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* The MissusAndTheEx: A fun variation. When he meets Jules' sister, Poppy, Richard is struck by how oddly familiar she is. He talks on her history, her habits, what perfume she likes...and it finally hits him that Maddie based her entire act of "Alice" on Poppy. Naturally, it doesn't take long for them to hit it off just as well.
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** In season 2, it's revealed that [[spoiler: rather than be killed by the Doctor, Sally has now become one of his enforcers and a cold and brutal woman.]]
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** In season 2, Max finds himself held at gunpoint by [[spoiler: A very much alive Sally.]]
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* GiveMeBackMyWallet: In Mexico, Ezra meets a lovely Columbian lady and they chat over the city as she expertly picks his wallet. She heads to an alley to get out the cash and slips the wallet into a purse packed with several. She frowns and starts rummaging just as Ezra calls from behind her, revealing he has her cell phone.
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* GiveMeBackMyWallet: In Mexico, Ezra meets a lovely Columbian lady and they chat over the city as she expertly picks his wallet. She heads to an alley to get out the cash and slips the wallet into a purse packed with several. She frowns and starts rummaging just as Ezra calls from behind her, revealing he has her cell phone. Instead of being upset, Ezra gives her tips on "don't flirt so quickly" the next time she pulls this. He also points out that he'd appreciate having the money ''in'' the wallet returned as well.
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* GiveMeBackMyWallet: In Mexico, Ezra meets a lovely Columbian lady and they chat over the city as she expertly picks his wallet. She heads to an alley to get out the cash and slips the wallet into a purse packed with several. She frowns and starts rummaging just as Ezra calls from behind her, revealing he has her cell phone.
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** Brought up majorly when the Bumblers are hiding out in Mexico in season 2. Jules and Richard are rocked to find Ezra has gotten $25,000 in three days by going from selling fake boat tours to actually selling people boats he doesn't really own.
-->'''Richard''': I think he's getting off on this.
-->'''Ezra''': Nobody who gets conned is innocent.
-->'''Jules''': Now you sound like our ex-wife.
-->'''Richard''': I think he's getting off on this.
-->'''Ezra''': Nobody who gets conned is innocent.
-->'''Jules''': Now you sound like our ex-wife.
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* PersonaNonGrata: What [[spoiler: Patrick turns into in the second season. Having cost the FBI a small fortune in his "wooing" of Maddie, the fake wedding and losing both a half million dollars and an expensive ring, Patrick is removed from the investigation and it's clear he's become the joke of his colleagues.]]
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* PersonaNonGrata: What [[spoiler: Patrick turns into in the second season. Having cost the FBI a small fortune in his "wooing" of Maddie, the fake wedding and losing both a half million dollars and an expensive ring, Patrick is removed from the investigation investigation, banished to an office barely the size of a cubicle and it's clear he's become the joke of his colleagues.]]
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** Maddie attempts this in season 2, moving into a small town and deciding to live a quiet life free of her past. It doesn't last long.
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** Also, [[spoiler: Patrick has gone from a slick FBI agent running up huge expenses to being banished to an extremely small office and now a literal joke among his co-workers.]]
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* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: A flashback in the season 2 premiere shows how Richard, thanks to Maddie, Richard went from the slickest car dealership boss in town and hometown hero into bankrupt loser.
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* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: A flashback in the season 2 premiere shows how Richard, thanks to Maddie, Richard Maddie, went from the slickest car dealership boss in town and hometown hero into bankrupt loser.
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* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: A flashback in the season 2 premiere shows how Richard, thanks to Maddie, Richard went from the slickest car dealership boss in town and hometown hero into bankrupt loser.
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Even as Maddie and her team begin working on their latest mark, three of her former victims team up to track her down: Ezra (Rob Heaps), Richard (Parker Young) and Jules (Marianne Rendón).
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Even as Maddie and her team begin working on their latest mark, three of her former victims team up to track her down: Ezra (Rob Heaps), Richard (Parker Young) and Jules (Marianne Rendón). Soon nicknamed "the Bumblers," the trio start to work cons on their own to finance their quest. But circumstances soon put all of them in the crosshairs of the notorious "Doctor."
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** When they meet Max, each of the Bumblers calls him by the name they knew him when they met.
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* PersonaNonGrata: What [[spoiler: Patrick turns into in the second season. Having cost the FBI a small fortune in his "wooing" of Maddie, the fake wedding and losing both a half million dollars and an expensive ring, Patrick is removed from the investigation and it's clear he's become the joke of his colleagues.]]
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** When someone refers to Maddie as "a bitch," one (or all three) of the Bumblers will automatically snap "don't call her that."
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* MultipleIdentityIDs: Obviously, Maddie, Max and Sally have plenty of these.
** The opening of season 2 has Maddie checking out a storage locker packed with various cards, cell phones, disguises and what appears to be a few hundred thousand dollars in cash in various currencies.
** The opening of season 2 has Maddie checking out a storage locker packed with various cards, cell phones, disguises and what appears to be a few hundred thousand dollars in cash in various currencies.
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* PowerWalk: Played for laughs in the first scene of the second season as the Bumblers stride in slo-motion at a bus depot. They start to seperate with Ezra calling out as it turns out each had a different idea what bus to take.
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Maddie insists she felt nothing for Ezra more than any of her other marks. Ezra replies by asking "Then why'd you keep the anklet?"
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* SkewedPriorities: When Max finally introduces himself to the Bumblers, they're all thrown to recognize him as a different guy from each of Maddie's cons. He had been posing as an art critic with Jules and she's more concerned that he actually didn't like her paintings.
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* ThrowingTheFight: This is Richard's dark secret: He threw a key interception in his high school championship game to beat the point spread. He says he used the money to help his mother but knows that won't make much difference and ruin his name in his home town.
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* RealityEnsues: Patrick is told [[spoiler: by his FBI boss that spending wildly on everything from a huge house to gifts to private plane rides is a major strain on the FBI budget. Naturally, losing all the money they set up at the end of the season lands Patrick in hot water.]]
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* RealityEnsues: Patrick is told [[spoiler: by his FBI boss that spending wildly on everything from a huge house to gifts to private plane rides for his romance with Maddie is a major strain on the FBI budget. Naturally, losing the fact all the that money they set up was for nothing when Maddie and the Bumblers get away at the end of the season lands Patrick in hot water.]]
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* RealityEnsues: Patrick is told [[spoiler: by his FBI boss that spending wildly on everything from a huge house to gifts to private plane rides is a major strain on the FBI budget. Naturally, losing all the money they set up at the end of the season lands Patrick in hot water.]]
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** Also when they convince her that [[spoiler: Patrick works for the FBI and Maddie realizes she's been the one played this time.]]
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* WhamShot: Richard following Patrick into [[spoiler: the Seattle headquarters of the FBI where Richard and his "family" are all wearing suits and agent badges.]]
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* WhamShot: Richard following Patrick into [[spoiler: the Seattle headquarters of the FBI where Richard Patrick and his "family" are all wearing suits and agent badges.]]
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* PragmaticVillainy: The reason Maddie and her crew generally go after {{AssholeVictim}}'s has nothing to do with morality. It's just that they usually have a DarkSecret that can be used to blackmail them into not reporting the con.
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* PragmaticVillainy: The reason Maddie and her crew generally go after {{AssholeVictim}}'s {{AssholeVictim}}s has nothing to do with morality. It's just that they usually have a DarkSecret that can be used to blackmail them into not reporting the con.
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* PragmaticVillainy: The reason Maddie and her crew generally go after {{AssholeVictim}}'s has nothing to do with morality. It's just that they usually have a DarkSecret that can be used to blackmail them into not reporting the con.
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* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: After discovering [[spoiler: Richard is an FBI agent, Maddie is basically kicking herself that she fell for exactly the same sort of tricks (from a fake family to playing hard to get) that she's used countless times on her own marks. Naturally, the Bumblers take some pleasure out of Maddie getting a dose of what she did to them.]]
** Earlier in the series, when Maddie is with Richard for her "birthday," she's stunned when Ezra drops by, pretending to be her big brother and Jules his girlfriend. They're obviously getting a kick using the same "fake family" gimmick Maddie used on them as Maddie is fighting not to lose it in front of Richard. And then Richard is one of the bartenders for the party.
** Earlier in the series, when Maddie is with Richard for her "birthday," she's stunned when Ezra drops by, pretending to be her big brother and Jules his girlfriend. They're obviously getting a kick using the same "fake family" gimmick Maddie used on them as Maddie is fighting not to lose it in front of Richard. And then Richard is one of the bartenders for the party.
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* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: After discovering [[spoiler: Richard Patrick is an FBI agent, Maddie is basically kicking herself that she fell for exactly the same sort of tricks (from a fake family to playing hard to get) that she's used countless times on her own marks. Naturally, the Bumblers take some pleasure out of Maddie getting a dose of what she did to them.]]
** Earlier in the series, when Maddie is withRichard Patrick for her "birthday," she's stunned when Ezra drops by, pretending to be her big brother and Jules his girlfriend. They're obviously getting a kick using the same "fake family" gimmick Maddie used on them as Maddie is fighting not to lose it in front of Richard.Patrick. And then Richard is one of the bartenders for the party.
** Earlier in the series, when Maddie is with
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* MoralEventHorizon: Clearly hit by [[spoiler: Max when he leads Sally to think that they're going to run off together but then hands her off to Lenny, just shrugging "Rules of the game."]]
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* DivideAndConquer: The Bumblers quickly figure out that when they do confront Maddie, it's quite likely she'll try to play them off each other by going to each in person and claiming she truly loved them and it wasn't an act. Sure enough, Maddie tries it but despite temptation, the Bumblers hold to a "code" they wrote to resist.
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* StressVomit: When she's finally met by her exes, Maddie asks to go to the bathroom. Once inside, she immediately vomits into the toilet and then comes back acting as if nothing is wrong.
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* FlashBack: Done a lot, either to show the past of the Bumblers with Maddie or occasionally explaining things like how Sally and Max started to work for the Doctor.
