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* UnintentionalFinalMessage: Alex left Tom a voicemail saying she loves him right before she died in an accident. Tom listens to it over and over.
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Ten weeks after Alex Kirkman's death, Tom is still trying to come to terms with his grief over her death while struggling to defuse a hostage situation involving a group of trade delegates caught in Cuba.
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Ten weeks after Alex Kirkman's death, Tom is still trying to come to terms with his grief over her death [[TitleDrop grief]] while struggling to defuse a hostage situation involving a group of trade delegates caught in Cuba.
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* InnocenceLost: A flashback shows how distraught Leo and Penny Kirkman were when Tom had to inform them of their mother's death.
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Ten weeks after Alex Kirkman's death, Tom is still trying to come to terms with his grief over her death while struggling to defuse a group of trade delegates caught in a hostage situation in Cuba.
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!!Tropes in this episode:
* TheCastShowoff: Adan Canto plays Aaron Shore and is fluently bilingual in English and Spanish, which he gets to demonstrate.
* CreatorCameo: Episode director Timothy Busfield plays Kirkman's therapist.
* FalseFlagOperation: Of sorts. The leader of the Cuban rebels has struck a bargain with the Cuban president to get the rest of his rebel organization demolished by the American military, while the lead insurrectionist himself retires to a life of relative peace.
* InnocenceLost: A flashback shows how distraught Leo and Penny Kirkman were when Tom had to inform them of their mother's death.
* TheLostLenore: Alex is heavily this for Tom, and it's impacting his ability to function as president.
* TheMole: A prominent businessman on the trip is actually in league with the Cuban rebels, which Hannah witnesses and reveals to Aaron.
* ObfuscatingDisability: A businessman who is actually TheMole fakes a broken hand to hide his ties with the rebels. Aaron [[SpottingTheThread notices]] that the man's wrist and hand are actually fine, and proves it by tossing the man a fruit.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Cuba and the United States seeking closer international ties.
* TheShrink: Kirkman has unhappily been seeing one, played by director Timothy Busfield.
* TimeSkip: It's been about ten weeks in-universe since Alex Kirkman's death in the preceding episode, "Line of Fire".
* WeNeedADistraction: Aaron gets into a deliberate and physical argument to provide cover for Hannah escaping the shack the captives are held in. Unfortunately, she is recaptured before getting too far.
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!!Tropes in this episode:
* TheCastShowoff: Adan Canto plays Aaron Shore and is fluently bilingual in English and Spanish, which he gets to demonstrate.
* CreatorCameo: Episode director Timothy Busfield plays Kirkman's therapist.
* FalseFlagOperation: Of sorts. The leader of the Cuban rebels has struck a bargain with the Cuban president to get the rest of his rebel organization demolished by the American military, while the lead insurrectionist himself retires to a life of relative peace.
* InnocenceLost: A flashback shows how distraught Leo and Penny Kirkman were when Tom had to inform them of their mother's death.
* TheLostLenore: Alex is heavily this for Tom, and it's impacting his ability to function as president.
* TheMole: A prominent businessman on the trip is actually in league with the Cuban rebels, which Hannah witnesses and reveals to Aaron.
* ObfuscatingDisability: A businessman who is actually TheMole fakes a broken hand to hide his ties with the rebels. Aaron [[SpottingTheThread notices]] that the man's wrist and hand are actually fine, and proves it by tossing the man a fruit.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Cuba and the United States seeking closer international ties.
* TheShrink: Kirkman has unhappily been seeing one, played by director Timothy Busfield.
* TimeSkip: It's been about ten weeks in-universe since Alex Kirkman's death in the preceding episode, "Line of Fire".
* WeNeedADistraction: Aaron gets into a deliberate and physical argument to provide cover for Hannah escaping the shack the captives are held in. Unfortunately, she is recaptured before getting too far.
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