History Recap / TheMagicians2016S05E08GardenVarietyHomicide

* CannotSpitItOut: Enforced. Explaining the FreakyFridayFlip to anyone will make it permanent.

* FreakyFridayFlip: Margo uses a potion to swap her mind with Eliot's, allowing her to get close enough to the Dark King to kill him without Eliot having to kill someone he has feelings for.

* TrustMeImAnX: As Bex is spraying spore into numerous students' faces, he tells them it's a professor thing and not to worry about it.

* IgnoredExpert: Bax wants to summon a colleague of his for help on the mysterious page, but Penny is reluctant to do so as said colleague is on Dean Fogg's "Do-Not-Admit" list. He's persuaded otherwise, kicking off the plot.

* RageBreakingPoint: Eliot-in-Margo's-body finally gets frustrated with Josh constantly pestering "Margo" to talk about their relationship and planning on abandoning him in the past, etc. and finally tells him that Margo will probably never apologize and would do the same thing again if she had to. This convinces the suspicious Josh that he's dealing the the real Margo...and wrecks their relationship. Whoops.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Bax is upset that Alice moved the Circumstances panel out of the greenhouse for study, since it was keeping the exoplants within alive.

* FakeDefector: Penny-23 successfully does this to trick Fogg.

* EurekaMoment: Alice realizes that she and Bax have been in the same public place for a while and yet no one around them has been infected and realizes that the spores are deliberately limiting the number of infectees.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Penny wondering what Quentin was doing with the instructions to a World Seed in his desk foreshadows that fact that Q didn't put it there.

* SayingTooMuch: Fogg-17 tries to leverage his way out of the Clean Room by talking about anti-fungal research he did with another (now-deceased) professor, and tries to trade the knowledge for his freedom. Unfortunately, he says the professor's name, and Alice knows that her writings would be posthumously placed in the Brakebills library.

* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Lampshaded. Margo explains that she's swapped bodies with Eliot so he can keeps his hands clean of the Dark King's murder. Eliot points out that she'll still be using ''his'' hands.

* TheseHandsHasveKilled: Lampshaded. Margo explains that she's swapped bodies with Eliot so he can keeps his hands clean of the Dark King's murder. Eliot points out that she'll still be using ''his'' hands.

** Eliot-in-Margo's-body is so agreeable, emotional and patient that Josh immediately becomes suspicious that she's been replaced somehow.

-->'''Penny:''' Thought a Dean was supposed to have good instincts.

* StartXToStopX: The fungus is able to jump into another host moments after being forced out of one. Alice later realizes that the fungus is limiting the number of hosts it's controlling, so she captures the free spores and spreads it to dozens of students. Having its mind spread out over so many hosts effectively kills it, as its will is spread too thin for it to exert control over any one host.

* IgnoredExpert: Bax wants to summon a colleague of his for help on the mysterious page, but Penny is reluctant to do so as said expert is on Dean Foggs "Do-Not-Admit" list. He's persuaded otherwise, kicking off the plot.

* NonIndicativeName: Everything goes faster during the month of the Red Monkey, except ironically monkeys.

-->'''Penny:''' Though a Dean was supposed to have good instincts.

* IgnoredExpert: Bax wants to summon a colleague of his, but Penny is reluctant to do so as said expert is on Dean Foggs "Do-Not-Admit" list. He's persuaded otherwise, kicking off the plot.

* ItsAllMyFault: Eliot blames himself for the latest kidnapping by the latest batch of Takers, created with gold he gave The Dark King.

* TheReveal: The page Alice found in Quentin's desk is instructions on how to use a World Seed, which as the name suggests can be manipulated to grow into an entire world. Something called "The Couple" want the page and presumably have the seed already.

* FreakyFridayFlip: Margo uses a potion to swap her mind with Eliot's allowing her to get close enough to the Dark King to kill him without Eliot having to kill someone he has feelings for.

* TheReveal: The page Alice found in Quentin's desk is instructions on how to use a World Seed, which as the name suggests can be manipulated to grow into an entire world. Something called "The Couple" wants the page and presumably has the seed already.

* MadeOfPlasticine: The first host of the spores rips open like paper when Alice magically tosses him into a wall, which it attributed to the spores having inhabited him long enough to almost completely consume his internal organs to multiply.

* StartXToStopX: The fungus is able to jump into another host moments after being forced out of one. Alice later realizes that the fungus is limiting the number of hosts it's controlling, so she captures the free fungus and spreads it to dozens of students. Having its mind spread out over so many hosts effectively kills it, as its will is spread too thin for it to exert any control over any one host.