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* BigYes: When Birgit asks her father if saving her life is really more important than the cause.
-->'''Caspers:''' You matter to me more!\\
'''Birgit:''' Than the revolution? Than everything you've ever said to me?\\
'''Caspers:''' Yes!
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* NeverFoundTheBody: Reading the file on a firebombing their suspect committed against a banker and his family, Nichols learns that while the entire family was presumed killed, police were never able to actually identify remains of the man's toddler daughter. This leads to his EurekaMoment.

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* NeverFoundTheBody: Reading the file on a firebombing their suspect committed against a banker and his family, Nichols learns that while the entire family was presumed killed, police were never able to actually positively identify any remains of the man's toddler daughter. This leads to his EurekaMoment.
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* ReverseWhodunnit: Not only are the killers clearly shown in the teaser, but the bulk of the episode cuts back and forth between following the investigation and following what the killers are up to.
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* AbsenteeActor: Creator/VincentDOnofrio (Goren) and Creator/JulianneNicholson (Wheeler) do not appear, resulting in their respective partners teaming up for the episode. Wheeler's absence is presumably maternity leave after having given birth in "Major Case", while Goren's is unexplained.
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* SeasonFinale: For Season 8.
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Nichols and Eames partner up on a case involving a German radical responsible for the death of a vilified Wall Street CEO.

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* AbsenteeActor: Creator/VincentDOnofrio (Goren) and Creator/JulianneNicholson (Wheeler) do not appear, resulting in their respective partners teaming up for the episode. Wheeler's absence is presumably maternity leave after having given birth in "Major Case", while Goren's is unexplained.
* DeadPersonImpersonation: The suspects got into the country using the passports of a family that the father had killed the previous year. [[spoiler:Subverted for the daughter as it turns out she really was the person the passport belonged to.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Axel Caspers genuinely loves [[spoiler:his daughter, who he actually kidnapped after killing her parents. In the end, he's willing to throw away his entire cause to save her life, telling her, "You matter to me more."]]
* HappilyAdopted: A particularly twisted variation since [[spoiler:it began with a kidnapping, but Caspers did truly come to love Birgit/Marta as his own child.]]
* ManBitesMan: The terrorists' first target attempts to defend himself from a kidnapping with this method. It doesn't end well for him.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Reading the file on a firebombing their suspect committed against a banker and his family, Nichols learns that while the entire family was presumed killed, police were never able to actually identify remains of the man's toddler daughter. This leads to his EurekaMoment.
* SheKnowsTooMuch: Birgit's reasoning for killing the woman that Caspers hooked up with. Caspers is not happy, believing that this was a mistake.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The villain strangles one of his henchmen after said henchman botched a kidnapping.

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