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* AdultFear: Children being tempted by adult-like people who masquerade as the most apparently harmless thing in the world (childhood imaginary friends), because people like "Drill" are ''literally'' invisible.
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* YouCantThwartStageOne: [[spoiler: Claire figures out that Drill has possessed Cassandra and intends to use the President's live broadcast to signal his home planet; The Secret Service prevents her from stopping it.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: Two marriages were strained by this, with aftereffects that continue into the time period of the series. [[spoiler:"Drill" uses this to manipulate Minx and keep her at odds with her parents and Agent Bennigan, but the tactic ultimately fails, albeit not in time to prevent an attack on a nuclear power plant. Both cheating parties ultimately decide to stay in their marriages and work things out.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: Two marriages were strained by this, with aftereffects that continue into the time period of the series. [[spoiler:"Drill" uses this to manipulate Minx and keep her at odds with her parents and Agent Bennigan, but the tactic ultimately fails, albeit not in time to prevent an attack on a nuclear power plant. Both cheating parties ultimately decide to stay in their marriages and work things out.]]
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* YouCantThwartStageOne: [[spoiler: Claire figures out that Drill has possessed Cassandra and intends to use the President's live broadcast to signal his home planet; The Secret Service prevents her from stopping it.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: Two marriages were strained by this, with aftereffects that continue into the time period of the series. [[spoiler:"Drill" uses this to manipulate Minx and keep her at odds with her parents and Agent Bennigan, but the tactic ultimately fails, albeit not in time to prevent an attack on a nuclear power plant. Both cheating parties ultimately decide to stay in their marriages and work things out.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: Two marriages were strained by this, with aftereffects that continue into the time period of the series. [[spoiler:"Drill" uses this to manipulate Minx and keep her at odds with her parents and Agent Bennigan, but the tactic ultimately fails, albeit not in time to prevent an attack on a nuclear power plant. Both cheating parties ultimately decide to stay in their marriages and work things out.
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* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: The amnesiac bearded man is Agent Claire Bennigan's presumed missing husband, Sean.
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* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: FirstEpisodeTwist: The amnesiac bearded man is Agent Claire Bennigan's presumed missing husband, Sean.
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''The Whispers'' is a series on Creator/{{ABC}} that focuses on an entity named "Drill", who is pretending to be an ImaginaryFriend to kids in Washington, D.C., manipulating them into murder and other dangerous acts, all in the guise of a "game", while agents of the [=FBI=] and [=DoD=] try to figure out what's really going on.
Based on the short story "Zero Hour" by Creator/RayBradbury, in which [[spoiler: Drill is an extraterrestrial manipulating Earth's children in preparation for an [[AlienInvasion invasion]] of Earth]].
Based on the short story "Zero Hour" by Creator/RayBradbury, in which [[spoiler: Drill is an extraterrestrial manipulating Earth's children in preparation for an [[AlienInvasion invasion]] of Earth]].
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''The Whispers'' is a series on Creator/{{ABC}} that focuses on an entity named "Drill", who is pretending to be an ImaginaryFriend to kids inWashington, D.C., UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC, manipulating them into murder and other dangerous acts, all in the guise of a "game", while agents of the [=FBI=] FBI and [=DoD=] try to figure out what's really going on.
Based on the short story "Zero Hour" by Creator/RayBradbury, in which[[spoiler: Drill [[spoiler:Drill is an extraterrestrial manipulating Earth's children in preparation for an [[AlienInvasion invasion]] of Earth]].
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''The Whispers'' is a series on Creator/{{ABC}} that focuses on an entity named "Drill", who is pretending to be an ImaginaryFriend to kids in
Based on the short story "Zero Hour" by Creator/RayBradbury, in which
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* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: Subverted. After the agents get the clue that something or someone called "Orion" is important to Drill's plans, but before they can learn what it is, a flyer for an "Orion Golf Tournament" can be seen pinned to the wall in a scene set at the FBI offices, but it turns out to be a RedHerring and is never even commented on in-universe.
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* PacifismBackfire: They refuse to kill Drill because it will also kill a child. Drill ends up [[spoiler: killing a woman, possesses and kills the presidents daughter, makes a horde of zombie adults ready to do his bidding, and kidnaps thousands of children.]]
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* PacifismBackfire: They refuse to kill Drill because it will also kill a child. Drill ends up [[spoiler: killing a woman, possesses and kills the presidents president's daughter, makes a horde of zombie adults ready to do his bidding, and kidnaps thousands of children.]]
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* PacifismBackfire: They refuse to kill Drill because it will also kill a child. Drill ends up [[spoiler: killing a woman, possesses and kills the presidents daughter, makes a horde of zombie adults ready to do his bidding, and kidnaps thousands of children.]]
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* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Minx, a child, is able to access classified defense files by cracking the incredibly easy password of her father. Also, another child is able to break into a safe because his dad keeps three jerseys on the wall which have the safe numbers printed on them.
