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* ICannotSelfTerminate: Cameron's continued uncertainty about her own ability to control her actions following the damage to her chip prompts her to build a self-destruct device. She gives this to John, saying that she can't self-terminate, so she'll trust him with the device in case she goes rogue again.



* WhamEpisode: The tension between John and his family about Riley comes to a head, Riley realises that Jesse intended for Cameron to kill her, and [[spoiler: Jesse kills Riley]].

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* WhamEpisode: The tension between John and his family about Riley comes to a head, Riley realises that Jesse intended for Cameron to kill her, and [[spoiler: Jesse kills Riley]].Riley]].
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* JailBait: When impersonating a social worker, Jesse pretends to Sarah that she is afraid of a sexual relationship developing between Riley and Derek.

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* JailBait: JailbaitTaboo: When impersonating a social worker, Jesse pretends to Sarah that she is afraid of a sexual relationship developing between Riley and Derek.
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* CatFight: Brutally averted. The final fight between Jesse and Riley is one of the most savage ones between two female characters ever broadcast on a mainstream US TV network, including strangulation with both a cord and hands, the use of broken glass as a weapon, and eye-gouging.

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* CatFight: Brutally averted.Averted. The final fight between Jesse and Riley is one of the most savage ones between two female characters ever broadcast on a mainstream US TV network, including strangulation with both a cord and hands, the use of broken glass as a weapon, and eye-gouging.

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* WhamEpisode: The tension between John and his family about Riley comes to a head, Riley realises that Jesse intended for Cameron to kill her, and Jesse kills Riley.

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* TookALevelInBadass : Riley, who has so far been TheLoad and TheScrappy, and mostly screams and cries in the face of violence. It's jaw-dropping when she [[CombatPragmatist picks up a nearby blunt object]] and starts beating the crap out of Jessie. [[spoiler: She only loses the fight because Jessie has a gun stashed in a drawer, within reach]].
* WhamEpisode: The tension between John and his family about Riley comes to a head, Riley realises that Jesse intended for Cameron to kill her, and [[spoiler: Jesse kills Riley.Riley]].
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* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: Riley is in the foster system, yet it takes a long time for anything to happen when she drops out of school, goes to Mexico without permission, attempts suicide, and has a neurotic meltdown in front of her foster family.

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* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: Riley is in the foster system, yet it takes a long time for anything to happen when she drops out of school, goes to Mexico without permission, attempts suicide, and has a neurotic meltdown in front of her foster family.family.
* WhamEpisode: The tension between John and his family about Riley comes to a head, Riley realises that Jesse intended for Cameron to kill her, and Jesse kills Riley.
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* BodyHorror: Cameron graphically cutting her arm open to examine the workings of her skeleton.


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* ShaggyDogStory: Derek spends the episode on a mission to capture and interrogate a lawyer involved with the company that owned the "Heat And Air" factory, which turns out to be a complete waste of time as Jesse doesn't turn up to take part, because she's too busy having a fight to the death with Riley.

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The family is getting the house in order after the events of the past few days. Cameron's parts are becoming unstable, causing her to kill a bird. Derek and Jessie compare notes on their futures. Sarah asks Cameron about the day Riley slit her wrists. John discovers Cameron has kept a few pieces of the endoskeletons she was supposed to destroy. Sarah attempts to find out more about Riley, by visitng her foster family. Derek tries to find out more about Kaliba. Riley confronts Jessie about her plan.

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The family is getting the house in order after the events of the past few days. Cameron's parts are becoming unstable, causing her to kill a bird. Derek and Jessie compare notes on their futures. Sarah asks Cameron fears that she may be physically or mentally deteriorating when she unintentionally kills a pigeon. Sarah, Cameron, and John worry that Riley's increasing instability may draw unwelcome attention to the family, and Sarah suspects John of telling Riley too much about the day future when she hears about Riley's "bleached skulls" meltdown. When Jesse, impersonating a social worker, pours petrol on the flames, Riley slit her wrists. John discovers Cameron has kept a few pieces of the endoskeletons she was supposed begins to destroy. Sarah attempts to find out more worry about Riley, by visitng exactly what her foster family. Derek tries to find out more about Kaliba. Riley confronts Jessie about her plan.
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* CatFight : Brutally averted.
* ICannotSelfTerminate : Cameron gives John her kill-switch.
* IronicEcho : Cameron says "What am I going to do with you?" a total of [[RuleOfThree three times]].
* MistakenForGay : A woman at a bar offers to introduce Derek to "Davy."
* ShoutOut: To the first film. Cameron slices open her arm and works on the circuits inside, to determine why she has a glitch.
* SocialServicesDoesNotExist : Riley is in the foster system, yet no one does anything when she drops out of school, goes to Mexico without permission, attempts suicide, and has a neurotic meltdown in front of her foster family.

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* CatFight : CatFight: Brutally averted.averted. The final fight between Jesse and Riley is one of the most savage ones between two female characters ever broadcast on a mainstream US TV network, including strangulation with both a cord and hands, the use of broken glass as a weapon, and eye-gouging.
* HeroicSacrifice: Jesse unsuccessfully tries to persuade Riley that death at Cameron's hands will be one.
* IronicEcho: Cameron says "What am I going to do with you?" a total of [[RuleOfThree three times]], first to the pigeon before she kills it, and then twice to Riley when she becomes uncharacteristically indecisive about whether to kill her or not.

* ICannotSelfTerminate : JailBait: When impersonating a social worker, Jesse pretends to Sarah that she is afraid of a sexual relationship developing between Riley and Derek.
* KryptoniteRing: Fearing that she may become dangerously unstable, and [[ICannotSelfTerminate unable to self-destruct if it begins to happen]],
Cameron plants an explosive charge in her head and gives John a locket containing a remote control to detonate it.
* MistakenForGay: When Derek turns down an approach by a hooker at the bar, she offers to introduce Derek to
her kill-switch.
* IronicEcho : Cameron says "What am I going to do with you?" a total of [[RuleOfThree three times]].
friend "Davy".
* MistakenForGay : A woman at a bar offers to introduce Derek to "Davy."
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To the first film. Cameron slices open her arm and works on the circuits inside, to determine why she has a glitch.
** The episode title is the usual English translation of Sinn Féin, the name of the political party associated with militant Irish nationalism. This may be an allusion drawing an analogy between Jesse's plans for Riley to die, and her final attempt to manipulate her into sacrificing her life, and the theory that the Easter Rising was deliberately suicidal and intended to inspire future Irish rebels.
* SocialServicesDoesNotExist : SocialServicesDoesNotExist: Riley is in the foster system, yet no one does it takes a long time for anything to happen when she drops out of school, goes to Mexico without permission, attempts suicide, and has a neurotic meltdown in front of her foster family.

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The family is getting the house in order after the events of the past few days. Cameron's parts are becoming unstable, causing her to kill a bird. Derek and Jessie compare notes on their futures. Sarah asks Cameron about the day Riley slit her wrists. John discovers Cameron has kept a few pieces of the endoskeletons she was supposed to destroy. Sarah attempts to find out more about Riley, by visitng her foster family. Derek tries to find out more about Kaliba.

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The family is getting the house in order after the events of the past few days. Cameron's parts are becoming unstable, causing her to kill a bird. Derek and Jessie compare notes on their futures. Sarah asks Cameron about the day Riley slit her wrists. John discovers Cameron has kept a few pieces of the endoskeletons she was supposed to destroy. Sarah attempts to find out more about Riley, by visitng her foster family. Derek tries to find out more about Kaliba. Riley confronts Jessie about her plan.


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* CatFight : Brutally averted.

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The family is getting the house in order after the events of the past few days. Cameron's parts are becoming unstable, causing her to kill a bird. Derek and Jessie compare notes on their futures. Sarah asks Cameron about the day Riley slit her wrists. John discovers Cameron has kept a few pieces of the endoskeletons she was supposed to destroy.

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The family is getting the house in order after the events of the past few days. Cameron's parts are becoming unstable, causing her to kill a bird. Derek and Jessie compare notes on their futures. Sarah asks Cameron about the day Riley slit her wrists. John discovers Cameron has kept a few pieces of the endoskeletons she was supposed to destroy. \n Sarah attempts to find out more about Riley, by visitng her foster family. Derek tries to find out more about Kaliba.



* ShoutOut: To the first film. Cameron slices open her arm and works on the circuits inside, to determine why she has a glitch.

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* ICannotSelfTerminate : Cameron gives John her kill-switch.
* IronicEcho : Cameron says "What am I going to do with you?" a total of [[RuleOfThree three times]].
* MistakenForGay : A woman at a bar offers to introduce Derek to "Davy."
* ShoutOut: To the first film. Cameron slices open her arm and works on the circuits inside, to determine why she has a glitch.glitch.
* SocialServicesDoesNotExist : Riley is in the foster system, yet no one does anything when she drops out of school, goes to Mexico without permission, attempts suicide, and has a neurotic meltdown in front of her foster family.
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!!! Plot

The family is getting the house in order after the events of the past few days. Cameron's parts are becoming unstable, causing her to kill a bird. Derek and Jessie compare notes on their futures. Sarah asks Cameron about the day Riley slit her wrists. John discovers Cameron has kept a few pieces of the endoskeletons she was supposed to destroy.

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* ShoutOut: To the first film. Cameron slices open her arm and works on the circuits inside, to determine why she has a glitch.

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