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CIA Evil FBI Good is specifically about the juxtaposition of a morally good FBI organization and morally bad CIA organization. Example that don't fit the trope will be deleted or moved to existing tropes when applicable
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* CIAEvilFBIGood: "CIA Evil" version. The CIA is portrayed as murdering innocent bystanders who witness it assassinating people. In America.
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* BluffTheImpostor: After learning that the station's one-way operator has also been compromised, Emerson confirms it by phoning them and getting the TrustPassword slightly wrong on purpose.
-->'''Operator:''' Hello?
-->'''Emerson:''' That wasn't the right password.
-->'''Operator:''' What?
-->'''Emerson:''' That wasn't the right password.
-->[''beat'']
-->'''Operator:''' Tell me you killed the girl before you figured that out.
-->[''Emerson hangs up'']
-->'''Operator:''' Hello?
-->'''Emerson:''' That wasn't the right password.
-->'''Operator:''' What?
-->'''Emerson:''' That wasn't the right password.
-->[''beat'']
-->'''Operator:''' Tell me you killed the girl before you figured that out.
-->[''Emerson hangs up'']
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* HollywoodEncryption: Emerson explains how the code used by the station works (one-time code pads are used on each transmission) when Katherine tells him that they need to break the code. As explained, it's flat-out impossible, and they need to figure out how to break into the mission log so they can seek the counter-order instead.
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* NoHuggingNoKissing: There is no romance between Emerson and Katherine, who are a radio operator and a spook who have only recently met. The two operators on the other shift, however, are hugging and kissing at the very least, but this isn't their story.
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''The Numbers Station'' is a thriller released in 2013, directed by Kasper Barfoed and written by F Scott Frazier.
Disgraced CIA operative Emerson Kent (Creator/JohnCusack) is sent to a numbers station in England to guard Katherine (Creator/MalinAkerman), who is one of the operators. Their first shifts together pass off without incident, but then a group of conspirators try to take over the station to send out a message of their own choice …
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* CIAEvilFBIGood: "CIA Evil" version. The CIA is portrayed as murdering innocent bystanders who witness it assassinating people. In America.
* EveryoneOwnsAMac: Some Apple hardware is prominently displayed down in the bowels of the numbers station. However, when we see the screens they have a custom GUI, and an inserted memory card is seen to have a file path beginning at "C:", in the Windows style.
* InstantDeathBullet: Zig-zagged. Emerson and Katherine are both shot towards the end of the film (with pistols, at close range), and he is able to drive them both to hospital. Everybody else drops dead.
* NumbersStations: But of course!
* ReassignedToAntarctica: Emerson Kent is reassigned to a numbers station in Suffolk, England for refusing to kill the daughter of a witness during a botched assignment.
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Disgraced CIA operative Emerson Kent (Creator/JohnCusack) is sent to a numbers station in England to guard Katherine (Creator/MalinAkerman), who is one of the operators. Their first shifts together pass off without incident, but then a group of conspirators try to take over the station to send out a message of their own choice …
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!!!! Tropes in this film:
* CIAEvilFBIGood: "CIA Evil" version. The CIA is portrayed as murdering innocent bystanders who witness it assassinating people. In America.
* EveryoneOwnsAMac: Some Apple hardware is prominently displayed down in the bowels of the numbers station. However, when we see the screens they have a custom GUI, and an inserted memory card is seen to have a file path beginning at "C:", in the Windows style.
* InstantDeathBullet: Zig-zagged. Emerson and Katherine are both shot towards the end of the film (with pistols, at close range), and he is able to drive them both to hospital. Everybody else drops dead.
* NumbersStations: But of course!
* ReassignedToAntarctica: Emerson Kent is reassigned to a numbers station in Suffolk, England for refusing to kill the daughter of a witness during a botched assignment.
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