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* MostCommonCardGame: David is playing Go Fish with his kids before his wife takes him into the next room for nooners.

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* MostCommonCardGame: David is playing Go Fish ''TabletopGame/GoFish'' with his kids before his wife takes him into the next room for nooners.
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* AloneWithThePsycho: Curtis wakes up to Billy sitting by his bed, holding his gun.
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* FacialHorror: It starts with Russo getting a ricochet in the face, after which he spits out the bullet. And several teeth. Later in the fight Frank essentially removes his face with a broken mirror.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Older than your typical child, but Russo kidnaps the teenagers working the carousel, ties them backward to a pair of horses, and slits their wrists.
-->'''Russo:''' Tick tock tick tock, that's two more kids are gonna die for you.

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* GladToBeAliveSex: Between David and his wife. Understandibly, given that the two haven't seen each other for so long.

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* GenreSavvy: Curtis knows if Billy's in his apartment, Frank is probably right outside, so he draws the curtains to give Frank a shot. Billy figures it out about two minutes later and just barely ducks a bullet.
* GladToBeAliveSex: Between David and his wife. Understandibly, given that the two haven't seen each other for so long, David doesn't last very long.
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* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Dinah's father points this out in regards to Frank, see also NotSoDifferent above.

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* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Dinah's father points this out in regards to Frank, see also NotSoDifferent above.
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* NotSoDifferent:

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* NotSoDifferent:NotSoDifferentRemark:

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* CodeOfHonor: When Billy threatens to kill his hostages if Frank doesn't throw away his knife and gun, Frank's morals nearly get him killed as he complies and leaves himself a sitting duck. He would have died if Madani hadn't showed up.



* RealityEnsues: When Billy threatens to kill his hostages if Frank doesn't throw away his knife and gun, Frank's morals nearly get him killed as he complies and leaves himself a sitting duck. He would have died if Madani hadn't showed up.
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* TaughtByExperience: Curtis talks a lot about how he's getting old, but he shows what a good vet who knows his team is capable of. He lures Russo out of the bedroom and into the kitchen for [[VillainOVerForDinner morning coffee]], then opens the curtains for light, because he knows Frank will be hunting Russo and will be waiting to take his shot.

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* TaughtByExperience: Curtis talks a lot about how he's getting old, but he shows what a good vet who knows his team is capable of. He lures Russo out of the bedroom and into the kitchen for [[VillainOVerForDinner [[VillainOverForDinner morning coffee]], then opens the curtains for light, because he knows Frank will be hunting Russo and will be waiting to take his shot.
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** Inevitably Billy claims this with Frank, as they are both {{Blood Knight}}s that no-one is going to mourn once they are dead.

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** Inevitably Billy claims this with Frank, as they are both {{Blood Knight}}s that no-one no one is going to mourn once they are dead.



* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Hamid Madani towards treating Frank, know that even though Frank is a wanted criminal, he's also dying so "everything else can wait".

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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Hamid Madani towards treating Frank, know Frank. He knows that even though Frank is a wanted criminal, he's he is also dying dying, so "everything else can wait".
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* NearVillainVictory: Billy has Frank dead to rights after forcing him to throw his gun and knife away. He's only kept from killing by Madani showing up, giving Frank the opening he needs. In their fight he almost wins until Frank stabs him with a shard of glass.

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* NearVillainVictory: Billy has Frank dead to rights after forcing him to throw his gun and knife away. He's only kept from killing by Madani showing up, giving Frank the opening he needs. In their fight fight, he almost wins until Frank stabs him with a shard of glass.
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* IdealizedSex: Noticeably averted when David and Susan catch up after over a year without each other. It's awkward, fumbling, half-dressed WallBangHer sex that ends [[SpeedSex when David ejaculates too soon]]--both find this ActuallyPrettyFunny.

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* IdealizedSex: Noticeably averted when David and Susan catch up after over a year without each other. It's awkward, fumbling, half-dressed WallBangHer sex that ends [[SpeedSex when David ejaculates too soon]]--both soon]] -- both find this ActuallyPrettyFunny.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: You might be surprised to see this trope associated with ''The Punisher'', but that's exactly what Frank and Micro get. While Frank is still officially at large, the CIA and Homeland Security have purged his fingerprints and DNA from the country's criminal databases and set him back up with the identity "Pete Castiglione", and he begins attending Curtis support group, allowing him the chance to begin the road to recovery. Meanwhile, Micro finally gets to go back to his family, allowing them all to finally begin healing.

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* EarnYourHappyEnding: You might be surprised to see this trope associated with ''The Punisher'', but that's exactly what Frank and Micro get. While Frank is still officially at large, the CIA and Homeland Security have purged his fingerprints and DNA from the country's criminal databases and set him back up with the identity "Pete Castiglione", and he begins attending Curtis Curtis's support group, allowing him the chance to begin the road to recovery. Meanwhile, Micro finally gets to go back to his family, allowing them all to finally begin healing.
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* IdealizedSex: Noticeably averted when David and Susan catch up after over a year without each other. It's awkward, fumbling, half-dressed WallBangHer sex that ends [[SpeedSex when David ejaculates too soon]]--both find this ActuallyPrettyFunny.


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* SilentCredits: A variation; after the ending at the support group where Castle contemplates what happens after the end of his war, there's a light guitar version of the end theme before changing to the usual credits, as if implying that this moment of peace won't last for long.

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* AndThenWhat: At the end of the episode, Frank tells the support group he's finally worked up the courage to attend that for the first time in his life, he's without a war to fight, and he's honestly scared that he doesn't know how to live without one.
* TheAnticipator: Instead of fleeing, Russo goes to Curtis to force Frank's location out of him, only to find that Frank is already staking out Curtis' place with a sniper rifle.



* MostCommonCardGame: David is playing Go Fish with his kids before his wife takes him into the next room for nooners.



* WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut: Billy pulls out the bullet Madani put into him during the last episode.

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* WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut: Billy pulls out the bullet Madani put into him during the last episode.episode with pliers. Admittedly it's not far from the surface.

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* NotSoDifferent: How Hamid Madani justifies helping Frank, pointing out to his wife that as refugees of the Iranian Revolution, they know that freedom fighters sometimes break the law. Farah Madani points out that they never took sides.

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How Hamid Madani justifies helping Frank, pointing out to his wife that as refugees of the Iranian Revolution, they know that freedom fighters sometimes break the law. Farah Madani points out that they never took sides.sides.
** Inevitably Billy claims this with Frank, as they are both {{Blood Knight}}s that no-one is going to mourn once they are dead.
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* CruelMercy: Frank spares Russo, leaving him to Homeland Security, not before disfiguring him so he will live in constant pain.

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* CruelMercy: Frank spares Russo, leaving him to Homeland Security, not before disfiguring him the MrFanservice looks [[TheCasanova he was so he will live in constant pain.proud of]].
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* ImprovisedWeapon: As Russo is about to kill him, Frank stabs him with a shard of glass.


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* NearVillainVictory: Billy has Frank dead to rights after forcing him to throw his gun and knife away. He's only kept from killing by Madani showing up, giving Frank the opening he needs. In their fight he almost wins until Frank stabs him with a shard of glass.


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* RealityEnsues: When Billy threatens to kill his hostages if Frank doesn't throw away his knife and gun, Frank's morals nearly get him killed as he complies and leaves himself a sitting duck. He would have died if Madani hadn't showed up.
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* IronicEcho: Curt tells Billy that Frank would never betray a brother. A few minutes later, Russo tells Curt that that's what the former intends to force the latter to do.


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* TaughtByExperience: Curtis talks a lot about how he's getting old, but he shows what a good vet who knows his team is capable of. He lures Russo out of the bedroom and into the kitchen for [[VillainOVerForDinner morning coffee]], then opens the curtains for light, because he knows Frank will be hunting Russo and will be waiting to take his shot.
** Unfortunately, this applies to Russo, too, because he catches on at the ''last second'', and manages to avoid Frank's sniper rounds.
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* ShoutOut: A gunfight on a moving carousel? [[Film/MobCity Not the first time Jon Bernthal's done that]]. [[http://fiphigenie.tumblr.com/post/168054581701/bernthalus-christ-the-punisher-vs-mob-city Even the cinematography is similar]].

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* ShoutOut: A gunfight on a moving carousel? [[Film/MobCity [[Series/MobCity Not the first time Jon Bernthal's done that]]. [[http://fiphigenie.tumblr.com/post/168054581701/bernthalus-christ-the-punisher-vs-mob-city Even the cinematography is similar]].

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* BookEnds: The final duel between Frank and Billy takes place on the carousel, on the very same fairground where his family died.

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The final duel between Frank and Billy takes place on the carousel, on the very same fairground where his family died.



* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Dinah's father points this out in regards to Frank, see also NotSoDifferent above.

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* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Dinah's father points this out in regards to Frank, see also NotSoDifferent above.above.

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* MythologyGag: In what might be the darkest example for the series, Frank proceeds to ram Russo's head into a mirror on the carousel, leaving him horrifically scarred, but alive. Fans of the comics will know that Billy Russo was a hitman who was horrifically scarred after trying to assassinate Frank for the mob, leading to his comics alias Jigsaw. Those who started with following the MCU will notice a similarity to Brock Rumlow's unwitting metamorphosis into Crossbones at the end of ''Film/CaptainAmericaWinterSoldier'' (later confirmed in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'').

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* MythologyGag: In what might be the darkest example for the series, Frank proceeds to ram Russo's head into a mirror on the carousel, leaving him horrifically scarred, but alive. Fans of the comics will know that Billy Russo was a hitman who was horrifically scarred after trying to assassinate Frank for the mob, leading to his comics alias Jigsaw. Those who started with following the MCU will notice a similarity to Brock Rumlow's unwitting metamorphosis into Crossbones at the end of ''Film/CaptainAmericaWinterSoldier'' ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' (later confirmed in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'').
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* MythologyGag: In what might be the darkest example for the series, Frank proceeds to ram Russo's head into a mirror on the carousel, leaving him horrifically scarred, but alive. Fans of the comics will know that Billy Russo was a hitman who was horrifically scarred after trying to assassinate Frank for the mob, leading to his comics alias Jigsaw.

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* MythologyGag: In what might be the darkest example for the series, Frank proceeds to ram Russo's head into a mirror on the carousel, leaving him horrifically scarred, but alive. Fans of the comics will know that Billy Russo was a hitman who was horrifically scarred after trying to assassinate Frank for the mob, leading to his comics alias Jigsaw. Those who started with following the MCU will notice a similarity to Brock Rumlow's unwitting metamorphosis into Crossbones at the end of ''Film/CaptainAmericaWinterSoldier'' (later confirmed in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'').

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** A season-long one; Frank started off the series under a new identity, a construction worker named "Pete Castiglione". The CIA gives him back this identity at the end of this episode.



* EarnYourHappyEnding: You might be surprised to see this trope associated with ''The Punisher'', but that's exactly what Frank and Micro get. While Frank is still officially at large, the CIA and Homeland Security have purged his fingerprints and DNA from the country's criminal databases and set him up with a new identity as "Peter Castiglione", and he begins attending Curtis support group, allowing him the chance to begin the road to recovery. Meanwhile, Micro finally gets to go back to his family, allowing them all to finally begin healing.

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* EarnYourHappyEnding: You might be surprised to see this trope associated with ''The Punisher'', but that's exactly what Frank and Micro get. While Frank is still officially at large, the CIA and Homeland Security have purged his fingerprints and DNA from the country's criminal databases and set him back up with a new the identity as "Peter "Pete Castiglione", and he begins attending Curtis support group, allowing him the chance to begin the road to recovery. Meanwhile, Micro finally gets to go back to his family, allowing them all to finally begin healing.
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* VillainousBreakdown: Russo has one after a stray bullet hits him in the ''cheek''.

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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Billy dismisses killing Afghans as nothing wrong, claiming that ''they always did that among themselves''.
* PutDownYourGunAndStepAway: Billy threatens to kill two teenagers if Frank doesn't put down his gun. True to the trope (and against all real-life training), Frank does so, and is shot (in the vest) twice. It was only Madani's appearance that gave Frank an opening to bull rush him.

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* PillowPistol: Like [[Recap/ThePunisher2017S01E06TheJudasGoat before]], Curtis instinctively reaches for the gun under his pillow when he realizes Russo is in his bedroom, but Russo has already taken the gun.
-->'''Billy Russo:''' Looking for this?
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Billy dismisses killing Afghans to Curtis as nothing wrong, claiming that ''they always did that among themselves''.
* PutDownYourGunAndStepAway: Billy threatens to kill two teenagers if Frank doesn't put down his gun. True to the trope (and against all real-life training), Frank does so, and is shot (in the vest) twice. It was is only Madani's appearance that gave gives Frank an opening to bull rush him.
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* KnifeFight: Frank and Billy's fight at the fair culminates in them fighting each other with army knives after they both lose their guns.
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* CruelMercy: Frank spares Russo, leaving him to Homeland Security, not before disfigurng him so he will live in constant pain.

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* CruelMercy: Frank spares Russo, leaving him to Homeland Security, not before disfigurng disfiguring him so he will live in constant pain.
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* BilingualDialogue: While talking to Dinah about bringing Frank to the Madani's apartment, Farah speaks to her daughter in Farsi, while Dinah speaks in English. Then, when Hamid talks to Farah in Farsi, she responds in English.

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* BilingualDialogue: While talking to Dinah about bringing Frank to the Madani's Madanis' apartment, Farah speaks to her daughter in Farsi, while Dinah speaks in English. Then, when Hamid talks to Farah in Farsi, she responds in English.

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