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* SecretRelationship: It turns out in the season two episode "All's Fair" that the suspect, Lt. Joe Karnes, and the victim, Saida, a Muslim, were married and he tries to avenge her death before the team locates him.
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* NeverGoingBackToPrison: In "Trust Metric", Dwayne Carter draws his gun on multiple police officers before Colby intervenes and they get away. When Colby asks what he was thinking, he replies, "I was thinking "I'm going to die before I go back to jail'," to which Colby nods grimly. The viewer never does find out what happened to them in prison, but given the nature of the crime as well as the fact that Colby had been a cop, it probably wasn't an easy time for them.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:The kindly rec center owner who set off more than a half-dozen "chain reaction" gang shootings after a stray bullet killed his son, resulting in the deaths of ''hundreds'' of people, including innocent bystanders and children. Unsurprisingly, he's DrivenToSuicide]].
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* DisproportionateRetribution: DisproportionateRetribution:
** "Sabotage": A disgruntled railroad employee/train crash survivor causes multiple fatal train wrecks to "get back at" the railroad for letting 36 people die and scapegoating him for the crash. The additional innocent people killed by his "demonstrations" don't seem to bother him.
** One of the copycat victims in "Sniper Zero" is mentioned to have been killed because he didn't return the lawnmower he borrowed from his neighbor.
** "Judgment Call": A judge's wife is killed by the widow of a murdered cop because the judge didn't give the cop's murderer the death sentence the widow wanted.
** Subverted in "Soft Target": A former army major appears to have planted a bomb on a Homeland Security official who he blames for inadequate security measures that allowed several of his men to be killed in a terrorist attack. However, it's revealed that the bomb is actually a fake; he just wanted to make a point.
** In "The OG": [[spoiler:The kindly rec center owner who set off more than a half-dozen "chain reaction" gang shootings after a stray bullet killed his son, resulting in the deaths of ''hundreds'' of people, including innocent bystanders and children. Unsurprisingly, he'sDrivenToSuicide]].DrivenToSuicide]].
** In "Backscatter": A Russian mob boss kills people over identity theft and insurance scams as a matter of policy.
** "Traffic": A hit-and-run victim starts killing people associated with other accidents. It's implied it's not completely his fault that things are so out of proportion, as he suffered a several frontal lobe injury in his accident and has diminished impulse control.
** "Devil Girl": A prostitute is murdered by a john, and her sister responds by targeting and murdering johns at random, whether or not they ever hurt the prostitutes. This later expands to killing a man who insults a prostitute and trying to kill a social worker (who was ''also'' trying to help the prostitutes) just for thinking he can do a better job than she can.
** "Guilt Trip": An arms dealer kills his girlfriend on the ''suspicion'' that she's an FBI informant.
** "Sabotage": A disgruntled railroad employee/train crash survivor causes multiple fatal train wrecks to "get back at" the railroad for letting 36 people die and scapegoating him for the crash. The additional innocent people killed by his "demonstrations" don't seem to bother him.
** One of the copycat victims in "Sniper Zero" is mentioned to have been killed because he didn't return the lawnmower he borrowed from his neighbor.
** "Judgment Call": A judge's wife is killed by the widow of a murdered cop because the judge didn't give the cop's murderer the death sentence the widow wanted.
** Subverted in "Soft Target": A former army major appears to have planted a bomb on a Homeland Security official who he blames for inadequate security measures that allowed several of his men to be killed in a terrorist attack. However, it's revealed that the bomb is actually a fake; he just wanted to make a point.
** In "The OG": [[spoiler:The kindly rec center owner who set off more than a half-dozen "chain reaction" gang shootings after a stray bullet killed his son, resulting in the deaths of ''hundreds'' of people, including innocent bystanders and children. Unsurprisingly, he's
** In "Backscatter": A Russian mob boss kills people over identity theft and insurance scams as a matter of policy.
** "Traffic": A hit-and-run victim starts killing people associated with other accidents. It's implied it's not completely his fault that things are so out of proportion, as he suffered a several frontal lobe injury in his accident and has diminished impulse control.
** "Devil Girl": A prostitute is murdered by a john, and her sister responds by targeting and murdering johns at random, whether or not they ever hurt the prostitutes. This later expands to killing a man who insults a prostitute and trying to kill a social worker (who was ''also'' trying to help the prostitutes) just for thinking he can do a better job than she can.
** "Guilt Trip": An arms dealer kills his girlfriend on the ''suspicion'' that she's an FBI informant.
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* AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering: Charlie and Colby have one of these in "Brutus" while trying to determine the identity of the mastermind behind a series of assassinations.
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'''Charlie''': - Tress (''EurekaMoment'' ensues) Are you thinking what I'm thinking?\\
'''Colby''': No.
** Rather adorably, in the next scene, Charlie still allows Colby to share credit for the breakthrough.
--> '''Colby''': Feels to me like we're missing something so obvious we must've forgotten about it. You know, can't see the forest for the - \\
'''Charlie''': - Tress (''EurekaMoment'' ensues) Are you thinking what I'm thinking?\\
'''Colby''': No.
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** Don was also an accomplished player, although not quite good enough for the pros, before joining the FBI.
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* StopOrIWillShoot: Colby does this in one episode, telling a fleeing suspect to "stop or I'll shoot you in the back". After he surrenders, Colby admits he had no intention of actually shooting: "I just did not feel like chasing you". Notably, he never does it again, suggesting he may have realized, or been told, that this was not acceptable (this was [[NewMeat very early in his time with the FBI]]).
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** There is also another nerdy character that plays Fantasy Baseball, Oswald Kittner, who's played by Creator/JayBaruchel, who is a real-life friend of David Krumholtz, according to the DVD commentary on that episode.
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** There is also another nerdy character that plays Fantasy Baseball, Oswald Kittner, who's played by Creator/JayBaruchel, who is a real-life friend of David Krumholtz, Creator/DavidKrumholtz, according to the DVD commentary on that episode.episode.
** Don was also an accomplished player, although not quite good enough for the pros, before joining the FBI.
** Don was also an accomplished player, although not quite good enough for the pros, before joining the FBI.
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* FalseCause: In one episode, Charlie tells Don about the ice cream-rape correlation. As the sales of ice cream goes up, so do the number of rapes. The key is both take place during the summer.
* FalseConfession: One episode involved Don finding out that he [[MiscarriageOfJustice arrested the wrong guy for a murder]] the previous year. The suspect didn't realize how weak the case against him actually was (to be fair, neither did Don), so he confessed and took a plea bargain so he'd at least have a shot at parole rather than go to trial and be locked up for life if found guilty. Don gets the conviction overturned and the innocent man released as soon as they catch the real killer.
* FalseConfession: One episode involved Don finding out that he [[MiscarriageOfJustice arrested the wrong guy for a murder]] the previous year. The suspect didn't realize how weak the case against him actually was (to be fair, neither did Don), so he confessed and took a plea bargain so he'd at least have a shot at parole rather than go to trial and be locked up for life if found guilty. Don gets the conviction overturned and the innocent man released as soon as they catch the real killer.
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* GiveGeeksAChance: Charlie and Amita. It's true she's a computer geek, but she's a smoking hot computer geek.
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* HypocriticalHumor: In the episode "Finders Keepers":
--> '''Millie''': Now, I know it sounds like I'm in danger of not having a point here, but I do, and it's this: Out at sea, all bets are off. You encounter forces that you could never, ever anticipate. Granted, some of those forces have to do with, you know, being confined to a very small space with someone who you thought you knew but clearly didn't, someone who is so enamored with the sound of their own voice that they could talk endlessly for hours and hours without ever needing to even have to take a breath...\\
'''Charlie''': Millie-\\
'''Millie''': (''not missing a beat'') I mean, you don't know what it's like.\\
'''Charlie''': You said you had a point?
--> '''Millie''': Now, I know it sounds like I'm in danger of not having a point here, but I do, and it's this: Out at sea, all bets are off. You encounter forces that you could never, ever anticipate. Granted, some of those forces have to do with, you know, being confined to a very small space with someone who you thought you knew but clearly didn't, someone who is so enamored with the sound of their own voice that they could talk endlessly for hours and hours without ever needing to even have to take a breath...\\
'''Charlie''': Millie-\\
'''Millie''': (''not missing a beat'') I mean, you don't know what it's like.\\
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* InstantBookDeal: Averted with Charlie, who was offered a book deal by a publisher who saw potential in a mathematics paper he had professionally published on using math principles to make friends (something he found hard to do as a child, made more so as the paper was started when he was nine, and cleaned up to publish). It went through several versions, several titles, and he mentions having to simplify the math so the layman could more easily understand it, until finally becoming a self-help/finding-love book called "The Attraction Equation".
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** "Rampage" starts with the team working on a pedophile case with the suspect in interrogation. Said pedophile becomes a victim of collateral damage and the only fatality when someone else bursts into the office and starts shooting up the place.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: "Rampage" starts with the team working on a pedophile case with the suspect in interrogation. Said pedophile becomes a victim of collateral damage and the only fatality when someone else bursts into the office and starts shooting up the place.
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* CounterfeitCash: "Counterfeit Reality" dealt with an artist kidnapped to help a counterfeiter gang.
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* UnbrokenVigil: In "The Fifth Man" Alan does this when Don is in the hospital, while Charlie wanted to do the same but Alan told him and the FBI team that Don would want them to work on the case but Charlie does visit in between working the case.
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* IncurableCoughOfDeath: In the episode "Janus List", Taylor Ashby coughed a few times in the beginning before being blown up by one of his bombs. Later, it was revealed that he was poisoned and that he only had a short time to live even if he wasn't burned.
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* SerialKiller: The series has had quite a few, from serial snipers to people staging fake car accidents to a murderer killing people in ways that mirror the death of every one of Jesus' apostles. Most of them only appear in one episode. This being a show about Math fighting crimes, all the serial killers are found using math.
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* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: The show features this with OmnidisciplinaryScientist Charlie, somehow a mathematician is the one they go to handle engineering analysis, geology, and whatever random scientific concepts are necessary for the case of the week. While he does get help from Amita, a computer scientist, and his physicist mentor, AbsentMindedProfessor Larry, they are still involved in a much larger number of fields than any real life scientist or mathematician. While occasionally other experts are brought in as necessary, more often than not it falls to three main characters to do all the work.
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* HospitalEpilogue: The episode "The Fifth Man" ends with the team meeting in Don's hospital room as he is recovering from being stabbed and he and Charlie have a talk about neither wanting Charlie to have Don's life but Charlie promises to see his brother in the FBI office soon.
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* TheOneThatGotAway: It is suggested that Robin Brooks is this to Don. thought the trope is later subverted with the couple deciding to give their relationship another shot. [[spoiler:They later get engaged]].
** Earlier in the series, a victim's husband suggests that Don was this to the victim.
* TheOneWhoMadeItOut: In "One Hour", Che Lobo, a former gangster turned hip-hop CEO, tells Colby that he wanted his (currently kidnapped) son to be this.
--> '''Che Lobo''': I swore I would never let my life touch him. That he'd have a chance to be something better. A few months ago, he tells me he wants a paper route so, so he could be a businessman, just like me. I know that he meant it in all the right ways, because that's the only part of me I ever let him see. When you're nine years old, your dad should be...\\
'''Granger''': Superman.\\
'''Lobo''': Yeah.
** Earlier in the series, a victim's husband suggests that Don was this to the victim.
* TheOneWhoMadeItOut: In "One Hour", Che Lobo, a former gangster turned hip-hop CEO, tells Colby that he wanted his (currently kidnapped) son to be this.
--> '''Che Lobo''': I swore I would never let my life touch him. That he'd have a chance to be something better. A few months ago, he tells me he wants a paper route so, so he could be a businessman, just like me. I know that he meant it in all the right ways, because that's the only part of me I ever let him see. When you're nine years old, your dad should be...\\
'''Granger''': Superman.\\
'''Lobo''': Yeah.
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* TheOneThatGotAway: It is suggested that Robin Brooks is this to Don, thought the trope is later subverted with the couple deciding to give their relationship another shot. [[spoiler:They later get engaged]].
** Earlier in the series, a victim's husband suggests that Don was this to the victim.
** Earlier in the series, a victim's husband suggests that Don was this to the victim.
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** This was also part of Colby's mole operation. Under the guidance of his handler, Colby fed information to [[TheMole genuine mole]] Carter in the hopes that Carter would eventually reveal the identity of his contact. He does. Unfortunately, it's not until after said contact had figured out Colby's true allegiances.
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* TheMissusAndTheEx: Don's history causes to happen a few times.
** The primary example is Robin Brooks and Liz Warner. Though Liz eventually admits that she always knew that her relationship with Don was really a rebound after Robin broke up with him.
** An earlier episode has a version of this by proxy, when an officer a case mentions having known Don's (dead) ex-girlfriend, with Liz being the Missus in this situation.
--> '''Don''': Hey, what was that look you gave me when Malloy mentioned Nikki Davis?\\
'''Liz''': Right, like, "Why is it all your girlfriends are people you've worked with?"
** The primary example is Robin Brooks and Liz Warner. Though Liz eventually admits that she always knew that her relationship with Don was really a rebound after Robin broke up with him.
** An earlier episode has a version of this by proxy, when an officer a case mentions having known Don's (dead) ex-girlfriend, with Liz being the Missus in this situation.
--> '''Don''': Hey, what was that look you gave me when Malloy mentioned Nikki Davis?\\
'''Liz''': Right, like, "Why is it all your girlfriends are people you've worked with?"
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** Margaret Mann, before she married Alan Eppes.
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* TortureIsIneffective: It's almost a throwaway moment, but in the episode "Thirteen", Megan experiences a flashback in which a man is screaming and she's yelling "That's enough! He'll say anything you want!" [[note]] with the implied meaning being "he'll say whatever he thinks you want to hear, whether or not it's true", not "he'll tell you want you want to know.[[/note]] A later conversation with Colby indicates that she was forced to be involved in the torture of detainees suspected of terrorism, suggesting that the memory she was reliving was from that assignment.
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** TheyDo: [[OfficialCouple They do]]: [[spoiler:They got married]].
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** Right from the beginning of the series, Amita hangs around a lot more and works a lot more closely with Charlie than any other grad student, prompting both Don and Alan to comment on the potential there. After two seasons of WillTheyOrWontThey, they get together in the beginning of Season 3 and stay together for the rest of the series, [[TheyDo marrying]] in the series finale.
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** Right from the beginning of the series, Amita hangs around a lot more and works a lot more closely with Charlie than any other grad student, prompting both Don and Alan to comment on the potential there. After two seasons of WillTheyOrWontThey, they get together in the beginning of Season 3 and stay together for the rest of the series, [[TheyDo marrying]] [[WeddingFinale marrying in the series finale.finale]].
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* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Don Eppes.
** TheLancer: David Sinclair.
** TheSmartGuy: Charlie Eppes.
** TheBigGuy: Colby Granger.
** TheHeart: Terry Lake/Megan Reeves/Nikki Betancourt, depending on the season.
** TheHero: Don Eppes.
** TheLancer: David Sinclair.
** TheSmartGuy: Charlie Eppes.
** TheBigGuy: Colby Granger.
** TheHeart: Terry Lake/Megan Reeves/Nikki Betancourt, depending on the season.
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* ReligionOfEvil: One episode features a cult based around the idea that "the way to heaven is by marrying virgins - as many as possible". In practice, this takes the form of marrying underage girls off to adult men, often several girls at once to the same man. The cult leader also has been known to kill his own followers if they defy him (and sometimes, like in the episode's climax, just because it's expedient).
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* MysteriousPast: Other than being in the military as a sniper, which he now does for the FBI, nothing else is known about Ian Edgerton's past.
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* PutOnABus: When Creator/PeterMacNicol did a stint on ''Series/TwentyFour, Larry was Put On A Space Station.
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* TheBusCameBack:
** Larry comes back in ''The Art of Reckoning'' after being in space as Creator/PeterMacNicol returned from his ''Series/TwentyFour'' and fully returns to full cast in the season four premiere.
** Megan comes back in the season three finale after Creator/DianeFarr returns from maternity leave.
** Larry comes back in ''The Art of Reckoning'' after being in space as Creator/PeterMacNicol returned from his ''Series/TwentyFour'' and fully returns to full cast in the season four premiere.
** Megan comes back in the season three finale after Creator/DianeFarr returns from maternity leave.
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* DuckSeasonRabbitSeason: One episode uses a simpler version of this trope, skipping right to the switch without arguing. One of the characters even proceeds to [[ConversedTrope compare it to Looney Tunes]].
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* LateToTheTragedy: Don has been known to complain that being in law enforcement basically entails this.
--> '''Don''': Look, I'm tired of picking up the pieces, okay? It seems like all we do is get there too late.
** Charlie makes a similar complaint a season later, comparing the FBI to doctors trying to treat car crash victims thrown through windshields (the solution is not to come up with a better way to treat said wounds, but to come up with a means of preventing them, namely seatbelts). He actually tries to figure out a way to prevent crime with math, but is forced to concede that it's too complex a system to be undermined in the way he intended.
--> '''Don''': Look, I'm tired of picking up the pieces, okay? It seems like all we do is get there too late.
** Charlie makes a similar complaint a season later, comparing the FBI to doctors trying to treat car crash victims thrown through windshields (the solution is not to come up with a better way to treat said wounds, but to come up with a means of preventing them, namely seatbelts). He actually tries to figure out a way to prevent crime with math, but is forced to concede that it's too complex a system to be undermined in the way he intended.
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* WelcomeBackTraitor: In the season three finale, Colby is revealed to be a spy for the Chinese in the FBI. While next season's premiere reveals it wasn't quite true, he IS and always has been a plant by the Department of Justice.
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* ChekhovsClassroom: A more subtle version plays out a few times, albeit it's usually Charlie ''teaching'' the lesson. In these cases, it's not a blatant case or learning something that he needs to know to help the case, but rather Charlie will be teaching a more abstract theory and then, with that thought fresh in his mind, later realizes that some element of that theory can be applied to whatever it is that he's having a hard time figuring out.
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* TheUnFavourite: Don has moments where he seems to believe this; it's largely implied that the amount of energy and attention Charlie's ChildProdigy status required meant that Don often ended up not getting as much as attention he should have had. However, his father makes it clear that, while he knows Don got the short end of the stick, it was never intentional, he regrets it, and he loves Don every bit as much as he loves Charlie. (Depending on how one reads certain scenes in "Hot Shot", it can possibly be said that his [[note]] deceased[[/note]] mother feels the same way).
** Megan implies she felt like this as well, largely due to the fact that she disappointed her parents just by being born female. Additional details about her childhood and her relationship with her father seem to reinforce this.
** Megan implies she felt like this as well, largely due to the fact that she disappointed her parents just by being born female. Additional details about her childhood and her relationship with her father seem to reinforce this.
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* ChekhovsSkill: The subplot of a Season 2 episode centers around Don and Charlie learning that their mother was a gifted musician, in the course of which it's revealed that Don and Charlie took piano lessons as children and while neither of them stuck with it long-term, Don apparently picked up and retained at least the basics as he's able to play the piano in TheTag. In the Season 3 finale, Don finds a key to help Charlie solve a MadBomber's puzzle when he realizes that a particular sequence used by the bomber is based on the G-major scale.
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* InstantMarksmanJustSqueezeTrigger: Both downplayed and somewhat justified in "Sniper Zero". Charlie's bullet ballistics number-crunching keeps failing to give him the whole picture of how the suspect sniper operates, so he resolves to learn what shooting a gun feels like. After struggling with a rifle at the shooting range for a while, Don gives him a few of the usual pointers: relax his hands, shoot in-between breaths, etc. Charlie's next shot, while not sharpshooter material, is a lot better, and his final prediction on the sniper's nest location is off by only a few feet.
** Don also points out to Charlie that there's a difference between shooting paper targets and real people. He may primarily be referencing the emotional impact, but the same is true of aiming. (Charlie and David have a similar conversation four seasons later, in which David clearly ''is'' referring to marksmanship.)
** Don also points out to Charlie that there's a difference between shooting paper targets and real people. He may primarily be referencing the emotional impact, but the same is true of aiming. (Charlie and David have a similar conversation four seasons later, in which David clearly ''is'' referring to marksmanship.)
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** Don also points out to Charlie that there's a difference between shooting paper targets and real people. He may primarily be referencing the emotional impact, but the same is true of aiming. (Charlie and David have a similar conversation four seasons later, in which David clearly ''is'' referring to marksmanship.)
** Don also points out to Charlie that there's a difference between shooting paper targets and real people. He may primarily be referencing the emotional impact, but the same is true of aiming. (Charlie and David have a similar conversation four seasons later, in which David clearly ''is'' referring to marksmanship.)
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* InspirationNod: Season 5 episode 17 contains a number of references to the Robot series of Isaac Asimov, from which it borrows the plot device "an A.I. that kills a human". The episode's title "First Law" after the Asimov's First Law of Robotics. The company in which the death takes place is called "Steel Cave Industries" after one novel in the series, ''Literature/TheCavesOfSteel''. The name of the A.I. accused of murder is "Bailey" after the protagonist of that novel, Det. Lije Bailey. The scientist who is killed is named Daniel and gives his admin password as "Daniel Olivaw" after Lije Bailey's robot sidekick R. Daneel olivaw. Presumably this scientist was the one responsible for naming the A.I. and the company created to fund its development, so his familiarity with these books gives an in-story explanation for all these references.
