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* Retool: In Season 3, the series jettisons season-long arcs in favor of a very tight focus on a VillainOfTheWeek format.


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** In "Fear and Flesh", a white supremacist group gains access to bioterror weapons [[spoiler:because the CEO of a large biotech corporation has long-standing links to such groups]].

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Suicide had nothing to do with his sexuality.


* GayngstInducedSuicide: With the death of its sole gay recurring character, Elias, who is blackmailed into helping the BigBad carry out an attack and then chooses to leap out a window to his death rather than be arrested.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Will in Season 3, who hides his true motives until the very last minute. [[spoiler:He was given short shrift after the fallout from Haas's resignation and Roarke's suicide, and as a result had to turn to the darknet and fell in with unsavory criminal elements; he professes remorse and then stabs Owen Hall with some kind of drug to distract his team so Alex can be captured.]]
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* ActorAllusion: Liam is an alumnus of the University of Kentucky, located in Lexington, Kentucky, the birthplace of the actor who portrays him.
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The show has aired two seasons and the third season aired the first episode on April 26 with 13 episodes being announced.
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* TimeSkip: Season three opens three years after the events of the second season finale.
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* ActorAllusion: Liam is an alumnus of the University of Kentucky, located in Lexington, Kentucky, the birthplace of the actor who portrays him.
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* ShootingLessonsFromYourParents: Shelby Wyatt quickly proves the best markswoman among the FBI trainees, being the heiress of a well-known hunter from Georgia.

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* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler: Elias Harper]].


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* GayngstInducedSuicide: With the death of its sole gay recurring character, Elias, who is blackmailed into helping the BigBad carry out an attack and then chooses to leap out a window to his death rather than be arrested.
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* XMeetsY: Many critics have described this series as ''Series/HowToGetAwayWithMurder'' or ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' meets ''Series/{{Homeland}}''.
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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each episode in the first season is named after the last word in its script (although not necessarily the last word ''spoken'' As the result, while there''is'' an episode in season 1 called "Quantico," it is '''not''' the pilot (it's episode 10, the pilot episode is called "Run"). [[spoiler: And the season finale is called "Yes," but that isn't how the episode ends]]. Every title of season 2 episodes is a CIA cryptonym.

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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each episode in the first season is named after the last word in its script (although not necessarily the last word ''spoken'' ''spoken''). As the result, while there''is'' there ''is'' an episode in season 1 called "Quantico," it is '''not''' the pilot (it's episode 10, the pilot episode is called "Run"). [[spoiler: And the season finale is called "Yes," but that isn't how the episode ends]]. Every title of season 2 episodes is a CIA cryptonym.
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* FamousLastWords: "Alex, ''RUN!!!''" [[spoiler: - [[VazquezAlwaysDies Natalie Vazquez]].]]

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* FamousLastWords: "Alex, ''RUN!!!''" [[spoiler: - [[VazquezAlwaysDies [[VasquezAlwaysDies Natalie Vazquez]].Vasquez]].]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[Spoiler: After the team expose his long work of treason to get to the Presidency and then works with Russia to undermine the U.S., Roarke kills himself rather than be arrested and tried.]]

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* DrivenToSuicide: [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: After the team expose his long work of treason to get to the Presidency and then works with Russia to undermine the U.S., Roarke kills himself rather than be arrested and tried.]]
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* ArtifactTitle: As of season 2.



* FamousLastWords: "You..." [[spoiler: [[BigBad Liam]] just as Alex and Ryan kill him in "Yes."]]

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* FamousLastWords: "Alex, ''RUN!!!''" [[spoiler: - [[VazquezAlwaysDies Natalie Vazquez]].]]
"You..." [[spoiler: [[BigBad Liam]] just as Alex and Ryan kill him in "Yes."]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[Spoiler: After the team expose his long work of treason to get to the Presidency and then works with Russia to undermine the U.S., Roarke kills himself rather than be arrested and tried.]]
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* CaughtOnTape: How [[spoiler: Roarke]] is taken down. Right at the height of the [[spoiler: the Constutitional Convention, the team play video of him talking to Russian intelligence on how he was willing to "amend" U.S. law to fit Russian desires. Alex plays the tape and also releases ''all'' of Roarke's illegal activities to every lawyer and human rights group in the country. Knowing he's about to get arrested for treason, Roarke kills himself.]]
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* PonziScheme: One episode has the team targeting who they think is a terrorist group who caused a plane crash to short-change the stock. They go in for a major investigation at a party where Alex overhears the two partners in charge talking...and realize they had nothing to do with the crash, they're running a Ponzi scheme and picked that particular stock totally at random.
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* LongGame: The Collaborators

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* LongGame: The CollaboratorsCollaborators in Season 2b. It is revealed that they have been planning [[XanatosGambit their takeover]] of the US government for ''years''. Every contingency has been covered, and any possible opposition is quickly neutralized.
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** In "Odyoke", Ryan finds out that Sasha, a reporter he knows, is a known FSB asset.
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* LongGame: The Collaborators
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Dayana is conspicuously missing as the team begins zeroing in on the members of the overarching conspiracy which funds and supports groups like the AIC.
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* AFriendInNeed: Simon and Raina both return to New York as soon as Alex tells them she needs them.
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* In a season one episode, after Simon asks Raina why she sometimes pinned her hijab on the right and sometimes on the left, Nimah tells her to always pin it on the right. In season two, [[spoiler:when Nimah dresses as Raina to turn herself in for the crime Raina was framed for]], Raina repeats the same thing.

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* ** In a season one episode, after Simon asks Raina why she sometimes pinned her hijab on the right and sometimes on the left, Nimah tells her to always pin it on the right. In season two, [[spoiler:when Nimah dresses as Raina to turn herself in for the crime Raina was framed for]], Raina repeats the same thing.
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* BittersweetEnding: The season one finale. The terrorist threat has been stopped, lives were saved, and after an entire season of suspicion and anger, most of the main cast is on good terms again, but [[spoiler:Simon]] died to make it happen and it drove a wedge further between Raina and Nimah.
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* ShesNotMyGirlfriend: Raina denies she and Simon are a couple when he jokes that not many couples can say they've both been kicked out of the FBI. Oddly enough, she never denies it to anyone else that brings up their relationship.
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* LongingLook: Characters pull this ''constantly''. Most of the time, Alex and Ryan are directing these at each other, but there are notable scenes where Simon looks at Raina this way.
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* In a season one episode, after Simon asks Raina why she sometimes pinned her hijab on the right and sometimes on the left, Nimah tells her to always pin it on the right. In season two, [[spoiler:when Nimah dresses as Raina to turn herself in for the crime Raina was framed for]], Raina repeats the same thing.
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* DownerEnding: The season two episode Odyoke. [[spoiler:Raina]] is framed for a terrorist attack; one of the people responsible who could also ID other collaborators [[spoiler:is shot, taking away the team's ability to prove Raina's innocence]]; and [[spoiler:Nimah pretends to be Raina to turn herself in and be sent to prison.]] To top it off, all of that was part of the plan to [[spoiler:get a Muslim registry bill that Claire would veto to pass through Congress, effectively pinning the blame on her for any possible future attack]]. This was a rare Quantico episode where ''nothing'' went right for the protagonists.

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* LoveTriangle: Alex/Ryan/Natalie. A slightly more perverse one with Simon/Nima/Reina (he likes one, the other likes him, and for quite some time he's not even aware they're two people).

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* LoveRedeems: Averted with Simon. Nimah suggests that this at least part of his feelings for Raina stem from him seeing her as redemption, but tells him that what he really needs is to forgive himself.
* LoveTriangle: Alex/Ryan/Natalie. A slightly more perverse one with Simon/Nima/Reina Simon/Nimah/Raina (he likes one, the other likes him, and for quite some time he's not even aware they're two people).

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