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* AndStarring: "And Creator/MichelleForbes as Jamie Pratt".
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* TheWorkaholic: Corey is never seen outside the FBI office, including after hours.
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* TheWorkaholic: Corey is never seen outside the FBI office, including after hours.hours.
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* ChekhovsHobby: Jamie Pratt is established as a crack shot in the gun range to demonstrate how she is able to shoot the man who kidnapped and raped the young Theresa Givens despite him holding her at gunpoint.
* DistantPrologue: The opening scene takes place on August 12, 1966, about 30 years before the bulk of the episode (which takes place over the course of a few days in July, 1996). Dr. Theresa Givens appears to be traveling back to 1966 from September 13, 1994, the date of his execution, if her later sojourn to kill Jerome Horowitz is any indication.
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* SerialKillerKiller: Dr. Givens uses her time machine to go back and [[KnightTemplar execute]] famous serial killers before they hurt anybody. Her resulting RippleEffectProofMemory does not improve her mental state...
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* SerialKillerKiller: Dr. Givens uses her time machine to go back and [[KnightTemplar execute]] famous serial killers before they hurt anybody. She appears to wait until after the killer is executed before she goes back, allowing her to justify that her vigilante killings are merely carrying out that "just and legal sentence". Her resulting RippleEffectProofMemory does not improve her mental state...
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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Dr. Givens speaks with a curious affect that doesn't really match her birthplace (Oregon). It appears to be a take on the antiquated [[UsefulNotes/CanadianAccents Canadian Dainty]] accent spoken by Creator/AmandaPlummer's father, Creator/ChristopherPlummer.
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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Dr. Givens speaks with a curious affect that doesn't really match her birthplace (Oregon). It appears to be a take on the antiquated [[UsefulNotes/CanadianAccents Canadian Dainty]] accent spoken by Creator/AmandaPlummer's father, Creator/ChristopherPlummer.Creator/ChristopherPlummer.
* TheWorkaholic: Corey is never seen outside the FBI office, including after hours.
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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Dr. Givens speaks with a curious affect that doesn't really match her birthplace (Oregon). It appears to be a take on the antiquated [[UsefulNotes/CanadianAccents Canadian Dainty]] accent spoken by Creator/AmandaPlummer's father, Creator/ChristopherPlummer.
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* TimeTravelEpisode
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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Givens speaks with a curious affect that doesn't really match her birthplace (Oregon). It appears to be a take on the antiquated [[UsefulNotes/CanadianAccents Canadian Dainty]] accent spoken by Creator/AmandaPlummer's father, Creator/ChristopherPlummer.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Givens speaks with a curious affect that doesn't really match her birthplace (Oregon). It appears to be a take on the antiquated [[UsefulNotes/CanadianAccents Canadian Dainty]] accent spoken by Creator/AmandaPlummer's father, Creator/ChristopherPlummer.
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* IHatePastMe: Thoroughly and completed. After saving her 15-year-old self from the rapist who kidnapped her, Dr. Theresa Givens is delighted at having spared that version of herself the trauma that she experienced, allowing her to lead the normal life that she was denied.
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* IHatePastMe: Thoroughly and completed.completely averted. After saving her 15-year-old self from the rapist who kidnapped her, Dr. Theresa Givens is delighted at having spared that version of herself the trauma that she experienced, allowing her to lead the normal life that she was denied.
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An FBI agent investigates a series of murders committed over the course of 40 years with the same gun.
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An FBI agent (Creator/MichelleForbes) investigates a series of murders committed over the course of 40 years with the same gun.
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* DeadlyClosingCredits: This episode ends like this, with a newly-forged time-traveling KnightTemplar gunning down a serial-killer-to-be.
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* DeadlyClosingCredits: This episode ends like this, with a newly-forged time-traveling KnightTemplar gunning down a serial-killer-to-be.serial-killer-to-be who would murder her friend in the future.
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!!A Stitch Trope in Tropes:Time:
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-->'''The Control Voice:''' We all struggle to define ourselves, to live our lives with some sense of balance, with one foot in the past, and the other reaching... for an uncertain future.
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-->'''The Control Voice:''' Our yesterdays are like a string of pearls -- unbroken -- unchanging. But if we could change our past, would that also change who we are?
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* RippleEffectProofMemory: According to Dr. Theresa Givens, this is what happens to whoever uses her time machine to change history.
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* AlternateTimeline: Numerous alternate timelines are created due to time travel.
* AssholeVictim: The men killed by the time traveler Dr. Theresa Givens are the epitome of this trope. All 20 of them were future rapists and serial killers whom she killed before they had an opportunity to commit their crimes. She saved the lives of 83 women in the process. [[WellIntentionedExtremist Dr. Givens considered their deaths to be just and legal executions]].
* DeadlyClosingCredits: This episode ends like this, with a newly-forged time-traveling KnightTemplar gunning down a serial-killer-to-be.
* IHatePastMe: Thoroughly and completed. After saving her 15-year-old self from the rapist who kidnapped her, Dr. Theresa Givens is delighted at having spared that version of herself the trauma that she experienced, allowing her to lead the normal life that she was denied.
* KnightTemplar: This episode is a meditation on how Knights Templar come to be created and the price a person pays for being one. It's generally regarded as one of the best episodes of the series.
* PrecrimeArrest: Dr. Givens invents a time travel machine after previously having been raped when she was younger. She tried to correct the past by going back in time and [[SerialKillerKiller killing soon-to-be serial killers]] before they could claim any victims. She eventually undoes her own motivation to do this by saving her younger self, but previous iterations of events lead a homicide detective to continue where she left off.
* RapeLeadsToInsanity: Dr. Givens is raped/assaulted as a teen and grows up to be a mentally-unbalanced scientist who builds a time machine and uses it to go back and execute serial killers before they target anyone. Her ensuing RippleProofMemory does not help with her ongoing mental stability. This is ultimately resolved when a cop goes back in time and saves her from getting raped in the first place. Her altered present self is significantly better off as a result. Sadly, the cop takes her place as the vigilante when her friend is murdered.
* RippleEffectProofMemory: According to Dr. Theresa Givens, this is what happens to whoever uses her time machine to changehistory.history.
* SerialKillerKiller: Dr. Givens uses her time machine to go back and [[KnightTemplar execute]] famous serial killers before they hurt anybody. Her resulting RippleEffectProofMemory does not improve her mental state...
* TemporalSickness: It is caused not by the act of time travel itself but by the alteration of history. Whenever an alternate timeline is created, the time traveler remembers both the previous timeline and the new one. Traveling through time and [[SerialKillerKiller killing 20 future serial killers]], creating an alternate timeline on each occasion, takes a serious toll on Dr. Theresa Givens' health and she has a cerebral hemorrhage. Although it is not fatal, she realizes that she does not have long left.
* TimeIsDangerous: The result of RippleEffectProofMemory is that an entirely new lifetime's worth of memories gets added onto the existing one, which could result in brain damage.
* TimeTravelEpisode
* AssholeVictim: The men killed by the time traveler Dr. Theresa Givens are the epitome of this trope. All 20 of them were future rapists and serial killers whom she killed before they had an opportunity to commit their crimes. She saved the lives of 83 women in the process. [[WellIntentionedExtremist Dr. Givens considered their deaths to be just and legal executions]].
* DeadlyClosingCredits: This episode ends like this, with a newly-forged time-traveling KnightTemplar gunning down a serial-killer-to-be.
* IHatePastMe: Thoroughly and completed. After saving her 15-year-old self from the rapist who kidnapped her, Dr. Theresa Givens is delighted at having spared that version of herself the trauma that she experienced, allowing her to lead the normal life that she was denied.
* KnightTemplar: This episode is a meditation on how Knights Templar come to be created and the price a person pays for being one. It's generally regarded as one of the best episodes of the series.
* PrecrimeArrest: Dr. Givens invents a time travel machine after previously having been raped when she was younger. She tried to correct the past by going back in time and [[SerialKillerKiller killing soon-to-be serial killers]] before they could claim any victims. She eventually undoes her own motivation to do this by saving her younger self, but previous iterations of events lead a homicide detective to continue where she left off.
* RapeLeadsToInsanity: Dr. Givens is raped/assaulted as a teen and grows up to be a mentally-unbalanced scientist who builds a time machine and uses it to go back and execute serial killers before they target anyone. Her ensuing RippleProofMemory does not help with her ongoing mental stability. This is ultimately resolved when a cop goes back in time and saves her from getting raped in the first place. Her altered present self is significantly better off as a result. Sadly, the cop takes her place as the vigilante when her friend is murdered.
* RippleEffectProofMemory: According to Dr. Theresa Givens, this is what happens to whoever uses her time machine to change
* SerialKillerKiller: Dr. Givens uses her time machine to go back and [[KnightTemplar execute]] famous serial killers before they hurt anybody. Her resulting RippleEffectProofMemory does not improve her mental state...
* TemporalSickness: It is caused not by the act of time travel itself but by the alteration of history. Whenever an alternate timeline is created, the time traveler remembers both the previous timeline and the new one. Traveling through time and [[SerialKillerKiller killing 20 future serial killers]], creating an alternate timeline on each occasion, takes a serious toll on Dr. Theresa Givens' health and she has a cerebral hemorrhage. Although it is not fatal, she realizes that she does not have long left.
* TimeIsDangerous: The result of RippleEffectProofMemory is that an entirely new lifetime's worth of memories gets added onto the existing one, which could result in brain damage.
* TimeTravelEpisode
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* HereWeGoAgain: The episode ends with Jaimie Fox doing the same thing that RippleEffectProofMemory: According to Dr. Theresa Givens at the beginning; traveling back in Givens, this is what happens to whoever uses her time machine to kill men before they committed murder.change history.
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* HereWeGoAgain: The episode ends with Jaimie Fox doing the same thing that Dr. Theresa Givens at the beginning; killing men before they committed murder.
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* HereWeGoAgain: The episode ends with Jaimie Fox doing the same thing that Dr. Theresa Givens at the beginning; killing traveling back in time to kill men before they committed murder.
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* HereWeGoAgain: The episode ends with Jaimie Fox doing the same thing that Dr. Theresa Givens at the beginning; killing men before they committed murder.
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* HereWeGoAgain: The episode ends with Jaimie Fox doing the same thing that Dr. Theresa Givens at the beginning; killing men before they committed murder.
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