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* SuddenlyShouting: While talking with one of the interested men on the dating website, Kate screams out to her brother how much the guy doesn't like like their [[EvilUncle Uncle]] after he insisted. She then apologizes and he hugs and kisses her as she begins to cry.

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* SuddenlyShouting: While talking with one of the interested men on the dating website, Kate screams out to her brother how much the guy doesn't like look like their [[EvilUncle Uncle]] after he insisted. She then apologizes and he hugs and kisses her as she begins to cry.

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* ModelScam: What initially lured Nadia and her friend into the world: the guise of a modeling contest. Her friend is not chosen, but she is.



** His lawyer ends up being fired for being tricked by Kate into giving back the missing girls' passports, but surprisingly, he isn't killed (at least ''onscreen'').
* YouWouldMakeAGreatModel: What initially lured Nadia and her friend into the world: the guise of a modeling contest. Her friend is not chosen, but she is.

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** His lawyer ends up being fired for being tricked by Kate into giving back the missing girls' passports, but surprisingly, he isn't killed (at least ''onscreen'').
* YouWouldMakeAGreatModel: What initially lured Nadia and her friend into the world: the guise of a modeling contest. Her friend is not chosen, but she is.
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* HolidayInCambodia: Played with. Annie and her family were taking a family vacation in the Philippines and while it wasn't supposed to come off like this, the Grey family sadly came to experience this firsthand.

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* ThePenIsMightier: Sergei kills his henchman, Bruno, with a pen after he fell asleep and almost let Nadia get away (to which Sophie herself had to stop her by tackling her). It happens in front of both her and Helena, although Sergei didn't know that either woman viewed the gruesome murder.



* WouldHitAGirl [=/=] WouldHurtAChild: One of many ways to keep the women and children in line. Tommy even punches the woman helping Samantha locate Annie in the face for intruding on his business.

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* WouldHitAGirl [=/=] WouldHurtAChild: WouldHurtAChild:
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One of many ways to keep the women and children in line. Tommy even punches the woman helping Samantha locate Annie in the face for intruding on his business.business.
** Sergei also threatens to kill Helena's young daughter if she tells anyone else that he's letting her go.

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''Human Trafficking'' is a Creator/{{Lifetime}} {{miniseries}} released in 2005. It stars Mira Sorvino, Creator/DonaldSutherland and Creator/RobertCarlyle. Sorvino stars as Kate Morozov, an NYPD agent who is soon hired by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Bill Meehan (Sutherland) and eventually goes undercover to infiltrate the seedy underworld of [[TitleDrop Human Trafficking]] and to stop the efforts of a brutal European crime boss named Sergei Karpovich (Carlyle).

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''Human Trafficking'' is a Creator/{{Lifetime}} {{miniseries}} released in 2005. It stars Mira Sorvino, Creator/MiraSorvino, Creator/DonaldSutherland and Creator/RobertCarlyle. Sorvino stars as Kate Morozov, an NYPD agent who is soon hired by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Bill Meehan (Sutherland) and eventually goes undercover to infiltrate the seedy underworld of [[TitleDrop Human Trafficking]] and to stop the efforts of a brutal European crime boss named Sergei Karpovich (Carlyle).

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* DrivenToSuicide: The fifteen year old girl at the beginning of the first part kills herself by jumping out of the window to escape her torment. [[spoiler: Nadia also attempts this by overdose after learning of Helena's murder.]]

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* DrivenToSuicide: The fifteen year old fifteen-year-old girl at the beginning of the first part kills herself by jumping out of the window to escape her torment. [[spoiler: Nadia also attempts this by overdose after learning of Helena's murder.]]



** One of the Johns in the Philippines blatantly refused to sleep with the children, saying how depressing it is to be with someone young enough to be his daughter and demanded a woman.

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** One of the Johns in the Philippines blatantly refused to sleep with the children, saying how depressing it is to be with someone young enough to be his daughter and demanded a grown woman.


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* IllKillYou: Upon Annie reaching her mother and as Tommy interrupted her (and was unaware that she used his phone), Samantha began to threaten him, even telling him that she'll kill him. Unfortunately, her desperate screaming caught his attention to what she did and after he hung up, he punished the girl.


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* KarmaHoudini: As far as we know, Frédéric was never punished for selling out Helena or any of the other crimes that occurred in the film.


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* MissingMom: Nadia's mother died some time before the events of the film took place.


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* SoftSpokenSadist: Sergei usually speaks in a soft and calm voice, almost never raising it except for when he's really angry.
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* HumanTraffickers: The series is about the efforts to infiltrate and thwart a ring of these.
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* BittersweetEnding: For everyone; [[spoiler: Helena is dead and the women and girls have been through a nightmarish experience, but at least Helena's Aunt and daughter are at least safe, Annie is reunited with her parents, Nadia is back with her father, Ludmila has her passport returned to her and the other kidnapped women and children under Sergei's contract are freed.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: For everyone; [[spoiler: Helena is dead and the women and girls have been through a nightmarish experience, but at least Helena's Aunt and daughter are at least safe, Annie is reunited with her parents, Nadia is back with her father, Ludmila has her passport returned to her and the other kidnapped women and children under Sergei's contract are freed.]]
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''Human Trafficking'' is a Creator/{{Lifetime}} {{miniseries}} released in 2005. It stars Mira Sorvino, Creator/DonaldSutherland and Creator/RobertCarlyle. Sorvino stars as Kate Morozov, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who works undercover to infiltrate the seedy underworld of [[TitleDrop Human Trafficking]] and to stop the efforts of a brutal European crime boss named Sergei Karpovich (Carlyle).

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''Human Trafficking'' is a Creator/{{Lifetime}} {{miniseries}} released in 2005. It stars Mira Sorvino, Creator/DonaldSutherland and Creator/RobertCarlyle. Sorvino stars as Kate Morozov, an NYPD agent who is soon hired by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who works Bill Meehan (Sutherland) and eventually goes undercover to infiltrate the seedy underworld of [[TitleDrop Human Trafficking]] and to stop the efforts of a brutal European crime boss named Sergei Karpovich (Carlyle).



* BigSisterInstinct: Helena has this towards Nadia when they were captive together, which is why the latter takes what happens extra hard.



** [[spoiler: Tommy]] also dies this way while on the phone.

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** [[spoiler: Tommy]] also dies this way while on the phone.phone since he was eventually identified by authorities.



* DarkAndTroubledPast: Kate has this: as a child, her favorite Uncle began to molest her at a family reunion. She tried to tell her father, his brother, what he did, but he refused to believe her, calling her a "bad girl". The very next year, he did it again.

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* CoolOldGuy: Bill Meehan and Viktor Taganov.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Kate has this: as a child, her favorite Uncle began to molest raped her at a family reunion. She tried to tell her father, his brother, what he did, but he refused to believe her, calling her a "bad "dirty little girl". The very next year, he did it again.again.
* DarkerAndEdgier: From the usual fanfare of your average LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek, so much that there are ContentWarnings displayed before the beginning of the miniseries and on every half hour of every part.
* TheDragon: Co-dragons Sophie and Andrei work for Sergei. Tommy himself is an arguable example as well.



* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** One of the Johns in the Philippines blatantly refused to sleep with the children, saying how depressing it is to be with someone young enough to be his daughter and demanded a woman.
** Once the pressure of more of the houses being busted gets too much thanks to Kate's efforts and Viktor's presence, Andrei suggests that Sergei gives up the whole operation. He in turns says that if they close down one house, [[IgnoredEpiphany he would open up three more in response.]]
* FreudianExcuse: It's no excuse for the actions that transcribed, but we eventually learn that [[spoiler: Sophie was trafficked herself by Sergei years earlier before he made her his dragon.]]



* HiddenWire: Kate wears one in the form of a butterfly hair clip, which is eventually (but accidentally) knocked off and she had a code phrase of "I feel sick" to signify that she needs backup.



* ImpromptuTracheotomy: After Nadia almost escapes, Sergei stabs his henchman in the throat with a ballpoint pen, killing him.

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* {{Hypocrite}}: One of the clients in the Philippines, Sergei's doctor, is a loving husband and father who wanted to sleep with young prostitutes on his trip. Even the cops who arrested him called him out on this, asking how he would feel if someone tried to do the same to his own daughters.
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: After Nadia almost escapes, Sergei repeatedly stabs his henchman in the throat with a ballpoint pen, pen for his failure, killing him.



* ParentalSubstitute: Meehan serves as this towards Kate, even alternating between scolding her and commending her when appropriate.



* VomitIndiscretionShot: Viktor [[spoiler: while working undercover as one of the enforcers,]] vomits after viewing a video of [[spoiler: Nadia being [[NightmareFuel gang-raped.]]]] This even causes one of Sergei's right hand men to order it to be shut off.

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* SuddenlyShouting: While talking with one of the interested men on the dating website, Kate screams out to her brother how much the guy doesn't like like their [[EvilUncle Uncle]] after he insisted. She then apologizes and he hugs and kisses her as she begins to cry.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Viktor [[spoiler: while working undercover as one of the enforcers,]] vomits after viewing a video of [[spoiler: Nadia being [[NightmareFuel gang-raped.]]]] This even causes one of Sergei's right hand men Andrei to order it to be shut off.off.
* WouldHitAGirl [=/=] WouldHurtAChild: One of many ways to keep the women and children in line. Tommy even punches the woman helping Samantha locate Annie in the face for intruding on his business.



** He also has [[spoiler: Tommy]] murdered due to his greed and for kidnapping Annie.

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** He also has [[spoiler: Tommy]] murdered due to his greed greed, getting one of the brothels shut down and for kidnapping Annie.going rogue regarding trying to take the sex slaves elsewhere without permission.

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* BreakTheCutie: Many of the women and young girls go through ''hell''.
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: Helena]] dies this way after stepping out onto a balcony.

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* BreakTheCutie: Many of BittersweetEnding: For everyone; [[spoiler: Helena is dead and the women and young girls go have been through ''hell''.
a nightmarish experience, but at least Helena's Aunt and daughter are at least safe, Annie is reunited with her parents, Nadia is back with her father, Ludmila has her passport returned to her and the other kidnapped women and children under Sergei's contract are freed.]]
* BoomHeadshot: BoomHeadshot:
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[[spoiler: Helena]] dies this way after stepping out onto the balcony of a balcony.house.
** [[spoiler: Tommy]] also dies this way while on the phone.
* BreakTheCutie: All the the women and young girls go through hell during their captivity.
* CassandraTruth: When Nadia first arrives in New York, meets Helena and is unaware of what the "modeling" was really supposed to be, the latter tells her what's in store. She initially does not believe her, even calling her crazy.
* CoolBigSis: Kate is this to her kid brother, Misha.



* {{Greed}}: The driving factor behind Sergei's criminal empire: it makes him millions of dollars a year.
* HoneyTrap: What ended up baiting Helena, Annie and Ludmila; the former was wined and dined by a [[ManipulativeBastard "nice" guy]] who broke up a fight at her job, Annie was tricked by a boy who flirted with her who was working for child traffickers and the latter fell into the world while trying to find a husband through an online dating service.
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: After Nadia almost escapes, Sergei stabs his henchman in the throat with a ballpoint pen, killing him.
* KnightOfCerebus: Even with the DarkerAndEdgier atmosphere of the film, Sergei's presence makes it even worse.



* PapaWolf: Nadia's father, Viktor, is this to her, even going undercover as an enforcer to fund her.

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* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome: Of all of the missing women and girls, news of only Annie's abduction gets widespread attention. This is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] due to the fact that she was the only one who had a confirmed kidnapping, she was an American tourist when she was taken and her parents helped to publicize her dilemma. Nadia and Helena went off willingly (albeit unaware the true nature of what was to happen) and Yasmin was ''sold away'' by her father.
* MultipleGunshotDeath: [[spoiler: How Sergei meets his end to Kate's chagrin, as she would have rather had him arrested.]]
* PapaWolf: Nadia's father, Viktor, is this to her, even going undercover as an enforcer to fund her.find her.
* SayMyName: Poor Helena desperately cries out for Frédéric to save her after he sells her to the traffickers.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Viktor [[spoiler: while working undercover as one of the enforcers,]] vomits after viewing a video of [[spoiler: Nadia being [[NightmareFuel gang-raped.]]]] This even causes one of Sergei's right hand men to order it to be shut off.
* YouHaveFailedMe:
** Sergei brutally murders a henchman for almost letting Nadia escape.
** He also has [[spoiler: Tommy]] murdered due to his greed and for kidnapping Annie.
** His lawyer ends up being fired for being tricked by Kate into giving back the missing girls' passports, but surprisingly, he isn't killed (at least ''onscreen'').
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''Human Trafficking'' is a Creator/{{Lifetime}} miniseries released in 2005. It stars Mira Sorvino, Creator/DonaldSutherland and Creator/RobertCarlyle. Sorvino stars as Kate Morozov, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who works undercover to infiltrate the seedy underworld of [[TitleDrop Human Trafficking]] and to stop the efforts of a brutal European crime boss named Sergei Karpovich (Carlyle).

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''Human Trafficking'' is a Creator/{{Lifetime}} miniseries {{miniseries}} released in 2005. It stars Mira Sorvino, Creator/DonaldSutherland and Creator/RobertCarlyle. Sorvino stars as Kate Morozov, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who works undercover to infiltrate the seedy underworld of [[TitleDrop Human Trafficking]] and to stop the efforts of a brutal European crime boss named Sergei Karpovich (Carlyle).
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''Human Trafficking'' is a Creator/{{Lifetime}} miniseries released in 2005. It stars Mira Sorvino, Creator/DonaldSutherland and Creator/RobertCarlyle. Sorvino stars as Kate Morozov, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who works undercover to infiltrate the seedy underworld of [[TitleDrop Human Trafficking]] and to stop the efforts of a brutal European crime boss named Sergei Karpovich (Carlyle).

!!This series has the following tropes:

* BreakTheCutie: Many of the women and young girls go through ''hell''.
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: Helena]] dies this way after stepping out onto a balcony.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Kate has this: as a child, her favorite Uncle began to molest her at a family reunion. She tried to tell her father, his brother, what he did, but he refused to believe her, calling her a "bad girl". The very next year, he did it again.
* DrivenToSuicide: The fifteen year old girl at the beginning of the first part kills herself by jumping out of the window to escape her torment. [[spoiler: Nadia also attempts this by overdose after learning of Helena's murder.]]
* MamaBear: Annie's mother, Samantha, is this in her pursuit of locating her daughter.
* PapaWolf: Nadia's father, Viktor, is this to her, even going undercover as an enforcer to fund her.
* YouWouldMakeAGreatModel: What initially lured Nadia and her friend into the world: the guise of a modeling contest. Her friend is not chosen, but she is.

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