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* CardboardPrison: It's indicated that Cameron would have absolutely no problem busting Jonathan out of jail but refuses as it will just make it harder to prove him innocent. Jonathan hints he could break out on his own but respects Cameron's decision and so stays.
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* CardboardPrison: It's indicated that Cameron would have absolutely no problem busting states he's thought up at least eight ways to easily break Jonathan out of jail but refuses as it will just prison. However, this would make it harder them both fugitives and thus nearly impossible for them to prove him innocent. Jonathan's innocence. It's hinted Jonathan hints he could break out on his own but respects agrees with Cameron's decision feeling and so stays.thus stays inside.
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* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Cameron has a twin brother, Jonathan.
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* MotiveMididentification: At first, Jonathan and Cameron assume the mystery woman was setting up Cameron as no one is supposed to know Jonathan exists. When it's discovered the woman has been tracking them for some time, they realize Jonathan was always the target as her scheme involved exposing the twins' secret to the world.
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* MotiveMididentification: MotiveMisidentification: At first, Jonathan and Cameron assume the mystery woman was setting up Cameron as no one is supposed to know Jonathan exists. When it's discovered the woman has been tracking them for some time, they realize Jonathan was always the target as her scheme involved exposing the twins' secret to the world.
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* MotiveMisidentifcation: MotiveMididentification: At first, Jonathan and Cameron assume the mystery woman was setting up Cameron as no one is supposed to know Jonathan exists. When it's discovered the woman has been tracking them for some time, they realize Jonathan was always the target as her scheme involved exposing the twins' secret to the world.
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* MotiveMisidentifcation: At first, Jonathan and Cameron assume the mystery woman was setting up Cameron as no one is supposed to know Jonathan exists. When it's discovered the woman has been tracking them for some time, they realize Jonathan was always the target as her scheme involved exposing the twins' secret to the world.
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** The early episodes play with Cameron arrogantly thinking he can take charge in investigations and learning the hard way that criminal cases are tougher than they seem with consequences to his acting up.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: InUniverse example played for laughs. Dina presses Jordan to read Creator/Agatha Christie 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.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: InUniverse example played for laughs. Dina presses Jordan to read Creator/Agatha Christie 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.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: InUniverse example played for laughs. Dina presses Jordan to read Agatha Christie 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.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: InUniverse example played for laughs. Dina presses Jordan to read Agatha Creator/Agatha Christie 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.
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* StringTheory: The second episode ends with Kay revealing to Cameron that she's been looking into Jonathan's case, bringing together a room of photos and files on a few boards and she's willing to help.
** It then cuts to London where the mysterious woman has an entire windowed ''wall'' of her posh apartment decked out with photos and files on the brothers, complete with strings connecting them.
** It then cuts to London where the mysterious woman has an entire windowed ''wall'' of her posh apartment decked out with photos and files on the brothers, complete with strings connecting them.
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* BeneathSuspicion: The FBI is hunting for Sasha, a Russian mob boss so secretive no one even knows who he looks like. It turns out he's really the supposed bartender at the local mob hangout, Kay openly lampshading how no one would ever give the bartender a second look, let alone suspect he's the boss.
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* LatexPerfection: Cameron and his team use these types of masks for their tricks. Gunter openly snaps he doesn't want to use these as they itch so much.
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* ATeamMontage: Used to show Cameron and his team putting together the tools they use for their scheme to bust the crook.
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** Walking through Times Square, Kay states that there's no way someone would do something without understanding the full implications just because it would get them attention. Grabbing a real sword nearby, Cameron leaps onto a platform and asks if anyone would want to take part in an illusion involving getting their head cut off, pointing out how dangerous it is. Roughly thirty people hold up their hand instantly.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: InUniverseExample played for laughs. Dina presses Jordan to read Agatha Christie 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.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: InUniverseExample InUniverse example played for laughs. Dina presses Jordan to read Agatha Christie 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.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: InUniverseExample played for laughs. Dina presses Jordan to read Agatha Christie 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.
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* MasterOfDisguise: Cameron is able to use this well. He nicely impersonates the banker of a crime cartel to get into FBI headquarters. Kay is able to see through it but admits that if it took a bit for experienced FBI agents to see through the act, Cameron should be able to fool the actual crooks.
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* AndYouThoughtItWasJustAGame: The team track down a guy who sprayed a witness with a water pistol containing poison. They track him down as he targets someone else, the man seemingly confused over what to do and "did I win?" Cameron realizes the guy thinks he's part of some reality TV show and no idea he was used to commit a real murder.
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* AndYouThoughtItWasJustAGame: AndYouThoughtItWasAGame: The team track down hunt a guy who sprayed a witness with a water pistol containing poison. They track him down as he targets someone else, the man seemingly confused over what to do and "did I win?" Cameron realizes the guy thinks he's part of some reality TV show and no idea he was used to commit a real murder.
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* AndYouThoughtItWasJustAGame: The team track down a guy who sprayed a witness with a water pistol containing poison. They track him down as he targets someone else, the man seemingly confused over what to do and "did I win?" Cameron realizes the guy thinks he's part of some reality TV show and no idea he was used to commit a real murder.
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* InstantlyProvenWrong: Kay tells Cameron that real FBI investigations involve a lot of slow work as "clues don't just drop into our lap." Right on cue, a couple of paper airplanes drop down from a kid upstairs who saw a key crime go down.
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* TheCaper: Cameron and his team pull these off once an episode to bust the crooks.
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* BreakTheHaughty: The early arc for Cameron as he's on top of his field as an illusionist but the revelation of his twin brother and his hopeless quest to get him out of jail, renders him disgraced and his team ready to abandon him.
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* ComplexityAddiction: A recurring theme as Cameron admits magic tricks and such schemes tend to be rather complex just for the hell of it in order to disguise the truth.
** A Russian mobster sets up a ''fake reality show'' as a way to lure in and eliminate people who want to defect from his organization.
** A Russian mobster sets up a ''fake reality show'' as a way to lure in and eliminate people who want to defect from his organization.
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* CardboardPrison: It's indicated that Cameron would have absolutely no problem busting Jonathan out of jail but refuses as it will just make it harder to prove him innocent. Jonathan hints he could break out on his own but respects Cameron's decision and so stays.
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* TheUnfavorite: Jonathan is a bit bitter that Cameron was always the one their father favored and how he was the one pushed to be the "only" Black on stage.
* UnknownRival: The mystery woman claims to have been holding a long grudge on Cameron but he has no idea who sheis.is.
* UnPerson: Jonathan has long been kept a massive secret to the point their father basically buried all records he had more than one son and the only time Jonathan shows up in public, he's pretending to be Cameron. He's surprisingly upbeat about not having any life of his own but annoyed it got him in jail.
* UnknownRival: The mystery woman claims to have been holding a long grudge on Cameron but he has no idea who she
* UnPerson: Jonathan has long been kept a massive secret to the point their father basically buried all records he had more than one son and the only time Jonathan shows up in public, he's pretending to be Cameron. He's surprisingly upbeat about not having any life of his own but annoyed it got him in jail.
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* RunningGag: FBI agent Alvarez constantly complaining over Cameron "ruining" a magic trick when he explains it to the agents during an investigation.
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* StageMagician: Cameron.
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With his career ruined, Cameron is thrown to see a supposed airplane exploding which he sees as an illusion he once used. He helps FBI Agent Kay Daniels solve the crime which turns out to have been supplied by that same mystery woman. Now, Cameron and his magic team aid the FBI in special cases while Cameron tries to hunt that woman down to prove his brother's innocence.
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With his career ruined, Cameron is thrown to see a news story on a supposed airplane exploding which he sees as an illusion he once used. He helps FBI Agent Kay Daniels solve the crime which turns out to have been supplied by that same mystery woman. Now, Cameron and his magic team aid the FBI in special cases while Cameron tries to hunt that woman down to prove his brother's innocence.
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* FrameUp: Jonathan (posing as Cameron) is seen leaving with a woman who turns up dead when he crashes the car. But Jonathan tells Cameron that the dead woman may look like the same one but it's not because of the different eyes. They speculate that whoever is doing this is going after Cameron more than Jonathan.
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** This was pushed by their magician father who created the act.
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* UnknownRival: The mystery woman claims to have been holding a long grudge on Cameron but he has no idea who she is.
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''Deception'' is an ABC procedural that began airing March 11th, 2018.
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''Deception'' is an ABC procedural PoliceProcedural that began airing March 11th, 2018.
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* MismatchedEyes: The mysterious woman who set up Jonathan has one eye blue and the other green.
* SherlockScan: The pilot has a rare ''audio'' version of this when the mysterious woman calls up Cameron and Kay and taunts them on they have no idea where to look for her.
-->'''Cameron''': You're in the international terminal at Frankfurt. ''(woman looks around in shock'') I've spent the last year flying around the world, I know every airport has its own acoustics. And Frankfurt pipes in Beethoven muzak like they're afraid people will forget he's from Germany. Did you just look over your shoulder?
* SpotTheImposter: When a banker for a crime cartel shows up at FBI headquarters to talk, Kay notes how his suit is Brooks Brothers, not the expensive European suits the man would wear. This reveals he's actually Cameron in disguise.
* SpottingTheThread: A key reason the FBI agrees to help Cameron is his skill at spotting how a crime is really an illusion.
** Kay proves just as adept spotting details herself that can help in cases.
* TricksterTwins: Downplayed but Cameron and Jonathan have long been pretending to be just one person to pull off illusions (such as how "Cameron" can go from Vegas to New York instantly).
** This was pushed by their magician father who created the act.
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''Deception'' is an ABC procedural that began airing March 11th, 2018.
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.
With his career ruined, Cameron is thrown to see a supposed airplane exploding which he sees as an illusion he once used. He helps FBI Agent Kay Daniels solve the crime which turns out to have been supplied by that same mystery woman. Now, Cameron and his magic team aid the FBI in special cases while Cameron tries to hunt that woman down to prove his brother's innocence.
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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.
With his career ruined, Cameron is thrown to see a supposed airplane exploding which he sees as an illusion he once used. He helps FBI Agent Kay Daniels solve the crime which turns out to have been supplied by that same mystery woman. Now, Cameron and his magic team aid the FBI in special cases while Cameron tries to hunt that woman down to prove his brother's innocence.
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