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* FiveSecondForeshadowing: Right before each swap, Carter copies whatever the person he's about to swap with is doing.
** He shoots up the Infirmary as he swaps with a paintballing Fargo.
** Makes scrubbing motions at his arms just before swapping with Zane in the shower.
** While having brain surgery, he copies Allison's hand movements as she controls the nanoprobe, even though Allison is behind him and he can't see her. She tells him to keep still as Grace calls out a warning about increasing zeta activity...
** He shoots up the Infirmary as he swaps with a paintballing Fargo.
** Makes scrubbing motions at his arms just before swapping with Zane in the shower.
** While having brain surgery, he copies Allison's hand movements as she controls the nanoprobe, even though Allison is behind him and he can't see her. She tells him to keep still as Grace calls out a warning about increasing zeta activity...
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* NotSoAboveItAll: Allison gets mad at Jack for not telling Jo that he and Zane swapped bodies (the LotusEaterMachine incident having portrayed Jack and Jo as married is something she has yet to get over). When Allison gets swapped with Jack, she proceeds to talk to an (again) ignorant Jo as if she's Carter.
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-->'''Fargo!Carter:''' Wow, Dr. Blake. Either you'll have to date me in Sheriff Carter's body, or date Sheriff Carter in mine. It's quite a Sophie's choice.
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-->'''Fargo!Carter:''' Wow, Dr. Blake. Either you'll have to date me in Sheriff Carter's body, or date Sheriff Carter in mine. It's quite a Sophie's choice.\\
'''Allison:''' GRACE! We need to fix this!
'''Allison:''' GRACE! We need to fix this!
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[[caption-width-right:350:Carter, thinking hard about baseball.]]
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** Warren, the assessor from last season, is back.
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** Warren, [[Recap/EurekaClashOfTheTitans the assessor assessor]] [[Recap/EurekaThisOneTimeAtSpaceCamp from last season, season]], is back.
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* CallBack: Warren the assessor from last season is back.
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* CallBack: Warren CallBack:
** Warren, the assessor from lastseason season, is back.back.
** [[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay Only Fargo]] would respond to finding himself in another body with, [[Recap/EurekaLiftoff "Holy socks!"]]
** Warren, the assessor from last
** [[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay Only Fargo]] would respond to finding himself in another body with, [[Recap/EurekaLiftoff "Holy socks!"]]
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* JustJokingDefence: When Warren is perplexed by "Fargo's" answers to a Rorschach-style test ("Butterfly-dog?"), Carter!Fargo pretends to have been kidding.
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* JustJokingDefence: JustJokingJustification: When Warren is perplexed by "Fargo's" answers to a Rorschach-style test ("Butterfly-dog?"), Carter!Fargo pretends to have been kidding.
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* CanonDiscontinuity: Dr. Fowler is working on a teleporter, which previous episodes have established as illegal.
* JustJokingDefence: When Warren is perplexed by "Fargo's" answers to a Rorschach-style test ("Butterfly-dog?"), Carter!Fargo pretends to have been kidding.
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-->'''Fargo!Carter:''' Accepted by MIT, my Sophomore year. Got my PhD at 22. Recruited by Global Dynamics the next year. And now my entire scientific career is at the mercy of Sheriff Carter.
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-->'''Fargo!Carter:''' Accepted by MIT, my Sophomore year. Got my PhD [=PhD=] at 22. Recruited by Global Dynamics the next year. And now my entire scientific career is at the mercy of Sheriff Carter.
* RuleOfThree: Carter swaps bodies with three people (Fargo, Zane and Allison), and the interference affects three machines; Dr. Fowler's teleporter, some lady's Smart car and Martha.
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* WhamEpisode: Carter and Allison get engaged.
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* ToiletHumor: After Carter and Fargo switch back, Fargo expresses relief because, "You ''really'' had to go to the little boys' room." Carter is not happy about the implications.
* WhamEpisode: Carter and Allison get engaged. Holly may still be alive in some form inside the matrix mainframe.
* WhamEpisode: Carter and Allison get engaged. Holly may still be alive in some form inside the matrix mainframe.
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* WhatTheHellHero: For the first day, the gang cover for the Fargo/ Carter swap with Warren. Next day, with the Zane/ Carter swap, they feel they have to come clean. He tears them a new one for concealing a serious security problem to protect their jobs.
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* WhatTheHellHero: For the first day, the gang cover for the Fargo/ Carter swap with Warren. Next day, with the Zane/ Carter swap, they feel they have to come clean. He tears them a new one for concealing a serious security problem to protect their jobs.jobs.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: While posing as Zane, Carter has to rock-climb for his "recreational therapy" with Warren. He's not happy, especially when an out-of-control Martha makes him fall.
* WorkingTheSameCase: Zane has the matrix mainframe in the basement, and discovers something strange on there. It turns out the neural transfers are caused by the mainframe trying to find the minds it thinks should be inside it. Carter was connected wirelessly, so it's using him to access the others and causing the transfers. Shutting down the mainframe stops the transfers.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: While posing as Zane, Carter has to rock-climb for his "recreational therapy" with Warren. He's not happy, especially when an out-of-control Martha makes him fall.
* WorkingTheSameCase: Zane has the matrix mainframe in the basement, and discovers something strange on there. It turns out the neural transfers are caused by the mainframe trying to find the minds it thinks should be inside it. Carter was connected wirelessly, so it's using him to access the others and causing the transfers. Shutting down the mainframe stops the transfers.
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** Neither Zane nor Fargo are happy that Carter is taking their assessments for them.
-->'''Fargo!Carter:''' Accepted by MIT, my Sophomore year. Got my PhD at 22. Recruited by Global Dynamics the next year. And now my entire scientific career is at the mercy of Sheriff Carter.
-->'''Fargo!Carter:''' Accepted by MIT, my Sophomore year. Got my PhD at 22. Recruited by Global Dynamics the next year. And now my entire scientific career is at the mercy of Sheriff Carter.
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* PassiveAggressiveKombat:PassiveAggressiveKombat: The screwing-around potential of body-swapping proves too much for some people.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Warren is not impressed that the team hid the neural transfer issue from him and decides to redact the lot of them. However, he changes his mind after seeing Carter and Allison deal with unexpectedly swapping bodies during brain surgery.
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* PassiveAggressiveKombat: When Zane wakes up in Carter's body, he decides it's time to mess with him. Step one is harassing a woman at a traffic stop so she lodges a complaint.
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* PassiveAggressiveKombat: PassiveAggressiveKombat:
** When Zane wakes up in Carter's body, he decides it's time to mess with him. Step one is harassing a woman at a traffic stop so she lodges a complaint.
** When Zane wakes up in Carter's body, he decides it's time to mess with him. Step one is harassing a woman at a traffic stop so she lodges a complaint.
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** Jo tries to clear the air with Carter, not realising he's currently Allison. Allison uses the chance to find out if Jo and Carter really are attracted to each other. When Jo says she's "thought about it," Allison!Carter says "It's never crossed my mind." Humiliated, Jo makes her excuses, leaving Allison!Carter looking a little ashamed of herself.
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* SomethingElseAlsoRises: Carter switches with Zane as he's in the shower, seconds before Jo joins him, naked and wanting... well, guess. Carter!Zane makes a bunch of excuses and says, "I can't!" to which Jo looks down and says, "Beg to differ!"
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* {{Techbnobabble}}: Plenty of it, which sounds all kinds of weird coming out of Carter's mouth.
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* {{Techbnobabble}}: {{Technobabble}}: Plenty of it, which sounds all kinds of weird coming out of Carter's mouth.
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* ShipTease: There are still hints of the Jo/Carter thing from the matrix, though in the real world Jo and Carter are devoted to Zane and Allison respectively, and Carter and Allison even get engaged.
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* PassiveAggressiveKombat: When Zane wakes up in Carter's body, he decides it's time to mess with him. Step one is harassing a woman at a traffic stop so she lodges a complaint.
-->'''Zane!Carter:''' You showered with my girlfriend. You're lucky I didn't punch myself in the face!\\
'''Carter!Zane:''' Don't push me, Six Pack, or I'll pound another bacon-cheese scone!\\
'''Zane!Carter:''' ''Another''? It's going to take me a month to work that off!
* ShipTease: There are still hints of the Jo/Carter thing from the matrix,though especially when Carter and Zane swap bodies right before Jo gets in the shower with Zane. However, in the real world Jo and Carter are devoted to Zane and Allison respectively, and Carter and Allison even get engaged.
-->'''Zane!Carter:''' You showered with my girlfriend. You're lucky I didn't punch myself in the face!\\
'''Carter!Zane:''' Don't push me, Six Pack, or I'll pound another bacon-cheese scone!\\
'''Zane!Carter:''' ''Another''? It's going to take me a month to work that off!
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->'''Fargo!Carter:''' I was in here, in my body, playing laser tag. The next thing I know, I'm in you!\\
'''Carter!Fargo:''' Never phrase it that way again.
'''Carter!Fargo:''' Never phrase it that way again.
-->'''Fargo!Carter:''' Sheriff Carter?\\
'''Carter!Fargo:''' Whoa. This is beyond creepy. Fargo?\\
'''Fargo!Carter:''' Holy socks! We've swapped bodies!
* FreezeFrameBonus: The bathrooms in the new Café Diem are labelled "XX" and "XY" instead of "Ladies" and "Gentlemen."
* MyGodYouAreSerious: Invoked. Allison is understandably skeptical at "Carter's" claims that he's really Fargo, until "Fargo" appears with the same story.
-->'''Allison:''' Oh, my God. You're not kidding.\\
'''Carter!Fargo:''' Is this my joking face? No. This is not my face at all!
'''Carter!Fargo:''' Whoa. This is beyond creepy. Fargo?\\
'''Fargo!Carter:''' Holy socks! We've swapped bodies!
* FreezeFrameBonus: The bathrooms in the new Café Diem are labelled "XX" and "XY" instead of "Ladies" and "Gentlemen."
* MyGodYouAreSerious: Invoked. Allison is understandably skeptical at "Carter's" claims that he's really Fargo, until "Fargo" appears with the same story.
-->'''Allison:''' Oh, my God. You're not kidding.\\
'''Carter!Fargo:''' Is this my joking face? No. This is not my face at all!
-->'''Allison!Carter:''' Breathe easy, Jack. It's okay.\\
'''Carter!Allison:''' I'm probing my own brain, Allie. It's so not okay!
'''Carter!Allison:''' I'm probing my own brain, Allie. It's so not okay!
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* WhamShot: Zane has been working with the matrix, and shows Fargo that Holly is still considered to be logged in.
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* WhamEpisode: Carter and Allison get engaged.
* WhamShot: Zane has been working with the matrix, and shows Fargo that Holly is still considered to be loggedin.in.
* WhatTheHellHero: For the first day, the gang cover for the Fargo/ Carter swap with Warren. Next day, with the Zane/ Carter swap, they feel they have to come clean. He tears them a new one for concealing a serious security problem to protect their jobs.
* WhamShot: Zane has been working with the matrix, and shows Fargo that Holly is still considered to be logged
* WhatTheHellHero: For the first day, the gang cover for the Fargo/ Carter swap with Warren. Next day, with the Zane/ Carter swap, they feel they have to come clean. He tears them a new one for concealing a serious security problem to protect their jobs.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Carter!Fargo learns that Zane's assessment with Warren is next day. Guess who he swaps with next, and when?
* FreakyFridayFlip: Carter swaps bodies with Fargo, Zane and Allison. It's referred to as "neural transfer."
* OhCrap:
** Fargo is playing laser tag with Warren ("recreational therapy") when he swaps bodies with Carter. People in the Infirmary are... pretty startled when "Carter" whips his gun out and suddenly shoots the place up.
** Carter swaps bodies with Allison... as she's performing brain surgery on him.
* FreakyFridayFlip: Carter swaps bodies with Fargo, Zane and Allison. It's referred to as "neural transfer."
* OhCrap:
** Fargo is playing laser tag with Warren ("recreational therapy") when he swaps bodies with Carter. People in the Infirmary are... pretty startled when "Carter" whips his gun out and suddenly shoots the place up.
** Carter swaps bodies with Allison... as she's performing brain surgery on him.
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* ShoutOut:
** Carter derides Zane's sunglasses with, [[Series/{{Chips}} "Nice shades, Ponch."]]
** ''Film/SophiesChoice'' is mentioned by name when Allison might have to decide between Fargo!Carter or Carter!Fargo.
-->'''Fargo!Carter:''' Wow, Dr. Blake. Either you'll have to date me in Sheriff Carter's body, or date Sheriff Carter in mine. It's quite a Sophie's choice.
** Carter's reaction to jumping into Zane's body is to say, [[Series/QuantumLeap "Oh boy!"]]
** After returning to his own body, Fargo's response to a Rorshach-style test is [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer "Buffy high-fiving herself!"]]
** Fargo!Carter is instantly recognisable through his use of, [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 "What the frak!?"]]
** Carter objects to people being described as "inside" him with, [[WesternAnimation/{{Archer}} "Phrasing!"]]
** Carter derides Zane's sunglasses with, [[Series/{{Chips}} "Nice shades, Ponch."]]
** ''Film/SophiesChoice'' is mentioned by name when Allison might have to decide between Fargo!Carter or Carter!Fargo.
-->'''Fargo!Carter:''' Wow, Dr. Blake. Either you'll have to date me in Sheriff Carter's body, or date Sheriff Carter in mine. It's quite a Sophie's choice.
** Carter's reaction to jumping into Zane's body is to say, [[Series/QuantumLeap "Oh boy!"]]
** After returning to his own body, Fargo's response to a Rorshach-style test is [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer "Buffy high-fiving herself!"]]
** Fargo!Carter is instantly recognisable through his use of, [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 "What the frak!?"]]
** Carter objects to people being described as "inside" him with, [[WesternAnimation/{{Archer}} "Phrasing!"]]
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!Tropes
* CallBack: Warren the assessor from last season is back.
* ShipTease: There are still hints of the Jo/Carter thing from the matrix, though in the real world Jo and Carter are devoted to Zane and Allison respectively, and Carter and Allison even get engaged.
* WhamShot: Zane has been working with the matrix, and shows Fargo that Holly is still considered to be logged in.
!Tropes
* CallBack: Warren the assessor from last season is back.
* ShipTease: There are still hints of the Jo/Carter thing from the matrix, though in the real world Jo and Carter are devoted to Zane and Allison respectively, and Carter and Allison even get engaged.
* WhamShot: Zane has been working with the matrix, and shows Fargo that Holly is still considered to be logged in.
