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* ContractOnTheHitman
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* RightBehindMe: Shaw turns the corner and finds Wilson calling his hit team, asking if she and Cole and dead yet. Busted!
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* YouDoNotWantToKnow: Unfortunately Cole does want to know, and it turns into YouKnowTooMuch.

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* YouDoNotWantToKnow: Unfortunately Cole does want to know, and it turns into YouKnowTooMuch.YouKnowTooMuch.
* ZippingUpTheBodybag: Shaw being loaded onto an ambulance. By Leon Tao.
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* DangerTakesABackseat: In the introduction, a drone camera POV shows Shaw killing Aquino this way.
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* AttackHello: Shaw has a tendency to shoot first and asks questions later, as Reese and Lao find out.

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* AttackHello: Shaw has a tendency to shoot first and asks questions later, as Reese and Lao Leon find out.

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* AttackHello: Shaw has a tendency to shoot first and asks questions later, as Reese and Lao find out.



* CoolGuns: Shaw uses a Heckler and Koch [=MP5SK=] during the op in Berlin to conduct a mop-up of the Islamist Terrorist cell. She later uses the [=MP5K=] variant in New York [[spoiler: subjecting Reese to half the magazine.]]

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* CoolGuns: Shaw uses a Heckler and Koch [=MP5SK=] during the op in Berlin to conduct a mop-up of the Islamist Terrorist cell. She later uses the [=MP5K=] variant in New York [[spoiler: subjecting Reese to half the magazine.]] magazine.



--> '''Shaw:''' We need to move. Now.
--> '''Cole:''' ''[suffering from multiple gunshot wounds]'' Ah, that's gonna be tough.

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--> '''Shaw:''' -->'''Shaw:''' We need to move. Now.
--> '''Cole:''' -->'''Cole:''' ''[suffering from multiple gunshot wounds]'' Ah, that's gonna be tough.
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* ContinuityNod: Cole works for Intelligence Support Activity, sent to kill the last person who stumbled upon the Machine in "No Good Deed".

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* ContinuityNod: Cole Shaw works for Intelligence Support Activity, sent to kill the last person who stumbled upon the Machine in "No Good Deed".
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* TakingTheBullet

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* TakingTheBulletTakingTheBullet: Cole for Shaw.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Ultimately subverted; Shaw doesn't want to KillEmAll. She hands over the evidence Cole found to the Special Counsel to show that his death was entirely unnecessary, then kills Wilson, the man who gave the kill order. Special Counsel is impressed.

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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Ultimately subverted; Shaw doesn't want to KillEmAll. She hands over the evidence Cole found to the Special Counsel to show that his death was entirely unnecessary, then kills Wilson, the man who gave the kill order.order and messed up her own assassination. Special Counsel is impressed.

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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Ultimately subverted; Shaw doesn't want to KillEmAll.

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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Ultimately subverted; Shaw doesn't want to KillEmAll. She hands over the evidence Cole found to the Special Counsel to show that his death was entirely unnecessary, then kills Wilson, the man who gave the kill order. Special Counsel is impressed.
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* BaitAndSwitch: It looks like the Special Counsel will let Shaw live as she does a MenacingStroll out of their accompanied by the requisite ClimacticMusic, then Hersh kills her. Then instead of a DownerEnding, Team Machine is able to protect her after all.

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* BaitAndSwitch: It looks like the Special Counsel will let Shaw live as she does a MenacingStroll out of their accompanied by the requisite ClimacticMusic, then Hersh kills her. Then But instead of a DownerEnding, Team Machine is able to protect her after all.

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* DeathFakedForYou

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* DeathFakedForYouDeathFakedForYou: Hersh leaves Shaw dying on the street, but Team Machine is on hand to revive her. Finch then points out to Shaw that she's now officially dead, so can hide more effectively.

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* LackOfEmpathy: "I have what's called [[http://www.psyweb.com/DSM_IV/jsp/Axis_II.jsp an Axis II personality disorder]] . . . That means that when I kill you and your friends, I’m not gonna really feel anything."

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* LackOfEmpathy: "I have what's called [[http://www.psyweb.com/DSM_IV/jsp/Axis_II.jsp an Axis II personality disorder]] . . . That means that [[PreemptiveDeclaration when I kill you and your friends, friends]], I’m not gonna really feel anything."


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* OnlyFriend: Cole for Shaw. And killing him is a [[MoralityChain very bad idea]].

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* NecessaryEvil: The Special Counsel justifies his actions to Shaw this way. Shaw actually agrees with him, [[RevealingCoverUp which is why it was unnecessary to have Cole killed]]; they could have simply been warned off.

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* NecessaryEvil: The Special Counsel justifies his actions to Shaw this way. Shaw actually agrees with him, [[RevealingCoverUp which is why it was unnecessary to have Cole killed]]; they could have simply been warned off.him.



* RevealingCoverUp: Cole's death was entirely unnecessary, as Shaw points out. As a patriot he could have been persuaded to remain silent, while Shaw herself accepts the NecessaryEvil of 'Research'.



* WrongGenreSavvy: Shaw initially thinks she's in an espionage drama like "24" instead of a science fiction show believing that the numbers originate from interrogations at Guantanamo. Root finds this extremely amusing and [[YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYouAreDealingWith has a laugh at her expense]].

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: What happened to Veronica Sinclair, last seen BoundAndGagged in the bathroom by Root?
* WrongGenreSavvy: Shaw initially thinks she's in an espionage drama like "24" instead of a science fiction show believing that the numbers originate from interrogations at Guantanamo. Root finds this extremely amusing and [[YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYouAreDealingWith [[YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith has a laugh at her expense]].

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* NecessaryEvil: The Special Counsel justifies his actions to Shaw this way. Shaw actually agrees with him, which is why it was unnecessary to have Cole killed; they could have simply been warned off.

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* NecessaryEvil: The Special Counsel justifies his actions to Shaw this way. Shaw actually agrees with him, [[RevealingCoverUp which is why it was unnecessary to have Cole killed; killed]]; they could have simply been warned off.


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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Ultimately subverted; Shaw doesn't want to KillEmAll.

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* CoolGuns: Shaw uses a Heckler and Koch MP5SK during the op in Berlin to conduct a mop-up of the Islamist Terrorist cell. She later uses the MP5K variant in New York [[spoiler: subjecting Reese to half the magazine]]

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* CoolGuns: Shaw uses a Heckler and Koch MP5SK [=MP5SK=] during the op in Berlin to conduct a mop-up of the Islamist Terrorist cell. She later uses the MP5K [=MP5K=] variant in New York [[spoiler: subjecting Reese to half the magazine]] magazine.]]



* ContinuityNod
** Cole works for Intelligence Support Activity.

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* ContinuityNod
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ContinuityNod: Cole works for Intelligence Support Activity.Activity, sent to kill the last person who stumbled upon the Machine in "No Good Deed".
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* FailedASpotCheck: People really should learn to search Shaw when she's unconscious.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "Future Starts Slow", by The Kills.
* DistaffCounterpart / SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute / MeaningfulEcho: Like Reese, Shaw leaves government service after being betrayed and losing someone important to her.

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* ClimacticMusic / CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "Future Starts Slow", by The Kills.
* DistaffCounterpart / SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute / MeaningfulEcho: SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Like Reese, Shaw leaves government service after being betrayed and losing someone important to her.

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* WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut: Shaw digs a hollowpoint [[SelfSurgery out of herself]], to the fascination of the drug dealers watching. Earlier she digs out the bullets she put into a terrorist, as IWasNeverHere.

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* ApologeticAttacker: Having trained Shaw, Hersh has the courtesy to apologise for killing her.



* ChekhovsGun: Shaw tells Reese what would be needed to revive someone injected with the poison used by ISA. Team Machine puts that to use in saving her life after Hersh injects her.



* FiveFingerDiscount: Shaw needs weapons, treatment for her injury and a place to hide out. So she abducts a drug dealer off the street and forces him to take her to his pad.



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* SelfSurgerySelfSurgery / WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut
* SheCleansUpNicely in a LittleBlackDress


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* TakingTheBullet


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* WeWillMeetAgain: Root to Shaw, when her torture session is [[VillainousRescue interrupted by the arrival of an ISA hit team]].
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* ContinuityNod
** Cole works for Intelligence Support Activity.


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* IronicEcho: Shaw notes that the numbers never stop coming.


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* YouDoNotWantToKnow: Unfortunately Cole does want to know, and it turns into YouKnowTooMuch.
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* NecessaryEvil: The Special Counsel justifies his actions to Shaw this way. Shaw actually agrees with him, which is why it was unnecessary to have Cole killed; they could have simply been warned off.


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* PullTheThread: What gets Cole killed.


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* TortureAlwaysWorks: Averted, which is why the unusual accuracy of Research is so suspicious.
-->'''Root:''' Did you honestly think the source of the numbers was Guantanamo? Some sad taxi driver rotting away in a cage somewhere? I mean, you should know torture almost never produces good information. (picks up hot iron) Well... almost never. Sadly, we are on a bit of a clock.

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* AssHoleVictim: the drug dealers who smugly believe they've caught Shaw off guard. They're wrong.

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* AssHoleVictim: AssholeVictim: the drug dealers who smugly believe they've caught Shaw off guard. They're wrong.


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* BaitAndSwitch: It looks like the Special Counsel will let Shaw live as she does a MenacingStroll out of their accompanied by the requisite ClimacticMusic, then Hersh kills her. Then instead of a DownerEnding, Team Machine is able to protect her after all.


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* HeroicSacrifice: It's even lampshaded with Cole's FamousLastWords.


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* MyCard: Shaw rejects Finch's number the first time, but reluctantly accepts it at the end. She still isn't willing to trust them however, confiscating their phones and making off in their transport.


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* SimilarSquad: Shaw and Cole have a Reese and Finch dynamic, but they're working the Relevant List instead.


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* VehicleVanish: Inverted with Shaw's first appearance.

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* DeathFakedForYou



* WrongGenreSavvy: Shaw initially thinks she's in an espionage drama like "24" instead of a science fiction show believing that the numbers originate from interrogations at Guantanamo. Root finds this extremely amusing and has a laugh at her expense.

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* UngratefulBitch: Shaw, due to being ProperlyParanoid. She shoots Reese on sight, assaults Leon Tao who's trying to revive her, and leaves our heroes stranded in the cemetery at the end of the episode.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Shaw initially thinks she's in an espionage drama like "24" instead of a science fiction show believing that the numbers originate from interrogations at Guantanamo. Root finds this extremely amusing and [[YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYouAreDealingWith has a laugh at her expense.

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expense]].
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* TooKinkyToTorture: [[spoiler:Shaw tells Root that she "kind of enjoys this sort of thing", while Root is threatening to burn her with a hot clothes iron.]]

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* TooKinkyToTorture: [[spoiler:Shaw tells Root that she "kind of enjoys this sort of thing", while Root is threatening to burn her with a hot clothes iron. Root is quite glad to hear that, as she enjoys the torturing.]]
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* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Cole, just before he dies.
--> '''Shaw:''' We need to move. Now.
--> '''Cole:''' ''[suffering from multiple gunshot wounds]'' Ah, that's gonna be tough.

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* BulletProofVest: Reese takes several bullets to the chest while wearing one. Ouch.

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* BulletProofVest: Reese takes several bullets to the chest while wearing one. Ouch.
* CoolGuns: Shaw uses a Heckler and Koch MP5SK during the op in Berlin to conduct a mop-up of the Islamist Terrorist cell. She later uses the MP5K variant in New York [[spoiler: subjecting Reese to half the magazine]]
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When her partner winds up being killed after asking the wrong questions, government operative Samantha Shaw finds herself on the run from the people she works for and sets out to discover the person responsible for targeting both of them.

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When her partner winds up being killed after asking the wrong questions, government operative Samantha Sameen Shaw finds herself on the run from the people she works for and sets out to discover the person responsible for targeting both of them.
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-->-- ''Samantha Shaw''

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-->-- ''Samantha ''Sameen Shaw''
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Shaw initially thinks she's in an espionage genre like 24 instead of a science fiction show due to her initial belief that the numbers originate from interrogations at Guantanimo. Root finds this extremely amusing and has a laugh..

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* WrongGenreSavvy: Shaw initially thinks she's in an espionage genre drama like 24 "24" instead of a science fiction show due to her initial belief believing that the numbers originate from interrogations at Guantanimo. Guantanamo. Root finds this extremely amusing and has a laugh..
laugh at her expense.

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