History Film / GetOut2017

Chris Washington (Kaluuya) travels with his girlfriend, Rose Armitage (Williams), to the upstate New York estate of her parents, Missy (Keener) and Dean (Whitford), to meet them for the first time. Already anxious that her wealthy, white parents will not accept him, Chris notices certain oddities about the idyllic property... such as the unusually docile black household servants, and how the Armitages and their friends seem to take an oddly urgent shine to him.

If you're looking for the titular trope itself, look [[GetOut here.]]

** "Dead by the side of the road" comes up a lot -- it's how Chris's mother dies, how the deer Chris and Rose hit with their car dies, what Dean says he thinks should happen to ''all'' deer, [[spoiler:and how Chris leaves Rose at the end]].

** It goes along with an EvilCostumeSwitch, [[spoiler: from cute, modern, feminine outfits to a severe, button-up white shirt.]]

* FailureToSaveMurder: Chris blames himself for his mother's death, because he failed to call 911 when she didn't come home. Instead, he just watched TV, while his mother bled out from a hit and run.

* GetOut: Shouted by Andre at Chris after Chris' phone camera's flash goes off, which doubles as a TitleDrop. [[spoiler:He's trying to save Chris from his AndIMustScream situation.]]

* TooKinkyToTorture: Rose only smiles evilly when Chris tries strangling her; the script specifies that she's fully enjoying it.

** The ending is a subversion of ''[[Theatre/{{Othello}} Othello's]]'' ending [[spoiler:in which the AmbiguouslyBrown protagonist strangles his white wife to death after being tricked into thinking she has betrayed him. In this case, the black protagonist has been truly betrayed by his white girlfriend and begins to strangle her, but cannot go through with it.]]

* FalseReassurance: [[spoiler:After Rose outs herself as evil all along and the family abducts Chris for the Coagula procedure, we see Rose lean over and tell him "You were one of my favorites."]]

* ImCryingButIDontKnowWhy: Georgina starts shedding tears for no apparent reason while talking to Chris. [[spoiler:In hindsight, we know it was her host self FightingFromTheInside]].

** PlayedForDrama; Andre's dress and mannerisms (such as giving Chris a handshake when Chris goes for a fist-bump) are the first hint something's not quite right with him, and that's before he starts screaming at Chris to get out.

Chris Washington (Kaluuya) travels with his girlfriend, Rose Armitage (Williams), to the upstate New York estate of her parents, Missy (Creator/CatherineKeener) and Dean (Creator/BradleyWhitford), to meet them for the first time. Already anxious that her wealthy, white parents will not accept him, Chris notices certain oddities about the idyllic property... such as the unusually docile black household servants, and how the Armitages and their friends seem to take an oddly urgent shine to him.

* GreetingGestureConfusion: Played for drama when Chris goes to fist-bump Logan and Logan shakes Chris's fist. It's just one of many signs that something is not quite right about Logan.

** The Armitages and the party guests' interactions with Chris [[spoiler:are a lot more sinister once you know what they plan to do with him.]]

* GottaHaveItGonnaStealIt: How the white auction party views the black body, particularly when it comes to their desires for black people's stereotypical [[ScaryBlackMan physical stamina]] and [[BlackIsBiggerInBed sexual prowess]].

** The camera slowly panning out on the bingo scene to reveal [[spoiler:that the partygoers are actually [[AuctionOfEvil bidding on Chris]].

* PoorCommunicationKills: Justified per the Director's Commentary. [[spoiler: Andre is both trying to warn Chris of the danger he's in without being too revealing and also trying to tell the person controlling his body to get out in as direct a fashion as possible. Unfortunately, if Andre was a bit clearer in his instructions, Chris might've known to get out much sooner.

''Get Out'' is a 2017 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_thriller social thriller]][[note]]More specifically, [[GenreMashup a satirical horror-suspense-mystery-thriller-comedy]][[/note]] film written and directed by Creator/JordanPeele. It stars Creator/DanielKaluuya and Creator/AllisonWilliams, with Creator/BradleyWhitford, Creator/CalebLandryJones, Creator/StephenRoot and Creator/CatherineKeener in supporting roles.

* ActuallyNotAVampire: Out-of-universe example. The actors playing the extended Armitage family weren't told the movie's plot but were told to act like they were vampires and that Chris was someone they wanted to eat.

** Unsubtle as it is, the film does everything in its power to show how racism, be it institutionalized stereotypes or CondescendingCompassion and positive discrimination, turns people into monsters and puts the subject of racism in danger. If it weren't as unsubtle as it is, the movie would not have had the same impact considering the then-current political climate and the already divisive nature of the subject itself. In other words, so-called "positive" discrimination--as well as systems and practices that lend privilege to certain groups at the expense of others (even if no racist ''sentiments'' are expressed)--is just as bad as overt and blatant discrimination.

** Being a liberal doesn't make you any less guilty or capable of racism. In most works about the subject, it's portrayed as something associated with the right, but the film shows how liberals can easily use their apparent progressiveness as a shield for their own bigotry, which makes them more dangerous than if it was obvious.

* AllThereInTheManual: During the DVD commentary, director Creator/JordanPeele explained that he had created a large backstory for the Armitages' group of friends. [[spoiler: They belong to an ancient secret society descended from the Knights Templar, who are associated with the Holy Grail in popular culture. For centuries, they had been trying to seek eternal life promised by the Holy Grail, and finally achieved it with the Coagula procedure. This also explains the significance of the knight's helmet Jeremy has in the opening scene where he abducts Andre.]]

* AloneWithThePsycho: Chris in the third act, when he finds himself [[spoiler:trapped in a house with a psycho family. At the same time his friend Rod figures out the plot himself and rushes over. However, [[TheCavalryArrivesLate by the time he arrives]], Chris has already taken out the entire Armitage family.]]

** [[spoiler: The ultimate fate of the original inhabitants of the Armitage family servants' bodies as well as Andre. Their consciousness is still in there, forced to see and hear everything that's happening while their bodies are being controlled by someone else, and they're in a sunken place/mental prison, and judging by their reactions while gaining temporary control, they're not happy about it.]]

* ApologeticAttacker: [[spoiler:Walter]] gives Chris a remorseful look for [[spoiler:trying to kill him while brainwashed, after Chris frees him. Then he turns the gun on himself, so Rose's grandfather can't take over again]].

* AuctionOfEvil: The first sign that things don't just ''seem'' sinister but actually are? The older guests go off with Dean to play Bingo. The Bingo cards all have Bingo already on one row, and are used to disguise the silent auction [[spoiler:to determine who gets Chris's body]].

** The premise itself: [[spoiler:the trailers seem to imply mind control to the end of essentially bringing back chattel slavery, complete with auction and black victims of white villains, but it turns out that the ethnicity of the characters is more symbolic--the goal isn't slavery, but immortality]].
* BaitTheDog: Rose acts offended when the police officer asks for Chris's ID and refuses to let Chris hand it over, ostensibly because she thinks Chris is being harassed due to his race. Turns out the real reason for her obstinance is [[spoiler:she didn't want any official documentation that she and Chris were together so close to her home]].

--> '''Abels:''' ''"I wrote some phrases these souls might say, and then read the Swahili translations aloud to see what music occurred to me. Out of that process I wrote a couple of demos, and Jordan chose one of them, "Minor Trouble – Sikiliza Kwa Wahenga," to be the main title for the film. The translation, allowing for some poetic license, is: 'Brother, listen to the elders. Run! Brother, listen to the truth. Run, run far away! Save yourself.'"''

** Peele says in the commentary for the alternate ending where Chris goes to jail that stopping the car to help Georgina let Chris get over the guilt of not helping his mother.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Necessarily subverted by the whole concept of the film. [[spoiler:All of the victims are black, and don't exactly "die". In the final act where Chris is killing the Armitages, this is actually inverted. The family members still in white bodies, as well as their white friend Jim, are dispatched first, with only Georgina and Walter -- to the extent that these characters even qualify as black people -- dying only before Rose.]]
* BlackIsBiggerInBed: One of the party guests asks Rose about this directly, much to Chris and Rose's shock and embarrassment. [[spoiler: Turns out the guest was trying to decide whether Chris was worth bidding on.]]

%%* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler:Rose]] has this after being shot and left to die. Same deal with [[spoiler:her dad after getting impaled by his own deer head trophy by Chris]].

** Before meeting the family, Chris half-jokingly tells Rose that he doesn't want to be chased off the lawn with a shotgun. After [[spoiler:killing (most of) the family, Chris is chased off the lawn with a shotgun.]]
* BourgeoisBohemian: A lot of the satire of the film comes from subverting this trope. The Armitages are an upper-class white family who go out of their way to state their liberal racial beliefs, including cheering on black celebrities such as Jesse Owens, UsefulNotes/BarackObama, and Tiger Woods, which ultimately come across as oddly patronizing. Ultimately, it's revealed that [[spoiler:they really do think black people are great. Physically. So great that they'll do anything to possess that physical greatness for themselves]].
* BrainsAndBrawn: [[spoiler:Several members of the Order of the Coagula -- including the founding Armitage family -- make sly hints throughout that film that they think that black humans are inherently physically superior to whites... and ultimately reveal their idea of the utopian process is to bring what they see as their superior ''white brains'' into unity with the black body in order to create this trope. A disadvantage for the body's current inhabitant, unfortunately...]]

* CassandraTruth: Rodney's concern for Chris is completely genuine. He goes to the police and describes in detail how he came to the conclusion that [[spoiler:Rose's family is abducting and enslaving black people, the most recent being his friend Chris]]. The shot changes, and one police officer becomes three. Rodney retells his story with increased urgency, only for the three police officers, all Black people themselves, to burst out laughing.
%%* CatapultNightmare: Chris wakes up this way [[spoiler:after his first hypnosis session with Missy where he ends up in the Sunken Place, terrified and voiceless]] like this, convinced at first that he had a bad dream.

** The flash from Chris's cell phone camera [[spoiler: causes the enslaved black people to temporarily regain control of their body. He uses this later to stop Walter from shooting him. The original owner of the body uses the brief moment of control to shoot Rose and himself instead.]]

** A SubvertedTrope. [[spoiler:Jeremy mentions early in the second act of being a fan of mixed martial arts and drunkenly attempts to put Chris in a chokehold. In the climax of the film, Jeremy attempts the move again on Chris in order to knock him out and prevent him from escaping the house. Chris is still able to break out of it.]]

** Jeremy's jiu jitsu is subverted as well, [[spoiler:or rather turned against him, in the final fight. He references learning through jiu jitsu how to use his brain and tactics to overpower a stronger opponent. Chris overpowers Jeremy this same way by noting Jeremy's automatic kicking the door shut when he attempts to open it, and taking advantage of his opponent being off-balance and stabbing him in the leg. This also calls back to Jeremy talking about "thinking three moves ahead" in martial arts...in other words, don't be predictable, which Jeremy was.]]

** You wouldn't think photography would be a skill that could be put to badass use, but you'd be wrong. [[spoiler:Chris is an artistic photographer and knows his way around a camera, and uses it a few times at the party to note how odd everything is. Later, he tries to surreptitiously use his cell phone to capture a picture of Logan, to try and figure out what's off about him. The camera flash apparently undoes the procedure, at least temporarily, which becomes a ChekhovsGun of its own at the climax.]]

* ContrivedClumsiness: Implied to be how Chris's phone keeps getting unplugged in an attempt to invoke CellPhonesAreUseless. [[spoiler:Later, Rose "misplacing" her car keys. Both are subversions, as both turn out to be deliberate sabotage by her.]]
* ContrivedCoincidence: The villains' evil plan would likely have succeeded had not, by pure chance, one of their victims turned out to be someone Chris and Rodney knew. Keep in mind there are eight million people in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: [[spoiler:It is entirely possible that Rose targeted Chris not only for his photography skills, but also because he doesn't have any family that will start looking for him - he's never known his father, his mother is dead and he is not shown to have any siblings. Rose's parents even ask him about this when they meet, probably to confirm that nobody will come looking. In fact, the only one he has is Rod - who actually ''does'' come to his rescue at the end of the film, despite Rose's best efforts to deter him from pursuing the matter further when he calls her.]]

* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Rodney has bad vibes about Chris's visit from the get-go and suspects something off about Rose's family. Given his personality, however, he rambles about [[SexSlave sex slavery]] and [[SerialKiller Jeffrey Dahmer.]] [[spoiler:Horrifyingly, he's about 25% right on that, given what the Armitages are using their new healthy bodies for.]]
* {{Cult}}: [[spoiler:The Order of the Coagula, founded by Roman Armitage and now run by his descendants, whose elderly members aim to achieve immortality by transplanting their brains into younger bodies.]]
* DeadManHonking: Non-lethal version near the end. When Chris crashes the car against a tree, his head comes to rest on the wheel which activates the horn. It only stops when Chris comes to and lifts his head.
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:When Chris and Rose tell the Armitages about the deer they hit, Dean says that they did a good thing, as he hates deers and believes they are ruining the ecosystem. Chris later stabs Dean through the throat with a mounted deer head.]]
** And [[InvertedTrope inverted]] with [[spoiler:what saves Chris from the hypnotic effect]] in a movie with such explicit racial overtones - [[spoiler: '[[{{Irony}} picking cotton]]' - out of a stuffed armchair, that is.]]

* DeconstructiveParody: [[spoiler: The whole movie is a deconstruction of political correctness, positive discrimination and tokenism towards ethnicities. Chris receives awkward compliments from Rose's family as they kept commenting on his ethnicity by saying how he's physically superior to them due to his race and are more focused on his ethnicity than his actual personality. The auction scene is the best example of this; the attenders just want Chris's body and treat him like a slab of meat to be used and discarded without second thought - just like slave-owners.]]
* DistantFinale: The alternate ending cuts to Rodney visiting Chris in prison six months after the climax of the film.

** The silent auction disguised as an innocent game of Bingo has some pretty overt shared imagery with slave auctions and the slave trade: a small group of rich white people propping up a business where they forcibly abduct black people, so that other white people can use their bodies to do their work for them. The white people are inspecting Chris for valuable traits, similar to how slave-owners would inspect slaves at auction. The most blatant detail is how one of the women feels out Chris's muscles.

** The entire [[spoiler: GrandTheftMe plot arc]] can be read as an extended metaphor of the colonialization of Africa, with [[spoiler:white mentalities "overwriting" the physical spaces inhabited by black people. Also, white fear of black culture, which leads to the thought that black people should StopBeingStereotypical.]]
** Jim, the blind art critic, is the one auctioneer who actually has civil conversations with Chris as equals [[spoiler: and is the only auctioneer not motivated to take Chris's body for racial reasons. He's literally a symbolism of those who espouse being colorblind to racism and, while not directly oppressing others, still take advantage of an oppressive system, using their "colorblindness" as justification.]]
** The movie's central premise can also be compared to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_appropriation cultural appropriation.]] In RealLife, cultural appropriation occurs when culture A takes traits from culture B it finds appealing without giving it much thought as to how said cultural trait is important to culture B, and forsaking the rest of culture B as unimportant, especially when members of culture B are ridiculed for practicing their own culture. The movie takes it to to its most extreme conclusion, where rather than taking one trait, like music, art, or clothing, [[spoiler: a scheme is hatched where [[GrandTheftMe an old white person's brain is transplanted into a young black person's body, forsaking the black person's life as unimportant in the process.]]]]
** [[spoiler:During Chris's RoaringRampageOfRevenge, we see Rose sitting in her room in all-white clothing, looking at top black NCAA prospects while drinking white milk through a black straw while eating a bowl of dry Froot Loops separately from the white milk. WordOfGod says that the "eating dry Fruit Loops separately from the white milk" part was unintentional, but everything else was very much not.]]

--->'''Dean:''' You know what I say? I say, "One down, a couple hundred thousand to go."
--->'''Missy:''' Dean!
--->'''Rose:''' ''Dad!''
---> '''Dean:''' No, I don't mean to get on my high horse, but I'm telling ya -- I do not like the deer. I'm sick of it, they're taking over. They're like ''rats''. They're destroying the ecosystem. I see a dead deer on the side of the road, I tell myself, "That's a start."

%%* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:Rose after getting shot and trying to kill Chris. She dies watching him get away in the end.]]

* EmptyCopThreat: The cop checking on the roadkill accident claims he has a right to check Chris's license. [[spoiler:He actually was trying to figure out if Chris was one of the MIA victims]].

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: For the first half of the movie, [[spoiler: Rose]] sports loose wavy hair reaching down below the shoulders, and covers the sides of the face and forehead, [[spoiler: as part of her loving person façade.]] After TheReveal, [[spoiler: Rose pulls back her hair into a tight ponytail that exposes her entire face to demonstrate how cold, calculating, and manipulative she really is.]]
** Goes along with an EvilCostumeSwitch, [[spoiler: from cute, modern, feminine outfits to a severe, button-up white shirt.]]

* FacialDialogue: Visible in key scenes with the creepy housekeeper and groundskeeper when [[spoiler:the original inhabitants of the brain are fighting for control]].

* FalseReassurance: [[spoiler:After Rose outs herself as evil and the family abducts Chris for the Coagula procedure, we see Rose lean over and tell him "You were one of my favorites"]].

** [[spoiler:Presumably also how Rose's shoebox of captured people who were the family's earlier victims got placed right where Chris would find it.]]

* ForcedToWatch: In order for [[spoiler: the [[GrandTheftMe Coagula procedure]]]] to work, Missy must place [[spoiler: the victim in [[AndIMustScream the Sunken Place]] via hypnotism.]] Once there, [[spoiler: the host's trapped mind has no choice but to witness the parasite brain using his/her body to engage in any activity they want, including [[SexSlave sexual intercourse]], and interact with the parasite's own friends and family while the host has no choice but to either sit quietly in their own subconscious or [[FightingFromTheInside try desperately to escape their mental prison in any way they can,]] or wait for a [[BlindingCameraFlash bright flash of light to shine onto their face, like a flash photograph, that enables them to break free,]] if only for just a moment.]]

* FreezeFrameBonus: A subtle one during the [[spoiler:Bingo scene: The Japanese man is the only one given a Bingo card with ''yellow'' markers on it. Let that sink in for a minute.]]

* GetOut: Shouted by Andre at Chris, which doubles as a TitleDrop. [[spoiler:He's trying to save Chris from his AndIMustScream situation.]]
* GilliganCut: [[spoiler:After Georgina throws herself in front of Chris's car as he attempts to leave the Armitage house, the thought of leaving her for dead on the side of the road brings back guilt in Chris from allowing his mom and the deer at the start of the film to die in the same manner. He outright pleads with himself to keep on driving and not look back; one cut later, and he's bringing Georgina into his car.]]

** [[spoiler:When Chris kills Missy at the end, it cuts away just before we would see her [[EyeScream eye]] get stabbed.]]

* GottaHaveItGonnaStealIt: How the white auction party views the black body, particularly when it comes to their desires for the stereotypical [[ScaryBlackMan black physical stamina]] and [[BlackIsBiggerInBed black sexual prowess]].
* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:What happens to every talented black person the Armitages get their hands on - their bodies and at least most of their minds are stolen as they're treated as vessels for white consciousness. Chris is the only one to ever get out of their clutches.]]

* GunStruggle: [[spoiler:Subverted when Chris surprises Missy in her therapy room, they make eye contact, both look down on the teacup on the table between them, and then simultaneously dive for it... only for Chris to immediately backhand it off the table so that it shatters against the floor. Then immediately played straight when Missy grabs a letter opener and stabs Chris in the hand with it, they struggle for control, and eventually Chris ends it with an EyeScream on Missy's behalf. Needless to say, it's not pretty.]]

* HonorBeforeReason: Chris is driving away, but stops because [[spoiler:Georgina the maid leapt in front of his car like the deer did and was lying on the side of the road. Due to Missy having dredged up his feelings about his mother, combined with the knowledge that Georgina was literally not herself and as much a victim as he nearly was, Chris stops to take her with him. When Georgina wakes, she's still the usurper and attacks, causing Chris to crash.]]

** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] at the climax. [[spoiler: As Chris strangles a mortally wounded Rose in the middle of the road, a cop car pulls up. Considering [[NotWhatItLooksLike how damning it would look from an outsider's perspective]], it almost certainly means Chris is about to be killed by a trigger happy cop...but then we see that the cop car is [[FiveSecondForeshadowing a TSA vehicle]] and out of it steps Chris's friend Rod, ready to give him a ride home to freedom]].

-->'''Rod''': Look, they could've made you do all types of stupid shit. They'd have you fuckin' barking like a dog, flying around like you're a fuckin' pigeon, lookin' ridiculous, okay?
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: A variant and zigzagged; technically Chris is fine with [[spoiler:murdering the Armitages in self-defense but he was going to leave Rose alone. In the climax, she's bleeding out from a gunshot wound. Chris puts his hands around her neck, but she smirks as he starts choking her. Chris takes his hands off her because he doesn't want to be someone that murders a defenseless person, even if she meant to do the same to him]].
* ImCryingButIDontKnowWhy: Georgina starts shedding tears for no apparent reason while talking to Chris. [[spoiler:In hindsight we know it was her host self FightingFromTheInside]].

* ImmortalityInducer: [[spoiler:The Armitages' process involving kidnapping black people, having them go into "The Sunken Place" through hypnosis, consequently [[AndIMustScream overwriting their consciousness]], and through Dean's neurosurgery, allows the ageing residents of the town to inhabit the bodies of said kidnapped people.]]

* IntimidatingWhitePresence: The Black Chris attends a party of his (white) girlfriend Rose, which is entirely populated by white people (with Black servants). He describes to Andre [[spoiler:who is actually the cult's victim]] that he gets nervous when there are too many white people around, and the combination of microaggressions and downright creepy behavior proves him right, leaving Rose the TokenGoodTeammate. [[spoiler:And she's possibly the worst of the lot.]]
* {{Irony}}: The Armitages and their buddies targeted black people [[spoiler:for the Coagula procedure because of, as Roman put it, "the physical advantages [they have] enjoyed [their] entire [lifetimes]," with the old bastard even throwing in his personal belief that white people are naturally smarter. During the climax, Chris uses the physical capabilities that he was targeted for ''and'' the smarts the Armitages didn't think he had to slaughter them.]]

* IronicallyDisabledArtist: Chris meets Jim Hudson, a ''blind art dealer'' attending the family get-together of the Armitages. Hudson takes interest in Chris's photography skills and at first seems like one of the few amicable people Chris has encountered during his stay with his with the family. [[spoiler:Cut forward to the climax and it's revealed that [[BitchInSheepsClothing Hudson]] wants to transfer his brain into Chris's body to regain his sight.]]

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:The other members of the neighborhood get away scot-free with their involvement in the Armitage's schemes, though with the Armitages gone, they won't be able to continue their experiments anymore.]]
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:Rose]] finally pays for all of the black men (and women) she has lured to her family's home. It's also [[ImpliedTrope insinuated]] that [[spoiler:Georgina]] is the one who left the box of pictures for Chris to find, [[spoiler:which would mean the true person inside Georgina has finally gotten her revenge. Later, when Walter re-emerges, he shoots Rose before [[IDieFree killing himself]]]].
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Rose lured Chris into a trap and was willing to let him die after he trusted her]]. Quite fittingly, Walter [[spoiler:after Chris frees him pretends to be Rose's grandfather and demands the rifle. He shoots her when she trusts him. Then Chris leaves Rose to die when Rod rescues him. Rose recognizes the irony and resigns herself to her fate]].

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Rose participated in her family's evil schemes, totally buying into their positive discrimination and extreme racism. At the end, when she's lying injured with Chris standing over her and a car pulls up, she cries out for help, clearly playing on the stereotype of Chris, the black man, being her attacker -- only for the driver to be revealed as ''Rod'', who rescues Chris and leaves Rose behind to die. What's more, ''she's partly the reason he's there'', since she aroused his suspicions by refusing to answer his questions and awkwardly flirting with him over the phone.]]
* LightIsNotGood: [[spoiler: The Armitage house and atmosphere is set in a bright white setting with light colors, luring people into a false sense of welcome and comfort. Also, the family's wardrobe is almost always decked in dark colors except near the end where the Armitage family show their true nature to Chris and they're sporting white clothing. Rose is also dressed in a bright white outfit when she's trying to kill Chris with a hunting rifle]].
* MadeASlave: Played with in a very interesting way. When Chris first arrives at the Armitage mansion, the first hints that something is wrong is Georgina and Walter, two African American servants, who took care of Dean's parents, until they died, but couldn't fire because they were like [[{{Foreshadowing}} members of the family.]] After Rose tells Chris that her mother, Missy, is a professional hypnotist, and [[RunningGag Rod keeps insisting that she will turn him into a]] SexSlave, it seems like [[spoiler: Missy took two kidnapped people, [[RedHerring and brainwashed them into becoming docile servants.]]]] Considering that TheReveal states that [[spoiler: feeble, old White people [[BodySurf body-snatch]] young African-Americans to continue the lifestyle they miss, it's not too much of a stretch to conclude that they are in a way [[SexSlave sex slaves,]] since the parasite minds use their new bodies to engage in sexual intercourse [[ForcedToWatch while the hosts' minds witness everything]] while trapped [[AndIMustScream in the Sunken Place.]]]]

** In the ColdOpen, the scene of a man apologizing into his cellphone for getting lost in the world's most confusingly-named suburb abruptly transitions into the same man being stalked by a car blaring a creepy tune and then getting violently abducted.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:It wasn't very smart of Chris to pick up Georgina after he hit her, considering she's controlled by an Armitage. He would have brought her to civilization, and then she would have turned on him, told the police he killed her family, and who knows what else. Thanks to the fact that she woke up and attacked him, she got herself, the grandfather and Rose killed, thus ridding the world of all the Armitages and making sure Chris didn't get blamed for the crime (at least in the official ending)]]

** [[spoiler:When Georgina throws herself in front of Chris's car as he leaves, he decides to stop and check on her, eventually putting her in the passenger seat. By the sign of her limp body post-hit and initially in the car, she seems dead, but Rose's grandma--who inhabits her--reanimates her body and attacks Chris]].

* NuclearFamily: The Armitages are a rich WASP nuclear family, comprised of an awkward dad, a calm mom, a cool daughter, and an eccentric son. [[spoiler:PlayedForHorror when their bourgeoisie normalcy is hiding something more sinister.]]

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: How did [[spoiler:Rod find Chris]]? As he puts it, "I'm the T.S. motherfucking A." We never find out for certain but can only assume it was cool considering the police were no help.

* OminousLatinChanting: The music playing during the surgical transplantation procedure is a Requiem, identifiable by the Latin Tuba mirum text.

* OrphanedEtymology: Walter, Georgina, and Logan use old-timey phrasing and seem to have no grasp of modern slang or black greetings. [[spoiler:The reason for this is that they're all elderly white people occupying the younger black bodies and haven't bothered to learn current communication trends.]]
* PlotDevice: There was really no apparent need for [[spoiler:Dean]] to have [[spoiler:''candles'']] in [[spoiler:his operating room in the basement, even more so when he already set up separate lights for Jim's and Chris's operating tables. That being said, the Order of Coagula is effectively a cult, so the candles may have some ritual significance to them.]]

* PoliceAreUseless: Justified; Rod goes to the cops to relay his suspicions about the Armitages and shows them a photo of a missing person. He then goes on about how a cult is brainwashing people into becoming sex slaves like Jeff Dahmer. Three cops laugh him out of their office.

** Later, when Chris [[spoiler: is being choked by "Walter," Chris use the flash on his phone to help him break free of Roman Armitage's brain.]] When Rose comes to [[spoiler: shoot Chris with the hunting rifle, "Walter" tells her "let me do it," she hands him the rifle, and he shoots her. As Roman Armitage fights to regain control, [[TakingYouWithMe "Walter" shoots himself]] [[BoomHeadshot in the head.]]]]

* PrimalFear: More like Ancestral Fear, as the main theme song of the movie subtly implies. [[spoiler: The Armitages and their friends wish to take and use the bodies of black people for their own use as they consider them physically superior, a roundabout reflection of slavery. The chanting of the official theme sounds very similar to African chanting, which even translates roughly to "Listen to the spirits of your ancestors, run".]]

* RightForTheWrongReasons: Rodney quickly realizes that Chris is in trouble... but thinks he's wandered into a sex cult. [[spoiler:Subverted; at least one bidder wanted Chris to please his wife so Rod wasn't completely off]].

** It at first seems that the cop who asks Chris for his ID is being racist, as Rose repeatedly points out that ''she'' was the one driving and hit the deer. [[spoiler:We learn a large number of black folks went missing in the area, so the cop was trying to figure out if Chris was one of the MIA victims]].

** Plenty, during Chris's escape from the house. [[spoiler:First, he resists hypnosis by literally picking cotton -- in this case, out of the armchair he was seated in -- so that he could stuff it into his ears. He knocks out Jeremy with a bocce ball (bocce being a stereotypically upper-class sport), and kills Dean by ramming him with the antlers of a mounted male deer head, i.e. a buck (an old-timey slur for a black man).]]
** All the party guests/[[spoiler: cultists]] arrive at the party in black cars. It could be seen as [[spoiler:white minds controlling black bodies]].

* SecretSocietyGroupPicture: The Armitage family photo after Dean's father officially establishes [[spoiler:the Order of the Coagula.]]
* SexSlave: A RunningGag being that this is primarily what Rod is theorizing happened to the disappeared black people. [[spoiler:He's sort of right on that end.]]
* SharingABody: [[spoiler:Of a necessity due to the Coagula procedure. The process doesn't work properly if the victim's brain stem is detached, so their consciousness is trapped in the Sunken Place while the new owner's consciousness is placed in near complete control of the body, unaware that a flash of light or significantly strong will can temporarily restore the rightful owner control of their own body.]]

** The plot twist is pretty much the opposite of the one in ''Film/TheSkeletonKey'' [[spoiler:where two black people swap bodies with younger white people by means of a hoodoo ritual, in order to extend their lives]]. Possibly referenced, or mocked, when Rod says that "magic doesn't exist".

** The last name "Armitage" is an homage to the 20th-century horror writer H.P. Lovecraft: It's the last name of a protagonist in Lovecraft's story ''Literature/TheDunwichHorror''. [[spoiler:Though the Armitage family is villainous in this movie, the use of the name reflects this movie's homage to elements in Lovecraft's stories: decadent New England families with ties to the occult or secret societies, transmigration of souls from one body to another, altered states of reality, and so on. Lovecraft was also notoriously racist against black people.]]

** Chris glimpses Georgina admiring her reflection in a windowpane and adjusting her appearance in front of a bedroom mirror. After TheReveal, it's clear this is more than ordinary vanity, [[spoiler:it's Grandma Armitage making sure that her wig covers the surgery scars]].
** At the party, after he leaves Chris, you see [[spoiler:"Logan King"]] going to have a talk with the other partygoers and his companion appearing to show him off to her friends like a trophy, earning a look of distaste from Chris. [[spoiler:When you watch the scene again knowing what was actually going on, it was clear that this was Logan King showing off his new body which he hijacked from Andre Hayworth to the bidders.]]
** What in one glance is bizarre late night exercise is instead revealed to be [[spoiler:the Armitage family patriarch's way of reveling in speed]].

%%* SlasherSmile:
%%** Jeremy gives Chris one during dinner, almost as if he was to kill him.
%%** [[spoiler:Rose gives an utterly chilling one when Chris is strangling her in the end, as she is becoming aroused from the strangling.]]

** The song playing when Andre is attacked is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_Rabbit_Run "Run Rabbit Run"]], a cheerful and bouncy-sounding song from the 1930s about a farmer chasing after rabbits, which [[NightmareFuel plays while a masked man in all black stalks, assaults, and abducts a human being.]]

** When Chris goes on [[spoiler: his RoaringRampageOfRevenge, he [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice kills Dean with the horns of a mounted male deer head,]] a buck. "Buck" being a derogatory slur that referred to a black man.]]

* StepfordSmiler: The few black people in Rose's parents' community. The missing man acts a bit like this before snapping out of it and warning Chris to leave, implying he was under MindControl. Peele himself has drawn comparisons to ''The Stepford Wives''.

** Technically, Rod ends up being correct that [[spoiler:the Armitages are a cult]]. He goes to the cops, shows a picture of Logan and tries to report he went missing. The cop is skeptical, because Logan doesn't "look" missing and seems happy. Rod then goes on with his theory about a SexSlave cult and his best friend being trapped in it, and the cop seems to take it seriously. It turns out she wanted her coworkers to hear a ridiculous story, and they laugh Rod out of their office. You need more proof than a wild theory and a photo to report a potential crime.
** It at first seems that [[spoiler:Chris is a CorneredRattlesnake and has taken down all the Armitages except Rose. This is awesome. Then Georgina makes him crash and he barely survives with a bad limp. When Rose tells a brainwashed Walter to get him, Chris is swiftly tackled, which is not so awesome but realistic]].

* TauntingTheUnconscious: Chris is subjected to a hypnotic trigger that causes him to fall into a trance. As he collapses on the ground, his fleeting consciousness is represented by him plummeting into a black void, and the last thing he hears before being swallowed by the darkness is Rose teasingly calling him one of her favourite victims.

* TearsOfFear: Arguably the most iconic image in the film, featured prominently in the film's marketing, is a slack-jawed, furrow-browed Chris frozen in a deep terror with red eyes watering. The moment it factors into the actual film is [[spoiler:when Missy hypnotizes him and sends him to the Sunken Place for the first time]].

* TheTragicRose: Rather, [[spoiler:the Rose who brings tragedy to her supposed romantic partners]]. Rose seems nice enough, EndearinglyDorky, self-righteous and InnocentlyInsensitive to how her family is subtly racist to her boyfriend. [[spoiler:Then we learn she's part of a serial killing cult that lures in black men and women for involuntary operations, torture, and murder in all but name]]. With that said, the tragedy falls on her when [[spoiler:Chris kills her family and burns down their house, while a freed Walter shoots her in the stomach and Rod leaves her to bleed out on the road]].

--->'''[[spoiler: Jeremy]]''': [[spoiler:You fuck! ''You fuck!'']]
** [[spoiler:Rose's grandmother, in Georgina's body, completely loses it on Chris after his RoaringRampageOfRevenge ends in the Coagula procedure being terminated and the Armitage house burning down.]]
--->'''[[spoiler:Georgina]]''': [[spoiler:''You ruined MY HOUSE!'']]
* VoiceOfTheLegion: [[spoiler:When Missy hypnotizes Chris for the first time, she suddenly tells him to "sink into the floor". Chris tries protesting, but Missy reiterates her command of "''Sink''", which repeats multiple times in a much eerier deeper tone]].

* WeakenedByTheLight: [[spoiler:Chris's [[BlindingCameraFlash camera flash]] can allow the people who are possessed to briefly regain control of their bodies.]]

** ''"Let me do it."'' [[spoiler:'''[[TheDogBitesBack *BLAM*]]''']]

** The camera slowly panning out on the bingo scene to reveal [[spoiler:that the partygoers are actually [[AuctionOfEvil bidding over Chris]].

** [[spoiler:''What becomes of Andre?'']] May double as FridgeHorror.

** The dialogue between Chris and Rod, as opposed to the other characters of color, utilizes a concept known as "code switching". Chris and Rod have a more natural, casual dialogue as would be expected of two black characters. The others, however, speak in the precisely enunciated tones of [=WASP=]s.
%%* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[spoiler:Rose attempts this at the end, in an effort to fool Chris into believing she is redeemed and a good person. Then when that fails, she attempts to frame Chris in front of the police. Fortunately for Chris, the person in the cop car turns out to be Rod.]]

* CallBack:
** Chris's mother is killed in a hit-and-run when he was 11, and he later tells Rose that she bled out on the side of the road for hours. [[spoiler:When Chris accidentally runs down Georgina, her unconscious body is reminiscent of how his mom likely looked. And when Rod finally rescues Chris, they leave Rose bleeding out on the side of the road.]]
** Before meeting the family, Chris half-jokingly tells Rose that he doesn't want to be chased off the lawn with a shotgun. After [[spoiler:killing (most of) the family, Chris is chased off the lawn with a shotgun.]]

* CallBack: Chris's mother is killed in a hit-and-run when he was 11, and he later tells Rose that she bled out on the side of the road for hours. [[spoiler:When Chris accidentally runs down Georgina, her unconscious body is reminiscent of how his mom likely looked. And when Rod finally rescues Chris, they leave Rose bleeding out on the side of the road.]]

** Cutting from Chris's breathless RoaringRampageOfRevenge to [[spoiler:Rose in her bedroom]] killing time [[ADateWithRosiePalms image-searching prospective targets]] and drinking a glass of milk through a comically prissy, phallic straw.

** [[spoiler:Jeremy looks like he's dead, lying unconscious with blood coming out of his head. But he comes back and almost stops Chris from leaving the house.]]

** The camera slowly pans out on the bingo scene to reveal [[spoiler:that the partygoers are actually [[AuctionOfEvil bidding over Chris]]. An additional Wham comes when it's shown that the winner of the bid is [[EtTuBrute Jim Hudson, the only partygoer who treated Chris with any respect]]]].

** When Chris and Rose attempt to leave the house early with the excuse that Chris's dog Sid has fallen violently ill, Rose has trouble finding their keys. As the two run into the rest of the Armitages, Rose still can't find them, which makes Chris more and more uneasy until he's screaming at her for them. At this point, [[spoiler:Rose immediately drops her panicked face and nonchalantly holds up the keys, revealing both that she was deliberately stalling and that [[EvilAllAlong she's in on her family's scheme]]. She follows this with the first entry under WhamLine above, ensuring that Chris is not getting out of the house for the time being.]]

** Unsubtle as it is, the film does everything in its power to show how racism, be it institutionalized stereotypes or CondescendingCompassion and PositiveDiscrimination, turns people into monsters and puts the subject of racism in danger. If it weren't as unsubtle as it is, the movie would not have had the same impact considering the then-current political climate and the already divisive nature of the subject itself. In other words, so-called "positive" discrimination--as well as systems and practices that lend privilege to certain groups at the expense of others (even if no racist ''sentiments'' are expressed)--is just as bad as overt and blatant discrimination.

** The one [[TokenMinority Japanese man]] at the otherwise monochrome garden party[[spoiler:/cult gathering]]; "Asians are naturally smart" is one of ''the'' go-to examples of PositiveDiscrimination, [[spoiler: which is one of the things that the movie speaks against]]. To go one further, during silent bingo/[[spoiler:[[AuctionOfEvil auction for Chris's body]]]], said Japanese man's bingo card is the only one with [[YellowPeril yellow dots on it.]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Rose participated in her family's evil schemes, totally buying into their PositiveDiscrimination and extreme racism. At the end, when she's lying injured with Chris standing over her and a car pulls up, she cries out for help, clearly playing on the stereotype of Chris, the black man, being her attacker -- only for the driver to be revealed as ''Rod'', who rescues Chris and leaves Rose behind to die. What's more, ''she's partly the reason he's there'', since she aroused his suspicions by refusing to answer his questions and awkwardly flirting with him over the phone.]]

* PositiveDiscrimination: Not within the film itself, but built into the [[spoiler:Armitage family's]] evil plan. [[spoiler:They insist their organization targets black people not out of hostility, but out of admiration because black people are naturally better at sports, [[BiggerIsBetterInBed better in bed]], more artistic, and so on, which, when you get down to it, is still ''extremely'' racist.]]

-->-- '''Chris'''

* GilliganCut: [[spoiler:After Georgina throws herself in front of Chris's car as he attempts to leave the Armitage house, the thought of leaving her for dead on the side of the road brings back guilt in Chris from allowing his mom and the deer at the start of the film to die in the same manner. He outright pleads with himself to keep on driving and not look back; one cut later, and he's bringing Georgina into his car]].

* RecycledWithAGimmick: ''Literature/TheStepfordWives'' RecycledInSpace with black people (generally, but not always, men) rather than white women.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:We're initially led to believe that Georgina and Walter's out of touch StepfordSmiler behavior is due to [[MadeASlave them being hypnotized into subservience by Missy,]] but it's actually because [[BodySurf they're hosting the brains of Dean's deceased parents.]]]]

* AllThereInTheManual: During the DVD commentary, director Creator/JordanPeele explained that he had created a large backstory for the Armitages' group of friends. [[spoiler: They belong to an ancient secret society descended from the Knights Templar, who are associated with the Holy Grail in popular culture. For centuries, they had been trying to seek eternal life promised by the Holy Grail, and finally achieved it with the Coagula procedure. This also explains the significance of the knight's helmet Jeremy has in the opening scene where he abducts Andre]].
* AgonizingStomachWound: [[spoiler:Walter]] could have killed [[spoiler:Rose]] easily with a [[BoomHeadshot headshot]]. He aims for her stomach instead, [[spoiler:intending to let her suffer before she dies]]. It's quite fitting.

** When Chris and Rose attempt to leave the house early with the excuse that Chris's dog Sid has fallen violently ill, Rose has trouble finding their keys. As the two run into the rest of the Armitages, Rose continues to look, and her failure in finding them makes Chris more and more uneasy until he's screaming at her for them, at which point [[spoiler:she drops the panicky front and nonchalantly holds up the keys, revealing that she knew where they were the whole time. She immediately follows this with the first entry under WhamLine above, ensuring that Chris is not getting out of the house for the time being.]]
** When Rod is attempting to contact Chris and Rose answers sounding emotional, the next shot shows her looking quite stoic in sociopathy while talking on the phone. Almost like a robot.

%%* GottaHaveItGonnaStealIt: How the white auction party views the black body, particularly when it comes to their desires for the stereotypical [[ScaryBlackMan black physical stamina]] and [[BlackIsBiggerInBed black sexual prowess]].
%%* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:What happens to every talented black person the Armitages get their hands on. Chris is the only one to ever get out of their clutches.]]

* RaceFetish: Deconstructed. [[spoiler:The Armitage family and their wealthy friends target black people for their GrandTheftMe schemes because they believe that they're better than white people at various activities. This only serves to highlight the insanity and racism the community holds.]]

* NotBrainwashed: Notice in the film that a camera flash never affects [[spoiler:Rose]], even when she's in the range of fire. Despite the theories that [[spoiler:she]] may have been hypnotized into doing her family's bidding, it's confirmed that [[spoiler:she was in the plot all along ForTheEvulz, as shown when she hunts down Chris with a rifle]].

* IWarnedYou: [[TheCassandra Rod]] warns Chris not to visit Rose's family. [[spoiler:[[BigDamnHeroes After rescuing Chris]], Rod cannot help but tell him, "I told you so!"]]

-->'''[[spoiler: Jeremy]]''': [[spoiler:You fuck! ''You fuck!'']]

-->'''[[spoiler:Georgina]]''': [[spoiler:''You ruined MY HOUSE!'']]

* AdultFear:
** Imagine that your significant other [[spoiler:doesn't really love you and lures you into a trap to torture and murder you, in a sense]]. While the movie is more science-fiction, it resonated with a lot of people for this reason.
** Your friend is going to meet his girlfriend's family. While you advise them to not go and keep tabs on them, they start reporting strange behavior. He stops calling, and his girlfriend hits on you when you press her for details. Then you go to the cops, who laugh at you for having conspiracy theories despite reporting a missing person. [[spoiler:Rod finally commandeers a TSA vehicle to find his best friend and save him, but only succeeds in the theatrical version.]]

** Being a liberal doesn't make you any less guilty of racism. In most works about the subject, it's portrayed as something associated with the right, but the film shows how liberals can easily use their apparent progressiveness as a shield for their own bigotry, which makes them more dangerous than if it was obvious.

** A SubvertedTrope. [[spoiler:Jeremy mentions early in the second act of being a fan of Mixed Martial Arts and drunkenly attempts to put Chris in a chokehold. In the climax of the film, Jeremy attempts the move again on Chris in order to knock him out and prevent him from escaping the house. Chris is still able to break out of it.]]

** Jeremy's jiu jitsu is subverted as well, [[spoiler:or rather turned against him, in the final fight. He references learning through jiu jitsu how to use his brain and tactics to overpower a stronger opponent. Chris overpowers Jeremy this same way by noting Jeremy's automatic kicking the door shut when he attempts to open it, and taking advantage of his opponent being off-balance and stabbing him in the leg. Also calls back to Jeremy talking about "thinking three moves ahead" in martial arts. . . in other words, don't be predictable, which Jeremy was.]]

* CreepySouvenir: [[spoiler:The box of photos of Rose with the Armitages' previous victims is confirmed by WordOfGod to belong to her; she keeps the photos as SerialKiller-style trophies.]]

* DistantFinale: The alternate ending cuts to Rodney visiting Chris in prison six months later.

** The silent auction disguised as an innocent game of Bingo has some pretty overt shared imagery with slave auctions and the slave trade: a small group of rich white people propping up a business where they forcibly abduct black people, so that other white people can use their bodies to do their work for them. The white people are inspecting Chris for valuable traits, similar to how slave-owners would inspect slaves at auction. The most blatant is one of the women feels out Chris's muscles.

** Jim, the blind art critic, is the one auctioneer who actually has civil conversations with Chris as equals [[spoiler: and is the only auctioneer not motivated to take Chris's body for racial reasons. He's literally a symbolism of those who espouse being color blind to racism, who while not directly oppressing others, still take advantage of a oppressive system, using their "color blindness" as justification.]]
** The movie's central premise can also be compared to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_appropriation cultural appropriation.]] In RealLife, cultural appropriation occurs when culture A takes traits from culture B it finds appealing without giving it much thought as to how said cultural trait is important to culture B, and forsaking the rest of culture B as unimportant, especially when members of culture B are ridiculed for practicing their own culture. The movie takes it to to its most extreme conclusion, where rather than taking one trait, like music, art, or clothing, in the movie a [[spoiler: scheme is hatched where [[GrandTheftMe an old white person's brain is transplanted into a young black person's body, forsaking the black person's life as unimportant in the process.]]]]
** [[spoiler:During Chris's RoaringRampageOfRevenge, we see Rose sitting in her room in all-white clothing, looking at top black NCAA prospects while drinking white milk through a black straw while eating a bowl of dry Froot Loops separately from the white milk. WordOfGod says that the eating dry Fruit Loops separately from the white milk part was unintentional, but everything else was very much not.]]

---> '''Dean:''' No, I don't mean to get on my high horse, but I'm telling ya -- I do not like the deer. I'm sick of it, they're taking over. They're like ''rats''. They're destroying the ecosystem. I see a dead deer on the side of the road, I tell myself "That's a start."

* AgonizingStomachWound: [[spoiler:Walter]] could have killed [[spoiler:Rose]] easily with a BoomHeadshot. He aims for her stomach instead, [[spoiler:intending to let her suffer before she died]]. It's quite fitting.

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: The ultimate fate of the original inhabitants of the Armitage family servants' bodies as well as Andre. Their consciousness is still in there, forced to see and hear everything that's happening while their bodies are being controlled by someone else, and they're in a sunken place/mental prison, and judging by their reactions while gaining temporary control, they're not happy about it.]]
** This can fall into Jim's ultimate fate as well since he is left to burn to death in the operation room of the Armitage household while still under sedation.

** During the scene where Rod is trying to call Chris while at the airport, an announcement is heard for Flight 237, confirmed by Peele to be a subtle nod to the famous room from ''Film/TheShining''.

* TheTragicRose: Rather, [[spoiler:the Rose who brings tragedy to her supposed romantic partners]]. Rose seems nice enough, EndearinglyDorky, self-righteous and InnocentlyInsensitive to how her family is subtly racist to her boyfriend. [[spoiler:Then we learn she's part of a serial killing cult that lures in black men and women for involuntary operations, torture, and murder in all but name]]. With that said, the tragedy falls on her when [[spoiler:Chris kills her family and burns down their house, while a freed Walter shoots her in the stomach and Rod leaves her to blled on the road]].

->''"All I know is sometimes if there's too many white people I get nervous, you know?"''

''Get Out'' is a 2017 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_thriller social thriller]][[note]]More specifically, [[GenreMashup a satirical horror-suspense-mystery-thriller-comedy]][[/note]] film written and directed by Creator/JordanPeele, starring Creator/DanielKaluuya and Creator/AllisonWilliams.

** Being a liberal doesn't make you any less guilty of racism. In most works about the subject, it's portrayed as something associated with the right but the film shows how liberals can easily use their apparent progressiveness as a shield for their own bigotry, which makes them more dangerous than if it was obvious.

* AndStarring: Creator/CatherineKeener

** From the trailer: "A mind is a terrible thing to waste".

** [[spoiler:"[[BitchInSheepsClothing You know I can't give you the keys, right, babe?]]"]]

** When Chris and Rose attempt to leave the house early with the excuse that Chris's dog Sid has fallen violently ill, Rose has trouble finding their keys. As the two run into the rest of the Armitages, Rose continues to look, and her failure in finding them makes Chris more and more uneasy until he's screaming at her for them, at which point [[spoiler:she drops the panickey front and nonchalantly holds up the keys, revealing that she knew where they were the whole time. She immediately follows this with the first entry under WhamLine above, ensuring that Chris is not getting out of the house for the time being]].

** A door opening takes the expectation of [[spoiler:a police officer seeing a black man standing over a white woman pleading for help and [[ShootTheShaggyDog causing Chris to fall victim to a much more grounded-in-reality act of racial bias]]]] and turns it into a moment of [[spoiler:[[BigDamnHeroes sheer joy when]] [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments the word 'Airport' comes into view]]]].