History Recap / TheHardyBoys2020Season2E10AnUnexpectedReturn

* ContinuitySnarl: The episode's denouement is supposed to take place only a few days after the rest of it, as implied by a few conversations (like Callie mentioning that the case throughout the season took place over about two weeks) and confirmed in the next season. However, there are a couple of details that don't make much sense unless far more time had passed, like school apparently being out for the summer now despite none of the other characters mentioning that it was coming up this soon, Dennis having recovered so much that he's almost completely back to normal, and Wilt's Deli being fully repaired, complete with all the arcade games, after having a hole blown in the wall just a week ago of in-universe time.

* ContinuitySnarl: The episode's denouement is supposed to take place only a few days after the rest of it, as implied by a few conversations (like Callie mentioning that the events of this entire season took place over about two weeks) and confirmed in the next season. However, there are a couple of details that don't make much sense unless far more time had passed, like school apparently being out for the summer now despite none of the other characters mentioning that it was coming up this soon, Dennis having recovered so much that he's almost completely back to normal, and Wilt's Deli being fully repaired, complete with all the arcade games, after having a hole blown in the wall just a week ago of in-universe time.

* ContinuitySnarl: The denouement of the episode is supposed to take place only a few days after the rest of it, as implied by a few conversations (like Callie mentioning that the events of this entire season took place over about two weeks) and confirmed in the next season. However, there are a couple of details that don't make much sense unless far more time had passed, like school apparently being out for the summer now despite none of the other characters mentioning that it was coming up this soon, Dennis having recovered so much that he's almost completely back to normal, and Wilt's Deli being fully repaired, complete with all the arcade games, after having a hole blown in the wall just a week ago of in-universe time.

* ContinuitySnarl: The denouement of the episode is supposed to take place only a few days after the rest of it, as implied by a few conversations and confirmed in the next season, but there are a couple of details that don't make much sense unless far more time had passed, like Dennis having recovered so much that he's almost completely back to normal, and Wilt's being more-or-less fully repaired, complete with all the arcade games, after having a hole blown in the wall just a week ago of in-universe time.

** Joe and his friends arrive in the Sleep Room to find that Munder has already started the Project Midnight treatment on Frank, and promptly rushes the man and tries to punch him, though, considering Munder's a grown adult, Joe just gets bodied against the wall for his trouble.

* TheCavalryArrivesLate: Joe, Callie, Chet, and Belinda arrive at Rosegrave and rush to the Sleep Room to try to rescue Frank from the Shadow Man, with Phil, Biff, Jessie, and Riley not far behind. Unfortunately, they don't get there in time; Frank's consciousness has already been put into the Crystal by then, and though they seemingly do manage to bring him back, the ending reveals that it was ''George's'' mind that got uploaded into his body instead, and Frank himself is still stuck inside the Crystal, unbeknownst to everyone else.

* EvilAllAlong: In contrast to what the first season implied, George never really did go through a HeelFaceTurn. With guidance from the Eye, he only pretended to change as a way to fool Ahmed and Sergei, [[FakingTheDead letting them believe they'd succeeded in having him killed]] while actually putting his mind inside the Crystal and waiting there for decades to [[GrandTheftMe switch places with his own great-grandson]].

* GreaterScopeVillain: The [[TheReveal biggest twist of the season]] is that [[EvilAllAlong George Estabrook was this all along]], and by extension, the Eye as well, which is ultimately loyal to George as its original holder (or one of them, anyway). The Eye caused a vision of Frank to travel across time and appear to George before he "died", and by thus learning of his great-grandson's existence, George formulated a plan to dodge his enemies and extend his life by faking his death, storing his consciousness in the Crystal, and waiting for Frank to appear there so he could [[GrandTheftMe resurrect himself as a much younger man by stealing his body]]. The DownerEnding of the season reveals that he's succeeded.

* MamaBear: Jessie and Riley arrive at the Sleep Room to find Munder throttling Frank[[labelnote:*]](really George using his body after having stolen it, but nobody knows that yet)[[/labelnote]], her girlfriend's nephew, and furiously shouts at Munder to get off him and tries to pull him away as Riley snaps on the handcuffs.

** The {{Flashback}} of George's final conversation with Gloria is replayed, but then continues further than it did originally, greatly changing the context. The first time, it appeared that George was basically disinheriting Gloria because of her hunger for power while he had turned over a new leaf, and that she ratted him out to his partners in retaliation. Instead, it's revealed that this was part of George's plan all along, and he trusted her to help him see it through, while promising to see her again, giving her a more affectionate goodbye, and having a package containing the Crystal sent to her, implying before it's confirmed a moment later that George himself has been inside the Crystal ever since.
** As Frank and George fight inside the Crystal's realm, it looks like Frank is successfully able to fend off his great-grandfather, grab the realm's facsimile of the Crystal on the chandelier, and return to the real world, as we see his eyes move there to indicate he's woken up. And then in the final scene, it's confirmed after increasingly heavy hinting that this is actually George, and we see the rest of what happened: without the Eye's power, Frank was unable to leave the Crystal, and George got out instead and has now body-snatched Frank while leaving his mind behind, stuck in the Crystal presumably forever unless and until someone else saves him.

* RageBreakingPoint: "Frank" (actually George) gives Munder a HopeSpot by [[BatmanGambit pretending to be Aaron after the transfer is complete long enough for him to release him]], then reveals it's not really him, and coldly, almost mockingly shuts down Adrian's attempted denial by asking if he sees someone who loves him in his eyes. Adrian doesn't say a word, but just starts strangling Frank until Jessie and Riley arrive.

* RightForTheWrongReasons: Joe realizes that it was the Shadow Man, not Angela, who kidnapped Frank because, if she was tracking the Eye, she should have traced it to the Chamber where Frank had his vision, so the fact that she showed up to the school instead means that she's actually tracking the ''Crystal'''s energy signature--which the Shadow Man has with him--just like on the day of the bombing, and therefore there's a connection between the Eye and the Crystal. In fact, Frank has been having more visions of Young George since arriving at the school, so Angela really ''could'' have just tracked the Eye there as usual, but Joe doesn't know this, and everything he deduced is correct.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Numerous examples from previous episodes that culminate in the CruelTwistEnding of this SeasonFinale:
** Joe noted in "A Clue on Film" that perhaps the reason Frank was having trouble controlling the Eye's visions was because he was reflexively resisting it, and suggested he try "letting it in." Frank increasingly doing just that caused him to fall further and further under the Eye's [[TheCorruptor corruptive]] influence, driving a wedge between the brothers in the process, which set him up to be kidnapped and body-snatched here.
** Phil asking Mr. Munder for help decoding the writing on the scroll allowed him--the Shadow Man--to learn its message along with the Hardy Gang: "The vessel is the power." From this, once he learned about Frank having the Eye, Munder realized he was the only person strong enough to handle the transfer from the Crystal, and kidnapped Frank to use his body as the new host for his brother's consciousness.
** When Joe, Phil, and Lucy found Mr. Munder, their prime suspect, seemingly catatonic, Joe spoke aloud with Phil about how Frank could have the Eye and still be wrong. It turns out that the real Mr. Munder--the twin of the man they found catatonic--was listening in nearby from hiding, and this is when he learned Frank has the Eye in him and started planning to kidnap him. [[ItsAllMyFault Joe is distraught when he realizes this]], though his friends attempt to reassure him that Munder would have found out anyway. And then the ending reveals Joe still hasn't gotten his brother back....
** Mr. Munder kidnaps Frank with the intention of bringing his twin brother back by putting Aaron's mind into Frank's body. Frank's consciousness is successfully removed and stored in the Crystal...where the Eye reveals to him that Munder's plan was never going to work, and he was being used. This gives [[GreaterScopeVillain George]] the opportunity to take over Frank's body, unleashing him back into the world.
** When Joe and Frank fled Angela and Mack in "Hunting an Intruder" and ran to the beach, it triggered another vision that essentially caused Frank to time-travel, allowing his great-grandfather George to see him. As a result, George's grand plan to avoid being killed by his partners involved him loading his mind into the Crystal to wait until Frank appears there, so George can hijack his body.

* WhamEpisode: Probably the biggest of the whole series so far. Adrian Munder tries to revive his brother Aaron by putting his consciousness into Frank's body, transferring Frank's mind into the Crystal in the process. There, Frank learns that George Estabrook didn't really die in the plane crash that seemingly killed him; instead, he put his mind into the Crystal so he could wait there for Frank (whom he'd seen on the beach thanks to [[StableTimeLoop a time-travel vision given to him by the Eye]]) and steal his body himself, though Frank is apparently able to stop him. Fenton learns that Olivia [[ILied was lying about knowing who ordered Laura's death]], but she reveals that there are other magical relics out there besides the Eye, and other forces trying to gather them. Fenton is then left stunned when Laura shows up there. Frank still hasn't recovered from his experience with the Eye and breaks up with Callie for no apparent reason, and the very ending of the episode reveals why: thanks to the Eye, George ''succeeded'' in his plan to transfer his consciousness into Frank's body, meaning that he's essentially come back to life, while the real Frank is still trapped in the Crystal.

** When Joe, Phil, and Lucy found Mr. Munder, their prime suspect, seemingly catatonic, Joe spoke aloud with Phil about how Frank could have the Eye and still have been wrong. It turns out that the real Mr. Munder--the twin of the man they found catatonic--was listening in nearby from hiding, and this is when he learned Frank has the Eye in him and started planning to kidnap him. [[ItsAllMyFault Joe is distraught when he realizes this]], though his friends attempt to reassure him that Munder would have found out anyway. And then the ending reveals that Joe still hasn't gotten his brother back....

* SecretRoom: The gang deduces that, if Munder could overhear Joe talking quietly to Phil about Frank having the Eye, he must have been very close, and find a door the back of his wardrobe leading to a CreepyBasement. This was originally where Munder was preparing to revive Project Midnight, but since he couldn't go back to house after Aaron was found, he has to improvise and brings Frank to the real Sleep Room instead.

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: In George's final goodbye to Gloria in the {{Flashback}}, where he promised to see her again someday, he called her "my darling daughter." In the final scene, where he visits her at the hospital [[GrandTheftMe in Frank's body]], George again addresses her as this to prove it's really him instead of Frank.

** When Joe, Phil, and Lucy found Mr. Munder, their prime suspect, seemingly catatonic, Joe spoke aloud with Phil about how Frank could have the Eye and still have been wrong. It turns out that the real Mr. Munder--the twin of the man they found catatonic--was listening in nearby from hiding, and this is how he learned that Frank has the Eye in him and is what motivated him to kidnap him. [[ItsAllMyFault Joe is distraught when he realizes this]], though his friends attempt to reassure him that Munder would have found out anyway. And then the ending reveals that Joe still hasn't gotten his brother back....
** Mr. Munder kidnaps Frank with the intention of putting his twin brother's consciousness into Frank's body in an attempt to bring the Aaron back. Frank's mind is successfully removed from his body and stored in the Crystal...where the Eye reveals to Frank that Munder's plan was never going to work, and he was being used. This gives [[GreaterScopeVillain George]] the opportunity to take over Frank's body, unleashing him back into the world.

** Adrian has one to his StartOfDarkness: the day his twin, Aaron, took part in Project Midnight after Adrian failed to convince him not to, was rendered catatonic when it failed, and subsequently hospitalized for good, while Adrian had to leave Rosegrave [[HeKnowsTooMuch for his own safety]].

* EvilAllAlong: In contrast to what the first season implied, George never really did go through a HeelFaceTurn. With guidance from the Eye, he only pretended to change as a way to fool Ahmed and Sergei, [[FakingTheDead letting them believe they'd succeeded in having him killed]] while actually putting his mind inside the Crystal and waiting there for decades to [[GrandTheftMe steal his own great-grandson's body]] while locking Frank in there instead.

** After Chet's and Belinda's first attempt to get milkshakes together at Wilt's in "A Disappearance" was interrupted, Chet finally brings her one. Despite her skepticism that can live up to the hype at this point, once she tries it, Belinda can't deny that she is indeed impressed.

* ActorAllusion: George's consciousness meets Frank's within the Crystal and asks how old he is, suggesting "22? 23?" before Frank corrects him that he's 16. Rohan Campbell himself was 22-23 while filming the first season.

* TapOnTheHead: Trudy knocks Olivia unconscious by hitting her in the head with a brick, and she's shown to be out cold for at least several minutes. She wakes up none the worse for wear except being slightly groggy at first.

** And then, when George reveals that he's going to take over Frank's body and leave his mind stranded in the Crystal:

* IHaveAFamily: PlayedForDrama. Munder's motivation for his actions as the Shadow Man is to try to revive his brother by uploading his mind from the Crystal into another body. As he prepares to do this to Frank, which would leave ''his'' mind locked inside the Crystal instead, Frank desperately [[AintTooProudToBeg begs him not to go through with it]] by stating that he, too, has a brother and is one himself, but his pleas fall on deaf ears.

* OutGambitted: The first part of Munder's plot--kidnapping Frank and downloading his mind into the Crystal--works perfectly, but then the person he brings back out is not who he expected. The Eye explicitly tells Frank inside the Crystal that Adrian's plan was never going to work, and he "thinks exactly what he's supposed think"; George counted on someone doing exactly what Munder's done so ''he'' could take Frank's body instead.

* CruelTwistEnding / {{Cliffhanger}}: Initially, when Frank meets George in the Crystal and the latter tries to hijack his body, the former appears to fight him off and successfully come back. However, the ending scene where "Frank" visits Gloria reveals that George was in control the whole time thanks to having stolen the Eye's power from his great-grandson, who was now not strong enough to leave, and ''succeeded'' in stealing Frank's body, leaving his mind stuck in the Crystal.

* IHaveAFamily: PlayedForDrama. Munder's motivation for his actions as the Shadow Man is to attempt to revive his brother by uploading his consciousness from the Crystal into another body. As he prepares to do this to Frank, which would leave ''his'' mind locked inside the Crystal instead, Frank desperately tries to appeal to his morals by stating that he, too, has a brother and is a brother himself, [[AintTooProudToBeg begging him not to go through with it]], but his pleas fall on deaf ears.

* {{Irony}}: A fairly tragic example. Joe was worried about Frank telling their friends he has the Eye not because he thought they'd purposely tell anyone, of course, but "What if someone slips up?" He realizes that Munder found out about it and took Frank because Joe ''himself'' slipped up by discussing it with Phil after they seemingly found Munder catatonic at his house, while the ''real'' Adrian was hiding nearby and heard him (not that Joe had any possible way of knowing this).

* OutGambitted: The entire first part of Munder's plan--kidnapping Frank and downloading his mind into the Crystal--works perfectly, but then the person he brings back out is not who he expected. The Eye explicitly tells Frank inside the Crystal that Adrian's plan was never going to work, and he "thinks what he's supposed think"; George counted on Munder doing exactly this so ''he'' could take Frank's body instead.

* SecretRoom: The gang deduces that, if Munder could overhear Joe talking quietly to Phil about Frank having the Eye, he must have been very close, and find a door the back of his wardrobe leading to a CreepyBasement. This was originally where Munder was preparing to revive Project Midnight, but since he couldn't go back to house after Aaron was found, he has to improvise and takes Frank to the original Sleep Room instead.
* SequelHook: Seasons 2 and 3 are a TwoPartTrilogy, and this episodes ends in a {{Cliffhanger}} and leaves open some plot points from this season to be resolved in the next one.

** Coupled with CruelTwistEnding: George did succeed after all in his plan to transfer his mind into Frank's body, essentially resurrecting himself under the guise of his own great-grandson, with Frank's own consciousness still stuck inside the Crystal.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Once George hijacks Frank's body and impersonates him, Joe insists he return the Eye to the relic as the real Frank previously promised to do, and George, knowing there's no way around it without blowing his cover, reluctantly does. This is crucial for any hope of rescuing Frank in the future, since that wouldn't be possible if George still has the Eye.[[note]]Specifically, even if they put him back into the Crystal, Frank couldn't steal the Eye from him there to return because it's loyal to George, so it would still be him who came back out, and George would have no reason to give up the Eye willingly if everyone already knew who he was.[[/note]]
* TapOnTheHead: Trudy knocks Olivia unconscious by hitting her in the head with a brick, and she's shown to be out cold for at least several minutes. Olivia wakes up none the worse for wear except being slightly groggy at first.

** Joe and his friends arrive in the Sleep Room to find that Munder has already started the Project Midnight transfer on Frank, and promptly rushes the man and tries to punch him, though, considering Munder's a grown adult, Joe just gets bodied against the wall for his trouble.

* EmptyShell: This briefly happens to Frank's body when his mind uploaded into the Crystal, but unfortunately for him, [[GreaterScopeVillain George Estabrook]] was waiting for this and takes the chance to [[GrandTheftMe hijack it for himself]].

* GrandTheftMe: This was George's master plan all along: [[FakingTheDead fake his death]], upload his consciousness into the Crystal, and wait for the Eye to bring Frank there many years later so George can steal his body and leave him stranded there. Unfortunately, he succeeds.

* IHaveAFamily: PlayedForDrama. Munder's motivation for his actions as the Shadow Man is to attempt to revive his brother by transferring his consciousness from the Crystal into another body. As he prepares to do this to Frank, which would leave ''his'' mind locked inside the Crystal instead, Frank desperately tries to appeal to his morals by stating that he, too, has a brother and is a brother himself, [[AintTooProudToBeg begging him not to go through with it]], but his pleas fall on deaf ears.

** Combined with IDidWhatIHadToDo, which Joe states word-for-word. He convinces Frank to finally return the Eye's power to the relic by assuring him that they can still continue to use it. After Frank transfers the power, collapses, and wakes up in the hospital, Joe tells him that Brian has the relic and plans to make sure it won't ever see the light of day again. Joe justifies the lie by saying that he had to save Frank from the Eye as well as Munder, and wanted his brother back. Frank accepts this and thanks him....except it's not actually Frank, but George.

** Mr. Munder kidnaps Frank with the intention of uploading his twin brother's consciousness into Frank's body in an attempt to bring the Aaron back. Frank's mind is successfully removed from his body and stored in the Crystal...where the Eye reveals to Frank that Munder's plan was never going to work, and he was being used. This gives [[GreaterScopeVillain George]] the opportunity to take over Frank's body, unleashing him back into the world.
** When Joe and Frank fled Angela and Mack in "Hunting an Intruder" and ran to the beach, it triggered another vision that essentially caused Frank to time-travel, allowing his great-grandfather George to see him. As a result, George's grand plan to avoid being killed by his partners involved him transferring his mind into the Crystal to wait until Frank appears there, so George can hijack his body.

* BatmanGambit: When "Frank" (or rather, George in his body) regains consciousness in the climax of the season and sees that Frank's friends are still unconscious and Munder is the first person to wake up, he pretends that the attempted mind transfer worked, faking that he is Munder's twin brother Aaron for long enough to get Munder to set him free before revealing that it failed.

** Trudy knocks Olivia out with a brick when the thinks the latter is going for her gun to shoot Fenton. Although it's an UnwantedRescue since Fenton insists Olivia wasn't actually going for her gun and he was planning to interrogate her, and now has to wait until she wakes up.

* BigDamnHeroes: Joe, Callie, Chet, and Belinda attempt to pull this off to rescue Frank from the Shadow Man. [[TheCavalryArrivesLate They don't get there in time, though]]; Frank's consciousness has already been pulled out of his body by then and put into the Crystal, and though they seemingly do manage to bring him back, the ending reveals that it was ''George's'' mind that got put back into the body instead, and Frank is still stuck in the Crystal, unbeknownst to everyone else.

** After Chet's and Belinda's first attempt to get milkshakes together at Wilt's in "A Disappearance" was interrupted, Chet finally brings her one. Despite her skeptically thinking it won't live up to the hype at this point, she is in fact very impressed and admits it's awesome.

* CreepyBasement: Adrian Munder has one that doubles as a SecretRoom behind the back of his wardrobe. It's where he was keeping his catatonic brother Aaron, and also creating a Sleep Room setup to restart Project Midnight, though he was forced to abandon the entire house after pulling a TwinSwitch with Aaron when Joe, Phil, and Lucy came there to confront him. He has to take Frank to the original Sleep Room at Rosegrave instead.
* CruelTwistEnding / {{Cliffhanger}}: Initially, when Frank meets George in the Crystal and the latter tries to hijack his body, Frank appears to fight him off and successfully come back. However, the ending scene where "Frank" visits Gloria reveals that George was in control the whole time thanks to having stolen the Eye's power from Frank, stopped him, and ''succeeded'' in stealing his body, leaving his mind stuck in the Crystal.

** The same flashback Gloria had in "Eye to Eye" of the day George left is shown again, but continues farther this time and greatly re-contextualizes the whole scene, thus doubling as OnceMoreWithClarity.

* GreaterScopeVillain: The [[TheReveal biggest twist of the season]] is that [[EvilAllAlong George Estabrook was this all along]], and by extension, the Eye as well, which is ultimately loyal to George as its original holder (or one of them, anyway). The Eye causes a vision of Frank to travel across time and appear to George before he "died", and by thus learning of his great-grandson's existence, George formulates a plan to dodge his enemies and extend his life by faking his death, storing his consciousness in the Crystal, and waiting for Frank to appear there so he can [[GrandTheftMe resurrect himself as a much younger man by stealing his body]]. The DownerEnding of the season reveals that he's succeeded.
* IHaveAFamily: PlayedForDrama. Adrian Munder's motivation for his actions as the Shadow Man is trying to revive his twin brother Aaron by transferring his consciousness from the Crystal into another body. As he prepares to try to do this to Frank, which would leave ''his'' mind locked inside the Crystal instead, Frank desperately tries to appeal to his morals by stating that he, too, has a brother and is a brother himself, begging him not to go through with it, but his pleas fall on deaf ears.

* ItsAllMyFault: Joe feels this way when he realizes Munder took Frank because he found out about him having the power of the Eye via hearing Joe talk about it to Phil, though Callie, Biff, and Phil reassure him by saying Munder would have eventually found out anyway (which is likely true) and Joe and co coming to his house to confront him in "A Midnight Scare" messed up his original plan and forced him to improvise.

* LoveMakesYouEvil: Adrian Munder is utterly twisted by his grief over his beloved twin brother being rendered catatonic in Project Midnight, and the lengths he's been willing to go in trying to bring him back are far beyond the pale: abducting and damaging the mind of an innocent student (Dennis); blowing up an unrelated store (which critically injures the chief of police) so he could break into a house; murdering a doctor previously involved in Project Midnight when she refused to continue helping him; and kidnapping ''another'' innocent student with the intent of ''permanently removing his soul from his body'' and trapping it inside a crystal forever to replace it with his brother's soul.

* PetTheDog: Despite Dr. Burelli having experimented on kids in the first place, she is genuinely remorseful when the second trial of Project Midnight goes wrong and Aaron ends up catatonic, telling Adrian that she wouldn't ever hurt him even if Stratemeyer would because she's a doctor and that would go against her oath, and urging him to accept the payoff for his silence to keep himself safe.

* SecretRoom: The gang deduces that, if Munder was able to overhear Joe talking quietly to Phil about Frank having the Eye, he must have been very close, and find a door the back of his wardrobe leading to a CreepyBasement. This was originally where Munder was preparing to revive Project Midnight, but since he couldn't go back to house after Aaron was found, he has to improvise and takes Frank to the original Sleep Room instead.
* SequelHook: Seasons 2 and 3 are a TwoPartTrilogy, and this SeasonFinale introduces a {{Cliffhanger}} and leaves open some plot points from this season to be resolved in the next one.
** The person who returns Biff's call to Abigail Owens, her birth mother, is her daughter, meaning that Biff has biological siblings.

** Despite Joe telling "Frank" (actually George) that he gave the Eye, now returned to the relic, over to Brian to make sure it "never sees the light of day again", it's later shown that he secretly kept it, for unclear reasons, unbeknownst to everyone else.

** Coupled with CruelTwistEnding: George Estabrook did succeed after all in his plan to transfer his mind into Frank's body, essentially resurrecting himself in his great-grandson's body, with Frank's own consciousness still stuck inside the Crystal.

** Pretty much everything Frank says in his visit to Gloria at the very end of the season finale. Namely, that it's more and more clear that he's not actually Frank, but George's mind inside Frank's body, until he outright calls Gloria "my darling, darling daughter", fully confirming it.

* ActorAllusion: George's consciousness meets Frank's within the Crystal, and he asks how old Frank is and suggests, "22? 23?" before Frank corrects him that he's 16. Rohan Campbell himself was 22-23 while filming the first season.

* BigNO: Munder gives one when the heroes arrive tackle him to the ground just before the transfer from the Crystal is complete.

* CaughtOnTape: Chet and Belinda confront Angela in the Chamber of the Eye and get her to admit to killing Mack, then reveal they have Brian and Deputy Riley listening in. Though they admit that this is a just a bonus on top of all the other evidence they have on her.

* EvilPlan: The gang figures out Munder's by finding his CreepyBasement and the Project Midnight-esque, which acts as a EurekaMoment: he wants to restart Project Midnight to put his twin brother's consciousness, which he thinks is stuck in the Crystal, into Frank's body.
* FakingTheDead: George Estabrook let everyone, including his daughter, believe that his partners successfully had him killed when they sabotaged his plane 20 years ago after he tried to flee with his piece of the Eye. He was never really on the plane to begin with, and actually downloaded his consciousness into the Crystal as a way to prolong his life when he could later take over Frank's body.

* GrandTheftMe: This was George Estabrook's master plan all along: [[FakingTheDead fake his death]], upload his consciousness into the Crystal, and wait for the Eye to bring Frank there many years later so George can steal his body and leave him stranded there. Unfortunately, he succeeds.

* MamaBear: Jessie and Riley arrive at the Sleep Room to find Munder throttling Frank[[labelnote:*]]really George using his body after having stolen it, but nobody knows that yet)[[/labelnote]], her girlfriend's nephew, and furiously shouts at Munder to get off him and tries to pull him away as Riley snaps on the handcuffs.

-->'''Munder''': Love never ends. Aching, painful, mourning love that comes with missing someone so much that you would do anything to bring them back. Can you understand that?\\

** As Frank and George fight inside the Crystal's realm, it looks like Frank is successfully able to fight his great-grandfather off, grab the realm's facsimile of the Crystal on the chandelier, and return to the real world, as we see his eyes move there to indicate he's woken up. And then in the final scene, it's confirmed after increasingly heavy hinting that this is actually George, and we see the rest of what happened: without the Eye's power, Frank was unable to leave the Crystal, and George got out instead and has now body-snatched Frank while leaving his mind behind, stuck in the Crystal presumably forever unless and until someone else saves him.

** Mr. Munder, kidnaps Frank with the intention of uploading his twin brother's consciousness into Frank's body in an attempt to bring the Aaron back. Frank's mind is successfully removed from his body and stored in the Crystal...where the Eye reveals to Frank that Munder's plan was never going to work, and he was being used. This gives [[GreaterScopeVillain George]] the opportunity to take over Frank's body, unleashing him back into the world.

** Frank asks why Munder didn't just kill Dennis when the latter started to get his memory back, instead of wiping it again. Munder insists that he's "not a monster" and doesn't take killing someone lightly; when Frank points out that he murdered Burelli, he answers that [[HeKnowsTooMuch she couldn't live because she knew his identity]], but Munder saw another option for Dennis without having to kill him, and took it.

* CruelTwistEnding / {{Cliffhanger}}: Initially, when Frank meets George in the Crystal and the latter tries to hijack his body, Frank appears to fight him off and successfully come back. However, the ending scene where "Frank" visits Gloria reveals that George was in control the whole time thanks to having stolen the Eye's power from Frank, stopped him, and ''succeeded'' in stealing his body, leaving his mind trapped in the Crystal.
* DistressedDude: Frank spends most of this episode held prisoner in the Sleep Room by [[BigBad the Shadow Man]], Adrian Munder, who intends to transfer Frank's consciousness into the Crystal and replace it with his twin brother Aaron's, whom he believes to be trapped in there. Unfortunately for everyone involved, it's George who takes over the body instead, leaving Frank as this even more when ''he's'' trapped in the Crystal too.

* FauxAffablyEvil: George Estabrook seems genuinely glad to meet Frank in the realm of the Crystal after seeing him on the beach many years before thanks to the Eye's StableTimeLoop. This hasn't stopped him from planning for many years, since before faking his death, to steal his own great-grandson's body while taking the Eye from him and trapping his mind inside the Crystal, just seeming rather smugly amused when Frank tries to resist.

* IHaveAFamily: PlayedForDrama. Adrian Munder's motivation for his actions as the Shadow Man is trying to revive his twin brother Aaron by transferring his consciousness from the Crystal into another body. As he prepares to try to do this to Frank, which would leave his mind trapped inside the Crystal instead, Frank desperately tries to appeal to his morals by stating that he, too, has a brother and is a brother himself, begging him not to go through with it, but his pleas fall on deaf ears.

** Combined with IDidWhatIHadToDo: Joe convinces Frank to finally return the Eye's power to the relic by assuring him that they can still continue to use it. After Frank transfers the power, passes out, and wakes up in the hospital, Joe tells him that Brian has the relic and plans to make sure it won't ever see the light of day again. Joe justifies the lie by saying that he had to save Frank from the Eye as well as Munder, and wanted his brother back. Frank accepts this and thanks him....except it's not actually Frank, but George.

* LoveMakesYouEvil: Adrian Munder is utterly twisted by his grief over his beloved twin brother being rendered catatonic in Project Midnight, and the lengths he's been willing to go in trying to revive him are far beyond the pale: abducting and damaging the mind of an innocent student (Dennis); blowing up an unrelated store (which critically injures the chief of police) so he could break into a house; murdering a doctor previously involved in Project Midnight when she refused to continue helping him; and kidnapping ''another'' innocent student with the intent of ''permanently removing his soul from his body'' and trapping it inside a crystal forever to replace it with his brother's soul.

** George Estabrook turns out to have been EvilAllAlong and the GreaterScopeVillaion of the series so far. He didn't die when his plane crashed into the ocean, because he wasn't on it to begin with (though his piece of the Eye was); his consciousness had already been put into the Crystal, awaiting the opportunity to load himself into Frank's body as his new host. The final {{Wham Line}}s of the season show that he succeeded.

** Coupled with CruelTwistEnding: George Estabrook did succeed after all in his plan to transfer his mind into Frank's body, essentially resurrecting himself in his great-grandson's body, while the real Frank is still trapped inside the Crystal.
* WhamEpisode: Probably the biggest of the whole series so far. Adrian Munder tries to revive his brother Aaron by putting his consciousness into Frank's body, transferring Frank's mind into the Crystal in the process. There, Frank learns that George Estabrook didn't really die in the plane crash that seemingly killed him; instead, he put his mind into the Crystal so he could wait there for Frank (whom he'd seen on the beach thanks to [[StableTimeLoop a time-travel vision given to him by the Eye]]) and steal his body himself, though Frank is apparently able to stop him. Fenton learns that Olivia [[ILied was lying about knowing who ordered Laura's death]], but she reveals that there are other magical relics out there besides the Eye, and other forces trying to gather them. Fenton is then left stunned when Laura shows up there. Frank still hasn't recovered from his experience with the Eye and breaks up with Callie for no apparent reason, and the very ending of the episode reveals why: thanks to the Eye, George ''succeeded'' in his plan to transfer his consciousness into Frank's body, meaning that he's essentially come back to life, while the real Frank is still trapped inside the Crystal.

** First when the Eye, in the form of Young George, turns on Frank once he meets up with the real George in the Crystal's realm:
--->"The Eye's loyalty has always been with its original master."