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* FalseRoulette



* WhatTheHellHero: Lou gives one to Finch when he realizes that Finch left the love of his life.

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* WhatTheHellHero: Lou gives one to Finch when he realizes that Finch left the love of his life.
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* ShoutOut: Reese says that being an [[JamesBond international spy]] and all, of course he knows [[Literature/CasinoRoyale how to play baccarat.]]

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* ShoutOut: Reese says that being an [[JamesBond [[Franchise/JamesBond international spy]] and all, of course he knows [[Literature/CasinoRoyale how to play baccarat.]]
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* TooDumbToLive: Leon's number comes up a ''third'' time.

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* TooDumbToLive: Leon's number comes up a ''third'' time. Ironically, he is GenreSavvy enough to realize that Reese is going to bust in and save him.
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* PunkInTheTrunk: Reese tells the casino owner his hitman are in the trunk of a taxi headed for Vermont.

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* PunkInTheTrunk: Reese tells the casino owner his hitman hitmen are in the trunk of a taxi headed for Vermont.
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* RussianRoulette: The casino owner's plan to kill Lou, Reese, Finch, and Leon. Of course it doesn't turn out how he was expecting.

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* RussianRoulette: The casino owner's plan to kill Lou, Reese, Finch, and Leon. Of course [[ItWorksBetterWithBullets it doesn't turn out how he was expecting.expecting]].

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* GenreSavvy: Leon realises that the Nigerian gangsters plan to kill him means that a certain Man in the Suit will do a BigDamnHeroes any moment.

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* GenreSavvy: Leon realises that the Nigerian gangsters plan planning to kill him means that a certain Man in the a Suit will do a BigDamnHeroes any moment.


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* WeGottaStopMeetingLikeThis: Reese's deadpan response to [[RunningGag saving Leon in the nick of time again]].
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* MuggingTheMonster: Leon is bemused to find the Nigerian gangsters he was scamming on line actually were Nigerian gangsters.

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* IHaveYourWife: Lou and Reese are walking out of the casino scott free, when it turns out the bad guys have seized Finch and Leon.

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* IHaveYourWife: [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Friends]]: Lou and Reese are walking out of the casino scott free, when it turns out the bad guys have seized Finch and Leon.


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* NervesOfSteel: Reese doesn't even flinch when the revolver's trigger is pulled in his face.
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-->'''Hood:''' ''[off-screen[[]'' Oh, come on!

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-->'''Hood:''' ''[off-screen[[]'' ''[off-screen]'' Oh, come on!
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* ChainedToABed: Leon thinks it's his lucky day when his girlfriend breaks out the KinkyCuffs. Then two pissed-off Nigerian gangsters burst in.

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* ChainedToABed: Leon thinks it's his lucky day when his girlfriend Candy breaks out the KinkyCuffs. Then two pissed-off Nigerian gangsters burst in.

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* ChainedToABed: With KinkyCuffs. Then the Nigerian gangsters come in.

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* ChainedToABed: With Leon thinks it's his lucky day when his girlfriend breaks out the KinkyCuffs. Then the two pissed-off Nigerian gangsters come burst in.



* IHaveYourWife: Leon and Reese are walking out of the casino scott free, when it turns out the bad guys have seized Finch and Leon.

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* IHaveYourWife: Leon Lou and Reese are walking out of the casino scott free, when it turns out the bad guys have seized Finch and Leon.



* TheLostLenore:

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* TheLostLenore: Leon is DrowningMySorrows over Candy's betrayal. Lou is unwilling to leave the city where his wife is buried. Finch is again reminded of what he had to give up.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: HR show just how far they're willing to go to regain their former power. When the plan to FrameUp Szymanski goes sour, Quinn murders both him and the DA handling the case, and is [[WoundedGazelleGambit even willing to take a bullet to make it more convincing]].



* PerpSweating

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* PerpSweatingPerpSweating: Reese is shown in the aftermath of roughing up some hoods for information. When he has more questions to ask after talking to Finch, he goes back for another round.
-->'''Hood:''' ''[off-screen[[]'' Oh, come on!




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* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: Finch stakes a million bucks on Leon's high roller act, then Lou's HighStakesPokerGame.

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* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: Finch stakes a million bucks on Leon's high roller act, then Lou's HighStakesPokerGame.AbsurdlyHighStakesGame.


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* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon
-->'''Leon:''' It's not technically a crime to scam a scammer!
-->'''Nigerian gangster:''' But it is a crime to cut out a man's intestines. And make him wear them as a hat.


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* IHaveYourWife: Leon and Reese are walking out of the casino scott free, when it turns out the bad guys have seized Finch and Leon.
* GenreSavvy: Leon realises that the Nigerian gangsters plan to kill him means that a certain Man in the Suit will do a BigDamnHeroes any moment.
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* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: Finch stakes a million bucks on Leon's high roller act, then Lou's HighStakesPokerGame.


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* ChainedToABed: With KinkyCuffs. Then the Nigerian gangsters come in.


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* TheLostLenore:


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* PerpSweating


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* TemptingFate: Finch says this tailing stuff is easy, but Lou has been onto him all day.
* PunkInTheTrunk: Reese tells the casino owner his hitman are in the trunk of a taxi headed for Vermont.


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* ShoutOut: Reese says that being an [[JamesBond international spy]] and all, of course he knows [[Literature/CasinoRoyale how to play baccarat.]]
* VerbalBackspace: Leon is jealous...angry over the casino's money laundering operation.
* WeNeedADistraction: Leon playing the high roller. Unfortunately the casino boss isn't fooled.
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** GenreSavvy / HoldingOutForAHero: Leon wasn't afraid for his life, because he knew Reese would show up and save him. And he did, right on cue (though he did threaten that next time it happens he'll be on "vacation").
** FridgeHorror sets in, when you realize this is (as of February 2015) the last episode to feature Leon.
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* ThePurge: To prepare the groundwork for their assault on the power base of Elias, HR begin to take out threats to themselves. First on the list is Szymanski who buys it when Quinn whips out a suppressed Glock 17 without warning and shoots him clean through the head.

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* ClearTheirName: Carter tries to prove that [[spoiler:Szymanski]] was set up.
* ContinuityNod: At the end of the episode, Finch hires Lou to repair the two million dollar watch that he had destroyed at the end of "One Percent", [[spoiler: [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming which would easily earn Lou enough money to buy the diner his late wife worked at and save it from being bought up and torn down by developers.]]]]

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* ClearTheirName: Carter tries to prove that [[spoiler:Szymanski]] Szymanski was set up.
* ContinuityNod: At the end of the episode, Finch hires Lou to repair the two million dollar watch that he had destroyed at the end of "One Percent", [[spoiler: [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming which would easily earn Lou enough money to buy the diner his late wife worked at and save it from being bought up and torn down by developers.]]]]]]



* DirtyCop: [[spoiler:Detective Terney, a previously minor recurring character, is revealed to be working for HR.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Poor Szymanski.]] This has been happening a lot lately.

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* DirtyCop: [[spoiler:Detective Detective Terney, a previously minor recurring character, is revealed to be working for HR.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Poor Szymanski.]] This has been happening a lot lately.



* SuspiciousSpending: Lou has been losing $2,000 a day at the casino for over a year, leading Reese and Finch to wonder where he's getting all the money he's losing. [[spoiler:The money actually belongs to the casino owner: He slips the profits from his drug business to senior citizens via prescription bottles at a pharmacy he owns, who then spend the money at the casino, laundering it for him.]]

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* SuspiciousSpending: Lou has been losing $2,000 a day at the casino for over a year, leading Reese and Finch to wonder where he's getting all the money he's losing. [[spoiler:The The money actually belongs to the casino owner: He slips the profits from his drug business to senior citizens via prescription bottles at a pharmacy he owns, who then spend the money at the casino, laundering it for him.]]
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** FridgeHorror sets in, when you realize this is (as of February 2015) the last episode to feature Leon.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Lou gives one to Finch when he realizes that Finch left the love of his life go.

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* WhatTheHellHero: Lou gives one to Finch when he realizes that Finch left the love of his life go.
life.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Lou gives one to Finch when he realizes that Finch left the love of his life.

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* WhatTheHellHero: Lou gives one to Finch when he realizes that Finch left the love of his life.
life go.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Lou gives one to Finch when he realizes that Finch left the love of his life.
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** GenreSavvy / HoldingOutForAHero: Leon wasn't afraid for his life, because he knew Reese would show up and save him. And he did, right on cue.

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** GenreSavvy / HoldingOutForAHero: Leon wasn't afraid for his life, because he knew Reese would show up and save him. And he did, right on cue.
cue (though he did threaten that next time it happens he'll be on "vacation").
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* SuspiciousSpending: Lou has been losing $2,000 a day at the casino for over a year, leading Reese and Finch to wonder where he's getting all the money he's losing. [[spoiler:The money actually belongs to the casino owner: He slips the profits from his drug business to senior citizens via prescription bottles at a pharmacy he owns, who then spend the money at the casino, laundering it for him.]]
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** GenreSavvy/HoldingOutForAHero: Leon wasn't afraid for his life, because he knew Reese would show up and save him. And he did, right on cue.

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** GenreSavvy/HoldingOutForAHero: GenreSavvy / HoldingOutForAHero: Leon wasn't afraid for his life, because he knew Reese would show up and save him. And he did, right on cue.
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** GenreSavvy/HoldingOutForAHero: Leon wasn't afraid for his life, because he knew Reese would show up and save him. And he did, right on cue.
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Reese and Finch get the number of a retired watchmaker named Lou who spends his days losing money at a casino. While they try to unravel the source of all the money he loses and the nature of the danger he's in, Carter finds that a colleague who is a key witness against a Russian mob figure has just been arrested for corruption by IA and has to figure out what's going on.

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Reese and Finch get the number of a retired watchmaker watch repairman named Lou who spends his days losing money at a casino. While they try to unravel the source of all the money he loses and the nature of the danger he's in, Carter finds that a colleague who is a key witness against a Russian mob figure has just been arrested for corruption by IA and has to figure out what's going on.
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: Lou's plan to hurt the casino owner.

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* PayEvilUntoEvil: Lou's plan to hurt the casino owner. Also, Leon's interaction with the Nigerian scammers.

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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: "I cheated, dumbass!"

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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: "I cheated, dumbass!""Hey dumbass, I cheated!"


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* PayEvilUntoEvil: Lou's plan to hurt the casino owner.
* RussianRoulette: The casino owner's plan to kill Lou, Reese, Finch, and Leon. Of course it doesn't turn out how he was expecting.


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Reese and Finch get the number of a retired watchmaker named Lou who spends his days losing money at a casino. While they try to unravel the source of all the money he loses and the nature of the danger he's in, Carter finds that a colleague who is a key witness against a Russian mob figure has just been arrested for corruption by IA and has to figure out what's going on.



* ContinuityNod: At the end of the episode, Finch hires Lou to repair the two million dollar watch that he had destroyed at the end of "One Percent", [[spoiler: [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming which would easily earn Lou enough money to buy the diner his late wife worked at and save it from being bought up and torn down by developers.]]]]




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* TooDumbToLive: Leon's number comes up a ''third'' time.
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'''Season 2, Episode 18''':
!All In

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!!Tropes present in this episode include:
* BadAssGrandpa: Lou.
* CardSharp: Lou again.
* ClearTheirName: Carter tries to prove that [[spoiler:Szymanski]] was set up.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: "I cheated, dumbass!"
* DirtyCop: [[spoiler:Detective Terney, a previously minor recurring character, is revealed to be working for HR.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Poor Szymanski.]] This has been happening a lot lately.

<<|Recap/PersonOfInterest|>>

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