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* CoolGuns: Root uses a fully automatic Glock 18 machine pistol which allows her to even the playing field with Collier's numerically superior hit-squad.
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* PublicSecretMessage: Vigilance uses the lockups to pass on messages, [[InvisibleWriting written on the wall in infrared paint]].

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* PublicSecretMessage: PublicSecretMessage / DeadDrop: Vigilance uses the lockups to pass on messages, [[InvisibleWriting written on the wall in infrared paint]].
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* HomoeroticSubtext: Lots of FoeYay between Shaw and Root, with the two women leaning close and [[HeldGaze staring intently at each other]] whenever Shaw threatens Root's life.

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* HomoeroticSubtext: Lots of FoeYay tension between Shaw and Root, with the two women leaning close and [[HeldGaze staring intently at each other]] whenever Shaw threatens Root's life.
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* TrustPassword: Several of these, by both CIA and Root.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Reese's deadpan response to Shaw's [[FanNickname Refrigerator of Mass Destruction]].
* VanInBlack: Vigilance, but averted with the CIA truck, which is an innocuous delivery truck from a fruit company.

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* %%* TrustPassword: Several of these, by both CIA and Root.
* %%* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Reese's deadpan response to Shaw's [[FanNickname Refrigerator of Mass Destruction]].
* VanInBlack: Vigilance, but averted with the CIA truck, which is an innocuous delivery truck from a fruit company.
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* DramaticAmmoDepletion: Root may have brought enough firepower to effectively take on the Vigilance hit squad but she didn't bring any spare magazines which becomes quite problematic when the hit squad corners her after she runs out of ammo for her Glock 18.



* RealityEnsues: Root may have brought enough firepower to effectively take on the Vigilance hit squad but she didn't bring any spare magazines which becomes quite problematic when the hit squad corners her after she runs out of ammo for her Glock 18.
** Later Shaw proves that for all of her use of surprise and a taser, in a head on confrontation, Root goes down like any normal non-military trained civilian would to a simple punch to the face.
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The undercover member mentioned in the coded Vigilance message isn't Root, it's the man who disabled the CIA transport with the paint bomb


* UnwittingPawn: The coded message from Vigilance refers to an undercover member of their organisation who will assist in the hit. That member turns out to be Root, acting on behalf of a Machine that's the antithesis of everything Vigilance stands for.

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* AltumVidetur / BilingualBonus: the title is Latin for "premature death."


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* GratuitousLatin: the title is Latin for "premature death."
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** Having the Machine as MissionControl makes it easy for Root to be this. She makes sure there's a conveniently hidden gun in a specific location the same location where Peter Collier and a Vigilance hit squad are trying to take out a target the Machine wants saved.

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** Having the Machine as MissionControl makes it easy for Root to be this. She makes sure there's a conveniently hidden gun in a specific location location; the same location where Peter Collier and a Vigilance hit squad are trying planning to take out a target the Machine wants saved.
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* EmptyFridgeEmptyLife: Shaw's fridge is full of guns, ammo and some milk.
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* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Vigilance uses a coded message drop to avoid the [[BigBrotherIsWatchingYou ubiquitous surveillance]] of the series.

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!Mors Praematura

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!Mors Praematura
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* AltumVidetur / BilingualBonus: the title is Latin for "premature death."



* BilingualBonus: the title is Latin for "premature death."

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!!Tropes present in this episode include

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* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Root places dark glasses on Shaw before she uses the thermal lance. "Safety first."
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* YouWontLikeMeWhenImAngry / DeusEstMachina
-->'''Root:''' You're going against the Machine's wishes by keeping me here, Harold. You're only gonna make her angry. Can you imagine what a being that powerful will do when she's angry?

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* YouWontLikeMeWhenImAngry / DeusEstMachina
YouWontLikeMeWhenImAngry
-->'''Root:''' You're going against the Machine's wishes by keeping me here, Harold. You're only gonna make her angry. [[DeusEstMachina Can you imagine what a being that powerful will do when she's angry?angry?]]
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Reese's deadpan response to Shaw's [[WallOfWeapons Refrigerator of Mass Destruction]].

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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Reese's deadpan response to Shaw's [[WallOfWeapons [[FanNickname Refrigerator of Mass Destruction]].
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** Unfortunately Vigilance have a system for destroying evidence and snoopers wired into their message drop site.

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** Unfortunately Vigilance have a system for destroying evidence and snoopers wired into their message drop site.
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* ConvenientlyCellmates: Greenfield is placed in the cell next to Root.
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* GunpointBanter: Reese and Collier, justified because Reese is trying to take Collier alive, while Collier has Sloan as a HumanShield.

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