History Recap / HardyBoysCaseFiles10HostagesOfHate

* TheBigDamnKiss: Not directly described, but alluded to at the end:

-->'''Callie''': "You know, sometimes you can be a real jerk. (. . .) I was wondering how long you were going to wait before you kissed me."\\

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Frank spends the whole book with his protectiveness of Callie on full display, but she gets to save him a few times, too. She trips Habib from the floor when she sees him menacing Frank with a weapon; then, a few minutes later, when Habib briefly overpowers Frank during their struggle and prepares to finish him off, Callie ''chokes Habib with her own belt'' long enough for Frank to recover and rejoin the fight.

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Frank spends the whole book with his protective feelings for Callie on full display, but she gets to save him a few times, too. She trips Habib from the floor when she sees him menacing Frank with a weapon; then, a few minutes later, when Habib briefly overpowers Frank during their struggle and prepares to finish him off, Callie ''chokes Habib with her own belt'' long enough for Frank to recover and rejoin the fight.

* TakingTheHeat: Thanks to inter-agency politics and a secret deal struck between Espionage Resources (who gets to take the credit for the terrorists' defeat) and the Network (who ended up doing most of their job for them), ObstructiveBureaucrat Agent O'Neill gets the boys off the hook with Fenton Hardy by claiming that he recruited them to stop the terrorists and they were working for him all along, earning O'Neill Fenton's ire instead.

* TakingTheHeat: Thanks to interagency politics and a secret deal struck between U.S. Espionage Resources (who gets to take the credit for the terrorists' defeat) and the Network (who ended up doing most of U.S.E.R.'s job for them), ObstructiveBureaucrat Agent O'Neill gets the boys off the hook with Fenton Hardy by claiming that he recruited them to stop the terrorists and they were working for him all along, earning O'Neill Fenton's ire instead.

* TakingTheHeat: Thanks to interagency politics and a secret deal struck between U.S. Espionage Resources (who gets to take the credit for the terrorists' defeat) and the Network (who ended up doing most of U.S.E.R.'s job for them), ObstructiveBureaucrat Agent O'Neill gets the boys off the hook with Fenton Hardy by claiming that he recruited them to stop the terrorists and the boys were working for him all along, earning O'Neill Fenton's ire instead.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Espionage Resources Agent Roger O'Neill spends the book trying to get the Hardys off the case. It's understandable he's worried that they'll screw the whole thing up and cause the deaths of all the passengers on the plane, but he and the rest of Espionage Resources are so incompetent that they make little progress and don't even listen to the information that Callie secretly passes to Frank; this is why the boys strike out on their own in the first place. He mixes this with InspectorJavert later on as he continuously pursues them and tries to bring them in.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Espionage Resources Agent Roger O'Neill spends the book trying to get the Hardys off the case. While it's understandable that he's worried they'll screw the whole thing up and cause the deaths of all the passengers on the plane, he and the rest of Espionage Resources are so incompetent that they make little progress and don't even listen to the information that Callie secretly passed to Frank; this is what causes the boys to strike out on their own in the first place. He mixes this with InspectorJavert later on as he continuously pursues them and tries to bring them in.

** Played straight, however, with Olympia "Pia" Morrison, one of the terrorist group members, whom the boys work with for a while when they're [[TheInfiltration pretending to be part of ANWO]] so she'll lead them to the Dutchman. Pia even develops a VillainousCrush on Frank, not that he's at all interested.

** Played straight, however, with Olympia "Pia" Morrison, one of the members of the terrorist group, whom the boys work with for a while when they're [[TheInfiltration pretending to be part of ANWO]] so she'll lead them to the Dutchman. Pia even develops a VillainousCrush on Frank, not that he's at all interested.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Espionage Resources Agent Roger O'Neill spends the book trying to get the Hardys off the case. While it's understandable that he's worried they'll screw the whole thing up and cause the deaths of all the passengers on the plane, he and the rest of Espionage Resources are so incompetent that they make little progress and don't even listen to the information that Callie secretly passed to Frank; this is what causes the boys to strike out on their own in the first place. He later mixes this with InspectorJavert later on as he continuously pursues them and tries to bring them in.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Espionage Resources Agent Roger O'Neill spends the book trying to get the Hardys off the case; while it's understandable that he's worried they'll screw the whole thing up and cause the deaths of all the passengers on the plane, he and the rest of Espionage Resources are so incompetent that they make little progress and don't even listen to the information that Callie secretly passed to Frank; this is what causes the boys to strike out on their own in the first place. He later mixes this with InspectorJavert later on as he continuously pursues them and tries to bring them in.

* TerroristsWithoutACause: ANWO--the Army for the New World Order--is a pretty generic terrorist group that are willing to murder anyone and everyone as needed to advance their "cause"...which, as their name implies, is to create some kind of "new world order. Thing is, they never go into much detail about what this ideal world order actually ''is''.

* VillainousCrush: Pia Morrison, one of the ANWO terrorists, develops this for one of her new ANWO comrades, "Franz" (Frank). It's very one-sided, for many reasons.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Frank spends the whole book with his protective instincts for Callie on full display, but she gets to protect him a few times, too. She trips Habib from the floor when she sees him menacing Frank with a weapon; then, a few minutes later, when Habib briefly overpowers Frank during their struggle and prepares to finish him off, Callie ''chokes Habib with her own belt'' long enough for Frank to recover and rejoin the fight.

* DamselOutOfDistress: Despite being one of the prisoners on the hijacked plane and almost being executed early on, Callie still does her damndest to ruin the terrorists' day. She risks her life to send Frank a coded message on live TV containing vital intel about the hijacking; actively pays attention to her surroundings and remains on the lookout for anything she can do to help stop them; takes advantage of sitting in an aisle seat by tripping Habib when he advances on Frank; and even chokes Habib with her belt to keep him from finishing Frank off.

* EtTuBrute: Pia, who sees "Franz" and "Josef" as her comrades-in-arms and even develops a villainous crush on the former, is ''not'' happy when she discovers who they really are and that they're working against ANWO, and promptly tries and fails to kill them.

* JurisdictionFriction: Once the hijacking occurs, even after Frank passes Callie's information to the Gray Man and the head of the Network, the former admits that there's not much they can do, since U.S. Espionage Resources is in charge of handling negotiations with the terrorists. Still, the Gray Man promises to do what he can to assist them (even if it's not much), especially since it's a chance for the Network to show up U.S.E.R. (a rival agency).

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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Once Fenton Hardy catches up to the boys along with the U.S. government, he tries to warn them to stay off the case and let the government handle it. Frank then reminds him [[ItsPersonal how personal this is for him]] by asking, "Dad, if Mom were on that hijacked plane, what would you do?" Fenton weakly, and very unconvincingly, tries to claim he'd still go along with the government, but everyone hears the waver in his voice, and tellingly shuts up for the rest of the scene.

* DamselOutOfDistress

* VillainousCrush: Pia Morrison, one of the ANWO terrorists, develops this for one of her new ANWO comrades, "Franz" (Frank). It's very one-sided, for many reasons.

* CovertGroupWithMundaneFront: The secret government agencies attending the convention all have these. Network agents like the Gray Man are identified as members of the "Council on International Law", and U.S. Espionage Resources uses "National Advisory Committee on Terrorism".

* ExactWords

** Once again, mostly a subversion, since Callie once again takes the role of {{Deuteragonist}} and helps the Hardy Boys defeat the terrorists.

* TheInfiltration: Frank and Joe pretend to be new ANWO recruits named "Franz" and "Josef", and help Pia avoid the law so she'll take them right to the Dutchman, the leader of ANWO and brains behind the kidnapping.

* JurisdictionFriction:

* ObstructiveBureaucrat:

* PetTheDog:

The boys head to Washington DC to observe a counterterrorism seminar and exercise in which Callie Shaw is a participant. Callie is supposed to be a “passenger” on an aircraft that is “hijacked” by actors pretending to be terrorists so that various agencies can showcase their responses to this scenario. Things [[GoneHorriblyWrong go horribly wrong]] when actual terrorists storm the aircraft and fire live ammunition to subdue the passengers.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Pauline Fox is an IntrepidReporter who meets directly with the terrorists to broadcast their demands. However, when they're about to kill Callie right there on camera [[MakeAnExampleOfThem to demonstrate how far they'll go for their cause]], she ''instantly'' has her cameraman cut the feed and end the broadcast. Even though, as Lars points out, her job is to report the news, and Callie's murder would certainly qualify as news, Fox absolutely refuses to idly stand by and watch an innocent girl be murdered for the sake of headlines or ratings.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: When Callie is about to be killed on TV by the terrorists (before Pauline Fox saves her), she just closes her eyes, tries her best not to show any fear, and vows that she'll never cry or beg them for her life.

** Lars then tries to intimidate Fox into cooperating by threatening to kill her or her cameraman instead to set an example, but she's quick to point out that this will have the ''opposite'' effect of what ANWO wants: if they murder a reporter or cameraman, no other reporters and film crew will give them the time of day, and they'll have no way to get their message out to the world, which is vital for ANWO to keep the leverage they currently have.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Pauline Fox's above-mentioned refusal to broadcast on TV ANWO killing Callie or anyone else gets her taken hostage by the terrorists as well. Though it's clear she was very well aware that this would probably happen, and while she's shaken by it, doesn't at all regret her decision.

* OhCrap: Both of the Hardy Boys' responses when the terrorists are about to execute Callie on live TV, with Joe murmuring [[LittleNo "Oh no"]] and Frank giving a BigNO. Luckily for Callie, the reporter has other ideas.

* TakingTheHeat

* VillainousCrush:

* ArmorPiercingQuestion
* TheBigDamnKiss:

* EveryoneHasStandards

* MakeAnExampleOfThem

* OhCrap:

* PublicSecretMessage

* TrainingAccident: Actual terrorists use a fake airplane hijack / hostage scenario to actually seize the plane, take hostages and make demands.

While all the agencies out there are mired in JurisdictionFriction and petty bickering, Callie blinks out crucial details to Frank in Morse code with her eyes. This leads the boys on the trail of a new terrorist group called Army for the New World Order.