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* [[Anti-Villain]]: Ensei Tankado. Sure he {{spoiler|conspired to infect the NSA's computer with a virus that would remove all its protection from hackers, but he never intended to let it actually happen, just force them to admit they really did have a big shiny computer and he wasn't spreading anti-US propaganda about 60 years too late}}.

* [[Attempted Rape]]: Subverted twice. {{spoiler|Susan thinks Hale's about to rape her, and David gets maced when a girl thinks he wants to hire her as a prostitute}}, then {{spoiler|Strathmore actually does try to rape Susan}}.

* [[Batman Gambit]] / [[Kansas City Shuffle]]: {{spoiler|Tankado's "unbreakable code" is a virus that he tricked the NSA into downloading into their system so he can hold the NSA database to ransom and force the NSA to admit the existence of TRANSLTR.}}

* [[Red Herring Mole]]: {{spoiler|Greg Hale, who Susan believes is North Dakota. He is sadly (or [[Jerkass|not]]) [[Acquitted Too Late]].}}

* [[Significant Anagram]]: {{spoiler|NDAKOTA is an anagram of Tankado, which is a clue to the fact that there is no North Dakota.}}

* [[The Password Is Always Swordfish]]: Tankado's password is {{spoiler|the single digit '3'}}. He even leaves clues just to make absolutely sure that everyone can guess it. Possibly justified in that Tankado may have wanted them to guess it. Which begs the question of why he even bothered with a password in the first place.

** Since he was trying to ransom the password off and {{spoiler|he expected to be alive to give it to them}} and clearly didn't expect them to guess it (it's made quite clear that the {{spoiler|fact he's dying is a massive [[Oh Crap]] moment for him}}), it's fair to assume that we're supposed to believe this is an absolutely, positively ''fiendishly clever'' password with the clue being there to taunt them.