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* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: Auggie has a bit of this for Annie.

* [[Blind Mistake]]: Mostly averted with Auggie, who is highly capable and aware of his surroundings, although he did once accidentally bad-mouth Jai's father while Jai was in earshot, with Annie's warning coming too late:

* [[Briefcase Blaster]]: In episode 4 a briefcase blows up.

* [[Broken Bird]]: Annie spent most of her life putting up emotional barriers, and when she finally let them down and fell in love, her paramour left in the middle of the night with nothing more than a note. And so, she explains, she keeps her guard up.

* [[Consummate Liar]]: ''Everyone'' on the show can lie perfectly. It comes with the job. That said, as demonstrated in "Bang and Blame", just because you can lie well doesn't mean that someone will automatically believe you or that a lie will advance your goals.

* [[Could Say It, But...]]:

* [[Cunning Linguist]]: Annie speaks 6 languages fluently: English, Russian, German, Spanish, Hebrew, and Portuguese, and she knows enough Turkish "to get by." It's one of the reasons she was recruited into the CIA.

** She also apparently knows at least some Italian as well, because in one episode she has to trade an Italian journalist for an American spy and she completely understands his ranting and even responds in Italian. She also understands Arabic, but she can only speak the cuss words. Estonian is her only weakness as she knows only the cuss words and not much else.

* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: Crosses over into [[Running Gag]]. Auggie is almost never without a beautiful woman at his side, whether due to co-workers, his charm, or just random women approaching him. Annie lampshades this in 1x05. Also played with 2x07; in the flashback of him before his blindness, he seems to lack the same sort of magnetism despite acting essentially the same.

''Annie takes a half-step away and a pretty woman immediately steps into frame and takes a seat next to Auggie.'' }}

* [[Dead Little Sister]]: Played straight with {{spoiler|Eyal}} - it's revealed in 2x13 that {{spoiler|he joined Mossad after a terrorist attack killed his younger sister, Sarah}}. Also played with Auggie, who {{spoiler|feels definite responsibility for not catching the mole who blinded him and killed the rest of his unit in an attack}}.

** Jai and Ben also.

** Naw, Jai is a definite in-universe example.

** S02E07 had this [[Commercial Pop-Up]]:

** Even Arthur (Peter Gallagher) to an extent

** Most male guest stars seems to be tall, dark, ruggedly handsome, perpetual 5-o'clock shadow. (Recently: Eyal, Dr. Scott Weiss, Roy from the Farm).

* [[Geeky Turn On]]: Auggie met his ex Natasha at a laundromat where she was reading ''[[Snow Crash]]''.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Escorting an outed Italian operative after being forced down in Argentina, they stumble across a farm;

* [[Grey and Grey Morality]]: Henry Wilcox

* [[Government Agency of Fiction]]: The Domestic Protection Division. Notable since the CIA is a foreign intelligence service yet for obvious reasons the show takes place mostly in the States. Something of [[Truth in Television]] as the CIA has 90% of its employees in the States. Most of whom are likely support for the operatives, analysts for the information, management/administration, or counter-intelligence rather than any sort of shadowy internal espionage thing (which, as mentioned above, is the FBI's purview).