History Series / Deception2018

* BigStore: A variation as a kidnapped Cameron wakes up in what seems to be a hotel room in a foreign country. He manages to slip out of his handcuffs, knock out a guard and race to the elevators...which open into a warehouse in Jersey as this was all a test by the Mystery Woman.

* WoundedGazelleGambit: A tech at a lab is shot by his lover who's a spy stealing a key item. [[spoiler:When the man checks himself out of the hospital, Cameron realizes he was in on it with her. As he points out, there's no way a trained sniper capable of hitting a target from 400 yards could fail to kill someone standing two feet in front of her.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: It turns out Jonathan and Dina used to date but broke up when she found him cheating on her.

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Cameron has a twin brother, Jonathan.

* IdenticalTwinIDTag: Cameron's hair is loose and unrestrained, bordering on QuirkyCurls, while Jonathan's is slicked back, not a hair out of place. Also doubles as an ID tag for their personalities: Cameron is an optimistic showman with a penchant for improv, while Jonathan is a cynical chessmaster who prefers the long game. For bonus points, Cameron's hairstyle makes his hair appear much lighter; bordering on blond; Jonathan's makes his appear darker

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.

** Cameron is confronted in a police interrogation room by a corrupt cop who boasts on his misdeeds and that he picked this room because there's no cameras or windows and thus can claim he killed Cameron in self-defense. At which point, Cameron informs him that he took advantage of a blackout to trick the cop into entering a different room his team had remade. He peels off a section of the "wall" to show a window into an adjourning room where Kay, the detective's captain and a video camera are recording the whole thing.
** Cameron makes a corrupt CEO think a secret society is out to kill him. Already freaked out, he confronts a reporter on how he killed her father to keep his illegal activities quiet. He scoffs at the small recorder in her hand.

* HypocrisyNod: When investigating the murder of a psychic, Cameron rants a bit on how they're frauds and liars. Kay and Alvarez note that it's not much better than spending years not telling the public he had a twin brother helping. At one point, they find an earpiece used by the woman's partner, Cameron mocking it only for the agents to point out he used the exact same thing for his act. However, [[HypocriteHasAPoint Cameron is right]] when he points out that most people who see magicians perform know perfectly well that there's a trick going on, and trying to figure it out is half the fun, while psychics con people who genuinely believe in them into handing over their money.

* 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.

* SkewedPriorities: Invoked by Cameron when, just as bombs in a museum are about to go off, Kay insists on dragging a painting out rather than save herself. But she defends it on how her late sister loved them so much and she had to save one.

* UnknownRival: The mystery woman claims to have been holding a long grudge on Cameron but he has no idea who she is. [[spoiler: It turns out, that's because the twin she met in childhood was Jonathan using Cameron's name; Cameron was home sick.]]

** The last few minutes of season 1 are a wham ''sequence''. [[spoiler:The Mystery Woman gets to walk because she knows stuff about the FBI's Most Wanted. Cameron knows she'll escape before she even makes it to the safe house, and calls it quits with the FBI. Kay all but explicitly admits she has feelings for Cameron. Except this is intercut with flashbacks that show she's actually talking to Jonathan, who knocked Cameron out in prison and switched places with him in order to get Cam's treasure map, and now Jon is free and working with the Mystery Woman to find the items while Cam is stuck in jail.]]

* WhamShot: In the final scene of "Sacrifice 99 to Fool One", 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, [[spoiler: the accomplice peels off his disguise to reveal it's Cameron just before he collapses.]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: A tech at a lab is shot by his lover who's a spy stealing a key item. When the man checks himself out of the hospital, Cameron realizes he was in on it with her. As he points out, there's no way a trained sniper capable of hitting a target from 400 yards could fail to kill someone standing two feet in front of her.

* BulletproofVest: Somewhat subverted in "The Unseen Hand," when Cameron purposely gets himself shot (while wearing a vest) to save Kay and Issac. He is in considerable pain afterwards and shown to have an intense bruise; Kay also reams him out for being an idiot.

** In another episode, Kay wonders why a terrorist would allow herself to be captured and then escape inside the building. When she lists the various agencies inside, her CIA ex boyfriend tells her they need to get to the 23rd floor where the CIA has been operating a black ops site without any knowledge of the FBI. Kay's CIA ex-boyfriend is forced to tell of the woman trying to steal a file on CIA operatives for revenge. Kay openly notes how the CIA's refusal to share with other agencies just makes things more difficult.

** Tracking a woman who stole a secret device in a subway, Kay thinks it's just her and Cameron. But Cameron quickly notes how the janitor seems to be going out of his way to avoid actually sweeping trash; a game-playing kid looks to be in his 30s; a "homeless" woman has a fresh manicure; a woman is talking on a cell phone despite the lack of reception; and a woman in a fancy suit is pushing a cheap stroller. The kicker is when Kay realizes the guy in a suit watching them is her CIA ex-boyfriend.

** Cameron makes a corrupt CEO think a secret society is out to kill him. Already freaked out, he confronts a reporter on how he killed her brother to keep his illegal activities quiet. He scoffs at the small recorder in her hand.

** Cameron is confronted in a police interrogation room by a corrupt cop who boasts on his misdeeds and that he picked this room because there's no cameras or windows and thus can claim he killed Cameron in self-defense. At which point, Cameron informs him that he took advantage of a backout to trick the cop into entering a different room his team had remade. He peels off a section of the "wall" to show a window into an adjourning room where Kay, the detective's captain and a video camera are recording the whole thing.

Cameron makes a corrupt CEO think a secret society is out to kill him. Already freaked out, he confronts a reporter on how he killed her brother to keep his illegal activities quiet. He scoffs at the small recorder in her hand.

* 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.

* HypocrisyNod: When investigating the murder of a psychic, Cameron rants a bit on how they're frauds and liars. Kay and Alvarez note that it's not much better than spending years not telling the public he had a twin brother helping.
** At one point, they find an earpiece used by the woman's partner, Cameron mocking it only for the agents to point out he used the exact same thing for his act.
** HypocriteHasAPoint: However, Cameron is right when he points out that most people who see magicians perform know perfectly well that there's a trick going on, and trying to figure it out is half the fun, while psychics con people who genuinely believe in them into handing over their money.

* RevealingCoverUp: A man known for rather insane conspiracy talk is killed by a car bomb. The investigation shows he really had stumbled onto a secret society. One of the members insists to Cameron it wasn't them, lampshading that no one would take the guy seriously thanks to his crazy stories but killing him would make people realize he was onto something and draw attention to them.

* RevealingCoverUp: A man known for rather insane conspiracy talk is killed by a car bomb. The investigation shows he really had stumbled onto a secret society who killed him before he could report on them. Cameron lampshades that given the man's history of ridiculous claims, this might well have been dismissed along with "governments listen in on your dental fillings" talk and killing the guy just proved he was actually right for once.

* CassandraTruth: It turns out a ConspiracyTheorist known for insane stuff (like NASA lying) actually found evidence of a secret society. His own crew compliments him on "sounding so melodramatic" and he insists this is for real but they just laugh. He then gets blown up by a car bomb, showing he really was onto something.