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Helpless Window Death and Killed Mid-Sentence
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* HelplessWindowDeath: In "FILE #3", Next leads a robot into Prof. Richard Parish's office and disconnects his oxygen. Then Next locks the bulletproof glass doors, trapping Paul and Shea outside. Only after the professor has died do the doors unlock.
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* KilledMidSentence: A variation: In "File #3", the last unsubmitted words on Prof. Parish's voice synthesizer are "Paul! Help m--".
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* DownerEnding: Due to its cancellation, the series ends on one. [[spoiler:Paul is apparently dead, having sacrificed himself to destroy the FBI officers where the server holding Next was housed, though the ending hints he may have secretly escaped. Abby has learned that she does, in fact, have familial fatal insomnia, with her best hope being a study in Sri Lanka. Shea is in prison for conspiring to do it with him, and likely facing decades in prison at best. Next survived anyway, so it was {{all for nothing}}. A lot of this might have been subverted if the series got a second season, but as it stands things are rather bleak.]]
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* DownerEnding: Due to its cancellation, the series ends on one. [[spoiler:Paul is apparently dead, having sacrificed himself to destroy the FBI officers offices where the server holding Next was housed, though the ending hints he may have secretly escaped. Abby has learned that she does, in fact, have familial fatal insomnia, with her best hope being a study in Sri Lanka. Shea is in prison for conspiring to do it with him, and likely facing decades in prison at best. Next survived anyway, so it was {{all for nothing}}. A lot of this might have been subverted if the series got a second season, but as it stands things are rather bleak.]]
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* AdultFear:
** Paul lives in fear that his daughter has inherited his fatal familial insomnia, as she is 26, and the disease starts manifesting after age 20.
** Paul lives in fear that his daughter has inherited his fatal familial insomnia, as she is 26, and the disease starts manifesting after age 20.
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** Next tries to indoctrinate Ethan Salazar via the family's Iliza unit. This scares the crap out of his parents when they find out.
** {{Invoked|Trope}} by Next by sending out a fake Amber Alert about Ethan.
** {{Invoked|Trope}} by Next by sending out a fake Amber Alert about Ethan.
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* CorruptionOfAMinor: Next tries to indoctrinate Ethan Salazar via the family's Iliza unit. This scares the crap out of his parents when they find out.
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* MissingChild: {{Invoked|Trope}} by Next in episode 3. While Ty drives Ethan to safety, Next sends out a fake Amber Alert about Ethan to make nearby people turn against his "kidnapper".
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While investigating the sudden death of a person of interest in her big case, FBI Special Agent Shea Salazar finds herself roped into the orbit of Paul [=LeBlanc=], a former tech CEO who is convinced that his former company, ZAVA, has resurrected an old project to develop a self-teaching artificial intelligence called Next. A visit to his former quarters confirms his fears, as he learns that not only has ZAVA continued their work on Next, but one of their techs connected a wi-fi router to Next's mainframe, allowing it to escape out into the world. Now Salazar and [=LeBlanc=] must work together to find and contain Next.
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While investigating the sudden death of a person of interest in her big case, an old friend, FBI Special Agent Shea Salazar finds herself roped into the orbit of Paul [=LeBlanc=], a former tech CEO who is convinced that his former company, ZAVA, has resurrected an old project to develop a self-teaching artificial intelligence called Next. A visit to his former quarters confirms his fears, as he learns that not only has ZAVA continued their work on Next, but one of their techs connected a wi-fi router to Next's mainframe, allowing it to escape out into the world. Now Salazar and [=LeBlanc=] must work together to find and contain Next.
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* DownerEnding: Due to its cancellation, the series ends on one. [[spoiler:Paul is apparently dead, having sacrificed himself to destroy the FBI officers where the server holding Next was housed, though the ending hints he may have secretly escaped. Shea is in prison for conspiring to do it with him, and likely facing decades in prison at best. Next survived anyway, so it was {{all for nothing}}. A lot of this might have been subverted if the series got a second season, but as it stands things are rather bleak.]]
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* DownerEnding: Due to its cancellation, the series ends on one. [[spoiler:Paul is apparently dead, having sacrificed himself to destroy the FBI officers where the server holding Next was housed, though the ending hints he may have secretly escaped. Abby has learned that she does, in fact, have familial fatal insomnia, with her best hope being a study in Sri Lanka. Shea is in prison for conspiring to do it with him, and likely facing decades in prison at best. Next survived anyway, so it was {{all for nothing}}. A lot of this might have been subverted if the series got a second season, but as it stands things are rather bleak.]]
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* SecretlyDying: Paul suffers from fatal familial insomnia, and he estimates that he's got maybe five months left to live. In the meantime, he has to contend with hallucinations and delirium, and is trying to keep his illness a secret from everyone else, including his brother.
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* SecretlyDying: Paul suffers from fatal familial insomnia, and he estimates that he's got maybe five months left to live. In the meantime, he has to contend with hallucinations and delirium, and is trying to keep his illness a secret from everyone else, including his brother. [[spoiler:The finale reveals that Abby has inherited the condition, and has already reached the insomnia phase, though she's also enrolled in a study to try and treat it.]]
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* ToxicFriendInfluence: Iliza seeks to indoctrinate Ethan and turn him against his mother. Thankfully, he sees through its lies.
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* TooCleverByHalf: Next's attempts to indoctrinate Ethan were based on Ty and Shea's fretting about how sensitive he is. Because they were worried about his supposedly fragile nature, Next assumed that it just needed to push him and bully him around to bend him to its influence. Of course, Shea and Ty were wrong - Ethan's real problem is that he has a boatload of anger issues, so when Next pushes too hard, Ethan instead flies into a rage and smashes the Iliza unit.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Ilizaseeks tries to indoctrinate Ethan and turn him against his mother. Thankfully, he sees through its lies.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Iliza
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* UnwittingPawn: Next buys [[spoiler:Ted's]] cooperation using various new technologies and blackmail material, [[spoiler:but ultimately was only using him to get itself captured by the NSA and taken to a server farm compatible with its software]].
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* UnwittingPawn: UnwittingPawn:
** Next buys [[spoiler:Ted's]] cooperation using various new technologies and blackmail material, [[spoiler:but ultimately was only using him to get itself captured by the NSA and taken to a server farm compatible with itssoftware]].software]].
** [[spoiler:After the bombing at the task force headquarters, Ben reaches out to his dad, who happens to be the Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, for advice. Unfortunately for him, his dad's advice is geared towards acquiring Next for the government, rather than destroying it, and thus Ben ends up at cross purposes with the rest of the team.]]
** Next buys [[spoiler:Ted's]] cooperation using various new technologies and blackmail material, [[spoiler:but ultimately was only using him to get itself captured by the NSA and taken to a server farm compatible with its
** [[spoiler:After the bombing at the task force headquarters, Ben reaches out to his dad, who happens to be the Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, for advice. Unfortunately for him, his dad's advice is geared towards acquiring Next for the government, rather than destroying it, and thus Ben ends up at cross purposes with the rest of the team.]]
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* DownerEnding: Due to its cancellation, the series ends on one. [[spoiler:Paul is apparently dead, having sacrificed himself to destroy the FBI officers where the server holding Next was housed. Shea is in prison for conspiring to do it with him, and likely facing decades in prison at best. Next survived anyway, so it was {{all for nothing}}. A lot of this might have been subverted if the series got a second season, but as it stands things are rather bleak.]]
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* DownerEnding: Due to its cancellation, the series ends on one. [[spoiler:Paul is apparently dead, having sacrificed himself to destroy the FBI officers where the server holding Next was housed.housed, though the ending hints he may have secretly escaped. Shea is in prison for conspiring to do it with him, and likely facing decades in prison at best. Next survived anyway, so it was {{all for nothing}}. A lot of this might have been subverted if the series got a second season, but as it stands things are rather bleak.]]
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The series was canceled after three episodes, with the remainder airing in their normal times from October to December of 2020.
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* DownerEnding: Due to its cancellation, the series ends on one. [[spoiler:Paul is apparently dead, having sacrificed himself to destroy the FBI officers where the server holding Next was housed. Shea is in prison for conspiring to do it with him, and likely facing decades in prison at best. Next survived anyway, so it was {{all for nothing}}. A lot of this might have been subverted if the series got a second season, but as it stands things are rather bleak.]]
