History Recap / PhilipKDicksElectricDreamsS1E1TheHoodMaker

* OedipusComplex: Honor breaks down the protester she's interrogating by revealing his suppressed attraction to his own mother.

* AdaptationalHeroism: In Dick's original short story the teeps were unambiguously villainous and the anti-teep bigotry completely justified. This was changed both to add depth to the story and to avoid UnfortunateImplications regarding minority groups in real life (in the original story the teeps were directly compared to [[RedScare communist infiltrators]]). More specifically, the closest character to Honor in the original story is Ernest Abbud, a young man who ends up betraying the protagonist and exemplifies the MasterRace tendencies of the teeps. This makes Honor an example of AdaptationalAttractiveness, GenderFlip and PromotedToLoveInterest as well as AdaptationalHeroism.

* DyingDeclarationOfHate: Cutter's final moments veer between this and EvilGloating. [[spoiler: Notable in that the very "secret weapon" against the teeps he claims makes his hoods obsolete, Agent Ross, is likely to undergo AFateWorseThanDeath because [[WhatAnIdiot he couldn't resist blabbing about it]] right to their faces.]]

* TheyFightCrime: A bog-standard science-fiction version of this trope, pairing a downtrodden mutant with one of the cops who's supposed to keep her kind in line. One of the other cops even remarks on the WunzaPlot, calling them "Ebony and Ivory". [[spoiler: Turns out to be true on a deeper level than Honor knew -- they assigned the one cop capable of a PsychicBlockDefense to their first telepathic deputy, specifically because he alone had the ability to lie to her.]]

* WellDoneSonGuy: Honor tears down the protester's pretensions to idealism by revealing that all he wants by participating in the anti-teep rebellion is to impress his older brother.

* TheOldestProfession: It is implied that most of the teeps who, unlike Honor, have not been press-ganged into working for Clearance, have turned to this to survive.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: The teep rebellion.

* AdaptationalHeroism: In Dick's original short story the teeps were unambiguously villainous and the anti-teep bigotry completely justified. This was changed both to add depth to the story and to avoid UnfortunateImplications regarding minority groups in real life (in the original story the teeps were directly compared to [[RedScare communist infiltrators]]. More specifically, the closest character to Honor in the original story is Ernest Abbud, a young man who ends up betraying the protagonist and exemplifies the MasterRace tendencies of the teeps. This makes Honor an example of AdaptationalAttractiveness, GenderFlip and PromotedToLoveInterest as well as AdaptationalHeroism.

* MindRape: Honor does this in a horribly disturbing way to the protester in the beginning -- the shame and agony he experiences reminds us that the normals' fear and loathing of teeps is, to a degree, justified. (Ross even remarks drily "You raped him pretty good" afterwards.)

* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: The Orwellian government is known as the "Free Union" (although this may refer to the different states that formed the union freely joining it, rather than the freedom of the populace they collectively rule). The SecretPolice/StateSec organization the protagonists work for goes by the NonIndicativeName of "Clearance".

* PowerOfTrust: The {{Aesop}} of this episode. [[spoiler: Ross ends the episode pleading with Honor that, even though he's taken away any logical reason for her to trust him, if normals and teeps can't trust each other then the world is doomed to burn.]]

* TinfoilHat: The titular hoods are this trope played straight -- a device that acts as a sort of Faraday cage that blocks telepathy.
** Both the original story and this episode deal with the FridgeLogic that a defense as obvious and easy to remove as a tinfoil hat would be of very limited value in real life -- in both stories, the hood itself is only a stopgap and a symbol of resistance, and the hood maker's true weapon is the AwfulTruth about teeps he possesses.

* LikeFatherLikeSon: Ross confides to Honor that, while both of them live in a world of deception and betrayal, his father was a simple man who "wore his heart on his sleeve", and would've had nothing to fear from the Anti-Immunity Act because he would have nothing to hide from a teep. It's this sense of serene honesty she gets from Ross, despite the nature of his job, that makes Honor fall in love with him despite herself.