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* LameExcuse: Sophia Varma justifies crossing the MoralEventHorizon with Operation Daylight because it provided the White House with information that was used to blackmail members of Congress into funding Planned Parenthood.

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* HeKnowsTooMuch: Averted with the slain officer's widow--she really doesn't know anything, but one conspirator plans on killing her anyway.



* WellIntentionedExtremist: three of them, actually: Mayfair, Varma, and Carter.
* YouKnowTooMuch: Averted with the slain officer's widow--she really doesn't know anything, but one conspirator plans on killing her anyway.

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* WellIntentionedExtremist: three of them, actually: Mayfair, Varma, and Carter.
* YouKnowTooMuch: Averted with the slain officer's widow--she really doesn't know anything, but one conspirator plans on killing her anyway.
Carter.


* GenreSavvy: The third member of the group of dirty cops realizes immediately when [[INeverSaidItWasPoison he's accidentally outed himself]].

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Why aren\'t there any periods on these sentences? Example Indentation, one trope per example (Rationalizing The Overkill is about revenge anyway), no potholing trope names in the list, and no spoiler tags in recap pages. A Morality Chain is a character, not an item. If the letter were destroyed Mayfair would not go and break the rules again.


* BigBrotherIsWatching: Operation Daylight
** LameExcuse[=/=]RationalizingTheOverkill: Sophia Varma justifies crossing the MoralEventHorizon with Operation Daylight because it provided the White House with information that was used to blackmail members of Congress into funding Planned Parenthood
* BrokenPedestal: Mayfair is standing on one, as far as Weller is concerned, thanks to her participation in Daylight

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* BigBrotherIsWatching: Operation Daylight
** LameExcuse[=/=]RationalizingTheOverkill: Sophia Varma justifies crossing the MoralEventHorizon with Operation
Daylight because it provided the White House with information is a project to make use of all of that was used to blackmail members of Congress into funding Planned Parenthood
data the NSA collects on everyone.
* BrokenPedestal: Mayfair is standing on one, as far as Weller is concerned, thanks to her participation in DaylightDaylight.



* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: The football player who's being blackmailed

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* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: The football player who's is being blackmailedblackmailed using a video of him with another man. He makes it out of the episode with his secret known only by Weller's team and one remaining conspirator.



** Operation Daylight, of course
** Also, the cops at the 65th Precinct who are using body camera footage for blackmail purposes
* [[INeverSaidItWasPoison I Never Said He was Gay]]: How [[spoiler: the precinct captain]] incriminates himself
* LipstickLesbian: Varma and Mayfair
* MoralityChain: The Martin Luther King letter is this for Mayfair

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** Operation Daylight, of course
course.
** Also, the cops at the 65th Precinct who are using body camera footage for blackmail purposes
purposes.
* [[INeverSaidItWasPoison I Never Said He was Gay]]: INeverSaidItWasPoison: How [[spoiler: the precinct captain]] captain incriminates himself
himself--Mayfair never mentioned to him what secret the football player was being blackmailed over.
* LameExcuse: Sophia Varma justifies crossing the MoralEventHorizon with Operation Daylight because it provided the White House with information that was used to blackmail members of Congress into funding Planned Parenthood.
* LipstickLesbian: Varma and Mayfair
* MoralityChain: The Martin Luther King letter is this for Mayfair
Mayfair, especially in the flashbacks to when they were together, when Mayfair wore her hair longer.



* RevealingCoverup: Mayfair "laundered" the intelligence produced by Daylight by sourcing it to her confidential informant Gurrero. The secret was revealed when Weller brought Gurrero in in the previous episode, and Weller realized in the interrogation that Gurrero and Mayfair really didn't know each other.

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* RevealingCoverup: Mayfair "laundered" the intelligence produced by Daylight by sourcing it to her confidential informant Gurrero. Guerrero. The secret was revealed when Weller brought Gurrero arrested Guerrero in in the previous episode, [[Recap/BlindspotS1E7SentOnTour "Sent on Tour"]], and Weller realized in during the interrogation that Gurrero Guerrero and Mayfair really didn't actually know each other.



** The existence of Daylight is revealed by an Edward Snowden {{Expy}}.

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** The existence of Operation Daylight is revealed by was shut down after an Edward Snowden {{Expy}}.{{Expy}} publicized the NSA surveillance used by the operation.



* SpurnedIntoSuicide: When the existence of Daylight is made public, [[spoiler: Varma]] proposes to [[spoiler: Mayfair]] that they move to Hong Kong to avoid extradition. When [[spoiler: Mayfair chooses instead to stay on the job and try to mitigate the damage, Varma takes her own life]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: three of them, actually: Mayfair, Varma, and Carter

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* SpurnedIntoSuicide: When the existence of Daylight Daylight's information source is made public, [[spoiler: Varma]] Varma proposes to [[spoiler: Mayfair]] Mayfair that they move to Hong Kong to avoid extradition. When [[spoiler: Mayfair chooses instead to stay on the job and try to mitigate the damage, Varma takes her own life]].
life.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: three of them, actually: Mayfair, Varma, and CarterCarter.

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* DoingInTheWizard: Jane wonders aloud how it is remotely possible whoever tattooed her would be able to predict the murder of the two cops, which would seem to indicate precognition or time travel. The tattoo didn't predict the murders: instead of the reticle of a gunsight, it was the reticle of a camera viewfinder, indicating the bodycam footage blackmail.



* LipstickLesbian: Varma and Mayfair

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* LipstickLesbian: Varma and MayfairGenreSavvy: The third member of the group of dirty cops realizes immediately when [[INeverSaidItWasPoison he's accidentally outed himself]].


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* LipstickLesbian: Varma and Mayfair


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** The use of the stored bodycam footage reflects concerns that have been raised over what happens to footage when bodycams become more common.
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* [[INeverSaidItWasPoison I Never Said he was Gay]]: how [[spoiler: the precinct captain]] incriminates himself
* MoralityChain: the Martin Luther King letter is this for Mayfair

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* [[INeverSaidItWasPoison I Never Said he He was Gay]]: how How [[spoiler: the precinct captain]] incriminates himself
* MoralityChain: the The Martin Luther King letter is this for Mayfair
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Oops—used actor\'s name instead of character\'s name!


* WellIntentionedExtremist: three of them, actually: Mayfair, Varma, and Davis

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* WellIntentionedExtremist: three of them, actually: Mayfair, Varma, and DavisCarter

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* MoralityChain: the Martin Luther King letter is this for Mayfair



* RevealingCoverup: Mayfair "laundered" the intelligence produced by Daylight by sourcing it to her confidential informant Gurrero. The secret was revealed when Weller brought Gurrero in, and realized in the interrogation that Gurrero and Mayfair really didn't know each other.

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* RevealingCoverup: Mayfair "laundered" the intelligence produced by Daylight by sourcing it to her confidential informant Gurrero. The secret was revealed when Weller brought Gurrero in, in in the previous episode, and Weller realized in the interrogation that Gurrero and Mayfair really didn't know each other.

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* ClosetGay:
** The football player who's being blackmailed
** Varma and Mayfair

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* ClosetGay:
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ForcedOutOfTheCloset: The football player who's being blackmailed
** * LipstickLesbian: Varma and Mayfair



* [[INeverSaidItWasPoison I Never Said he was Gay]]: how [[spoiler: the precinct captain]] incriminates himself



** The situation in the 65th Precinct (police shooting an unarmed black male, apparent revenge killings of cops) is reminiscent of real life events in New York City and Furgeson, Missouri.

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** The situation in the 65th Precinct (police shooting an unarmed black male, apparent revenge killings of cops) is reminiscent of real life events in New York City City, Baltimore, and Furgeson, Ferguson, Missouri.



* WellIntentionedExtremist: Mayfair, Varma, and Davis

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* WellIntentionedExtremist: three of them, actually: Mayfair, Varma, and DavisDavis
* YouKnowTooMuch: Averted with the slain officer's widow--she really doesn't know anything, but one conspirator plans on killing her anyway.

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** LameExcuse[=/=]RationalizingTheOverkill: Sophia Varma justifies Daylight because it provided the White House with information that was used to blackmail members of Congress into funding Planned Parenthood

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** LameExcuse[=/=]RationalizingTheOverkill: Sophia Varma justifies crossing the MoralEventHorizon with Operation Daylight because it provided the White House with information that was used to blackmail members of Congress into funding Planned Parenthood



ClosetGay:
* The football player who's being blackmailed
* Varma and Mayfair

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* ClosetGay:
* ** The football player who's being blackmailed
* ** Varma and Mayfair


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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone
* RevealingCoverup: Mayfair "laundered" the intelligence produced by Daylight by sourcing it to her confidential informant Gurrero. The secret was revealed when Weller brought Gurrero in, and realized in the interrogation that Gurrero and Mayfair really didn't know each other.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines:
** The situation in the 65th Precinct (police shooting an unarmed black male, apparent revenge killings of cops) is reminiscent of real life events in New York City and Furgeson, Missouri.
** The existence of Daylight is revealed by an Edward Snowden {{Expy}}.
* SpurnedIntoSuicide: When the existence of Daylight is made public, [[spoiler: Varma]] proposes to [[spoiler: Mayfair]] that they move to Hong Kong to avoid extradition. When [[spoiler: Mayfair chooses instead to stay on the job and try to mitigate the damage, Varma takes her own life]].
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-> Anagram for: "Suspect everyone"

* BigBrotherIsWatching: Operation Daylight
** LameExcuse[=/=]RationalizingTheOverkill: Sophia Varma justifies Daylight because it provided the White House with information that was used to blackmail members of Congress into funding Planned Parenthood
* BrokenPedestal: Mayfair is standing on one, as far as Weller is concerned, thanks to her participation in Daylight
ClosetGay:
* The football player who's being blackmailed
* Varma and Mayfair
* GovernmentConspiracy:
** Operation Daylight, of course
** Also, the cops at the 65th Precinct who are using body camera footage for blackmail purposes
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Mayfair, Varma, and Davis

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