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* HostageVideo: This is done in "Prime Suspect", in which Ethan Burdick's daughter, Emily, is ransomed for his solution to an equation, with Emily being forced to tell him the demands.
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* BusFullOfInnocents: "Jacked" centers around a group of con men taking over a tour bus and taking the passengers hostage for ransom, threatening to execute them if the ransom isn't paid by a specified time, including shooting one hostage to prove they're serious. Eventually the FBI realizes the whole thing is all based in illusion - the "hostage" was actually a secret co-conspirator and his supposed shooting was staged - and they're able to free the hostages unharmed.
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* VillainsDyingGrace: Dawyne dies saving Colby's life.
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* TheMissusAndTheEx: Don's history causes to happen a few times.
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* TheMissusAndTheEx: Don's history causes this to happen a few times.
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* RewatchBonus: The episode "The Mole" seems, the first time around, like a simple story of Colby getting caught between his friend and his job, but takes on a whole new layer of meaning when the viewer knows what's really going on behind the scenes with Colby and Dwayne (as revealed in the "Janus List"/"Trust Metric" two-parter).
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: The episode "End Game" centers around Ryan Ferraro, a disgraced former Army captain, trying to set a trap for Clay Porter, the soldier who blew the whistle on him for torturing a POW to death, believing that the POW must have blabbed the secret to Porter before his death. It turns out that Porter knew nothing about the secret, nor did he give Ferraro any real reason to think he did - except that he turned Ferraro in, and Ferraro simply couldn't comprehend any reason why Porter would do that other than Porter having something to gain by Ferraro's going to jail. It never occurs to him that Porter might have simply ''had a conscience''.
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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: In "Dark Matter", [[spoiler:Jake Porter (who raped Karen Camden)]] ALMOST got away with his crimes, since [[spoiler:Karen]]'s own crimes mean no one will believe her...but unfortunately for him it turns out one of his friends was stupid enough to take photos of the incident. Upon being informed of this, [[spoiler:Porter]] promptly tries to run, only to get forced to the ground and arrested.
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* NoodleIncident: The incident that got Charlie's learner's permit revoked. The only thing we know is that it has something to do with radar guns, which Charlie strenuously insists are unreliable.
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** The incident that got Charlie's learner's permit revoked. The only thing we know is that it has something to do with radar guns, which Charlie strenuously insists areunreliable.unreliable.
** "Assassin": Charlie's work with the NSA is touched upon as apparently he consulted on something that left him with the knowledge of both the various methods of assassination and how to spot code referring to it. It's not clear if this is the same incident mentioned in "Vector" or a separate one.
** The incident that got Charlie's learner's permit revoked. The only thing we know is that it has something to do with radar guns, which Charlie strenuously insists are
** "Assassin": Charlie's work with the NSA is touched upon as apparently he consulted on something that left him with the knowledge of both the various methods of assassination and how to spot code referring to it. It's not clear if this is the same incident mentioned in "Vector" or a separate one.
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* SelfFulfillingProphecy: In one episode, a psychic predicts the killers' next move and goes there with his camera. [[spoiler:The killers are there, along with their big truck. He doesn't get better, either]].
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* SelfFulfillingProphecy: SelfFulfillingProphecy:
** Inone episode, a psychic "Assassin", the titular assassin is sent after Gabriel Ruiz by the corrupt Colombian government because his family still carries weight in the movement for reform. Gabriel is introduced outright saying he has no intention of ever returning only to change his mind in the aftermath to honor his father and brother's sacrifice by finishing what they started.
** In "Trouble in Chinatown" , Simon Kraft predicts the killers' next move and goes there with his camera. [[spoiler:The killers are there, along with their big truck. He doesn't get better, either]].
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** In "Trouble in Chinatown" , Simon Kraft predicts the killers' next move and goes there with his camera. [[spoiler:The killers are there, along with their big truck. He doesn't get better, either]].
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler:Ronald Haldane]] as he is only in the pilot episode, and has two or three lines of dialogue, but his crimes are what inspire Don and Charlie to begin teaming up on cases.
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* NonActionGuy: Charlie.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler:Chandler]] in "Hot Shot" has this view of the world, treating others as his playthings. [[spoiler:mother]] seems to have this, albeit a more benign variation, as well, as she appears more concerned with the possibility of [[spoiler:Chandler's]] actions embarrassing her than about the victims he might hurt.
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* KillingInSelfDefense: In "Hot Shot", Don is forced to shoot Chandler after Chandler injects him with morphine, as he's about to pass out and can't risk Chandler might do once he's unconscious and unable to defend himself. Charlie and Alan both agree that it was fully justified under the circumstances.
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* CreatorCameo: In the Season 2 episode "Backscatter", two guys from the Russian mafia come and threaten Charlie by sitting in the back room while he's teaching. One of them is [[Creator/NicolasFalacciAndCherylHeuton Nicolas Falacci]], one of the creators of the show.
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* ColdBloodedTorture:
** In the Season 4 premiere, Mason Lancer tortures Colby by injecting him with drugs after TheReveal that [[spoiler:Colby is a FakeDefector]]. The first impairs his breathing, creating "the sensation of slowly drowning", and the second massively increases his sensitivity to pain, among other effects. The torturer then attempts to kill Colby with a third drug, but [[spoiler:Dwayne performs a HeroicSacrifice to stop him before Colby gets a lethal dose]]. While the torture isn't particularly graphic, which makes the scene truly horrifying is the extent to which Mason is almost inhumanly calm and unbothered the entire time - he's not ''enjoying'' Colby's pain per se, but he's so completely indifferent to the suffering of another human being that it's almost worse.
** A few episodes later, they get a killer who tortures his victims for days before killing them. The same episode reveals that Megan was forced to take part in "interrogations" of terrorism suspects, even though she was horrified by the idea. Allegedly this was a case of EnhancedInterrogationTechniques, but Megan, who knows that TortureIsIneffective, sees this as this trope.
** In the Season 4 premiere, Mason Lancer tortures Colby by injecting him with drugs after TheReveal that [[spoiler:Colby is a FakeDefector]]. The first impairs his breathing, creating "the sensation of slowly drowning", and the second massively increases his sensitivity to pain, among other effects. The torturer then attempts to kill Colby with a third drug, but [[spoiler:Dwayne performs a HeroicSacrifice to stop him before Colby gets a lethal dose]]. While the torture isn't particularly graphic, which makes the scene truly horrifying is the extent to which Mason is almost inhumanly calm and unbothered the entire time - he's not ''enjoying'' Colby's pain per se, but he's so completely indifferent to the suffering of another human being that it's almost worse.
** A few episodes later, they get a killer who tortures his victims for days before killing them. The same episode reveals that Megan was forced to take part in "interrogations" of terrorism suspects, even though she was horrified by the idea. Allegedly this was a case of EnhancedInterrogationTechniques, but Megan, who knows that TortureIsIneffective, sees this as this trope.
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* FlashMobCoverUp: In the episode "Animal Rites", the villain organized a flashmob ahead of time to distract the FBI team at a key moment.
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* FlashMobCoverUp: In the episode "Animal Rights", the villain organized a flashmob ahead of time to distract the authorities at a key moment.
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* ColdSniper: Agent Ian Edgerton.
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* ColdSniper: Agent Edgerton.
