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* CoolGuns: Loads of them in this episode as all sides break out the heavy artillery. They include a KRISS Vector used by Reese, a Spectre M4 and [=MP5K's=] by Elias' hitmen, and a SPAS-12 shotgun and an FN F2000 bullpup rifle by Carter.
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* CastingGag: Don Zambrano is [[Series/TheSopranos Johnny Sack.]]
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* KillEmAll: Elias would rather kill the Five Dons rather than work with them, as he wants to seize total control of organised crime in New York.
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* RevealShot: Used when a cop shows up to pick up Carter's son; the camera pans up to show Scarface.
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* MuggingTheMonster: Zambarno really shouldn't have gone for Fusco's back up revolver and expected to be able to force the two badass cops trying to keep him alive to let Elias in.

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* MuggingTheMonster: Zambarno Zambrano really shouldn't have gone for Fusco's back up revolver and expected to be able to force the two badass cops trying to keep him alive to let Elias in.
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* AdultFear: Finch informs Simmons that the man who has his wife and daughter under surveillance has prior convictions...including rape.

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* NotSoDifferent: Elias points out to Reese that they are both killers.

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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: Elias points out to Reese that they are both killers.



* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Young Elias to Moretti's men when he finds out they've been told to kill him. Combined with BadassBoast.



** Unlike most examples of this trope, this is TruthInTelevision. Speakers and microphones work on the same fundamental principles, and [[http://www.zyra.org.uk/sp-mic.htm speakers can be converted into (admittedly not very effective) microphones by simply connecting the speaker cable to a microphone input.]]

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** Unlike most examples of this trope, this is TruthInTelevision. Speakers and microphones work on the same fundamental principles, and [[http://www.zyra.org.uk/sp-mic.htm speakers can be converted into (admittedly not very effective) microphones by simply connecting the speaker cable to a microphone input.]]]] Finch even mentions that it's very crude.



* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Young Elias to Moretti's men when he finds out they've been told to kill him. Combined with BadassBoast.

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* DisconnectedByDeath: The car bomb that kills the Morettis at the end of the episode is marked by the line going dead on Elias' cell phone.



* EvilOldFolks: All of the Don's besides Moretti Jr. are in their late fifties to their seventies.

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* EvilOldFolks: All of the Don's Dons besides Moretti Jr. are in their late fifties to their seventies.


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* ListOfTransgressions: Remarked on; when Carter finally arrests Elias at the end of the episode, she says she'll have to check her notes for a list of charges, with murder and kidnapping at the top of the list.
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* BodyguardBetrayal:
** When Carter goes to pick up Don Basile, her backup cops abandon her.
** The Mafia's bodyguards abandon them to Elias, prompting Carter to take them hostage.


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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Don Caparelli is dismissive of Don Moretti's fate, considering the murder of Elias' mother by Don Moretti poor taste.
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* ForWantOfANail: In-universe, Elias wonders what he would have been like if his mother hadn't been murdered.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Don Zambrano repeatedly expresses a lack of concern about Elias or confidence that he can deal in him and is indeed the mans partner.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Don Zambrano repeatedly expresses a lack of concern about Elias or confidence that he can deal in him and is indeed the mans man's partner.



* ISurrenderSuckers: Played with; Elias ''does'' surrender, but he leaves a contingency plan in the form of Scarface taking out Elias' hated father and half-brother with a car bomb.



* TheMafia: Gets a much bigger focus in this episode than any other.
* ManlyTears: Elias weeps when he realizes his own father has set him up to be killed. [[EmpathicEnvironment Then it starts raining]].



* TheMafia: Gets a much bigger focus in this episode than any other.
* ManlyTears: Elias weeps when he realizes his own father has set him up to be killed. [[EmpathicEnvironment Then it starts raining]].
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* WhamEpisode: Elias is arrested, but not without killing the Morettis in one last car explosion.

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