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* NobodyPoops: Disgusting averted; Doug falls ill while interviewing a job seeker and he races to the bathroom and drops trou in a stall. We don't see the act as it cuts to black, but Doug walks out the bathroom stall a disheveled mess. And then we see a ''worm'' crawl out of the toilet.

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* NobodyPoops: Disgusting Disgustingly averted; Doug falls ill while interviewing a job seeker and he races to the bathroom and drops trou in a stall. We don't see the act as it cuts to black, but Doug walks out the bathroom stall a disheveled mess. And then we see a ''worm'' crawl out of the toilet.

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* BittersweetEnding: Keisha gets her revenge, preventing Doug from harassing any of his other female employees, but not after weeks of mental torture from him. And she also possibly loses Sanjay as a friend after she lashed out at him physically.

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* BittersweetEnding: Keisha gets her revenge, preventing Doug from harassing any of his other female employees, but not only after weeks of mental torture from him. And she She also possibly loses Sanjay as a friend after she lashed out at him physically.physically, wrongly believing he was behind her torment.


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* HeManWomanHater: Doug's speech to Keisha toward the end implies he's tormenting women like her purely for spite over his wife leaving him without explanation, indicating he's doing it based on intense misogyny. Given his behavior, it's no stretch to believe he'd been abusive to ''her'' somehow too, because this is incredibly extreme as a reaction.
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* NobodyPoops: Disgusting averted; Doug falls ill while interviewing a job seeker and he races to the bathroom. We don't see the act, as it cuts to black, but Doug walks out the bathroom a disheveled mess. And then we see a ''worm'' crawl out of the toilet.

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* NobodyPoops: Disgusting averted; Doug falls ill while interviewing a job seeker and he races to the bathroom. bathroom and drops trou in a stall. We don't see the act, act as it cuts to black, but Doug walks out the bathroom stall a disheveled mess. And then we see a ''worm'' crawl out of the toilet.

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* MindRape: Doug's method of torturing Keisha was making her ''think'' she was sexually assaulted, and had something placed inside of her. Doug never raped her physically, but he did drug her and stalk her and Keisha was an emotional wreck for weeks on end, trying to figure out exactly what happened to her.

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* MindRape: Doug's method of torturing Keisha was making her ''think'' she was sexually assaulted, and had something placed inside of her. Doug never raped her physically, but he did drug her and stalk her and Keisha was an emotional wreck for weeks on end, trying to figure out exactly what happened to her.her.
* NobodyPoops: Disgusting averted; Doug falls ill while interviewing a job seeker and he races to the bathroom. We don't see the act, as it cuts to black, but Doug walks out the bathroom a disheveled mess. And then we see a ''worm'' crawl out of the toilet.
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* BittersweetEnding: Keisha gets her revenge, preventing Doug from harassing any of his other female employees, but her friendship with Sanjay is damaged, if not broken completely.

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* BittersweetEnding: Keisha gets her revenge, preventing Doug from harassing any of his other female employees, but her friendship with not after weeks of mental torture from him. And she also possibly loses Sanjay is damaged, if not broken completely.as a friend after she lashed out at him physically.
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* MindRape: Doug's method of torturing Keisha was making her ''think'' she was sexually assaulted, and had something placed inside of her. Doug never raped her physically, but Keisha was an emotional wreck for weeks on end, trying to figure out exactly what happened to her.

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* MindRape: Doug's method of torturing Keisha was making her ''think'' she was sexually assaulted, and had something placed inside of her. Doug never raped her physically, but he did drug her and stalk her and Keisha was an emotional wreck for weeks on end, trying to figure out exactly what happened to her.
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* MindRape: Doug's method of torturing Keisha was making her ''think'' she was sexually assaulted, and had something placed inside of her. Doug never raped her physically, but Keisha was an emotional wreck for weeks on end, trying to figure out exactly what happened to her.
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Then I saw the head of the worm qush through.''

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Then I saw the head of the worm qush push through.''



* BadBoss: Doug has been ghostlighting and stalking his female employees to they will only think about him.

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* BadBoss: Doug has been ghostlighting gaslighting and stalking his female employees to so they will only think about him.



* EyeScream: At the end, Doug pulls out a tapeworm out of his eyes. Unlike Keisha, it's a real one, and living to boot.

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* EyeScream: At the end, Doug pulls out a tapeworm out of his eyes. Unlike Keisha, it's a real one, and living to boot.



* RedHerring: Despite her fears, Sanjay was ultimately not the one who roofied and stalked her.

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* RedHerring: Despite her fears, Keisha's suspicion, Sanjay was ultimately not the one who roofied and stalked her.
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->''I felt my skin crawl.\\
Then I saw the head of the worm qush through.''

Keisha, an office worker, is date raped during a party. In the aftermath, she feels being stalked by the perpetrator, who implies that he has inserted something into her body. Keisha desperately tries to identify her rapist before she goes fully insane.
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* BadBoss: Doug has been ghostlighting and stalking his female employees to they will only think about him.
* BittersweetEnding: Keisha gets her revenge, preventing Doug from harassing any of his other female employees, but her friendship with Sanjay is damaged, if not broken completely.
* TheDogBitesBack: Eventually, Keisha turns the tables on Doug, even using the same tactics he had been using on her.
* EyeScream: At the end, Doug pulls out a tapeworm out of his eyes. Unlike Keisha, it's a real one, and living to boot.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Upon deducing that he is the one who has been stalking her, Keisha takes revenge against Doug by stalking him in turn. Though she goes a little further when she inserts actual tapeworm eggs into his drink, so his fears about them are genuine.
* RedHerring: Despite her fears, Sanjay was ultimately not the one who roofied and stalked her.
* SanitySlippage: Keisha slowly descends into madness while she is obsessing over the identity of her rapist.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Keisha briefly imagines maggots in her trash can, then tapeworms emerging from her skin.

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