Regenesis: Difference between revisions

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Established in the third episode with the death of {{spoiler|Hira Khan}}, and from there major characters continue to die every now and then, culminating in {{spoiler|[[The Hero Dies|David Sandström himself]]}}.

* [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]]: Bob, sort of; he gains [[The Empath|empathy powers]] that are at one point described as basically putting him into a higher state of being.

** The fact that he has Asperger's is first time mentioned in the ninth episode, and only in passing. Up until then the viewer can easily have thought that Bob is just a socially awkward guy.

* [[Auto Erotica]]: When Joanna is driving David to the airport, she mentions that this is the spot where people park the car for some last-minute action. At first he dismisses it; after some [[Naughty Under the Table|persuasion]], he then asks her to pull over. We can presume [[Auto Erotica]] ensued.

** Finally, at the end of season four, {{spoiler|the half-crazed Olivier Roth shoots himself in the head as David is confronting him in his hotel room about the world leaders whose Jacobson's organs he activated with potentially horrific consequences}}.

* [[Dude, She's Like, in a Coma]]: After David has awkwardly [[Converse with the Unconscious|confessed his love to]] the comatose Jill in the season two finale, he kisses her lightly on the lips.

* [[Dying Dream]]: The series finale, as {{spoiler|David lies dying after Nina has hit him with a shovel}}. He's still alive at the end of the episode and since it's the end of the series, it's completely possible he gets better.

* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: Season one: divorced, alcoholic jerkass boss with rebellious teenage daughter (who is in love with a dying cloned boy with existential issues a mile long), virologist with terrorist ties, biochemist with Asperger's Syndrome, an HIV-positive FBI agent, another virologist who suffers from panic attacks. The second season adds a fifteen-year-old meth addict living in the New York subway and gives details of the aforementioned jerkass boss's [[Freudian Excuse|childhood issues]]. In the third season one of the previously healthy characters loses a leg and develops phantom limb pain with a whole host of associated emotional issues. The fourth adds an empathetic woman who happens to go [[Ax Crazy]] as a side-effect.

* [[Imagine Spot]]: Some of the imagined scenes, unlike the [[Daydream Surprise|Daydream Surprises]] listed above, are pretty blatantly imaginary from the beginning, such as when Jill imagines David sitting around watching when she's on a date [[It Makes Sense in Context|in his house]] - we know that David is actually in Cuba - and when Carlos imagines a commercial he's watching being about a [[Cure Your Gays|cure for homosexuality]].

* [[I Need a Freaking Drink]]: David does both versions of this quite a few times, such as when his father, who has Alzheimer's, tells him that when he's forgotten who his granddaughter is,

'''David''': ...I need a beer. }}

* [[In Vino Veritas]]: How Popov was able to get the information about the Spanish Flu out of David.

* [[The Oner]]: The show often features some fairly long takes around the lab, such as following two characters conversing, seeing one character leave, then following the other character as they meet with another character and have another conversation.

* [[Phlebotinum Analogy]]: Necessary, as the concepts covered on the show would require an undergraduate degree in biology to understand otherwise. Generally well done, in that there is always an excuse to have a non-scientist character around (usually Caroline or Wes) who realistically would need to have it explained to them. It also helps that David likes to make the analogy [[Crowning Moment of Funny|entertaining]], such as when explaining horizontal transfer to the Chinese General Hung (who has essentially kidnapped him to force him to help combat a disease outbreak in China):

* [[Primal Scene]]: The very first post-rewind scene in the first episode features fifteen-year-old Lilith walking in on her father having sex with his physiotherapist. It says a lot about his prior history that her reaction is disgusted but not at all shocked or surprised.

* [[Put on a Bus]]: Sandström's daughter, Lilith, after the first season in which she participated in one of the season-long story arcs, is almost never mentioned again until the very end of the series where she reappears as an adult paleovirologist.

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