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* RagnarokProofing: The cabin that Kentaro finds looks like it's been disused for decades, and it's been exposed to the elements with windows broken open to boot. Yet the cabin's radio, which has been partly broken open with pieces hanging loose, is still in working order and it ''still'' has an electrical supply keeping it on before Kentaro ever touches it -- whilst Kentaro theorizes at the episode's end that Hiroshi repaired the radio in time since the cabin's original occupants abandoned it, that's still roughly a year that the radio's been left lying in subarctic conditions with its innards exposed and no-one tending to it.

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* RagnarokProofing: The cabin that Kentaro finds looks like it's been disused for decades, and it's been exposed to the elements with windows broken open to boot. Yet the cabin's radio, which has been partly broken open with pieces hanging loose, is still in working order and it ''still'' has an electrical supply keeping it on before Kentaro ever touches it -- whilst Kentaro theorizes at the episode's end that Hiroshi repaired the radio in the time since the cabin's original occupants abandoned it, that's still roughly a year that the radio's been left lying in subarctic conditions with its innards exposed and no-one tending to it.
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* BigDamnHeroes: The next we see of Kentaro after he snaps out of his hallucination, half-hypothermic in a derelict cabin with a radio is him sliding open the door on one of the helicopters that are coming to his friends' rescue to reveal himself already onboard, having successfully called in help using the cabin's radio.


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* ChopperOnStandby: A helicopter comes flying in to save the stranded cast; just in time too, as the Frost Vark attacks them again, and it narrowly avoids turning into a ShortLivedAerialEscape.


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* DrawAggro: Lee tries [[SubvertedTrope and fails]] to draw the Frost Vark's attention to himself when it starts chasing Cate and May across the snowpack.


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* HoldingHands: Cate and May hold hands at the end, relieved that they both made it out alive, and May thanks Cate for not leaving her behind.


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* LittleNo: Lee lets out a couple small, panicked "no's" when the Frost Vark is chasing Cate and May at night, and he realizes he's lost the fuse he needed to light a fire amid the creature's initial DynamicEntry. Later, Lee lets out an even softer no when he realizes that all the data on May's laptop including the Randa files (the physical copies of which were burnt earlier) are lost, setting the cast's quest to find Hiroshi back massively.


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* OhCrap:
** Lee panics and lets out a couple [[LittleNo little "no's"]] when he realizes just after the Frost Vark has started attacking again and is chasing his allies that he's lost the fuse he needed to trigger a fire that'll distract it.
** Cate and Kentaro stare with looks on their faces that just say "we are screwed" when Tim and Duvall greet them at their aerial rescue's landing zone.


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* RadioVoice: In Kentaro's hallucination, Hiroshi's voice distorts with hissing static as Kentaro begins snapping back to reality, due to the static coming from a nearby [[RagnarokProofing functional radio]].
* RagnarokProofing: The cabin that Kentaro finds looks like it's been disused for decades, and it's been exposed to the elements with windows broken open to boot. Yet the cabin's radio, which has been partly broken open with pieces hanging loose, is still in working order and it ''still'' has an electrical supply keeping it on before Kentaro ever touches it -- whilst Kentaro theorizes at the episode's end that Hiroshi repaired the radio in time since the cabin's original occupants abandoned it, that's still roughly a year that the radio's been left lying in subarctic conditions with its innards exposed and no-one tending to it.
* RapidFireNo: Lee says "no" over and over when he realizes the Frost Vark destroyed May's laptop beyond repair, and with it the last copy the group (seemingly) had of Bill Randa's files.


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** Cate screams May's name when they're running for their lives towards rescue from the Frost Vark at night.
** Cate and May both exclaim Kentaro's name in shock when they see him again [[BigDamnHeroes aboard the approaching rescue chopper]].


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* SoProudOfYou: Kentaro hallucinates Hiroshi saying he's proud of him.
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* AbandonedArea: Kentaro comes across an abandoned, derelict station straight out of a horror movie at night.


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* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: A hypothermic May at one point tries to tell the others to leave her behind and save themselves, but Cate refuses.
* LetsSplitUpGang: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Kentaro splits from the rest of the surviving cast to reach a manmade structure that he thinks he saw before they landed and hopefully call for help, while the others are set on making to the coast where they have a chance of attracting rescue.


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* PleaseDontLeaveMe: A hallucinating Kentaro begs his missing father not to leave him behind.


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* TrailOfBreadCrumbs: Hiroshi left a trail of pencil-shavings in the snow from his signature habit, which guide Kentaro to the abandoned radio station.

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* GoingInCircles: Shaw, Cate and May attempt to heat down the mountains to the coast in the hopes of attracting rescue, but midway through the episode, they find they've gone in a circle when they end up walking right back to Hiroshi's {{abandoned camp ruins}}.

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* GoingInCircles: Shaw, Cate and May attempt to heat head down the mountains to the coast in the hopes of attracting rescue, but midway through the episode, they find they've gone in a complete circle when they end up walking right back to Hiroshi's {{abandoned camp ruins}}.



* HearingVoices: While {{braving the blizzard}}, Kentaro hallucinates the voices and words of people he knows mixing with the howling wind, and he reacts to them as if they're really there in his delirium. It sounds like something straight out of the fog scene in ''Film/TheWomanInBlack2012''.

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* HearingVoices: While {{braving the blizzard}}, Kentaro hallucinates the voices and words of people he knows mixing with the howling wind, and he reacts to them as if they're really there in his delirium. It sounds like something straight out of the fog scene in ''Film/TheWomanInBlack2012''.''Film/TheWomanInBlack''.



* OhCrap:



shoots him down, stating that it's better to start a panic over nothing than to risk another massacre of human life on par with G-Day.
* SingleSpecimenSpecies: {{Lampshade|Hanginhg}}d by Shaw, who points out the rule of thumb that no two living Titans are the same.

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shoots him down, stating that it's better to start a panic over nothing than to risk another massacre of human life on par with G-Day.
* SingleSpecimenSpecies: {{Lampshade|Hanginhg}}d {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Shaw, who points out the rule of thumb that no two living Titans are the same.



* ThisCannotBe: One of the Monarch officials at Verdugo's briefing exclaims that it's impossible when she reveals a radiation signature matching that from the G-Day Titan emergences has been detected in Alaska.

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* ThisCannotBe: One of the Monarch officials at Verdugo's briefing exclaims that it's impossible when she reveals a radiation gamma signature matching that from the G-Day Titan emergences has been detected in Alaska.



* VillainousRescue: Well, HeroAntagonist rescue. Kentaro manages to call for rescue, but are met by Tim and Monarch when they land because they've detected a radiation surge in the area similar to the readings of G-Day.

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* VillainousRescue: Well, HeroAntagonist rescue.Rescue. Kentaro manages to call for rescue, but are met by Tim and Monarch when they land because they've detected a radiation surge in the area similar to the readings of G-Day.

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* BravingTheBlizzard: Kentaro gets caught in a blizzard on his own while fighting to reach an abandoned research station.



* EurekaMoment: Shaw realizes that the Frost Vark is attracted to the warmest sources of heat around when he sees it resurge to absorb their campfire's heat, later expositing that it attacked Du-Ho's plane because it was drawn by the fire from the plane's exploding engine.
* GoingInCircles: Shaw, Cate and May attempt to heat down the mountains to the coast in the hopes of attracting rescue, but midway through the episode, they find they've gone in a circle when they end up walking right back to Hiroshi's {{abandoned camp ruins}}.
* HappyPlace: Cate keeps a delirious May grounded by making her think vividly of post-rescue warmth and safety.
* HearingVoices: While {{braving the blizzard}}, Kentaro hallucinates the voices and words of people he knows mixing with the howling wind, and he reacts to them as if they're really there in his delirium. It sounds like something straight out of the fog scene in ''Film/TheWomanInBlack2012''.
* HeldGaze: Kentaro and May hold each-other's gazes for a few moments just before they engage their first kiss.
* HideAndSeekHorror: After Du-Ho's death, the remainder of the party flee into an ice cave to hide from the Frost Vark.
* HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier: {{Implied|Trope}} in May and Kentaro's first meeting when May remarks in English that the name of Kentaro's art show "sounds pretentious", before Kentaro reveals that he speaks English.
* HollywoodDarkness: At night, the Alaskan tundra is blue-tinted and lit well enough for the audience to clearly see everything.
* IfIDoNotReturn: May asks Cate to contact her sister if she doesn't make it out alive.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: A hypothermic and delirious May finds the idea of post-rescue whiskey a lot more alluring than hot coffee in light of her ordeal.
* IronicEchoCut: The cut from the first flashback of Kentaro and May's first meeting back to the present situation in Alaska features Kentaro in both time periods echoing May's name at her. In the flashback, he's testing May's name on his tongue when she introduces herself, in Alaska he's calling out to her in concern.
* ModestyBedsheet: May in Kentaro's post-coital flashback has a bedsheet covering her chest from the camera.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Cate adamantly makes it clear she won't May behind, even when May is worrying she won't survive.
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* SayMyName:
** Cate whispers Du-Ho's name in horror when seeing his freeze-dried corpse.
** Cate and Lee both scream Kentaro's name in distress when the Frost Vark targets him.
* ScientistVsSoldier: At the Monarch briefing, the U.S. military's representative advocates for erring on the side of proactive caution even if it means disturbing the peace and mobilizing for what could be nothing, while a Monarch official doesn't think that the new Titan energy signature in Alaska is any reason to worry on its own and he plays the ZombieAdvocate in regard to any Titans that might be present in the area.
shoots him down, stating that it's better to start a panic over nothing than to risk another massacre of human life on par with G-Day.
* SingleSpecimenSpecies: {{Lampshade|Hanginhg}}d by Shaw, who points out the rule of thumb that no two living Titans are the same.
* TalkingInBed: Kentaro and May talk about each-other in the flashback to their night together.
* ThisCannotBe: One of the Monarch officials at Verdugo's briefing exclaims that it's impossible when she reveals a radiation signature matching that from the G-Day Titan emergences has been detected in Alaska.
* TitleDrop: The episode title is the name of Kentaro's art show in his flashbacks to meeting May.



* VillainousRescue: Kentaro manages to call for rescue, but are met by Tim and Monarch when they land because they've detected a radiation surge in the area similar to the readings of G-Day.

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* VillainousRescue: Well, HeroAntagonist rescue. Kentaro manages to call for rescue, but are met by Tim and Monarch when they land because they've detected a radiation surge in the area similar to the readings of G-Day.G-Day.
* WintryAuroralSky: The cast are marooned in the highlands of Alaska at night, struggling against the cold, with the green ''Aurora borealis'' above their heads.
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After narrowly evading the Frost Vark, the group has to find a way to civilization before the freeze to death.

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* DeliciousDistraction: Realizing the Frost Vark is attracted to heat and feeds on it.

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* DeliciousDistraction: Realizing the Frost Vark is attracted to heat and feeds on it, Lee sets up a bonfire to distract it.
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* DeliciousDistraction: Realizing the Frost Vark is attracted to heat and feeds on it.
* EnergyAbsorption: The Frost Vark sucks up heat energy similar to how Godzilla is fueled by radiation, which is how it freezes things solid.
* VikingFuneral: As part of his trap for the Frost Vark, Lee pours fuel over the plane remnants and Du-Ho's corpse for a proper send-off, reminiscing about their first meeting as he sets things up.
* VillainousRescue: Kentaro manages to call for rescue, but are met by Tim and Monarch when they land because they've detected a radiation surge in the area similar to the readings of G-Day.

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