Recently, strange events have happenend in Duckburg: several, seemingly unrelated people had sudden moments of rage when they lashed at their surroundings. And when Paperinik notices a new urban work supervised by Anymore Boring, Everett's right hand man, and a man in green observing these events, he decides that it's time to check out what's going on.
- Big Brother Is Watching: The ending reveal that Everett's devices installed all over the city allow him to spy on the people of Duckburg and read their thoughts. Becomes Properly Paranoid when is revealed it was a way to find Korinna.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: The crux of the episode: it's revealed that the people who went mad were former employees of Everett, who hid a special microchip in their heads which allows him to force them to obey a certain set of orders he can give them in advance.
- Call-Back: While showing his collection of urban legends to PK, Professor Squarie mentions "Emotion-sucking Vampire Aliens", referring to the Evronians.
- Cutting the Knot: In the climax, PK cannot approach Squarie without he blowing himself up, nor he can allow Birgit and her men to just shoot him. So he uses the extensible arm of Extransformer to snatch the trigger from the professor.
- Dating Catwoman: Downplayed, though even if they're on opposite sides, Birgit does throw a flirtatious line or two at PK, who even jokes that "this could be the beginning of a great love story".
- A Day in the Limelight: Birgit Q gets a lot of focus in this story.
- Enemy Mine: Paperinik is a "persona non grata" on Everett's book, and Birgit is Everett's right hand woman. They still end up working together to stop the crazied people.
- Hostage Situation: The case in the subway has a teacher armed with a gun keeping an entire class of children hostage. Thank goodness he was "programmed" to not harm the hostages.
- Madness Mantra: Professor Squarie ends up repeating "At 18:00 the bomb explodes" ad nauseam when PK finds him. He switches to "The bomb explodes now!" when the duck tries to approach him.
- The Matchmaker: A secondary plot has Rupert Potomac asking PK to help him choose a gift for Stella. She initally gets offended when the last-second gift is revealed to be a wrinkle pomade, but PK fixes things by claiming that it's actually a way to say that he's willing to stay with her and support her even in old age.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Played for Laughs, when Angus realizes that he has given open support to Paperinik, he sulks away, claiming that his career is over.
- Hidden in Plain Sight: The mind-reading surveillance system devised by Everett is deployed in plain sight as if it's some sort of urban renewal project.
- Nice Guy: Professor Squarie is incredibly polite and helpful towards PK and is nice enough to offer tea to PK when the latter tries to infiltrate his room. Too bad he also carries one of the microchips and nearly blows himself and the university up.
- Noodle Incident: Near the end, Birgit mentions to herself a mission involving a Gallium Mine Crisis, which apparently involved several victims.
- One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Downplayed, though in the beginning Rupert is talking to Donald about his present to Stella, while Donald is thinking about Ducklair's recent works. He ultimately says out loud that this story must end, while a confused Rupert tells him that it hasn't even begun.
- Red Herring: Turns out the entire brainwashing microchips plot was a distraction set by Everett so that he and Boring could carry on the real plan to install the mind-reading sensitive cameras all over the city. Birgit is not happy to find this out.
- Shout-Out: In this volume, seeing Birgit with her battle vest on makes clear that she's meant to be a duck-version of Konoko.
- There Was a Door: Once PK learns of the microchips, he's furious enough to crash into Everett's studio from the window. Everett even makes a pun about it near the end.
- Wham Line: Midway through, after Birgit agrees to work with PK and shows concern for the mysterious brainwashed people, she turns around and smirks something that makes her true intentions clear."Mum was right, I should have been an actress..."
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Professor Squarie seemed a Cool Old Guy and a potential ally. Unfortunately, he's not seen again, nor mentioned.
- Why Am I Ticking?: Non-lethal example, (though it does lead a couple of them to try and blow themselves up): the people who went berserk were grafted with a microchip in their heads, and said chip can force them to behave in a scripted way.
