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* ThreeLawsCompliant: A former scientist now living as a recluse a la Ted Kaczynski (and writing tome-sized manifestos, too) averts this in his speech to Gabriel and Riley, insisting that "Frankenstein's monster will walk among us".
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* AccidentallyAccurate: [[spoiler:At least one person unintentionally guesses about chips in people's heads. Given that he's a scientist now given to conspiracy theories to begin with, it's a good thing he doesn't know how spot-on he is.]]
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* NoPronunciationGuide: Jin Cong being pronounced "Jin Kahng". "C" in ''pinyin'' (Romanization of Chinese) is pronounced "ts". His name should have been pronounced "Jin Tsahng" (or "Jin Tsohng").
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* [[spoiler:YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness]]: [[spoiler:What General Carter tries to do with Vicks after he learns of his escape.]]

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* [[spoiler:YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness]]: [[spoiler:What General Carter tries to do with Vicks Vick after he learns of his escape.]]
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* DestroyTheEvidence: [[spoiler:A faction led by General Carter tries to apprehend Luther Vicks in order to destroy all traces of their involvement in a black ops WMD project. They were even willing to kill Gabriel and Riley to protect the secret.]]

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* DestroyTheEvidence: [[spoiler:A faction led by General Carter tries to apprehend Luther Vicks Vick in order to destroy all traces of their involvement in a black ops WMD project. They were even willing to kill Gabriel and Riley to protect the secret.]]
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* OpeningNarration: "Gabriel Vaughn, one of our nation's most decorated soldiers. He's a hero, and now our country's most secret weapon ... He's the first of his kind; the next evolution of [[TitleDrop Intelligence]].
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* {{Flatline}}: [[SubvertedTrope Gabriel fakes one]] in "Patient Zero" while he and Riley investigate how an executed death row inmate could turn up as [[TitleDrop patient zero]] in a virus outbreak. Gabriel lies down on the death chamber gurney (no syringes) and has Riley activate the system, then hacks the EKG machine with his chip to produce a flatline result ([[ManChild partly as a practical joke on Riley]], but also to demonstrate that the machine was tampered with).
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* FightingFingerprint: Gabriel does this in "Patient Zero" when he and Riley are ambushed by black-ops operatives while tracking the eponymous loose bioweapon test subject.
--> '''Gabriel:''' Last time I felt a hammer strike like that was at Fort Benning, Georgia.\\
'''Riley:''' So we just got our ass kicked by US Special Forces.
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* [[spoiler:WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds]]: [[spoiler:Luthor Vicks after he learns that Carter's faction was responsible for injecting him with a WMD virus.]]

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* [[spoiler:WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds]]: [[spoiler:Luthor Vicks Vick after he learns that Carter's faction was responsible for injecting him with a WMD virus.]]
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* CasualDangerDialog[=/=]DeadpanSnarker: Happens mostly between Gabriel and Riley.
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* [[spoiler:WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds]]: [[spoiler:Luthor Vicks after he learns that Carter's faction was responsible for injecting him with a WMD virus.]]

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* [[spoiler:SyntheticPlague:]] "Patient Zero" has this.



* [[spoiler:SyntheticPlague:]] "Patient Zero" has this.

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* [[spoiler:SyntheticPlague:]] "Patient Zero" has this.[[spoiler:YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness]]: [[spoiler:What General Carter tries to do with Vicks after he learns of his escape.]]

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* BodyguardingABadass: Riley, a Secret Service agent on the President's detail, is reassigned to bodyguard Gabriel, who is a former Delta Force operator. This doesn't always work smoothly - in Episode 1 she takes a bullet for him by bodychecking him out of the line of fire, just before he was going to shoot, and in Episode 2 [[spoiler: she tackles him out a window, just before Amelia blows up]]. Lillian implies that it's not so much as protecting Gabriel from physical threats, but from himself.



* DestroyTheEvidence: [[spoiler:A faction led by General Carter tries to apprehend Luther Vicks in order to destroy all traces of their involvement in a black ops WMD project. They were even willing to kill Gabriel and Riley to protect the secret.]]



* EvilCounterpart: Mei Chen to Gabriel.



* GeniusBruiser: In college, Gabriel had a 3.8 GPA and played three sports in addition to his experience in the military.



** [[spoiler:Gets later played with in the episode "Patient Zero".]]



* MysteriousPast: Agent Riley Neal has a sealed juvenile file. [[spoiler: It turns out she wasn't actually convicted of anything - only investigated and charged when she killed her abusive stepfather in self-defense after five years of abuse. The file was sealed by request - not because she was convicted, but to keep it off her record so it wouldn't affect her future.]] Ironically, because Gabriel's been forbbiden to open said file, Gabriel takes every slightly illegal action she takes as part of a FormerTeenRebel phase, including auto theft, when she manages to break into a van using a screwdriver.
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* GeniusBuiser: In college, Gabriel had a 3.8 GPA and played three sports in addition to his experience in the military.

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* GeniusBuiser: GeniusBruiser: In college, Gabriel had a 3.8 GPA and played three sports in addition to his experience in the military.
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* GeniusBuiser: In college, Gabriel had a 3.8 GPA and played three sports in addition to his experience in the military.
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* [[spoiler:SyntheticPlague: "Patient Zero" has this.]]

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* [[spoiler:SyntheticPlague: [[spoiler:SyntheticPlague:]] "Patient Zero" has this.]]
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* [[spoiler:SyntheticPlague: "Patient Zero" has this.]]
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And you\'d think I\'d remember it\'s not Pavel Chekov.


** The Chinese M99 Sniper Rifle and sniper view's broadcasting function in the Pilot. First, it's used to threaten [[spoiler: Dr. Cassidy's "sons", his biological one and Gabriel, his "Pinocchio" son.]] Then it's used as a blunt object to smack him with, and then Gabriel uses it and it's transmitting function to line up the [[spoiler:doctor's shot at Jin Cong while he's holding Riley hostage]]. In that sense it's a ''literal'' Chekov's Gun.

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** The Chinese M99 Sniper Rifle and sniper view's broadcasting function in the Pilot. First, it's used to threaten [[spoiler: Dr. Cassidy's "sons", his biological one and Gabriel, his "Pinocchio" son.]] Then it's used as a blunt object to smack him with, and then Gabriel uses it and it's transmitting function to line up the [[spoiler:doctor's shot at Jin Cong while he's holding Riley hostage]]. In that sense it's a ''literal'' Chekov's Chekhov's Gun.

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* ChekhovsGun: The Chinese M99 Sniper Rifle and sniper view's broadcasting function in the Pilot. First, it's used to threaten [[spoiler: Dr. Cassidy's "sons", his biological one and Gabriel, his "Pinocchio" son.]] Then it's used as a blunt object to smack him with, and then Gabriel uses it and it's transmitting function to line up the [[spoiler:doctor's shot at Jin Cong while he's holding Riley hostage]]

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* ChekhovsGun: ChekhovsGun:
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The Chinese M99 Sniper Rifle and sniper view's broadcasting function in the Pilot. First, it's used to threaten [[spoiler: Dr. Cassidy's "sons", his biological one and Gabriel, his "Pinocchio" son.]] Then it's used as a blunt object to smack him with, and then Gabriel uses it and it's transmitting function to line up the [[spoiler:doctor's shot at Jin Cong while he's holding Riley hostage]]hostage]]. In that sense it's a ''literal'' Chekov's Gun.
** Riley boasting about her brand-new, expensive-looking watch. [[spoiler:Gabriel, remembering how she made a to-do over it, realizes she purposely shifted it to her other wrist and misadjusted it to give him clues as to where she's imprisoned.]]
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The series centers on Gabriel Vaughn, an ex-Delta Force commando who saw action in several missions during his time in the US Army before he was selected to undergo a black ops experiment due to a rare gene that he has. This allowed Cyber Command scientists to install a microchip into his brain, which allows him to gain access to the global information grid. Due to this, [=CC=] decides to assign an active Secret Service agent named Riley Neil in order to protect him (and the technology he has in his brain) from falling into the wrong hands.

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The series centers on Gabriel Vaughn, an ex-Delta Force commando who saw action in several missions during his time in the US Army before he was selected to undergo a black ops experiment due to a rare gene that he has. This allowed Cyber Command scientists to install a microchip into his brain, which allows him to gain access to the global information grid. Due to this, [=CC=] decides to assign an active Secret Service agent named Riley Neil Neal in order to protect him (and the technology he has in his brain) from falling into the wrong hands.
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As Gabriel and Riley work together on [=CC=]-led missions to stop criminals and terrorists from harming America at home and abroad, Gabriel uses the neurochip's global information access to seek out information what happened to his wife, Amelia, who was implicated in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks and branded as a rogue [=CIA=] agent by her superiors and to find out what forced her to disappear and go underground.

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As Gabriel and Riley work together on [=CC=]-led missions to stop criminals and terrorists from harming America at home and abroad, Gabriel uses the neurochip's microchip's global information access to seek out information what happened to his wife, Amelia, who was implicated in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks and branded as a rogue [=CIA=] agent by her superiors and to find out what forced her to disappear and go underground.
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An American spy cyber drama, airing starting January 2014, which blends elements of PoliceProcedural, CriminalProcedural, and SpyFiction. Written and produced by Michael Seitzman, it has already been slated for fourteen episodes. It currently airs on [=CBS=] in America.

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An American spy cyber drama, airing starting January 2014, which blends elements of PoliceProcedural, CriminalProcedural, PoliceProcedural and SpyFiction. Written and produced by Michael Seitzman, it has already been slated for fourteen episodes. It currently airs on [=CBS=] in America.
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* EvilVersusEvil: [[spoiler:The US government's approach to "containing" Mexican drug cartels. Hector seems to think this gives him licence to try and bully key people in the US into making sure he can keep his drug empire going.]]


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* GreyAndGrayMorality: The stock in trade among the highest echelons of the US government, which Lillian is clearly disgusted by at times.

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The series center on Gabriel Vaughn, an ex-Delta Force commando who saw action in several missions during his time in the US Army before he was selected to undergo a black ops experiment due to a rare gene that he has. This allowed Cyber Command scientists to install a microchip into his brain, which allows him to gain access to the global information grid. Due to this, [=CC=] decides to assign an active Secret Service agent named Riley Neil in order to protect him (and the technology he has in his brain) from falling into the wrong hands.

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The series center centers on Gabriel Vaughn, an ex-Delta Force commando who saw action in several missions during his time in the US Army before he was selected to undergo a black ops experiment due to a rare gene that he has. This allowed Cyber Command scientists to install a microchip into his brain, which allows him to gain access to the global information grid. Due to this, [=CC=] decides to assign an active Secret Service agent named Riley Neil in order to protect him (and the technology he has in his brain) from falling into the wrong hands.



* ActionBomb: the method of attack used in the second episode, exploiting a new, non-toxic form of plastic explosive that can be swallowed.

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* ActionBomb: the The method of attack used in the second episode, exploiting a new, non-toxic form of plastic explosive that can be swallowed.


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* BadassInANiceSuit: The Secret Service detail in "Secrets of the Secret Service", but especially Gabriel and Riley.


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* BulletProofVest: Gabriel and Riley have so far been pretty good about putting these on when they're anticipating trouble.
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* IllPretendIDidntHearThat: When Gabriel tells his boss that he's following up the lead she got him on Amelia, her response is basically that he's making it really hard for her to pretend she doesn't know what he'll be doing.
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* CIAEvilFBIGood: With Clockwork in place of the FBI in this trope.
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* CyberPunk[=/=]PostCyberPunk: A mixture of these, but more on the latter since Cyber Command was able to create neurochips that make a person into a living computer. Although this would "interest" criminals, terrorist and intelligence agencies that want to get their hands on it.

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* CyberPunk[=/=]PostCyberPunk: A mixture of these, but more on the latter since Cyber Command was able to create neurochips microchips that make a person into a living computer. Although this would "interest" criminals, terrorist and intelligence agencies that want to get their hands on it.
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* EvilCounterpart: Mei Chen to Gabriel.
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The series center on Gabriel Vaughn, an ex-Delta Force commando who saw action in several missions during his time in the US Army before he was selected to undergo a black ops experiment due to a rare gene that he has. This allowed Cyber Command scientists to install a neurochip into his brain, which allows him to gain access to the global information grid. Due to this, [=CC=] decides to assign an active Secret Service agent named Riley Neil in order to protect him (and the technology he has in his brain) from falling into the wrong hands.

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The series center on Gabriel Vaughn, an ex-Delta Force commando who saw action in several missions during his time in the US Army before he was selected to undergo a black ops experiment due to a rare gene that he has. This allowed Cyber Command scientists to install a neurochip microchip into his brain, which allows him to gain access to the global information grid. Due to this, [=CC=] decides to assign an active Secret Service agent named Riley Neil in order to protect him (and the technology he has in his brain) from falling into the wrong hands.
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As Gabriel and Riley work together on [=CC=]-led missions to stop criminals and terrorists from harming America at home and abroad, Gabriel uses the neurochip's global information access to seek out what happened to his wife, Amelia, who was implicated in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks and branded as a rogue [=CIA=] agent by her superiors and to find out what forced her to disappear and go underground.

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As Gabriel and Riley work together on [=CC=]-led missions to stop criminals and terrorists from harming America at home and abroad, Gabriel uses the neurochip's global information access to seek out information what happened to his wife, Amelia, who was implicated in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks and branded as a rogue [=CIA=] agent by her superiors and to find out what forced her to disappear and go underground.

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