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* TattooedCrook: The bomber had a scorpion tattoo on the side of his torso that Peter identified.

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* TattooedCrook: The bomber had a scorpion tattoo on the side of his torso that Peter identified.identified him by.
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* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Agent Monks is killed by the assassins. So is Peter's friend Cisco.]]

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* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Agent Monks is killed by the assassins. So is Peter's friend Cisco. Both are sympathetic supporting characters whose deaths show us just how dangerous they are.]]
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* MakeItLookLikeASuicide: The assassins make multiple victims look like they died due to accidents, or attempt this.

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* MakeItLookLikeASuicide: MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The assassins make multiple victims look like they died due to accidents, or attempt this.
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* JustInTime: Peter rescues rose from Dale right before he was about to kill her. She returns the favor too when Peter gets pinned down by Dale soon after.

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* JustInTime: Peter rescues rose Rose from Dale right before he was about to kill her. She returns the favor too when Peter gets pinned down by Dale soon after.
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* EvilIsBigger: Gordon Wick, a billionaire military contractor who is part of the Rome Tome, is 6'3'' and towers over the rest of the conspiracy members, let alone basically the entire cast.

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* EvilIsBigger: Gordon Wick, a billionaire military contractor who is part one of the Rome Tome, series' villains, is 6'3'' and towers over the rest of the conspiracy members, let alone basically the entire cast.
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** Farr is genuinely friend with President Michelle Travers [[spoiler: which is why Redfield and Wick concealed their plan to assassinate her because they know it's a line Farr wouldn't cross.]]

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** Farr is genuinely friend friends with President Michelle Travers [[spoiler: which is why Redfield and Wick concealed their plan to assassinate her because they know it's a line Farr wouldn't cross.cross. She turns on them to stop this after learning about it.]]
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* FBIAgent: Peter, one of the protagonists, is an FBI agent who works in the White House answering a phone with a covert operation when the story starts. Many fellow FBI agents are supporting characters.

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* FBIAgent: Peter, one of the protagonists, is an FBI agent who works in the White House answering a phone with as part of a covert operation when the story starts. Many fellow FBI agents are supporting characters.
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* FatalFamilyPhoto: [[spoiler:Erik shows Chelse a picture of his daughter. He's dead by the end of the episode, killed by Ellen.]]

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* FatalFamilyPhoto: [[spoiler:Erik shows Chelse Chelsea a picture of his daughter. He's dead by the end of the episode, killed by Ellen.]]
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** Ashley Redfield loved his late wife, and one of his daughters drowning was devastating to him. [[spoiler:This is exploited by the Metro bomber who takes his other daughter Maddie as a hostage.]]

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** Ashley Redfield loved his late wife, and one of his daughters drowning was devastating to him. [[spoiler:This is exploited by the Metro bomber who takes his other daughter Maddie as a hostage. He nearly confesses to being behind the bombing to get her back.]]
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** Ashley Redfield loved his late wife and newborn daughter who drowned in his pool. [[spoiler:This is exploited by the Metro bomber who takes his other daughter Maddie as a hostage.]]

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** Ashley Redfield loved his late wife wife, and newborn daughter who drowned in one of his pool.daughters drowning was devastating to him. [[spoiler:This is exploited by the Metro bomber who takes his other daughter Maddie as a hostage.]]
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* TheConspiracy: The Rome Tome, who plan on assassinating Omar Zadar, a foreign leader of another country. It also plans on assassinating the POTUS and putting her VP, who is more militaristic towards other countries in place.

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* TheConspiracy: The Rome Tome, trio of [[spoiler:the President's Chief of Staff Diana Farr, Vice President Renfield, and powerful mercenary CEO Wick]], who plan on assassinating Omar Zadar, a foreign leader of another country. It [[spoiler:The latter two also plans on assassinating try to assassinate the POTUS President and putting her VP, install Renfield, who is more militaristic towards other countries countries, in her place.]]
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* BigDamnKiss: Peter and Rose share one on the boat in Episode 7 after Rose gives him a pep talk.

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* BigDamnKiss: Peter and Rose share one on the boat in Episode 7 after Rose gives him a pep talk. Their mutual attraction was teased for some time prior.



* BodyguardBetrayal: [[spoiler:The attempt to kill the President is made possibly by several corrupt Secret Service agents being in on the plot.]]

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* BodyguardBetrayal: [[spoiler:The attempt to kill the President is made possibly possible by several corrupt Secret Service agents being in on the plot.]]
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* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Colin and Matteo Worley are identical twin brothers. [[spoiler:This allowed Colin to [[TwinSwitch impersonate Matteo]] after he died]].]]

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* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Colin and Matteo Worley are identical twin brothers. [[spoiler:This allowed Colin to [[TwinSwitch impersonate Matteo]] after he died]].]]

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* AbusiveParents: Maddie's father was emotionally abusive, wrongly blaming her for her sister dying when she accidentally drowned. He once hit her too while the two were arguing (which she'd recorded). Later he tearfully apologizes for all this, saying he doesn't want to be that kind of dad.
* ActionGirl: Chelsea Arrington, who's a Secret Service agent, shows her skills off while fighting Ellen at the depot.


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* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Colin and Matteo Worley are identical twin brothers. [[spoiler:This allowed Colin to [[TwinSwitch impersonate Matteo]] after he died]].]]


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* AssassinationAttempt: [[spoiler:The first season culminates with one on the President orchestrated by the villains using corrupt Secret Service agents, which Rose, Peter and Farr manage to stop.]]


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* BodyguardBetrayal: [[spoiler:The attempt to kill the President is made possibly by several corrupt Secret Service agents being in on the plot.]]
* BodyguardCrush: Peter becomes Rose's protector against assassins. The two fall for each other while they're on the run.


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* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:Peter is very unhappy to learn his father really was guilty, since he's always believed in his innocence.]]
* BuryYourGays: Maddie's professor turns out to have a boyfriend. Both die by the end of the first season, while they're the only LGBT+ people so far on the show.
* CementShoes: Dale and Ellen are shown drowning a Serbian politician in a lake who they tied onto a cender block during a flashback.
* ClearTheirName: Peter has always believed in his father's innocence, while he wants to prove this.


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* ConspiracyTheorist: Peter is hounded by one name Elliot Rome. He believes Peter was behind the Metro bombing, along with his many followers. We see him harassing Peter in a video, while his followers later do this too.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[spoiler:Gordon Wick]] is the CEO of a [[PrivateMilitaryContractors mercenary company]] willing to murder anyone in his way.
* CorruptPolitician: [[spoiler:Ashley Redfield is the Vice President of the United States, and it turns out that he's deeply corrupt. He not only is in bed with the CEO of a [[PrivateMilitaryContractors corrupt mercenary company]], Redfield willingly becomes involved with a plot to assassinate the President, which will let him take over.]]


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* DarkIsEvil: Assassins Dale and Ellen both wear dark clothing usually. They also have dark hair and olive skin.
* DeathOfAChild: It turns out that Maddie's younger sister drowned accidentally while they were both little, as we're shown in a flashback. Her dad blamed Maddie for not watching her, and it damaged their relationship ever after.


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* FatalFamilyPhoto: [[spoiler:Erik shows Chelse a picture of his daughter. He's dead by the end of the episode, killed by Ellen.]]
* FBIAgent: Peter, one of the protagonists, is an FBI agent who works in the White House answering a phone with a covert operation when the story starts. Many fellow FBI agents are supporting characters.
* FollowingInRelativesFootsteps: Peter became an FBIAgent just like his father.
* FromCamouflageToCriminal: Gordon Wick is a former US Special Forces soldier turned CEO of Turn Lake Industries (they are PrivateMilitaryContractors). He uses murder and extortion to eliminate issues preventing him from profiting. One of the people he employed to commit a bombing also was once in the military.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Peter not only gets suspected of the bombing he stopped by a {{conspiracy theorist}} but later also gets falsely accused in Maddie's kidnapping to discredit him. This is while he's trying to protect Rose from assassins and expose a criminal plot by very powerful people.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Dale strangles most of the people we see him kill. He dies like this as well at Peter's hand.]]
* HoneyTrap: Maddie's professor seduced her for use in his environmental advocacy. His boyfriend had seduced him too to instigate this so he could get close and kidnap Maddie.


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* JustInTime: Peter rescues rose from Dale right before he was about to kill her. She returns the favor too when Peter gets pinned down by Dale soon after.


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* MakeItLookLikeASuicide: The assassins make multiple victims look like they died due to accidents, or attempt this.


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* MissingMom: Maddie's mother died from cancer when she was little.


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* OneHeadTaller: Peter is significantly taller than Rose, as shown when they kiss where she cranes her head up.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Peter's friend Cisco is only identfied once with his full first name, Francisco, when he calls for backup.


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* ParentalAbandonment: Peter's mother was dead already when his father died in a car accident too.


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* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Turn Lake Industries is a company with this work, mostly in the Balkans.


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* TattooedCrook: The bomber had a scorpion tattoo on the side of his torso that Peter identified.


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* TrackingDevice: Rose had one placed on her, it turns out, letting assassins Dale and Ellen find her.
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* MinorityPoliceOfficer: Erik Monks and Chelsea Arrington are black Secret Service agents, while the director Ben Almora is a Latino. Peter's old friend Cisco is also a state trooper and he's Asian. In a flashback we learn that Chelsea's mom was against her career, believing the US doesn't care about black people, though she supports her daughter nonetheless. Erik and her also know it's harder for them, as black agents, to rise up in the ranks.

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* MinorityPoliceOfficer: Erik Monks and Chelsea Arrington are black Secret Service agents, while the director Ben Almora is a Latino. Peter's old friend Cisco is also a state trooper and he's Asian. In a flashback we learn that Chelsea's mom was against her career, believing the US doesn't care about black people, though she supports her daughter nonetheless. Erik and her also know it's harder for them, as black agents, to rise up in the ranks. [[spoiler:After Almora's death, another black agent becomes the director.]]
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* MinorityPoliceOfficer: Erik Monks and Chelsea Arrington are black Secret Service agents, while the director Ben Almora is a Latino. Peter's old friend Cisco is also a state trooper and he's Asian. Though the others' aren't shown as affected by this, it's revealed Chelsea's mom was against her career, believing the US doesn't care about black people, though she supports her daughter nonetheless.

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* MinorityPoliceOfficer: Erik Monks and Chelsea Arrington are black Secret Service agents, while the director Ben Almora is a Latino. Peter's old friend Cisco is also a state trooper and he's Asian. Though the others' aren't shown as affected by this, it's revealed In a flashback we learn that Chelsea's mom was against her career, believing the US doesn't care about black people, though she supports her daughter nonetheless. Erik and her also know it's harder for them, as black agents, to rise up in the ranks.
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* SinsOfTheFather: Peter is suspected of being a criminal multiple times due to his father having been accused in a previous case.

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