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* ChekhovsGun: Among the many records of his lifetime of achievement, Sallinger keeps his old high school wrestling trophies, honorable mention and most improved.
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* StuffedInTheFridge: Subverted. Jessica returns home to see what Sallinger claims to have left for her there, finding Erik slumped outside the door, looking dead. He's actually fine, though, he just fell asleep waiting for her. Instead, he left a bag with $8000 in cash, [[VisualPun covered in blood]].
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* TheCynic: Erik's rather bleak worldview is on display again. He doesn't bother to try and be a hero because it wouldn't make a difference. Considering his powers physically hurt him when around bad people in a place like New York City, this is understandable.

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* TheCynic: Erik's rather bleak worldview is on display again. He doesn't bother to try and be a hero because it wouldn't make a difference. Considering his powers physically hurt him when around bad people and he lives in a place like New York City, [[BigRottenApple the MCU's Hell's Kitchen,]] this is understandable.

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* PsychologicalProjection: Sallinger calls Jessica an arrogant narcissist who thinks she's better than everyone else.



* StuffedInTheFridge: Subverted. Jessica returns home to see what Sallinger claims to have left for her there, finding Erik slumped outside the door, looking dead. He's actually fine, though, he just fell asleep waiting for her.

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* StuffedInTheFridge: Subverted. Jessica returns home to see what Sallinger claims to have left for her there, finding Erik slumped outside the door, looking dead. He's actually fine, though, he just fell asleep waiting for her. Instead, he left a bag with $8000 in cash, [[VisualPun covered in blood]].



* WoundedGazelleGambit: Sallinger is quick to ensure that the evidence will indicate that he's the victim of a violent assault by Jessica.

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* WoundedGazelleGambit: Sallinger is quick to ensure that the evidence will indicate that he's the victim of a violent assault by Jessica. Given she started recording him on her phone as soon as she walked in... this probably wouldn't have worked.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: Sallinger is quick to ensure that the evidence will indicate that he's the victim of a violent assault by Jessica.

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* WoundedGazelleGambit: Sallinger is quick to ensure that the evidence will indicate that he's the victim of a violent assault by Jessica.Jessica.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Jessica asks Erik what he'd have done if he'd known one of his blackmail victims was making kiddie porn. Erik says that he'd have squezed them for even more money... and ''then'' turned them in.

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* EveryoneHasStandards: Jessica asks Erik what he'd have done if he'd known one of his blackmail victims was making kiddie porn. Erik says that he'd have squezed squeezed them for even more money... and ''then'' turned them in.

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* TheCynic: Erik's rather bleak worldview is on display again. He doesn't bother to try and be a hero because it wouldn't make a difference.

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* TheCynic: Erik's rather bleak worldview is on display again. He doesn't bother to try and be a hero because it wouldn't make a difference. Considering his powers physically hurt him when around bad people in a place like New York City, this is understandable.


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* VillainOfAnotherStory:
** In their investigation to finding her stabber, Jessica and Erik start with Todd White, a man who Jessica discovers is a pedophile with photographs so incriminating that she locks him in his own closet and calls the cops on him within seconds of seeing them.
** The second mark is Reyna Pincer, a woman that embezzled millions of dollars from her fellow employee's pension fund.
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There's no reason to assume she was the owner of the company.


* WhiteCollarCrime: One of the people Erik blackmailed is a woman who embezzled a lot of money from her employees.

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* WhiteCollarCrime: One of the people Erik blackmailed is a woman who embezzled a lot of money from her employees.coworkers' pension fund.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Trish is horrified when she accidentally nearly kills Sal-

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Trish is horrified when she accidentally nearly kills Sal-Sal.

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* BadassNormal: Sallinger has no powers, just a vast intellect.



* TheCynic: Erik's rather bleak worldview is on display again. He doesn't bother to try and be a hero because it wouldn't make a difference.



* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Sal's son is clearly horrified to discover that she's been injured.

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* DissonantSerenity: In the final scene, Sallinger calmly eats an apple while letting somebody bleed out from a neck wound in the background.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Sal's son is clearly horrified to discover that she's been injured. Previously, Sal herself cries out when Trish beats her son down.


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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Trish is horrified when she accidentally nearly kills Sal-


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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Jessica calls into Trish's show to tell her that she needs her help. That doesn't mean that she likes it however.
* WhiteCollarCrime: One of the people Erik blackmailed is a woman who embezzled a lot of money from her employees.
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* TheAce: Salinger has degrees in four different fields and is a prize-winning wrestler. He's apparently also quite mad.
* BadassBoast: Salinger hands them out quite freely.

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* TheAce: Salinger Sallinger has degrees in four different fields and is a prize-winning wrestler. He's apparently also quite mad.
* BadassBoast: Salinger Sallinger hands them out quite freely.



-->'''Salinger:''' ''Particle physics'' require research. I figured ''you'' out in an afternoon.

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-->'''Salinger:''' -->'''Sallinger:''' ''Particle physics'' require research. I figured ''you'' out in an afternoon.



-->'''Salinger:''' One day you'll meet your match and you'll be exposed.

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-->'''Salinger:''' -->'''Sallinger:''' One day you'll meet your match and you'll be exposed.



-->'''Salinger:''' Oh God no. I'm so far beyond you, you look like an ant.

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-->'''Salinger:''' -->'''Sallinger:''' Oh God no. I'm so far beyond you, you look like an ant.



* TheSociopath: Salinger gives this impression, with his blank stares, strange thought patterns and haughty contempt for other people.
* StuffedInTheFridge: Subverted. Jessica returns home to see what Salinger claims to have left for her there, finding Erik slumped outside the door, looking dead. He's actually fine, though, he just fell asleep waiting for her.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Salinger is quick to ensure that the evidence will indicate that he's the victim of a violent assault by Jessica.

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* TheSociopath: Salinger Sallinger gives this impression, with his blank stares, strange thought patterns and haughty contempt for other people.
* StuffedInTheFridge: Subverted. Jessica returns home to see what Salinger Sallinger claims to have left for her there, finding Erik slumped outside the door, looking dead. He's actually fine, though, he just fell asleep waiting for her.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Salinger Sallinger is quick to ensure that the evidence will indicate that he's the victim of a violent assault by Jessica.
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* TheAce: Salinger has degrees in four different fields and is a prize-winning wrestler. He's apparently also quite mad.
* BadassBoast: Salinger hands them out quite freely.
-->'''Jessica:''' Congratulations. You've researched me.
-->'''Salinger:''' ''Particle physics'' require research. I figured ''you'' out in an afternoon.
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-->'''Salinger:''' One day you'll meet your match and you'll be exposed.
-->'''Jessica:''' You think you're my match?
-->'''Salinger:''' Oh God no. I'm so far beyond you, you look like an ant.
* BlackmailBackfire: Erik was blackmailing three different people without actually knowing what any of them had done or was capable of, only that they were in some way evil. Two paid up, but the last one turned out to be more than he had bargained for.
* BlessedWithSuck: Erik's power gives him a never-ending headache that he has to try to drown out with sex, booze and gambling.
* DetectEvil: Erik's power. To be specific, he claims that he can detect an absence of empathy.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Sal's son is clearly horrified to discover that she's been injured.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Jessica asks Erik what he'd have done if he'd known one of his blackmail victims was making kiddie porn. Erik says that he'd have squezed them for even more money... and ''then'' turned them in.
* LoanShark: Sal is one. People who are late paying up gets to spend a minute or two weighed down at the bottom of her pool as an incentive to be more prompt next time.
* TheSociopath: Salinger gives this impression, with his blank stares, strange thought patterns and haughty contempt for other people.
* StuffedInTheFridge: Subverted. Jessica returns home to see what Salinger claims to have left for her there, finding Erik slumped outside the door, looking dead. He's actually fine, though, he just fell asleep waiting for her.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Salinger is quick to ensure that the evidence will indicate that he's the victim of a violent assault by Jessica.

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Jessica learns there's more to Erik than meets the eye as they track down three potential attackers. Malcolm digs up dirt on Kith's husband.
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