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* TalkingToTheDead: The epilogue is framed as Emilia talking to Ramón, who now has a proper grave.
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* Tyrannicide: Does this look like the sort of show where where the President is still alive by the time the end credits of the finale roll in?

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* Tyrannicide: {{Tyrannicide}}: Does this look like the sort of show where where the President is still alive by the time the end credits of the finale roll in?
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* InstantDeathBullet: [[spoiler:The President]] is declared dead within seconds of getting shot.
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* Tyrannicide: Does this look like the sort of show where where the President is still alive by the time the end credits of the finale roll in?
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* WouldHurtAChild: Different degrees of this exist, ranging from Alma and Alejo's "would let multiple children die for science" to the President's "would [[spoiler:order a bunch of children to be killed because their existence inconveniences me]]".
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* ShutUpGunshot: The President's guards shot in the air in hope of driving the crowd marching on the President's residence away.
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* EmpathicEnvironment: A storm starts right around the time the rebels get into Sector 1 and start marching towards the President's residence.
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* LastKiss: [[spoiler:Alicia and Fernando]] share one last kiss after the latter has been fatally shot.
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* BloodFromTheMouth: A character who has been shot starting to bleed from the mouth is used to indicate that the wound is much more serious than for the person who was shot right before them and subject to AlmostLethalWeapons.
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** The policeman lieutenant guarding the checkpoint between Sector 1 and Sector 2 in the finale is ordered to have anyone trying to go trough it shot down. When asked to please not shoot the crowd that shows up asking for the detained children to be given back to their families, the lieutenant says his orders are to shoot.


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** In the finale, there is a standoff at the checkpoint between sectors between a police detachment who has been ordered to shoot anyone trying to go through the ckeckpoint and a crowd mostly made of Sector 2 inhabitants whose main revendications is to have the children detained for Alma's reasearch given back to the families. Meanwhile, it just so happens that another set of characters has freed the children. The leader of the police detachment gives the crowd a few seconds to disperse before shooting starts and starts a countdown, which he almost finishes before getting interrupted by a greeting from the fastest runner among the children. Whose parents happen to be close enough to the front of the crowd for them to see each other, to boot.
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* {{Lockdown}}: When worrying news about the noravirus epidemic is announced, Julia mentions the risk of Madrid going into lockdown in response, which would cause supply problems.
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* InsigniaRipOffRitual: In the finale, several policemen who no longer wish to serve the government are seen taking the New Spain triskelion off their uniforms.


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* SigilSpam: The government's triskelion shows up in a lot of places. It has even replaced the coat of arms on the national flag.
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** [[spoiler:The President]] having a coughing fit during a call with Enrique.
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** The previous incident is soon followed by Luis being forced into a police car at gunpoint. [[spoiler:The policemen who "arrested" him are actually members of the force who have rebelled against the government and wanted to grab Luis to help him before their still-loyal colleagues found him.]]
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* AngryCollarGrab: When Enrique sees [[spoiler:Alejo]]'s corpse, he grabs a random policeman's collar while asking him to find the killer.
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** After Luis turns on the government for good, Luis discreetly returns to his home to [[spoiler:pick up Sergio and]] give a couple members of the household who weren't included in his escape plan a chance to join them. After his attempt to convince Alma fails, Alma starts calling for the leader of the police detachment currently searching the house, making it look like she's going to hand Luis over to him. When she actually leaves the room in which she had been talking to Luis to meet with the policeman, she instead asks him to be very thorough in his search and announces that she'll show him a few papers that he missed. While it's still bad news for Luis in the long term, on the short term it lets him leave while the police is disctracted, do his other errand an give another person the chance to come with him.
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* EntertaininglyWrong: After Daniela helps Luis doing something she doesn't approve of, Alma assumes Luis manipulated Daniela into helping him. Partly justified by the fact that manipulative parents often respond to their children doing something they don't approve of by assuming the child got roped into it by a third part.

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* EntertaininglyWrong: After Daniela helps Luis doing something she doesn't approve of, Alma assumes Luis manipulated Daniela into helping him. Partly Luis actually asked for Daniela's help because she has been the sort of person who would carry out the plan for ''much'' more of the recent past than he has. The situation is partly justified by the fact that manipulative parents often respond to their children doing something they don't approve of by assuming the child got roped into it by a third part.party.
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* EntertaininglyWrong: After Daniela helps Luis doing something she doesn't approve of, Alma assumes Luis manipulated Daniela into helping him. Partly justified by the fact that manipulative parents often respond to their children doing something they don't approve of by assuming the child got roped into it by a third part.
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* ForYourOwnGood: Begoña seems to be genuinely convinced that her informer job works for the greater good of everyone, including the people she reports. The other informer shown in the series, [[spoiler:the registry nurse]], seems to think that it's better for people to be dead than part of LaResistance. Many of the CannedOrdersOverLouspeaker being prefaced with "For your safety" or "For your health" hint at this being the government's overall attitude towards the general population.

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* ForYourOwnGood: Begoña seems to be genuinely convinced that her informer job works for the greater good of everyone, including the people she reports. The other informer shown in the series, [[spoiler:the registry nurse]], seems to think that it's better for people to be dead than part of LaResistance. Many of the CannedOrdersOverLouspeaker CannedOrdersOverLoudspeaker being prefaced with "For your safety" or "For your health" hint at this being the government's overall attitude towards the general population.
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* DiesWideOpen: The death by BoomHeadshot is shown to have died with their eyes open.


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* FacelessGoons: The full raid gear of policemen and guards includes their face being covered. This works in the protagonist's favor at some point in the finale because [[spoiler:Carlos had no trouble getting his hands on a set, so he could walk around the police's headquarters unnoticed]].
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* AlmostLethalWeapons: The bullet [[spoiler:Luis]] injury gets in the finale merely requires him to cajole it for the rest of his screentime and allows him to still be alive in the epilogue. It's especially blatant because he was shot twice and the person who took the second bullet for him only had time of tearful farewell to their loved ones before dying.


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* TakingTheBullet: When a second bullet is fired at an already injured [[spoiler:Luis, Fernando takes it instead]].
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* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Alejo]] dies by being shot in the head.
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* ExactEavesdropping: Enrique drops by Fernando's office and says he wants him in his office in a couple minutes. On the way to his own office, Enrique is met by [[spoiler:one of the nurses watching the detained children, who has come to tell him about "one of his men" coming close to the children without permission]]. The short notice given by Enrique, combined with a convernient angle in the hallway, allows Fernando to hear most of the conversation without being seen by either participant and figure out that his best option is to ditch the meeting and not stay in the building much longer.
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** Julia is shown to believe it's not ''that'' easy to catch noravirus. [[spoiler:She turns out to be functionally immune.]]

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* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: Ramón did this by leaving his two first [[spoiler:vaccines for the noravirus]] in Julia and Sara's care.



* ForYourOwnGood: Begoña seems to be genuinely convinced that her informer job works for the greater good of everyone, including the people she reports. The other informer shown in the series, [[spoiler:the registry nurse]], seems to think that it's better for people to be dead than part of LaResistance. Many of the CannedOrderOverLouspeaker being prefaced with "For your safety" or "For your health" hint at this being the government's overall attitude towards the general population.

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* ForYourOwnGood: Begoña seems to be genuinely convinced that her informer job works for the greater good of everyone, including the people she reports. The other informer shown in the series, [[spoiler:the registry nurse]], seems to think that it's better for people to be dead than part of LaResistance. Many of the CannedOrderOverLouspeaker CannedOrdersOverLouspeaker being prefaced with "For your safety" or "For your health" hint at this being the government's overall attitude towards the general population.

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* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: After getting mistaken for a traitor, Alma start fearing for her life and genuinely wondering how much time she has left to live. She's saved partly because a situation in which she's the only person able to help, [[spoiler:the President catching noravirus]], showing up.



* ForYourOwnGood: Begoña seems to be genuinely convinced that her informer job works for the greater good of everyone, including the people she reports. The other informer shown in the series, [[spoiler:the registry nurse]], seems to think that it's better for people to be dead than part of LaResistance.

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* ForYourOwnGood: Begoña seems to be genuinely convinced that her informer job works for the greater good of everyone, including the people she reports. The other informer shown in the series, [[spoiler:the registry nurse]], seems to think that it's better for people to be dead than part of LaResistance. Many of the CannedOrderOverLouspeaker being prefaced with "For your safety" or "For your health" hint at this being the government's overall attitude towards the general population.
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* AllForNothing: Alma gets that sentiment about the vaccine she finds for the noravirus. By the time she and Alejo are ready to start deploying it, the President has gotten the idea that Alma had betrayed him and won't listen to her anymore. [[spoiler:The President getting sick and the nature of the subcutaneous chips carried by Julia and Marta]] subvert this trope between them.
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** Pedro gets very loud slap from the nurse caring for him for breaking the rules interacting with his father. His father is leaving the scene and can't turn back without getting into more trouble, but close enough to hear the incident. He's clearly made uneasy by the fact that interacting with his son resulted in him getting hit by one of his wardens.
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** [[spoiler:Alejo]] has enough moments of being a jerk to some of the protagonists to keep his death from being a too much of a tragedy.


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* PistolWhipping: Alejo uses his gun to hit Julia at a point where he has her at his mercy.
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** In a combination of two of the previous cases of the trope, Alma finds out about the "Sara" masquerade when Alejo calls her about the chips and refers to Julia Marta's ''aunt''.


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* LapPillow: Marta and Julia spend some time alone in a cell, during which Julia lets Marta use her lap as a pillow to catch a little rest.

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