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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jana West, [[SmugSnake smug]] and [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]] VP of Operations for Verd Agra, not above having her thugs break a few of Emily's father's ribs to make her point. CEO Saunders is fully aware of her activities and has no problem with them.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jana West, [[SmugSnake smug]] and [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]] VP of Operations for Verd Agra, is not above having her thugs break a few of Emily's father's ribs to make her point. CEO Saunders is fully aware of her activities and has no problem with them.
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A young woman has developed a 'golden' potato. It is disease resistant, quick to grow, and produces an abundance of vitamin A, the deficiency of which causes blindness in hundreds of thousands of children in developing countries. She plans to give it away. A big agricorp wants to make billions off it and they're willing to use violence to get it. Or worse, lawyers.
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A young woman has developed a 'golden' potato. It is disease resistant, disease-resistant, quick to grow, and produces an abundance of vitamin A, the deficiency of which causes blindness in hundreds of thousands of children in developing countries. She plans to give it away. A big agricorp wants to make billions off it and they're willing to use violence to get it. Or worse, lawyers.
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* BrattyHalfPint: Trevor the obnoxious know-it-all kid from the field trip group. Eventually, the team gets tired of trying to corral him and just lets him watch the con go down from the security office. His cell phone case also comes in handy for smuggling out the potato.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jana West, smug and ambitious VP of Operations for Verd Agra, not above having her thugs break a few of Emily's father's ribs to make her point. CEO Saunders is fully aware of her activities and has no problem with them.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jana West, smug and ambitious VP of Operations for Verd Agra, not above having her thugs break a few of Emily's father's ribs to make her point. CEO Saunders is fully aware of her activities and has no problem with them.
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* BrattyHalfPint: Trevor Trevor, the obnoxious know-it-all kid from the field trip group. Eventually, the team gets tired of trying to corral him and just lets him watch the con go down from the security office. His cell phone case also comes in handy for smuggling out the potato.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jana West,smug [[SmugSnake smug]] and ambitious [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]] VP of Operations for Verd Agra, not above having her thugs break a few of Emily's father's ribs to make her point. CEO Saunders is fully aware of her activities and has no problem with them.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jana West,
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* KillItWithFire: Verd Agra's most valuable assets are locked in a "burn room," designed to incinerate everything inside with a touch of a button hidden in Saunders' desk.
* MuggedForDisguise: Eliot ambushes a technician outside [=VerdAgra=] and takes his clothes for his cover as a forensic accountant.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: The super-valuable Macguffin the team is trying to retrieve is... a potato. Granted, it's a genetically-engineered "Super Tuber," but Parker simply can't get her head around the fact that they're trying to steal a vegetable. Until she actually sees it herself, she just assumes that "potato" is the code word for what they're ''really'' stealing.
* MuggedForDisguise: Eliot ambushes a technician outside [=VerdAgra=] and takes his clothes for his cover as a forensic accountant.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: The super-valuable Macguffin the team is trying to retrieve is... a potato. Granted, it's a genetically-engineered "Super Tuber," but Parker simply can't get her head around the fact that they're trying to steal a vegetable. Until she actually sees it herself, she just assumes that "potato" is the code word for what they're ''really'' stealing.
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* KillItWithFire: Verd Agra's most valuable assets are locked in a "burn room," room", designed to incinerate everything inside with a touch of a button hidden in Saunders' desk.
* MuggedForDisguise: Eliot ambushes a technician outside[=VerdAgra=] Verd Agra and takes his clothes for his cover as a forensic accountant.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: The super-valuable Macguffin the team is trying to retrieve is... a potato. Granted, it's a genetically-engineered "SuperTuber," Tuber", but Parker simply can't get her head around the fact that they're trying to steal a vegetable. Until she actually sees it herself, she just assumes that "potato" is the code word for what they're ''really'' stealing.
* MuggedForDisguise: Eliot ambushes a technician outside
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: West's whole approach to appropriating Emily's potato is claiming it was Verd Agra property to begin with and trying to "reclaim" it, first legally and then with force. It's a fallacy, but Emily doesn't have the resources to fight a Big Ag conglomerate.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: West's whole approach to appropriating Emily's potato is claiming it was Verd Agra property to begin with (since Emily [[LoopholeAbuse used their seeds for her experiments]]) and trying to "reclaim" it, first legally and then with force. It's a fallacy, but Emily doesn't have the resources to fight a Big Ag conglomerate.
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A young woman has developed a golden 'golden' potato. It is disease resistant, quick to grow, and produces an abundance of vitamin A, the deficiency of which causes blindness in hundreds of thousands of children in developing countries. She plans to give it away. A big agricorp wants to make billions off it and they're willing to use violence to get it. Or, Or worse, lawyers.
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* AccidentalTruth: Sophie orchestrates a fake MoleHunt to keep West busy while the rest of the team steal back the potato... and uncovers an actual mole: the janitor who's been quietly selling trade secrets to competitors -- and raking in millions of dollars -- for years under everyone's noses.
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* AccidentalTruth: Sophie orchestrates a fake MoleHunt {{mole}} hunt to keep West busy while the rest of the team steal back the potato... and uncovers an actual mole: the janitor who's been quietly selling trade secrets to competitors -- and raking in millions of dollars -- for years under everyone's noses.
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* MuggedForDisguise: Eliot ambushes a technician outside [=VerdAgra=] and takes his clothes for his cover as a forensic accountant.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jana West, smug and ambitious VP of Operations for Verd Agra, not above having her thugs break a few of Emily's father's ribs to make her point.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jana West, smug and ambitious VP of Operations for Verd Agra, not above having her thugs break a few of Emily's father's ribs to make her point. CEO Saunders is fully aware of her activities and has no problem with them.
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* RightForTheWrongReason: Sophie is winging it with the custodian, accusing him of being the mole and having an account in the Caymans. Turns out he ''is'' a mole and he ''does'' have an account in the Caymans!
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* RightForTheWrongReason: RightForTheWrongReasons: Sophie is winging it with the custodian, accusing him of being the mole and having an account in the Caymans. Turns out he ''is'' a mole and he ''does'' have an account in the Caymans!
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* RightForTheWrongReason: Sophie is winging it with the custodian, accusing him of being the mole and having an account in the Caymans. Turns out he ''is'' a mole and he ''does'' have an account in the Caymans!
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* NoodleIncident: "Remember Laos! You and agriculture ''do not mix''!"
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* AccidentalTruth: Sophie orchestrates a fake Mole Hunt to keep West busy while the rest of the team steal back the potato...and uncovers an actual mole: the janitor who's been quietly selling trade secrets to competitors - and raking in millions of dollars - for years under everyone's noses.
* BavarianFireDrill: Nate runs a quick one the security guard at the vault, by calling him and pretending to be a pissed-off executive who threatens the guard with disciplinary action if he doesn't help out the VIP on her way up. Hardison promptly explains to Trevor: by amping up the stress level on the guard, he's going to be too nervous and agitated to pay attention to Parker's face when she shows up.
* BittersweetEnding: The team recovers Emily's potato (well, most of it) and successfully frames Verd Agra CEO Saunders for bribery. But West is cleared of all charges and made Interim CEO, due to the behind-the-scenes interference of Season Four BigBad Jack Latimer.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: Sophie's "audible" forces the team to hastily rework a cover identity originally designed for Eliot, and in the process Sophie adopts his accent and a few of his mannerisms. At one point she even mumbles a frustrated, "Dammit, Hardison."
* BrattyHalfPint: Trevor, obnoxious know-it-all kid from the Field Trip group. Eventually the team gets tired of trying to corral him and just lets him watch the con go down from the security office. His cell phone case also comes in handy for smuggling out the potato.
* BavarianFireDrill: Nate runs a quick one the security guard at the vault, by calling him and pretending to be a pissed-off executive who threatens the guard with disciplinary action if he doesn't help out the VIP on her way up. Hardison promptly explains to Trevor: by amping up the stress level on the guard, he's going to be too nervous and agitated to pay attention to Parker's face when she shows up.
* BittersweetEnding: The team recovers Emily's potato (well, most of it) and successfully frames Verd Agra CEO Saunders for bribery. But West is cleared of all charges and made Interim CEO, due to the behind-the-scenes interference of Season Four BigBad Jack Latimer.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: Sophie's "audible" forces the team to hastily rework a cover identity originally designed for Eliot, and in the process Sophie adopts his accent and a few of his mannerisms. At one point she even mumbles a frustrated, "Dammit, Hardison."
* BrattyHalfPint: Trevor, obnoxious know-it-all kid from the Field Trip group. Eventually the team gets tired of trying to corral him and just lets him watch the con go down from the security office. His cell phone case also comes in handy for smuggling out the potato.
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* AccidentalTruth: Sophie orchestrates a fake Mole Hunt MoleHunt to keep West busy while the rest of the team steal back the potato...potato... and uncovers an actual mole: the janitor who's been quietly selling trade secrets to competitors - -- and raking in millions of dollars - -- for years under everyone's noses.
* BavarianFireDrill: Nate runs a quick one on the security guard at thevault, vault by calling him and pretending to be a pissed-off executive who threatens the guard with disciplinary action if he doesn't help out the VIP on her way up. Hardison promptly explains to Trevor: Trevor that by amping up the stress level on the guard, he's going to be too nervous and agitated to pay attention to Parker's face when she shows up.
* BittersweetEnding: The team recovers Emily's potato (well, most of it) and successfully frames Verd Agra CEO Saunders for bribery. But West is cleared of all charges and madeInterim CEO, interim CEO due to the behind-the-scenes interference of Season Four BigBad Jack Latimer.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: Sophie's "audible" forces the team to hastily rework a cover identity originally designed for Eliot, and in theprocess process, Sophie adopts his accent and a few of his mannerisms. At one point point, she even mumbles a frustrated, "Dammit, Hardison."
* BrattyHalfPint:Trevor, Trevor the obnoxious know-it-all kid from the Field Trip field trip group. Eventually Eventually, the team gets tired of trying to corral him and just lets him watch the con go down from the security office. His cell phone case also comes in handy for smuggling out the potato.
* BavarianFireDrill: Nate runs a quick one on the security guard at the
* BittersweetEnding: The team recovers Emily's potato (well, most of it) and successfully frames Verd Agra CEO Saunders for bribery. But West is cleared of all charges and made
* BorrowedCatchphrase: Sophie's "audible" forces the team to hastily rework a cover identity originally designed for Eliot, and in the
* BrattyHalfPint:
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* MundaneMadeAwesome: The super-valuable Macguffin the team is trying to retrieve is...a potato. Granted, it's a genetically-engineered "Super Tuber," but Parker simply can't get her head around the fact that they're trying to steal a vegetable. Until she actually sees it herself she just assumes that "potato" is the code word for what they're ''really'' stealing.
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* MundaneMadeAwesome: The super-valuable Macguffin the team is trying to retrieve is... a potato. Granted, it's a genetically-engineered "Super Tuber," but Parker simply can't get her head around the fact that they're trying to steal a vegetable. Until she actually sees it herself herself, she just assumes that "potato" is the code word for what they're ''really'' stealing.
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* BrattyHalfPint: Trevor, obnoxious know-it-all kid from the Field Trip group. Eventually the team gets tired of trying to corral him and just lets him watch the con go down from the security office. His lunchbox also comes in handy for smuggling out the potato.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jana West, smug and ambitious VP of Operations for Verd Agra, not above having her thugs gut-punch Emily's father to make her point.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jana West, smug and ambitious VP of Operations for Verd Agra, not above having her thugs gut-punch Emily's father to make her point.
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* BrattyHalfPint: Trevor, obnoxious know-it-all kid from the Field Trip group. Eventually the team gets tired of trying to corral him and just lets him watch the con go down from the security office. His lunchbox cell phone case also comes in handy for smuggling out the potato.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jana West, smug and ambitious VP of Operations for Verd Agra, not above having her thugsgut-punch break a few of Emily's father father's ribs to make her point.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jana West, smug and ambitious VP of Operations for Verd Agra, not above having her thugs
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-->'''Parker''': So the diamond is ''inside'' the potato...?
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* AccidentalTruth: Sophie orchestrates a fake Mole Hunt to keep West busy while the rest of the team steal back the potato...and uncovers an actual criminal: the janitor who's been quietly embezzling millions of dollars for years under everyone's noses.
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* AccidentalTruth: Sophie orchestrates a fake Mole Hunt to keep West busy while the rest of the team steal back the potato...and uncovers an actual criminal: mole: the janitor who's been quietly embezzling selling trade secrets to competitors - and raking in millions of dollars - for years under everyone's noses.
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* BavarianFireDrill: Nate runs a quick one the security guard at the vault, by calling him and pretending to be a pissed-off executive who threatens the guard with disciplinary action if he doesn't help out the VIP on her way up. Hardison promptly explains to Trevor: by amping up the stress level on the guard, he's going to be too nervous and agitated to notice that the credentials of the "VIP" - Parker - don't quite match up.
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* BavarianFireDrill: Nate runs a quick one the security guard at the vault, by calling him and pretending to be a pissed-off executive who threatens the guard with disciplinary action if he doesn't help out the VIP on her way up. Hardison promptly explains to Trevor: by amping up the stress level on the guard, he's going to be too nervous and agitated to notice that the credentials of the "VIP" - Parker - don't quite match pay attention to Parker's face when she shows up.
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* GilliganCut: Sophie recruits Eliot to be her accountant partner, and tells him to look the part. Cut to Eliot tackling some poor random guy into the bushes, then emerging in the guy's suit.
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* GilliganCut: Sophie recruits Eliot to be her accountant partner, and Nate tells him to look the part. Cut to Eliot tackling some poor random guy into the bushes, then emerging in the guy's suit.
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* KillItWithFire: Verd Agra's most valuable assets are locked in a "burn room," designed to incinerate everything inside with a touch of a button hidden in Saunders' desk.
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* ParanoiaGambit: Verd Agra is a cutthroat corporation led by the avaricious and arrogant Colin Saunders, and West knows that he will not hesitate to toss her aside if she proves to be a liability. Sophie preys on her distrust and feelings of being unappreciated to get West to trust her and do what she wants her to do.
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* ParanoiaGambit: Verd Agra is a cutthroat corporation led by the avaricious and arrogant Colin Saunders, and West knows that he will not hesitate to toss throw her aside under the bus if she proves to be a liability. Sophie preys on her distrust and feelings of being unappreciated to get West to trust her and do what she wants her to do.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jana West, smug and ambitious VP of of Operations for Verd Agra, not above having her thugs gut-punch Emily's elderly father to make her point.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jana West, smug and ambitious VP of of Operations for Verd Agra, not above having her thugs gut-punch Emily's elderly father to make her point.
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* ParanoiaGambit: Verd Agra is a cutthroat corporation led by the avaricious and arrogant Saunders, and West knows that he will not hesitate to toss her aside if she proves to be a liability. Sophie preys on her distrust and feelings of being unappreciated to get West to trust her and do what she wants her to do.
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* ParanoiaGambit: Verd Agra is a cutthroat corporation led by the avaricious and arrogant Colin Saunders, and West knows that he will not hesitate to toss her aside if she proves to be a liability. Sophie preys on her distrust and feelings of being unappreciated to get West to trust her and do what she wants her to do.
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* ParanoiaGambit: Verd Agra is a cutthroat corporation led by an avaricious and arrogant CEO, and West knows she could be tossed out on a whim. Sophie preys on her distrust and feelings of being unappreciated to get West to trust her and do what she wants her to do.
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* ParanoiaGambit: Verd Agra is a cutthroat corporation led by an the avaricious and arrogant CEO, Saunders, and West knows that he will not hesitate to toss her aside if she could proves to be tossed out on a whim.liability. Sophie preys on her distrust and feelings of being unappreciated to get West to trust her and do what she wants her to do.
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* BorrowedCatchphrase: Sophie's "audible" forces the team to hastily rework a cover identity originally designed for Eliot, and in the process Sophie adopts his accent and a few of his mannerisms. At one point she even mumbles a frustrated, "Dammit, Hardison."
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* BavarianFireDrill: Nate runs a quick one the security guard at the vault, by calling him and pretending to be a pissed-off executive who threatens the guard with disciplinary action if he doesn't help out the VIP on her way up. Hardison promptly explains to Trevor: by amping up the stress level on the guard, he's going to be too nervous and agitated to notice that the credentials of the "VIP" - Parker - don't quite match up..
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* BavarianFireDrill: Nate runs a quick one the security guard at the vault, by calling him and pretending to be a pissed-off executive who threatens the guard with disciplinary action if he doesn't help out the VIP on her way up. Hardison promptly explains to Trevor: by amping up the stress level on the guard, he's going to be too nervous and agitated to notice that the credentials of the "VIP" - Parker - don't quite match up..up.
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* BavarianFireDrill: Nate runs a quick on the security guard at the vault, which Hardison explains to Trevor: by amping up the stress level on the guard, he's going to be too nervous and agitated to notice that Parker doesn't really belong there.
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* BavarianFireDrill: Nate runs a quick on one the security guard at the vault, which by calling him and pretending to be a pissed-off executive who threatens the guard with disciplinary action if he doesn't help out the VIP on her way up. Hardison promptly explains to Trevor: by amping up the stress level on the guard, he's going to be too nervous and agitated to notice that the credentials of the "VIP" - Parker doesn't really belong there.- don't quite match up..
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* GilliganCut: Sophie recruits Eliot to be her accountant partner, and tells him to look the part. Cut to Eliot tackling some poor random guy about his size into the bushes, then emerging in the guy's suit.
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* GilliganCut: Sophie recruits Eliot to be her accountant partner, and tells him to look the part. Cut to Eliot tackling some poor random guy about his size into the bushes, then emerging in the guy's suit.
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* GilliganCut: Sophie recruits Eliot to be her accountant partner, and tells him to look the part. Cut to Eliot tackling some poor random guy about his size into the bushes, then emerging in the guy's suit.
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* BavarianFireDrill: Nate runs a quick on the security guard at the vault, which Hardison explains to Trevor: by amping up the stress level on the guard, he's going to be too nervous and agitated to notice that Parker doesn't really belong there.
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* BrattyHalfPint: Trevor, obnoxious know-it-all kid from the Field Trip group. Eventually the team gets tired of trying to corral him and just lets him watch the con go down from the security office. His lunchbox also comes in handy for smuggling out the potato.
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* EatTheEvidence: When smuggling the potato out proves to be impossible, the team slices it up, salvaging a piece with the most eyes and tossing the rest in the cafeteria fryer. The lunch crowd disposes of the evidence for them.
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* BittersweetEnding: The team recovers Emily's potato (well, most of it) and successfully frames Verd Agra CEO Saunders for bribery. But West is cleared of all charges and made Interim CEO, due to the behind-the-scenes interference of Season Four BigBag Jack Latimer.
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* BittersweetEnding: The team recovers Emily's potato (well, most of it) and successfully frames Verd Agra CEO Saunders for bribery. But West is cleared of all charges and made Interim CEO, due to the behind-the-scenes interference of Season Four BigBag BigBad Jack Latimer.
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* AccidentalTruth: Sophie orchestrates a fake Mole Hunt to keep West busy while the rest of the team steal back the potato...and uncovers an actual criminal: the janitor who's been quietly embezzling millions of dollars for years under everyone's noses.
* BittersweetEnding: The team recovers Emily's potato (well, most of it) and successfully frames Verd Agra CEO Saunders for bribery. But West is cleared of all charges and made Interim CEO, due to the behind-the-scenes interference of Season Four BigBag Jack Latimer.
* BittersweetEnding: The team recovers Emily's potato (well, most of it) and successfully frames Verd Agra CEO Saunders for bribery. But West is cleared of all charges and made Interim CEO, due to the behind-the-scenes interference of Season Four BigBag Jack Latimer.
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* ParanoiaGambit: Verd Agra is a cutthroat corporation led by an avaricious and arrogant CEO, and West knows she could be tossed out on a whim. Sophie preys on her distrust and feelings of being unappreciated to get West to trust her and do what she wants her to do.
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A young woman has developed a golden potato. It produces vitamin A, deficiency of which causes blindness in hundreds of thousands of children in developing countries. She plans to give it away. A big agricorp wants to make billions off it and they're willing to use violence to get it. Or, worse, lawyers.
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A young woman has developed a golden potato. It produces vitamin A, deficiency of which causes blindness in hundreds of thousands of children in developing countries. She plans to give it away. A big agricorp wants to make billions off it and they're willing to use violence to get it. Or, worse, lawyers.lawyers.
!!Trope Stolen in This Job
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jana West, smug and ambitious VP of of Operations for Verd Agra, not above having her thugs gut-punch Emily's elderly father to make her point.
* IndyPloy: Sophie "calls an audible" when Hardison's attempt to stall West's security team is about to fail, knocking Hardison out and introducing herself as a security consultant sent to help West.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: The super-valuable Macguffin the team is trying to retrieve is...a potato. Granted, it's a genetically-engineered "Super Tuber," but Parker simply can't get her head around the fact that they're trying to steal a vegetable. Until she actually sees it herself she just assumes that "potato" is the code word for what they're ''really'' stealing.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: West's whole approach to appropriating Emily's potato is claiming it was Verd Agra property to begin with and trying to "reclaim" it, first legally and then with force. It's a fallacy, but Emily doesn't have the resources to fight a Big Ag conglomerate.
!!Trope Stolen in This Job
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jana West, smug and ambitious VP of of Operations for Verd Agra, not above having her thugs gut-punch Emily's elderly father to make her point.
* IndyPloy: Sophie "calls an audible" when Hardison's attempt to stall West's security team is about to fail, knocking Hardison out and introducing herself as a security consultant sent to help West.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: The super-valuable Macguffin the team is trying to retrieve is...a potato. Granted, it's a genetically-engineered "Super Tuber," but Parker simply can't get her head around the fact that they're trying to steal a vegetable. Until she actually sees it herself she just assumes that "potato" is the code word for what they're ''really'' stealing.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: West's whole approach to appropriating Emily's potato is claiming it was Verd Agra property to begin with and trying to "reclaim" it, first legally and then with force. It's a fallacy, but Emily doesn't have the resources to fight a Big Ag conglomerate.
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