The Runaways spring a trap to rescue their missing friends from Jonah and his family.
- Brain Uploading: In order to help Chase and Karolina escape, Janet chooses to stay in the algorithm, since she claims she has a better life there anyway. (Though it's possible she exaggerates this to make Chase feel better.) Crosses over with Artificial Afterlife: Janet's physical body appears to disintegrate, so she's presumably no longer alive in the strictest sense.
- Daddy's Little Villain: Jonah's daughter. He would be happy for her to take his place instead of the son, something his wife wouldn't approve of.
- The Glasses Gotta Go: The Magistrate's wife regains control of Stacey and steps on her glasses, finding them very uncomfortable in her optics.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Xavin is clearly still pretty unhappy about Karolina and Nico being a couple. They can be seen giving hard side-eye whenever the two are physically affectionate with each other, and keep trying to reach for Karolina despite the fact that she clearly wants Nico to help her. At the end of the episode, when they raise the objection that Karolina shouldn't be alone with Nico (due to the latter possibly being the host to the Magistrate's son), the Runaways clearly think they're motivated by jealousy (which, in fairness, they obviously are in part).
- I'm Standing Right Here: Chase keeps saying this when the rest of the team refers to him in the third person about his betrayal.
- Internal Reveal:
- Jonah learns from his daughter that his wife figured out Karolina is his daughter and she's not happy.
- Stacey tells her family about the aliens, but the Magistrate's wife regains control before Stacey was about to say something very important.
- Interrupted Intimacy: Downplayed, but Xavin doesn't reveal their (not unreasonable) concerns about Nico until she and Karolina are about to go to bed together, making it look like they're suffering a bad case of jealousy, at least in their timing.
- Potty Emergency: Alex and Nico have been hiding in the closet for hours waiting for Jonah to leave. Alex notes that he hasn't gone to the bathroom (along with not eating or sleeping), which Alex really needs to do himself.Nico: Better hold it.
- Pyrrhic Victory: The Runaways rescue Chase and Karolina, but there's still the matter of the Magistrate's son possessing one of them. Nico believes herself to be the likely suspect.
- Reunion Kiss: Karolina and Nico share one after Karolina and Chase are freed.
- Shout-Out: When Old Lace grabs the Wife, Dale mutters "clever girl".
- Throwing Your Gun at the Enemy: Dale throws the tranquilizer gun at the Magistrate's wife when the darts didn't work. She doesn't even flinch.Magistrate's wife: Seriously?
Dale: I'm sorry. - The Unreveal: The Magistrate's wife retakes control before Stacy can explain how to remove the Giborrim.
- Widowed at the Wedding: Invoked in the algorithm: Karolina's dream wedding to Nico from the last episode has been corrupted in order to punish her. She's left alone with a dying avatar of Nico, both still in their wedding dresses for maximum pathos. Fortunately it's only a digital illusion, and the real Nico is fine.
