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** Creator/JenniferSiebelNewsom, future first lady of California, appears in "Bettor or Worse".
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* IncestYayShipping: Don/Charlie or "Eppescest" is a notable ship in the fandom, especially in the earlier seasons when there was a greater emphasis on the two reconnecting as adults.
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* IronWoobie: Josephine Kirtland, the victim in the Season 3 episode "Nine Wives". She grew up in a polygamist cult. She was forced to marry its leader, Prophet Stone, who subsequently raped her. Instead of giving up, she escapes from a desert hideout and treks through the wilderness at night. Later, she faces two awful truths: [[spoiler:her mother betrayed her to Stone, and she is the product of ParentalIncest (she and her mother have the same father)]]. Despite all of this, she's a mostly stable individual by the end of the episode.
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** In "Vector", Dr. Weaver is concerned to the point of obsession with a hypothetical scenario where a flu-like virus emerges and becomes a deadly epidemic because adequate vaccines and treatments aren't available. While Weaver was convinced this would involve a reemergence of the Spanish Flu virus from 1918, it's not hard to see the parallels between the scenario he was imagining and the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic.
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** In "Vector", Dr. Weaver is concerned to the point of obsession with a hypothetical scenario where a flu-like virus emerges and becomes a deadly epidemic because adequate vaccines and treatments aren't available. While Other than the specifics of the virus in question -- Weaver was convinced this the threat would involve come from a reemergence of the Spanish Flu virus from 1918, 1918 -- it's not hard to see the parallels between the scenario he was imagining and the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic.
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** In "Vector", Dr. Weaver is concerned to the point of obsession with a hypothetical scenario where a flu-like virus emerges and becomes a deadly epidemic because adequate vaccines and treatments aren't available. While Weaver was fixated on convinced this being would involve a reemergence of the Spanish Flu virus from 1918, it's not hard to see the parallels between the scenario he was imagining and the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic.
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** In "Vector", Dr. Weaver is concerned to the point of obsession with a hypothetical scenario where a flu-like virus emerges and becomes a deadly epidemic because adequate vaccines and treatments aren't available. While Weaver was fixated on this being a reemergence of the Spanish Flu virus from 1918, it's not hard to see the parallels between the scenario he was imagining and the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic.
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** "[[Recap/Numb3rsS05E21 Disturbed]]": [[SerialKiller Robert Posdner]] is a "stealth predator" who changes victims, methods, and even locations to avoid leaving a clear pattern, while also killing anyone [[LeaveNoWitnesses who might have seen him]]. Posdner's murders started approximately 20 years before the episode, in high school, when he stalked and killed a fellow student who rejected him, before threatening the girl's then-boyfriend. All in all, Posdner is responsible for at least 4 onscreen murders, attempts to murder a couple, can be tied to a few more, and has a TrophyRoom linking him to potentially many, many more.
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** "[[Recap/Numb3rsS05E21 Disturbed]]": [[SerialKiller Robert Posdner]] is a "stealth predator" who changes victims, methods, and even locations to avoid leaving a clear pattern, while also killing anyone [[LeaveNoWitnesses who might have seen him]]. Posdner's murders started approximately 20 years before the episode, in high school, when he stalked and killed a fellow student who rejected him, before threatening the girl's then-boyfriend. All in all, Posdner is responsible for at least 4 onscreen murders, attempts to murder a couple, can be tied to a few more, and has a TrophyRoom linking him to potentially many, many more. As the icing on the sociopathic cake, when he is finally arrested, his current wife comes out wanting to know what's going on, and he tells the FBI like a kid revealing a secret, "The poor thing. She has no idea! It'll be a total shock!"
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* UnintentionalUncannyValley: "Floyd", the [[TheMenInBlack agent from "Department 44"]] in the episode "Dreamland". He looked perfectly human, but his ''effect'' was rather like an android with a better-than-average speech program. The bouts of "invisible cell phone" had some viewers looking for the spinning blue ring, and the tendency toward StealthHiBye (Amita called it "Materializing") just added to the weird factor. One would think that an agent with such a secretive group would want to blend more.
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** Exception: In "Graphic", an episode with Creator/WillWheaton and Creator/ChristopherLloyd. Neither did it.
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** Exception: In "Graphic", an episode with Creator/WillWheaton Creator/WilWheaton and Creator/ChristopherLloyd. Neither did it.
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* NarrowedItDownToTheGuyIRecovnize: The show often did this.
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* NarrowedItDownToTheGuyIRecovnize: The show often did this.
** One episode featured two well-known actors. Of course, they had ''both'' done it.
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** Another exception is Series/BillNyeTheScienceGuy getting called in as a consultant, and the criminal was someone completely unrelated.
** One episode featured two well-known actors. Of course, they had ''both'' done it.
** Exception: In "Graphic", an episode with Creator/WillWheaton and Creator/ChristopherLloyd. Neither did it.
** Another exception is Series/BillNyeTheScienceGuy getting called in as a consultant, and the criminal was someone completely unrelated.
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* NightmareFuel:
** ''Prime Suspect'' features a parents' worst nightmare when a math genius's daughter getting kidnapped and the kidnappers demanding that he use his possible solution to an old math problem. The team is forced to make up a solution of their own when Egan's doesn't pan out. [[spoiler:Luckily, they are able to rescue the girl in the nick of time]].
** The episode ''Scorched'' which featured a bombing and showed a close up of the burned remains of a bombing victim.
** ''Thirteen'', featuring a serial killer who was copying the murder of Jesus' apostles, and who horrifically tortured his victims before killing them. In the most extreme example, the victim was kept alive (and in horrible pain) for ''three weeks'' to imitate a story where an apostle "miraculously survived".
** The torture scene in "Trust Metric" is a PsychologicalHorror version of this trope. We don't see major physical damage inflicted, but there's something extremely creepy about the way Mason Lancer carries out the torture of [[spoiler:Colby]] with virtually no affect at all, asking questions and describing what he intends to do to [[spoiler:Colby]] in a tone so blasé that he could be talking about the weather, really putting the "Cold-Blooded" in ColdBloodedTorture, and it just makes him so much more terrifying.
** ''Prime Suspect'' features a parents' worst nightmare when a math genius's daughter getting kidnapped and the kidnappers demanding that he use his possible solution to an old math problem. The team is forced to make up a solution of their own when Egan's doesn't pan out. [[spoiler:Luckily, they are able to rescue the girl in the nick of time]].
** The episode ''Scorched'' which featured a bombing and showed a close up of the burned remains of a bombing victim.
** ''Thirteen'', featuring a serial killer who was copying the murder of Jesus' apostles, and who horrifically tortured his victims before killing them. In the most extreme example, the victim was kept alive (and in horrible pain) for ''three weeks'' to imitate a story where an apostle "miraculously survived".
** The torture scene in "Trust Metric" is a PsychologicalHorror version of this trope. We don't see major physical damage inflicted, but there's something extremely creepy about the way Mason Lancer carries out the torture of [[spoiler:Colby]] with virtually no affect at all, asking questions and describing what he intends to do to [[spoiler:Colby]] in a tone so blasé that he could be talking about the weather, really putting the "Cold-Blooded" in ColdBloodedTorture, and it just makes him so much more terrifying.
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* DiagnosedByTheAudience: Charlie is a highly sensitive individual who responds to trauma by going into a HeroicBSOD, has some very quirky mannerisms (such as his Charlie Vision), and is clearly a savant whose character is at least partially inspired by Film/RainMan. This has convinced much of the fandom that he is on the autism spectrum.
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* {{Tearjerker}}:
** Whenever the family talks about Margaret Eppes, who died of cancer before the start of the series.
** The season 3 episode "Provenance", where character Erica Hellerman has to keep reliving traumatic memories of the Holocaust while trying to regain possession of the painting that was once owned by her family before the Nazis took them away.
** When Charlie was so lost that he couldn't do his usual math when Amita is in danger in ''Angels and Devils''.
** Before that, his reaction to when Don is stabbed in ''The Fifth Man''.
** Whenever the family talks about Margaret Eppes, who died of cancer before the start of the series.
** The season 3 episode "Provenance", where character Erica Hellerman has to keep reliving traumatic memories of the Holocaust while trying to regain possession of the painting that was once owned by her family before the Nazis took them away.
** When Charlie was so lost that he couldn't do his usual math when Amita is in danger in ''Angels and Devils''.
** Before that, his reaction to when Don is stabbed in ''The Fifth Man''.
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** Many fics depict Charlie as a DistressedDude and Don coming to his rescue and/or being [[BigBrotherInstinct protective]] of his little brother.
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** Though it was never said on the show, there quite a few fics that show that Alan called Margaret "Maggie" when she was alive.
** Though it was never said on the show, there quite a few fics that show that Alan called Margaret "Maggie" when she was alive.
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* MagnificentBastard: "[[Recap/Numb3rsS05E12 Jacked]]" & "[[Recap/Numb3rsS06E09 Con Job]]": [[GentlemanThief John Buckley]] is a charismatic ConMan, thief and kidnapper. Buckley highjacks a tourist bus for a ransom and sends the FBI on a wild goose chase after the wrong bus to mask his activity. Buckley is able to counter nearly every move the FBI makes and manipulates them into doing what he says using a [[TheMole Mole]]. Buckley is also the master of the bluff, as while he abhors using actual violence against people, he will use a threat against his victims to get them to do what he says, including letting him escape. After his arrest, Buckley tricks his cellmate Maddox into copying his bus hostage plan when Maddox is released. This causes the FBI to come to Buckley for help in order to stop Maddox, which Buckley uses instead to help him both pull off the heist and escape. Eventually betraying his cohorts, Buckley is [[TheBadGuyWins able to get away with the money]] and even ends the episode with a video call to his [[FriendlyEnemy friendly enemies]] Dom and Charlie, that he's looking forward to another round.
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* TheScrappy: Nikki. She has a four-year degree from the streets of Compton, yo.
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* FanPreferredCouple: David/Colby. It seems like half of the fandom ships these two. {{Lampshaded}} jokingly by both characters in episodes in the fifth and sixth season. Especially in the sixth season, specifically the episode about the dating bet with Agent Betancourt and in the series finale.
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** The season 3 episode "Provenance", where character Erica Hellerman has to keep reliving traumatic memories of the Holocaust while trying to regain possession of the painting that was once owned by her family before the Nazis took them away.
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* UnconventionalLearningExperience: The show discusses math in every episode.
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* FridgeHorror: The police InternalAffairs detective in "[[Recap/Numb3rsS04E12 Power]]" has "covered over a thousand rape cases", and throughout the episode seems more determined to keep the police safe than to find the perpetrator. How many rapists are still free, and still on the job, because of her?
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* FridgeHorror: The police InternalAffairs detective in "[[Recap/Numb3rsS04E12 Power]]" has "covered over a thousand rape cases", and throughout cases". Throughout the episode she seems more determined to keep the police LAPD safe than to find the perpetrator.perpetrator, undermining the survivors at every turn. How many rapists are still free, and still on the job, because of her?
