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* LineInTheSand: Eliot offers to let fly Parker and Hardison home early in the job, knowing that neither of them signed up to take down a terrorism plot in an afternoon. They both refuse to leave.
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* TheDreaded: Riley mentions that three foreign presidents immediately left Washington, D.C. when they heard that Eliot Spencer was in town.



* HeroStoleMyBike: Twice
** Parker steals a Vespa to get the target of a sniper away from him

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* HeroStoleMyBike: Twice
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* PragmaticVillainy: Riley doesn't attempt to pressure or threaten Eliot into accepting the job when he turns it down and decides to simply hire someone else. Unfortunately for him, Eliot subsequently shows up at his door to stop him from doing just that.


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* WhyDontYaJustShootHim: Subverted; once Riley realizes that [[TheDreaded Eliot Spencer]] is at his door with backup, he whips out his gun and starts shooting. Parker got to the bullets first.

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* ForWantOfANail: Vance shows us what Elliot would have been like if he had stayed in the military.



** Parker steals a vespa to get the target of a sniper away from him

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* WhatIf: Vance shows us what Elliot would have been like if he had stayed in the military.

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* HeroStoleMyBike: Needing to get downtown fast, Eliot and Hardison take some hapless schmuck's keys and drive off with his car.

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* HeroStoleMyBike: Twice
** Parker steals a vespa to get the target of a sniper away from him
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Needing to get downtown fast, Eliot and Hardison take some hapless schmuck's keys and drive off with his car.
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Hardison figures that in order to weaponize it he’ll need pigs. The truck finds a pig farm that seems promising. He calls Vance with the news, and finds out that a letter was just delivered to a newspaper from someone named Ahmed, a crazy one. Vance wants them to check it out before he can do anything. At the farm they find the dead farmer, and a whole lot of dead pigs.

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Hardison figures that in order to weaponize it he’ll need pigs. The truck finds a pig farm that seems promising. He calls Vance with the news, and finds out that a letter was just delivered hand-delivered to a newspaper from someone named Ahmed, a crazy one.acting crazy. Vance wants them to check it out before he can do anything. At the farm they find the dead farmer, and a whole lot of dead pigs.



Vance is convinced and Parker hands him some papers they found from some leasing company which recently made another one on the outskirts of town. Vance calls in a Anti-Terrorist forces to deal with it.

It seems to be over, but something is bothering them, if the terrorists are going for chaos and panic, why just the head of one hospital? There’s something they missed. Going over the financial records of all three targets, they find that all of them went to a symposium on bio terrorism headed by a Dr. Everett Udall, the one who’s been going around doing all this. He’s apparently developed a bunch of possible scenarios for attacks on Washington, and Eliot figures since he’s likely dead, his research could be useful. They head to Udall’s home.

Meanwhile, Vance is preparing to assault the suspected terrorists hold, when the congressman come to ask if he’s got a warrant. He holds off until they get one while the team gets to Udall’s house and find the front door rigged with a bomb. Parker manages to disable it and they figure that Udall is actually Ahmed. Inside they find that he’s been suspended from the CDC for erratic behavior, which Eliot finds very comforting. Apparently he was pestering people about his scenarios and becoming frustrated that he wasn’t being taken seriously. They also find plans for the bomb itself.

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Vance is convinced and Parker hands him some papers they found from some leasing company which recently made another one on the outskirts of town. Vance calls in a Anti-Terrorist forces to deal with it.

It seems to be over, but something is bothering them, them: if the terrorists are going for chaos and panic, why just the head of one hospital? There’s something they missed. Going over the financial records of all three targets, they find that all of them went to a symposium on bio terrorism headed by a Dr. Everett Udall, the one who’s been going around doing all this. He’s apparently developed a bunch of possible scenarios for attacks on Washington, and Eliot figures since he’s likely dead, his research could be useful. They head to Udall’s home.

Meanwhile, Vance is preparing to assault the suspected terrorists terrorists' hold, when the congressman come comes to ask if he’s got a warrant. He holds off until they get one one, while the team gets to Udall’s house and find the front door rigged with a bomb. Parker manages to disable it and they figure that Udall is actually Ahmed. Inside they find that he’s been suspended from the CDC for erratic behavior, which Eliot finds very comforting. Apparently he was pestering people about his scenarios and becoming frustrated that he wasn’t being taken seriously. They also find plans for the bomb itself.



Now they need to find Udall before he releases the virus. He’ll need a public place...the subway, unfortunately this is like finding a needle in a haystack. Hardison tracks him via phone on one of the trains and Parker jumps on it…literally. Eliot and Hardison take a car, literally taking the keys from the owner, and moments later have to cops after them. Udall heads to the main station where the virus will do the most damage as Parker manages to get to the train cab and put the brakes on. As the train stops, Udall activates his device, while Parker makes her way through the train, looking for him.

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Now they need to find Udall before he releases the virus. He’ll need a public place...the subway, unfortunately this is like finding a needle in a haystack. Hardison tracks him via phone on one of the trains and Parker jumps on it…literally. Eliot and Hardison take a car, literally taking the keys from the owner, and moments later have to the cops after them. Udall heads to the main station where the virus will do the most damage as Parker manages to get to the train cab and put the brakes on. As the train stops, Udall activates his device, while Parker makes her way through the train, looking for him.



* ColonelBadass: Vance.

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* %%* ColonelBadass: Vance.



** An uncredited Adam Baldwin showed up in the season premiere as an unnamed old friend of Eliot's.

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** An uncredited Adam Baldwin showed had shown up in the season premiere as an unnamed old friend of Eliot's.
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->'''Hardison''': ''[[ThePlague That bug]] in there killed 50 million people! 50! And that was when the population was lower!''\\
'''Parker''': ''Now?''\\
'''Hardison''': ''Now? 150 million people. 150 million dead.''

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->'''Hardison''': ''[[ThePlague [[ThePlague That bug]] in there killed 50 million people! 50! And that was when the population was lower!''\\
lower!\\
'''Parker''': ''Now?''\\
Now?\\
'''Hardison''': ''Now? Now? 150 million people. 150 million dead.''
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* AbsenteeActor: No Nate and Sohpie here (the inversion of "The Frame-Up Job" in this regard).
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Eliot, Parker, and Hardison foil and uncover a terrorist plot, then call in a FriendOnTheForce. So they get arrested.

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-->'''Hardison''': ''[[ThePlague That bug]] in there killed 50 million people! 50! And that was when the population was lower!''\\

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''[[ThePlague That bug]] in there killed 50 million people! 50! And that was when the population was lower!''\\



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-->'''[[ObstructiveBureaucrat Congressman Yount]]''': These slow, giant agencies you mock were designed by very smart people.\\

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-->'''[[ObstructiveBureaucrat ->'''[[ObstructiveBureaucrat Congressman Yount]]''': These slow, giant agencies you mock were designed by very smart people.\\



-->'''Eliot''': [[OhCrap The bug is hot]].

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-->'''Eliot''': ->'''Eliot''': [[OhCrap The bug is hot]].
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* TooCleverByHalf: Vance argues that US intelligence and law enforcement agencies are too big and slow to respond to modern terrorist operations. When a member of Congress argues that these agencies were designed by very smart people, Vance snidely responds, "So was [[UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic the Titanic]]".
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At a basement hideout for a recent robbery, Parker finds a place where an underground lab was cut into through the wall. They find information on the [[ThePlague Spanish Flu]]. Hardison predicts that if it’s released, there could be 150 million dead. Hardison wants out, but Eliot convinces him to see it through.

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At a basement hideout for a recent robbery, Parker finds a place where an underground lab was cut into through the wall. They find information on the [[ThePlague Spanish Flu]].UsefulNotes/TheSpanishFlu. Hardison predicts that if it’s released, there could be 150 million dead. Hardison wants out, but Eliot convinces him to see it through.
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* HeroStoleMyBike: Needing to get downtown fast, Eliot and Hardison take some hapless schmuck's keys and drive off with his car.

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* AbsenteeActor: No Nate and Sohpie here (the inversion of "The Frame-Up Job" in this regard).



* ForWantOfANail: Vance shows us what Elliot would have been like if he had stayed in the military

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* ForWantOfANail: Vance shows us what Elliot would have been like if he had stayed in the militarymilitary.



* NoSell: Udall shoots a charging Eliot in the shoulder, and later in the thigh. Doesn't even phase him. At least, not until after the job is done.

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* NoSell: Udall shoots a charging Eliot in the shoulder, and later in the thigh. Doesn't even phase faze him. At least, not until after the job is done.



* PatientZero: The farmer Udall kill in the beginning.

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* PatientZero: The farmer Udall kill killed in the beginning.

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