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* CoolGun: Laskey's Sig-Sauer GSR, a expensive [=M1911A1=] clone and a suitable gun for a DirtyCop. Pity it's unregistered and when Carter learns this she exploits it fully.
** Shaw gets in on the act, when her normal Heckler and Koch USP compact is lost after she gets stuffed into a car trunk by the Russian mobsters, she appropriates a Jericho 941 handgun and later a Mossberg 590 shotgun for storming the drug factory.



* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Carter obtained Laskey's unregistered CoolGun and used it to kill his associate and blackmail him to become her mole in HR.

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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Carter obtained Laskey's unregistered CoolGun gun and used it to kill his associate and blackmail him to become her mole in HR.
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* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: With her normal WeaponOfChoice lost, Shaw breaks out a Mossberg 590 in order to tear through the drug factory and recover Gen.

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* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: With her normal WeaponOfChoice weapon lost, Shaw breaks out a Mossberg 590 in order to tear through the drug factory and recover Gen.

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* CalmingTea: Finch offers to discuss her issues over tea. Shaw isn't interested.



* SpotOfTea: Finch offers to discuss her issues over tea. Shaw isn't interested.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: See TheSociopath. Also all the spy work Gen engages in.
* TwoShotsFromBehindTheBar
* WardrobeWound
* WeAreEverywhere: Simmons tells Reese there are thousands in HR.
* WorkingTheSameCase: Reese and Carter
* WorkingTitle: "[=PA37ABOP=]", which is ''almost'' the Russian word "Разговор" ("Razgovor").[[note]]it's not Cyrillic letters, but the letters from the Latin alphabet which look the most like the actual Cyrillic letters[[/note]]. The title means "talk" or "discussion".
** FanNickname: Until it was revealed that the title was in Cyrillic, the fans in at least one discussion forum were calling the episode "Pastabop."
** EpilepticTrees: One fan speculated that "[=PA37ABOP=]" was a coded reference to something found at Exit 37 off the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

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* %%* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: See TheSociopath. Also all the spy work Gen engages in.
* %%* TwoShotsFromBehindTheBar
* %%* WardrobeWound
* %%* WeAreEverywhere: Simmons tells Reese there are thousands in HR.
* %%* WorkingTheSameCase: Reese and Carter
* WorkingTitle: "[=PA37ABOP=]", which is ''almost'' the Russian word "Разговор" ("Razgovor").[[note]]it's not Cyrillic letters, but the letters from the Latin alphabet which look the most like the actual Cyrillic letters[[/note]]. The title means "talk" or "discussion".
** FanNickname: Until it was revealed that the title was in Cyrillic, the fans in at least one discussion forum were calling the episode "Pastabop."
** EpilepticTrees: One fan speculated that "[=PA37ABOP=]" was a coded reference to something found at Exit 37 off the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
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* BrickJoke: Finch still can't find the bug Shaw put in his office.

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* BrickJoke: Near atart of the episode, Shaw tells Finch still can't find she bugged his office. At the end of the episode:
--->'''Finch:''' Now, about that
bug Shaw put in his office.my library...
--->'''Shaw:''' ''(Smugly)'' Haven't found it yet, have you?
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* CassandraTruth: Gen claims the reason she's being targeted is because she's a spy, Shaw doesn't believe her, but the fact that she's bugged much of her building is really the reason.
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* BluffTheImposter: Defied, a suspicious Gen suggests "Agent Cross" normally handles her case, but Shaw realizes there's no such person.

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** Carter turns Laskey using the same technique Reese used on Fusco in "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS01E01 Pilot]]."

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** Carter turns Laskey using the same technique Reese used on Fusco in "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS01E01 Pilot]]."" - killing a DirtyCop friend of his using his own gun.


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* Determinator: Shaw, even while shot and bleeding out and Finch insists that she see a doctor, won't stop until Gen is saved.


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--->'''Yogorov:''' Cops might kill a kid. My people have standards.
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** Genrika pokes Shaw [[Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles because she might be a robot]].

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** Genrika pokes Shaw [[Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles because she might be a robot]]. Shaw also does a OneHandedShotgunPump like Sarah Connor in ''Terminator 2''.
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* SnoopingLittleKid: Why Gen's number comes up.
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Meanwhile, Carter is spying on HR, knowing that until she's identified their real leader, the most she can possibly do is temporarily weaken them. Unfortunately, HR is spying on her as well

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Meanwhile, Carter is spying on HR, knowing that until she's identified their real leader, the most she can possibly do is temporarily weaken them. Unfortunately, HR is spying on her as well
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* MuggingTheMonster: Come on Laskey, did you seriously think you could intimidate a BadAss, highly experienced cop who's survived working with a mysterious billionaire and a ex-CIA assassin for the past two years? Guess again.

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* MuggingTheMonster: Come on Laskey, did you seriously think you could intimidate a BadAss, badass, highly experienced cop who's survived working with a mysterious billionaire and a ex-CIA assassin for the past two years? Guess again.
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** Genrika pokes Shaw [[Series/TheSarahConnorChronicles because she might be a robot]].

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** Genrika pokes Shaw [[Series/TheSarahConnorChronicles [[Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles because she might be a robot]].



** EpilepticTrees: One fan speculated that "[=PA37ABOP=]" was a coded reference to something found at Exit 37 off the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

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** EpilepticTrees: One fan speculated that "[=PA37ABOP=]" was a coded reference to something found at Exit 37 off the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

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* ShoutOut: At the end when Finch gets Gen into a nice private school, Shaw notes that not every kids "[[Franchise/{{Batman}} gets to be the ward of a reclusive billionaire.]]" Also ''Harriet the Spy'', as mentioned in MeaningfulName.

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* ShoutOut: At the end when Finch gets Gen into a nice private school, Shaw notes that not every kids "[[Franchise/{{Batman}} gets to be the ward of a reclusive billionaire.]]" Also ''Harriet the Spy'', ]]"
** ''Literature/HarrietTheSpy'',
as mentioned in MeaningfulName.MeaningfulName.
** Genrika pokes Shaw [[Series/TheSarahConnorChronicles because she might be a robot]].

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