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* TheEndingChangesEverything: Everything that's happened to Foster since the moment she purchased a Dex [[spoiler:has been carefully manipulated by the government to bring down her mother.]]
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* ParanoiaFuel: Foster's life since moving to the East is an endless parade of this.
* TheEndingChangesEverything: Everything that's happened to Foster since the moment she purchased a Dex [[spoiler:has been carefully manipulated by the government to bring down her mother.]]
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* TheEndingChangesEverything: Everything that's happened to Foster since the moment she purchased a Dex [[spoiler:has been carefully manipulated by the government to bring down her mother.]]
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Ethan.
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* TheEndingChangesEverything: Everything that's happened to Foster since the moment she purchased a Dex [[spoiler:has been carefully manipulated by the government to bring down her mother.]]
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* AdaptationTitleChange: "Safe and Sound" is based on the short story "Foster, You're Dead!"
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* GenderFlip: In the original short story "Foster, You're Dead!" Foster was a boy (named Mike Foster) and the story was about his conflict with his father; this time around, the nation character is a girl being raised by a single mom.
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* GenderFlip: In the original short story "Foster, You're Dead!" Foster was a boy (named Mike Foster) and the story was about his conflict with his father; this time around, the nation main character is a girl being raised by a single mom.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The episode takes the fairly well-trodden trope of TheCityVsTheCountry, specifically an old-fashioned Midwestern white girl moving to the East Coast, and mixes it up with TheWarOnTerror and modern fears of immigrants and refugees.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The episode takes the fairly well-trodden trope of TheCityVsTheCountry, specifically an old-fashioned Midwestern white girl moving to the East Coast, and mixes it up with TheWarOnTerror UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror and modern fears of immigrants and refugees.
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* [[spoiler: TheEndingChangesEverything]]: [[spoiler: Everything that's happened to Foster since the moment she purchased a Dex has been carefully manipulated by the government to bring down her mother.]]
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* [[spoiler: TheEndingChangesEverything]]: [[spoiler: TheEndingChangesEverything: Everything that's happened to Foster since the moment she purchased a Dex has [[spoiler:has been carefully manipulated by the government to bring down her mother.]]
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* [[spoiler: {{Gaslighting}}]]: [[spoiler: What Ethan and his boss are putting Foster through.]]
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* [[spoiler: {{Gaslighting}}]]: [[spoiler: FreeLoveFuture: Thanks to the Dexes keeping track of everyone's health and the existence of sterilizing drugs, nobody seems to bat an eye at things like non-Dexed students soliciting favors for sex, or even two students making out and groping one another in full view in a hallway.
* {{Gaslighting}}: What Ethan and his boss areputting [[spoiler:putting Foster through.]]
* {{Gaslighting}}: What Ethan and his boss are
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* AdaptationNameChange: In "Foster, You're Dead!" the character's ''last'' name was Foster and his first name was Mike; in this adaptation the protagonist is a girl whose full name is Foster Lee.
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* GenderFlip: In the original short story "Foster, You're Dead" Foster was a boy.
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* GenderFlip: In the original short story "Foster, You're Dead" Dead!" Foster was a boy.boy (named Mike Foster) and the story was about his conflict with his father; this time around, the nation character is a girl being raised by a single mom.
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* NewTechnologyIsEvil: This was the somewhat {{Anvilicious}} {{Aesop}} of Dick's original story satirizing the Cold War arms race. This adaptation turns it into a NewMediaAreEvil story about ubiquitous surveillance.
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* GenderFlip: In the original short story "Foster, You're Dead" Foster was a boy.
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* ParanoiaFuel: Foster's life since moving to the East is an endless parade of this.
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* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: Foster unwillingly becomes one of these.
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* FalseFlagOperation: Foster's mom believes this to be true of all reported terrorist incidents of the past 20 years. [[spoiler: She ends up the victim of one.]]
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* {{Doublespeak}}: A given for the type of Orwellian CrapsaccharineWorld the East appears to be. Notably, Irene's biggest political enemy claims to be a mere "consumer rights advocate", but turns out to be highly-placed enough in the government to [[spoiler: order an op to turn her daughter into an unwilling asset]].
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* {{Hypocrite}}: The government is spreading [[PropagandaPiece propaganda]] about terrorist groups creating [[ManchurianAgent sleeper agents]] by brainwashing psychologically vulnerable children. Ethan tries to convince Foster this is what her mother has done to her. [[spoiler: Turns out the only people brainwashing children into terrorists are the government themselves.]]
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* [[spoiler: TheEndingChangesEverything]]: [[spoiler: Everything that's happened to Foster since the moment she purchased a Dex has been carefully manipulated by the government to bring down her mother.]]
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* BigBrotherIsWatchingYou: What Foster's mom thinks of life in the East. Everyone blithely accepts being tracked and monitored by the government at all times as part of daily life -- although, to be fair, none of them seem to be actually negatively affected by it in any way. [[spoiler: Turns out Foster's mother was more right than even she knew.]]
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* [[spoiler: {{Gaslighting}}]]: [[spoiler: What Ethan and his boss are putting Foster through.]]
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* MissionControlIsOffItsMeds: Once Ethan begins talking to Foster even after she's lost her Dex, and giving questionable explanations about sending signals through beams of sunlight and bouncing them off the antennae of ants. Although Foster begins to worry that [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness maybe she's the one who's off her meds]].
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* DividedStatesOfAmerica: Though never fully explained onscreen, we are told that the United States, while still nominally one country, is divided between the "East", which is a high-tech ubiquitous surveillance state, and the "West", where people live in relatively low-tech "Bubbles" whose borders the East fanatically patrols for terrorists. The area between the two regions appears to be a [[TheNeutralZone no man's land]] referred to as the "[[MeaningfulName Rift]]", although the closed captions say "[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Riph]]".
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The episode takes the fairly well-trodden trope of TheCityVsTheCountry, specifically an old-fashioned Midwestern white girl moving to the East Coast, and mixes it up with TheWarOnTerror and modern fears of immigrants and refugees.
* HearingVoices: Foster begins to question whether any of her communications with Ethan are real, at least after the first one.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Ethan.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The episode takes the fairly well-trodden trope of TheCityVsTheCountry, specifically an old-fashioned Midwestern white girl moving to the East Coast, and mixes it up with TheWarOnTerror and modern fears of immigrants and refugees.
* HearingVoices: Foster begins to question whether any of her communications with Ethan are real, at least after the first one.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Ethan.
