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* ADateWithRosiePalms: A young Helena caught a nun masturbating, and the nun proceeded to punish her by [[DisproportionateRetribution dunking her head in bleach.]]
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thesouthpaw is detroped per TRS, doesn't fit any subtypes
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* TheSouthpaw: Helena's left-handedness becomes plot-relevant again. Coady leaves a surgical tray on her left side and she's able to maneuver it close enough to grab a pair of scissors off it.
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* TheBait: Sarah plans to play this role, by showing up as Rachel and distracting John into a MotiveRant. The part where Art tracks her back to the place where the remaining Neolutionists are holed up works pretty well; the distraction part, not so much.
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* BavarianFireDrill: Scott and Hell Wizard get through the police cordon around Dyad by carrying a cooler and repeatedly uttering the words "pediatric heart transplant".
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* TrackingDevice: On the car with Sarah in the trunk.
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* OutOfCharacterAlert: John gets suspicious of Sarah pretending to be Rachel when she calls him "father".
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* OutOfCharacterAlert: John gets suspicious of Sarah pretending to be Rachel when she calls him "father"."father", something Rachel had never done.
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* TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: Most of the Neolution board members are dead of "suicide". It's not clear how many of them are actual suicides, but given that John explicitly sent Frontenac to murder Al-Qatib, at least some of them probably fall under this trope.
* TheOtherDarrin: Young Helena is played by a different actress and not Cynthia Galant (who has earlier played young Rachel as well as Charlotte). WordOfGod handwaved this by saying the Helena in this episode is meant as a flashback to a younger age.
* OutOfCharacterAlert: John gets suspicious of Sarah pretending to be Rachel when she calls him "father".
* OutOfCharacterAlert: John gets suspicious of Sarah pretending to be Rachel when she calls him "father".
* TheReveal: This episode finally reveals the true intents of the Neolution Movement. John wants to create a serum that would allow people (namely those in the upper class) to permanently reverse any form of cell damage and confer a person immunity from any disease. As for the rest? They would likely be sterilised by the Castor pathogen using the creams from the company purchased from Len Sipps.
* TheSouthpaw: Helena's left-handedness becomes plot-relevant again. Coady leaves a surgical tray on her left side and she's able to maneuver it close enough to grab a pair of scissors off it.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Young Helena is played by a different actress and not Cynthia Galant (who has earlier played young Rachel as well as Charlotte). WordOfGod handwaved this by saying the Helena in this episode is meant as a flashback to a younger age.
* TheReveal: This episode finally reveals the true intents of the Neolution Movement. John wants to create a serum that would allow people (namely those in the upper class) to permanently reverse any form of cell damage and confer a person immunity from any disease. As for the rest? They would likely be sterilised by the Castor pathogen using the creams from the company purchased from Len Sipps.
* TheReveal: This episode finally reveals the true intents of the Neolution Movement. John wants to create a serum that would allow people (namely those in the upper class) to permanently reverse any form of cell damage and confer a person immunity from any disease. As for the rest? They would likely be sterilised by the Castor pathogen using the creams from the company purchased from Len Sipps.
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explaining why Cynthia Galant, for those to whom the name isn't instantly familiar. Don't assume instant-familiar.
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* PregnantBadass: Despite suffering blood loss and actively undergoing labor contractions, Helena still has enough strength to beat Dr. Coady's skull into a bloodied mess.
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* PregnantBadass: Despite suffering blood loss and actively undergoing labor contractions, Helena still has enough strength to beat Dr. Coady's skull into a bloodied mess. [[spoiler: Still alive though.]]
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* TheOtherDarrin: Young Helena is played by a different actress and not Cynthia Galant.Galant (who has earlier played young Rachel as well as Charlotte). WordOfGod handwaved this by saying the Helena in this episode is meant as a flashback to a younger age.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Despite the Proletheans making a return here, their exact relationship with Neolution is still not explained. Not only that, we don't see Henrik Johannsen, or any mention of why Tomas followed a directly different than Johannsen is.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Despite the Proletheans making a return here, their exact relationship with Neolution is still not explained. Not only that, we don't see Henrik Johannsen, or any mention of why Tomas followed a directly path different than Johannsen is.Johannsen.
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* ButNowIMustGo: Felix reads a letter written by Siobahn that she penned in the previous episode before the plot to expose Neolution was in full swing.
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* ButNowIMustGo: Felix reads a letter written by Siobahn Siobhan that she penned in the previous episode before the plot to expose Neolution was in full swing.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Dr. Coady is disturbed that Maddie Enger executed Gracie in the prior episode and also does not want to kill Mark Rollins when John insists. She eventually relents and gives Mark a lethal injection, but is clearly disturbed in doing so.
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* TwinSwitch: Sarah decides to have Rachel given up to Neolution given that there is likely a price on her head. But it's not Rachel, but Sarah, as John figures out pretty quickly.
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* ChekhovsGun: The Castor Pathogen is mentioned here, and its role is finally confirmed: to be mass produced and put in creams from Len Sipps's company.
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* TheReveal: This episode finally reveals the true intents of the Neolution Movement. John wants to create a serum that would allow people to permanently reverse any form of cell damage and confer a person immunity from any disease. As for the rest? They would likely be sterilised by the Castor pathogen using the creams from the company purchased from Len Sipps.
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* TheReveal: This episode finally reveals the true intents of the Neolution Movement. John wants to create a serum that would allow people (namely those in the upper class) to permanently reverse any form of cell damage and confer a person immunity from any disease. As for the rest? They would likely be sterilised by the Castor pathogen using the creams from the company purchased from Len Sipps.
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* BigEater: Young Helena is not immune to her older self's big appetite, stealing candy from a nun's drawer before the nun comes in wanting to masturbate.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: A young Helena caught a nun masturbating, and the nun proceeded to get revenge by [[DisproportionateRetribution dunking her head in bleach.]] And that's how Helena first got her hair bleached!
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* CurbStompBattle: Dr. Coady gets too close to Helena while she is in labour, allowing Helena to use Dr. Coady's head as a basketball against the bedrail.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: A young Helena caught a nun masturbating, and the nun proceeded toget revenge punish her by [[DisproportionateRetribution dunking her head in bleach.]] And that's how Helena first got her hair bleached!]]
* ADateWithRosiePalms: A young Helena caught a nun masturbating, and the nun proceeded to
* DisproportionateRetribution: The nun does this to Helena when the latter catches nun masturbating. The nun proceeds to dunk Helena's head in bleach, which explains her bleached hair, and red eyes.
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* TheReveal: This episode finally reveals the true intents of the Neolution Movement. John wants to create a serum that would allow people to permanently reverse any form of cell damage and confer a person immunity. As for the rest? They would likely be sterilized by the Castor pathogen using the creams from the company purchased from Len Sipps.
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* TheReveal: This episode finally reveals the true intents of the Neolution Movement. John wants to create a serum that would allow people to permanently reverse any form of cell damage and confer a person immunity. immunity from any disease. As for the rest? They would likely be sterilized sterilised by the Castor pathogen using the creams from the company purchased from Len Sipps.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: A young Helena caught a nun masturbating, and the nun proceeded to get revenge by [[DisproportionateRetribution dunking her head in bleach.]] And that's how Helena first got her hair bleached!
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* OhCrap: Helena when [[{{Cliffhanger}} her water breaks.]]
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* CallBack: The Prolethean dagger that Helena uses returns here.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Young Helena is played by a different actress and not Cynthia Galant.
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StartOfDarkness: We see the abuse that Helena suffered before she was turned over to Tomas where she became a brutal assassin.
* TheOtherDarrin: Young Helena is played by a different actress and not Cynthia Galant. \n WordOfGod handwaved this by saying the Helena in this episode is meant as a flashback to a younger age.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Despite the Proletheans making a return here, their exact relationship with Neolution is still not explained. Not only that, we don't see Henrik Johannsen, or any mention of why Tomas followed a directly different than Johannsen is.
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*BaldOfEvil: John's hair is actually a wig, showing how much in dire straits he truly is in.
*TheBusCameBack: Tomas returns in a flashback, having been killed off in Season 2.
*ButNowIMustGo: Felix reads a letter written by Siobahn that she penned in the previous episode before the plot to expose Neolution was in full swing.
*CantKillYouStillNeedYou: John is quite pissed off Sarah (dressed as Rachel) for attacking him and is ready to finish her off, when Dr. Coady bursts in saying that Helena needs blood, lots of blood, and as her identical twin, Sarah can provide this via a transfusion.
*ADayInTheLimelight: This is essentially Helena's episode.
*DrivenToSuicide: Helena attempts to shield her children from experimentation by deciding to commit suicide by slicing her wrists with a pair of scissors. It doesn't work, as Dr. Coady is able to save her before she loses too much blood.
*DueToTheDead: Subverted by Cosima and Alison given that only Sarah is able to go to Mrs. S's funeral.
*ExactWords: When Mark asks when he can see Gracie again (not knowing that Maddie executed her in the previous episode), Dr. Coady responds by saying that she will be there when he wakes up. Just not in this life.
*HiddenInPlainSight: No one figured out that Helena was being held at an old wing at the Dyad institute.
*OhCrap: Helena when her water breaks.
*PregnantBadass: Despite suffering blood loss and actively undergoing labor contractions, Helena still has enough strength to beat Dr. Coady's skull into a bloodied mess.
*RunningGag: Continuing on a plot point from Season 3, Rachel isn't too happy to see Scott again.
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*TheOtherDarrin: Young Helena is played by a different actress and not Cynthia Galant.
WordOfGod handwaved this by saying the Helena in this episode is meant as a flashback to a younger age.
*TheReveal: This episode finally reveals the true intents of the Neolution Movement. John wants to create a serum that would allow people to permanently reverse any form of cell damage and confer a person immunity. As for the rest? They would likely be sterilized by the Castor pathogen using the creams from the company purchased from Len Sipps.
*YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:
** John orders Dr. Coady to dispose of Mark Rollins as they already have isolated the Castor Pathogen for their own ends.
** Various board members of Neolution are given this as John tries to cover up his tracks as much as he can.
