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* ShoutOut: Marcos has the intro song of the [[WesternAnimation/XMen 90's X-Men series]] as his ringtone.

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* ShoutOut: Marcos has the intro song of the [[WesternAnimation/XMen [[WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries 90's X-Men series]] as his ringtone.
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->Written by Matt Nix\\
Directed by Creator/BryanSinger
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[[caption-width-right:350:'""The deal is this: your family goes tonight."'']]

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[[Recap/TheGifted2017 Index]] | '''1''' | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E2RX 2]] | "[[Recap/TheGiftedS1E3Exodus 3]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E4ExitStrategy 4]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E5BoxedIn 5]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E6GotYourSix 6]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E7ExtremeMeasures 7]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E8ThreatOfExtinction 8]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E9Outfox 9]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E10Exploited 10]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E113X1 11]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E12Extraction 12]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E13Xroads 13]]]]-]]]

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[[Recap/TheGifted2017 Index]] | '''1''' | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E2RX 2]] | "[[Recap/TheGiftedS1E3Exodus [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E3Exodus 3]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E4ExitStrategy 4]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E5BoxedIn 5]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E6GotYourSix 6]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E7ExtremeMeasures 7]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E8ThreatOfExtinction 8]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E9Outfox 9]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E10Exploited 10]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E113X1 11]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E12Extraction 12]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E13Xroads 13]]]]-]]]
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[[Recap/TheGifted Index]] '''1''' | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E2RX 2]] | "[[Recap/TheGiftedS1E3Exodus 3]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E4ExitStrategy 4]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E5BoxedIn 5]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E6GotYourSix 6]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E7ExtremeMeasures 7]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E8ThreatOfExtinction 8]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E9Outfox 9]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E10Exploited 10]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E113X1 11]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E12Extraction 12]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E13Xroads 13]]]]-]]]

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[[Recap/TheGifted [[Recap/TheGifted2017 Index]] | '''1''' | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E2RX 2]] | "[[Recap/TheGiftedS1E3Exodus 3]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E4ExitStrategy 4]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E5BoxedIn 5]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E6GotYourSix 6]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E7ExtremeMeasures 7]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E8ThreatOfExtinction 8]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E9Outfox 9]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E10Exploited 10]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E113X1 11]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E12Extraction 12]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E13Xroads 13]]]]-]]]

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While the life for mutants is getting harder and harder after the disapearance of both the X-Men and the Brotherhood, District Attorney Reed Strucker and his wife Caitlin are suddenly confronted with the dazzling facts that their own two children are ''gifted'' too.

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[[WMG:[[center:[-'''RECAP:'''\\
[[Recap/TheGifted Index]] '''1''' | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E2RX 2]] | "[[Recap/TheGiftedS1E3Exodus 3]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E4ExitStrategy 4]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E5BoxedIn 5]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E6GotYourSix 6]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E7ExtremeMeasures 7]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E8ThreatOfExtinction 8]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E9Outfox 9]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E10Exploited 10]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E113X1 11]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E12Extraction 12]] | [[Recap/TheGiftedS1E13Xroads 13]]]]-]]]
'''Season 1, Episode 01:'''
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[[caption-width-right:350:'""The deal is this: your family goes tonight."'']]
->''"I have to get my family someplace safe. If I can contact them, they might be able to help."''
-->-- '''Reed Strucker'''

While the life for mutants is getting harder and harder after the disapearance of both the X-Men and the Brotherhood, District Attorney Attorney, Reed Strucker Strucker, and his wife Caitlin wife, Caitlin, are suddenly confronted with the dazzling facts harsh truth that their own two children are ''gifted'' too.



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->''"Right now, you need to think about what's best for your family."''

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* BarrierWarrior: Lauren's power.

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* BarrierWarrior: Lauren's power.power, which allows her to compress air molecules into shields.



* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: One of the bullies that attacks Andy sports a hairdo that, according to [[https://www.avclub.com/x-men-series-the-gifted-is-off-and-running-in-its-busy-1819077186 AVClub]], wouldn't look out of place among the alt-right

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: One of the bullies that attacks Andy sports a hairdo that, according to [[https://www.avclub.com/x-men-series-the-gifted-is-off-and-running-in-its-busy-1819077186 AVClub]], wouldn't look out of place among the alt-rightalt-right.



* PersonOfMassDestruction: Andy's powers are so huge that he destroyed an entire building in his first scene and then easily ripped apart several spider Sentinels. Marcos and John had serious trouble dealing with just one of them and they are vastly more experienced.

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* PersonOfMassDestruction: Andy's powers are so huge that he destroyed an nearly destroy the entire building gymnasium in his first scene and then scene. Once he's got a slightly better handle on them, he easily ripped rips apart several spider Sentinels. Sentinels when Marcos and John had serious trouble dealing with just one of them and they are vastly more experienced.them.



* PunchClockVillain: While Reed was prosecuting mutants, he is shown to sympathize with them on a personal level even before his children are revealed to be mutants too. He was doing what he did to protect his family.
* RabidCop: In typical X-Men fashion, the law enforcement is very quick to use deadly force on mutants.

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* PunchClockVillain: While Reed was prosecuting Reed's job is to prosecute mutants, he is shown to sympathize with them on a personal level even before his children are revealed to be mutants too. He was doing what he did mutants. His job is a means to protect provide for his family.
family, and he's quick to choose them over it when the truth comes out.
* RabidCop: In typical X-Men fashion, the law enforcement is very quick to use deadly force on mutants.



* RevengeBeforeReason: Lorna is caught because a police officer wounds her boyfriend and she is so focused on hurting the cop that she allows her self to be blindsided by other cops.

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* RevengeBeforeReason: Lorna is caught because a police officer wounds her boyfriend and she is so focused on hurting the cop that she allows her self herself to be blindsided by other cops.



* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Andy's power manifest while the bullies are force-showering him.

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* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Andy's power manifest manifests while the bullies are force-showering him.



* YouAreWhatYouHate: Andy makes a racial slur about mutants early in the episode, only to then discover that he is one himself.

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* YouAreWhatYouHate: Andy makes a racial slur about mutants early in the episode, only to then discover that he is one himself.himself.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: One of the bullies that attacks Andy sports a hairdo that, according to [https://www.avclub.com/x-men-series-the-gifted-is-off-and-running-in-its-busy-1819077186 AVClub], wouldn't look out of place among the alt-right

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: One of the bullies that attacks Andy sports a hairdo that, according to [https://www.[[https://www.avclub.com/x-men-series-the-gifted-is-off-and-running-in-its-busy-1819077186 AVClub], AVClub]], wouldn't look out of place among the alt-right
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: One of the bullies that attacks Andy sports a hairdo that, according to [https://www.avclub.com/x-men-series-the-gifted-is-off-and-running-in-its-busy-1819077186 AVClub], wouldn't look out of place among the alt-right
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* RevengeBeforeReason: Lorna is caught because a police officer wounds her boyfriend and she is so focused on hurting the cop that she allows her self to be blindsided by other cops.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Reed was doing his job to protect society, he never shows any hints that he has something against mutants personally.

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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Reed was doing his job to protect society, he never shows any hints that he has something against mutants personally. He is prosecuting Lorna not because she is a mutant but because she tried to kill a police officer.
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* HonorBeforeReason: Reed willingly enters Lorna's cell in an attempt to reason with her, despite knowing how dangerous she is. While she threatens and injures him a bit, he is still playing 'good cop' when he could just have laid out how legally screwed she is and then walk away.
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*BookEnds: At the beginning and end, someone is shot and the Mutant Underground is forced to abandon them to law enforcement. For extra irony, the first was a mutant criminal and the second was the human prosecutor assigned her case.
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* BarbaricBully: Andy gets picked on by a bunch of them, who are responsible for his TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening.
* BarrierWarrior: Lauren's power.


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* SkewedPriorities: After breaking the vending machine and threatening the safety of his family, Andy still takes time to take some food out of it before running away.
* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Andy's power manifest while the bullies are force-showering him.
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While the life for mutants is getting harder and harder after the disapearance of both the X-Men and the Brotherhood, District Attorney Reed Strucker and his wife Caitlin are suddenly confronted with the dazzling facts that their own two children are ''gifted'' too.

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* BigNo: Lorna lets out one after she learns that she is pregnant while being imprisoned.
* TheCameo: Stan Lee gets one as usual, stepping out of a restaurant.
* FantasticRacism: It's a show about the X-Men (more or less), so this is to be expected.
* GetARoom: At the dance, Andy tells Lauren to ''not get pregnant'' while she makes out with her boyfriend.
* IfIWantedYouDead: After being confronted with her attempted murder charges, Lorna shows Reed how easy it would be to kill him and how easy it would have been to kill the cops that arrested her, if she really wanted to do it.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Andy's powers are so huge that he destroyed an entire building in his first scene and then easily ripped apart several spider Sentinels. Marcos and John had serious trouble dealing with just one of them and they are vastly more experienced.
* PowerIncontinence: Andy has trouble controlling his powerful telekinetic abilities.
* PunchClockVillain: While Reed was prosecuting mutants, he is shown to sympathize with them on a personal level even before his children are revealed to be mutants too. He was doing what he did to protect his family.
* RabidCop: In typical X-Men fashion, the law enforcement is very quick to use deadly force on mutants.
* TheReveal: Both the audience and Marco and Lorna learn that the latter is pregnant.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: When being introduced to their step-by-step system on how they deal with bullying, Reed gets impatient and threatens to sue the school if they don't do something about Andy's tormentors ''now''.
* ShoutOut: Marcos has the intro song of the [[WesternAnimation/XMen 90's X-Men series]] as his ringtone.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Reed was doing his job to protect society, he never shows any hints that he has something against mutants personally.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: Andy makes a racial slur about mutants early in the episode, only to then discover that he is one himself.

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