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** The title of the episode is a subtle nod to one of Valentina Vostok's comic book aliases? Who do White Knights serve? A White Queen, of course.
** The title of the episode is a subtle nod to one of Valentina Vostok's comic book aliases? Who do White Knights serve? A White Queen, of course.
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* GenreSavvy: Rory warns Hunter that the team is being set up to be executed. Fortunately, Hunter listens to him.
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* GenreSavvy: ForgottenFallenFriend: Averted. Stein admits to Ray that he's still hung up over Ronnie's death and he doesn't want Jax to meet the same fate,
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** Rory warns Hunter that the team is being set up to be executed. Fortunately, Hunter listens tohim.him.
** Snart tries to coach Ray in the ways of espionage. Unfortunately for him, Ray grabbed the IdiotBall this week.
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** Rory warns Hunter that the team is being set up to be executed. Fortunately, Hunter listens to
** Snart tries to coach Ray in the ways of espionage. Unfortunately for him, Ray grabbed the IdiotBall this week.
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* JerkassFacade: The reason why Stein is so hard, on Jax is because he doesn't want to lose him like he did Ronnie.
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** Snart calls out Ray on his naivety numerous time throughout this episode. He then calls Rip out on forcing him to abandon his comrades.
** Jax calls Stein out on his bossy attitude.
** Snart calls out Ray on his naivety numerous time throughout this episode. He then calls Rip out on forcing him to abandon his comrades.
** Jax calls Stein out on his bossy attitude.
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* TheEighties: The episode is set in 1986.
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* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Valentina Vostok doesn't let her guard down easy on Ray.
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* BookEnds: The episode begins with TheTeam doing an infiltration mission to reclaim something, Firestorm absorbing a high-level energy and them being busted. The episode ends with more or less the same scenario but switch Stein to Jax.
* BromanticFoil: Snart to Ray, and the episode highlights it a lot.
* BromanticFoil: Snart to Ray, and the episode highlights it a lot.
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* CelebrityParadox: Snart casually comments on Ray making a ''Film/TopGun'' ShoutOut. He doesn't seem to be bothered that Creator/MichaelIronside, who played [[TimeShiftedActor the old-aged incarnation]] of his father on ''Series/TheFlash2014'', is on the movie.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: The episode ends with Prof. Stein, Ray, and Mick captured and TheTeam planning their rescue.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: The episode ends with Prof. Stein, Ray, and Mick captured and TheTeam planning their rescue.
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* {{Distressed Dude}}s: Ray, Mick and Prof. Stein are all captured at the end of the episode.
* TheDulcineaEffect: Ray was so smitten at Vostok that he's willing to risk TheTeam's mission for it.
* EvilAllAlong: Valentina Vostok willingly works for Savage.
* TheDulcineaEffect: Ray was so smitten at Vostok that he's willing to risk TheTeam's mission for it.
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* GoodLookingPrivates: Sara and Kendra disguise themselves as one during the Pentagon infiltration.
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* ForgoneConclusion: ForegoneConclusion: It's episode 4 of a 16 episode series, so it's pretty obvious Rip isn't going to accept the offer to give up and come back to the time masters quietly, though it does show that Rip is regretting his decision to include the team in his revenge plot, especially after Carter died.
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** WrongGenreSavvy: Raymond thinks that Vostok is being a prisoner against her will, being used by Savage to create nuclear weapons. He's dead wrong.
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* Buttmonkey: Ray is humiliated by Vostok and ends up spending his time freezing in the cold, following Vostok and Snart from their date at the ballet to their walk to her apartment.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: In only a few minutes of smooth talking, the evil Vostok drops her caution for Snart and even offers to take him back to her apartment to drop her pants for him too.
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* Buttmonkey: Ray is humiliated by Vostok and ends up spending his time freezing in the cold, following Vostok and Snart from their date at the ballet to their walk to her apartment.
* CasanovaWannabe: Ray tries to put the moves on Vostok to get information, but she initially thinks he must be some student of hers. He then tries to appeal to her conscience and drops a bit of insider information about Project Svarog. This backfires as she's evil and his knowledge makes her think he's a spy.
* CasanovaWannabe: Ray tries to put the moves on Vostok to get information, but she initially thinks he must be some student of hers. He then tries to appeal to her conscience and drops a bit of insider information about Project Svarog. This backfires as she's evil and his knowledge makes her think he's a spy.
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* WeUseToBeFriends: Rip's mentor and old friend from the Time Masters, offers an amnesty to Rip and his team if they cease their vendetta against Vandal Savage. This is nothing more than a ploy to have them assassinated by a surviving Chronos (who in turn appears to be another ex-friend of Rip's).
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* WeUseToBeFriends: WeUsedToBeFriends: Rip's mentor and old friend from the Time Masters, offers an amnesty to Rip and his team if they cease their vendetta against Vandal Savage. This is nothing more than a ploy to have them assassinated by a surviving Chronos (who in turn appears to be another ex-friend of Rip's).
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*WeUseToBeFriends: Rip's mentor and old friend from the Time Masters, offers an amnesty to Rip and his team if they cease their vendetta against Vandal Savage. This is nothing more than a ploy to have them assassinated by a surviving Chronos (who in turn appears to be another ex-friend of Rip's).
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* FlawedPrototype: The Soviet thermonuclear core that is being used to create the Firestorm matrix only results in dead test subjects. The fear for the team is that eventually Vostok and Savage will get their breakthrough and be able to create an army of nuclear men.
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* HostageForMacguffin: Vostok takes Snart hostage at gunpoint to make Ray stand down AND force Martin to return the the thermonuclear core. Turns out the core isn't the only Macguffin, taking Martin is an even bigger bonus as the core is flawed.
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* IdiotBall: Ray grabs it and runs for all he's worth.
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* RunningGag: Snart flirts with a beautiful woman so he can still her security badge ... and her wallet.
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* PerspectiveFlip: Stein realizes how annoying it must be for Jax to have him yammering constantly when they're merged when he's trying to retrieve the core and Jax is talking to him over their comlink.
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* SurvivorsGuilt: Stein admits that one of the reasons he's so hard on Jax is because of the guilt he feels over the death of Ronnie Raymond and he doesn't want to go through that again.
* SurvivorsGuilt: Stein admits that one of the reasons he's so hard on Jax is because of the guilt he feels over the death of Ronnie Raymond and he doesn't want to go through that again.
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* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Ray becomes enamored with a beautiful Russian, and despite all evidence to the contrary, believes her to be innocent to Savages plans.
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* DeadlyDodging: When Hunter causes the Soviet fighter's missiles to miss the ''Waverider'', he does so in a way allowing them to acquire a lock on Chronos's ship instead which is in pursuit.
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* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: A number of security personnel at the Pentagon abandon their posts so they can place bets on arm wrestling in the cafeteria.
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* GloriousMotherRussia: The team ends up in the USSR in 1986, the climax of the Cold War. They spend some time in Moscow and it is, of course, cold, dreary, and gray.
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* GloriousMotherRussia: The team ends up in the USSR in 1986, the climax of the Cold War. They spend some time in Moscow and it is, of course, cold, dreary, dreary and gray.gray.
* IdiotBall: Ray grabs it and runs for all he's worth.
* JerkassHasAPoint: When Snart is ready to kill Hunter for forcing him to abandon teammembers, Hunter challenges him to consider what ''he'' would have done had Snart been the one making the strategic decision. Snart admits that he would have used the same cold-blooded calculus.
* IdiotBall: Ray grabs it and runs for all he's worth.
* JerkassHasAPoint: When Snart is ready to kill Hunter for forcing him to abandon teammembers, Hunter challenges him to consider what ''he'' would have done had Snart been the one making the strategic decision. Snart admits that he would have used the same cold-blooded calculus.
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* DirtyCommunists: It's some Russians working for Vandal Savage? Savage. Of course they're going to be portrayed this way.
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* RedOniBlueOni: Hunter has Sara and Kendra team up to train on the principle that they have the same problem due to opposite reasons. Sara is a warrior who needs to find her humanity to have control over her bloodlust, while Kendra needs to accept her inner warrior in order to control hers. He hopes they'll both be able to find the balance they need.need.
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** The Mikhail Baryshnikov/Gregory Hines movie "White Nights" was released at roughly the same time as this episode is set.
** Rory threatens a Soviet Officer that he'll go ''RockyIV'' on him.
* ShoutOut:
** The Mikhail Baryshnikov/Gregory Hines movie "White Nights" was released at roughly the same time as this episode is set.
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* RedOniBlueOni: Hunter has Sara and Kendra team up to train on the principle that they have the same problem due to opposite reasons. Sara is a warrior who needs to find her humanity to have control over her bloodlust, while Kendra needs to accept her inner warrior in order in order to control hers. He hopes they'll both be able to find the balance they need.
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* TheBerserker: Both Kendra and Sara have the problem of losing control in battle and turning into bloodthirsty maniacs.
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* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Averted. Snart is forced to abandon Rory, Ray, and Stein in order to escape the lab with the core. He is ''pissed'' at Hunter for making him do that.
* OhCrap: The expression on everyone's face when they see the building they're supposed to infiltrate is the Pentagon.
* OhCrap: The expression on everyone's face when they see the building they're supposed to infiltrate is the Pentagon.
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OnlySaneMan: Both Rory and Snart are absolutely right about everything they warn about in the episode (Hunter being set up to be murdered by his mentor, Ray should not have allowed his puppydog crush on Vostok to interfere with the mission).
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* GenreSavvy: Rory warns Hunter that the team is being set up to be executed. Fortunately, Hunter listens to him.
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* OnlySaneMan: Both Rory and Snart are absolutely right about everything they warn about in the episode (Hunter being set up to be murdered by his mentor, Ray should not have allowed his puppydog crush on Vostok to interfere with the mission).
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OnlySaneMan: Both Rory and Snart are absolutely right about everything they warn about in the episode (Hunter being set up to be murdered by his mentor, Ray should not have allowed his puppydog crush on Vostok to interfere with the mission).
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RedOniBlueOni: Hunter has Sara and Kendra team up to train on the principle that they have the same problem due to opposite reasons. Sara is a warrior who needs to find her humanity to have control over her bloodlust, while Kendra needs to accept her inner warrior in order in order to control hers. He hope they'll both be able to find balance.
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GenreSavvy: Rory warns Hunter that the team is being set up to be executed. Fortunately, Hunter listens to him.
OnlySaneMan: Both Rory and Snart are absolutely right about everything they warn about in the episode (Hunter being set up to be murdered by his mentor, Ray should not have allowed his puppydog crush on Vostok to interfere with the mission).
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RedOniBlueOni: Hunter has Sara and Kendra team up to train on the principle that they have the same problem due to opposite reasons. Sara is a warrior who needs to find her humanity to have control over her bloodlust, while Kendra needs to accept her inner warrior in order in order to control hers. He hope they'll both be able to find balance.
