Harry now plans on detonating all of humanity with his device.
Tropes
- Actor Allusion: Harry pilots his ship from in front of a big window. He doesn't seem to have any dinosaurs, though.
- And I'm the Queen of Sheba: D'Arcy reacts to Jay telling her that she's Asta's daughter by replying "Yeah. Sheriff Mike's my father." Then she realizes that Jay isn't joking.
- Answer Cut: When Max's mother asks herself "where is my phone" the scene cuts to a shot underneath the bad guys' van where her phone resides as a Tracking Device.
- Asshole Victim: The opening reveals that the real Dr. Harry Vanderspeigle was the one who killed Dr. Sam Hodges and it was immediately afterward when he returned to his cabin that he was killed by the alien. The alien Harry Vanderspeigle narrates that humans have a word for it, that they call it "karma."
- Bait-and-Switch: The opening shows what appears to be Harry driving through the snow and then entering the doctor's office. It then has a chyron of "five months ago" to make us realize we're watching the real Harry Vanderspeigle...and he's the one who killed Dr. Hodges.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Ben and Kate, two folks shown for the series as rather Nice Guy figures see their kid being threatened by a pair of trained soldiers, one a ruthless killer...and completely kick their asses.note
- Big Damn Heroes:
- Ben and Kate Hawthorne as they senselessly beat up Lisa Casper and David Logan for getting rough on the children (Max and Sahar) and chase them out of the house.
- When the Area 51 guards take Asta and Max hostage, Harry gets out of his spaceship and knocks them out with shockwaves in his true form.
- Blood-Splattered Warrior: Ben and Kate have the blood of Lisa and David all over their clothes after beating the shit out of them. The disturbing thing is that they seem to get turned on by it.
- Bookends: The first episode ends with Harry unexpectedly encountering Max and saying "This is some bullshit." This episode ends the same way.
- Chekhov's Gun: "Birds of a Feather" had Max and Sahar knocked out by a shockwave emitted from Harry's gravitational device. Here it turns out Harry's green orb can do the same, and he sends many shockwaves to deter the armed men at the Area 51 base guarding his own ship from him.
- Chekhov's News: In the third episode, it's mentioned that the Chinese restaurant is being turned into a gourmet pizza joint. In this episode, an advertisement for the now-opened pizza place (and subsequent trip there) interrupts Harry as he is about to press the button that kills all humans.
- Cliffhanger: Max has stowed away onto Harry's ship at the same time Harry and Asta were making their final goodbyes.
- Conscience Makes You Go Back: Harry lands his ship to come to Max and Asta's aid.
- Crying Wolf: D'arcy's well-known antics while drunk make it very easy for the Sheriff to dismiss her claims that there is a dead body in Harry's basement.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Harry easily knocks out the Area 51 guards with his orb's shockwaves after they take Asta and Max hostage.
- Disintegrator Ray: Harry converts his green glowing orb into this. While it can serve as a Doomsday Device, Harry finds that even his human form is vulnerable to the orb's effects if fully detonated so he minimizes the impact of the orb to only disintegrate one body at a time, starting with the original Dr. Vanderspiegle's corpse that he's been struggling and bustling the whole season to dispose of.
- Distinguishing Mark: When she gets the chopped-off foot, Asta notes the mole on it...the exact same mole she saw on Harry's bare foot when he was growing the other one back and realizes the corpse is the real Harry's.
- Dynamic Entry: Harry in his truck busting through the gate of the Area 51 hangar.
- Enemy Eats Your Lunch: Sahar takes some fries from Asta's plate when she and Max "interrogate" her at the diner.
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Max and Sahar track the phone they put under the agents' RV. When they see it's at Max's home, they're confused, asking how that can be...then look out the window to see the RV camped right across the street.
- Flashback-Montage Realization: When Liv tells Asta about the freezer in Harry's house, the latter gets a "Eureka!" Moment with a flashback to the moment where Harry denies in her face knowing the whereabouts of the real Harry.
- Frying Pan of Doom: When Ben and Kate Hawthorne are beating David Logan and Lisa Casper out of the house, the main weapon employed by Kate is a large frying pan.
- Gaslighting: When nobody believes her about there having been a dead body in the freezer, D'arcy accuses Sheriff Thompson and Deputy Baker of trying to gaslight her.
- Get a Room!: Deputy Liz to Ben and Kate when they make out following their beat-down of the agents. Sheriff Mike and Max aren't enthused about the situation, either.
- Headphones Equal Isolation: Max's mother doesn't realize what's going on downstairs as she is working out on the upper floor with her headphones on.
- Humanity Is Infectious: Harry's hallucination of the corpse of the human Harry specifically tells him that he's been infected with humanity. When he then uses the device to dispose of the corpse, a bit of him comes in contact with it and gets messed up. He realizes that if he's still on Earth when the device goes off to kill all humans, then he will die as well.
- Improvised Weapon: Ben and Kate use household objects to beat up David and Lisa.
- Internal Reveal:
- Asta realises through various little clues what actually happened to the real Harry.
- David reveals to Max and Sahar that Harry's actually on Earth to kill everyone.
- Jay tells D'arcy about being Asta's daughter.
- Interplay of Sex and Violence: Ben and Kate get seriously turned on in the aftermath of the beatdown they give Lisa and David.
- Karma Houdini: Lisa Casper escapes the Hawthornes house even after threatening Max and holding him, Sahar and Kate at gunpoint.
- Karmic Death: The real Dr. Harry Vanderspeigle gets killed soon after tampering with the insulin that would kill the town doctor.Narrator: The universe knows what you have done, even if nobody else does. And the universe will restore balance one way or another. Humans have a word for this. They call it karma.
- Little Stowaway: Max sneaking into Harry's spaceship.
- Love Redeems: Harry agrees not to disintegrate all of humanity because of the time he spent with Asta.
- Mama Bear and Papa Wolf: Kate busts down a locked closet door with her bare hands and then beats the shit out the intruders holding her son at gunpoint. Ben also overcomes his fear and actually lands the first blow, then joins his wife in the shared beatdown.
- The Men in Black: General McAllister confirms that they exist in the setting, and that she deliberately kept them out of the loop by not informing her superiors in the military. They're not called "Men in Black" though.
- Mood Whiplash: The scene in which Max and Sahar are threatened by the government agents, who are then delivered an epic drubbing by Ben and Kate. It's a pretty scary moment followed by a quite intense one... the tension is then broken by the choice of the show's playing the love song "Sharing the Night Together" as Ben and Kate grab every object they can find to beat the two out of the house.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Ben and Kate beat Lisa and David to a bloody pulp for breaking into their house and holding Max and Sahar hostage.
- The Power of Friendship:
- Max claims that he can convince Harry to forgo his Doomsday mission because he believes Harry will listen to him.
- Harry is having doubts about using his device, but when Asta confronts him about having killed the human Harry Vanderspeigle, she tells him they're no longer friends. Thus, Harry has a heartbreak and starts breaking down deciding he will cook the earth to relieve him of the pain Asta has brought on him. When she comes back for him just as he's about to leave on his spaceship and kill everyone, she tells him that she realizes he's changed and that they are, in fact, friends. Harry ends up not using his device to kill all humans, instead allowing it to go off harmlessly in space.
- The Reveal: The viewers, through a flashback, are shown who really killed Sam Hodges.
- Soundtrack Dissonance: Used to humorous effect when Dr. Hook's "Sharing the Night Together" plays while Kate and Ben beat up their home intruders.
- Staged Pedestrian Accident: Sahar stages a collision with her bike and the van of The Men in Black in order to plant a phone as a Tracking Device under the van.
- Villain: Exit, Stage Left: General McAllister and Lisa Casper have yet to face any karmic punishment for their crimes throughout the series, as they casually leave the scene empty-handed after Max has guided them in the wrong direction from where Harry is.
- Wham Shot: The real Harry replacing the insulin, revealing he's the one who killed Sam Hodges.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: The mayor delivers this speech to D'arcy.
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Asta orders Max to hide as Harry and the Area 51 guards engaged in battle. It turns out that Max hid inside Harry's ship, with Harry not noticing until they've left Earth.Max: You're taking me home, right?
Harry: This is some bullshit! - You Have Outlived Your Usefulness:
- After Max gives coordinates to the town's clinic to Lisa Casper, she decides to execute Max and Sahar despite Logan pleading for them to be spared. The children are only saved by Ben and Kate pulling an epic Big Damn Heroes Papa Wolf Mama Bear moment.
- Casper and McCallister also attempt this on Logan. But he also gets spared because of witnesses who might blow their cover.
- You Have to Believe Me!: D'arcy gets angry and has a breakdown over her plan to expose the real Harry Vanderspiegle's murder being foiled by Harry just moving the corpse and also Sheriff Mike being too much of a Lazy Bum to investigate any further.
- You Will Be Spared: Harry offers to lift Asta off of Earth so she doesn't get vaporized by his Doomsday Device along with the rest of humanity. Asta declines, protesting she doesn't want Harry to wipe out humans to extinction, so he agrees to forgo the doomsday altogether and simply go home. Just as Harry does all that... he finds Max on his ship asking to be returned.
