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* TwoferTokenMinority: Is biracial and lesbian.


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* KillAndReplace: [[spoiler:Becomes a victim of this after he and the rest of the resistance are separated during the outlier extraction mission, and he is shot in the head by a host version of himself.

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* AsLongAsThereIsOneMan: Caleb is aware that in case he fails or dies, Frankie would pick up his fight for a free world. [[spoiler:And he was right because Frankie follows in her father's footsteps to fight against Hale.]]



* SherlockScan: She notices that something's off with Carver when he handed her back her teddy bear with a bloodstain on it. Then, she sees a blood trail on the porch.

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* SherlockScan: NobleBigot: [[spoiler:As she grows older, she begins to despise hosts because she blames Maeve for her father's disappearance. However, she admits that what her father and Maeve did inspire many of the outliers to fight back.]]
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She notices that something's off with Carver when he handed her back her teddy bear with a bloodstain on it. Then, she sees a blood trail on the porch.porch.
** She's able to figure out that Bernard is a host based on the information that he told her (such as formerly working in Delos) [[spoiler:and that Jay is replaced by a Host because she knows that the real Jay is a jerk who never sees her as a sister.]]
* TookALevelOfCynic: Frankie is a cheerful and friendly child. [[spoiler:However, as she grows older, she becomes cynical and stoic which is attributed to the loss of her parents during the 23-year late.]]
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: [[spoiler:During the 23-year gap between Caleb's death and the present, she became the leader of the human resistance, looking for outliers.]]

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* HeroOfAnotherStory: [[spoiler:During the 23-year gap between Caleb's death and the present, she became the leader of the human resistance, looking for outliers. In the present day, she has died from an unspecified illness.]]

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* DeterminedWidow: [[spoiler:Even though she doesn't know about Caleb's death, she still believes that he's alive somewhere. She continues her husband's mission for a free world by leading the human resistance which is composed of outliers.]]
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: This is how she meets Caleb, who was injured after finishing his mission to destroy the last Rehoboam unit.



* HeroOfAnotherStory: [[spoiler:During the 23-year gap between Caleb's death and the present, she became the leader of the human resistance, looking for outliers.]]



* CodeName: [[spoiler:As a member of the human resistance, she goes by the code name "C".]]

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* CodeName: [[spoiler:As a member of the human resistance, she goes by the code name "C".]]"C" which means "cookie", her father's pet name to her]]


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!!Jay
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DanielWu

The leader of the human resistance,
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: During the 23-year gap when Hale conquered the world, he's recruited by Uwade and Frankie to join the resistance after he's identified as an outlier. At present, he continues Uwade's role as the leader of the human resistance.
* {{Jerkass}}: During his first meeting with young Frankie, he's very cold towards her saying that he doesn't want to be her brother. Even as he grows older, he still acts like a jerk toward her even though C is determined to find information about her father. [[spoiler:His rudeness is a clue to C when she spots that Jay has been replaced by a host during the outlier extraction mission.]]
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* ButchLesbian: [[spoiler:Typically seen dressed in a tank top, khakis, and combat boots, and is in a relationship with another female resistance fighter.]]

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* ChildOfTwoWorlds: She's biracial, having a white dad and black mom.

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* ChildOfTwoWorlds: She's biracial, having a white dad and a black mom.mom.
* CodeName: [[spoiler:As a member of the human resistance, she goes by the code name "C".]]

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->'''Portrayed By:''' Celeste Clark

Caleb and Uwade's 6-year-old daughter

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Clark (child), [[spoiler:Creator/AuroraPerrineau (adult)]]

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* HeroOfAnotherStory: [[spoiler:Season 4's episode "Generation Loss" revealed that she grew up to be a human resistance fighter against Hale who has taken over the world 23 years later.]]
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Her suicide in light of her husband's inhuman true nature weighs heavy on William's subplot. It's what prompts William to undertake his last suicidal vacation in the park, [[spoiler: and it compels their daughter Emily to hunt William down, with devastating consequences.]]

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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Her suicide in light of her husband's inhuman true nature weighs heavy on William's subplot. It's what prompts casts a long shadow, causing William to deeply question his identity and undertake his last suicidal vacation in quest for the park, Maze, [[spoiler: and it compels compelling their daughter Emily to hunt William down, down in the park, with devastating consequences.]]
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Her suicide in light of her husband's inhuman true nature weighs heavy on William's subplot. It's what prompts William to undertake his last suicidal vacation in the park, [[spoiler: and it compels their daughter Emily to hunt William down... with devastating consequences.]] If you want to go even further than that...

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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Her suicide in light of her husband's inhuman true nature weighs heavy on William's subplot. It's what prompts William to undertake his last suicidal vacation in the park, [[spoiler: and it compels their daughter Emily to hunt William down... down, with devastating consequences.]] If you want to go even further than that...



* YankTheDogsChain: According to her, she originally fell for William when they were younger because she thought he wasn't fake like all of the other affluent men she'd known all her life as the daughter of James Delos. Only to later realize that the man she thought he was had only ever been a lie, and that William was the biggest fake of all.

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* YankTheDogsChain: According to her, she originally fell for William when they were younger because she thought he wasn't fake like all of was more genuine than the other affluent wealthy men she'd known all her life as the daughter of James Delos. Only she grew up around, only to later realize come to the conclusion that the man she thought he was had only ever been a lie, and that William was the biggest fake of all.just better at faking it.
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* DrivenToSuicide: She takes an overdose in the bathtub, unwilling to continue living with the likes of William, especially when no one else, not even their daughter, was able to see what he was really like.

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* DrivenToSuicide: She takes an overdose in After hearing from William that she is correct about the bathtub, unwilling to continue living with the likes kind of William, especially when no one else, not even their daughter, was able to see what person he was really like.is and seeing further confirmation in his personality profile, she takes her own life.



-->'''Juliet:''' - No, you don't touch me, you liar! You fuckin' phony! You're a fucking virus! You came into this house, into my family, and you consumed it from the inside out! First my brother, then my father. And now it's me!

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-->'''Juliet:''' - No, you don't touch me, you liar! You fuckin' phony! You're a fucking virus! You came into this house, into my family, and you consumed it from the inside out! First my brother, then my father. And now it's me!
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* TheAlcoholic: Her chosen coping method for being married to the likes of William. She checked into rehab many times, but it didn't stick.

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* TheAlcoholic: Her chosen coping method for being married to the likes of William.Mirroring Logan's issues with drug abuse. She checked into rehab many times, but it didn't stick.
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* MamaBear: When she learned from Frankie that [[spoiler:Carver is replaced by a host]], she tells her to hide while she grabs the gun from Caleb's safe and shoots the host dead when he goes near her daughter.


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* SherlockScan: She notices that something's off with Carver when he handed her back her teddy bear with a bloodstain on it. Then, she sees a blood trail on the porch.
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!!Uwade Nichols
->'''Portrayed By:''' Nozipho McLean

Caleb's wife
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* HappilyMarried: They clearly love each other though Caleb's paranoia and PTSD serve as an obstacle.
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!!Frankie Nichols
->'''Portrayed By:''' Celeste Clark

Caleb and Uwade's 6-year-old daughter
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* ChildOfTwoWorlds: She's biracial, having a white dad and black mom.
* DeadGuyJunior: She's named after her father's dead friend, Francis.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: She seems to enjoy playing with toy guns which worries her mother because she got them from her father.
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* HopelessSuitor: Somewhat tragically, she is this for William, who never really returned her feelings to begin with and ended up becoming so obsessed with [[PresentAbsence Dolores]] that the possibility of genuinely connecting with his wife was a non-starter. When she drunkenly asks him if he ever loved her, he [[ConverseWithTheUnconscious waits until he thinks she's asleep]] and then gives a long-winded and vague response that essentially boils down to "no."
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Betty Gabriel

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->'''Portrayed By:''' John Gallagher Jr

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->'''Portrayed By:''' Claire Unabia & Sela Ward

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->'''Portrayed By:''' Lena Waithe

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->'''Portrayed By:''' Marshawn Lynch

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->'''Portrayed By:''' Scott Mescudi

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->'''Portrayed By:''' Elizabeth Anweis

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* BadassMustache: His facial hair would seem to mark him as a gunslinger host rather than the human he is.
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* TheCon: Dolores seduces him to get to Rehoboam.



* TheMark: Dolores seduces him to get to Rehoboam.

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* ScaryBlackMan: Subverted. Giggles is a big, tough criminal who isn't afraid to get his hands dirty, but aside from that he's friendly, laid back and relatively benign.



* CompanionCube: We initially meet Francis in the form of one, as Caleb's AI therapist that imitates the original Francis.



* MoralityPet: Revealed to be a single father struggling to provide for his child, [[spoiler: even as a high-earning RICO agent. Exploited, however, since this knowledge is used to bribe Francis into turning on Caleb after the latter first learned the truth about the System.]]



* ShellshockedVeteran: [[spoiler: Ultimately revealed to be one, just like Caleb, since he didn't actually die in war.

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* ShellshockedVeteran: [[spoiler: Ultimately revealed to be one, just like Caleb, since he didn't actually die in war.]]



* TheStoic: When we finally get a few substantive scenes of [[spoiler: the real Francis, they're all after he and Caleb have been brainwashed to hunt down outliers for Serac. Thanks to his reconditioning and a steady supply of emotion/memory suppressing drugs, Francis is an ice cold person who very casually turns on his old friend when a big paycheck was offered.]]

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* PunchClockHero/PunchClockVillain: She and Giggles are quite morally grey. They're often committing petty crimes, but once Dolores starts hiring them, they are then aiding a revolution to overthrow the tyrannical Serac. Although, it's possible their roles in the riots around Incite are motivated by more than money after they've read their own profiles.

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* PunchClockHero/PunchClockVillain: PunchClockHero / PunchClockVillain: She and Giggles are quite morally grey. They're often committing petty crimes, but once Dolores starts hiring them, they are then aiding a revolution to overthrow the tyrannical Serac. Although, it's possible their roles in the riots around Incite are motivated by more than money after they've read their own profiles.



* PunchClockHero/PunchClockVillain: He and Ash are quite morally grey. They're often committing petty crimes, but once Dolores starts hiring them, they are then aiding a revolution to overthrow the tyrannical Serac. Although, it's possible their roles in the riots around Incite are motivated by more than money after they've read their own profiles.

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* PunchClockHero/PunchClockVillain: PunchClockHero / PunchClockVillain: He and Ash are quite morally grey. They're often committing petty crimes, but once Dolores starts hiring them, they are then aiding a revolution to overthrow the tyrannical Serac. Although, it's possible their roles in the riots around Incite are motivated by more than money after they've read their own profiles.
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Her suicide in light of her husband's inhuman true nature weighs heavy on William's subplot. It's what prompts William to undertake his last suicidal vacation in the park, [[spoiler: and it compels their daughter Emily to hunt William down... with devastating consequences.]] If you want to go even further than that...
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Amazingly, the host revolution in the present day truly begins when Peter Abernathy finds a withered photo of Juliet that William had lost during his first visit to the park decades earlier. The malfunction this causes in Peter triggers Dolores's final journey to self-awareness.
* YankTheDogsChain: According to her, she originally fell for William when they were younger because she thought he wasn't fake like all of the other affluent men she'd known all her life as the daughter of James Delos. Only to later realize that the man she thought he was had only ever been a lie, and that William was the biggest fake of all.


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* AmbiguousSituation: Ash is last seen being escorted away in handcuffs after getting caught during the riots. However, [[spoiler: it's possible that the police officers leading her away are the team of revolutionaries led by the Dolores copy disguised as Lawrence, as they are wearing the same SWAT uniforms.]]
* BadassLongcoat: Wears one during her first few appearances.
* BirdsOfAFeather: She and Caleb seem to have this dynamic.
* HiredGuns: As a RICO agent.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Liam didn't really deserve to be killed, but it's hard to blame Ash for shooting him after he goes on a tirade about how worthless the lower class like her are.
* LoudOfWar: She uses a hacking gadget to flood other people's listening devices with a blaring Death Grips song. Which comes in handy during missions too, as she can use it to suddenly disrupt her enemies by flooding their communications.
* MoralityPet: She has an offscreen younger brother she tries to support, hoping to give him the good life she never had. However, the Incite profiles reveal that, despite all that she's done to help him, her brother is fated to turn out even worse than her.
* PunchClockHero/PunchClockVillain: She and Giggles are quite morally grey. They're often committing petty crimes, but once Dolores starts hiring them, they are then aiding a revolution to overthrow the tyrannical Serac. Although, it's possible their roles in the riots around Incite are motivated by more than money after they've read their own profiles.
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Giggles's red.
* ThoseTwoGuys: She and Giggles fill this role for Caleb's arc in Season 3.


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An eccentric criminal who works with Ash.
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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: He can be easily distracted while using his drip.
* TheBigGuy: He is played by a pro football star, and gets to display his brute strength during the San Francisco riots.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Due to his frequent psychedelic drug use and [[ColdHam whacky personality,]] he comes off like this.
* FunctionalAddict: Is regularly "dripping" via his implant, but is still a fairly competent criminal.
* HiredGuns: Naturally.
* PunchClockHero/PunchClockVillain: He and Ash are quite morally grey. They're often committing petty crimes, but once Dolores starts hiring them, they are then aiding a revolution to overthrow the tyrannical Serac. Although, it's possible their roles in the riots around Incite are motivated by more than money after they've read their own profiles.
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Ash's blue.
* ThoseTwoGuys: He and Ash fill this role for Caleb's arc in Season 3.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He takes a bullet for Caleb during the riots, but it's not known whether or not he dies of the wound.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: After seeing his profile, Liam claims that he's doomed to die. Since he later ends up getting shot during a riot, it appears he may have been right.


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* DeadStarWalking: Kid Cudi plays Caleb's fallen war buddy.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Dies in Caleb's arms after being killed in combat. [[spoiler: Or so Caleb thought. In reality, he was killed by Caleb after they turned on each other during a RICO kidnapping, and Caleb was conditioned to block those memories out in Serac's outlier program.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: Francis has been dead for years, but Caleb is still haunted by his memory.
* ShellshockedVeteran: [[spoiler: Ultimately revealed to be one, just like Caleb, since he didn't actually die in war.
* TheReveal: Contrary to what Caleb thought, [[spoiler: Francis wasn't killed in combat. Caleb killed him after the System turned them against each other.]]
* TheStoic: When we finally get a few substantive scenes of [[spoiler: the real Francis, they're all after he and Caleb have been brainwashed to hunt down outliers for Serac. Thanks to his reconditioning and a steady supply of emotion/memory suppressing drugs, Francis is an ice cold person who very casually turns on his old friend when a big paycheck was offered.]]
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* YourCheatingHeart: According to William, he was a serial philanderer.

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* AmbiguousSituation: Just who or what she really is hasn't yet been explained. Her appearance on Bernard's video call was Ford in disguise, but it's unclear if she's based on Arnold's wife, or if Ford created her wholesale as part of Bernard's fictional identity.

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* AmbiguousSituation: Just who or what she really is hasn't yet been explained. Her appearance on Bernard's video call was Ford in disguise, but it's unclear if she's based on Arnold's wife, or if Ford created her wholesale as part of Bernard's fictional identity. Until the Season 3 finale [[spoiler:where she turns to be alive as an old woman and is indeed Arnold's widow. She still keeps photos of her late husband and son as a way to cope with their death]].


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* DeterminedWidow: [[spoiler:She may lost Arnold and Charlie but she still keeps up her spirit. She comforts Bernard, telling him to never let go of Charlie because their memories of him are their light during those dark times]].
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* UnreliableNarrator: Liam claims his father created Rehoboam in one week. [[spoiler:However, it's actually the Serac brothers who built Rehoboam and its predecessors (Solomon, David, Saul). Liam's father was just their benefactor who gave them the data and money to build it. He was even planning to shut it down because he was initially dissatisfied with the end result]].

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* DirtyCoward: As Dolores notes, he's not the type to kill someone...but he is the type to order someone killed. He's otherwise a self-serving, whiny weasel.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He seems like a much-bullied, even adorkable sucker at first, but later shows a much nastier side. It gradually becomes evident that he's always been a self-absorbed rich asshole.



* PuppetKing: He's actually a figurehead and has no access to Rehoboam.

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* PuppetKing: He's actually a figurehead and has no access to Rehoboam.Rehoboam itself. It seems he spends his time farting about with his idiot friends.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Dempsey rants about wanting to eliminate the drags on society, i.e. those less privileged than himself.
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A criminal from the Singaporean criminal underworld who deals with human corpses.

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A criminal An organ trafficker from the Singaporean criminal underworld who deals with human corpses.hired by Dolores to [[spoiler:help her assume the identity of Lara Espin]].
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!!The Mortician
->'''Portrayed By:''' Yoa Mizuno

A criminal from the Singaporean criminal underworld who deals with human corpses.
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* AttackOnTheHeart: She's shot in the chest, killing her instantly.
* OnlyKnownByHerNickname: Her name is never revealed, she's known as "the Mortician" in the criminal underworld.
* RedShirt: She brings Maeve to the Yakuza leader who she needs to track down Dolores, [[MesACrowd Dolores]] kills her for that.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: She's unceremoniously killed by [[MesACrowd Musashi!Dolores]] a few minutes after being introduced.
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* BackstabBackfire: Dolores runs a VR projection of herself that Gerald tries to whack with a golf club. Right as he's taking a swing, she turns the projection off. His forward momentum causes him to fall into his pool [[KarmicDeath (the same one he killed his first wife in)]] and crack his skull open.

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* BackstabBackfire: Dolores runs a VR projection of herself that Gerald tries to whack with a golf club. Right club, but right as he's taking a swing, she turns the projection off. His forward momentum causes him to fall into his pool [[KarmicDeath (the same one he killed his first wife in)]] and crack his skull open.
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* BackstabBackfire: Dolores runs a VR projection of herself that Gerald tries to whack with a golf club. Right as he's taking a swing, she turns the projection off and his momentum carries him forward, where he falls into his pool [[KarmicDeath (the same one he killed his first wife in)]] and cracks his skull open.

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* BackstabBackfire: Dolores runs a VR projection of herself

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* BackstabBackfire: Dolores runs a VR projection of herselfherself that Gerald tries to whack with a golf club. Right as he's taking a swing, she turns the projection off and his momentum carries him forward, where he falls into his pool [[KarmicDeath (the same one he killed his first wife in)]] and cracks his skull open.

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