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* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:When Erin tries to pull a gun on Tom, Tom rushes towards her and tries to take it away. Then the gun goes off, and we see Erin bleeding profusely from her abdomen]].



* BigBadEnsemble: Season 2 has this with Joe Carroll and [[spoiler:Lily Gray]] (though the former gets more screentime).

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** Tom's favorite sport. He steals Mark's laptop from a raid after he discovers [[spoiler:Mike and Max]] having sex. Then he finds out that [[spoiler:Mike executed Lily Gray]]. Instead of turning the laptop in as evidence, he keeps it for no valuable reason. Later, [[spoiler:he destroys the laptop after the FBI starts to track it]]. Finally, he accidentally [[spoiler:kills Erin, ''an FBI agent'', after thinking he's the mole they were looking for]].


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** [[spoiler:Kyle]] gets shot in the back by Ryan [[MadeOfIron and walks it off]]. Later on, after exerting too much energy and not being treated properly, the wound worsens and slows [[spoiler:Kyle]] down to the point where [[spoiler:he can't flee from Ryan and is forced to commit SuicideByCop]].
** With [[spoiler:Carrie dead]], Ryan absent from court, and with an e-mail discrediting Ryan's statement to the jury, [[spoiler:Dr. Arthur Strauss is declared not guilty]].
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-->'''[[spoiler: Mark]]''': [[spoiler: Mark drowned. [[SplitPersonalityTakeover I'm Luke.]]

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-->'''[[spoiler: Mark]]''': [[spoiler: Mark drowned. [[SplitPersonalityTakeover I'm Luke.]]]]]]
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** "Kill the Messenger"
-->'''[[spoiler: Mark]]''': [[spoiler: Mark drowned. [[SplitPersonalityTakeover I'm Luke.]]
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** [[spoiler: [[OneManArmy Theo]] [[TheHeavy Noble]] is this for the third season, and one of the most dangerous yet.

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** [[spoiler: [[OneManArmy Theo]] [[TheHeavy Noble]] is this for the third season, and one of the most dangerous yet.]]

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* WhamShot: In the Season 2 premiere, the camera follows a bearded man walking in the shadows toward a house. When he gets in the door, [[spoiler: it pans to reveal Joe Carroll, revealing that he survived the explosion in the first season finale.]]
** An InUniverse example: one shot of the security tape from the subway murder instantly drives home for Ryan that [[spoiler: Lily is part of the cult.]]



** [[spoiler: Theo Noble is even better at it. Fitting, since he was considered the best student of the man who trained Joe.]]



** [[spoiler: Almost in "Let Me Go," Carroll kills his lawyer after she helps him escape from prison.]]

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** [[spoiler: Almost Also in "Let Me Go," Carroll kills his lawyer after she helps him escape from prison.]]
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** Hardy starts to suffer this from [[spoiler: Debra's death]] onward. By Season 3, he's [[spoiler: suffering from vivid hallucinations and night terrors involving Joe Carroll.]]


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** "Evermore": [[spoiler: Joe organizes a hostage situation on the day of his execution, demanding a final confrontation with Ryan. Ryan finally confesses to Joe that he gets satisfaction out of killing the Followers and other killers, and later demonstrates this by killing several prison inmates in ways almost as brutal as Joe's. Then, in the final moments of the episode, Joe gets taken back to his scheduled execution... and ''dies''. No escape plan and no higher scheming: the BigBad dies slowly and helpless while staring into the eyes of the man he obsessed over.]]

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* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Jacob smothering the mortally wounded Paul to death at Paul's request so that he can meet up with Roderick without Paul slowing him down.]]

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* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Jacob [[spoiler: Jacob smothering the mortally wounded Paul to death at Paul's request so that he can meet up with Roderick without Paul slowing him down.]]



* MetaTwist: DoubleSubversion. The last few minutes of the Season 2 finale [[spoiler:clearly set up a similar cliffhanger to the first season's. However, this time Ryan Hardy ''isn't'' attacked by an intruder... That is, until he wakes up in the middle of the night and finds Mark Gray in his room... Except it's just a nightmare, and the real Mark is elsewhere]].

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* MetaTwist: DoubleSubversion. The last few minutes of the Season 2 finale [[spoiler:clearly [[spoiler: clearly set up a similar cliffhanger to the first season's. However, this time Ryan Hardy ''isn't'' attacked by an intruder... That is, until he wakes up in the middle of the night and finds Mark Gray in his room... Except it's just a nightmare, and the real Mark is elsewhere]].



** Another in Season 3: [[spoiler: [[BiggerBad Dr. Strauss]] gets suddenly, violently murdered by Theo Noble at the culmination of his schemes.]]



** ''We'' never see [[spoiler:Claire's]] body after she's stabbed in the first season finale, but Hardy takes Weston's word for it.

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** ''We'' never see [[spoiler:Claire's]] body after she's stabbed in the first season finale, but Hardy takes Weston's word for it. Turns out she's alive and well.
** By Season 3, the FBI have gotten wise to this, and Mike refuses to call off the search for [[spoiler: Mark Gray]] after the latter takes a seemingly fatal dive off of a cargo ship with a serious bullet wound. [[spoiler: He's right.]]


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** And again if you thought [[spoiler: getting shot and falling off of a freighter was enough to kill Mark Gray.]]

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** Held often by the FBI, and is often identified as a major fault of the show by critics.

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** Held often by the FBI, and is often identified as a major fault of the show by critics.FBI.



* ILetGwenStacyDie: Though he was able to save her life before, [[spoiler: Hardy was unable to save Sarah Fuller from being killed by Carroll the second time around.]]

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* ILetGwenStacyDie: Though he was able to save her life before, [[spoiler: Hardy was unable to save Sarah Fuller from being killed by Carroll the second time around.]] Repeated to a brutal degree when [[spoiler: Debra suffocates before Hardy can find her burial site]], and ''again'' when [[spoiler: he doesn't manage to locate Agent Clarke in time to stop Neil from [[CruelAndUnusualDeath boxing him up]].]]



* KarmaHoudini: As of the season finale, [[spoiler: Emma, and an unknown number of other cultists, is still on the loose.]]

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* KarmaHoudini: As of the season finale, [[spoiler: Emma, and an unknown number of other cultists, is still on the loose.]] [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] as the seasons continue: [[spoiler: by the end of the second one, every known member of Carroll's cult is dead or in prison.]]


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** [[spoiler: Carrie [[PunnyName Cooke]]]] is burnt alive in a van by Kyle and Daisy.
** [[spoiler: Theo Noble kills a business executive with a welding torch during his first moments onscreen.]]


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** [[spoiler: [[OneManArmy Theo]] [[TheHeavy Noble]] is this for the third season, and one of the most dangerous yet.

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* BigBadDuumvirate: Joe is briefly part of two in Season 2: one with [[spoiler: Lily]], and one with [[spoiler: Micah.]] [[spoiler: Neither ends well.]]



** Season 3 has Joe, [[spoiler: Mark Gray, Arthur Strauss, and Theo Noble.]]



** [[spoiler:Dr. Arthur Strauss in Season 3, who is killed shortly after being released from prison and just when it seems like he'll replace Mike Grey as the new BigBad]].

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** [[spoiler:Dr. Arthur Strauss in Season 3, who is killed shortly after being released from prison and just when it seems like he'll replace Mike Mark Grey as the new BigBad]].



** Pretty much made explicit midway through Season 2, when Carroll is asked directly if killing gives him a sexual release, and his response is a practically moaned affirmative.

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** Pretty much made explicit midway through Season 2, when Carroll is asked directly if killing gives him a sexual release, and his response is a practically moaned affirmative.



** [[spoiler: Jana blows her own brains out after being identified as a mole for Carroll's cult.]]
** In a more tragic example, [[spoiler: Kingston Tanner chooses to commit suicide rather than kill his son or be killed by him, completely wrecking Joe's endgame in the process.]]



** [[spoiler:Arthur Strauss, who's murdered with no foreshadowing by Theo the second he turns his back on him]].

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** [[spoiler:Arthur Strauss, who's murdered with no foreshadowing by Theo the second he turns his back on him]].him. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that Theo, as Strauss's best student, would know to give absolutely no warning and waste no time]].



* DrowningMySorrows: What Hardy has been doing after capturing Carroll until the start of the show. He then does it again for a few months between seasons one and two.

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* DrowningMySorrows: What Hardy has been doing after capturing Carroll until the start of the show. He then does it again for a few months between seasons one and two. [[spoiler: And again after Joe's execution.]]



* EnfantTerrible: Chris Bolan, the young son and willing collaborator to his SerialKiller father. It's ''really'' hard to feel sorry for him when Hardy and Weston [[CrossesTheLineTwice decide to Jack Bauer him]].

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* EnfantTerrible: Chris Bolan, Bowlen, the young son and willing collaborator to his SerialKiller father. It's ''really'' hard to feel sorry for him when Hardy and Weston [[CrossesTheLineTwice decide to Jack Bauer him]].



** Neil Perry loves his dementia-stricken father more than anything in the world. [[spoiler: Getting discovered as a killer by his father is what drives him to SuicideByCop]].
** [[spoiler: Theo Noble appears to care for his sister.]]



** Kyle and Daisy are remorseless killers, and even they are disgusted and terrified by [[spoiler: Mark Gray]]'s behavior, only going along with it [[spoiler: as part of Strauss's plan.]]



** [[spoiler: Dr. Arthur Strauss was this to Joe, Theo Noble, and plenty of other infamous killers.]]



* [[FauxActionGirl Faux]] DarkActionGirl: Emma. She gets taken out by [[spoiler: Roderick]], and [[spoiler: ''Claire'']], of all people, manages to pin her against the wall in a soon-to-be CatFight.

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* [[FauxActionGirl Faux]] DarkActionGirl: Emma. She gets taken out by [[spoiler: Roderick]], and [[spoiler: ''Claire'']], of all people, manages to pin her against the wall in a soon-to-be CatFight. Getting into a real knock-down, drag-out brawl [[spoiler: swiftly results in her death]].
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** Everything from "Havenport" onward is a series of defeats for Carroll's cult [[spoiler: with the exception of Debra's murder.]]


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** [[spoiler: Dr. Strauss, the BiggerBad of the entire series, gets garroted by Theo Noble one episode after his exoneration scheme comes to fruition.]]
** In one of the most shocking examples yet, [[spoiler: the tenth episode of Season 3 sees ''[[BigBad Joe]] [[ArchEnemy Carroll]]'' almost certainly dead by lethal injection.]]
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** JackOfAllTrades: Theo Noble is skilled in many forms of murder. So far we've seen him use razor wire, hatchet, gun, and blowtorch.
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* XMeetsY: ''Series/TwentyFour'' meets ''CriminalMinds.''

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** "Reunion": [[spoiler:Dr. Strauss is reunited with his Theo, his best student, who proceeds to violently strangle him to death for forcing him to come out of hiding. And Tom, who's still spying on Max with the laptop he stole, overhears Max confessing that Mike executed Lily Gray]].

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** "Reunion": [[spoiler:Dr. Strauss is reunited with his Theo, his best student, who proceeds to violently strangle him to death for forcing him to come out of hiding. And Tom, who's still spying on Max with the laptop he stole, overhears Max confessing that Mike executed Lily Gray]].
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** "Silence": [[spoiler:Joe Carroll and what's left of the Korban Cult break into a church and take everyone hostage. When Kingston Tanner confronts him, Joe tries to force him and his son to kill each other, at which point Kingston chooses to kill himself. Claire flees from FBI custody to try and find Joe, but she runs into Emma and Robert instead. Emma kills Robert, Claire kills Emma, and shortly afterwards, Mark and Luke show up and kidnap Claire. Lastly, Ryan and Mike sneak into the church, but Joe captures Mike, fully prepared to kill him if Ryan doesn't show himself. He doesn't, and then a gunshot goes off...]]
** "A Hostile Witness": [[spoiler:Kyle and Daisy kidnap and murder Carrie Cooke. Dr. Arthur Strauss is declared not guilty in trial due to Carrie's death and an e-mail discrediting Ryan's testimony. Kyle, having sustained a gunshot wound, commits SuicideByCop. At the end, Ryan, Max, and Mike find Mark, Daisy, and Dr. Strauss. Mike leaves Max to go after Mark, which leads to Daisy subduing Max and resulting in her and Strauss getting away. Just when Mike is about to execute Mark, Ryan persuades him not to, giving Mark enough time to escape before they can apprehend him.]]
** "Reunion": [[spoiler:Dr. Strauss is reunited with his Theo, his best student, who proceeds to violently strangle him to death for forcing him to come out of hiding. And Tom, who's still spying on Max with the laptop he stole, overhears Max confessing that Mike executed Lily Gray]].

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* ADeathInTheLimelight: [[spoiler:Agent Jeffrey Clarke]] in "Boxed In."

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** [[spoiler:Dr. Arthur Strauss in Season 3, who is killed shortly after being released from prison and just when it seems like he'll replace Mike Grey as the new BigBad]].


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** [[spoiler:Carrie Cooke. She's kidnapped by Kyle and Daisy, KilledOffScreen, and then forgotten about]].
** [[spoiler:Arthur Strauss, who's murdered with no foreshadowing by Theo the second he turns his back on him]].


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* DyingToBeReplaced: [[spoiler:Dr. Strauss. He was the number one SerialKiller the FBI was after, up until Theo brutally murders him. Now Ryan and the FBI are out looking for him]].

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* ActingForTwo: Sam Underwood plays CreepyTwins Luke and Mark.


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* ADeathInTheLimelight: [[spoiler:Agent Jeffrey Clarke]] in "Boxed In."


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* SanitySlippage: Mark was never sane to begin with, but [[spoiler:the death of his mother and his twin brother]] really drove him off the deep end, to a point where he now suffers from schizophrenia.


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* ShootTheShaggyDog: After spending all of "Boxed In" desperately searching for [[spoiler:Agent Clarke, the FBI finally finds him in the end. ''[[StuffedIntoTheFridge Stuffed inside a metal box]]'']].


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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Done literally with [[spoiler:Agent Jeffrey Clarke]]. Even after he publicly [[spoiler:confesses that he ran the Black Ops. team that resulted in Lily Gray being executed, Neil still kills him and stuffs him inside the metal box he built for the FBI to find]].
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* BattleAmongstTheFlames: [[spoiler: Hardy and Carroll's final fight in the season finale ends up setting the boathouse they're in on fire. While Hardy escapes, Carroll is trapped and killed (they identify parts of the body later) when the building explodes.]]

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* BattleAmongstTheFlames: [[spoiler: Hardy and Carroll's final fight in the season finale ends up setting the boathouse they're in on fire. While Hardy escapes, Carroll is trapped and killed (they identify parts of the body later) (or so they think) when the building explodes.]]
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Killed Off For Real misuse. The trope is not just any death, but about the expectation of temporary death being subverted by making it permanent.


* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Parker in the season one finale, being BuriedAlive.]]
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->''"I thought I might go [[StrictlyFormula more traditional]] this time, you know, [[CardCarryingVillain villain]], [[BlackAndWhiteMorality good versus evil]]. I need a strong protagonist so that the reader can truly invest, a [[BrokenAce flawed, broken man]] searching for [[RedemptionQuest redemption]], and that is you."''
-->-- '''[[BigBad Joe]] [[TheChessmaster Carroll]]'''

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->''"I thought I might go [[StrictlyFormula more traditional]] traditional this time, you know, [[CardCarryingVillain villain]], [[BlackAndWhiteMorality villain, good versus evil]]. evil. I need a strong protagonist so that the reader can truly invest, a [[BrokenAce flawed, broken man]] man searching for [[RedemptionQuest redemption]], redemption, and that is you."''
-->-- '''[[BigBad Joe]] [[TheChessmaster Carroll]]'''
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* UncannyValley: Joe's followers have a tendency to wear rather lifelike masks of Edgar Allan Poe while horribly murdering people. Taken UpToEleven in season 2 when [[spoiler: some of Joe's followers wear extremely lifelike masks of Joe Carrol himself while massacring a subway car full of people.
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* UncannyValley: Joe's followers have a tendency to wear rather lifelike masks of Edgar Allan Poe while horribly murdering people. Taken UpToEleven in season 2 when [[spoiler: some of Joe's followers wear extremely lifelike masks of Joe Carrol himself while massacring a subway car full of people.
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** [[spoiler: Emma herself, for that matter, at the end of Season 2.]]
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** [[spoiler: Max twice in "Forgive"]].
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** And in the following (no pun intended) episodes, [[spoiler:Emma kills Robert, Claire kills Emma, and the FBI kill the other cultists.]]
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* IWantHimAlive: [[spoiler:Lilly]] has a more reasonable version in "The Reaping." She tells her mercenaries that they can kill all the cultists, she just wants Joe brought to her alive. Ultimately [[spoiler:it isn't trying to take Joe alive that makes them fail, but the sheer number of cultists and the actions of Ryan]].

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* IWantHimAlive: [[spoiler:Lilly]] IWantThemAlive: [[spoiler:Lily]] has a more reasonable version in "The Reaping." She tells her mercenaries that they can kill all the cultists, she just wants Joe brought to her alive. Ultimately [[spoiler:it isn't trying to take Joe alive that makes them fail, but the sheer number of cultists and the actions of Ryan]].

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* {{Bookends}}: For Season 1, Ryan confronts Joe at a lighthouse. Joe even ''calls it'' Bookends. He thinks its a masterful literary technique. Claire thinks its a predictable cliche.



* FriendlyEnemy: Carroll comes off as this to Ryan in Season 2, even repeatedly calling Ryan his only friend. Ryan doesn't share it.



* IWantHimAlive: [[spoiler:Lilly]] has a more reasonable version in "The Reaping." She tells her mercenaries that they can kill all the cultists, she just wants Joe brought to her alive. Ultimately [[spoiler:it isn't trying to take Joe alive that makes them fail, but the sheer number of cultists and the actions of Ryan]].



* SanityHasAdvantages: As noted elsewhere on this page, the problem with Carroll's plans are that he and all of his followers are totally nuts.



* SmugSnake: A huge amount of the cultists are incredibly smug even when caught, as many are [[NietzcheWannabe Nietzsche Wannabes]] who think of their deaths as part of Joe's ultimate plans. They have a tendency to either commit suicide or be killed in a hail of gunfire

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* SmugSnake: A huge amount of the cultists are incredibly smug even when caught, as many are [[NietzcheWannabe Nietzsche Wannabes]] who think of their deaths as part of Joe's ultimate plans. They have a tendency to either commit suicide or be killed in a hail of gunfire gunfire.



** Charlie has some shades of this as well. At the very least he has some code of conduct and seems to be a man of his word.

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** Charlie has some shades of this as well. At the very least he has some code of conduct and seems to be a man of his word. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, being the only good person in a group of psychos isn't safe...]]

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* TrueCompanions: Ryan, Mike and Max, as of mid Season 2 onwards.
** On the villain side, Lily's cult who she considers her children and family.



** This friendship is becoming more and more strained as time goes on (see DragonWithAnAgenda above).

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** This friendship is becoming becomes more and more strained as time goes on (see DragonWithAnAgenda above).



** David says as much in episode 8. Hardy and Mike both point out he's paraphrasing Bundy. Quite badly too.

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** David says as much in episode 8.8 from Season 1. Hardy and Mike both point out he's paraphrasing Bundy. Quite badly too.
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** MetaTwist: [[DoubleSubversion]]. The last few minutes of the Season 2 finale [[spoiler:clearly sets up a similar cliffhanger to the first season's, as Ryan Hardy is seen at his home, except this time he doesn't get ambushed by an intruder... That is, until he wakes up in the middle of the night and finds Mark Gray in his room... Except it's just a dream, and the real Mark is elsewhere]].

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** * MetaTwist: [[DoubleSubversion]]. DoubleSubversion. The last few minutes of the Season 2 finale [[spoiler:clearly sets set up a similar cliffhanger to the first season's, as season's. However, this time Ryan Hardy is seen at his home, except this time he doesn't get ambushed ''isn't'' attacked by an intruder... That is, until he wakes up in the middle of the night and finds Mark Gray in his room... Except it's just a dream, nightmare, and the real Mark is elsewhere]].

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** [[spoiler:Lily's ''other'' country estate, used as Luke and Mark's hideout in the finale]] of Season 2.



* CallBack: Near the end of the Season 2 finale, Ryan eats some Chinese food at his home, mirroring the final scene of Season 1 ([[spoiler:except this time, he actually gets to enjoy the meal in peace]]).



* CorruptTheCutie: In the first season, Emma and Co. intend to train Joey in the fine art of psychopathic murder. However, this plot point is pretty much dropped entirely.



* CorruptTheCutie: In the first season, Emma and Co. intend to train Joey in the fine art of psychopathic murder. However, this plot point is pretty much dropped entirely.


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* [[spoiler:AngstySurvivingTwin: Mark, who was already devastated over the death of his mother]].



** Jake Weber was clearly having a ''bit'' too much fun playing Micah.
** Jana. [[AxCrazy That]] [[FauxAffablyEvil is]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing all]].



* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:After the FBI cuts the power to the church, and Hardy disarms the bombs, what's left of the Korban cult is slaughtered in a matter of seconds in the Season 2 finale]].



* DiscOneFinalBoss: Carroll is arrested and put back in prison by the end of the pilot -- but there's still his groupies and followers to contend with. And that was part of the plan.
** [[spoiler: Subverted when Carroll breaks out again in episode 7, and gets away for real to take up leadership of the cult directly.]]

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** [[spoiler:Micah. At first it seems like he'll team up with Joe and create a BigBadDuumvirate for Season 2, but then Joe poisons him and takes over the Korban cult]].



* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Emma and Paul both seem to genuinely love Jacob, who cares about both of them. [[spoiler: Doesn't stop Emma from abandoning them, though.]]

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** All three members of the Gray family may be ruthless serial killers, but they still love each other like any normal family would.


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* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler:In hindsight, Kingston Tanner killing himself to save his son was pointless, since Joe ended up killing Preston anyway shortly afterwards]].

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