History Series / AmericanOdyssey

* BigSecret: [[spoiler:Bob Offer deletes the e-mail Odelle sent, won't tell anyone why, and it's strongly implied that Societele and/or the police leaned heavily on him to do it.]]
* CassandraTruth: Inverted. [[spoiler:Harrison's father becomes convinced of the truth of Harrison's allegations about Odelle's email.]]

* TheMole: [[spoiler:Ruby, The false news reporter; she is apparently a hired assassin as well.]]

* StraightGay: The Malian General who is the secret lover of Aslam's uncle.

* ScyllaAndCharybdis: [[spoiler:Odelle doesn't want to get caught by the Ansar Dine, and her companion Aslam is Tuareg, so he's not fond of them either. Nonetheless, when she gets found out and the Tuareg travellers are getting ready to kill her, Aslam's only option is to convince the Ansar Dine mercs to capture her alive and join with them as well.]]

* TheMole: [[spoiler:Ruby, the false news reporter; she is apparently a hired assassin as well.]]

* ScyllaAndCharybdis: [[spoiler:Odelle doesn't want to get caught by the Ansar Dine, and her companion Aslam is Tuareg, so he's not fond of them either. Nonetheless, when she gets found out and the Tuareg travellers are getting ready to kill her, Aslam's only option is to convince the Ansar Dine mercs to capture her alive and join with them as well.]]

* IronicEcho: When Odelle is being interrogated by Omar, he mentions studying at Michigan State University, and says, "Go blue". Later, when Odelle reveals she understands Arabic, she mockingly chants back, "Go blue!" in that language.

* CooperationGambit / TeethClenchedTeamwork: Aslam and [[spoiler:Odelle]].

* TheMole: [[spoiler:Ruby, the false news reporter; so far more implied than proven.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: If Odelle [[spoiler:hadn't given the pills to the wounded boy, she wouldn't have ended up needing to kill his father (or older relative).]]

* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Such an organization, called OSELA, features prominently, and are reputed to play fast and loose with basic courtesies and standard procedures.

* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Such an organization, called OSELA, features prominently, and are reputed to play fast and loose with basic courtesies and standard procedures.

* TheMole: [[spoiler:Ruby, the false news reporter.]]

* GenreSavvy: Harrison Walters guesses Bob Offer's password by paying close attention to Bob's [[TheBigBoard wall of interconnected items]].

* GenreSavvy: Harrison Walters guesses Bob Offer's password by paying close attention to Bob's [[wall of interconnected items TheBigBoard]].

* TheMole: [[spoiler:The false news reporter.]]

''American Odyssey'' is an {{Creator/NBC}} TV Series which centers around three separate milieux, exempilified in the characters of Sergeant Odelle Ballard, who must escape out of Mali and who possesses critical information tying a large megacorporation to terrorist financing; Peter Decker as a corporate lawyer who has stumbled on another piece of the conspiracy while trying to head off a potential IRS investigation into questionable tax avoidance behavior by said megacorporation; Harrison Walters, the young figurehead of the anti-corporate Occupy protesters, and Bob Offer, a fringe member of the group who has computing skills and sees conspiracies everywhere.

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''American Odyssey'' is an Creator/NBC TV Series which centers around three separate milieux, exempilified in the characters of Sergeant Odelle Ballard, who must escape out of Mali and who possesses critical information tying a large megacorporation to terrorist financing; Peter Decker as a corporate lawyer who has stumbled on another piece of the conspiracy while trying to head off a potential IRS investigation into questionable tax avoidance behavior by said megacorporation; Harrison Walters, the young figurehead of the anti-corporate Occupy protesters, and Bob Offer, a fringe member of the group who has computing skills and sees conspiracies everywhere.