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* DeepCoverAgent: Carrie fears Brody has been allowed to go home to become one.

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* DeepCoverAgent: Carrie fears Brody has been allowed to go home to become one. The couple introduced buying a house with the stolen necklace money also appear to be ones.
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* [[CallingTheOldManOut Calling The Old Woman Out:]] Dana goes off on her mother because Jessica is hiding the fact that she had been sleeping with her father's best friend while he was MIA.
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* WorkingWithTheEx: [[spoiler: Carrie and Estes]]
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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Dana shows signs of this.
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* DarkSecret: [[spoiler: Carrie's Bipolar Disorder. If her superiors knew about it, she'd lose her security clearance.]]
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* EurekaMoment: In the first episode, while Mathison in on a date, she has one when she watches the musicians. [[spoiler:She fixates on the musician's fingers moving and remembered that Brody's fingers moved in a pattern whenever he was on air.]]

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* EurekaMoment: In the first episode, while Mathison in on a date, she has one when she watches the musicians. [[spoiler:She fixates on the musician's bassist's fingers moving and remembered that Brody's fingers moved in a pattern whenever he was on air.]]

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** FlashbackEcho: Sometimes to show/contrast with what is happening in Brody's present and the link to his torture.
** HowWeGotHere: The whole of Brody's plot.

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** FlashbackEcho: Sometimes to show/contrast with what is happening in Brody's present and the link to his torture.
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* GrayAndGreyMorality: Brody warns the family that a deer could ruin Jessica's tulips. Jessica's methods of discouraging the deer fail, so Brody takes matters into his own hands by [[spoiler: shooting the deer with a handgun in the midst of a house party]]. Jessica is upset that Brody [[spoiler: used a handgun in front of their son and all of their friends.]]
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HowWeGotHere: The whole of Brody's plot.

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* HighClassCallGirl: Reed.
* HotMom: Jessica, combined with a healthy dose of {{Fanservice}}.
* LesYay: "You need to wax that, sweety."



* HighClassCallGirl: Reed.
* LesYay: "You need to wax that, sweety."
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* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Played with. Clearly Brody underwent torture, and Carrie believes that he has turned- but the flashbacks show that [[spoiler: Abu Nazir tried to connect with Brody through kindness in between torture sessions by giving him water and food and so forth.]]


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* TortureCellar: Most of Brody's torture seems to have taken place in small, dark rooms most likely underground.
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* TheAtoner: Carrie wants to atone for missing seeing 9/11 coming.
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* {{Flashback}}: Used heavily to explore what happened to Brody during his time in captivity.
** FlashbackCut: Sometimes. The scene can then be expanded on in a further flashback later in the episode
** FlashbackEcho: Sometimes to show/contrast with what is happening in Brody's present and the link to his torture.
** HowWeGotHere: The whole of Brody's plot.
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* DeepCoverAgent: Carrie fears Brody has been allowed to go home to become one.


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* FaceHeelTurn: Carrie is convinced Brody has undergone one.
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* WhamMoment: One in the first episode when it becomes clear exactly how Brody's partner died [[spoiler: when Brody punched him to death.]]

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* HoYay: "You need to wax that, sweety."

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* HoYay: LesYay: "You need to wax that, sweety."


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* WhamMoment: One in the first episode when it becomes clear exactly how Brody's partner died [[spoiler: when Brody punched him to death.]]
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* ILetGwenStacyDie: [[spoiler: Carrie's callgirl contact, Reed.]] Carrie doesn't handle the death well and considers herself at least partially responsible for it.
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* MetaGuy: Virgil. He watches the surveillance footage as if it was a TV show.
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* BigBrotherIsWatching: Combined with SinisterSurveillance- Carrie does this to the Brody family based on gut instinct and initially without a warrant.
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* DawsonCasting: Morena Baccarin, 32 at the time the show began, plays Jessica Brody, Sgt. Brody's wife and the mother of their two children. That's fine and all, until it's revealed that their oldest child, Dana, is 16. In "Clean Skin," it's revealed Nicholas and Jessica have known each other since [[UnfortunateImplications Jessica was a teenager.]]
** By the way, Nicholas's actor, Damian Lewis, was 40 when the show began.
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* ArtisticTitle: The credits come with some memorable imagery.

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* ArtisticTitle: The credits come with some memorable imagery. Although not stated outright, the credits imply an origin story for Carrie Mathison, in terms of her interest in global politics stemming from watching news broadcasts when she was younger.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: Brody says it's a "video called YouTube".
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* HoYay: "You need to wax that, sweety."
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* HighClassCallGirl: Reed.
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* TheLongGame: At least according to Carrie Mathison. She believes that Abu Nazir planted intelligence on his own safe house in order to have US forces rescue Bordy, who she believes to be a TurnCoat or ManchurianAgent.

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* TheLongGame: At least according to Carrie Mathison. She believes that Abu Nazir planted intelligence on his own safe house in order to have US forces rescue Bordy, Brody, who she believes to be a TurnCoat or ManchurianAgent.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: Brody [[spoiler: among other things: he sleeps on the floor to avoid assaulting his wife in his sleep, cowers in a corner of his bedroom all day after suffering a bout of HeroicBSOD and has [[ADatewithRosiePalms intimacy issues]] due to his time as a POW.]]

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* ShellShockedVeteran: Brody [[spoiler: among other things: he sleeps on the floor to avoid assaulting his wife in his sleep, cowers in a corner of his bedroom all day after suffering a bout of HeroicBSOD slipping into an AngstComa and has [[ADatewithRosiePalms intimacy issues]] due to his time as a POW.]]
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* ShellShockedVeteran: Brody [[spoiler: among other things: he sleeps on the floor to avoid assaulting his wife in his sleep, cowers in a corner of his bedroom all day after suffering a bout of HeroicBSOD and has [[ADatewithRosiePalms intimacy issues]] due to his time as a POW.]]
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* ArtisticTitle: The credits come with some memorable imagery.
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* StockholmSyndrome: The reason Carrie believes Brody is a TurnCoat or ManchurianAgent.
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* LoveTriangle: A [[TriangRelations type 4]] between Mike/Jessica/Brody -- now that Jessica's husband whom Mike and Jessica thought was dead after eights years of being M.I.A. has returned and the affair with Mike has ended.

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