History Series / Intelligence2014

An American spy cyber drama, airing starting January 2014, which blends elements of {{Police Procedural}}s, SpyFiction, and TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture ScienceFiction. Written and produced by Michael Seitzman, it has already been slated for fourteen episodes. It currently airs on [=CBS=] in America.

* WhamMoment: [[spoiler:When Gabriel tells Riley to drive him to a nondescript house. They bang on the door and an old lady answers. Gabriel: "Hi, Mom."]]

* IdiosyncraticWipe: Scene cuts involve a kind of ''Series/PersonOfInterest''-style zoom-out, but the scene is cut into blocks and each one then shrinks out at different times.

* 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]].
* FakeNationality: Canadian actress Meghan Ory plays American Riley Neal, and Australian actress Faye Kingslee plays Mei Chen, a Chinese secret agent (though Kingslee is ''half''-Chinese).

An American spy cyber drama, airing starting January 2014, which blends elements of {{Police Procedural}}s, SpyFiction, and near-future ScienceFiction. Written and produced by Michael Seitzman, it has already been slated for fourteen episodes. It currently airs on [=CBS=] in America.

'''Gabriel:''' So I shouldn't do anything too...chippy?

** 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'' Chekhov'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.]]

* DestroyTheEvidence: [[spoiler:A faction led by General Carter tries to apprehend Luther 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.]]
* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler: Amos betrays Dr. Cassidy to the Chinese.]] He even tries to turn Riley as a bonus.

* 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.]]

** {{Invoked|Trope}} in "Size Matters" when [[spoiler:Dr. Cassidy]] is infected with GreyGoo. [[spoiler:They stop his heart to fool the nanites into shutting down, then give him a ShotToTheHeart to bring him back.]]

* GrandTheftPrototype: [[spoiler:Jin Cong intends to steal the list of children known to have the mutation, presumably to then kidnap one or more and create his own super-soldiers.]]

** [[spoiler:Later gets played with in the episode "Patient Zero".]]

* LikeRealityUnlessNoted: Apart from the chip and the fact that Cyber Command is in a different city and has a different job description, it's still just 21st century Earth.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: "Secrets of the Secret Service" involves one for Bill Clinton. He's a former Democratic president who was in office in the late '90s and currently works as a diplomatic official negotiating to get captured American civilians freed from oppressive regimes--except instead of North Korea it's Syria, and [[spoiler:the Americans are actually CIA agents]]

* SmarterThanYouLook: Gabriel calls Riley out on her low S.A.T. scores (1030 on the old 1600 scale.) She says she doesn't test well. The fact is confirmed a little while later when she tells Gabriel to update his Mandarin, correcting his faulty translation, begins to point out the reason that safe is important (Gabriel stops her before she can finish) and unbeknownst to Gabriel, figures out that his boss actually believes the same thing Gabriel does about his missing wife, despite the fact that his boss had told Gabriel the opposite [[spoiler: the idea his wife probably really did turn against the U.S. and died in a terrorist plot]] was true. Also, unbeknownst to Gabriel, she points out the fact that she's working with a person, not a machine or a thing, very subtly reminding Strand that there was a reason their agency wanted to give a person more digital intelligence instead of creating a more human computer A.I. That leads to Lillian [[spoiler: making a deal for information about Amelia in exchange for Jin Cong's return to Chinese custody.]]

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Luthor Vick after he learns that [[spoiler:Carter's]] faction was responsible for injecting him with a WMD virus.

** {{Invoked|Trope}} in "Size Matters" when [[spoiler:Dr. Cassidy]] is infected with GreyGoo. [[spoiler:They stop his heart to fool the nanites into shutting down, then give him a ShotToTheHeart to bring him back.

* AccidentallyAccurate: [[spoiler:In-verse. At least one person unintentionally guesses about chips in people's heads.]]

* ActorAllusion: Riley Neal gets comfortable in [[Series/OnceUponATime a well worn red hoodie]] halfway through the pilot. Bonus points - she still wearing the same hoodie after she leaves the house against orders.

* {{Expy}}: "Secrets of the Secret Service" involves one for Bill Clinton-- he's a former Democratic president who was in office in the late 90s and currently works as a diplomatic official negotiating to get captured American civilians freed from oppressive regimes--except instead of North Korea it's Syria, and [[spoiler: the Americans are actually CIA agents]]

* {{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).

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

* IdiosyncraticWipe: Scene cuts involve a kind of PersonOfInterest style zoom-out, but the scene is cut into blocks and each one then shrinks out at different times.

* NoodleIncident: Dr. Cassidy has one of these. [[spoiler:He was arrested for public nudity and possession of a controlled substance. And he's decidedly not mentioning the circumstances.]]
* 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]].

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

* [[spoiler:WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds]]: [[spoiler:Luthor Vick after he learns that Carter's faction was responsible for injecting him with a WMD virus.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:What General Carter tries to do with Vick after he learns of his escape.]]

An American spy cyber drama, airing starting January 2014, which blends elements of PoliceProcedural and SpyFiction. Written and produced by Michael Seitzman, it has already been slated for fourteen episodes. It currently airs on [=CBS=] in America.

* [[spoiler:YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness]]: [[spoiler:What General Carter tries to do with Vick after he learns of his escape.]]
** Mei Chen was about to do it to Kate Anderson, but Gabriel saved he. She probably wishes he hadn't, given what will almost certainly happen to her.
* YoureInsane: Gabriel to Mei Chen.

* 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").

* BadassNormal: Riley Neal (vs. Gabriel's use of technology.) Riley has been shown to illustrate the idea of the human factor correcting Gabriel's digital translation and coming to conclusions that Gabriel has missed, illustrating she's actually just as skilled as agent as he, just with a different subset (focusing on people and relationships in order to be more skilled at protecting them).

* CyberPunk[=/=]PostCyberPunk: A mixture of these, but more on the latter since Cyber Command was able to create 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.

* 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.

* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: U.S. Cyber Command does actually exist in Fort Meade instead of Angel's Bluff, Virginia. The emblem is almost the same as real CYBERCOM but the real agency seems to be more military and armed forces related than espionage and spycraft. The Clockwork department/function of CYBERCOM is also completely fictional.

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

* SmarterThanYouLook: Gabriel calls Riley out on her low S.A.T. scores (1030 on the old 1600 scale.) She says she doesn't test well. The fact is confirmed a little while later when she tells Gabriel to update his Mandarin correcting his faulty translation, begins to point out the reason that safe is important (Gabriel stops her before she can finish.) and unbeknownst to Gabriel, figures out that his boss actually believes the same thing Gabriel does about his missing wife, despite the fact that his boss had told Gabriel the opposite [[spoiler: the idea his wife probably really did turn against the U.S. and died in a terrorist plot]] was true. Also, unbeknownst to Gabriel, she points out the fact that she's working with a person not a machine or a thing, very subtly reminding Strand that there was a reason their agency wanted to give a person more digital intelligence instead of creating a more human computer A.I. That leads to Lillian [[spoiler: making a deal for information out about Amelia in exchange for Jin Cong's return to Chinese custody.]]

* TakeThat: a very subtle one to digital translation and online dictionaries like Google Translate and Babylon. Gabriel uses his digital interface to translate spoken Chinese. Riley asks where Gabriel learned Mandarin. He replies, "I didn't. I got an app for that." Riley then proceeds to correct his translation because she actually ''speaks'' Mandarin.

* 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.]]