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* ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind: Zachery gets a knife InTheBack from Reese as he's about to shoot Shaw InTheBack. Serves him right for [[IdiotBall turning his back on Reese]] without putting a bullet in his head first (it's not like he hadn't been ordered to KillEmAll earlier).

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* ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind: Zachery gets a knife InTheBack from Reese as he's about to shoot Shaw InTheBack. Serves him right for [[IdiotBall turning his back on Reese]] without putting a bullet in his head first headfirst (it's not like he hadn't been ordered to KillEmAll kill them earlier).



* KillEmAll: While stalking our heroes, Zachery is ordered to "eliminate all targets".
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* AbsenteeActor: We only see Alt!Carter's office as head of the 8th precinct; Taraji P. Henson does not actually appear.
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** A whistleblower is meeting with...Shaw? [[{{Meganekko}} In glasses?]]

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** A whistleblower is meeting with...Shaw? [[{{Meganekko}} In glasses?]]glasses?
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** Fusco played TheRat to HR when they were finally eliminated, but lost his badge and became a private investigator. He never stopped drinking.

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** Fusco played TheRat to HR when they were finally eliminated, but lost his badge and badge, became a private investigator. investigator, and wound up universally hated by his former colleagues for being ''both'' a rat and a DirtyCop. He also never stopped drinking.
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* BenevolentAI: Greer uses this a defense for Samaritan's actions.

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* BenevolentAI: Greer uses this as a defense for Samaritan's actions.

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** When warned that he could crash the internet with the ICE-9 virus, Finch's response is "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS03E11 Been there, done that]]. I'm after ''bigger game."



* NoodleIncident: A man remarks that Finch is trying to "take down the Internet" with the ICE-9 virus.
-->'''Finch''': Been there, done that. I'm after ''bigger game.''
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* NoodleIncident: A man remarks that Finch is trying to "take down the Internet" with the ICE-9 virus.
-->'''Finch''': Been there, done that. I'm after ''bigger game.''
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* GenreSavvy: Once again Fusco's life is saved by his BulletproofVest.
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* BadFuture: Subverted at first; the alternate universe presented by the Machine has both good and bad things about it. However ultimately played straight with the reveal that Samaritan was built anyway, and without the Machine to stop it from TakingOverTheWorld.

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* AIIsACrapshoot: Apparently Alt!Greer convinced the US government to let Alt!Samaritan run things on an 'experimental' basis as well as targeting terrorists. Now it has control, the ASI and its acolytes have no intention of surrendering it.



* PuppetKing: Alt!Greer flat out tells the senator who's complaining about Alt!Samaritan interfering in human affairs to go back to his colleagues and tell them do their jobs, while they still have them.

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* PuppetKing: Alt!Greer flat out tells the senator Senator Garrison, who's complaining about Alt!Samaritan interfering in human affairs affairs, to go back to his colleagues and tell them do their jobs, while they still have them.



** A whistleblower is meeting with...Shaw? In glasses?

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** A whistleblower is meeting with...Shaw? [[{{Meganekko}} In glasses?glasses?]]

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* TheBigBoard

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* TheBigBoardTheBigBoard: The Operations Center for Samaritan.



* DarkenedBuildingShootout / BigBlackout

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* DarkenedBuildingShootout / BigBlackoutDarkenedBuildingShootout: When Reese and Shaw are cornered, [[BigBlackout Finch kills the lights]] and this ensues.
-->'''Finch:''' I trust you can shoot in the dark.

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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [=LeRoux=] tells Fusco that his death will appear to be the work of the non-existent serial killer responsible for the tunnel bodies.

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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [=LeRoux=] tells Fusco that his death will appear to be the work of the non-existent serial killer who's being held responsible for the tunnel bodies.



* MuggedForDisguise: Reese notes that he and Shaw will need some kind of disguise as they watch a couple of uniformed guards (a tall male and a short female) walk by. In their next scene, they're wearing the uniforms.

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* MuggedForDisguise: MuggedForDisguise:
** Finch notes that the NATO minister he picked up has the same height, hair and eye color, though the retinal scan is another matter.
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Reese notes that he and Shaw will need some kind of disguise as they watch a couple of uniformed guards (a tall male and a short female) walk by. In their next scene, they're wearing the uniforms.


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* SwissCheeseSecurity: Averted with Fort Meade -- the front gate is guarded by an S barricade and armed soldiers, one of whom has a fifty-caliber sniper rifle. All personal electronic devices are banned, visitors must pass through a metal detector and X-Ray scan, and the entire building is a Faraday cage.

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