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-->'''B-15:''' She really is... full of surprises.\\

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-->'''B-15:''' She really is...is fff... full of surprises.\\
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** Mobius takes a deep breath before admitting to Loki that hitting Brad wasn't tactical but that really did lose it.

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** Mobius takes a deep breath before admitting to Loki that hitting Brad wasn't tactical but that he really did lose it.

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* DeepBreathRevealsTension: Mobius takes a deep breath before admitting to Loki that hitting Brad wasn't tactical but that really did lose it.

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* DeepBreathRevealsTension: DeepBreathRevealsTension:
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Mobius takes a deep breath before admitting to Loki that hitting Brad wasn't tactical but that really did lose it.
** When Loki meets Sylvie after their falling out in the season 1 finale, he just stares at her for some time before muttering "hi" while inhaling loudly ''six times in a row''. She responds in kind.
--->'''Brad:''' This feels tense. What do you say we leave them to
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* LastSecondWordSwap: B-15 is about to curse when they discuss Ravonna but duly stops herself.
-->'''B-15:''' She really is.. Full of surprises.\\

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* LastSecondWordSwap: B-15 is about to curse when they discuss Ravonna Ravonna, but duly stops herself.
-->'''B-15:''' She really is.. Full is... full of surprises.\\
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* LastSecondWordSwap: B-15 is about to curse when they discuss Ravonna but duly stops herself.
-->'''B-15:''' She really is.. Full of surprises.\\
'''Mobius:''' You can say that again.
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* AsYouKnow: When the episode starts, Mobius is explaining to Loki (and the audience) that they are in London because they want to find Sylvie, Dox and X-05 are not responding, and the last time X-5 used his [=TemPad=] before it went dark was in that place. Loki already knows all this.


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* HuntingTheRogue: Loki and Mobius are in London to catch X-5, the rogue TVA agent who was tasked with finding Sylvie by general Dox but abandoned his mission and hid on the Sacred Timeline.
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* ProductPlacement: Mobius happily gorging himself on [=McDonalds=] while crowing how it's such a good meal.
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* ShoutOutShoutOut:



** The episode title is clearly a reference to Series/BreakingBad.
** X-5's alias, Brad Wolfe, also appears to be a reference to [[Series/{{DoctorWho}} the Bad Wolf story arc]] from series 1 of the revived Series/DoctorWho.

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** The episode title is clearly a reference to Series/BreakingBad.
''Series/BreakingBad''.
** X-5's alias, Brad Wolfe, also appears to be a reference to [[Series/{{DoctorWho}} [[Series/DoctorWho the Bad Wolf story arc]] from series 1 of the revived Series/DoctorWho.''Series/DoctorWho''.

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* ShoutOut: When Mobius asks Brad what ''Zaniac'' is about, he eventually decides to say "It's cinema!" as a way of describing it, likely alluding to the "This is cinema" meme.

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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut
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When Mobius asks Brad what ''Zaniac'' is about, he eventually decides to say "It's cinema!" as a way of describing it, likely alluding to the "This is cinema" meme.meme.
** The episode title is clearly a reference to Series/BreakingBad.
** X-5's alias, Brad Wolfe, also appears to be a reference to [[Series/{{DoctorWho}} the Bad Wolf story arc]] from series 1 of the revived Series/DoctorWho.

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* CallBack: When Loki wants to talk to Mobius after he slaps Brad, Mobius recalls how he told Loki that [[Recap/LokiEpisode1GloriousPurpose he can play the heavy keys, too]].



* ColdOpen: The episode begins with Loki, Mobius, and B-15 going undercover in 1970s England to capture Hunter X-5, aka Brad Wolfe, who's trying to find a new life as the star of a movie called ''[[ShowWithinAShow Zaniac]]''. After a brief chase scene and some masterful illusions, they manage to take him down.

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* ColdOpen: The episode begins with Loki, Mobius, and B-15 going undercover in 1970s England to capture Hunter X-5, aka a.k.a. Brad Wolfe, who's trying to find a new life as the star of a movie called ''[[ShowWithinAShow Zaniac]]''. After a brief chase scene and some masterful illusions, they manage to take him down.


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** When Loki wants to talk to Mobius after he slaps Brad, Mobius recalls how he told Loki that [[Recap/LokiEpisode1GloriousPurpose he can play the heavy keys, too]].


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* DeadlyForceField: Loki interrogates Hunter X-5, a.k.a. Brad Wolfe, by using a machine that create a rectangular forcefield, encasing him in it. And then Loki toys with the controls, shrinking the forcefield side by side, threatening to slowly crush Brad to death with it if he doesn't start releasing information.
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* CallBack: When Loki wants to talk to Mobius after he slaps Brad, Mobius recalls how he told Loki that [[Recap/LokiEpisode1GloriousPurpose he can play the heavy keys, too]].

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* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: After Sylvie refuses to help Loki, Mobius and Brad arrive to tell her that her timeline is about to be destroyed, so she is forced to help him in order to preserve her home anyway. She bails out on him as soon as Dox and her crew are rounded up.


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* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: After Sylvie refuses to help Loki, Mobius and Brad arrive to tell her that her timeline is about to be destroyed, so she is forced to help him in order to preserve her home anyway. She bails out on him as soon as Dox and her crew are rounded up.
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* DeepBreathRevealsTension: Mobius takes a deep breath before admitting to Loki that hitting Brad wasn't tactical but that really really did lose it.

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* DeepBreathRevealsTension: Mobius takes a deep breath before admitting to Loki that hitting Brad wasn't tactical but that really really did lose it.
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* BullyingADragon: Brad thinks he can safely antagonize Loki, a PhysicalGod who captured him, by calling him a loser and [[TheyDiedBecauseOfYou pinning his mother's death on him]]. Brad believes that Mobius will ensure Loki doesn't do Brad any harm. Then Loki just happens to be alone with Brad in a torture chamber and decides to have some fun.
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* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: After Sylvie refuses to help Loki, Mobius and Brad arrive to tell her that her timeline is about to be destroyed, so she is forced to help him in order to preserve her home anyway. She bails out on him as soon as Dox and her crew are rounded up.

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* BattleOfWits: Mobius calls Brad's interrogation a "chess match," because Brad is a good hunter who knows the TVA's usual tactics and procedures. It is also a battle between two {{Master Actor}}s, Loki and Brad. Brad initially manages to get the upper hand -- he shuts up B-15 by pointing out that by getting a life on the timeline he just did as she told him, and tears into both Loki and Mobius with {{Hannibal Lecture}}s. He fails to trigger Loki but provokes Mobius into slapping Brad in the face. However, Brad erroneously assumes that Loki is still more of a villain and Loki leans into that to intimidate him and get the information he needs.



* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Loki and Mobius basically torture Brad for information about Dox and Sylvie. They get some, but not all of it.



*** When he reminds B-15 about how she said people have lives on the different branches, and how he was living his life on the Sacred Timeline.

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*** When he He reminds B-15 about how that she said people have TVA workers are variants who had lives on the different branches, and how timeline, so she shouldn't be mad that he was living his life on the Sacred Timeline.went down there to live ''his'' life.


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*** He is not wrong when he calls Loki an [[TheAtoner atoner]], a {{loser|Deity}}, and the one obsessed with Sylvie. It is Brad's belief that Loki is still a villain that does not hold water, and Loki uses that to his advantage.


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* ScrewYourself: When Loki and Sylvie go outside to talk, the weirdness of their (former) relationship gets hilariously lampshaded by Mobius:
-->'''Mobius:''' Look. It's a complicated relationship, okay? There's a lot to unpack when you're basically in a relationship with yourself.


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* UpTheRealRabbitHole: Brad repeats several times that nothing in the TVA is "real". He is convinced that life on the timeline is the only one that matters.

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* CombinedEnergyAttack: Loki and Sylvie combine their powers to release a wave of destructive energy against Dox and her agents.
-->'''Sylvie:''' ''[before taking Loki's hand]'' Don't overthink it.



* CombinedEnergyAttack: Loki and Sylvie combine their powers to release a wave of destructive energy against Dox and her agents.
-->'''Sylvie:''' ''[before taking Loki's hand]'' Don't overthink it.



* MirthlessLaughter: Loki laughs joylessly when Brad attacks his weak points and claims that he'll always be a villain.
* MoodSwinger: O.B. goes from shouting "We're all gonna die!" to cheerfully greeting Casey and then immediately goes back to panicking.


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* MirthlessLaughter: Loki laughs joylessly when Brad attacks his weak points and claims that he'll always be a villain.
* MoodSwinger: O.B. goes from shouting "We're all gonna die!" to cheerfully greeting Casey and then immediately goes back to panicking.
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* HopelessWithTech: Downplayed, as this is TVA tech. Loki and Mobius have trouble figuring out how to dissemble and inspect Brad's modified [=TemPad=], even with the help of the TVA handbook.
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* TerrorHero: While chasing X-05, Loki finally remembers he's a sorcerer and uses magic to chase the man down, then corner him, then grab him with horrifying horned shadows.
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