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** Any time the action slows down enough, the two get great dramatic moments.
* HilariousInHindsight: All three of the show's leads ended up in major roles on 2015 NBC shows. They haven't crossed over though.
** Richard Armitage played ArcVillain Francis Dolarhyde on Series/Hannibal.
** Sullivan Stapleton landed the male lead role on Series/Blindspot.
** Philip Winchester got the lead role on Series/ThePlayer.
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* HeReallyCanAct: Stapleton and Winchester get to really stretch their dramatic chops in Project Dawn Episode 9, when Scott quits and Stonebridge has to talk him down.
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* HoYay: Scott and Stonebridge have plenty of this trope. By ''Legacy'', they're told that they'd make a cute couple and are asked which one would wear the dress at their hypothetical wedding.
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* HoYay: Scott and Stonebridge have plenty of this trope. By ''Legacy'', they're told that they'd make a cute couple and are asked which one would wear the dress at their hypothetical wedding.
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* HoYay: Scott and Stonebridge. The former even [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] a particularly choice exchange.
** Dalton also hangs a lampshade on this shortly after meeting them.
** ''Shadow Warfare'' begins with them on vacation together, [[BookEnds and ends]] with them on the road together.
*** At one point, while they're being tortured, Scott apologizes to Stonebridge - "I'm sorry Mikey. I gotta do this. All the love, you know that, right?" - before mouthing off to a druglord.
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** And then horribly averted when many recurring characters are suddenly and unceremoniously KilledOffForReal. [[note]]By the time Series 4 ends, every single officer in Section 20 is dead with the exception of Locke.[[/note]]

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** And then horribly averted when many recurring characters are suddenly and unceremoniously KilledOffForReal. [[note]]By the time Series 4 ends, every single officer in Section 20 is dead with the exception of Locke. Apart from the Dynamic Duo, Richmond is the ''only'' character from Series 2 who is still alive.[[/note]]
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* FoeYay: Leatherby makes a pretty unsubtle pass at Stonebridge in the third episode of ''Shadow Warfare.''
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** And then horribly averted when many recurring characters are suddenly and unceremoniously KilledOffForReal.

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** And then horribly averted when many recurring characters are suddenly and unceremoniously KilledOffForReal. [[note]]By the time Series 4 ends, every single officer in Section 20 is dead with the exception of Locke.[[/note]]

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** ''Shadow Warfare'' begins with them on vacation together.

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** ''Shadow Warfare'' begins with them on vacation together.together, [[BookEnds and ends]] with them on the road together.
*** At one point, while they're being tortured, Scott apologizes to Stonebridge - "I'm sorry Mikey. I gotta do this. All the love, you know that, right?" - before mouthing off to a druglord.


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**[[spoiler: Leo Kamali]] from ''Shadow Warfare'', who proves himself to be one helluva GambitSpeedChess master, with everyone dancing to his tune (and he dancing around them), who also managed to stay as TheManBehindTheMan right until the last episode.
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Stonebridge catching a bomb out of midair in the second episode. ItMakesSenseInContext.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Andrew Lincoln as Collinson in series 1/''Origins'', which aired on [=Sky1=] in May 2010. ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' premiered on AMC that October.

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* RetroactiveRecognition: Andrew Lincoln as Collinson in series 1/''Origins'', which aired on [=Sky1=] in May 2010. ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' premiered on AMC that October.on Halloween of the same year.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Andrew Lincoln as Collinson in series 1/''Origins''.

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* RetroactiveRecognition: Andrew Lincoln as Collinson in series 1/''Origins''.1/''Origins'', which aired on [=Sky1=] in May 2010. ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' premiered on AMC that October.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Andrew Lincoln as Collinson in series 1/''Origins''.
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** In the final episode of '"Shadow Warfare'', Locke agrees to exchange Stonebridge and Scott for the BigBad with a Russian mobster... and then it turns out he has snipers ready to kill the mobster as soon as the exchange is complete.
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* MagnificentBastard: Conrad Knox, from the beginning of the season he has complete control of the situation with Section 20 several steps behind him.
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** And then horribly averted when many recurring characters are suddenly and unceremoniously KilledOffForReal.
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** ''Shadow Warfare'' begins with them on vacation together.
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* CompleteMonster: The African warlord from the fifth and sixth episodes.
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** Dalton also hangs a lampshade on this. Leads to Scott ComicallyMissingThePoint.

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** Dalton also hangs a lampshade on this. Leads to Scott ComicallyMissingThePoint.this shortly after meeting them.

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* HoYay: Scott and Stonebridge. The former even [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] it once.

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* HoYay: Scott and Stonebridge. The former even [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] it once.a particularly choice exchange.
** Dalton also hangs a lampshade on this. Leads to Scott ComicallyMissingThePoint.
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* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: It's extremely unlikely that a certain character was blown to pieces at the end of an episode. That said, some credit is due for the "next time" promos acting like they would.

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* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: It's extremely unlikely that a certain character was blown to pieces at the end of an episode. That said, some credit is due for the "next time" promos acting like they would.would.
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* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: It's extremely unlikely that a certain character was blown to pieces at the end of an episode. That said, some credit is due for the "next time" promos acting like they would.
* ValuesDissonance: Accused of this by a few critics.

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* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: It's extremely unlikely that a certain character was blown to pieces at the end of an episode. That said, some credit is due for the "next time" promos acting like they would.
* ValuesDissonance: Accused of this by a few critics.
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Stonebridge catching a bomb out of midair in the second episode. ItMakesSenseInContext.
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* HoYay: Scott and Stonebridge. The former even invokes it once.

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* HoYay: Scott and Stonebridge. The former even invokes [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] it once.
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* HoYay: Scott and Stonebridge. The former even invokes it once.
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* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: It's extremely unlikely that [[spoiler:Scott]] was killed by the blast at the end of episode 3. That said, some credit is due for the "next time" promos acting like they would.

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* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: It's extremely unlikely that [[spoiler:Scott]] a certain character was killed by the blast blown to pieces at the end of episode 3.an episode. That said, some credit is due for the "next time" promos acting like they would.
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* ValuesDissonance: Accused of this by a few critics.
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* CompleteMonster: The African warlord from the fifth and sixth episodes.
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* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: It's extremely unlikely that [[spoiler:Scott]] was killed by the blast at the end of episode 3.

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* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: It's extremely unlikely that [[spoiler:Scott]] was killed by the blast at the end of episode 3. That said, some credit is due for the "next time" promos acting like they would.
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* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: It's extremely unlikely that [[spoiler:Scott]] was killed by the blast at the end of episode 3.

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