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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: A subtle one, but when Reese is firing his shotgun while outside you can hear each shot echoing down the street.



* WhoAreYou: Reese notes that he's going to have to think up a good answer to that question.

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* WhoAreYou: Reese notes that he's going to have to think up a good answer to that question.question.
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* BadassAndChildDuo: Reese and Darren.

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* BadassAndChildDuo: Reese and Darren. Reese even {{lampshades}} it near the end when Darren shows him the drawing of them he made.
--> '''Reese:''' You know, I always wanted a sidekick.



* ProperlyParanoid: Alicia Corwin

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* ProperlyParanoid: Alicia CorwinCorwin. She's mentioned as living in a small town in West Virginia with no wifi or phone reception, presumably to remain out of the eyes and ears of the Machine. When she meets with Will in New York City she's very obviously on edge for the whole conversation.



* SympatheticMurderer: Darren.

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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: A subtle one, but when Reese is firing his shotgun while outside you can hear each shot echoing down the street.
* SympatheticMurderer: Darren.Darren almost becomes this, but in the end he can't go through with it.



* [[HeKnowsTooMuch They Know Too Much]]: Reese and Fusco.
* TimeForPlanB: It's even labelled as such. Over the course of the series, the bag gets several new items ranging from a SPAS-12 shotgun to a high calibre sniper rifle.

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* [[HeKnowsTooMuch They Know Too Much]]: Reese and Fusco.
Fusco. The last shot in the show is the Machine framing them both with red boxes before choosing to monitor them.
* TimeForPlanB: It's even labelled as such. Over the course of the series, the bag gets several new items ranging from a SPAS-12 shotgun to a high calibre caliber sniper rifle.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Come here, you brat.]]
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The latest number is Darren [=McGrady=], a teenage boy whose older brother was recently murdered by small-time thugs. Reese intervenes in time to stop Darren from trying to kill the thugs himself, and when efforts to hole the kid up somewhere safe prove futile, Reese decides to take Darren under his wing and help him get non-lethal revenge on the thugs who killed his brother. They work their way up the ladder to Andre, who runs a comic book store and a numbers game, but when Darren tries to take Andre out on his own, Reese is forced to take on the whole crew and deliver them to Carter.

Meanwhile, Will Ingram is continuing to investigate his father's legacy, specifically the seven-year period where he shut down his company, IFT, and put it to work on a secret project. Will has found a champagne cork and a reference to the Machine going online a day before the $1 contract was signed, and tracks down Nathan's government contact, Alicia Corwin, who has since retired to a small town in the countryside with no wi-fi, no cell reception and no way for the Machine to track her. Alicia doesn't spill the beans about the Machine, and at the mention of "Harold Wren" -- Finch's alias he uses with Will -- she rabbits. With his father knocked off a pedestal, Will decides to leave New York.

Fusco reports what he's learned in his investigation of Finch: he attended university under the name Harold Wren and graduated with Will's father, Nathan, who died a couple of years earlier. In response to Reese and Fusco's new intelligence on Finch, the Machine classifies them both as potential threats to its admin and decides, for the moment, to continue monitoring them.

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The latest number is Darren [=McGrady=], [=McGrady=] (Astro), a teenage boy whose older brother was recently murdered by small-time thugs. Reese intervenes in time to stop Darren from trying to kill the thugs himself, and when efforts to hole the kid up somewhere safe prove futile, Reese decides to take Darren under his wing and help him get non-lethal revenge on the thugs who killed his brother. They work their way up the ladder to Andre, Andre (Creator/MalikYoba), who runs a comic book store and a numbers game, but when Darren tries to take Andre out on his own, Reese is forced to take on the whole crew and deliver them to Detective Carter.

Meanwhile, Will Ingram (Michael Stahl-David) is continuing to investigate his father's legacy, specifically the seven-year period where he shut down his company, IFT, and put it to work on a secret project. Will has found a champagne cork and a reference to the Machine going online on February 24, 2005, a day before the $1 contract was signed, and tracks down Nathan's government contact, Alicia Corwin, Corwin (Creator/ElizabethMarvel), who has since retired to a small town in the countryside with no wi-fi, no cell reception and no way for the Machine to track her. Alicia doesn't spill the beans about the Machine, and at the mention of "Harold Wren" -- Finch's alias he uses with Will -- she rabbits. With his father knocked off a pedestal, Will decides to leave New York.

Detective Fusco reports what he's learned in his investigation of Finch: he attended university under the name Harold Wren and graduated with Will's father, Nathan, who died a couple of years earlier. In response to Reese and Fusco's new intelligence on Finch, the Machine classifies them both as potential threats to its admin and decides, for the moment, to continue monitoring them.



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* ShoutOut: To ''Manga/LoneWolfAndCub''.

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* ShoutOut: To ''Manga/LoneWolfAndCub''.ShoutOut:
** The episode's title is a shout out to ''Manga/LoneWolfAndCub''. %% Are you sure?
** ''Literature/TheArtOfWarSunTzu'' is mentioned and quoted a couple of times in the episode.

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* InterrogationByVandalism: Reese convinces a local goon to talk by [[MoneyToBurn taking a blowtorch to the money]] he's supposed to deliver for his boss. The goon panics since his boss would never believe that someone was willing to just burn so much money; he would assume the goon stole the money and have him killed. With no other choice he tells Reese everything he knows.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. At first it looks like Reese is going to use a blowtorch on the gang courier, but he applies it to the courier's money instead.

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* InterrogationByVandalism: Reese convinces a local goon to talk by [[MoneyToBurn taking a blowtorch to the money]] he's supposed to deliver for his boss. The goon panics panics, since his boss would never believe that someone was willing to just burn so much money; he would assume the goon stole the money and have him killed. With no other choice he tells Reese everything he knows.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. At first it looks like Reese is going to use a blowtorch on menaces the gang courier, courier with a blowtorch, but he applies it to then begins burning the courier's money instead.


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* MoneyToBurn: Done by Reese to extract information from a gang member.
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* InterrogationByVandalism: Reese convinces a local goon to talk by taking a blowtorch to the money he's supposed to deliver for his boss.

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* InterrogationByVandalism: Reese convinces a local goon to talk by [[MoneyToBurn taking a blowtorch to the money money]] he's supposed to deliver for his boss.boss. The goon panics since his boss would never believe that someone was willing to just burn so much money; he would assume the goon stole the money and have him killed. With no other choice he tells Reese everything he knows.
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-->'''Fusco:''' This guy spent so much time being someone else, he probably doesn't know who he is anymore.
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* NotWearingTights: Discussed at one point, with someone asserting that it's not powers or a costume that makes a superhero. (And blatantly implying it's perfectly valid to view ''Person of Interest'' as a superhero series.) Ironically, the man expounding warmly on the wonders of heroes turns out to be the villain of the episode.
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* WarriorTherapist: Reese, with his sidekick lampshading the references to ''Literature/TheArtOfWar''.

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* WarriorTherapist: Reese, with his sidekick lampshading the references to ''Literature/TheArtOfWar''.''Literature/{{The Art of War|SunTzu}}''.

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* DidDoTheResearch: There exist a handful of towns in the United States that have no digital or phone reception.



* ShownTheirWork: There exist a handful of towns in the United States that have no digital or phone reception.



* TakingTheBullet: Fusco takes a bullet for Darren. [[ShotInTheAss Specifically, in the ass]].

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* TakingTheBullet: Fusco takes a bullet for Darren. [[ShotInTheAss Specifically, in the ass]].ass.]]
* [[HeKnowsTooMuch They Know Too Much]]: Reese and Fusco.



* WhoAreYou: Reese notes that he's going to have to think up a good answer to that question.
* YouKnowTooMuch: Reese and Fusco.

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* WhoAreYou: Reese notes that he's going to have to think up a good answer to that question.
* YouKnowTooMuch: Reese and Fusco.
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->'''Kid''': What's this dude's superpower? He's got no costume, no cape.\\
'''Andre''': His being a superhero's not about a cape or a cowl. It's about protecting your fellow man, looking out for him when no one else will.

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->'''Kid''': ->'''Kid:''' What's this dude's superpower? He's got no costume, no cape.\\
'''Andre''': '''Andre:''' His being a superhero's not about a cape or a cowl. It's about protecting your fellow man, looking out for him when no one else will.



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* BadassAndChildDuo

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* BadassAndChildDuoBadassAndChildDuo: Reese and Darren.



* ComicallySmallBribe: Inverted. Darren offers Reese all the money he has to hire him to find his brother's killers. Reese only takes a quarter.
* DeadpanSnarker

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* ComicallySmallBribe: Inverted. Darren offers Reese all the money he has to hire him to find his brother's killers. killers; Reese only takes a quarter.
* DeadpanSnarkerDeadpanSnarker:



* DramaticGunCock

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* DramaticGunCockDramaticGunCock:



* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. At first it looks like Reese is going to use a blowtorch on the gang courier - but he applies it to the courier's money instead.

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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. At first it looks like Reese is going to use a blowtorch on the gang courier - courier, but he applies it to the courier's money instead.



* YouKnowTooMuch: Reese and Fusco

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* YouKnowTooMuch: Reese and FuscoFusco.
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* YouKnowTooMuch: Reese and Fusco

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