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** [[spoiler:Mark]] telling Kara that she was right; he's going to be great at being dead.
** Snow had tried to get Reese and Stanton by telling them the other had been compromised. Reese tells Snow the same thing when he tries to run back to the CIA.

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** [[spoiler:Mark]] **[[spoiler:Mark]] telling Kara that she was right; he's going to be great at being dead.
** Snow **Snow had tried to get Reese and Stanton to kill each other by telling them the other had been compromised. Reese tells Snow the same thing when he tries to run back to the CIA.

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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Harold Finch, someone who is utterly cynical and paranoid is willing to walk up 21 flights of steps with a bad back and try save John from getting blow to smithereens or die trying to do so. This moment takes Reese "We're all alone" philosophy and smashes it into little pieces.
** [[spoiler:John and Bear's reunion. If your heart didn't melt, you might not have one.]]



* FridgeLogic: How did Stanton get Reese on that city bus while he was unconscious without anyone noticing?
** Probably pretended Reese was hung over or drunk and got Mark to help her carry him.



* IronicEcho: [[spoiler:Mark]] telling Kara that she was right; he's going to be great at being dead.

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* IronicEcho: [[spoiler:Mark]] IronicEcho:
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telling Kara that she was right; he's going to be great at being dead.dead.
**Snow had tried to get Reese and Stanton by telling them the other had been compromised. Reese tells Snow the same thing when he tries to run back to the CIA.

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* ShoutOut: Finch disarms the bomb vest with [[JamesBond 0:07]] seconds left on the timer.

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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
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Finch disarms the bomb vest with [[JamesBond [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} 0:07]] seconds left on the timer.
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[[spoiler:John and Bear's reunion. If your heart didn't melt, you might not have one.]]

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[[spoiler:John **[[spoiler:John and Bear's reunion. If your heart didn't melt, you might not have one.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: A few minutes into the episode, one of the Machine's-eye-view cuts shows a skyscraper with the top couple floors marked in red as an exclusion zone, and labeled 'NSA DSF'. Presumably this is the same building [[spoiler:Kara sends them to infiltrate later in the episode]].

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* DisproportionateRetribution: Reese has to stop Snow from putting a bullet in a mook's head after the mook punches him in the face.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: Reese has to stop Snow from putting a bullet in a mook's head after the mook punches him in the face. Kara Stanton's plot, even though she knows Reese wasn't responsible for putting her on the suicide mission to Ordos, she still drags him along for the ride.



* FridgeLogic: How did Stanton get Reese on that city bus while he was unconscious without anyone noticing?

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* FridgeLogic: How did Stanton get Reese on that city bus while he was unconscious without anyone noticing?noticing?
** Probably pretended Reese was hung over or drunk and got Mark to help her carry him.

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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Harold Finch someone who is utterly cynical and paranoid is willing to try save John from getting blow to smithereens or die trying to do so. This moment takes Reese "We're all alone" philosophy and smashes it into little pieces. [[spoiler:John and Bear's reunion. If your heart didn't melt, you might not have one.]]

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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Harold Finch Finch, someone who is utterly cynical and paranoid is willing to walk up 21 flights of steps with a bad back and try save John from getting blow to smithereens or die trying to do so. This moment takes Reese "We're all alone" philosophy and smashes it into little pieces.
[[spoiler:John and Bear's reunion. If your heart didn't melt, you might not have one.]]
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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: [[spoiler:John and Bear's reunion. If your heart didn't melt, you might not have one.]]

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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Harold Finch someone who is utterly cynical and paranoid is willing to try save John from getting blow to smithereens or die trying to do so. This moment takes Reese "We're all alone" philosophy and smashes it into little pieces. [[spoiler:John and Bear's reunion. If your heart didn't melt, you might not have one.]]
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** [[spoiler:The whole episode is [[Film/{{Inception}}]]. They thought Stanton was trying to steal a cyber weapon when really she's trying to plant a virus]].

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** [[spoiler:The whole episode is [[Film/{{Inception}}]].Film/{{Inception}}. They thought Stanton was trying to steal a cyber weapon when really she's trying to plant a virus]].
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**[[spoiler:The whole episode is [[Film/{{Inception}}]]. They thought Stanton was trying to steal a cyber weapon when really she's trying to plant a virus]].
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* FridgeLogic: How did Stanton get Reese on that city bus while he was unconscious without anyone noticing?

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-> '''John Reese''': "So what's this really about?"
-> '''Kara Stanton''': "This is about three dead little spies in a brave new world. It's about the afterlife, John, and us negotiating our places in it."



* ThirdTimesTheCharm: [[spoiler: The third code to hack the phone bomb, not to mention if he messed up the phone would have locked up.]]

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* ThirdTimesTheCharm: [[spoiler: The third code to hack the phone bomb, not to mention if he Finch had messed up the phone would have locked up.him out.]]
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* WireDilemma: Except with guessing the code, but essentially the same
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* ThirdTimesTheCharm: [[spoiler: The third code to hack the phone bomb, not to mention if he messed up the phone would have locked up.]]
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Reese and Snow aren't very fond of one another. The dislike is justified.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: Reese has to stop Snow from putting a bullet in a mook's head after the guy punches him in the face.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: Reese has to stop Snow from putting a bullet in a mook's head after the guy mook punches him in the face.



* ThinkNothingOfIt: Reese thanks Finch for saving his life, but Finch tells him not to mention it. [[spoiler:And it seems there may be a reason for that.]]



* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:Mark Snow takes out Kara Stanton with his DyingMomentOfAwesome, but not before she's already activated a cyber weapon that may be a threat to the Machine. Then in the final few seconds we learn that ''Finch'' may have been the one ultimately responsible for Reese and Stanton being set up at Ordos.]]

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* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:Mark Snow takes out Kara Stanton with his DyingMomentOfAwesome, but not before she's already activated a cyber weapon that may be a threat to the Machine. Then And then in the final few seconds we learn that ''Finch'' may have been the one ultimately responsible for Reese and Stanton being set up at Ordos.]]
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* GottaKillThemAll: Kara Stanton is out to eliminate anyone she blames for the Agency betraying her. [[Including John, despite knowing that he had nothing to do with it.]]

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* GottaKillThemAll: Kara Stanton is out to eliminate anyone she blames for the Agency betraying her. [[Including [[spoiler:Including John, despite knowing that he had nothing to do with it.]]



* WakingUpElsewhere

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* WakingUpElsewhereWakingUpElsewhere: Reese wakes up on a city bus after losing consciousness in a wrecked car. [[OhCrap And then he see Kara Stanton sitting across from him...]]

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* GottaKillThemAll: Kara Stanton is out to eliminate anyone she blames for the Agency betraying her. [[Including John, despite knowing that he had nothing to do with it.]]



* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:Mark Snow's DyingMomentOfAwesome takes out Kara Stanton as well, but not before she's activated a cyber weapon that may be a threat to the Machine. Then in the final few seconds we learn that ''Finch'' may have been the one ultimately responsible for Reese and Stanton being set up at Ordos.]]

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* WakingUpElsewhere
* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:Mark Snow's DyingMomentOfAwesome Snow takes out Kara Stanton as well, with his DyingMomentOfAwesome, but not before she's already activated a cyber weapon that may be a threat to the Machine. Then in the final few seconds we learn that ''Finch'' may have been the one ultimately responsible for Reese and Stanton being set up at Ordos.]]
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* ShoutOut: To JamesBond - Finch disarms the bomb vest with 0:07 seconds left on the timer.

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* ShoutOut: To JamesBond - Finch disarms the bomb vest with 0:07 [[JamesBond 0:07]] seconds left on the timer.

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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: [[spoiler:John and Bear's reunion.]]

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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: [[spoiler:John and Bear's reunion. If your heart didn't melt, you might not have one.]]



* DisproportionateRetribution: Reese has to stop Snow from putting a bullet in a mook's head after the guy punches him in the face.



* HeroicSacrifice: Reese was prepared to make one, but it was thankfully averted with a little help from Finch.



* ShoutOut: To JamesBond - Finch disarms the bomb vest with 0:07 seconds left on the timer.



* WhamEpisode: Becomes this in the final few seconds when we learn that [[spoiler:''Finch'']] may have been the one ultimately responsible for Reese and Stanton being set up at Ordos.

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* WhamEpisode: Becomes this [[spoiler:Mark Snow's DyingMomentOfAwesome takes out Kara Stanton as well, but not before she's activated a cyber weapon that may be a threat to the Machine. Then in the final few seconds when we learn that [[spoiler:''Finch'']] ''Finch'' may have been the one ultimately responsible for Reese and Stanton being set up at Ordos.
Ordos.]]
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* DayInTheLimelight: For Kara Stanton.

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* DayInTheLimelight: DayInTheLimelight / DeathInTheLimelight: For Kara Stanton.Stanton and Mark Snow.
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* IronicEcho: [[spoiler:Mark]] telling Kara that she was right; he's going to be great at being dead.
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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: [[spoiler:John and Bear's reunion.]]
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* TakingYouWithMe: Well hey, if [[spoiler:Mark Snow]] is gonna die he might as well make sure he's not the only one. Doubles as a DyingMomentOfAwesome.
* WhamEpisode: Happens right at the end where we learn that [[spoiler:''Finch'']] may have been the one ultimately responsible for Reese and Stanton being set up at Ordos.

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* OhCrap: Kara's face when [[spoiler:she discovers Mark - and consequently, his bomb vest - waiting in the backseat of her car.]]
* TakingYouWithMe: Well hey, if [[spoiler:Mark Snow]] is gonna has to die he might as well make sure he's not the only one. Doubles as a DyingMomentOfAwesome.
* WhamEpisode: Happens right at Becomes this in the end where final few seconds when we learn that [[spoiler:''Finch'']] may have been the one ultimately responsible for Reese and Stanton being set up at Ordos.
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* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: Invoked accidentally. [[spoiler: When the FBI realize that the recently blown up Mark Snow is an ex-CIA agent who meets the vague description Carter had for the Man in the Suit, they decide that he is the [=MitS=], pin Donnelly's death on him, declare the case closed with the death of the suspect, and go home.]]
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* WhamEpisode: Happens right at the end where we learn that [[spoiler:''Finch'']] may have been the one ultimately responsible for Reese and Stanton being set up at Ordos.

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Following the events in "Prisoner's Dilemma," Finch, Carter, and Fusco race to save Reese, who has been kidnapped by Kara Stanton and is being forced to assist her in carrying out an act of cyber-warfare.



* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Well hey, if Mark Snow is gonna die he might as well make sure he's not the only one.]] Doubles as a DyingMomentOfAwesome.

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* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Well Well hey, if Mark Snow [[spoiler:Mark Snow]] is gonna die he might as well make sure he's not the only one.]] one. Doubles as a DyingMomentOfAwesome.

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* DayInTheLimelight: For Kara Stanton.




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* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Well hey, if Mark Snow is gonna die he might as well make sure he's not the only one.]] Doubles as a DyingMomentOfAwesome.
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'''Season 2, Episode 13''':
!Dead Reckoning

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!!Tropes present in this episode include:
* ExplosiveLeash: For both Mark ''and'' John.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Kara Stanton.]] Doubles as LaserGuidedKarma and DeathByIrony.

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