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* ShoutOut: Parker quotes ''Film/{{Heat}}'', much to Hardison's delight.
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* NoPoliceOption: Parker overhears bad guys plotting what she takes to be a jewelry store robbery. Incapacitated, she recruits a waitress to help her thwart the plan. When the girl says they need to call the cops, Parker balks and tells her bringing them in will just cause more people to get hurt. Subverted later when she discovers two patrons are Portland PD officers and orchestrates their involvement in the men's capture. Ironically, one of the officers is the only person to get shot.

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* NoPoliceOption: Parker overhears bad guys plotting what she takes to be a jewelry store robbery. Incapacitated, she recruits a waitress to help her thwart the plan. When the girl Amy says they need to call the cops, Parker balks and tells her bringing them in will just cause more people to get hurt. Subverted later when she discovers two patrons are Portland PD officers and orchestrates their involvement in the men's capture. Ironically, one of the officers is the only person to get shot.
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While the rest of the team is in UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}}, Parker is laid up with a torn ACL, watching the patrons of the brew pub on the security cameras. When she finds that two of them are planning what appears to be a heist of a nearby jewelry store, she recruits one of the pub's waitresses to help her stop it.

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While the rest of the team is in UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}}, Parker is laid up with a torn ACL, watching the patrons of the brew pub on the security cameras. When she finds that two of them are planning what appears to be a heist of a nearby jewelry store, she recruits one of the pub's waitresses waitresses, Amy, to help her stop it.



'''Waitress:''' RRGH, I knew it!\\

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'''Waitress:''' '''Amy:''' RRGH, I knew it!\\



'''Waitress:''' Okay, but my other charity work doesn't involve having a gun pointed at me!\\

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'''Waitress:''' '''Amy:''' Okay, but my other charity work doesn't involve having a gun pointed at me!\\



* GoneHorriblyRight: Parker gets the waitress to hack the bad guys' cell phones and accidentally hacks every phone in the bar. So naturally she snoops on everyone.

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* GoneHorriblyRight: Parker gets the waitress Amy to hack the bad guys' cell phones and accidentally hacks every phone in the bar. So naturally she snoops on everyone.



* RightForTheWrongReasons: Parker quickly realizes the two guys in the brew pub are up to no good, but figures they're thieves looking for a score. Turns out they're kidnappers after one of the waitresses.

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* RightForTheWrongReasons: Parker quickly realizes the two guys in the brew pub are up to no good, but figures they're thieves looking for a score. Turns out they're kidnappers after one of the waitresses.Amy, heiress to a multinational company.
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* FiveSecondForeshadowing: The thief who delivers the coffee reminds the guy in the van that the job goes down at 2:30... right before we learn that they're not after the armored car, they're after the waitress who makes a trash run at 2:30 every day.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Parker, of course.
-->'''Parker:''' What we've been doing here? Not super legal.\\
'''Waitress:''' RRGH, I knew it!\\
'''Parker:''' Just think of it as more charity work.\\
'''Waitress:''' Okay, but my other charity work doesn't involve having a gun pointed at me!\\
'''Parker:''' Exactly! That's what I'm saying! Oh, you meant that as a bad thing.
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* RightForTheWrongReasons: Parker quickly realizes the two guys in the brew pub are up to no good, but figures they're thieves looking for a score. Turns out they're kidnappers after one of the waitresses.
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* SherlockScan: Parker quickly scans the bad guys' car and determines it's a getaway van: quick-release clip on the license plate, spike-immune tires, and a handicap plate that lets them park anywhere.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Whereas Hardison's con failed for being far too complex in "The Gold Job" and Eliot had trouble finding a basic hook in "The Gimme a K Street Job", Parker finds a client and foils a kidnapping (and fixes a relationship, sets up lonely star-crossed lovers, and comforts a lonely widower) by herself while sidelined with a torn ACL. She's the one who will end up taking over the team when Nate and Sophie retire.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Whereas Hardison's con failed for being far too complex in "The Gold Job" and Eliot had trouble finding a basic hook in "The Gimme a K Street Job", Parker finds a client and foils a kidnapping (and fixes breaks up a relationship, relationship where the guy's cheating, sets up lonely star-crossed lovers, and comforts a lonely widower) by herself while sidelined with a torn ACL. She's the one who will end up taking over the team when Nate and Sophie retire.retire.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Parker gets the waitress to hack the bad guys' cell phones and accidentally hacks every phone in the bar. So naturally she snoops on everyone.

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* RearWindowHomage: An injured Parker discovers a crime while resting at her home.



* RearWindowHomage: An injured Parker discovers a crime while resting at her home.

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* RearWindowHomage: An injured TrademarkFavoriteFood: The chicken parm guy. His recently deceased wife always made him chicken parm, and he just can't bear to eat it if it's not made by her, so at the end of the episode Parker discovers a crime while resting and the staff at her home. the bar make him ''every dish on the menu'' so he can find something new and maybe make some friends.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Whereas Hardison's con failed for being far too complex in "The Gold Job" and Eliot had trouble finding a basic hook in "The Gimme a K Street Job", Parker finds a client and foils a kidnapping (and fixes a relationship, sets up lonely star-crossed lovers, and comforts a lonely widower) by herself while sidelined with a torn ACL. She's the one who will end up taking over the team when Nate and Sophie retire.
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* NoPoliceOption: Parker overhears bad guys plotting what she takes to be a jewelry store robbery. Incapacitated, she recruits a waitress to help her thwart the plan. When the girl says they need to call the cops, Parker balks and tells her bringing them in will just cause more people to get hurt. Subverted later when she discovers two patrons are Portland PD officers and orchestrates their involvement in the men's capture. Ironically, one of the officers is the only person to get shot.
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* PoliceAreUseless: Or rather, Police Will Complicate Things Unnecessarily. When Amy makes the quite reasonable suggestion to call the police about this heist they've discovered, Parker points out that the presence of uniformed officers will cause these nervous armed amateur thieves to panic, which could lead to innocent people getting hurt or killed.

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* PoliceAreUseless: Or rather, Police Will Complicate Things Unnecessarily. When Amy makes the quite reasonable quite-reasonable suggestion to call the police about this heist the criminal plot they've discovered, uncovered, Parker points out that the presence of uniformed officers will cause these nervous armed amateur thieves to panic, which could lead to innocent people getting hurt or killed.
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* EurekaMoment: When K and V start to move before the arrival of the armored truck she thought they were casing this whole time, Parker figures out that they're actually here for ''Amy.'' The time the truck arrives just happens to be the same time each day Amy takes the trash into the alley.
-->'''Parker''': This isn't a robbery. It's a kidnapping.


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* PoliceAreUseless: Or rather, Police Will Complicate Things Unnecessarily. When Amy makes the quite reasonable suggestion to call the police about this heist they've discovered, Parker points out that the presence of uniformed officers will cause these nervous armed amateur thieves to panic, which could lead to innocent people getting hurt or killed.
* SecretlyWealthy: It turns out Amy is the daughter of an extremely wealthy international business mogul, which is why she's the target and not the armored truck.
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* BenevolentBoss: Referenced in dialogue. Parker, puzzling over the fact that Amy and the other Brewpub staff consider Hardison "the boss," asks if he's a good boss and if the waitstaff like him. Amy replies that he's "awesome," though "way too smart" to be running a pub.


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* ContinuityNod:
** In one of the shots during Parker's boredom montage, she's having a conversation with the Parker 2000/"Hardy" safecracking robot from "The Carnival Job."
** Eliot can be seen with the sword Nate and Sophie gave him for Christmas, and (presumably) uses it in an off-screen swordfight.
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* NoodleIncident: The con that the rest of the team is pulling off in UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}. It apparently involved the theft of a gold monkey statue, [[KatanasAreJustBetter a katana duel]], Hardison dressing up as a general, Eliot pissing off the Emperor by putting the moves on his daughter, and a live monkey in a box.

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* NoodleIncident: The con that the rest of the team is pulling off in UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}. It apparently involved the theft of a gold monkey statue, [[KatanasAreJustBetter a katana duel]], Hardison dressing up as a general, Eliot pissing off the Emperor by putting the moves on his daughter, granddaughter, and a live monkey in a box.
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* NoodleIncident: The con that the rest of the team is pulling off in UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}. It apparently involved the theft of a gold monkey statue, a katana duel, Hardison dressing up as a general, Eliot pissing off the Emperor by putting the moves on his daughter, and a live monkey in a box.

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* NoodleIncident: The con that the rest of the team is pulling off in UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}. It apparently involved the theft of a gold monkey statue, [[KatanasAreJustBetter a katana duel, duel]], Hardison dressing up as a general, Eliot pissing off the Emperor by putting the moves on his daughter, and a live monkey in a box.

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* TheLostLenore: Dr. James "Chicken Parm" Robertson recently lost his wife and is in a depression.



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* RearWindowHomageRearWindowHomage: An injured Parker discovers a crime while resting at her home.

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While the rest of the team is in Tokyo, Parker is laid up with a torn ACL, watching the patrons of the brew pub on the security cameras. When she finds that two of them are planning what appears to be a heist of a nearby jewelry store, she recruits one of the pub's waitresses to help her stop it.

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While the rest of the team is in Tokyo, UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}}, Parker is laid up with a torn ACL, watching the patrons of the brew pub on the security cameras. When she finds that two of them are planning what appears to be a heist of a nearby jewelry store, she recruits one of the pub's waitresses to help her stop it.



* NoodleIncident: The con that the rest of the team is pulling off in Japan. It apparently involved the theft of a gold monkey statue, a katana duel, Hardison dressing up as a general, Eliot pissing off the Emperor by putting the moves on his daughter, and a live monkey in a box.

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* NoodleIncident: The con that the rest of the team is pulling off in Japan.UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}. It apparently involved the theft of a gold monkey statue, a katana duel, Hardison dressing up as a general, Eliot pissing off the Emperor by putting the moves on his daughter, and a live monkey in a box.



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While the rest of the team is in Tokyo, Parker is laid up with a torn ACL, watching the patrons of the brew pub on the security cameras. When she finds that two of them are planning what appears to be a heist of a nearby jewelry store, she recruits one of the pub's waitresses to help her stop it.

!!Tropes Stolen In This Job:

* BottleEpisode: Takes place solely in the brewery and HQ.
* CharacterFocus: Shows off Parker's progress in broadening her skillset and [[NoSocialSkills finally]] demonstrating that she can form social bonds without the help of her teammates.
* ADayInTheLimelight: For Parker, naturally.
* HandicappedBadass: Even benched with a torn ACL, Parker still ends up climbing through vents and beating down the villains of the week like she normally does.
* NoodleIncident: The con that the rest of the team is pulling off in Japan. It apparently involved the theft of a gold monkey statue, a katana duel, Hardison dressing up as a general, Eliot pissing off the Emperor by putting the moves on his daughter, and a live monkey in a box.
* OrphanedPunchline: The end of the joke Hardison tells the monkey.
* RearWindowHomage

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