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* HypocriticalHumor: When Lawrence Szilard mentions that Alicia Corwin was killed last year, Root remarks, "Such a tragedy," and Finch gives her the side-eye.
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* HazmatSuit: Everyone gapes as Root and Finch casually stroll past workers in radiation suits, into a hazardous waste storage area.
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* HiddenInPlainSight: The Machine isn't buried in a salt mine somewhere, it is (or was) hidden in a nuclear reactor built solely to provide such a cover.
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* HiddenInPlainSight: The Machine isn't buried in a salt mine somewhere, it is (or was) hidden in a nuclear reactor waste facility built solely for that purpose, to provide such a cover.location with power and security that no-one's going to go casually nosing around in.
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* TheTriple: Everyone worries that the Machine will stop sending the numbers, but the Machine sends them to Northern Lights, Team Machine... and communicates directly with Root.
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* DirtyCoward: Tierny pleads for his life--"Please, {{I have a family}}!"--when Carter rescues Elias, despite having been arrogantly about to commit murder a few seconds before
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* DirtyCoward: Tierny pleads for his life--"Please, {{I have a family}}!"--when Carter rescues Elias, despite having been arrogantly about to commit murder a few seconds before (not to mention threatening Carter's family).
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** Terney. Revealing to Carter that he was HR and threatening to murder her son was the catalyst for her to begin planning to systematically destroy his life and those of his fellow HR cops in Season 3.
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** Terney. Revealing to Carter that he was HR and [[MamaBear threatening to murder her son was the catalyst catalyst]] for her to begin planning to systematically destroy his life and those of his fellow HR cops in Season 3.
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* TakeUpMySword: Finch took up Nathan's crusade to save those on the Irrelevant List after his death, and hoped that Reese would do the same if he was killed. Carter takes up Reese's vigilante protector role, saving Elias despite his kidnapping her son.
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* TakeUpMySword: Finch took up Nathan's crusade to save those on the Irrelevant List after his death, and hoped that Reese would do the same if he was killed. Carter takes up Reese's vigilante protector role, saving Elias despite his kidnapping her son.son in "Flesh and Blood".
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* RedAlert:
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* BallisticDiscount: As Shaw and Reese need MoreDakka and a fast car, the Machine sends them the number of a person about to be executed by gangsters who have both.
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* AnswerCutAnswerCut: To Lawrence Szilard.
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* CompensatingForSomethingCompensatingForSomething: On seeing the Ferrari, Shaw hands Reese a SPAS-12 shotgun.
-->'''Reese:''' What's this for?
-->'''Shaw:''' To help you feel less inadequate [[CallingShotgun while I drive this thing]].
-->'''Reese:''' What's this for?
-->'''Shaw:''' To help you feel less inadequate [[CallingShotgun while I drive this thing]].
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* GunpointBanter: Between Nothern Lights and Team Machine; justified as the former can't afford to kill the latter, as they need Finch alive to help them regain control of the Machine.
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* GunpointBanter: Between Nothern Northern Lights and Team Machine; justified as the former can't afford to kill the latter, as they need Finch alive to help them regain control of the Machine.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: It is now, as no-one knows what the Machine will do next.
* BlindWithoutThem: Root smashes Finch's glasses with the hidden tracker, but thanks to GodMode quickly steals a replacement with identical prescriptive lenses.
** Elias being taken out into the woods to be killed by his father's men in "Flesh and Blood" is lampshaded when he's about to be executed in the woods a second time.
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* FriendshipMoment: Reese makes it clear he doesn't hold Finch responsible for Jessica's death and Ordos.
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* GunpointBanter: Between Nothern Lights and Team Machine; justified as the former can't afford to kill the latter, as they need Finch alive to help them regain control of the Machine.
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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Finch knew there would be unforeseen consequences to letting the Machine go free.
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* MadeOfIron: Shaw and Reese drive a car off a bridge, land upside down, and then walk away before the gaze of an astonished medical helicopter crew.
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* BlindfoldedTrip: The series version -- Elias gets black-hooded because he's going to be killed.
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* HiddenInPlainSight: The Machine isn't buried in a salt mine somewhere, it is (or was) hidden in a nuclear reactor built solely to provide such a cover.
* HisNameIs: Szilard is shot just as he's about to tell Root where the Machine is.
* HisNameIs: Szilard is shot just as he's about to tell Root where the Machine is.
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Terney. Revealing to Carter that he was HR and threatening to murder her son was the catalyst for her to begin planning to systematically destroy his life and those of his fellow HR cops in Season 3.
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: NiceJobFixingItVillain:
** Terney. Revealing to Carter that he was HR and threatening to murder her son was the catalyst for her to begin planning to systematically destroy his life and those of his fellow HR cops in Season 3.
** The mass murder committed by Northern Lights protected their secret from becoming public, but it also convinced Finch to set the Machine free.
** Terney. Revealing to Carter that he was HR and threatening to murder her son was the catalyst for her to begin planning to systematically destroy his life and those of his fellow HR cops in Season 3.
** The mass murder committed by Northern Lights protected their secret from becoming public, but it also convinced Finch to set the Machine free.
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* OathBreaker: Elias calls Tierney one.
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* OathBreaker: TakeUpMySword: Finch took up Nathan's crusade to save those on the Irrelevant List after his death, and hoped that Reese would do the same if he was killed. Carter takes up Reese's vigilante protector role, saving Elias despite his kidnapping her son.
* TheOathBreaker: Elias calls Tierney one.
* TheOathBreaker: Elias calls Tierney one.
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* VoiceChangeling: Special Counsel demands to know why the tech didn't call him to confirm the orders to ship out the Machine. The tech protests that he did so, implying that the Machine can imitate voices as per ''Film/TheTerminator''.
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* AGodAmI: Root quickly forgets her no killing agreement with Finch, luxuriating in the GodMode.
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Northern Lights justify their actions as preventing acts of mass destruction by terrorists. They then allow a suicide bomber to carry out his mission, just to kill Nathan Ingram.
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* VisualPun: Shaw handing Reese a shotgun while saying that she'll be driving the Ferrari the Machine pointed them to.
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* VisualPun: Shaw [[CallingShotgun handing Reese a shotgun shotgun]] while saying that she'll be driving the Ferrari the Machine pointed them to.
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** Hersh finds out about an impending suicide bombing, then ''shoots the translator!''
** All the engineers who designed the Hanford site have fatal accidents, and the last is shot by a Northern Lights sniper to stop him revealing the location.
** On the orders of his unseen boss, Hersh kills the Northern Lights personnel who know the Machine was moved, including Special Counsel.
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** Elias being taken out into the woods to be killed by his father's men is lampshaded when he's about to be executed in the woods a second time.
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* CompensatingForSomething
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* DirtyCoward: Tierny pleads for his life--"Please, I have a family!"--when Carter rescues Elias, despite having been arrogantly about to commit murder a few seconds before
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* DirtyCoward: Tierny pleads for his life--"Please, I {{I have a family!"--when family}}!"--when Carter rescues Elias, despite having been arrogantly about to commit murder a few seconds before
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* HeroStoleMyBike: A RunningGag; Shaw/Reese and Finch/Root help themselves at gunpoint to cars and even a helicopter and private jet.
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* MissionControl: [[spoiler:The Machine.]]
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* MissionControl: [[spoiler:The The Machine.]]
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* FascinatingEyebrow: Before Reese realizes the Machine is using a clock positioning system, it tells him "4 o'clock". He looks at the clock and raises his eyebrows, because it's midnight.
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* AllForNothing: Root has put a lot of time, effort and planning into trying to find The Machine. When Harold reveals he set it free before she could get close, she was furious. Ultimately subverted, when The Machine gives her a call once she's incarcerated in an asylum.
** A more understated version would be the Mercedes S-Class Reese and Shaw use to escape from NYPD cruisers at one point in the episode.
* FiringInTheAirALot: Averted. Shaw makes a point of shooting the road with her sidearm when she carjacks a Mercedes Benz for her and Reese.
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Terney. Revealing to Carter that he was HR and threatening to murder her son was the catalyst for her to begin planning to systematically destroy his life and those of his fellow HR cops.
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Terney. Revealing to Carter that he was HR and threatening to murder her son was the catalyst for her to begin planning to systematically destroy his life and those of his fellow HR cops.cops in Season 3.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: After having to suffer some smug gloating, Carter gets even with Terney by cracking the butt of her Glock over his head when she rescues Elias.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Machine doesn't know the purpose of the Hanford plant even though it was supposed to be located there.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Given that the Machine was activated on January 1, 2002, the bombing ("Day 3191") was on September 27, 2010.
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* MilhollandRelationshipMoment: Reese takes the news that Finch both received Jessica's number before she was murdered and was the man responsible for the mission that prevented him from saving her remarkably well.
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* MilhollandRelationshipMoment: Reese takes the news that Finch both received Jessica's number before she was murdered and was the man responsible for the mission that prevented him from saving her remarkably well. It helps that her death took place at a time when neither of the them could do anything about it.
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* MilhollandRelationshipMoment: Reese takes the news that Finch both received Jessica's number before she was murdered and was the man responsible for the mission that prevented him from saving her remarkably well.
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** Special Counsel's reaction to his imminent [[spoiler:execution]]? "...Fair enough."
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** Special Counsel's reaction to his imminent [[spoiler:execution]]? execution? "...Fair enough."
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* CreatorCameo: Jonathan Nolan, Greg Plageman, and Richard J. Lewis all make a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo near the end.
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* CreatorCameo: CreatorCameo:
** Jonathan Nolan, Greg Plageman, and Richard J. Lewis all make a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo near the end.
** Jonathan Nolan, Greg Plageman, and Richard J. Lewis all make a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo near the end.
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* DoomedAppointment: Obviously, [[spoiler: Nathan's]] decision to meet with a reporter was not going to end well.
* DoomedAppointment: Obviously, [[spoiler: Nathan's]] decision to meet with a reporter was not going to end well.
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** Producer Amanda Segel as Lawrence Szilard's daughter
* DirtyCoward:[[spoiler: Tierny pleads for his life--"Please, I have a family!"--when Carter rescues Elias, despite having been arrogantly about to commit murder a few seconds before]]
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* DoomedAppointment: Obviously,
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-->''"You wanted to set The Machine free. [[spoiler:I I already have.]]"''"''
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* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Finch reveals that he did sell the laptop to the Chinese, but that he included a virus within the source-code they used to create the virus that infected the Machine ("a virus within a virus") which enabled the Machine to free itself.]]
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* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Finch Finch reveals that he did sell the laptop to the Chinese, but that he included a virus within the source-code they used to create the virus that infected the Machine ("a virus within a virus") which enabled the Machine to free itself.]]
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** [[spoiler:Reese addresses The Machine through street cameras like he did in the season premiere.]]
** [[spoiler:The book title that The Machine directs him to in the Library is the one he found while snooping in "Number Crunch."]]
** [[spoiler:Reese escapes from an overturned sedan and walks away, like he did in "Pilot."]]
** [[spoiler:The episode ends with someone answering a ringing payphone.]]
** [[spoiler:The book title that The Machine directs him to in the Library is the one he found while snooping in "Number Crunch."]]
** [[spoiler:Reese escapes from an overturned sedan and walks away, like he did in "Pilot."]]
** [[spoiler:The episode ends with someone answering a ringing payphone.]]
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** [[spoiler:Reese Reese addresses The Machine through street cameras like he did in the season premiere.]]
"Firewall" and "The Contingency."
**[[spoiler:The The book title that The Machine directs him to in the Library is the one he found while snooping in "Number Crunch."]]
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* ContentWarnings: In light of the recent [[http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/15/us/boston-marathon-explosions Boston Marathon bombing]], there was a warning advising that some viewers might find the contents of the episode disturbing (specifically, [[spoiler:the ferry bombing]]).
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* ContentWarnings: In light of the recent [[http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/15/us/boston-marathon-explosions Boston Marathon bombing]], bombing]] a few weeks earlier, there was a warning advising that some viewers might find the contents of the episode disturbing (specifically, [[spoiler:the because of the ferry bombing]]).bombing).
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* MyGreatestFailure: The event that drove Finch to protect the "non-relevant" numbers was his discovery that [[spoiler: Nathan's death had been predicted by the Machine, but it was unable to warn them because he had blocked Nathan's access to the list]].
* NoKillLikeOverkill: The government [[spoiler:stages a suicide bombing on a ferry full of civilians in order to silence Nathan]].
* NoKillLikeOverkill: The government [[spoiler:stages a suicide bombing on a ferry full of civilians in order to silence Nathan]].
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* MyGreatestFailure: The event that drove Finch to protect the "non-relevant" numbers was his discovery that [[spoiler: Nathan's death had been predicted by the Machine, but it was unable to warn them because he had blocked Nathan's access to the list]].
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* NoKillLikeOverkill: The government[[spoiler:stages stages a suicide bombing on a ferry full of civilians in order to silence Nathan]].Nathan.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: The government
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* PersonalEffectsReveal: [[spoiler:Grace is convinced that Harold is dead after finding the book he was carrying among the victims' personal effects.]]
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* PersonalEffectsReveal: [[spoiler:Grace Grace is convinced that Harold is dead after finding the book he was carrying among the victims' personal effects.]]
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* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler:Root]] suffers from one that leaves her practically catatonic for the final ten minutes of the episode.
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* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler:Root]] Root suffers from one that leaves her practically catatonic for the final ten minutes of the episode.
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* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:The The Machine is fully self-aware and is now controlling itself, Special Counsel was executed by his own henchman and a new BigBad has taken his place, the cause of Nathan's death and the reason for Harold's injuries are finally revealed, Root went crazy but now The Machine is calling her too, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Carter saved Elias' life]].]]
* WholePlotReference: Root's experience with gaining, and then losing, full administrative access to The Machine is similar to the protagonist's arc in ''FlowersForAlgernon,'' -- [[{{Foreshadowing}} the book Hanna Frey recommended to her in the flashbacks in "Bad Code."]]
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* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: [[spoiler:The reveal that the Machine is no longer located in [[MacGuffinLocation Hanford, Washington]]]].
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: [[spoiler:The reveal that the Machine is no longer located in [[MacGuffinLocation Hanford, Washington]]]].
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* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:Done Done to Special Counsel]].
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* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle:[[spoiler:The The reveal that the Machine is no longer located in [[MacGuffinLocation Hanford, Washington]]]].
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Nathan Ingram, middle-aged engineer and public relations guy with no combat training, saving the lives of ''five'' people, with little more than a handgun and a sense of justice.
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** The kidnapped man whom Reese and Shaw rescue from being killed by mobsters is played by producer David Slack.
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* WidowedAtTheWedding: Almost happened, but Team Machine crashed the wedding long enough to take down the hostile wedding crasher.
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* GodMode: The title of the show.episode. And given the stunts Team Machine (Shaw and Reese) pull off, such as walking away from a car-crash (off a highway) and hijacking a helicopter, it is well-played.
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