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-->''Where ivory towers meet the eastern sea, young trees of knowledge will fall. Crushed by the thorny vine of a red rose.''

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-->''Where ivory towers meet the eastern sea, young sea,\\
Young
trees of knowledge will fall. fall.\\
Crushed by the thorny vine of a red rose.''
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* MindOverMatter: Lara uses telekinesis to kill people by inducing the bends.
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-->Quatrain 6, Century 8

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-->Quatrain --->'''Quatrain 6, Century 8
8'''
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-->Quatrain 6, Century 8
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-->''Where ivory towers meet the eastern sea, young trees of knowledge will fall. Crushed by the thorny vine of a red rose.''
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* ScmuckBait: Colonel Grace's offer to expunge Cade's criminal record in exchange for his apprehending Lara. C'mon, Cade, you didn't really believe that, did you?

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* ScmuckBait: SchmuckBait: Colonel Grace's offer to expunge Cade's criminal record in exchange for his apprehending Lara. C'mon, Cade, you didn't really believe that, did you?
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Cade takes the place of a grad student who apparently died of 'the bends' on dry land and meets Lara the last person to see the student alive. Cade tries to discover the truth about this temptress who can seemingly kill with a look.

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* AbortedArc: Colonel Grace, leader of some kind of black ops unit who seems to know about the Gua as well as the truth about Cade. She's set up as a recurring antagonist, but after this she appears in one more episode and is referred to in another. It's not established what her agenda is or even if she's human.
* CompellingVoice: The titular "Mata Hari", Lara, has the power to force people to do what she tells them. Cade startles himself by immediately telling her he's a fugitive when she calls bullshit on his cover story.
* FreudianExcuse: Lara was sold by her parents to the U.S. Government after her psychic powers became known. They used her for years, but she escaped and became a PsychoForHire.
* MacGuffin: Lara's overall purpose is to prevent a system of satellites from being deployed that could be used against a Gua attack from space.
* ScmuckBait: Colonel Grace's offer to expunge Cade's criminal record in exchange for his apprehending Lara. C'mon, Cade, you didn't really believe that, did you?

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