History Recap / TheHardyBoys2020Season3E4TheCrash

* MadeOfIron: Trudy causes a major car crash to escape Olivia, which ends with the SUV flipping over and landing upside-down after she drives it off a hill. Yet all four occupants--Trudy, Olivia, Frank, and Joe--survive relatively unharmed. Only Olivia is even knocked unconscious by it, while the three Hardys get out with nothing more than some minor scrapes and bruises.

* SpottingTheThread: Trudy realizes Olivia's lying to them about Fenton because she told the boys he has has "good news" for them (hinting it pertains to Laura), but claimed to Trudy earlier that she lost track of Fenton days ago. Olivia tries to cover by saying that, since that time, he left a message for her and one of her agents informed her of it just before they found the kids, but since she doesn't specify what the supposed message actually said and Trudy has been with her the whole time and never saw her receive it, she sees through it, realizes she and the boys are in danger, and knocks Olivia out, crashing their car, [[MamaBear so her nephews can get away]].

* WhamEpisode: The Hardys and friends are able to take the scroll map to the final relic back from JB, but he ends up having to hide them from Quill and his goons, who are sent by Quill's boss and JB's buyer to get it from him. The gang manages to decipher the map and find this relic, the Core, as it crashes down to Earth, and Olivia offers to keep it safe and reunite the boys with their dad (and possibly their mom too), but is heavily implied to [[ImpersonatingAnOfficer be faking her status as a DSA agent]]. Trudy crashes the car so she and the boys can escape, and they're forced to leave the Core behind with Olivia and her underlings. The mysterious woman in the coat shows up at JB's apartment and murders the BoundAndGagged Quill there, and then later shoots JB at the pool club as well while he protects the boys from her.

** Upon learning Olivia's a government agent, Frank and Joe ask in unison, "Which agency?" and when she says they've never heard of it, say "Try us," which were the same reactions Fenton had to Olivia telling him the same thing in "A Strange Inheritance".

** Joe has a EurekaMoment while deducing the last relic isn't on Earth yet, and [[ChekhovsNews remembers the news broadcast earlier about an expected meteor showers]]. He is ''literally mid-sentence'' explaining to the others that this is the Core when the meteor comes crashing down to the quarry.

* DownerEnding: The last 10 minutes of the episode go FromBadToWorse: the Hardys actually do get to the Core first, but are quickly cornered by Olivia and her backup. She convinces the boys to give it to her, but it's then heavily implied that she's ImpersonatingAnOfficer and is one of the bad guys, which means Fenton's likely in trouble, and though Trudy helps them escape, they're forced to leave the Core behind. Then JB accidentally gets Quill killed by his boss, and is forced to leave without the recorded security footage that could provide their identity. And '''then''' JB ''himself'' takes mortal gunshot wounds from this same boss while shielding Joe. Summed up pretty well by this exchange:

* HopeSpot: Once Quill's boss murders him, JB isn't able to get away with the camera footage showing her identity, but does at least escape himself and the Hardys make it into the club to meet him, leaving some hope that he'll be able to pass on some intel to them. Then the killer arrives and shoots JB--while he saves the Hardys from her, to boot--before they ever get a chance to talk.

** Brian asks Chet and Belinda how Adrian Munder became catatonic too, and Chet [[MotorMouth recaps to him]] everything that happened with the Crystal, including George faking his death and stealing Frank's body, Munder helping with the plan to get Frank back, and him [[TogetherInDeath staying behind in the Crystal with Aaron]]. Brian believes them, but laments having to find a way to twist this story into something ''Driscoll'' will believe.

* NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: The map to the final relic--which will be some kind of rock/mineral like the other two--brings the friends to a ''rock'' quarry, and they lampshade this with how hard that would be to find. Though they soon figure out the Core isn't there ''yet'' and watch it come crashing down, at which point it's quite easy to find due to leaving a crater in the ground.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: JB compliments how Joe trusts his instincts and questions everything, and observes that he himself is the same way.

* PetTheDog: Throughout the whole series, JB has always been a WildCard who truly likes the Hardy Boys and looks out for their safety when he can, but also usually prioritizes [[OnlyInItForTheMoney getting his payday]] above all else, even if it means betraying the boys or handing over powerful artifacts to unscrupulous employers. By now, though, his better nature and sincere care for the kids' well-being definitively wins out over his greed, as he decides he can't give the scrolls to such dangerous people after they threaten his and the Hardys' lives and drops out of the race for the relics for good. He continues helping the gang for the sole purpose of keeping them safe, even TakingTheBullet to protect Joe and Frank.

* TheReveal: Drew Darrow knows or at least is connected to William Vogel, George's former driver whom Gloria fired, because he had the Crystal piece that he stole made into a necklace that Drew is now wearing.
* SayingTooMuch: Trudy realizes Olivia's lying to them about Fenton because she told the boys he has has "good news" for them, but claimed to Trudy earlier that she lost track of Fenton days ago. Olivia tries to cover by saying that, since that time, he left a message for her and one of her agents informed her of it just before they found the kids, but since she doesn't specify what the supposed message actually said, Trudy sees through it, realizes she and the boys are in danger, and knocks Olivia out, crashing their car, so her nephews can get away.

* SecretRoom: JB turns out to have a safe room, complete with security surveillance of his apartment and the nearby hallways, behind the back of his coat closet, which he uses to hide Joe, Frank, Biff, and Phil when Quill comes there searching for JB, putting the kids in danger too.

* TheScapegoat: The new dean of Rosegrave decides to blame Adrian Munder, the now-permanently-catatonic escaped felon, for the attack on Donald and Drew by the "mystery figure in black," even though he couldn't possibly have done it, because "Rosegrave doesn't need any more bad publicity."

* TheScapegoat: The new dean of Rosegrave decides to blame Adrian Munder, the now-permanently-catatonic escaped felon, for the attack on Drew and Donald by the "mystery figure in black," even though he couldn't possibly have done it, because "Rosegrave doesn't need any more bad publicity."

* TheScapegoat: The new dean of Rosegrave decides to blame the attack on Drew and Donald by the "mystery figure in black" on Munder, the now-permanently-catatonic escaped felon, even though he couldn't possibly have done it, because "Rosegrave doesn't need any more bad publicity."

* TemptingFate: At the beginning of the episode, JB's buyer threatens his life over the phone, and he responds that he's gotten many threats to his life but always lives to see another day. At the end, which is still on the same day, he's mortally wounded TakingTheBullet for the Hardy Boys.

* LuredIntoATrap: Subverted. After jumping and knocking out Quill, JB uses the mobile phone to call the latter's boss, and while imitating Quill's voice, claims to have killed JB Cox and asks the boss to come there so he can spy on them with the security cameras and find out who they are. He's quite shook when said boss just promptly murders Quill upon arrival, without JB being able to properly see her face.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: It's [[AmbiguousSituation ambiguous]] if JB's able to see on his security footage who Quill's hooded killer is, since the room is dark and her face is in shadow, although it's confirmed a few episodes later that he did. The murderer fatally shoots JB soon after at the pool club and, as the next episode shows, steals the tape with the footage that reveals her identity.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: It's [[AmbiguousSituation ambiguous]] if JB is able to see on his security footage who Quill's hooded killer is--since the room is dark and her face is in shadow--or if his OhCrap response is just because he realizes she's noticed the camera and is about to start looking for his safe room. Either way, the murderer doesn't chance it, fatally shooting JB soon after at the pool club and, as the next episode shows, stealing the tape with the footage that may or may not reveal her identity.

* HopeSpot: Once Quill's boss murders him, JB isn't able to get away with the camera footage that might show her identity, but does at least escape himself and the Hardys make it into the club to meet him, leaving some hope that he'll at least be able to pass on some intel he may have noticed. Then the killer arrives and shoots JB--while he saves the Hardys from her, to boot--before they ever get a chance to talk.

* LetsJustBeFriends: Biff reiterates this when Phil once again broaches the possibility of a romantic relationship between them and mentions their exhilarated hug in the previous episode after saving Frank, clarifying that it was a "friend hug" and now's not really a good time for her to be thinking about romance considering everything that the group, and she personally, has going on. Phil accepts it, but is clearly disappointed.

** Frank notes that Biff is really good at finding people from the past, and she agrees, "I'm 2-for-2 so far," referring to how she separately tracked down her bio da and her bio mom in the past two seasons.

* OneLastJob: JB is thoroughly tired of dealing with all the magic relics and [[ArtifactOfPower Artifacts of Power]], and decides to drop out of the relic hunt (and apparently thievery in general) altogether. However, he hides the Hardys and co. in his safe room after Quill and his {{Mook}}s show up at his apartment, and Joe convinces him to stay in the game and work with them a little longer by guilt-tripping him that they might die without his help. He ultimately does help out willingly, and doesn't hesitate in TakingTheBullet for Joe and Frank [[HeroicSacrifice to save them from the woman in black]].

* TheReveal: Drew Darrow knows or at least has some connection to William Vogel, George's former driver whom Gloria fired, because he had the Crystal piece that he stole made into a necklace that Drew is now wearing.

** Soon after, he sees Quill with a mini-army of {{Mook}}s show up at his apartment building, and knows they're coming for him but will find Frank, Joe, Biff, and Phil in the apartment instead. He doesn't hesitate to turn around, sneak into his safe room, and bring the kids in there JustInTime before the bad guys break in.

** He does his best to look out for the group while working with them: pulling Joe and Frank away from the machine in the Chamber when they get a seizure-like vision from touching it, quickly warning all the kids to duck down at the quarry so the arriving Quill and co. don't catch them, and [[DrawAggro drawing aggro to lure the bad guys who are following him out of Bridgeport]] and away from the Hardy Gang.

* ChekhovsNews: Near the beginning at JB's apartment, there's a news broadcast on his TV in the background about expected meteor showers over the next few days. Joe recalls it later when realizing one such meteor that will impact the Earth's surface contains the Core, [[ContrivedCoincidence right as]] it ''does'' come crashing down at the quarry, as expected.

** Frank notes that Biff is really good at finding people from the past, and she agrees, "I'm 2-for-2 so far," referring to how she was able to separately track down her birth father and her birth mother in the past two seasons.

* NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: The map to the final relic--which will be some kind of rock/mineral like the other two--brings them to a ''rock'' quarry, and they lampshade this with how hard that would be to find. Though they soon figure out the Core isn't there ''yet'' and watch it come crashing down, and which point it's quite easy to find due to leaving a crater in the ground.

** And most of all, very soon after he watched the hooded figure kill Quill, he sees them coming up behind the Hardys at the pool club with a gun. Even though they're almost certainly after ''him'' rather than the boys, he still instinctively [[TakingTheBullet takes the bullet]] and gets the brothers out of the crossfire by pushing Frank down and putting himself right between the shooter and Joe.

* {{Cliffhanger}}: The episode ends with JB being shot twice InTheBack at the nightclub by the hooded figure while protecting the boys.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: It's [[AmbiguousSituation ambiguous]] if JB is able to see on his security footage who Quill's hooded killer is--since the room is dark and their face is in shadow--or if his OhCrap response is just because he realizes they've noticed the camera and are about to start looking for his safe room. Either way, the murderer doesn't chance it, fatally shooting JB soon after at the pool club and, as the next episode shows, stealing the tape with the footage that may or may not reveal their identity.
* HeroicSacrifice: JB sees the mysterious figure in the black hood coming up behind Joe and Frank with a gun as they enter the bar, and ends up putting himself between Joe and the shooter while trying to move them out of harm's way and TakingTheBullet, to the Hardys' shock and horror. Even sadder, JB himself is almost certainly the real target to begin with, since the killer doesn't keep shooting at the boys after.
* HopeSpot: Once Quill's boss murders him, JB isn't able to get away with the camera footage that might show their identity, but does at least escape himself and the Hardys make it into the club to meet him, leaving some hope that he'll at least be able to pass on some intel he may have noticed. Then the killer arrives and shoots JB--while he saves the Hardys from them, to boot--before they ever get a chance to talk.

* LuredIntoATrap: Subverted. After jumping and knocking out Quill, JB uses the mobile phone to call the latter's boss, and while imitating Quill's voice, claims to have killed JB Cox and asks the boss to come there so he can spy on them with the security cameras and find out who they are. He's quite shook when said boss just promptly murders Quill upon arrival, without JB being able to properly see their face.

* OhCrap: JB has a couple in rapid succession: first when Quill's cloaked boss enters the apartment and shoots him dead, and then again when the killer turns and notices the security camera, and begins looking for the entrance to the safe room. And then in the next scene, a ''huge'' one when he spots the murderer just a few feet behind an oblivious Joe and Frank and starting to raise their gun.
* OneLastJob: JB is thoroughly tired of dealing with all the magic relics and [[ArtifactOfPower Artifacts of Power]], and decides to drop out of the relic hunt (and apparently thievery in general) altogether. However, he hides the Hardys and co. in his safe room after Quill and his {{Mook}}s show up at his apartment, and Joe convinces him to stay in the game and work with them a little longer by guilt-tripping him that they might die without his help. He ultimately does help out willingly, and doesn't hesitate in TakingTheBullet for Joe and Frank [[HeroicSacrifice to save them from the figure in black]].

* TakingTheBullet: JB for Joe and Frank, seeing the mysterious hooded figure (whom he earlier watched murder Quill) entering the club behind them, gun raised, probably planning to kill ''him''. JB gets them out of the crossfire by pushing Frank out of the way and pulling Joe around to put himself between him and the gun, and takes two shots InTheBack while shielding him.

* WhamEpisode: The Hardys and friends are able to take the scroll map to the final relic back from JB, but he ends up having to hide them from Quill and his goons, who are sent by Quill's boss and JB's buyer to get it from him. The gang manages to decipher the map and find this relic, the Core, as it crashes down to Earth, and Olivia offers to keep it safe and reunite the boys with their dad (and possibly their mom too), but is heavily implied to [[ImpersonatingAnOfficer be faking her status as a DSA agent]]. Trudy crashes the car so she and the boys can escape, and they're forced to leave the Core behind with Olivia and her underlings. The mysterious hooded figure shows up at JB's apartment and murders the BoundAndGagged Quill there, and then later shoots JB at the pool club as well while he protects the boys from them.

** As the Hardys arrive at the bar and walk over to meet JB, the figure in black who just killed Quill in the previous scene is shown coming up behind them and drawing their gun. JB sees it too, gets a massive OhCrap, and pushes the boys out of the way, TakingTheBullet as a result.

** When JB's buyer implicitly threatens the Hardy Boys, he immediately vows to burn the map he was hired to find if they or their friends are in danger, and decides to leave the game for good, and not before urging the boys to do the same "before one of you gets hurt or worse."

* CommonalityConnection: A major reason JB has always liked Joe--as he himself admits--and clicked so well with him since they met is because Joe questions everything around him and trusts in his own instincts, and JB himself is no different.
* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: When the Hardys, Biff, and Phil come to JB's apartment to get the map back from him, he warns them that his buyer knows who they are, officially drops out of game, and leaves while the others stay there to start piecing the map together. As he heads out the fire exit, though, he sees several cars containing Quill and a small army of {{Mook}}s drive up outside. Knowing they're coming there for him but will find the Hardys and friends in the apartment instead and probably hurt them, JB promptly changes his mind about leaving and heads to the roof to sneak into his SecretRoom, letting the kids in to hide there too just before Quill and his men barge in.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Cadmus Quill is an AssholeVictim for sure, but JB's [[ThouShaltNotKill not a killer]], and just knocks him out and ties him up to lure out his employer. And he's utterly shocked when this person shows up and murders Quill, and certainly didn't intend for him to die.

* LetMeGetThisStraight: JB, word-for-word, when the boys give him an InternalReveal between scenes after their seizure visions in the Chamber.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: JB compliments how Joe trusts his instincts and questions everything, and observes that he himself is the exact same way.

* WhamEpisode: The Hardys and friends are able to take the map to the final relic back from JB, but he ends up having to hide them from Quill and his goons, who are sent by Quill's boss and JB's buyer to get it from him. The gang manages to decipher the map and find the final relic, the Core, as it crashes down to Earth, and Olivia offers to keep it safe and reunite the boys with their dad (and possibly their mom too), but is heavily implied to [[ImpersonatingAnOfficer be faking her status as a DSA agent]]. Trudy crashes the car so she and the boys can escape, and they're forced to leave the Core behind with Olivia and her underlings. The mysterious hooded figure shows up at JB's apartment and murders the BoundAndGagged Quill there, and then later shoots JB at the pool club as well while he protects the boys from them.

** When JB's buyer implicitly threatens the Hardy Boys, he immediately vows to burn the map he was hired to find if they or their friends are in danger, and decides to leave the relic hunt for good, though not before urging the boys to do the same "before one of you gets hurt or worse."

* BigDamnHeroes: The quartet at JB's apartment gets a MassOhCrap when they see on the security footage that they're seconds away from being found there, with the map, by a group of {{Mook}}s led by Quill who are looking for it, not knowing how they can hide in time. Then JB pops out of his safe room hidden behind his closet and brings them in there, with Frank shutting the closet door behind them just as the bad guys break in.
* {{Bookends}}: One of Joe's earliest encounters with JB involved the latter rescuing him from the Tall Man in a carnival funhouse, while barely surviving it himself. Their final meeting here once again has JB saving Joe's life from a known murderer dressed in black in a dimly-lit, crowded room full of neon lights; this time, though, he's fatally injured.
* BoundAndGagged: JB [[PistolWhipping pistol-whips]] Quill, then leaves him like this for his boss to find. Unfortunately for Quill, the boss immediately puts a bullet in his brain as soon as they show up, to JB's dismay (as this was definitely not his intention).

* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: When the Hardys, Biff, and Phil come to JB's apartment to get the map back from him, he warns them that his buyer knows who they are, officially drops out of the race for the relics, and leaves while the others stay there to start piecing the map together. As he heads out the fire exit, though, he sees several cars containing Quill and a small army of {{Mook}}s drive up outside, and quickly heads to the roof to sneak into the SecretRoom in his apartment, letting the kids in to hide there too just before Quill and his men barge in.

** When talking about the security camera footage of Laura, Callie mentions her [[MissingMom her own mom]] having [[ParentalAbandonment abandoned her when she was a kid]] (which hasn't been brought up since Season 1), and hopes that Frank and Joe can get a happier ending.

** Biff and Phil are wondering aloud how they're going to find William Vogel as they walk into Wilt's, who overhears them and happens to have been friends with Vogel when they were kids. It's subverted by being a dead end, but then double-subverted when Wilt gives them another lead instead.

* DrawAggro: JB does this when the gang goes to the quarry to try to find the Core, only to find the bad guys from Sparewell there, getting them to chase him so he can lure them to Dixon City and out of Bridgeport and make it easier for the kids to continue their search.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Cadmus Quill is an AssholeVictim for sure, but JB's [[ThouShaltNotKill not a killer]], and just knocks him out and ties him up to lure out his employer. And he's utterly shocked when this person shows up and murders Quill; JB didn't like him, but certainly didn't intend for him to die.

** JB likewise learns about all or most of this, and that Joe ''wasn't'' lying back in "Captured!" about Frank having the Eye's power in him, when they fill him offscreen in after their "seizure visions" in the Chamber.

* LetMeGetThisStraight: JB, word-for-word, when the Hardys give him an InternalReveal between scenes after their seizure visions in the Chamber.
* LetsJustBeFriends: Biff reiterates this when Phil once again broaches the possibility of a romantic relationship between them and mentions their exhilarated hug in the previous episode after saving Frank, clarifying that it was a "friend hug" and now's not really a good time for her to be thinking about romance with everything the group, and she personally, has going on. Phil accepts it, but is clearly disappointed.

* MistakenForRomance: Donald Dukay's huge ego makes him totally misinterpret Callie's repeated questioning in the past and present--which is only to get vital info about their cases from him, and is fairly antagonistic because he's such a {{Jerkass}}--as BelligerentSexualTension from her being in love with him, clearly not caring that she already has a boyfriend or when she tells him point-blank, repeatedly, that it's not true.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: JB tells Joe that he likes him because Joe trusts his instincts and questions everything, and JB himself is the same way.

* OneLastJob: JB is thoroughly tired of dealing with all the magic relics and [[ArtifactOfPower Artifacts of Power]], and decides to drop out of the game altogether. However, he hides the Hardys and co. in his safe room after the Sparewell goons show up at his apartment, and Joe convinces him to stay in the game and work with them a little longer by guilt-tripping him that they might die without his help. He ultimately does help out willingly, and doesn't hesitate in TakingTheBullet for Joe and Frank [[HeroicSacrifice to save them from the figure in black]].

* SecretRoom: JB turns out to have a safe room, complete with security surveillance of his apartment and the nearby hallways, behind the back of his coat closet, which he uses to hide Joe, Frank, Biff, and Phil when Quill comes there searching for JB and possibly the kids too.
* SlaveToPR: The new dean of Rosegrave decides to blame the attack on Drew and Donald by the "mystery figure in black" on Munder, the now-permanently-catatonic escaped felon, even though it's not possible for him to have done it, because "Rosegrave doesn't need any more bad publicity."
* SpottingTheThread: Trudy realizes Olivia's lying to them about Fenton because she told the boys he has has "good news" for them, but claimed to Trudy earlier that she lost track of Fenton days ago. Olivia tries to cover by saying that, since that time, he left a message for her and one of her agents informed her of it just before they found the kids, but since she doesn't specify what the supposed message actually said, Trudy sees through it, realizes she and the boys are in danger, and knocks Olivia out, crashing their car, so her nephews can get away.

* TemptingFate: At the beginning of the episode, JB's buyer threatens his life over the phone, and he responds that he's gotten many threats to his life but always lives to see another day. At the end, he's mortally wounded TakingTheBullet for the Hardy Boys.

* WhamEpisode: The Hardys and friends are able to get the map back from JB, but he ends up having to hide them from Quill and his goons, who are sent by Quill's boss and JB's buyer to get the map to the final relic from them. The gang manages to decipher the map and find the final relic, the Core, as it crashes down to Earth, and Olivia offers to keep it safe and reunite the boys with their dad (and possibly their mom too), but is heavily implied to [[ImpersonatingAnOfficer be faking her status as a DSA agent]]. Trudy crashes the car so she and the boys can escape, and they're forced to leave the Core behind with Olivia and the DSA. The mysterious hooded figure shows up at JB's apartment and murders the BoundAndGagged Quill there, and then later shoots JB at the pool club as well while he protects the boys from them.

** As the Hardys arrive at the club and walk over to meet JB, the figure in black who just killed Quill in the previous scene is shown coming up behind them and drawing their gun. JB sees it too, gets a massive OhCrap, and pushes the boys out of the way, TakingTheBullet as a result.
* WontGetFooledAgain: Seeing as JB stole from the Hardy Gang ''again'' since their last meeting, Joe spends most of the episode skeptical that he really had a change of heart about pursuing the relics and is helping them for purely altruistic reasons, waiting for the other shoe to drop and him to double-cross them again. Ironically, JB is at his most earnest and altruistic here, and not only never betrays the boys, but only gets involved in the case this time to look after them rather than gain something for himself. Joe ''finally'' regains his trust and faith in him again after a warm, candid conversation between them, only for JB to [[HeroicSacrifice get shot saving him and Frank]] the next time they meet.

** And most of all, very soon after he watched the hooded figure kill Quill, he sees them coming up behind the Hardys at the pool club with a gun. Even though they're almost certainly after ''him'' rather than the boys, he still instinctively [[TakingTheBullet takes the bullet]] and gets them out of the crossfire by pushing Frank down and putting himself right between the shooter and Joe.

* BoundAndGagged: JB gives Quill a TapOnTheHead, then leaves him like this for his boss to find. Unfortunately for Quill, the boss immediately puts a bullet in his brain as soon as they show up, to JB's dismay (as this was definitely not his intention).

* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: When the Hardys, Biff, and Phil come to JB's apartment to get the map back from him, he warns them that his buyer knows who they are, officially drops out of the race for the relics, and leaves while the others stay there to start piecing the map together. As he heads out the fire exit, though, he sees several cars containing Quill and a small army of {{Mook}}s drive up outside, and quickly heads to the roof to sneak into the SecretRoom in his apartment, letting the kids in to keep them safe just before Quill and his men barge in.

* HeroicSacrifice: JB sees the mysterious figure in the black hood coming up behind Joe and Frank with a gun as they enter the bar, and ends up putting himself between Joe and the killer while trying to move them out of harm's way and TakingTheBullet, to the boys' shock and horror.

* MamaBear: Once Trudy figures out that Olivia's lying to her and the boys about both Fenton and being a DSA agent, she knocks her out and crashes the car to give her nephews a chance to escape.

** The Hardys, Phil, and Biff when the latter points out on JB's security footage that Quill and an army of underlings are just moments away from breaking into the apartment and finding them there with the map, with Frank saying they need to hide. Luckily, JB intervenes.
** The Hardys, Callie, Belinda, and Chet as they watch the meteor, containing the Core, crashing down to Earth.

* OneLastJob: JB is thoroughly tired of dealing with all the magic relics and [[ArtifactOfPower Artifacts of Power]], and decides to drop out of the race for them for good. However, he hides the Hardys and co. in his saferoom after the Sparewell goons show up at his apartment, and Joe convinces him to stay in the game and work with them a little longer by guilt-tripping him that they might die without his help. He ultimately does help out willingly, and doesn't hesitate in TakingTheBullet for Joe and Frank [[HeroicSacrifice to save them from the figure in black]].

* TakingTheBullet: JB for Joe and Frank, seeing the mysterious hooded figure (whom he earlier watched murder Quill) entering the club behind them, gun raised. He pushes Frank out of the way and takes two shots InTheBack while shielding Joe.
* TemptingFate: At the beginning of the episode, JB's buyer threatens his life over the phone, and he responds that he gets many threats but always lives to see another day. At the end, he's mortally wounded TakingTheBullet for the Hardy Boys.
* WhamEpisode: The Hardys and friends are able to get the map back from JB, but he ends up having to protect them from Quill and his goons, who are sent by Quill's boss and JB's buyer to get the map to the final relic from them. The gang manages to decipher the map and find the final relic, the Core, as it crashes down to Earth, and Olivia offers to keep it safe and reunite the boys with their dad (and possibly their mom too), but is hinted to be on the bad guys' side. Trudy crashes the car so she and the boys can escape, and they're forced to leave the Core behind with Olivia and the DSA. The mysterious hooded figure shows up at JB's apartment and murders the BoundAndGagged Quill there, and then later shoots JB at the pool club as well while he protects the boys from them.
* WontGetFooledAgain: Seeing as JB stole from the Hardy Gang ''again'' since their last meeting, Joe spends most of the episode skeptical that he really had a change of heart about pursuing the relics and is helping them for purely altruistic reasons, waiting for the other shoe to drop and him to double-cross them again. Ironically, JB is at his most earnest and altruistic here, and not only never betrays the boys, but only gets involved in the case this time to help them out rather than gain something for himself. Joe ''finally'' regains his trust and faith in him again after a warm, candid conversation between them, only for JB to [[HeroicSacrifice get shot saving him and Frank]] the next time they meet.

* {{Bookends}}: One of Joe's earliest encounters with JB involved the latter saving his life from the Tall Man in a carnival funhouse, while barely surviving it himself. Their final meeting here once again has JB saving Joe's life from known murderer dressed in black in a dimly-lit, crowded room full of neon lights; this time, though, he's fatally injured.
* BoundAndGagged: JB gives Cadmus Quill a TapOnTheHead, then leaves him like this for his boss to find. Unfortunately for Quill, the boss immediately shoots him dead as soon as they show up, to JB's dismay (as this was definitely not his intention).
* CharacterDeath: Cadmus Quill is a somewhat minor character who previously tried to hire the Hardy Boys under false pretenses. JB ambushes him and leaves him BoundAndGagged for Quill's boss to find, only to be horrified when said boss just shoots Quill to death upon arriving.

* MistakenForRomance: Donald Dukay's enormous ego causes him to entirely misinterpret Callie's repeated interrogations from the previous season and this one--which are only to get vital info about the case from him, and are fairly antagonistic because he's such a {{Jerkass}}--as BelligerentSexualTension from her being in love with him, clearly not caring that she already has a boyfriend or when she tells him point-blank, repeatedly, that it's not true.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Downplayed with JB, who has never been anywhere near evil, just a WildCard criminal. Nonetheless, in the previous seasons, he was largely self-serving and OnlyInItForTheMoney, caring most of all about getting paid and willing to double-cross even people he likes, like Joe, to accomplish his own goals. However, he now finally decides to stop hunting the relics, and stays involved for the entirely altruistic reason of protecting the Hardys and their friends and helping with their investigation, with absolutely no hidden agenda at all. He ends up [[HeroicSacrifice being fatally wounded to save the boys]] by TakingTheBullet when the mysterious hooded woman tries to shoot them.
* SecretRoom: JB turns out to have a safe room, complete with security surveillance of his apartment and the nearby hallways, behind the back of his coat closet, which he uses to hide the Hardys and friends when Quill comes there searching for them.

* WontGetFooledAgain: Seeing as JB stole from the Hardy Gang ''again'' since their last meeting, Joe spends most of the episode skeptical that he really had a change of heart about pursuing the relics and is helping them for purely altruistic reasons, waiting for the other shoe to drop and JB to double-cross them again. Ironically, JB is at his most earnest and altruistic, and not only never betrays the boys, only gets involved in the case this time to keep them safe rather than gain something for himself. Joe ''finally'' regains his trust and faith in him again after a warm, candid conversation between them, only for JB to [[HeroicSacrifice get shot saving him and Frank]] the next time they meet.

* {{Bookends}}: One of Joe's earliest encounters with JB involved the latter saving his life from the Tall Man in a carnival funhouse, while barely surviving it himself. Their final meeting here once again has JB saving Joe's life from known murderer dressed in black in a dimly-lit, crowded room full of neon lights; this time, though, he's fatally wounded.

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