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3 | A piece of sheet music left behind by a dead agent holds the clue that agents West and Pike need to trap a departmental traitor. Their search for answers leads them to the Secret Service training academy. |
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6 | !!Tropes present in this episode: |
7 | * TheConvenientStoreNextDoor |
8 | * CounterfeitCash: Thorpe insists the cash his gang is printing is perfectly legitimate. After all, all he plans to do is turn back the counters at the mint for a while so his currency will have identical serial numbers to the official bills--and no one will ever know... |
9 | * DeathCourse: "The Living Room", a section of the academy that tests trainees with multiple {{Booby Trap}}s. The villain confines Jim in the room after arming the traps with real ammo. |
10 | * EveryoneKnowsMorse: [[PlayingWithATrope Played With]]. Dorman tries to tip off the academy about the traitor by hiding a clue in a song he writes, "Two-Faced Stranger in the Garden". Eventually, Jeremy figures out that when you play the melody backwards at high speed, it becomes a Morse Code message that reveals the villain's plan. |
11 | * FairCop: Myra Bates (Gail Billings), an agent who helps Jim and Jeremy investigate Dorman's song early in the episode. |
12 | * FunnyForeigner: Jeremy poses as Baron Esterhauser, an eccentric European dignitary, so he can poke around the academy. |
13 | * GadgeteerGenius: Professor Montague (Arthur Malet), whose specialty is creating weapons disguised as ordinary objects. He's basically a 19th century version of [[Franchise/JamesBond Q]]. |
14 | * HighClassGlass: Part of Jeremy's Baron Esterhauser disguise. |
15 | * HisNameIs: A variation. The recording that Dorman leaves is damaged at the point he's about to name the villain ("I found out who the traitor is--[[BrokenRecord the traitor is--the traitor is...]]"). |
16 | * LatexPerfection: A slight case: Pike protects himself from the sedating handstamp with an undetectable skin-like glove. |
17 | * MoneyToBurn: Jim and Jeremy light up a stack of counterfeit bills at the end of the episode. |
18 | * MotiveRant: The traitor, Alan Thorpe (Jack Carter), says he was motivated by his jealousy of top agents like Jim. He practically begs Jim to tell him [[DudeWheresMyRespect how clever his plan is]]. |
19 | * RaceAgainstTheClock: Jim and Jeremy learn the traitor is going to make his move on August 18th--and that's all they know. Too bad they don't get this information until August 17th... |
20 | * RealMenWearPink: The academy trainees wear pink shirts. |
21 | * ScreamingWarrior: One of Thorpe's {{Mooks}} lets out some lusty yells while attacking Jim. |
22 | * WoundedGazelleGambit: Two examples. |
23 | ** When he first rigs the Living Room traps with real ammo, Thorpe makes sure he gets [[OnlyAFleshWound a flesh wound]] to take himself off the suspect list. |
24 | ** Later, Jeremy pretends to fall unconscious from the sedating handstamp, but "revives" when Jim needs his help. |
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