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* BlasphemousBoast: Leland being, well, [[FourEyesZeroSoul ''Leland,'']] manages to combine this with an outright death threat towards Kristen and her ''entire family'' in his gloating in the aftermath of the Orson trial.

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* BlasphemousBoast: Leland being, well, [[FourEyesZeroSoul ''Leland,'']] ''[[FourEyesZeroSoul Leland,]]'' manages to combine this with an outright death threat towards Kristen and her ''entire family'' in his gloating in the aftermath of the Orson trial.
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* EvilCounterpart: The Baphomet-like demon to whom Leland pours his heart out is a gentle-voiced therapist equivalent to Kristen's NiceGuy analyst Dr. Boggs.

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* EvilCounterpart: The Baphomet-like demon to whom Leland pours his heart out is a gentle-voiced therapist equivalent to Kristen's NiceGuy analyst Dr. Boggs.Boggs, down to even asking about Leland's dreams.
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* CallBack: Kristen's tearful question to David in the [[Recap/EvilS1E2177Minutes second episode]] about why only some people get miracles while talking about her daughter Laura's heart condition [[spoiler: is apparently answered when Laura, having just undergone a surgery to observe her failing heart valve, emerges from it completely healed.]] The doctor even calls it "miraculous."

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* CallBack: Kristen's tearful question to David in the [[Recap/EvilS1E2177Minutes second episode]] about why only some people get miracles while talking about her daughter Laura's heart condition [[spoiler: is apparently answered when Laura, having just undergone a surgery to observe her failing heart valve, emerges from it completely healed.]] The doctor even calls it "miraculous." Though given Andy's reveal that [[spoiler: the mantra he'd been saying throughout the episode offered to exchange his life for her health]], [[DealWithTheDevil well...]]
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* CallBack: Kristen's tearful question to David in the [[Recap/EvilS1E2117Minutes second episode]] about why only some people get miracles while talking about her daughter Laura's heart condition [[spoiler: is apparently answered when Laura, having just undergone a surgery to observe her failing heart valve, emerges from it completely healed.]] The doctor even calls it "miraculous."

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* CallBack: Kristen's tearful question to David in the [[Recap/EvilS1E2117Minutes [[Recap/EvilS1E2177Minutes second episode]] about why only some people get miracles while talking about her daughter Laura's heart condition [[spoiler: is apparently answered when Laura, having just undergone a surgery to observe her failing heart valve, emerges from it completely healed.]] The doctor even calls it "miraculous."
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* CallBack: Kristen's tearful question to David in the [[Recap/EvilS1E2117Minutes second episode]] about why only some people get miracles while talking about her daughter Laura's heart condition [[spoiler: is apparently answered when Laura, having just undergone a surgery to observe her failing heart valve, emerges from it completely healed.]] The doctor even calls it "miraculous."

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--> '''Andy, clearly attempting to make an excuse up on the spot:''' ...Oh, how do they learn anything? The Internet.



--> '''Andy, clearly attempting to make an excuse up on the spot:''' ...Oh, how do they learn anything? The Internet.
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* BugsHeraldEvil: After [[spoiler: Sonia shoots Lando and calls the police, walking back upstairs to await their arrival]], a cockroach crawls out of the crack in the wall she'd been staring at frequently throughout the episode, seeming to hear whispers through.
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* ThousandYardStare: Poor David is left with one of these after witnessing Sonia [[spoiler: murder Lando.]]
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* PreMortemOneLiner: Sonia gives a tearful one after Lando apologizes to her for contributing to the genocide of her people, before [[spoiler: shooting Lando in the head.]]

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* PreMortemOneLiner: Sonia gives a tearful one after Lando apologizes to her for contributing to the genocide of her people, before [[spoiler: shooting Lando him in the head.]]
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* PreMortemOneLiner: Sonia gives one of these before [[spoiler: shooting Lando in the head.]]
--> Sonia: Thank you. I forgive you. Your soul is clean.

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* PreMortemOneLiner: Sonia gives a tearful one after Lando apologizes to her for contributing to the genocide of these her people, before [[spoiler: shooting Lando in the head.]]
--> Sonia: '''Sonia:''' Thank you. I forgive you. Your soul is clean.
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* PreMortemOneLiner: Sonia gives one of these before [[spoiler: shooting Lando in the head.]]
--> Sonia: Thank you. I forgive you. Your soul is clean.
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* BlatantLies: Andy's attempts to convince Kristen that he didn't teach their daughters a Buddhist meditation chant to say while waiting for Laura to get out of surgery.
--> '''Andy, clearly attempting to make an excuse up on the spot:''' ...Oh, how do they learn anything? The Internet.
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--> '''Kristen:''' [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome God, you talk too much.]]

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--> '''Kristen:''' [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome [[SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfAwesome God, you talk too much.]]

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* ShutUpHannibal: Kristen shuts down Leland when he yet again threatens to destroy her family, starting with "God, you talk too much" and laying out every detail she's learned about his real history. Also doubles as a very satisfying TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.

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* ShutUpHannibal: Kristen shuts down Leland when he yet again threatens to destroy her family, starting with "God, you talk too much" and laying out every detail she's learned about his real history. history and proving that he now has very real reason [[OhCrap to stop dismissing her as a threat.]] Also doubles as a very satisfying TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
--> '''Kristen:''' [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome God, you talk too much.]]
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--> '''Leland:''' I'm gonna do for you what God did for Job. Job had only three daughters. God killed them. You have four daughters. I'm gonna kill every last one, then your husband, and then burn down your house.

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--> '''Leland:''' I'm gonna do for you what God did for Job. Job had only three daughters. God killed them. You have four daughters. [[ForTheEvulz I'm gonna kill every last one, then your husband, and then burn down your house. house.]]
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* BlasphemousBoast: Leland being, well, [[FourEyesZeroSoul ''Leland,'']] manages to combine this with an outright death threat towards Kristen and her ''entire family'' in his gloating in the aftermath of the Orson trial.
--> '''Leland:''' I'm gonna do for you what God did for Job. Job had only three daughters. God killed them. You have four daughters. I'm gonna kill every last one, then your husband, and then burn down your house.
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* ElectromagneticGhosts: Leland's very presence behind Kristen when she turns her phone back on after court seems to make her phone suddenly begin to glitch out and stop working, much along the lines of the way he somehow caused only his side of a voice recording she took of a conversation of theirs to distort unrecognizably earlier in the season; implied to be a result of his demonic connections.
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* TheReveal: Leland Townsend, who prides himself on being better than everyone else and inherently superior to them is actually [[spoiler: Jake Perry, an insurance adjuster from Des Moines whose real past is far less impressive than he'd lead you to believe.]]

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* TheReveal: Leland Townsend, who prides himself on being better than everyone else and inherently superior to them Townsend is actually [[spoiler: a false identity taken on by a man named Jake Perry, an insurance adjuster from Des Moines whose real past is far less impressive than he'd lead you to believe.]]
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* EvilCounterpart: The Baphomet-like demon (real or not) to whom Leland pours his heart out is a gentle-voiced therapist equivalent to Kristen's NiceGuy analyst Dr. Boggs.

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* EvilCounterpart: The Baphomet-like demon (real or not) to whom Leland pours his heart out is a gentle-voiced therapist equivalent to Kristen's NiceGuy analyst Dr. Boggs.



* TheReveal: "Leland Townsend" is actually Jake Perry, an insurance adjuster from Des Moines whose real past is less impressive than he'd lead you to believe.
* ShutUpHannibal: Kristen shuts down Leland when he yet again threatens to destroy her family, starting with "God you talk too much" and laying out every detail she's learned about his real history. Also doubles as a ReasonYouSuckSpeech.

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* TheReveal: "Leland Townsend" Leland Townsend, who prides himself on being better than everyone else and inherently superior to them is actually [[spoiler: Jake Perry, an insurance adjuster from Des Moines whose real past is far less impressive than he'd lead you to believe.
believe.]]
* ShutUpHannibal: Kristen shuts down Leland when he yet again threatens to destroy her family, starting with "God "God, you talk too much" and laying out every detail she's learned about his real history. Also doubles as a ReasonYouSuckSpeech.very satisfying TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
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* BandGeek: Kristen even knows that Leland used to play trombone in school band, which he's apparently defensive about.

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* ShutUpHannibal: Kristen shuts down Leland when he yet again threatens to destroy her family, starting with "God you talk too much" and laying out every detail she's learned about his real history.

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* ShutUpHannibal: Kristen shuts down Leland when he yet again threatens to destroy her family, starting with "God you talk too much" and laying out every detail she's learned about his real history. Also doubles as a ReasonYouSuckSpeech.
* VillainousBreakdown: Leland doesn't take the humiliation Kristen dealt to him very well, and rants to his demon therapist about it.
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!Justice x2
-->Written by: Dewayne Darian Jones\\
Directed by: Rob Hardy\\
Airdate: January 16, 2020

An old friend of David's calls him to witness her seeking justice against an old enemy. Leland Townsend sets in motion a plan to free [[Recap/EvilS1E1Pilot Orson LeRoux]] from prison.

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* BandGeek: Kristen even knows that Leland used to play trombone in school band, which he's apparently defensive about.
* EvilCounterpart: The Baphomet-like demon (real or not) to whom Leland pours his heart out is a gentle-voiced therapist equivalent to Kristen's NiceGuy analyst Dr. Boggs.
* HoneyTrap: Lando goes with Sonia to her apartment clearly thinking that he's going to score with a fan. It's only when she repeats one of his hateful old "cockroach" jokes that he starts to see what's really happening and tries to leave.
* RetiredMonster: Sonia abducts Lando because she recognizes him as one of the "hate radio" deejays whose words were used to justify Hutus killing Tutsis ''en masse'' in the UsefulNotes/{{Rwanda}} genocide.
* TheReveal: "Leland Townsend" is actually Jake Perry, an insurance adjuster from Des Moines whose real past is less impressive than he'd lead you to believe.
* ShutUpHannibal: Kristen shuts down Leland when he yet again threatens to destroy her family, starting with "God you talk too much" and laying out every detail she's learned about his real history.

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