History Series / Between

* Wiley reveals the identity of her baby's father at Melissa's urging.

* Adam questions [[spoiler:his father]] about the virus.

* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler:Tracey chooses to stay in Pretty Lake to look after the town’s children. Mark also stays behind, giving the only other available vaccine to Stacy and lying to her that he was already vaccinated so she wouldn’t feel guilty about taking it.]]

* MaternallyChallenged: Wiley has almost zero motherly instincts toward her child or others. She even expresses annoyances towards her sister caring for the orphaned children of the town, and refuses to name her child because she doesn’t want to get attached. By the end of the first season, Wiley does eventually come around to being a mother.

* ShipTease: There’s some between Wiley and Liam in "Extraction". They engage in some (awkward) small talk, he asks her if she wants to get coffee when they leave Pretty Lake, and they share a HeldGaze and a kiss [[spoiler:before Liam leaves to go to his extraction point]].

* ShipTease: There’s some between Wiley and Liam in "Extraction". They engage in some (awkward) small talk, he asks her if she wants to get coffee when they leave Pretty Lake, and they share a HeldGaze and a kiss [[spoiler:before Liam leaves to go to his extraction point.]].

* OneWordTitle: The series as a whole, as well as the individual episodes “War” (Season One), “Hope” and “Extraction” (Season Two).

** Mark accidentally kills [[spoiler:Renee's younger brother, Eric]] when the kid tries to stab him and stabs himself instead.

** Mark accidentally kills [[spoiler:Renee’s younger brother, Eric]] when the kid tries to stab him and stabs himself instead.

** Liam Cullen. He shows up in Pretty Lake [[spoiler:claiming to have a cure for the virus, four weeks after Adam’s father (who Liam also claims to have worked with) told him that there was no curing the virus]]. The mysterious text messages he sends at the end of “Us vs. Them” don’t exactly help his case, neither does [[spoiler:his name being in Ellen's contacts and the reveal he's actually working for Horatio Pharmaceuticals]]. He ultimately turns out to be [[spoiler:a pretty morally decent guy, just working with some very shady people]].

** Liam Cullen. He shows up in Pretty Lake [[spoiler:claiming to have a cure for the virus, four weeks after Adam’s father (who Liam also claims to have worked with) told him that there was no curing the virus]]. The mysterious text messages he sends at the end of “Us vs. Them” don’t exactly help his case, neither does [[spoiler:his name being in Ellen’s contacts and the reveal he’s actually working for Horatio Pharmaceuticals]]. He ultimately turns out to be [[spoiler:a pretty morally decent guy, just working with some very shady people]].

* ApocalypticLog: Adam records one, which contains evidence of the deaths and poor conditions in Pretty Lake as well as the government’s efforts to cover it up. He uses it as leverage to Dexter Crane, threatening to release it if the latter doesn’t help him. [[spoiler:In the finale, he has Daisy leak it anyway.]]
--> '''Adam''': My name is Adam Jones. And this will be my last day in this hellhole.

* ArmiesAreEvil: Averted. It’s brought up that the military is being lied to just like the residents are, and [[spoiler:they refuse to follow orders from Minister Miller to attack Pretty Lake after seeing video evidence of the government’s lies]].

* BloodFromTheMouth: Victims of the illness exhibit this upon their death. Gord also has it when [[spoiler:he is shot]] in “Extraction”.

* DeadPersonConversation: Ronnie talks to [[spoiler:Pat]]’s ghost in “Get Out of Town” and “Us vs. Them.” [[spoiler:Pat]] seems to act as his conscience.
* DeathOfAChild: Jeremy is run over by an accelerating car (driven by another child) in “Who’s The Boss?”

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Franny and Harrison discuss where they’ll end up if they ever leave Pretty Lake, Harrison says he will likely be sent to a foster home [[spoiler:since the now-deceased Samantha was his only other relative after their parents died]]. Franny tells him that he can stay with her and her aunt instead. [[spoiler:In the finale when the group is assigned new identities by Crane, Harrison is sent to a foster home while Franny ends up at an all-girls school.]]
* GentleGiant: Gord. He is clearly large and imposing but only ever tries to do the right thing and act towards a peaceful solution, even giving up his last cow in order to feed the younger children of the town. He actually loses a fight he gets into with a smaller guy, Chuck, stating that he has never actually fought before. However, he does get into a fight with Ronnie when he thinks he’s hoarding food.

* HealingFactor: [[spoiler:The cure Liam brought apparently gives those injected with it one. Wiley’s tumor heals within hours, Chuck heals from severe head trauma after drunkenly falling into a glass table, and Renee is able to recover from a gunshot wound. The finale also reveals that the cure can reverse conditions like Harrison’s diabetes.]]

* TheImmune: [[spoiler:Clarence claims that he and Adam are immune to the virus because it was synthesized using Clarence’s genome.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Both Wiley and Ronnie get this bad at the beginning. Wiley largely grows out of it by season 2, whereas Ronnie TRIES to evolve past it, but old habits for him are harder to break.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Chuck uses this on Liam Cullen in “Us vs. Them”.

* MistakenForDying: Wiley is mistaken for dead in episode 2 after she passes out. She’s narrowly saved from burning alive in a mass grave after Adam realizes she’s still alive.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Franny innocently takes home a box of food she discovers outside the orphanage, as well as a backpack she finds with it. This lands her in hot water with Renee when the latter recognizes the backpack as [[spoiler:belonging to her late brother Eric and assumes Franny killed him]] and also leads to [[spoiler:Gord’s death]].

** When Mr. Lott and his son are tracking the stolen truck, they make a single turn to end up ahead of Pat and Ronnie. While the camera is elsewhere, the former end up far enough ahead that by the time Pat and Ronnie find their car, they’ve set up flares.
** When Brooks shoots at Daisy, she’s disappeared from the alley in the time it takes for two cars to pass by.

* ShipTease: There’s some between Wiley and Liam in “Extraction”. They engage in some (awkward) small talk, he asks her if she wants to get coffee when they leave Pretty Lake, and they share a HeldGaze and a kiss [[spoiler:before Liam leaves to go to his extraction point.]]

* ThereAreNoAdults: The adults in Episode one are a DwindlingParty. As of episode four, not only is it confirmed that everyone 22 or older, but it appears to be the case that your 22nd birthday is actually the trigger. Everyone alive in Pretty Lake is 21 or under.
* TimeSkip: The second season opens in the winter, four weeks after the first season’s finale.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: The group [[spoiler:of which Adam's dad is part]] quarantining the town [[spoiler:developed the virus for "thinning the herd" in the name of restoring resource sustainability.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: Renee has no qualms about threatening and nearly kidnapping the twelve-year-old Franny [[spoiler:when she thinks Franny is involved in her little brother Eric’s murder]].
* WhamLine: In “War”:

* XanatosGambit: Adam’s deal with Dexter Crane. [[spoiler:Either Dexter agrees to extract those already vaccinated and for Horatio Pharmaceuticals to proceed with mass-producing the cure, or Adam leaks everything he has on their involvement in Pretty Lake to the public, damaging their reputation.]] Either way, Adam gets the company’s attention and at least a slight chance at his friends getting rescued.