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  • Bait-and-Switch:
    • It seems that at some point, Carrie will eventually succeed, but she ends up failing multiple times and eventually dies from continuously being overwritten.
    • The Director switching to Wayne as a host seems like the right solution, except he still fails.
  • Brick Joke: 5009/Wayne eats Wayne's sandwich while driving.
  • Cassandra Truth: As 5006 lays dying, she uses her final words to beg Lars to save the team, but he assumes she's gone delirious.
  • Chekhov's Gun:
    • The pickup truck with the motorcycle in the back. 5002 tries to use it but is killed by the owner's dog, 5003 uses it but its speed is only marginally better than Wayne's car, and 5009 steals the motorcycle to get to the team faster and through a narrow path.
    • 5003 uses Wayne's sandwich to lure the pickup truck's dog out.
    • In one attempt, we see that the trucker has a rifle, which means he can help the team fight off the Faction as a Traveler.
  • Chekhov's Gunman:
    • Carrie's brother and skydiving partner, Wayne, who was also in a deadly position as Carrie, making him viable as a host.
    • The trucker that almost hits Carrie/Wayne and blocks the guard's way enough to slow him down a bit. In one attempt, he's an earlier Traveler that purposely blocks the guard and tries to fight him with his rifle but dies, and in the final attempt, he's 5009 and gets to the team to warn them of the ambush and to help defend them.
  • Downer Beginning: The team is suddenly killed in an ambush by two Faction gunmen hiding in the water, allowing Faction to take the meteor, altering the future of technology advancement. The goal of the episode is to warn the team in time about the trap.
  • Forgotten Anniversary: Kat angrily reminds Mack that their tenth anniversary is today, and he's only left her a text saying he might be back late. His teammates tease him about it.
  • Formula-Breaking Episode:
    • The episode mainly takes place from the perspective of Oneshot Character Carrie (and later, Wayne) as she attempts to warn the team of the deadly ambush they're about to walk into.
    • After seven failed attempts of using Carrie as a host, the Director sends 5008 into her brother, Wayne, as well as also using an earlier Traveler to overwrite the trucker.
    • Then that attempt fails, so the Director sends 5009 into the trucker instead to help 5008. And instead of blocking the guard's way while 5008 is chased, 5009 warns the team before they reach the lake and serves as additional firepower.
  • The Many Deaths of You: 5001 doesn't die but is shot in the neck and is too late to save the team, arriving just in time to see them get gunned down; 5002 didn't pay attention and got mauled by a dog; 5003 is also too late and is killed by the henchies; 5004, 5005, 5006, and presumably 5007 all die from the combined strain of consecutive overwrites and not having enough time to deploy their parachutes; 5008 is also too late and is killed by the henchies.
  • Noodle Incident: 5007's attempt isn't seen. Obviously, they failed, although it's possible 5007 was a failed attempt at overwriting Carrie when she was already about to die from the strain of consecutively hosting 5001 to 5006. Alternatively, 5007 misfired.
  • Pet the Dog: Most of the Travelers don't care that their host's sibling is in danger, but one of them does deploy Wayne's parachute before deploying her own (although she doesn't stick around when Wayne says he might break his neck). Their apathy is justified due to Protocol 3 and that this is a time-sensitive mission to save a team of Travelers.
  • Save Scumming: A variation in that each "save" is by a different Traveler, but similar rules apply. The rescue Travelers deal with the situation differently, utilizing the various resources or handling obstacles in a number of methods, each with varying degrees of success, and each subsequent Traveler seems to "remember" (or more accurately, gained more information about the problem from the Director) what happened in past attempts. For instance, 5002 fails to notice a dog in the pickup truck and is mauled to death by it, so 5003 uses Wayne's sandwich to lure it away before stealing the truck.

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