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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.

Context Recap / TheWildWildWestS4E18TheNightOfTheJanus