Harry continues to build his radio, but Asta becomes suspicious when Sahar tells her that she thinks he's building a bomb and not a radio. She decides to come with him on a trip to the reservation to verify it really is a radio and brings Dan along, but things don't go quite as planned. Meanwhile, D'Arcy has a disastrous dinner with her parents, Sheriff Mike has a disastrous date, and Ben and Kate Hawthorne have dinner in Jessup, where they come face-to-face with the mayor who has been slandering Patience.
Tropes:
- Always a Child to Parent: Just by talking, D'Arcy's parents have the ability to make her feel just like she's still the little kid whose life they tried to control and think they still have the right to meddle in her life. She brings along Deputy Liv to her father's birthday dinner to try to cut them off, but when Liv leaves to try to attend to Sheriff Mike, they come full force at her, resulting in her pulling a Screw This, I'm Outta Here.
- Black Site: This episode reveals that General McAllister has a secret prison site where she is holding a number of individuals she thinks might either be aliens or connected to aliens. Among these is Dr. Ethan Stone, the Patience town doctor that was kidnapped instead of Harry Vanderspeigle after Max Hawthorne said that the alien is the "town doctor."
- Breathless Non Sequitur: Harry helps Sunny give birth using tips he got from a YouTube binge and repeats the video content in its entirety.Harry (to Asta): Place your hand suprapubically over the fetal anterior shoulder, applying pressure in a CPR style in a downward lateral motion. Be sure to like and subscribe.
- Call a Human a "Meatbag": Harry calls Max and Sahar "skinbags" before telling them that he has a built a radio to call his people and tell them not to come.
- Camp Gay: Asta's cousin Drew who moved from the rez to the city.
- Enemy Eats Your Lunch: Harry tries to intimidate Sahar with this technique, but it doesn't work.
- Erotic Dream: Octopus claims that Harry's radio woke him up from a dream featuring "a threesome with a starfish and a littleneck clam."
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Again, while not totally "evil," Harry truly and honestly can't understand why Asta is upset he's telling his people to wait 50 years to invade Earth as she'll be dead by then so why care about the other 7 billion people on the planet?
- Exact Words: Harry continues to tell Asta that he will tell his people "not to invade Earth." She believes him as he sends the signal..and then clarifies that he said "not to invade...for fifty years."
- Flipping the Bird: D'Arcy's final gesture as she strides out of the restaurant.
- I Ate WHAT?!: Ben spits out his taco when he learns it's from rival town Jessup. (He fishes them out of the trash and finishes them once Kate leaves the room.)
- Mistaken for Romance: Drew assumes that Asta wants to be alone with Harry because she's sleeping with him.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Out of anger at Harry and horror at what his message said, Asta knocks over the transmitter before it can send the message, and Harry can't get it back up before the window closes for another 10 years, meaning now he can't contact his home planet at all, and they will send someone to purge the planet. What's more, disrupting the signal before it could finish allows General McAllister to pick it up, alerting her to the presence of definitive alien activity.
- No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine: General McAllister serves Dr. Ethan a fancy dinner complete with wine before interrogating him.
- Not Listening to Me, Are You?: D'Arcy's parents are shown asking her this when she's tuned them out.
- Ominous Multiple Screens: The teaser ends with a zoom-out of a bunch of monitors showing all of the prisoners at McAllister's black site, along with their names, place of capture and length of detainment (in one case: 31 years!) as McAllister promises "I'll find out the truth about all of them."
- Saw a Woman in Half: The Ikea-instruction manual style opening credits for this episode depict two magic tricks. The first depicts Harry pulling a flowers out of a magician's hat and gets the red check-mark for being correct. The second gets the red X, as it's the woman sawed in half, but badly bleeding and apparently dead.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: D'Arcy, Kate, and Mike all do this. D'Arcy because she's fed up with her judgmental parents, Kate because she hates the mayor of Jessup, and Mike because his date prodded him into talking about his background.
- Spotting the Thread: Liv Baker realizes that her memories have been tampered with when Sheriff Mike brings back a dress she had dry-cleaned that she doesn't remember having dropped off. She thinks that she's been abducted by aliens. She's about half-right - Harry didn't abduct her as such, but he did implant False Memories in her.
- That Makes Me Feel Angry: Harry narrates his anger to Asta.Harry: I am pacing out of anger!
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Sahar's distrust of Harry causes her to make Asta doubt whether or not Harry is actually making a radio, and instead convinces her he's making a bomb. This leaves Asta paranoid of what Harry is doing, and while initially the signal is going off without a hitch, the minute Harry reveals he only told his people to delay the purge and not outright cancel it causes her to break the device
- Witch Hunt: Anyone McAllister even remotely considers an alien she has kidnapped and imprisoned, and has no compunctions with torturing them until she hears what she wants to hear.
- You Monster!: Harry threatens to tell his people to save everyone but Max and Sahar and then freeze them and make snowcones out of their eyes when they are dead. Sahar threatens to do something to him. Whatever it is, we don't hear because the camera angle cuts to the outside and the sounds of traffic and birdsong, but she makes some sort of thrusting and punching motions. Harry's response? "You are a monster! You will bring me my alien ball, you sick, broken child."
