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* TooProudForLowlyWork: On Simone's first day, she assumes she will be assigned to Garza's task force. Instead she is assigned to background checks. She is very open about the fact that she considers it a waste of her talent and forces her way onto the task force.
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* {{Foil}}: Simone is this to the protagonist of the parent series, John Nolan. Both are the oldest rookies in the histories of their respective organizations.
** John is a straight white male, Simone is a bisexual black woman.
** John is a humble unassuming man who always acts grateful for the opportunity to be a cop, often to the point of [[ExtremeDoormat letting people walk all over him]]. Simone is confident and outgoing and often acts as if the FBI should be grateful to have her.
** Simone's father spent time in prison for a crime he didn't commit. John's mother spent her life [[KarmaHoudini getting away with crime]].
** Simone's father is a loving parent who disagrees with her career choice but reluctantly supports her. John's mother is emotionally abusive and only supported her son's career choice as long as she thought it would benefit her.
** Being an older rookie, John feels he needs to prove himself, but his attempts always backfire. The only time things work out in his favor is when he stops trying to prove anything and just does his job. From day one, Simone let it be known that she considers grunt work to be beneath her, that she was too good to do background checks, and practically forced her way onto Garza’s team. This attitude always works out in her favor.
** John is a straight white male, Simone is a bisexual black woman.
** John is a humble unassuming man who always acts grateful for the opportunity to be a cop, often to the point of [[ExtremeDoormat letting people walk all over him]]. Simone is confident and outgoing and often acts as if the FBI should be grateful to have her.
** Simone's father spent time in prison for a crime he didn't commit. John's mother spent her life [[KarmaHoudini getting away with crime]].
** Simone's father is a loving parent who disagrees with her career choice but reluctantly supports her. John's mother is emotionally abusive and only supported her son's career choice as long as she thought it would benefit her.
** Being an older rookie, John feels he needs to prove himself, but his attempts always backfire. The only time things work out in his favor is when he stops trying to prove anything and just does his job. From day one, Simone let it be known that she considers grunt work to be beneath her, that she was too good to do background checks, and practically forced her way onto Garza’s team. This attitude always works out in her favor.
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A combo of low ratings and the 2023 WGA strike would find the show [[ShortRunners cancelled after 1 season.]]
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* BrokenPedestal: Simone expresses that she has this when she learns that cosmetics mogul Layla Laughlin has [[spoiler:been using human blood in her skin cream]]. Even after it's revealed that Laughlin didn't know this, Simone muses that Laughlin's problem was a fear of getting old, when people should be willing to accept this.
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* BrokenPedestal: ABirthdayNotABreak: The Season One finale "Red One" takes place on Simone's 49th birthday, which she is determined to celebrate as her mother never reached that milestone due to the stress of raising Simone while her father was in custody.
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** Simone expresses that she has this when she learns that cosmetics mogul Layla Laughlin has [[spoiler:been using human blood in her skin cream]]. Even after it's revealed that Laughlin didn't know this, Simone muses that Laughlin's problem was a fear of getting old, when people should be willing to accept this.
** In "Red One", Garza is disappointed to learn that his old mentor was part of a deal putting a notorious terrorist in witness protection in exchange for his information, basically letting the man off for his apparently numerous past crimes]].
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** Simone expresses that she has this when she learns that cosmetics mogul Layla Laughlin has [[spoiler:been using human blood in her skin cream]]. Even after it's revealed that Laughlin didn't know this, Simone muses that Laughlin's problem was a fear of getting old, when people should be willing to accept this.
** In "Red One", Garza is disappointed to learn that his old mentor was part of a deal putting a notorious terrorist in witness protection in exchange for his information, basically letting the man off for his apparently numerous past crimes]].
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* TakingTheBullet: "Red One" sees [[spoiler:Simone do this to protect a mother and child from being shot by a man seeking revenge against the husband/father. Fortunately Simone was wearing a bulletproof vest, and the rest of the team are close enough that they are able to arrest the man before he can fire again]].
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* InTheBlood: "Bloodline" reveals that the children of serial killer Thomas Clay Briggs (conceived through sperm donations) are being targeted by [[spoiler:Roman Griffith, one of Briggs' children, who has convinced himself that he and his siblings have inherited their father's criminal tendencies. Although Griffith kills himself after being caught, Garza notes that the remaining surviving siblings will be kept under observation just in case]].
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* IfIWantedYouDead: Invoked when the team capture a small terrorist group seeking to abduct Congressman Damien Roberts. Earlier Roberts had nearly been killed by a car bomb, but when the team analyse the remaining bomb fragments it's revealed that the bomb was a very amateur piece of work when one of the terrorists has past military experience; if this group ''had'' wanted to kill Roberts they would have done a more professional job of it.
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* IfIWantedYouDead: Invoked when the team capture a small terrorist group seeking to abduct Congressman Damien Roberts. Earlier Roberts had nearly been killed by a car bomb, but bomb. However, when the team analyse the remaining bomb fragments fragments, it's revealed that the bomb was a very amateur piece of work work, particularly when one of the terrorists has past military experience; experience. This discovery prompts the team to dismiss these terrorists as suspects, on the grounds that if this group ''had'' wanted to kill Roberts they would have done a more professional job of it.
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* SerialKillerKiller: In "Bloodline", [[spoiler:Roman Griffith at least believes he is this, as he is targeting his half-siblings on the grounds that their shared father was a serial killer and they have all inherited their father's criminal tendencies. However, while two of Griffith's victims were criminals, one of his half-siblings had no criminal record, and at least one other half-sister is shown to be a perfectly normal woman]].
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* WouldntHurtAChild: In "Bloodline", [[spoiler:while Roman Griffith is targeting his half-siblings in the belief that he is preventing them carrying on the criminal tendencies of their serial killer father, when he finds himself face-to-face with Theo, the son of his half-sister Maggie Whitlock, Roman cannot bring himself to hurt Theo despite his justification that Theo would also have the DNA of his father]].
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Laura Stensen delivers this to her former best friend Katie, who had an affair with Laura's fiancé for a year before admitting it. Katie points out that Laura was so focused on work she was making no time for either of them, but Laura counters that a true friend would have at least tried to point out what she was doing rather than start an affair.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Simone delivers one to psychopathic cult leader Foster Mills to provoke a confession out of him, telling him that for all his arrogance she sees one or two people like him a week in her role as an agent, people willing to twist reality any way they want to make themselves seem superior.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Simone delivers one to psychopathic cult leader Foster Mills to provoke a confession out of him, telling him that for all his arrogance she sees one or two people like him a week in her role as an agent, people willing to twist reality any way they want to make themselves seem superior.
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** Laura Stensen delivers this to her former best friend Katie, who had an affair with Laura's fiancé for a year before admitting it. Katie points out that Laura was so focused on work she was making no time for either of them, but Laura counters that a true friend would have at least tried to point out what she was doing rather than start an affair.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: ** Simone delivers one to psychopathic cult leader Foster Mills to provoke a confession out of him, telling him that for all his arrogance she sees one or two people like him a week in her role as an agent, people willing to twist reality any way they want to make themselves seem superior.superior and hide their own inferiority.
** Laura Stensen delivers this to her former best friend Katie, who had an affair with Laura's fiancé for a year before admitting it. Katie points out that Laura was so focused on work she was making no time for either of them, but Laura counters that a true friend would have at least tried to point out what she was doing rather than start an affair.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Simone delivers one to psychopathic cult leader Foster Mills to provoke a confession out of him, telling him that for all his arrogance she sees one or two people like him a week in her role as an agent, people willing to twist reality any way they want to make themselves seem superior.
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* ShutUpHannibal: When Foster Mills learns that his plans have been defeated and his cult's mass murder spree halted, he attempts to begin another speech to Simone, but she makes it clear that she's done listening and leaves him to his last meal before his execution.
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* BatmanGambit: In "Burn Run", an assassin who specialises in killing people in a manner that looks like accidents stages a plan to force a reclusive billionaire out of his penthouse by killing his former lover, anticipating that the woman's death would prompt the man to attend her funeral and thus be in a position for the assassin to go after him.
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* BusmansHoliday: Carter's attempt at a day off with his girlfriend leads to him investigating drug theft at the hospital where she works.
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* ClosestThingWeGot: In "Burn Run", with Carter taking a day off, Simone has to investigate a case with her former supervisor Oliver Bailor, who has a tense relationship with her and has been out of the field for a year, as he is the only agent available to help her.
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* GuiltByAssociation: In "Burn Run", Carter's girlfriend Fortune asks him to help her investigate drug thefts at the hospital where she works as she is being accused of the thefts simply because her mother was a criminal (even though her mother had served her sentence and was never involved in drugs).
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* RetiredMonster: "Burn Run" sees Carter discover that an attempt to coerce a hospital worker to steal drugs was being orchestrated by a former mobster; the now-old man was let out of prison due to his age, but with his son having exhausted his money he came up with the plan to steal drugs as a way to make himself more money.
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** While Simone and Brendon have done a good job on investigating some dangerous and challenging cases, this doesn't mean that they're allowed to skip over the official requirements of passing the tests to become qualified agents. "Burn Run" specifically has them be assigned low-level tasks to complete as part of their training.
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* BypocriticalHumor: After Carter has been talking about how Simone should learn to let go of grudges, he is shown still arguing with Xavier Lind after old grudges concerning him leaving the Academy.
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* EasilyForgiven: Angelique is initially teasingly annoyed when she wakes up after a night with Brendon to find him gone, but is immediately sympathetic when Brendon explains that he left because he got a call that his sobriety sponsor had fallen off the wagon.
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* EasilyForgiven: Angelique Antoinette is initially teasingly annoyed when she wakes up after a night with Brendon to find him gone, but is immediately sympathetic when Brendon explains that he left because he got a call that his sobriety sponsor had fallen off the wagon.
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* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: In "Countdown", the investigation into a missing scientist who spent his time looking for Bigfoot reveals [[spoiler:a plan to destroy Los Angeles with two dirty bombs]].
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** In "Countdown", the investigation into a missing scientist who spent his time looking for Bigfoot reveals [[spoiler:a plan to destroy Los Angeles with two dirtybombs]]. bombs]].
** "Seeing Red" opens with Simone discovering a dog-walker who has been attacked, which leads to the discovery that the attacker stole the keys to the walker's clients homes, allowing them to steal a diplomatic pouch.
** In "Countdown", the investigation into a missing scientist who spent his time looking for Bigfoot reveals [[spoiler:a plan to destroy Los Angeles with two dirty
** "Seeing Red" opens with Simone discovering a dog-walker who has been attacked, which leads to the discovery that the attacker stole the keys to the walker's clients homes, allowing them to steal a diplomatic pouch.
