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* [[Bulletproof Vest]] - Skeet and Fig are smart enough to put these on before they go Ahriman-hunting. {{spoiler|Turns out, they need it.}}
* [[Calling the Old Man Out]] - Dusty eventually does this with his mother and stepfather. {{spoiler|The entire reason Arhiman set out to destroy him, Martie, and Skeet was because the stepfather had been trying to academically humiliate him for years.}} To the point of literally trolling the reviews of his books on Amazon.com.
* [[Caught Onon Tape]] - How {{spoiler|Susan}} figures out Ahriman’s the one who keeps breaking into her apartment and raping her without her knowledge - and how he does it. He figures out what she’s done and goes back to [[Mind Rape]] her into destroying the tape (and the camera), but not before she puts out a call to Martie.
* [[Character Name Alias]] - Ahriman. Not only is his last name identical to the name of the chief figure of evil in Zoroastrianism, when he travels, he uses aliases that have two things in common: very ordinary first names, and last names that are the name of the Devil. One example is "Jim Shaitan," Shaitan being one of the names for the Devil in Islam.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]] - ''The Manchurian Candidate''. Reading it is what first clues Dusty in to the fact that Arhiman’s been screwing around with all their heads.
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* [[Foreshadowing]] - When taking Susan to an appointment with Ahriman, Martie's struck with an inexplicable feeling that she and Susan are some kind of Frodo and Sam, on their way to face Shelob. Turns out, she's metaphorically right.
* [[Happily Married]] - Martie and Dusty. Even if Martie’s mother isn’t happy about it at first.
* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]] - Ahriman, eventually. He has a patient with a pathological fear of Keanu Reeves, and to get her out of his hair for a while (since his life is rapidly falling apart), he convinces her the Matrix is in fact real, and she needs to hide for a while. It works, but unfortunately for him {{spoiler|she decides he’s an Agent and shoots him in his office.}} Oops.
* [[Hot Guys Are Bastards]] - Arhiman. He’s handsome and most definitely beyond a bastard. Averted with Dusty, who’s a genuinely nice guy.
* [[Interrupted Suicide]] - Skeet, fortunately saved by his brother Dusty and [[It Makes Sense in Context|a handy mattress.]]
* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]] - Ned Motherwell.
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] - Ahriman does this a lot.
* [[Meaningful Name]] - Ahriman, named after the personification of evil.
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* [[Oh Crap]] - Several characters go through that. Dusty and Martie’s comes when they figure out they’ve been brainwashed, and Arhiman when he discovers {{spoiler|Susan}} left a message about him on Martie’s answering machine before he drove her to suicide.
* [[Psycho Psychologist]] - Yep.
* [[Rape Asas Drama|Rape As Extra Squick]] - ''{{spoiler|Ahriman and Susan.}}'' As is typical with Koontz, it's not in the least explicit, but good ''grief'' is it creepy.
* [[Rich Bitch]] - Claudette, Dusty and Skeet's mother.
* [[Self-Made Orphan]] - Arhiman. A lot of Koontz’s villains like to off their parents.
* [[So Beautiful It's a Curse]] - Susan, ultimately. She sold Arhiman his house, and the only reason he decided to destroy her psyche was because she was so pretty.
* [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]] - Ahriman for Martie, briefly. Fortunately for her, {{spoiler|Dusty’s already de-programmed her by the time the doctor sees her again.}}
* [[Sock Puppet]] - {{spoiler|Derek Lampton, Dusty and Skeet's stepfather}}. He trolls the Amazon review section of {{spoiler|Ahriman's}} books, posting negative reviews under various fake names and e-mail addresses.
* [[Tomboyish Name]] - Martie.
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