History Series / TheEndgame

''The Endgame'' is a series airing on Creator/{{NBC}} starring Creator/MorenaBaccarin and Creator/RyanMichelleBathe.

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: Lady Belok]]

* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler: When President Wright finds Lady Belok inside his office to personally berate for him for failing to eliminate Elena he immediately attempts to talk her out of killing him. Luckily, Lady Belok still has use for the President, but she stabs his hand through a desk and bluntly says he owes her for this mercy.]]

* TheChessmaster: Elena is consistently 2-to-3 moves ahead of, well, EVERYBODY! The police, the FBI, the press, all from an FBI blacksite thanks to years of planning. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for Elena, Lady Bolak happened to be 1 step ahead of HER.]]

* TheChessmaster: Elena is consistently 2-to-3 moves ahead of, well, EVERYBODY! The police, the FBI, the press, all from an FBI Black site thanks to years of planning. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for Elena, Lady Bolak happened to be 1 step ahead of HER.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: One way to tell if something's about to go down concerning Elena's plans is to see people with checkered [[https://i.postimg.cc/FHxGDK0n/The-Endgame-street-raid.png checkered neck gaiters]].[[note]]This one's circled red.[[/note]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:In "Bury the Lede", Tyler Erickson smugly hands his comb over to Val, which she threatens to use as a DNA comparison to the DNA under Ming Lee's fingernails.]]

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: [[spoiler: The man who placed the bomb in the church. He was hired by the Beloks, and he took the job to help his sick wife. But he was too late as she died, and he lament that it was AllForNothing.]]
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: [[spoiler: In "Gold Rush", Owen tells Sergey if Val gets killed in the crossfire, he kill both him and Elena.]]
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: In "#1 with a Bullet", Sergey had Horek poisoned so he wouldn't tell anyone that Sergey is alive. Unfortunately, he recovered, but luckily Horek doesn't suspected a thing. [[spoiler: Except he did in "Sleepover".]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler: In "Judge, Jury and Executioner", Val confronted her mother's killer Bigby and calls him out for taking her mother away and ruining her life while crying. Bigby denies it and just tells her to "piss off" despite revealing herself as a cop. Val calls him "pathetic" as she leaves.]]

* TokenGoodTeammate: [[spoiler: Abdel, among the group of people in Elena's hitlist. He's operated the drone to the aftermath of the church bombing, and the rest of the targeted group threaten to have his and his parents' citizenship revoked if he reveals this to anyone. So when Elena and Sergey offered him to join them, he accepted.]]

** The end of "Gold Rush" shows that a gold bar disguised as an explosive device was planted in the Federal Reserve.
** In "All That Glitters", the bomb went off, [[spoiler:which set the sprinklers off, melting the gold... which is revealed to be gold-painted clay bricks.]]

* DidntSeeThatComing: Happens alot actually.

* DrivingQuestion: What does Elena's presence in New York have to go with a massive load of criminal activity going up after she's detained in a black site.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: One way to tell if something's about to go down really hard concerning Elena's plans is to look at people with colored [[https://i.postimg.cc/FHxGDK0n/The-Endgame-street-raid.png checkered neck gaiters]].[[note]]This one's circled red.[[/note]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:In "Bury the Lede", Tyler Erickson smugly hands his comb over to Val, which she's able to compare his DNA on to that from Ming Lee's fingers.]]

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: [[spoiler: The man who placed the bomb in the church. He was hired by the Belok, and he took the job to help his sick wife. But he was too late as she died, and he lament that it was AllForNothing.]]

* {{Blackmail}}: Elena's men stole incriminating evidence against Director Doblin hidden in a deposit box in one of the seven banks.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler: In "Judge, Jury and Executioner", Val confronted her mother's killer Bigby and calls him out for taking her mother away and ruining her life. Bigby denies it and yells at her to "piss off". Val calls him "pathetic" as she leaves.]]

* WhamEpisode: The end of "Gold Rush" shows that a gold bar disguised as an explosive device was planted in the Federal Reserve.