History Recap / TheHardyBoys2020Season2E9Captured

* PlotHole: Munder told Phil in the previous episode that the cut on his wrist came from an injury he received during the parade bombing; however, since he's the Shadow Man, he couldn't have even been at the parade at all during the bombing since he had to be already stationed at Gloria's house by that point, ready to break in, steal the Crystal, and get out during the one minute interval in which the bomb explosion took out her security system. Thus, Munder's story to Phil about how he got hurt only makes sense if he were lying and actually actually got cut by accident during the break-in, but Phil repeats the story to his friends as if it's the truth, and no one questions it (since the more important piece of information is that the Munder in the hospital doesn't have this injury).

* PlotHole: Munder told Phil in the previous episode that the cut on his wrist came from an injury he received during the parade bombing; however, since he's the Shadow Man, he couldn't have even been at the parade at all during the bombing since he had to be already stationed at Gloria's house by that point, ready to break in, steal the Crystal, and get out during the one minute interval in which the bomb explosion took out her security system. Thus, Munder's story to Phil about how he got the injury only makes sense if it were a lie (and he actually cut himself by accident during the break-in), but Phil repeats the story to his friends as if it's the truth, and no one questions it (since the more important piece of information is that the Munder in the hospital doesn't have this injury).

** Frank, Joe, and JB reach the final stages of the latter's plan to steal the relic, only to reach the vault and find that they've been LuredIntoATrap by Angela, who tries to force Frank to give up the power of the Eye and murders Joe when he's unable to do so...at which point this is revealed to be a vision Frank's having, and he and Joe are still waiting inside the storage crate.

* ContinuityNod: During Joe's and JB's planning session to steal the relic from the Stratemeyer warehouse, Joe notes how difficult it sounds, and JB cites that he's the same guy who previously stole it from an assassin and jumped out of a plane, so comparatively, this is far more simple.

* FromBadToWorse: Joe's and JB's theft of the relic gets off to a bad start when Joe is understandably ''very'' reluctant to be locked into a cargo hold for an hour, and then Frank crashes the scene after following him there. It continues going downhill, with the brothers having a fight (though they do resolve the issues between them afterward), Frank getting a vision that they'll be captured (and in Joe's case, shot) by Angela if they continue, JB bailing in exasperation, and all of them still getting caught anyway. They only narrowly escape once Brian and Chet arrive.
* TheGlomp: Biff and Trudy both share huge hugs with Jessie once she wakes up from her coma at the hospital. And when Joe comes to visit them, he and Biff share one as well.

* MeaningfulEcho: In "A Disappearance", Biff tried to make Joe swear to something "[[PersonalizedPledge on your mom's grave]]"; knowing he couldn't do it, he just said "That's not fair," proving to her that he didn't mean it ''that'' much. Now, once Frank says he'll give up the Eye after their fight, Joe tells him to "swear on Mom's grave" to make extra-sure he means it, and Frank agrees and does do it.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In addition to Frank's visions becoming physically painful, another reason everyone's worried about him is his increasingly snippy, paranoid behavior towards his loved ones thanks to the Eye manipulating him against them--having rather cold encounters separately with Joe and Chet where he treats them with suspicion--and refusal to listen to anyone's concerns about its effects on him.

** The Shadow Man is indeed Adrian Munder, the Bridgeport teacher; his twin brother Aaron was the aforementioned "Patient B", and he's the catatonic man Joe, Phil, and Lucy found in the previous episode after Adrian pulled a TwinSwitch.

* TemptingFate: Chet tells Frank (who's deep under the Eye's ToxicFriendInfluence at this point) that they need to come up with a plan for how to deal with Angela, but he dismisses her as a concern, saying she's "all bark and no bite." He learns during the heist how very wrong he is once she and her men capture them, and one of his visions shows that [[WouldHurtAChild she would have killed Joe]] had Chet and Brian not arrived JustInTime.

** JB describes exactly how he would need Joe to help him pull off the heist. This is also combined with some DramaticIrony, since the audience knows that Malone was deceiving Joe with the information he gave him about the relic's location in the previous episode. The plan goes off the rails right from the start when Frank shows up uninvited, and then Angela is there waiting with her men to catch them off guard.

* WhamEpisode: Jessie wakes up from her coma at last, and gives her blessing in Biff's search for her birth mom. Frank's and Joe's simmering tension over the Eye finally boils over and they have a fight, which leads to Frank agreeing to give up the Eye's power. They and JB get captured by Angela and her goons (both in a vision and in reality), who almost force Frank to hand over the power until Chet and Brian rescue them. JB fails to take the relic thanks to Joe pulling a switcheroo, but instead swipes the scroll he'd been searching for from the boys' StringTheory board. Finally, Callie, Belinda, Biff, and Phil figure out the true identity of the Shadow Man (namely, that they were right about it being Munder all along, and he performed a TwinSwitch to throw them off the trail) just as the latter succeeds in kidnapping Frank at the end.

** Frank, Joe, and JB reach the final stages of the latter's plan to steal the relic, only to reach the vault and find that they've been LuredIntoATrap by Angela, who holds them at gunpoint to try to force Frank to give up the power of the Eye and murders Joe when he's unable to do so...at which point this is revealed to be a vision Frank's having, and he and Joe are still waiting inside the storage crate.

** In his subsequent vision, Angela captures the boys and JB, and she and her men hold them at gunpoint while forcing Frank to give up the Eye. When he has trouble with it, she knows just how to motivate him: put her gun right to Joe's head, and Frank [[BigNo starts screaming in fear]].
* BigDamnHeroes: Angela and her minions have Frank, Joe, and JB cornered and are about to force Frank at gunpoint to give up the power of the Eye. At that moment, Chet and Brian pull up to the dock in the former's truck, beginning an all-out brawl that allows them to get away.

** And in a similar vein, when Frank himself [[KickTheMoralityPet pushes Joe hard against the wall during their fight]], he ''immediately'' regrets it, and is [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone so shaken and horrified by it]] that he realizes Joe's right about the Eye messing him up, and snaps out of it.

* TwinSwitch: With TheReveal that Adrian Munder has a twin brother named Aaron who underwent Project Midnight and never recovered, it's confirmed that he used this in "A Midnight Scare" to throw the heroes off his trail. Aaron is the one Joe, Lucy, and Phil previously found catatonic (as he has been ever since); Adrian put his brother in his own place so everyone would think he was a victim of the Shadow Man instead.

** Project Midnight involved attempted "consciousness harvesting": using the Crystal to store people's consciousness and transfer them into other bodies, and using Rosegrave students as test subjects. However, it never worked correctly, with Patient A dying on the spot and Patient B being rendered permanently catatonic, after which the project was shut down.

** The Eye warns Frank that he can't trust his brother or friends because they're conspiring to take its power from him. All of them are concerned about him, and at least Joe and Callie ''are'' plotting behind his back to take the power away...because they've seen how strangely he's been acting thanks to Eye is corrupting his mind, not to mention how his visions are outright hurting him, and are only doing it to ''save'' him.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In addition to Frank's visions becoming physically painful, another reason everyone's worried about him is his increasingly snippy, paranoid behavior towards his loved ones thank to the Eye manipulating him against them--having rather cold encounters separately with Joe and Chet where he treats them with suspicion--and refusal to listen to anyone's concerns about its effects on him.

* ManipulativeBastard: The Eye's manipulation of Frank becomes more blatant than ever, sowing distrust and suspicion in him towards his brother and friends. And as Frank later prepares to return the power to the relic, it stops him from by claiming his TrueCompanions are in danger and showing him a vision of the Shadow Man attacking the school dance and carrying off Lucy, which prompts him, Joe, and Chet to hurry there. This turns out to be completely false, and the Eye further leads Frank right into being jumped, chloroformed, and abducted by the Shadow Man.

* IWantMyMommy: Frank states that, if he continues to use the Eye's power, it will give him what he wants the most. Joe angrily demands to know what it is, and Frank screams in response, "I WANT MY MOM BACK, JOE!"

* YoureJustJealous: A sign of how much [[TheCorruptor the Eye]] has corrupted Frank is when, during his fight with Joe, he angrily accuses the latter and their friends of wanting to remove its power from him out of "jealousy" that the Eye "chose" him and not them. Joe, of course, is in complete disbelief. Thankfully, Frank snaps out of it soon after.

** Frank tells Joe that JB is looking for the scroll that [=McFarlane=] gave to Fenton and notes that they should be glad he doesn't know they have it. In fact, JB ''does'' now know that the Hardys are the ones in possession of it, having given it a lingering look after coming to the attic at Joe's call, and after the botched relic heist, he comes back and takes it for himself, which Joe doesn't learn about until Season 3.

* IWantMyMommy: Frank states that, if he continues to use the Eye's power, it will give him what he wants the most. Joe angrily demands to know what this is, and Frank screams in response, "I WANT MY MOM BACK, JOE!"

* KickTheMoralityPet: Even as Frank becomes increasingly compromised by the Eye and stops listening to Joe, his BigBrotherInstinct for him remains very intact. So when they have a fight that ends with Frank actually pushing his brother hard into a wall, he's so shocked and dismayed at having done this that he immediately steps back from the brink of madness the Eye has brought him to and finally agrees to give up its power.

* SpottingTheThread: Once Callie and Belinda learn about Aaron Munder, they think he's the Shadow Man, but Biff and Phil notice some of the facts don't line up. [[EurekaMoment Phil then remembers]] and shows the others that the catatonic man they found doesn't have the wound on his wrist that he saw on Mr. Munder in class...which means ''he's'' Aaron, Adrian pulled a TwinSwitch, and he really is the Shadow Man like they first thought.

* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Adrian and Aaron Munder, the former of whom is a teacher in Bridgeport while the latter was a Rosegrave Academy student left catatonic by their experiments on him ten years ago, which removed his consciousness from his body. Adrian took advantage of this in "A Midnight Scare" when he realized the Hardy Gang were onto him being the Shadow Man by pulling a TwinSwitch, substituting Aaron for himself to throw the kids off the trail, and they realize they were right all along after learning about Aaron and Phil then SpottingTheThread.

** And in a similar vein, when Frank himself [[KickTheMoralityPet pushes Joe hard against the wall during their fight]], he's [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone instantly so shaken and horrified by it]] that he immediately steps back from the brink of madness the Eye has brought him to and finally agrees to return the Eye to the relic.

* TheBigDamnKiss: Downplayed. Lucy kisses Joe at the school dance; he's too preoccupied to properly kiss her back, but gets a big grin in response.

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Phil shows Belinda, Callie, and Biff that the catatonic Munder the found at his house doesn't have the bandaged cut on his wrist that their teacher, Adrian Munder, had. The four of them realize with dawning horror that this man in the hospital is Aaron, who never recovered from Project Midnight, and they were right the whole time about Adrian being the Shadow Man.

* KickTheMoralityPet: Even as Frank becomes increasingly compromised by the Eye and stops listening to Joe as much as he should, his BigBrotherInstinct for Joe remains very intact. So when they have a fight that ends with Frank actually pushing his brother hard into a wall, he's so shocked and dismayed at having done this that he instantly regrets it, realizes Joe's right about the Eye messing him up, and snaps out of it.

* BadFuture: Frank has a vision while he and Joe are in the storage container showing what will happen if they continue down their current path: they find Angela waiting for them at the vault with her men and get captured, and she forces Frank at gunpoint to return the Eye's power to the relic, and when he struggles with it, shoots Joe for "motivation". After seeing this, when JB arrives to continue the plan, Frank warns them that it's a trap. Unfortunately for them, they still get caught anyway, but avoid the outcome of the vision thanks to Chet and Brian.

* TheBigDamnKiss: After several episodes of romantic tension, Joe and Lucy share one at the school dance.

** Frank rightly calls Joe out on constantly being too impulsive and having half-baked plans that boil down to "We'll figure it out when we get there" rather than thinking things through, which causes him to take needless risks and put himself in danger far too much. But when Frank asks why he didn't talk to him first before going through with this plan, Joe angrily points out that, even though Frank asked Joe to keep him in check with his use of the Eye, he stopped listening to him about the Eye and everything else a long time ago despite the latter's best efforts.
** Joe also states that Frank has come to trust and rely on the Eye far too much, while Frank has similar feelings about Joe continuing to work with JB despite him repeatedly screwing them over. They both turn out to be correct about this. JB ends up abandoning the Hardys when their theft of the relic is thwarted, and then tries to steal it from Joe (though he reveals in Season 3 that this is an attempt to protect them), only failing because the latter swapped in a fake; he then returns to the Hardy home and swipes [=McFarlane's=] scroll that Fenton gave the boys. Meanwhile, Frank finds out in the hardest way possible in this episode and the next one that the Eye does ''not'' have his best interests at heart.

** The entire planned theft of the Eye relic from the Stratemeyer vault is this, since the audience already knows Mack lied to Joe about where the relic is (Brian confirms to Chet that Angela keeps it on her) and that he, JB, and later Frank are [[LuredIntoAtrap walking into Angela's trap.]]

* FromBadToWorse: Joe's and JB's theft of the relic gets off to a bad start when Joe is understandably ''very'' reluctant to be locked into a cargo hold for an hour, and then Frank crashes the scene after following him there. It continues going downhill, with the brothers having a fight (though they do resolve the issues between them afterward), Frank getting a vision that they'll be caught (and in Joe's case, shot) by Angela if they continue, JB bailing in exasperation, and all of them still getting captured anyway. They only narrowly escape once Brian and Chet arrive.

* HeistEpisode: Joe's subplot this episode has him joining JB to steal the relic from Stratemeyer so he can get the Eye out of Frank. Despite the heist being an utter disaster that goes wrong nearly every step of the way, Joe ultimately ''does'' wind up with the relic by the end of it.

* JustFollowingOrders: Nurse Marian Cody, who assisted Dr. Burelli with the Project Midnight experiments, makes it clear to Belinda and Callie that, whatever her personal feelings, she couldn't just quit Stratemeyer and walk away when she knew as much as she did as her life would have been at risk. There's subtext laced in that this was especially true because she was a black woman in a subordinate position in the 70's.

* MeaningfulEcho: In "A Disappearance", Biff tried to make Joe swear to something "[[Personalized Pledge on your mom's grave]]"; knowing he couldn't do it, he just said "That's not fair," proving to her that he didn't mean it ''that'' much. Now, once Frank agrees to give up the Eye's power after their fight, Joe tells him to "swear on Mom's grave" to make extra-sure he means it, and Frank agrees and does do it.

* OutGambitted: In the confusion at the marina when Chet and Brian show up to save the Hardys, JB grabs the relic from Joe before escaping. Joe reveals to Frank and Chet in the car afterwards that JB took a fake that he swapped in during the chaos, while he has the real one. Though JB does bounce back fast when he sneeks into their attic once more and takes the scroll [=McFarlane=] gave to Fenton, which he's been looking for.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: JB becomes increasingly frustrated with how far off the rails the relic theft has gotten. First Frank follows them there, and then once Joe wants to change plans and seemingly lies about why (he's actually being honest, [[CassandraTruth but JB doesn't believe him]]), he decides to just scrap the whole thing rather than risk being caught, although Angela captures him anyway as soon as he tries to leave.

* WhamShot: Trudy gets a box of files from the attic for Fenton and leaves to go meet him. The door swings closed behind her to reveal JB standing behind it once more, and shows that he took the scroll Fenton got from [=McFarlane=] and left with the boys (which JB was hired to find).

** Frank, Joe, and JB reach the final stages of the latter's plan to steal the relic, only to reach the vault and find that they've been LuredIntoATrap by Angela, who holds them at gunpoint to try to force Frank to give up the power of the Eye and kills Joe when he's unable to do so...at which point this is revealed to be a vision Frank's having, and he and Joe are still waiting inside the storage crate.

** Frank rightly calls Joe out on constantly being too impulsive and having half-baked plans that boil down to "We'll figure it out when we get there" rather than thinking things through, which causes him to take needless risks and put himself in danger far too much. But when Frank asks why he didn't talk to him first before going through with this plan, Joe angrily points out that, even though Frank asked Joe to keep him in check with his use of the Eye, he stopped listening to him about it a long time ago despite the latter's best efforts.
** Joe also states that Frank has come to trust and rely on the Eye far too much, while Frank has similar feelings about Joe continuing to work with JB despite him repeatedly screwing them over. They both turn out to be correct about this. JB ends up abandoning the Hardys when their heist of the relic is thwarted, and then tries to steal it from Joe (though he reveals in Season 3 that this is an attempt to protect them), only failing because the latter swapped in a fake; he then returns to the Hardy home and swipes [=McFarlane's=] scroll that Fenton gave the boys. Meanwhile, Frank finds out in the hardest way possible in this episode and the next one that the Eye does ''not'' have his best interests at heart.
* CassandraTruth: After Frank stops Joe and JB from walking into Angela's trap, Joe finally tells JB that Frank knew this because he has the power of the Eye inside of him. JB thinks he's just making up an outlandish lie as a way to avoid telling him what's really going on, and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere promptly decides to bail]] (though unfortunately for him, he gets caught in the trap anyway).

* DistressedDude: Frank, Joe, and JB are briefly captured by Angela and her men, both in Frank's vision (which [[BadFuture ends with Angela killing Joe to make Frank submit]]) and in reality even after they try to use what he saw to avoid this, until [[BigDamnHeroes Chet and Brian show up to save them]].

** The entire planned heist to steal the Eye relic from the Stratemeyer vault is this, since the audience already knows Mack lied to Joe about where the relic is (Angela actually keeps it on her) and that he, JB, and later Frank are [[LuredIntoAtrap walking into Angela's trap.]]
** Frank tells Joe that JB is looking for the scroll that [=MacFarlane=] gave to Fenton and notes that they should be glad he doesn't know they have it. In fact, JB ''does'' now know that the Hardys are the ones in possession of it, having given it a lingering look after coming to the attic at Joe's call, and after the botched relic heist, he comes back and steals it, which Joe doesn't learn about until Season 3.

* FramingTheGuiltyParty: Brian Conrad arrives with Chet at the docks to rescue the Hardys, and manages to steal Angela's gun--which she used to murder Mack Malone--in the ensuing chaos, holding it with a handkerchief so he doesn't leave his fingerprints on it or smear hers. He then returns to her motel room and leaves the gun in the bathroom near Mack's body to ensure the cops can trace the murder to her.

* InSpiteOfANail: Frank sees a vision of himself, Joe, and JB being taken hostage by Angela during their heist to steal the relic, and he and Joe try to use this to avoid capture and turn the tables. However, since this vision causes Angela's tracking device to spike, she's able to locate him and capture all of them anyway, though they're luckily saved by the timely arrival of Chet and Mr. Conrad.
* IronicEcho: Joe asks for the details of how JB plans to conduct the theft of the relic, and he answers, "I'm afraid that's classified."[[labelnote:*]]Though JB later does tell him this anyway when he ends up needing Joe to help him pull it off.[[/labelnote]] A few minutes later, one stipulation Joe gives is that Frank can't know about what they're planning until after they have the relic; JB curiously asks why not, and Joe gives the same response, earning him an eye-roll.
* LetMeGetThisStraight: JB going over Joe's request to steal the relic from Stratemeyer. He outlines what he'd have to do in a way that makes the heist sound incredibly difficult (which it is)...and then, to Joe's surprise, [[BaitAndSwitchComment gladly agrees with no complaints]], pointing out that he's good at what he does and it's still less difficult than the first time he stole a piece of the relic (taking it from an assassin and jumping out of a plane).
* LuredIntoATrap: The false info Mack gave Joe about the relic (claiming it's kept in a vault at the Stratemeyer docks, while Angela actually keeps it with her) sends him, Frank, and JB right into a trap set by Angela when they try to steal it.

* OutGambitted: In the confusion at the marina when Chet and Brian show up to save the Hardys, JB steals the relic from Joe before escaping. Joe reveals to Frank and Chet in the car afterwards that JB took a fake that he swapped in during the chaos, while he has the real one. Though JB does bounce back fast when he sneeks into their attic once more and steals the scroll [=McFarlane=] gave to Fenton, which he's been looking for.
* TheReveal: The Shadow Man is indeed Adrian Munder, the Bridgeport teacher; his twin brother Aaron was part of the failed Project Midnight experiment as "Patient B", and he's the catatonic man Joe, Phil, and Lucy found in the previous episode after Adrian pulled a TwinSwitch.
* RewatchBonus: During the climactic battle at the docks, once you know to look for it, one can see Joe swap out the real relic with the fake right before JB steals it in a FreezeFrameBonus, moments before Joe reveals to Frank and Chet that he did so.

** The Eye warns Frank that he can't trust his brother or friends because they're conspiring to steal its power from him. All of them are concerned about him, and at least Joe and Callie ''are'' plotting behind his back to take the power away...because they've seen how strangely he's been acting thanks to Eye is corrupting his mind, not to mention his visions outright hurting him, and are only doing it to ''save'' him.

** JB describes exactly how he would need Joe to help him pull off the heist. What's more, this is already combined with some DramaticIrony, since the audience knows that Malone was deceiving Joe with the information he gave him about the relic's location in the previous episode. Sure enough, Angela is there waiting with her men to turn the tables on them.
** Frank crashes the party and has a vision that allows him to foresee Angela capturing the three of them; he and Joe then attempt to use this to flip the script on her, with Joe describing his whole idea to Frank. Naturally, the second the two of them step out of the cargo hold, they find that Angela has already caught JB (who tried to bail) and has them cornered, having used her tracking device to find Frank on the ship after he had his vision.
* WhamEpisode: Jessie wakes up from her coma at last, and gives her blessing in Biff's search for her birth mom. Frank's and Joe's simmering tension over the Eye finally boils over and they have a fight, which leads to Frank agreeing to give up the Eye's power. They and JB get captured by Angela and her goons (both in a vision and in reality), who almost force Frank to hand over the power until Chet and Brian rescue them. JB fails to take the relic thanks to Joe pulling a switcheroo, but instead steals the scroll he'd been searching for from the boys' StringTheory board. Finally, Callie, Belinda, Biff, and Phil figure out the true identity of the Shadow Man (namely, that they were right about it being Munder all along, and he performed a TwinSwitch to throw them off the trail) just as the latter succeeds in kidnapping Frank at the end.
* WhamShot: Trudy gets a box of files from the attic for Fenton and leaves to go meet him. The door swings closed behind her to reveal JB standing behind it once more, and shows that he took the scroll Fenton got from [=McFarlane=] and left with the boys (which JB was hired to steal).

* BaitAndSwitch: Frank, Joe, and JB reach the final stages of the latter's plan to steal the relic, only to reach the vault and find that they've been LuredIntoATrap by Angela, who holds them at gunpoint to try to force Frank to give up the power and shoots Joe for motivation when he's unable to do so...at which point this is revealed to be a vision Frank's having, and he and Joe are still in the storage crate. After seeing this, which is what will happen if they continue down their current path, when JB arrives to continue the plan, Frank warns them that it's a trap. Though, unfortunately for them, they still get caught anyway, but avoid the outcome of the vision thanks to Chet and Brian.

** Frank rightly calls Joe out on constantly being too impulsive and having half-baked plans that basically boil down to "We'll figure it out when we get there" as opposed to thinking things through, which causes him to take unnecessary risks and put himself in danger far too much. But when Frank asks why he didn't talk to him first before going through with this plan, Joe angrily points out that Frank wouldn't have listened because, even though he asked Joe to keep him in check with his use of the Eye, he stopped listening to him about it a long time ago despite the latter's best efforts.

* CassandraTruth: After Frank stops Joe and JB from walking into Angela's trap, Joe finally tells JB that the reason Frank knew this was because he has the power of the Eye inside of him. JB thinks he's just making up an outlandish excuse to not tell him what's really going on, and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere promptly decides to bail]] (though unfortunately for him, he gets caught in the trap anyway).
* ContinuityNod: During Joe's and JB's planning session to steal the relic from the Stratemeyer warehouse, Joe notes how difficult it sounds, and JB points out that the first time he stole (a piece of) it was on a plane from an assassin, so comparatively, this is far more simple.
* DistressedDude: Frank, Joe, and JB are briefly captured by Angela and her men, both in Frank's vision (which ends with Angela shooting Joe to make Frank submit) and in real life even after they try to use what he saw to avoid this, until [[BigDamnHeroes Chet and Brian show up to save them]].

* LetMeGetThisStraight: JB going over Joe's request to steal the relic from Stratemeyer. He outlines what he'd have to do in a way that makes the heist sound incredibly difficult (which it is)...and then, to Joe's surprise, gladly agrees with no complaints, pointing out that he's good at what he does and it's still less difficult than the first time he stole a piece of the relic (taking it from an assassin and jumping out of a plane).

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The tension between Frank and Joe about their differing opinions on the Eye reaches a boiling point and results in a fight that culminates in Frank physically shoving Joe quite hard into the wall of a storage crate. This KickTheMoralityPet moment towards his brother gives him a huge JerkassRealization and is what finally convinces him to give up the Eye's power.
* OutGambitted: In the confusion at the marina when Chet and Brian show up to save the Hardys, JB apparently steals the relic from Joe before escaping. Joe reveals to Frank and Chet in the car afterwards that JB took a fake that he swapped in during the chaos, while Joe has the real one. Though JB does bounce back quickly when he breaks into their attic once again and steals the scroll [=McFarlane=] gave to Fenton, which he's been looking for.
* TheReveal: The Shadow Man is indeed Adrian Munder, the Bridgeport teacher; his twin brother Aaron was part of the failed Project Midnight experiment as "Patient B", and he's the one Joe, Phil, and Lucy found catatonic in the previous episode after Adrian pulled a TwinSwitch.

* SelfFulfillingProphecy: As Frank prepares to give up the power of the Eye, it gives him a vision of the Shadow Man abducting someone who appears to be Lucy from the school dance. He tells Joe and Chet about the upcoming attack, and they quickly head there. In fact, the vision was a trick to lure them to the school. The Shadow Man ''does'' attack someone there: Frank himself, once he and the others arrive.
* TwinSwitch: With TheReveal that Adrian Munder has a twin brother named Aaron who underwent Project Midnight and never recovered, it's confirmed that he used this in "A Midnight Scare" to throw the heroes off his trail. The catatonic man Joe, Lucy, and Phil found was Aaron; Adrian put his brother in his own place so everyone would think he was a victim of the Shadow Man instead.

** Frank crashes the party and has a vision that allows him to foresee Angela originally capturing the three of them; he and Joe then attempt to use this to flip the script on her, with Joe describing his whole idea to Frank. Naturally, the second the two of them step out of the cargo hold, they find that Angela has already captured JB (who tried to bail) and has them cornered, having used her tracking device to find Frank on the ship after he had his vision.
* WhamEpisode: Jessie wakes up from her coma at last, and gives her blessing in Biff's search for her birth mom. Frank's and Joe's simmering tension over the Eye finally boils over and they have a fight, which leads to Frank agreeing to give up the Eye's power. They and JB get captured by Angela and her goons (both in a vision and in reality), who almost force Frank to hand over the power until Chet and Brian rescue them. JB fails to take the relic thanks to Joe pulling a switcheroo, but instead steals the scroll he'd been searching for from the Hardy home, which [=McFarlane=] left with Fenton, who entrusted it to the boys. Finally, Callie, Belinda, Biff, and Phil figure out the true identity of the Shadow Man (namely, that they were right about it being Munder all along, and he performed a TwinSwitch to throw them off the trail) just as the latter succeeds in kidnapping Frank at the end.
* WhamShot: Trudy gets a box of files from the attic for Fenton and leaves to go meet him. The door swings closed behind her to reveal JB standing behind it once more, and shows that he stole the scroll that Fenton got from [=McFarlane=] and left with the boys (which JB was hired to steal).