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* PrisonersDilemma: Discussed and invoked. Nate impersonates a college professor in the mark's psychology class and discusses the dilemma, reaching the conclusion that it's always best to betray your partner. Whether or not Nate believes this (he probably doesn't, given how the team would never betray each other) is irrelevant, since he was just [[spoiler:trying to subconsciously influence the mark to betray his government backers so they'd remove their protection]].
** Note that he doesn't bring up the simple rebuttal, which is that it falls apart if there are repeated games.
** Note that he doesn't bring up the simple rebuttal, which is that it falls apart if there are repeated games.
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* PrisonersDilemma: Discussed and invoked. Nate impersonates a college professor in the mark's psychology class and discusses the dilemma, reaching the conclusion that it's always best to betray your partner. Whether or not Nate believes this (he probably doesn't, given how the team would never betray each other) is irrelevant, since he was just [[spoiler:trying trying to subconsciously influence the mark to betray his government backers so they'd remove their protection]].
** Noteprotection. (Note that he doesn't bring up the simple rebuttal, which is that it falls apart if there are repeated games. games.)
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* {{Catchphrase}}: Parker rescues Hardison from a beating at the hands of the fascist Frat brats.
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* {{Catchphrase}}: CharacterCatchphrase: Parker rescues Hardison from a beating at the hands of the fascist Frat brats.
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* SarcasticClapping: Hardison in his cover identity gives Nate a sarcastic standing ovation for his PrisonersDilemma lecture, the better to get on the mark's good side.
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** The torture techniques used, on the other hand, are very much of the early 2000's "enhanced interrogation" style.
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* ShoutOut: One of the pieces of music used to torture the experiment's subjects is ''StandardSnippet/RideOfTheValkyries'', in an obvious allusion to the mentally disturbed soldiers of ''Film/ApocalypseNow''.
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* FightingFingerprint: At the homeless shelter, someone tries to steal Eliot's food. Eliot responds appropriately, with extreme violence. The would-be thief, a fellow veteran, correctly identifies Eliot as special forces, then revels himself to be a former Marine.
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* FightingFingerprint: At the homeless shelter, someone tries to steal Eliot's food. Eliot responds appropriately, with extreme violence. The would-be thief, a fellow veteran, correctly identifies Eliot as special forces, then revels reveals himself to be a former Marine.
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* HistoricalInJoke: The main frat brat's name (Zilgram) is a dual shout-out to the infamous psychological experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram (pushing people to torture innocent victims) and Philip Zimbardo (pushing students to abuse one another in a mock prison).
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* HistoricalInJoke: HistoricalInJoke:
** The main frat brat's name (Zilgram) is a dual shout-out to the infamous psychological experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram (pushing people to torture innocent victims) and Philip Zimbardo (pushing students to abuse one another in a mockprison).prison).
** The program, which tricks homeless vets into participating in a torture program in an effort to develop mind control techniques, is being run by the CIA, which got in trouble in the 70s for running Project MKULTRA, which tricked homeless vets into participating in a torture program in an effort to develop mind control techniques.
** The main frat brat's name (Zilgram) is a dual shout-out to the infamous psychological experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram (pushing people to torture innocent victims) and Philip Zimbardo (pushing students to abuse one another in a mock
** The program, which tricks homeless vets into participating in a torture program in an effort to develop mind control techniques, is being run by the CIA, which got in trouble in the 70s for running Project MKULTRA, which tricked homeless vets into participating in a torture program in an effort to develop mind control techniques.
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* BottleFairy: Parker pretends to be one early on to help Hardison sell his cover as a cool college student and infiltrate the fraternity.
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* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Parker pretends to be one early on to help Hardison sell his cover as a cool college student and infiltrate the fraternity.
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* HistoricalInjoke: The main frat brat's name (Zilgram) is a dual shout-out to the infamous psychological experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram (pushing people to torture innocent victims) and Philip Zimbardo (pushing students to abuse one another in a mock prison).
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* HistoricalInjoke: HistoricalInJoke: The main frat brat's name (Zilgram) is a dual shout-out to the infamous psychological experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram (pushing people to torture innocent victims) and Philip Zimbardo (pushing students to abuse one another in a mock prison).
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* {{Catchphrase}}: Parker rescues Hardison from a beating at the hands of the fascist Frat brats.
--> '''Brat:''' Nerd! You hear me?! You're never gonna be one of us! You're no Dustman, you're a geek!\\
'''Parker:''' Should I tell him it's the Age of the Geek?\\
'''Hardison:''' They'll figure it out eventually.\\
'''Parker:''' [Boot]
--> '''Brat:''' Nerd! You hear me?! You're never gonna be one of us! You're no Dustman, you're a geek!\\
'''Parker:''' Should I tell him it's the Age of the Geek?\\
'''Hardison:''' They'll figure it out eventually.\\
'''Parker:''' [Boot]
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* TooDumbToLive: The college kids being recruited into the CIA take the ''for more than a decade internationally renowned criminal feared by governments'' to their basement and decide to try and torture him. Without, like, tying him up. Fair enough, Hardison isn't Eliot, but for fuck's sake. He's got a Parker.
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* DudeWheresMyRespect: Inverted when Eliot stops playing along, beats the CIA mook unconscious and starts freeing his fellow test subjects. The marine who tried to take his food, and who immediately recognized Eliot as special forces, comments, "Took you long enough." and gets to opening up the other cells.
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Eliot has spent days not merely enduring torture, but using his indifference to it to torture the people trying to torture him. He gives zero fucks. Then Hardison needs help, so Eliot has to get out, ''now''... Well, take a look at the Jack Bauer technique below.
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* DramaticGunCock: FratBro walks into Hardison's room, "Good news!" Hardison thinks he's in. Frat boy hands him his CIA file... pulls a gun.
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* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: The fraternity is recruiting for one. Eliot used to work for one. Which way should credibility lean that the WackyFratBoy ''still in college'' is able to request and receive Eliot's apparently ''unredacted'' file?
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* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: The fraternity is recruiting for one. Eliot used to work for one. Which way should credibility lean that the WackyFratBoy FratBro ''still in college'' is able to request and receive Eliot's apparently ''unredacted'' file?
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* BottleFairy: Parker pretends to be one early on to help Hardison sell his cover as a cool college student and infiltrate the fraternity.
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* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: The fraternity is recruiting for one. Eliot used to work for one. Which way should credibility lean that the WackyFratBoy ''still in college'' is able to request and receive Eliot's apparently ''unredacted'' file?
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* HistoricalInjoke: The main frat brat's name (Zilgram) is a dual shout-out to the infamous psychological experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram (pushing people to torture innocent victims) and Philip Zimbardo (pushing students to abuse one another in a mock prison).
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* AnAesop: We need to take better care of our veterans rather than leave them to try, and fail, to deal with PTSD on their own.
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* FightingFingerprint: At the homeless shelter, someone tries to steal Eliot's food. Eliot responds appropriately, with extreme violence. The would-be thief, a fellow veteran, correctly identifies Eliot as special forces, then revels himself to be a former Marine.
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--> '''Parker:''' Do you want to tell them it's the Age of the Geek?\\
'''Hardison:''' Nah, they'll figure it out.
'''Hardison:''' Nah, they'll figure it out.
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** Note that he doesn't bring up the simple rebuttal, which is that it falls apart if there are repeated games.
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* PrisonersDilemma: Discussed and invoked. Nate impersonates a college professor in the mark's psychology class and discusses the dilemma, reaching the conclusion that it's always best to betray your partner. Whether or not Nate believes this (he probably doesn't, given how the team would never betray each other) is irrelevant, since he was just [[spoiler:trying to subconsciously influence the mark to betray his government backers so they'd remove their protection]].
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* TeensAreMonsters: Travis is an undergrad student who conducts inhuman sleep deprivation experiments on homeless vets which lead to several deaths. Then it turns out it was a cover for illegal "research" for hot to break people and instill PTSD.
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* TeensAreMonsters: Travis is an undergrad student who conducts inhuman sleep deprivation experiments on homeless vets which lead to several deaths. Then it turns out it was a cover for illegal "research" for hot how to break people and instill PTSD.PTSD. Also his frat brothers taking part in helping.
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* TalkToTheFist: After Eliot frees the vets from their cells, a guard tries to stop them, only to get punched out by one of the vets. When Parker saves Hardison from the Dustmen group, one of them angrily shouts out that Hardison is nothing but a geek and will never be one of them. Parker kicks the bastard in the face to shut him up.
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* SmugSnake: Travis arrogantly believes himself to be untouchable by the police and thereby free to do his inhumane experiments without incident. When in the interrogation room, he brags about how his arrest will end with his release since he “knows people in high places”, [[OhCrap until he saw said person arrested and being escorted to another room]].
* TalkToTheFist: After Eliot frees the vets from their cells, a student guard tries to stop them, only to get punched out by one of the vets. When Parker saves Hardison from the Dustmen group, one of them angrily shouts out that Hardison is nothing but a geek and will never be one of them. Parker kicks the bastard in the face to shut him up.
* TalkToTheFist: After Eliot frees the vets from their cells, a student guard tries to stop them, only to get punched out by one of the vets. When Parker saves Hardison from the Dustmen group, one of them angrily shouts out that Hardison is nothing but a geek and will never be one of them. Parker kicks the bastard in the face to shut him up.
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* TalkToTheFist: After Eliot frees the vets from their cells, a guard tries to stop them, only to get punched out by one of the vets.
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* TalkToTheFist: After Eliot frees the vets from their cells, a guard tries to stop them, only to get punched out by one of the vets. When Parker saves Hardison from the Dustmen group, one of them angrily shouts out that Hardison is nothing but a geek and will never be one of them. Parker kicks the bastard in the face to shut him up.
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* TalkToTheFist: After Eliot frees the vets from their cells, a guard tries to stop them, only to get punched out by one of the vets.
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-->'''Eliot:''' That torture doesn't work!
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-->'''Eliot:''' That torture doesn't work!work! ''(proceeds to brutally beat interrogator)'' WHERE IS HE!? ''(beats him more)'' WHERE IS HE!? ''(four minutes pass and Eliot leaves the broken body of the interrogator)'' I know where they took Hardison.
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* JackBauerInterrogation: HannibalLecture: The interrogator interviewing Eliot ''tries'' to do this on him, only for it to get turned back around on the interrogator by Eliot.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: When learning that Hardison's cover was blown and was in danger, Eliot decides to break out, but first, he interrogates the interrogator who had been trying (and failing) to psychologically break him.
-->'''Eliot:''' ''(throws table aside and grabs interrogator's neck)'' We're gonna do things a little bit differently today, alright? I ask, you answer. Now I got four minutes to prove your theory wrong.
-->'''Interrogator:''' What theory!?
-->'''Eliot:''' That torture doesn't work!
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: When learning that Hardison's cover was blown and was in danger, Eliot decides to break out, but first, he interrogates the interrogator who had been trying (and failing) to psychologically break him.
-->'''Eliot:''' ''(throws table aside and grabs interrogator's neck)'' We're gonna do things a little bit differently today, alright? I ask, you answer. Now I got four minutes to prove your theory wrong.
-->'''Interrogator:''' What theory!?
-->'''Eliot:''' That torture doesn't work!
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* TeensAreMonsters:ChairmanOfTheBrawl: Parker smashes a chair onto a dustman to stop him and his cohorts from beating on Hardison.
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* TeensAreMonsters: Travis is an undergrad student who conducts inhuman sleep deprivation experiments on homeless vets which lead to several deaths. Then it turns out it was a cover for illegal "research" for hot to break people and instill PTSD.
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* TeensAreMonsters: Travis is an undergrad student who conducts inhuman sleep deprivation experiments on homeless vets which lead to several deaths. Then it turns out it was a cover for illegal "research" for hot to break people and instill PTSD.
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Several homeless vets turn up missing, and at least one of them was found dead in the river. The daughter of said vet comes to the Leverage team for help, suspecting foul play in her father's wrongful death. The team goes and infiltrates a college that was near where the missing cases incidents have been occurring. While Hardison goes undercover as a college student, Eliot goes undercover as a vet to find out what happened to the homeless taken off the streets.
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* TeensAreMonsters:
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Several homeless vets turn up missing, and at least one of them was found dead in the river. The daughter of said vet comes to the Leverage team for help, suspecting foul play in her father's wrongful death. The team goes and infiltrates a college that was near where the missing cases incidents have been occurring. While Hardison goes undercover as a college student, Eliot goes undercover as a vet to find out what happened to the homeless taken off the streets.
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* TeensAreMonsters:
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