While still having mild wounds from the avalanche incident from the last two episodes, Harry still works on completing his Doomsday Device by finding a new power core.
Tropes
- Alien Abduction: We learn that aliens do abduct people, and once even took an unborn baby from its mother's womb somehow. At a UFO conference numerous people talk about being abducted and other encounters with aliens. Given this, at least some of their accounts are probably true.
- All Myths Are True: Harry confirms to Asta at the UFO conference all the reported aliens do exist (his people didn't get seen before apparently).
- As Himself: Giorgio A. Tsoukalos (of Ancient Aliens fame) is at the alien convention that Harry and Asta attend.
- Bathroom Search Excuse: Lisa asks to use the "powder room" as an excuse to sneak off and search Max's room.
- Chekhov's Gun: In "The Green Glow," when Harry again broke into Max's room, Max told him that he couldn't just sneak in there and that he was going to install cameras. In this episode, we see that sure enough, he did install cameras, except that instead of capturing Harry on camera, they instead capture Lisa Casper going through his stuff and finding the piece of Harry's spaceship hidden in a candy box.
- "Eureka!" Moment: Sheriff Mike Thompson finally has one regarding the murder of Dr. Sam Hodges. It was his wife who murdered him with Botulinum toxin, as his wife runs a nail and hair salon that uses plenty of Botulinum for cosmetics, and she poisoned her husband Sam with it because she was having an affair and wanted to separate from him. He checks her call logs and finds numerous calls to the guy she was having an affair with well before Sam Hodges's death. He then promptly goes to the salon to find Abigail Hodges, explains out her motives and arrests her.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Harry is hellbent on the genocide of the human race, but even he's disgusted by The Greys abducting humans. He uses the term "insidious assholes" to describe the Greys, and does not take well to Peter Bach calling him a Grey.
- Fan Convention: Max sends Harry and Asta to a UFO convention in New Mexico.
- The Greys: They don't appear other than in mimicking art form made by people for the Alien Convention, but they are responsible for having getting Harry attacked by a vengeful alien-hunting man who blames aliens for the abduction of his son. From this episode we see that the Greys can freeze time and abduct humans including a human fetus in its third trimester right out of their mother's womb. Harry also explains that the Greys install microchips into other life forms as tracking devices, with one chip having the capacity to restore Harry's Doomsday Device.
- Groin Attack: The supposed female abductee does so to Harry when he tries to cut an "implant" out of her arm. (In truth, there is no implant and the woman was lying about having been abducted.)
- Handshake Refusal: The sheriff refuses to shake hands with the mayor.
- Hidden Depths: The sheriff turns out to have a lovely singing voice.
- Humanoid Aliens: Harry gives Asta a running commentary on what many of these kinds of aliens are like:
- The Greys (Insidious assholes).
- The Arcturians (Jerks. So cheap).
- The Little Green Men: Harry says they're very cute.
- The Mantis (One of them owes Harry money).
- The Blue Avians (They're actually very nice).
- Hypocrite: When Max learns that Harry revealed his secret to Astra, even though it was an accident caused by circumstances beyond his control, Max is mad because he thought it was their secret. Harry however quickly points out to Max that he shared the secret first with his friend Sahar.
- I Lied: One woman who claims to have been abducted by The Greys and had a microchip put into her arm explains her encounter at the Alien Convention along with an X-ray of her neck. Harry, needing that chip for his device and ship, stalks her and tries to cut it out with a knife. The woman panicking for her life admits to Harry that she made up the story just for publicity (though after Harry confirms that the Greys do indeed microchip and abduct humans, there is a possibility she could've been honest). Harry buys it, giving her enough time to knee him and run away then try to rat him out to the security guards - who refuse to budge.
- Insane Troll Logic: Peter Bach tells Harry that he can't allow Harry to remove the micro-chip that The Greys installed in his neck because Bach says that when the Greys return for him, then Bach might have a chance of reuniting with his son whom he never saw. Harry is confused for a few seconds wondering what makes Bach think the Greys will return, then tells him the Greys only wanted his son and that the chip the Greys put in him is merely a migration tracking device. He then extracts the chip out of Bach's neck.
- Instant Birth: Just Add Labor!: Played with in the opening Alien Abduction scene. The woman breaks water right before her baby is being taken from her womb.
- Internal Reveal: D'arcy finds the real Harry's body in the freezer (by breaking into his basement).
- Irony: One woman at the Alien Convention had a microchip put into her arm by aliens. She then goes to take a photo pretending to dissect a Grey alien. Later on, Harry explains that the Greys are the "insidious assholes" who go around abducting people and putting tracking chips into them, thus that woman was an experiment of the Greys herself (though she admits that she was lying when Harry attacks her).
- Karaoke Bonding Scene: Sheriff Mike joins his ex-Deputy Liv's rendition of "Wing Beneath My Wings," eventually dropping to one knee to offer her her badge back. She says yes.
- The Men in Black: Sahar asks Harry why he doesn't simply fly away from his spaceship and realizes from the look on his face that the government took it. She tells him that it could be any of a number of agencies, but that it's probably the Men in Black, though they're not all men and don't all wear black. He asks why they're called that then and she replies that it sounds better than "People in Clothes." Later, said "Men in Black" (Lisa Casper and David Logan) have dinner with Max's parents, posing as a married couple who are having problems having children and Lisa Casper sneaks into Max's room and discovers his piece of Harry's spaceship. Later, Max returns home and sees the incident on a recording on his computer.
- Miranda Rights: Sheriff Mike Thompson arrests Abigail Hodges for the murder of her husband, Dr. Sam Hodges and reads her rights as follows: "Anything you say can be used against you in a court of law. You got the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, I'd be surprised because this salon is bangin'."
- Misplaced Retribution: Peter Bach, an old man actively hunting aliens, attacks Harry thinking he had something to do with aliens abducting his unborn son. Harry tells him the Greys did that, not his kind.
- Mistaken for Afterlife: When Harry regains consciousness under a blanket on the sofa of his cabin, the influence of the morphine makes him believe to be in human heaven.. which he detests."Why does the afterlife look like a crappy cabin?"
- Non-Indicative Name: Harry gets confused after Max and Sahar tell him that The Men in Black don't necessarily dress in black, with some being women. This confuses him, naturally, so he asks why they're called that. Sahar retorts that it's cooler than saying "people in clothes".
- Oh, Crap!: Henry when he realizes Peter Bach has the same talent as Max to see through his human guise.
- Real-Person Cameo: Yup, that's Giorgio Tsoukalos at the UFO convention.
- Revealing Hug: Lisa Casper smiles knowingly when she hugs Max's mother while assuring her to "take such good care" of Max.
- Soap Punishment: Sahar threatens Harry with this if he doesn't stop swearing around her and Max. He tells her that he likes eating soap and swears a whole bunch more, telling her to bring it on.
- Special Guest: Terry O'Quinn gets the special guest billing for his role as Peter Bach.
- Status Quo Is God: Sheriff Mike reunites with Liv and reinstates her as Deputy, making up to her for his abrasive behavior that was what made her quit the police force.
- The Tell: Darcy can tell when Asta is lying.
- You Monster!: Peter Bach shouts "You're a monster!" at Harry for cutting the tracking device that the Greys implanted in him, robbing him of his last, albeit misguided, hope that they would return for him and he would get to see his child. For his part, Harry seems nonplussed, thinking to himself that there are no monsters and that beings do what they must to survive.
