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* [[Cartwright Curse]]: David can't seem to form a vaguely emotional connection to any woman without the writers lovingly wrenching it away from him in the most painful way possible. {{spoiler|Miraculously, Jill actually survived the life-threatening disease they had a perfect opportunity to kill her off with, but she was [[Put On a Bus]] instead.}}
* [[Child Prodigy]]: One sub-arc involves NorBAC investigating an elementary school where a number of the students experienced a significant increase in IQ (more specifically visual memory) after eating prion-tainted meat.
* [[CIA Evil, FBI Good]]: Caroline Morrison, FBI, is the benevolent leader of NorBAC and spends most of her time trying to outwit the US army, government, CIA and [[MI 6]] to help David and the others in their investigations.
* [[Converse With the Unconscious]]: After spending half of season two never getting the chance to speak to Jill alone, David uses the opportunity when she's comatose and dying in the season finale to "talk about New York".
* [[Clone Jesus]]: A preacher in the first season wants to do this.
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* [[Cure Your Gays]]: One [[Story Arc]] deals with the NorBAC team discovering that a deceased researcher had found a 'gay gene' but not yet published his findings. On the one hand, this would be irrefutable proof that homosexuality is genetic and not a choice. On the other hand, it opens wide the possibility of drugs being developed to suppress that gene or people having their children checked in utero for the gay gene so that undesirable sexualities can be aborted. {{spoiler|David ends up handing the research over to the deceased's wife and letting her choose what to do with it; since we don't see any gay drugs in the future of the show, it appears she kept it to herself.}}
* [[The Danza]]: Mayko Tran is named after her actress, Mayko Nguyen.
* [[Daydream Surprise]]: Scenes frequently take a sudden imaginary turn without warning. At first it really takes you by surprise; then you start seeing it coming, such as when David [[No
* {{spoiler|[[Dead All Along]]}}: In the first episode of the third season, David's father appears to have moved in with him after successfully having been treated with prions for his Alzheimer's. At the end of the episode we find out that {{spoiler|actually his father committed suicide months ago and David has been hallucinating him all along, thanks to the various drugs he's been doped up on the entire episode}}.
* [[Dead End Job]]: There's a pretty high turnover rate for virologists at NorBAC. {{spoiler|Hira Khan died the third episode, Jill Langston was infected with a retrovirus and ''nearly'' died before being [[Put On a Bus]], and Rachel Woods was killed by terrorists during the [[Bottle Episode]].}}
* [[Depraved Homosexual]]: Averted right into a goddamn brick wall with Carlos. One of the best portrayals of a gay man as a normal, well-adjusted, successful and mentally-sound human being ever: he is possibly the ''least'' dysfunctional person in the entire cast.
* [[Did You Just Have Sex?]]: After David sleeps with Jill for the first time, he arrives at work and Mayko almost immediately concludes that "You either got laid or arrested."
* [[Distant Finale]]: The series finale - kind of. It's a [[Dying Dream]], so it didn't exactly canonically happen, but it's set thirty-five years later.
* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|176 world leaders have had their Jacobson's organs activated and are about to go psychotic; one of them has Carlos in jail as a spy about to be executed; Nina hits David on the head with a shovel and she and Bob leave him to die in the snow. David's [[Dying Dream]] is no better: first there's a flu pandemic in 2010 that kills Nina and infects Bob's cloned son; then the clone sells his sperm to millions of women, only for it to turn out that the kids are carrying horrible retroviruses that were awakened by Robert Jr.'s flu infection; and the implied conclusion is that all of the 3.2 million children of the Melnikov lineage are going to be systematically exterminated.}}
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* [[Four Lines, All Waiting]]: There are always several storylines going on at the same time, usually two disease outbreaks being investigated, a couple of personal issues for the characters and the seasonal [[Story Arc]] simmering in the background. It works, as most of the arcs are still only a few episodes each, making them not drag on too much while granting a lot of variety to each episode.
* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Carlos is a trained kickboxer, a skill which proves unexpectedly useful at a few points, and which makes one antagonist nervous enough to pay special attention to him, to the point of zip-tying his ankles together and making sure there's always a gun trained on him. {{spoiler|Turns out that Carlos doesn't ''need'' kickboxing ability to foil said bad guy's plan.}}
* [[Handsome Lech]]: David Sandström. Apparently his couch ''alone'' (he also loves his bed, his [[Making Love in All The Wrong Places|kitchen]], and his [[Wall
* [[Hard Work Montage]]: Essentially CSI-style montages (not surprising considering that most forensic lab techniques were first created for biochemists) with more realistic lighting and equipment, and set to world music instead of rock. With a bit of action music, even reading scientific articles on [[Pub Med]] can be exciting!
* {{spoiler|[[The Hero Dies]]}}: In the final episode.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: David gets one once he realizes that he indirectly caused a Spanish flu epidemic in Denver.
* [[Hot Scientist]]: David Sandström sleeps with several of these. In a general 'scientists who are hot' sense, more or less the entire main cast counts.
* [[How Dare You Die On Me!]]: When David is in a coma in episode twelve, at one point Mayko tells him, "David, if you die, I'll kill you."
* [[How We Got Here]]: Episode one of Season 1 opens with a scene in episode twelve, and the rest of the season is a flashback retelling how we got there.
* [[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]].
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* [[Luke, You Are My Father]]: {{spoiler|In season one, Mayko mentions that she slept with David once, "years ago". In season four, she turns out to have a six-year-old daughter who she gave up for adoption. David's reaction to hearing her age tells all even before Mayko actually admits to him that he is the father. She never told him because he was her teacher at the time and he wasn't exactly the best of dads to the daughter he already had.}}
* [[Malignant Plot Tumor]]: David and Jill's interest in the 1918 Spanish Flu started off as a minor subplot in the first season eclipsed by the cases they took on and the ongoing Miranda virus arc, but then [[Oh Crap|that same Spanish Flu surfaces in Denver]].
* [[Meaningful Echo]]: During David's [[Near
* [[Meanwhile Back At The]]: Done using a signature rewind effect. After two characters have been shown going different ways, the camera will follow one of the characters, and after that scene is finished, the image will rewind to the point where the two characters left each other, but the camera will now follow the other character instead.
* [[Mohs Scale of Sci Fi Hardness]]: the series is basically a biopunk drama (with very strong characterization) with the sci-fi being of the 'scientifically plausible but currently undoable' kind.
* [[Moment Killer]]: When Lilith and Mick are in a motel room together during a blackout, with romantic candles, they discuss the possibility of [[You Don't Want to Die A Virgin, Do You?|having sex before he dies]]. They start to kiss and are getting into it... and then the power comes back on, switching on all the lights and the radio. Mood killed.
* [[Multinational Team]]: Considering that the team is called the ''North American'' Biotechnology Advisory Commission, and that the show is set in Toronto, one of the most multicultural cities on Earth, this is pretty much to be expected.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: See [[Heroic BSOD]].
* [[Near
* [[Next Thing They Knew]]: Frequently with David and the [[Girl of the Week]].
* [[Not That Kind of Doctor]]: David's card says "Dr. David Sandström", causing Owen to think he's a medical doctor after stealing his bag and seeking his help for Sunshine's illness.
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* [[Their First Time]]: Discussed between Mick and Lilith, but thanks to a [[Moment Killer]], it did not actually happen (as far as we know).
* [[Toronto]]: The location of the NorBAC HQ. The exteriors are mostly shot around University of Toronto.
* [[Trauma
* [[Typhoid Mary]]: The Miranda virus was originally spread by a baby that had been infected with the virus but genetically engineered with siRNA to be immune to it everywhere but the throat (so that she would cough and spread it).
* [[Unwinnable Training Simulation]]: One episode cold opens with NorBAC in full red alert as Sandström and co. frantically order around every army and medical facility in North America in a futile attempt to stop an epidemic that is about to go global. Incoming reports tell of thousands dead, entire cities under quarantine, and the US about to go to war with the UK over vaccine shipments. It all turns out to be a war game measuring how long it takes David to figure out the disease in question.
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