History Series / Deception2018

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Series/{{Castle}}''. Also to ''Series/{{The Mentalist}}''. It's kind of like the bastard love child of the two shows.

* CriticalResearchFailure: InUniverse example played for laughs. Dina presses Jordan to read Creator/AgathaChristie to learn more about murders. Jordan replies that "I looked her up on Twitter but couldn't find an account" which nearly makes Dina smack him.

Superstar magician Cameron Black is on top of the world when he finds himself arrested for the accidental death of a woman. Cameron is forced to admit his greatest secret: The man the police have photos of leaving the scene is his twin brother Jonathan, whom Cameron has secretly been using to help in his illusions for years. Jonathan insists he was set up by a woman with different colored eyes but is convicted of manslaughter.

* MismatchedEyes: The mysterious woman who set up Jonathan has one eye blue and the other green. [[spoiler: Or not. She actually has two green eyes and a blue contact lense.]]

* RealityEnsues: Evan after the FBI captures the Mystery Woman, it does not automatically free Jonathan since the only evidence of a frame up they have is his word. They spend the entire episode trying to obtain a confession since that is the only thing that will get the conviction overturned. [[spoiler: When they fail to do so, Jonathan is sent back to prison.]]

* WhamShot: In the final scene of "Sacrifice 99 to Fool One", [[spoiler:Jonathan is trying to get some men out of a valut about to depressurize. The last one is the Mystery Woman's accomplice, who's locked inside. As the gang watch in horror, the accomplice peels off his disguise to reveal it's Cameron just before he collapses.]]

* AbusiveParents: The twin's father. If forcing his sons to share an identity for the sake of a stage act wasn't bad enough, he trained Cameron by handcuffing him, putting in a milk vat, and leaving him there alone, despite Cameron being much shakier with lock-picks than Jonathan. It's implied this was his standard training method.

Superstar magician Cameron Black is on top of the world when he finds himself arrested for the accidental death of a woman. Cameron is forced to admit his greatest secret: The man the police have photos of leaving the scene is his twin brother Jonathan, who Cameron has secretly been using to help in his illusions for years. Jonathan insists he was set up by a woman with different colored eyes but is convicted of manslaughter.

--> Magicians: they deceive you, they trick you, they entertain you - the one thing they will never do is lie to you.