Victor recruits Chase to intern at PRIDE to prove that they are nothing more than concerned parents, Chase is skeptical. Karolina discovers Frank is holding Leslie at a detention facility and tries to rescue her mom with Nico, Molly and Vaughn.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: Xavin takes Gert's form to approach Karolina, but she thinks Gert is off her meds.
- I Choose to Stay: Although Susan manages to regain a part of her identity and helps Leslie and Karolina escape, she still remains committed to the beliefs of the Church and chooses to stay which shows how years of indoctrination can't be undone in a just a few days.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: Leslie is subjected to sleep deprivation inside a white room.
- The Corrupter: The PRIDE parents manage to convince Chase of joining their organization.
- Crazy-Prepared: Frank sees through Karolina's deception and then locks her into a wooden cell, where her powers won't help her.
- The Fundamentalist: Sadly, Susan is too far gone to leave the Church alongside her daughter and granddaughter. Instead, she takes it over, her first course of action being putting Frank into a reconditioning room.
- Hannibal Lecture: Leslie delivers one to Frank. Points for her to do so under the debilitating effects of sleep deprivation.
- Hazy-Feel Turn: While it isn't portrayed as an outright Face–Heel Turn (yet), Chase still joins up with PRIDE.
- Hopeless Suitor: Vaughn, throughout the car trip, tries to impress Karolina to no avail.
- I Choose to Stay: Susan decides not to leave the Crater.
- Internal Reveal:
- Karolina learns that Susan is her grandmother.
- Leslie reveals to Frank that she is pregnant. The Runaways learn of this later too.
- Victor has figured out that he's been infected by one of the aliens, and he informs Chase.
- Knight Templar Big Brother: After providing Alex with Darius' weapon to get justice for him, she tells Alex to stay away from Livvie for good, otherwise she'll kill him herself.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: PRIDE employees Megan and Mary are attacked with stun darts and mind-wiped at least twice. Their condition the next day (and finding a vial of chemicals in the trash) rouses Chase's suspicions.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Frank is now put into reconditioning himself.
- Motive Rant: Frank, at several points in the episode, tells everybody how he was always treated as a second-class member of both the family and the Church and now he finally wants to take what is his.
- Popcultural Osmosis Failure: Molly thinks Cylons are from Doctor Who.
- Portrait Painting Peephole: When Molly, Nico, and Karolina agree to go rescue Leslie, we see someone watching from behind a portrait. It later turns out to be Xavin.
- Stalker with a Crush: Xavin appears to Karolina at the end, hiding in her closet in Gert's shape and claiming that she is her betrothed.
- Undying Loyalty: Vaughn, having seconds thoughts over Leslie being sent to the Crater for reconditioning, calls Karolina in order to bust her out.
- Unwitting Test Subject: The PRIDE parents test their weapons on two interns, Molly and Megan, several times, wiping their minds afterwards.
- We Can Rule Together: Frank gives this speech to Karolina about the church. Later, PRIDE does this with Chase.
- Wham Line: "I'm your betrothed."
- Wham Shot: Chase joins PRIDE.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Alex is not happy about saving Leslie, and even less so about permitting her to stay at the hideout.
- Wife Husbandry: Jonah did this with Leslie, and he had David's approval. This led Susan to leave David.
