History Series / TheWhispers

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:After a failed attempt to starve Drill of energy and thus kill him, Wes swears to stop Drill, no matter what it takes. Drill murders Wes's wife Lena in retaliation.]]
** [[spoiler:Dr. Maria Benavidez, the doctor who first helped Sean at the hospital, also falls victim to Drill.]]

* [[spoiler: EnergyBeing]]: [[spoiler: What Drill is revealed to be.]]
* [[spoiler:EntertaininglyWrong]]: [[spoiler: Drill and the aliens were not invading, they were kidnapping the brainwashed children.]]

* [[spoiler: 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.]]

* GrandTheftMe: Back in the 1980s, Drill possessed the body of [[spoiler:Elliot Harcourt, forcing his brother Thomas to kill him. In the present day, Drill possess Cassandra, the daughter of the President.]]
** [[spoiler: The kids Drill had previously contacted seem to get possessed when Drill destroys Cassandra's body. His previous contacts from the 1980s, now adults, seem to be possessed as well.]]

* [[spoiler: YouCantThwartStageOne]]: [[spoiler: Claire figures out that Dril 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.]]

* [[spoiler: YouCan'tThwartStageOne]]: [[spoiler: Claire figures out that Dril 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.]]

* GrandTheftMe: Back in the 1980s, Drill possessed the body of [[spoiler:Elliot Harcourt, forcing his brother Thomas to kill him. In the present day, Drill posses Cassandra, the daughter of the President.]]

* TheChessmaster: "Drill" manipulates children and [[spoiler: Sean Bennigan]] to get his goals met.

* CreepyChild: Basically the premise of the series, self explanatory. The show seems to particular focus on Minx. [[spoiler: Minx is a * Red Herring. Cassandra is Drill's target]]

* CreepyChild: Basically the premise of the series, self explanatory. The show seems to particular focus on Minx. [[spoiler:She may or may not be Drill's next vessel.]]

* GrandTheftMe: Back in the 1980s, Drill possessed the body of [[spoiler:Elliot Harcourt, forcing his brother Thomas to kill him. In the present day, Minx may or may not be Drill's next target.]]

* AdaptationNameChange: Minx in the series is based on Mink from ''Zero Hour''.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The Department of Defense gives off this impression, especially since the Secretary of Defense, refuse to heed Sean's warnings to destroy Drill.

The Whispers is a series on Creator/{{ABC}} which 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]].

* CreepyChild: Basically the premise of the series, self explanatory.

* HumanNotepad: Sean Bennigan has tattoos all over his body and he has no idea where they come from, but they apparently tell how to keep track of the children and "Drill"'s plans.

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:After a failed attempt to starve Drill of energy and thus kill him, Wes swears to stop Drill, no matter what it takes, Drill murders Wes's wife Lena in retaliation.]]

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The Department of Defense gives off this impression, especially since the Secretary of Defense, refuse to heed Sean's warnings to destroy Di

* IdentityAmnesia: A bearded man is admitted to a hospital in the pilot. He does not seem to remember where he came from, has tattoos all over him and the ability to occasionally speak languages other than English. It turns out he's Agent Bennigan's husband, believed to be dead in a plane crash. [[spoiler:He does eventually regain his memories, including his wife's affair, given the incredibly angry DeathGlare he gives Wes.]]

* 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.]]

* CowboyCop: Agent Bennigan annoys her assigned partner Agent Rollins by bending rules of procedure. This ultimately gets her booted off the case when her son gets involved. She does ask Rollins to keep her in the loop.

* BatmanGambit: "Drill" manipulates children and [[spoiler: Sean Bennigan]] to get his goals met.