymond saying that "you can't just do what you want without consequences."
** Harold's story about how aliens supposedly abducted him at a bus stop foreshadows that there's something going on aboard the train. Since he himself turns out to be one of the replacements, it's possible that what he remembers as an alien abduction is actually when he was killed.
** Harold sings a song from ''Theatre/TheMikado'' about "societal offenders" who are "underground" and "never will be missed." Cleo, Edith, and Mossy are ultimately killed ("underground"), and won't be missed because they are substituted with identical replacements. This previously happened to Harold himself.
** When Edith puts her hand up in support of Finn, Gerry hastily pushes it down. He's previously been replaced himself, and knew the same would happen to her if she objected.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Edith and Mossy, who both have blonde hair, both try to defend Finn. Elena is also blonde and is a kind and gentle nurse.
* HazmatSuit: A hazmat team arrives to collect the bodies of Edith, Cleo, and Mossy at the station.
* HypocriticalHumour: When Mossy complains that he might have more luck begging if he had a card reader, Finn tells him not to use cards because he can be tracked. Mossy immediately asks if Finn has any spare change and Finn sheepishly says no.
* IncitingIncident: The plot kicks off when the lights go out in the carriage and Elena's purse is stolen. At the end, Finn returns it and apologises, saying they needed an inciting incident.
* IntergenerationalFriendship:
** Cleo, a young woman in her late 20s/early 30s, is good friends with middle-aged Wilma.
** Mossy bonds with the much older Elena.
* KillTheLights: The lights go out in the carriage before Elena's purse is stolen, and while this seems like a simple theft, it's a setup that ultimately leads to the deaths of three people.
* LifeSavingMisfortune: If not for arguing with Cleo, Wilma might have been convinced to join her in standing up for Finn, and then would have been killed.
* LyingByOmission: Finn repeatedly tells the other passengers that something sinister is going on; he just doesn't mention ''he'' is involved in it.
* MaliciousMisnaming: Cleo maliciously calls Wilma by her "boy name" Jonathan. Although not quite deadnaming (since she isn't trans), it's still a name Wilma doesn't like.
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Harold talks about passengers on a broken down train in Germany who were forced into cannibalism when emergency services couldn't reach them. Wilma jokes that she'd rather eat her own prosthetic breasts than have to eat Harold.
* NothingIsFunnier: Harold has something so disgusting in his bag that it makes Raymond gag, and he refuses to search Harold's other bag; but the viewer never sees what it is.
* OhCrap:
** Finn, when he realizes Raymond could actually physically overpower him (which presumably was ''not'' part of the plan.)
** Raymond, Wilma, and Elena all have this reaction when it dawns on them what's happened and why they survived.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Raymond is disapproving of Wilma; makes hateful comments about Mossy because he's homeless; and is biased against Finn partly because of his skin colour.
* PreciousPhoto: Elena is devastated at losing a photo of her late father that she kept in her purse.
* ProperlyParanoid: Played with. Finn repeatedly suggests that there are undercover police/government spies on the train, that the passengers are under surveillance, and someone on board is a "plant." He's absolutely right - because ''he'' is behind it.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Wilma gives one to Cleo, saying that she's a privileged rich kid who has never experienced real oppression.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Anyone who is identified as disruptive is killed and instantly replaced by a more docile double. This previously happened to Gerry and Harold; and happens to Edith, Cleo, and Mossy at the end of the episode.
* RichKidTurnedSocialActivist: Cleo thinks she's one of these, although her idea of "activism" was just getting her nose pierced and hanging around with Wilma.
* RobotMe: What the "replacements" are is unclear, although they may be this (since Gerry and Harold, who were already replaced, are immune to the deadly gas.)
* SadistTeacher: Raymond is one, and seems to think his authority extends everywhere else outside of school.
* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: Raymond is an older man and seems to feel like he can get away with intimidating others because of it.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: The events of the episode turn out to be a test (seemingly by the government or secret services) to eliminate people who might threaten the status quo.
* ShamefulStrip: When Raymond wants to search Mossy's pockets, Wilma, who finds Mossy quite attractive, eagerly suggests they strip-search him as well.
* ShoutOut:
** Several musicals are referenced in the episode, including ''Film/KinkyBoots'', ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'', ''Salad Days'', ''Theatre/{{Oliver}}'', and ''Theatre/TheMikado''.
** Wilma also mentions ''Series/{{Columbo}}'', Music/TaylorSwift, and [=OnlyFans=].
** Harold claims that aliens put "an [[Franchise/StarWars R2-D2]]" (to scale) up his bottom.
** Wilma's "You tell 'em, Cleo!" is very similar to the famous "Don't tell him, Pike!" line in ''Series/DadsArmy''.
* SinisterSurveillance: This is suggested through the cameras and train announcements, and Finn confirms that ''someone's'' definitely watching.
* TitleDrop: Finn delivers one, saying that the replacements for the deceased "wouldn't say boo to a goose."
* ViolentGlaswegian: Raymond is an aggressive Scottish man who physically assaults both Finn and Mossy.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: At the end of the episode, Harold isn't seen either inside the carriage or getting off the train.
* WrongAssumption: Raymond assumes Finn is at best a thief who has Elena's purse in his bag, and at worst a terrorist who may have a bomb. He is actually some representative of a sinister organisation, or the government, that kills people who are identified as too disruptive; and the bag contains gas masks to protect the designated survivors.
* YouDidntSeeThat: Finn asks the survivors to sign something agreeing that officially, the events on board the train never happened.
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* AffablyEvil: After Edith, Cleo, and Mossy are killed, Finn is polite and friendly to the survivors and even apologises for inconveniencing them.
* AlienAbduction: Harold claims that he was abducted by aliens who put ''something'' sinister [[AnalProbing up his bottom]].
* AllThereInTheManual: Finn and Mossy refuse to identify themselves to the other passengers, and are named in the credits only.
* TheBadGuysWin: While it's not clear who was responsible for the events on the train, they kill three people who are identified as too much of a threat to the status quo; replace them with identical lookalikes; and erase all traces. This has clearly happened many times before, including to Gerry and Harold, and will happen again because of the people who in Finn's words "don't get involved."
* BrokenSmile: Wilma gives one as she goes off with the replacement Cleo.
* CampGay: Wilma is one and says that her drag persona is partly a way of dealing with the homophobia she experiences.
* CloudCuckoolander:
** Harold, although he [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight turns out to be much more aware of events than he looks.]]
** Gerry, who among other things thinks the famous actress Creator/LesleyManville was in an amateur dramatic society's play, and repeatedly insists there is a "sex pest" around even when Elena makes it clear no one touched ''her''. As with Harold, this may be a side effect of being one of the replacements.
* ContinuityNod: Wilma performs at The Purple Sock, a gay club first mentioned in ''[[{{Recap/InsideNo9S8E5TheLastWeekend}} The Last Weekend]]''.
* CrazyHomelessPeople: While it's never stated whether Harold is homeless, Wilma assumes he is, and dismisses him as this trope.
* CruelTwistEnding: Edith, Cleo, and Mossy are all killed when they are identified as "disruptors" for trying to stand up to Raymond. They are replaced with identical clones, and no one will ever know what happened to them. It turns out that this has been done to many other people, including Gerry and Harold. Elena, Wilma, and Raymond survive but are left traumatised, especially Elena.
* DeadlyGas: Edith, Cleo, and Mossy are killed with poison gas after they are judged to be too disruptive because they stood up for Finn.
* DragQueen: Jonathan performs as a drag queen called Wilma Dickshow.
* ExactWords: The passengers are told they're waiting for a replacement service. They are - a replacement for those who will fail the "test" and be killed.
* ExtremeDoormat: Elena has elements of this, and Finn praises her for being especially compliant.
* FagHag: Wilma calls Cleo out on being one.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** The synth soundtrack suggests the episode having a sci-fi element, long before one ever appears.
** Finn repeatedly talks about government spying and the passengers being surveilled and tracked, which is all true, and ''he's'' involved.
** The station and inside of the train are covered in security posters warning passengers that they're being watched on CCTV. There are announcements on the train about this as well.
** Edith tells Gerry to do something about Raymond, pointing out that Gerry used to organise strikes at his workplace. He says that was a long time ago and he's changed now. It turns out this is because he was previously replaced as well.
** Raymond saying that "you can't just do what you want without consequences."
** Harold's story about how aliens supposedly abducted him at a bus stop foreshadows that there's something going on aboard the train. Since he himself turns out to be one of the replacements, it's possible that what he remembers as an alien abduction is actually when he was killed.
** Harold sings a song from ''Theatre/TheMikado'' about "societal offenders" who are "underground" and "never will be missed." Cleo, Edith, and Mossy are ultimately killed ("underground"), and won't be missed because they are substituted with identical replacements. This previously happened to Harold himself.
** When Edith puts her hand up in support of Finn, Gerry hastily pushes it down. He's previously been replaced himself, and knew the same would happen to her if she objected.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Edith and Mossy, who both have blonde hair, both try to defend Finn. Elena is also blonde and is a kind and gentle nurse.
* HazmatSuit: A hazmat team arrives to collect the bodies of Edith, Cleo, and Mossy at the station.
* HypocriticalHumour: When Mossy complains that he might have more luck begging if he had a card reader, Finn tells him not to use cards because he can be tracked. Mossy immediately asks if Finn has any spare change and Finn sheepishly says no.
* IncitingIncident: The plot kicks off when the lights go out in the carriage and Elena's purse is stolen. At the end, Finn returns it and apologises, saying they needed an inciting incident.
* IntergenerationalFriendship:
** Cleo, a young woman in her late 20s/early 30s, is good friends with middle-aged Wilma.
** Mossy bonds with the much older Elena.
* KillTheLights: The lights go out in the carriage before Elena's purse is stolen, and while this seems like a simple theft, it's a setup that ultimately leads to the deaths of three people.
* LifeSavingMisfortune: If not for arguing with Cleo, Wilma might have been convinced to join her in standing up for Finn, and then would have been killed.
* LyingByOmission: Finn repeatedly tells the other passengers that something sinister is going on; he just doesn't mention ''he'' is involved in it.
* MaliciousMisnaming: Cleo maliciously calls Wilma by her "boy name" Jonathan. Although not quite deadnaming (since she isn't trans), it's still a name Wilma doesn't like.
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Harold talks about passengers on a broken down train in Germany who were forced into cannibalism when emergency services couldn't reach them. Wilma jokes that she'd rather eat her own prosthetic breasts than have to eat Harold.
* NothingIsFunnier: Harold has something so disgusting in his bag that it makes Raymond gag, and he refuses to search Harold's other bag; but the viewer never sees what it is.
* OhCrap:
** Finn, when he realizes Raymond could actually physically overpower him (which presumably was ''not'' part of the plan.)
** Raymond, Wilma, and Elena all have this reaction when it dawns on them what's happened and why they survived.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Raymond is disapproving of Wilma; makes hateful comments about Mossy because he's homeless; and is biased against Finn partly because of his skin colour.
* PreciousPhoto: Elena is devastated at losing a photo of her late father that she kept in her purse.
* ProperlyParanoid: Played with. Finn repeatedly suggests that there are undercover police/government spies on the train, that the passengers are under surveillance, and someone on board is a "plant." He's absolutely right - because ''he'' is behind it.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Wilma gives one to Cleo, saying that she's a privileged rich kid who has never experienced real oppression.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Anyone who is identified as disruptive is killed and instantly replaced by a more docile double. This previously happened to Gerry and Harold; and happens to Edith, Cleo, and Mossy at the end of the episode.
* RichKidTurnedSocialActivist: Cleo thinks she's one of these, although her idea of "activism" was just getting her nose pierced and hanging around with Wilma.
* RobotMe: What the "replacements" are is unclear, although they may be this (since Gerry and Harold, who were already replaced, are immune to the deadly gas.)
* SadistTeacher: Raymond is one, and seems to think his authority extends everywhere else outside of school.
* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: Raymond is an older man and seems to feel like he can get away with intimidating others because of it.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: The events of the episode turn out to be a test (seemingly by the government or secret services) to eliminate people who might threaten the status quo.
* ShamefulStrip: When Raymond wants to search Mossy's pockets, Wilma, who finds Mossy quite attractive, eagerly suggests they strip-search him as well.
* ShoutOut:
** Several musicals are referenced in the episode, including ''Film/KinkyBoots'', ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'', ''Salad Days'', ''Theatre/{{Oliver}}'', and ''Theatre/TheMikado''.
** Wilma also mentions ''Series/{{Columbo}}'', Music/TaylorSwift, and [=OnlyFans=].
** Harold claims that aliens put "an [[Franchise/StarWars R2-D2]]" (to scale) up his bottom.
** Wilma's "You tell 'em, Cleo!" is very similar to the famous "Don't tell him, Pike!" line in ''Series/DadsArmy''.
* SinisterSurveillance: This is suggested through the cameras and train announcements, and Finn confirms that ''someone's'' definitely watching.
* TitleDrop: Finn delivers one, saying that the replacements for the deceased "wouldn't say boo to a goose."
* ViolentGlaswegian: Raymond is an aggressive Scottish man who physically assaults both Finn and Mossy.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: At the end of the episode, Harold isn't seen either inside the carriage or getting off the train.
* WrongAssumption: Raymond assumes Finn is at best a thief who has Elena's purse in his bag, and at worst a terrorist who may have a bomb. He is actually some representative of a sinister organisation, or the government, that kills people who are identified as too disruptive; and the bag contains gas masks to protect the designated survivors.
* YouDidntSeeThat: Finn asks the survivors to sign something agreeing that officially, the events on board the train never happened.
