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Harry goes out to finally complete his mission of wiping all humans off the face of the Earth with his doomsday device, while getting into a brawl with the town doctor that replaces him.

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  • The Ace: The new doctor is skilled in many areas and is loved by everyone.
  • Always Someone Better: The new town doctor is this to Harry.
  • Area 51: The US Army find Harry's spaceship out in the mountains and hull it back to Roswell, New Mexico.
  • Cliffhanger: Harry finds his ship missing just as government agents show up with orders to shoot to kill if he runs.
  • Discreet Drink Disposal: Harry does this with his wine glass while getting Isabelle drunk.
  • Fake Faint: Isabelle does this so that Harry thinks he's successfully drugged her. When he leaves the cabin, she tails him.
  • Good Cop/Bad Cop: When Sheriff Thompson and Liv Baker have to interview a stoner kid at the school, Thompson suggests that they play good cop / bad cop but then tells Baker to "stand guard" outside. He then enters the classroom and plays both roles himself in a bizarrely amusing sequence that ends with Thompson telling Baker that he couldn't break the kid and that the kid could work for the CIA.
  • Hideous Hangover Cure: D'Arcy's "Breakfast Special" is whiskey with a raw egg cracked into it. She's shown drinking it herself after waking up in her bar (which she does a couple of times a week).
  • IKEA Erotica: Discussed. When he shares a cup of coffee with her in the morning, Harry describes everything he and his wife are going to do in the sack in meticulous, mechanical detail with a deadpan tone, gradually boring her. Then the sedative kicks in and Isabelle crashes to the floor.
  • Not Staying for Breakfast: A literal example. After spending the night with the new doctor, Darcy grabs her plate and leaves the disappointed Ethan.
  • Oh, Crap!: Harry when he realizes his ship is missing.
  • See the Invisible: David uses spray to make Harry's cloaked spacecraft visible.
  • Stalling the Sip: When Harry tries to drug Isabelle towards the end of the episode, she is raising the coffee pot to her mouth a couple of times but always stops before taking the sip.
  • String Theory: Deputy Liv leads her own private investigation of the murder case with a corkboard and strings in her office.
  • Wham Shot: The general, upon seeing Harry's ship, pulls an old snapshot out of her pocket, revealing she was the little girl seen in the episode's prologue.
  • Yank the Dog's Chain: Harry pulls this on Max (and Max doesn't even appear in this episode). After having agreed to a truce with Max, Harry tried to tell Ben to call off the Georgia trip to dump Max in a mental institute there. Ben gets angry and starts chiding Harry for misdiagnosing his son, so when the new doctor Ethan offers to make his own conclusion on Max, Harry out of jealousy rescinds his claim and throws Max under the bus.

 
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Here Comes the Heat

In "Sexy Beast" from "Resident Alien," Sheriff Mike decides to take on the role of both good cop and bad cop when interrogating a stoner teenager. Hilarity ensues, but it does not get the results he hoped for.

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