History Recap / ThePunisher2017S01E06TheJudasGoat

* RabidCop: The cop trying to stop Lewis and O'Connor from handing out their flyers gets aggravated very quickly when Lewis continues to protest.
* TheReveal: Billy is working with Agent Orange.

* RabidCop: The cop trying to stop Lewis and O'Connor from handing out their flyers gets aggravated very quickly when Lewis presses him.

* TooDumbToLive: O'Connor pulls a knife on Lewis after the latter punches him in the face for lying. Note, Lewis was not homicidally angry at this point, and probably would have been satisfied to just kick his ass. Lewis is also in great shape and fresh out of the military, while O'Connor was overweight and way out of practice. This gets him killed.

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Heavily debated InUniverse and out. When Lewis and O'Connor are handing out fliers in front of the courthouse, he rattles off a list of laws and ordinances that they weren't violating to show the cops that they had no right to interfere with them exercising their First Amendment rights. However, just about every cop and judge in the US considers handing out fliers for the purpose of influencing the outcome of ongoing cases to be a form of jury tampering, QED [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification_in_the_United_States Jury Nullification]]. They knowingly chooses to harass people who do so for any reason ''except'' "handing out fliers" because they would have to give the fliers to a jury. Hell, the majority of authorities would ''love'' to get that concept overturned completely, but to do so would require ''putting it before a jury.''

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: O'Connor is not the brightest tool in the shed. Lying about his military service to the group of people MOST likely to be offended by it, and not even doing enough research to give the lie credence, was incredibly foolish. Especially to a group of people who are on undergoing severe emotional stress due to PTSD, who he both insulted AND encouraged to be armed at all times.

* GetOut: O'Connor screams this to Lewis when he calls him out for the lies and manipulation. He still screams this even as he slowly succumbs to his wounds, which comes out as pathetic.

* GetOut: O'Connor screams this when Lewis calls him out for lying. He still screams this as he slowly succumbs to his wounds.

** The imagery of David walking in the rain to get Curtis to come provide medical aid to Frank seems very reminiscent of ''Film/TheExorcist''.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: O'Connor's actions in the episode: basically calling the younger vets "snowflakes", ranting on about the Second Amendment only to walk out on Lewis and being exposed as a liar who never served in Vietnam look like a TakeThat against the Alt-Right in general and Donald Trump in particular, as he has engaged in feuds with Vietnam vets like Senator John [=McCain=] or gold star families while he evaded the draft and has never served in the military whatsoever.

* WorstAid: David quite rightly sanitizes his hands before treating Frank... and proceeds to rub them dry on his pants.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Even after it is revealed that Billy works for Agent Orange, it is not quite clear what his motives are and wether he was a FalseFriend to Frank all along or not.

* GetOut: O'Connor screams this when Lewis calls him out for lying. He still does as he slowly succumbs to his wounds.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: O'Connor's actions in the episode: basically calling the younger vets "snowflakes", ranting on about the Second Amendment only to walk out on Lewis and being exposed as a liar who never served in Vietnam look like a TakeThat against the Alt-Right in general and Donald Trump in particular, as he has engaged in feuds with Vietnam vets like Senator Johnn [=McCain=] or gold star families while he evaded the draft and has never served in the military whatsoever.
* FatSlob: O'Connor is overweight and his apartment is a mess of old newspapers, catalogues and leftover food.

* ModestyBedsheet: Dinah covers her breasts with one after she and Billy have sex.

* ShoutOut: The imagery of David walking in the rain to get Curtis to come provide medical aid to Frank seems very reminiscent of ''Film/TheExorcist''.
** Billy's "Hey social worker, [[WestSideStory I got a social disease!"]]

* GetOut: O'Connor screams this when Lewis calls him out for lying. He still does as he slowly succumbs to death.

* DirtyCoward: For all his talk about fighting for the Second Amendment, O'Connor quickly walks away when a cop confronts him and Lewis at the courthouse

* RabidCop: The cop trying to stop Lewis and O'Connor from handing out their flyers gets aggravated very quickly.

* WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut: Or the arrow, in Frank's case. Justified in that David has cleaned the wound as best he can, and been giving Frank the correct treatment of fluids and antibiotics, but the wound has become septic due to a foreign object (the arrow) being covered in bacteria.

* WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut: Or the arrow, in Frank's case.

* SpoilerTitle: A Judas Goat is a goat trained to associate with other goats, to lead them to slaughter. When Billy offers Frank a ship out of the country to a new life, after Frank tells him the truth about Operation Cerberus and the corruption of Schoonover, Rawlins and Colonel Bennett, this immediately makes Billy's allegiances obvious.

* ModestyBedsheet: Dinah after she and Billy have sex.

* TheReveal: Billy works with Agent Orange.

* SpoilerTitle: A Judas Goat is a goat trained to associate with other goats, to lead them to slaughter. When Billy offers Frank a ship out of the country to a new life, this immediately makes Billy's allegiances obvious.

* ConspiracyTheorist: O'Conner claims the internet is controlled by the Jews.
* HealItWithBooze: Curtis uses alcohol to disinfect Frank's gunshot and arrow wounds while operating on him. And then hands the bottle over to Micro [[INeedAFreakingDrink when it's clear he can't handle watching Curtis work.]]

* PillowPistol: We see Curtis sleeps with a gun under his pillows.

* ShoutOut: The imagery of Micro walking in the rain to get Curtis to come provide medical aid to Frank seems very reminiscent of ''Film/TheExorcist''.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Billy works with Agent Orange]].
* SpoilerTitle: A Judas Goat is a goat trained to associate with other goats, to lead them to slaughter. [[spoiler:When Billy offers Frank a ship out of the country to a new life, this immediately makes Billy's allegiances obvious]].

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