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* LetOffByTheDetective: Diana confirms that Mozzie is Teddy Winters by tracking him to his underground lair, but covers it up after he delivers her baby.
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* FakingTheDead: Mozzie fakes his, or rather Teddy Winter’s, death by planting his teeth in a body and blowing up the building it is lying in.

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* FakingTheDead: Mozzie fakes his, or rather Teddy Winter’s, Winters’, death by planting his teeth in a body and blowing up the building it is lying in.



* GraveRobbing: Mozzie takes a body from the morgue and replaces their teeth with his so that he can fake Teddy Winter’s, his real name’s, death.

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* GraveRobbing: Mozzie takes a body from the morgue and replaces their teeth with his so that he can fake Teddy Winter’s, Winters’, his real name’s, death.
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Peter assigns Neal a new handler to investigate an online black market, but Neal's loyalty is tested when he discovers the trail could lead to Mozzie.

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After his promotion, Peter assigns takes on new responsibilities, and Neal gets a new handler in Agent Siegel, who is determined not to investigate let Neal have any leeway. Their first assignment involves dismantling an online black market, but Neal's loyalty is tested when he discovers market website, where one of the trail could lead sellers happens to be Mozzie.
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* IdentificationByDentalRecords: Invoked. Mozzie replaces a body’s teeth with his own and sets the building of Little Star on fire so that the death of “Teddy Winters” would be confirmed via dental records.
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* ItHasOnlyJustBegun: Mozzie is hopeful that Hagen will cease bothering Neal now that he has the coins. However, Neal himself is not as optimistic about the outcome:

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* ItHasOnlyJustBegun: Mozzie is hopeful that Hagen will cease bothering Neal now that he has the coins.bonds are destroyed. However, Neal himself is not as optimistic about the outcome:
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* ItHasOnlyJustBegun: Mozzie is hopeful that Hagen will cease bothering Neal now that he has the coins. However, Neal himself is not as optimistic about the outcome:
-->'''Neal:''' I hope so, Moz. But I have a feeling it's just the beginning.


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* PresentCompanyExcluded: Jones’s reaction, when Diane names her son “Theo”:
-->'''Jones:''' Wait, wait, you named him after a criminal? I mean, no offense to present company.
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* StreetPerformer: Mozzie disguises himself as a Statue of Liberty street performer when he secretly meets up with Neal.

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* StreetPerformer: Mozzie disguises himself as a Statue of Liberty street performer when he secretly meets up with Neal.Neal.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Peter has this reaction when Siegel describes the fleeing suspect as “short, balding, bespectacled,” which matches Mozzie’s description.
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* BlackMarket: The FBI has taken down a major black market website ans starts to go after its sellers, one of which, Little Star, is Mozzie.

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* BlackMarket: The FBI has taken down a major black market website ans and starts to go after its sellers, one of which, Little Star, is Mozzie.
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* BlackMarket: The FBI has taken down a major black market website ans starts to go after its sellers, one of which, Little Star, is Mozzie.
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* GraveRobbing: Mozzie takes a body from the morgue and replaces their teeth with his so that he can fake Teddy Winter’s, his real name’s, death.
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Peter assigns Neal a new handler to investigate an online black market that leads to Mozzie.

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Peter assigns Neal a new handler to investigate an online black market that leads market, but Neal's loyalty is tested when he discovers the trail could lead to Mozzie.
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* DeathTrapTango: Neal learns a dance timed to one of Mozart’s pieces so that he can avoid the moving security cameras at the Evidence Department.



* DestroyTheEvidence: As per Hagen’s blackmailing, Neal breaks into the evidence department and destroys the bonds, granting Hagen a retrial.

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* DestroyTheEvidence: As per Hagen’s blackmailing, Neal breaks into the evidence department Evidence Department and destroys the bonds, granting Hagen a retrial.
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* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: Mozzie fakes the death of his real-name-self, thereby also destroying the chance of his birth parents saving him. At the same time, Diana gives birth to her son that she names after Mozzie’s real name. Mozzie and Neal discuss at the end how poetic this is.

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* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: Mozzie fakes the death of his real-name-self, thereby also destroying the chance of his birth parents saving finding him. At the same time, Diana gives birth to her son that she names after Mozzie’s real name. Mozzie and Neal discuss at the end how poetic this is.



* SleepDeprivation: Diana stays up several days without sleeping and constantly working instead. Jones reckons that she does it because she is worried that she won’t be allowed to do her job the way she did before after having a child.
* StreetPerformer: Mozzie disguised himself as a Statue of Liberty street performer when he secretly meets up with Neal.

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* SleepDeprivation: Diana stays up several days without sleeping and constantly working works instead. Jones reckons that she does it because she is worried that she won’t be allowed to do her job the way she did before after having a child.
* StreetPerformer: Mozzie disguised disguises himself as a Statue of Liberty street performer when he secretly meets up with Neal.
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* PerplexingPlurals: Neal and Mozzie discuss the plural of “mongoose:”

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* PerplexingPlurals: Neal and Mozzie briefly discuss the plural of “mongoose:”
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* PerplexingPlurals: Neal and Mozzie discuss the plural of “mongoose:”
-->'''Mozzie:''' Maybe a new handler will remind us why [[SnakeVersusMongoose snakes don't fraternize with mongeese]].\\
'''Neal:''' Mongeese?\\
'''Mozzie:''' Mongooses?
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* DeliveryGuy: Mozzie helps Diana give birth even though she was about to arrest him.


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* MaternityCrisis: Diana goes into labor at a particularly bad time: while trying to arrest Mozzie in the basement where he is hiding out. Fortunately, Mozzie stays with her and helps her instead of fleeing.
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* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: Mozzie fakes the death of his real-name-self, thereby also destroying the chance of his birth parents saving him. At the same time, Diana gives birth to her son that she names after Mozzie’s real name. Mozzie and Neal discuss at the end how poetic this is.
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* DestroyTheEvidence: As per Hagen’s blackmailing, Neal breaks into the evidence department and destroys the bonds, granting Hagen a retrial.
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* NearAndDearBabyName: Mozzie helps Diana give birth even though he could have fled and potentially saved himself from prosecution. As a thanks, Diana not only keeps secret that Mozzie is Teddy Winter, but she also names her son after him: Theo.

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* NearAndDearBabyName: NearAndDearBabyNaming: Mozzie helps Diana give birth even though he could have fled and potentially saved himself from prosecution. As a thanks, Diana not only keeps secret that Mozzie is Teddy Winter, but she also names her son after him: Theo.
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* NearAndDearBabyName: Mozzie helps Diana give birth even though he could have fled and potentially saved himself from prosecution. As a thanks, Diana not only keeps secret that Mozzie is Teddy Winter, but she also names her son after him: Theo.


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* ScreamingBirth: Diana screams quite a lot while she is in labor.
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* InstantBirthJustAddLabor: Diana goes into labor while trying to arrest Mozzie. It does not take long until the baby is there.
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Peter assigns Neal a new handler to investigate an online black market that leads to Mozzie.
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* FakingTheDead: Mozzie fakes his, or rather Teddy Winter’s, death by planting his teeth in a body and blowing up the building it is lying in.
* GivenNameReveal: Neal assumes that Teddy Winter, the name that Agent Siegel connects to Little Star, is one of Mozzie’s aliases. However, Mozzie reveals that it is actually his birth name that he kept alive in the hope that his birth parents would try find him one day.
* PercussiveTherapy: At one point, Diana angrily smashes the buttons of her keyboard, being on the edge due to lack of sleep.
* SleepDeprivation: Diana stays up several days without sleeping and constantly working instead. Jones reckons that she does it because she is worried that she won’t be allowed to do her job the way she did before after having a child.
* StreetPerformer: Mozzie disguised himself as a Statue of Liberty street performer when he secretly meets up with Neal.

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