History Series / Emergence

** [[spoiler:Emily's seeming neuroses and CloudCuckoolander tendencies were all an act so that nobody would realize that she was TheMastermind.]]

* StereotypeFlip: When Benny goes looking for a hacker to help with his investigation into Auger, he ends up knocking on the door of a teenage girl who looks like a dead-ringer for [[Literature/TheMillenniumTrilogy Lizbeth Salander]]... who is actually the hacker's daughter. The hacker herself is a adult woman who dresses far more conventionally.

* StereotypeFlip: When Benny goes looking for a hacker to help with his investigation into Auger, he ends up knocking on the door of a teenage girl who looks like a dead-ringer for [[Literature/TheMillenniumTrilogy Lizbeth Salander]]... who is actually the hacker's daughter. The hacker herself is a plain, dumpy woman who dresses far more conventionally.

''Emergence'' is a series airing on Creator/{{ABC}}, starring Creator/AllisonTolman.

Cancelled after 1 season.

* TooGoodToBeTrue: Said verbatim by Ed when he goes for a clinical trial. As soon as the woman says it's a "cure," he's suspicious and it's confirmed when the "price" for the cure is handing over Piper.

** [[spoiler:Piper is revealed to be one a few episodes in, created by a tech conglomerate who are now desperate to get her back, and so convincing that doctors are unable to tell that she's not human.]]

HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: In "Killshot, Part 2," Piper creates a force field around herself and a liquid metal power source that's about to explode, containing the explosion and thereby saving everyone else.]]

* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: Emily is a profoundly lonely woman, largely because most other people aren't computer geniuses on her level. Granted, the fact that she's also selfish and egotistical doesn't help.

During a freak power outage in a small town in Long Island, a plane crashes into the beach. The only survivor is a little girl with amnesia but no visible injuries, and local Chief of Police Jo Evans decides to take her in until she recovers. However, the little girl, who adopts the name Piper, soon attracts the attention of a [[GovernmentConspiracy shadowy organization]], and Jo, her estranged husband Alex, her father Ed, and her daughter Mia must protect Piper.

* GovernmentConspiracy: Piper is part of one that includes not only the government, but CorruptCorporateExecutive Richard Kindred.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: [[spoiler:The first episode ends with Piper expertly using a knife to extract a tracking device out of her neck. In the second episode, she has a flashback of killing someone with a scalpel.]]

*** [[spoiler: In fact, the [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Ridiculously Human Robots]] like Benny have been living among us for at least fifteen years.

* CursedWithAwesome: Piper. She has paranormal powers which she does not fully understand and cannot control.

** [[spoiler:Piper is revealed to be one a few episodes in, created by a tech conglomerate who are now desperate to get her back and is so convincing that doctors are seemingly unable to tell that she's not human.]]

** FBI Agent Brooks is very reminiscent of [[Series/Columbo Lt. Columbo]].

** [[spoiler:Benny is another robot.]]

** [[spoiler:The winter finale reveals that Benny is also an RHR.]]

* SherlockScan: Jo quickly picks up on important details.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Jo's reaction when told [[spoiler:Piper is a robot. She even at first refuses to give her a life-saving data swap because she can't accept this isn't a flesh and blood child. She changes her mind when said swap heals her instantly.]]

** The same thing, unfortunately, happens to [[spoiler:Allen, who knows far too much about who Piper really is, and he's killed by an unknown authority at the end of Episode 9, "American Chestnut"]].

* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:Emily's seeming neuroses and CloudCuckoolander tendencies were all an act so that nobody would realize that she was TheMastermind.]]

* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: [[spoiler:Piper is revealed to be one a few episodes in, created by a tech conglomerate who are now desperate to get her back and is so convincing that doctors are seemingly unable to tell that she's not human.]]

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Jo ends up doing this to [[spoiler: her entire family as she finds out more and more about Piper (especially after finding out Piper is an AI, and even to Piper herself as Piper's knowing that she was an AI would make her self-destruct). She does eventually reveal the truth to Alex and Ed by Episodes 6-7, however.]]