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Recap / SPY×FAMILY - Anime: S02 E08

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  • Age-Inappropriate Dress: Subverted in Yor's fantasy. She envisions her daughter wearing a PG-rated version of her Thorn Princess dress.
  • Bookcase Passage: Loid has an emergency escape passage behind the bookshelf at his office which is activated by a lever. Anya makes use of it to explore the hospital.
  • Call-Back: Yor openly brings up how her husband used his concussive recovery methods on some "clients".
  • Censored for Comedy: The bloodshed from Yor's targets is colored magenta pink. Some of it is even pixelated when Yor brutalizes her designated hit.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: Fiona, Twilight's silver-haired spy associate, is briefly shown interacting with Loid in the hospital.
  • Entertainingly Wrong: Loid theorizing about Anya's messed up mental state based on the chaos in her playing box.
  • Freeze-Frame Bonus: While Loid and Anya are walking through the hospital corridors, a shadow appears on the side as if someone was following intensely only not as blatantly.
  • History with Celebrity: Housemaster Henderson mentions how the kids could use their parents' connections to interview important political or social figures for their reports.
  • Imagine Spot:
    • After hearing Anya's assignment of researching her parent's profession and shadowing her, Yor worries about her daughter having to follow her as she commits her assassin's deeds.
    • Franky envisions a beautiful hottie entrusting Anya with a coded message meant for him.
  • I've Never Seen Anything Like This Before: Said by Loid when he sees the chaos in Anya's sandbox.
  • Kid Detective: Anya wears a Sherlock Holmes cosplay when she goes to her dad's "workplace" to study his job.
  • Mass "Oh, Crap!": Anya's classmates and Housemaster Henderson react this way when Anya explains her father's workplace and the bizarre and concerning practices that are involved.
  • Mercy Kill: In spite of the crimes of her targets, Yor still makes an effort to kill them as quickly and painlessly as possible.
  • The Needs of the Many: Yor takes pride in her assassination work as the clients she's assigned to murder are often traitorous scumbags and the whole nation will be at peace with their untimely deaths.
  • Right for the Wrong Reasons: Loid is correct to assume that Anya has some unspoken trauma in regards to her ongoing time at the orphanages. He's only wrong in the sense that the trauma came from her past as a human experiment.
  • Saying Too Much: Anya ends up using scatterbrained facts in her report that makes her father come off as a sketchy man who exploits targets and beats up patients.
  • Secret Path: In Loid's pretend office, there's a passageway behind a bookcase that can be used in the event that his mission is compromised. Anya decides to investigate it the moment he leaves her alone.
  • "Shaggy Dog" Story: Anya has a lot of fun planning a covert rendezvous by handing out coded invitations, only to oversleep on the day in question. To make matters worse, the only one to come is Franky, having assumed it was from a secret admirer.
  • Skeptic No Longer: Anya spies on a group of psychologists who argue that their patients seeing ghosts is all in their heads. But after she unintentionally scares them by moving around the vents and hissing, the men become firm believers in the undead.
  • Sneeze Cut: No sneezes occur, but Loid gets a bad feeling after Henderson utters his name in disbelief.
  • That Came Out Wrong: Played for Laughs, Anya's report on Loid's job accidentally makes him sound like he's actively participating in medical malpractice, much to the horror of her peers.
  • There Are No Therapists: Subverted. Loid's designated workplace has a variety of therapists and psychologists to help those in need. Especially for veterans who still suffer from the aftereffects of war.
  • This Is Gonna Suck: After Anya reads her report on Loid that makes him sound like a quack who needs to be busted for medical malpractice and bribery, he's seen at an intelligence briefing with Sylvia and, with a dejected look on his face, he tells her that he just got an eerie feeling that something bad is going to happen soon. The closing narration states he was called to the school in order to explain what Anya wrote in her report.
  • Troubled Child: Loid comes to believe Anya is this after seeing her chaotic box full of toys (in truth she dumped all of them inside at the last minute) while also analyzing how hard she had it in the orphanages.
  • Yank the Dog's Chain: Franky misinterprets the coded message as a love letter and gets all dolled up hoping to meet the one who sent the message. Neither Anya nor his fantasized beauty show up at the location.

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