History WhatAnIdiot / LiveActionTVMToN

* ''Series/{{Mash}}'': In the episode, "The Sniper", the doctors and nurses are trapped in Post-Op while six patients are in the ambulance in need of assistance. Hawkeye comes up with this master plan: to surrender to the sniper. His reasoning: if they surrender, they can help the patients in the ambulance. \\
'''You'd expect''': Someone, anyone, to question how surrendering to a sniper is even possible or how this would help. \\

'''The Result:''' Things go exactly as you'd expect. Even though she's able to get legitimate information from him with her own interrogation, the Professor manages to overpower and knock out Raquel the moment she begins to actually try bringing him to the police. Then in the next episode, the Professor is able to leave Raquel in her car as she proves unwilling to kill him with a pistol he gave her.

'''The Result:''' Things go exactly as you'd expect. Even though she's able to get legitimate information from him with her own interrogation, the Professor manages to overpower and knock out Raquel the moment she begins to actually try bringing him to the police.

** In Episode 5 of Season 2, Raquel has an EurekaMoment and realizes that her boyfriend Salva is the elusive Professor at the cafeteria she frequently goes to. She lures him the Professor into a trap and arrests him in the cafeteria's female restroom.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That she would take him to a police establishment right away, or call the police and wait for reinforcements to take him while holding him there.\\
'''Instead:''' She does not tell anyone, and takes him to the country house where the heist team organized the Mint heist (a place without anyone in it, and in the middle of nowhere) to interrogate him herself. Things go exactly as you'd expect.

** In Season 2, Raquel has an EurekaMoment and realizes that her boyfriend Salva is the elusive Professor. She lures him to a trap and arrests him.\\

'''Instead:''' She does not tell anyone, and takes him to the country house where the heist team organized everything (a place without anyone in it, and in the middle of nowhere) to interrogate him herself. Things go exactly as you would expect.

'''Instead:''' He gets aggressive with Denver and Moscow and threatens them with his fake pistol out of a sudden, inadvertently causing panic among the other hostages at the rooftop. Moscow and Denver only comply with Arturo forcing them to kneel before him because they're aware the snipers would pass them off as hostages for doing so.\\

'''Instead:''' He gets aggressive with Denver and Moscow and threatens them with his fake pistol out of a sudden, inadvertently causing panic among the other hostages at the rooftop. Moscow and Denver only comply with Arturo because they're aware the snipers would pass them off as hostages for doing so.\\

** In Episode 7 of Season 1, to give out an act on his part as a return for Raquel's several previous ones, the Professor offers the police the choice of receiving either Alison Parker (the most crucial hostage for the Mint heist to go well) as a single released person, or eight of her Brighton College classmates without Alison herself. While Raquel is considering what to do, Colonel Prieto quickly steps in to take the decision himself.\\

** In Episode 7 of Season 1, to give out an offer or act on his part as a return for Raquel's several previous ones, the Professor offers the police the choice of receiving either Alison Parker (the most crucial hostage for the Mint heist to go well) as a single released person, or eight of her Brighton College classmates without Alison herself. While Raquel is considering what to do, Colonel Prieto quickly steps in to take the decision himself.\\

'''The Result:''' The police mistake Arturo for a robber about to execute a number of hostages in line, and one of the snipers shoots him in the shoulder at Suárez's suggestion and Raquel's order, leading to the events of the next episode wherein Arturo has to be treated from the bullet wound. Sure enough, the police try to approach the sending of a medical team to get the upper hand against the robbers, but it was still a consequence of Arturo putting the lives of himself and numerous other hostages at risk with his idiocy.

'''The Result:''' The police mistake Arturo for a robber about to execute a number of hostages in line, and one of the snipers shoots him in the shoulder at Suárez's suggestion and Raquel's order, leading to the events of the next episode wherein Arturo has to be treated from the bullet wound. Sure enough, the police try to approach the sending of a medical team to get the upper hand against the robbers, but it was still a result from Arturo putting the lives of himself and numerous other hostages at risk.

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'''The Result:'''

'''Instead:''' Without a second thought, he just orders Raquel to choose Alison, on the grounds that keeping the relations between Spain and the United Kingdom positive is more important to the Spanish government than saving as much hostages in a national-level heist as they get the opportunity for.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' That knowing the robbers are unpredictable in what they can do to fight the police and how much they particularly emphasized on Alison since the police first knew that she's a hostage at the Mint, Prieto would choose to have the eight classmates released. Even if it's not the option he'd prefer, it's more likely to be the more believable and effective one, since the police already have plenty of evidence implying that the robbers are trying to keep Alison inside as long as possible to fortify their hold on the Mint.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' That knowing both the Professor and the heist team at the Mint are unpredictable in what they can do to fight the police and how much they particularly emphasized on Alison since the police first knew that she's a hostage at the Mint, Prieto would choose to have the eight classmates released. Even if it's not the option he'd prefer, it's more likely to be the more believable and effective one, since the police already have plenty of evidence implying that the robbers are trying to keep Alison inside as long as possible to fortify their hold on the Mint.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' That knowing both the Professor and the heist team at the Mint are unpredictable in what they can do to fight the police and how much they particularly emphasized on Alison whenever the Professor brought it up in his talks with Raquel, Prieto would choose to have the eight classmates released. Even if it's not the option he'd prefer, it's more likely to be the more believable and effective one, since the police already have plenty of evidence implying that the robbers are trying to keep Alison inside as long as possible to fortify their hold on the Mint.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' That knowing that both the Professor and the heist team at the Mint can be unpredictable to the police and how much they particularly emphasized on Alison whenever the Professor brought it up in his talks with Raquel, Prieto would choose to have the eight classmates released. Even if it's not the option he'd prefer, it's more likely to be the more believable and effective one, since the police already have plenty of evidence implying that the robbers are trying to keep Alison inside as long as possible to fortify their hold on the Mint.\\

'''Instead:''' Without a second thought, he just orders Raquel to choose Alison on the grounds that the relations between Spain and the United Kingdom are more important to the Spanish government than saving as much hostages in a national-level heist as they get the opportunity for.\\

'''The Result:''' Prieto's decision ends up being useless, since Alison isn't freed at all, first teased to him when the Professor tells Raquel that he already chose his own decision if he doesn't call her later. Not only that, but the Professor also takes advantage of this by releasing an audio recording of the moment to the Spanish public in order to damage the government's reputation.

'''The Result:''' Not only does Prieto [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom inadvertently motivate the robbers to start the Bank of Spain heist]] that carries over Season 3 and the next two ones, but he ends up losing Rio to a prison exchange that wasn't at his control, and the heist team eventually exposes his order of Rio's torture to the press and the public, ruining Prieto's reputation permanently.