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* [[Faking the Dead]]: Jacob.
* [[Fauxlosophic Narration]]
* [[For Science!]]: Dr Wakeman kills a random soldier just to show off what the alien implants do.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Everywhere.
* [[Game of Nerds]]: The quiet, bookish Jacob plays baseball. He says that he enjoys it because he can never make assumptions (which is probably important to a psychic). His daughter assumed it was because it's impossibly hard, and had a lot of useless statistics he could memorise.
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* [[Groin Attack]]: How Mary gets to General Beers.
* [[Government Conspiracy]]
* [[Half
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Dr Wakeman, Ray}}
* [[I Did What I Had to Do|You Did What You Had To Do]]: Chet tells Mary Crawford this to comfort her after {{spoiler|Eric dies}}.
* [[Intrepid Reporter]]: Sam Crawford.
* [[Invisible President]]
* [[
* [[I Will Wait for You]]: Sally for John. {{spoiler|She never sees him again}}.
* [[Jerkass]]: Ray.
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* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Eric Crawford, Dr Wakeman}}
* [[Retraux]]: Subtly used. The direction of each episode tried to mimic the direction of movies from the time period. For example, the first two episodes used older tungsten lights, while the later episodes used more modern lighting systems.
* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|[[What Is This Thing You Call Love?|Turns out aliens had long since supressed their emotions]], which made them [[Above Good and Evil]]. They came to Earth to study humans, and accidentally crashed. Because of Sally, John's emotions become... [[Buffy
* [[Revolvers Are Just Better]]: A revolver ''sniper rifle'' shows up in episode 7.
* [[Roswell That Ends Well]]: Played with. What the farmer found really ''was'' a weather balloon, but it crashed ''because'' of aliens.
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* [[Unperson]]: Owen did this to his minions to force them into working for him.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: The Crawford family.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]] / [[The Unfavourite]]: Eric Crawford. Owen barely acknowledges his existence.
* [[Wife Husbandry]]: The relationship between Wakeman and Mary Crawford: she and her "Uncle Chet" had wanted to sleep together since she was thirteen.
* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]: Ally.
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