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The Dropout

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The Dropout	comment	The Dropout is a Hulu miniseries about the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of Theranos, based on the ABC News podcast of the same name. The first three episodes dropped on March 3, 2022, with the remaining five episodes being released on a weekly fashion.The story is told through flashbacks as Elizabeth Holmes is recorded during her testimony at a July 11, 2017 deposition. Holmes (Amanda Seyfried) is determined to follow her dream of becoming a billionaire. As a freshman in biomedical engineering at Stanford, she manages to get a spot in a graduate research group. She has an idea for an invention that will change the healthcare industry: a machine that can conduct blood tests using just one drop of blood.The fact that it does not work does not prevent her from starting a company, hiring employees, and finding investors willing to put their money into it. Eventually, as more and more put her claims into doubt and as more of her lies become evident, the Theranos house of cards falls down.See also Bad Blood and the 2019 Documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley for nonfiction portrayals of Holmes's story.Also features Naveen Andrews as Sunny Balwani, her mentor and boyfriend.
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The Dropout / int_11ad560b	type	Control Freak
The Dropout / int_11ad560b	comment	Control Freak: Sunny is very domineering in his relationship with Elizabeth. He's 20 years her senior, and is already a successful businessman while she is just a college student. He is upset when she wants to get her own car because he wants to drive her everywhere. He whines that she doesn't spend enough time with him despite the fact that she is the CEO of a company she is trying to get off the ground. Sunny even gets upset when she doesn't drink the green juice he got her, lamenting it cost him $12 despite him being independently wealthy. Eventually it leads to a physical confrontation between the two when Sunny believes she's not paying enough attention to him. Things get worse when Sunny becomes COO of the company: employees are required to sign a pile of NDAs, prevented from talking to other employees, and closely and constantly monitored.
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The Dropout / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
The Dropout / int_141a6acb	comment	After the trial on cancer patients in a Nashville clinic. "This is an inspiring step forward." It's the phrase that Elizabeth says out loud over and over again to practice her contralto. She uses it to justify the trials on cancer patients to both Edmond and Don Lucas. Also doubles as Madness Mantra.
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The Dropout / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
The Dropout / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Ian is decades older than most of his co-workers at Theranos but is beloved and looked up to as a mentor. He is always friendly, charming and encouraging, and sincerely tries to help Elizabeth achieve her goals. He's also played by Stephen Fry, which automatically makes him cool.
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The Dropout / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
The Dropout / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: A drunk Elizabeth tells Sunny about faking a working prototype for Novartis's demonstration, "I donâ€™t feel things the way other people feel things." She also dismisses Edmond's concerns about trying out the machine with actual patients by saying it's just a trial. Her lack of concern for others leads Ana and the design team to quit. She bluntly tells a young woman fixing her phone at the Apple Genius Bar that the woman will never be important and nothing she does will ever matter. She even sounds outright envious of her and probably thought she was paying her a compliment. After learning Ian killed himself, Elizabeth goes back to the meeting she was just having. Sunny tries to get her to take a moment to grieve, but Elizabeth focuses on the fact that with Ian dead, he can no longer testify against her and therefore Richard Fuisz has to settle by default. She is implied to be in shock over it, messing with a finger puppet to distract herself, but she pivots to focusing on the lawsuit pretty quickly and noticeably attempts to move on from the event as quickly as possible, including treating his widow appallingly. She is later seen playing with the wellness center diorama like a child playing with a doll house. Sunny, himself a pretty terrible person, finally picks up on this in the last episode when Elizabeth has fired him from Theranos and plainly is going to blame him for everything. Without saying the word "sociopath" he pretty much describes the trope.
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The Dropout / int_1aecaf6c	type	DrowningHisSorrows
The Dropout / int_1aecaf6c	comment	Drowning His Sorrows: Locked into a meaningless, do-nothing job and unable to quit, Ian Gibbons increasingly retreats into a bottle.
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The Dropout / int_1c3e4c9	type	Gratuitous Animal Sidekick
The Dropout / int_1c3e4c9	comment	Gratuitous Animal Sidekick: Elizabeth gets a Siberian husky, possibly trying to invoke Heroes Love Dogs.
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The Dropout / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
The Dropout / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: It's strongly hinted that Elizabeth is motivated solely by her desire for financial success. Truth in Television, the real Elizabeth Holmes stated that her biggest desire was to be a billionaire.
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The Dropout / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
The Dropout / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Despite initially refusing to believe him and even lashing out at him at first, George Shultz proves himself as this for his grandson Tyler, stepping in on his behalf and preventing him from signing an NDA Theranos' counsel tries to pressure him into.
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The Dropout / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
The Dropout / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: The show is framed by Elizabeth Holmes's deposition in her eventual fraud trial.
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The Dropout / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
The Dropout / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: David Boies as Theranos's top attorney. He has worked on cases for the greater good and for LGBT rights, and he is seemingly aware of Theranos's fraud. That doesn't stop him from protecting the company with gusto and intimidating Theranos's targets.
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The Dropout / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
The Dropout / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Elizabeth firmly believes she's the heroine of an inspiring story about a prodigy who built up a multi-billion dollar company and pushed against Silicon Valley's entrenched sexism with her bluffing eventually going to make a great origin story and sign of her determination and ingenuity. In reality, she's the villain in a story about a borderline con artist who lied about her product to investors and took them for billions and had a ridiculously misplaced sense of confidence that ended up bringing her down and whose poor product seriously damaged people's lives.
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The Dropout / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
The Dropout / int_22a60f6a	comment	Nepotism: By 2013, Theranos has hired Elizabeth's brother in a vague position, leading to resentment from the other employees. George Shultz uses his influence as a board member to get his grandson Tyler a job at Theranos.
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The Dropout / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
The Dropout / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: Sunny pays a visit to the Theranos lab, without asking or even telling Elizabeth first. She is enraged that he did that, but he lays a couple of truths. Her employees don't respect her, and she is years away from delivering on what she has promised her board: "Elizabeth, you are in over your head. You are going to lose everything." Richard Fuisz calls Phyllis Gardner to ask what she thinks about Elizabeth. Her response is brief and blunt: "She's a fraud, Richard. She's always been a fraud."
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The Dropout / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Dropout / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Kevin is the only person in the Walgreens team who doesn't trust Elizabeth and is suspicious of her from the beginning. Dr. J is an Extreme Doormat who is easily won over by Elizabeth, Roland mostly just seems to be along for the ride, and Wade shares Kevin's suspicions at first (and was the one responsible for hiring Kevin to begin with), though Elizabeth manages to successfully prey on his insecurities too. Both Erika Cheung and Tyler Shultz become this during their time with Theranos, becoming increasingly aware of how dangerous the company is. Gary Yamamoto, the CMS inspector who finally takes down the company, which is why Erika and Tyler contacted him. Unlike journalists and investors who are dazzled by Elizabeth's rhetoric and lofty promises or threats of defamation suits, he is focused only on the actual labs and data and can't be distracted by anything else.
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The Dropout / int_2497e5b8	type	Atomic F-Bomb
The Dropout / int_2497e5b8	comment	Atomic F-Bomb: Elizabeth yells "Fuuuuuuuuck!" inside her car after being rejected by several venture capitalists. Sunny, when a bank of testing machines fail, yet again.
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The Dropout / int_26a9afaa	type	The New '10s
The Dropout / int_26a9afaa	comment	The New '10s: The second half of the show takes place in the early-to-mid 2010s, from the Walgreens deal to Theranos' downfall. "Old White Men", which takes place in 2011, mentions Katy Perry's song "Firework", Angry Birds, and Uber back when it was still known as UberCab and just starting out.
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The Dropout / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
The Dropout / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Sunny did make millions from the sale of a dot-com company he cofounded, but he's not exactly considered a major player in Silicon Valley. Even Elizabeth sniffs at his accomplishments once hers start surpassing his. Nonetheless he expects everyone, especially her, to defer to him at all times.
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The Dropout / int_28c1812e	type	Cheated Death, Died Anyway
The Dropout / int_28c1812e	comment	Cheated Death, Died Anyway: When Elizabeth hears about Ian's suicide, she numbly states he had previously survived cancer. Her obvious thinking is that after Ian successfully (and repeatedly at that) bounced back from one of the deadliest ailments in the medical world, it was threats from partially her company that led to his death.
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The Dropout / int_2c27353f	type	Was It Really Worth It?
The Dropout / int_2c27353f	comment	Was It Really Worth It?: Fuisz gets the news about the article on Theranos coming out and takes a moment to celebrate. He looks around his empty, messy bedroom and realizes he drove his wife away with his obsession with Theranos.
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The Dropout / int_2d26bfd6	type	Cardboard Box of Unemployment
The Dropout / int_2d26bfd6	comment	Cardboard Box of Unemployment: Brendan Morris is seen leaving the building with his stuff in a cardboard box, presumably after tendering his resignation. Other examples include Edmond and Erika, as well as other employees without speaking lines, as they are escorted out. Averted with Tyler, who just grabs his messenger bag and leaves Sunny's office after Sunny rejects his two weeks' notice.
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The Dropout / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
The Dropout / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Elizabeth really likes dancing when she is alone. It's pretty much the only time when she drops her serious persona. Mark Roessler seems like a meaningless peon in Theranos. Then he is the first to assist Fuisz in his quest to bring down Theranos, he states that he took the Hippocratic oath.
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The Dropout / int_328b32	type	Unequal Pairing
The Dropout / int_328b32	comment	Unequal Pairing: Never mind the gap in ages of almost 20 years. When they start out, Elizabeth is a freshman student and Sunny is a multi-millionaire after selling his company. As time goes on, he acts controlling both in private (the incident where she refuses to drink the expensive green juice he bought for her) and in her business (when he shows up uninvited to observe what the heck is going on at Theranos).
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The Dropout / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Dropout / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Gary Yamamoto, the CMS inspector, worked with a partner in real life who does not appear in the show.
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The Dropout / int_33ec1e36	type	Army of Lawyers
The Dropout / int_33ec1e36	comment	Army of Lawyers: Theranos falls back on legal intimidation as a silencing tactic as the Wall Street Journal begins to amass sources for its expose.
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The Dropout / int_3451115d	type	Loved by All
The Dropout / int_3451115d	comment	Loved by All: Ian is so beloved by his colleagues that after he gets fired, his entire department threatens to resign unless he gets his job back.
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The Dropout / int_355007c3	type	Brilliant, but Lazy
The Dropout / int_355007c3	comment	Brilliant, but Lazy: Deconstructed with Elizabeth. She is shown to legitimately be a very intelligent person who is able to do well in class, and believes that her talent can make her a billionaire through medical science. Best exemplified in her conversation with Phyllis Gardner, who points out that science is all about trying and effort, not just "doing it" as Elizabeth thinks. Unfortunately for all involved, Elizabeth's intelligence cannot overcome the fact that her idea is scientifically impossible to make work, which she might have discovered if she had kept putting in the effort at Stanford. She's also something of an inversion of this trope, believing she can overcome her lack of medical and scientific knowledge and the fact that her device simply doesn't work with sheer determination and realizing the limits of hard work.
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The Dropout / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
The Dropout / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Erika discussing why she is filing a complaint on Theranos with the CMS. Tyler points out that she is swearing a lot and that he likes it.
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The Dropout / int_362bdb30	type	Out-Gambitted
The Dropout / int_362bdb30	comment	Out-Gambitted: Sunny finds himself completely played by Elizabeth, who pins all the blame on him while he was setting up an out behind her back to protect himself from any fallout.
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The Dropout / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
The Dropout / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: This is why Erika decides to report Theranos to a minor government regulatory agency (vs. Tyler who thinks that the media is a better outlet); Erika reasons that Elizabeth can out-dazzle any news coverage but won't have any weapons against the boring motions of government bureaucracy.
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The Dropout / int_3b982a5a	type	Crowd Chant
The Dropout / int_3b982a5a	comment	Crowd Chant: When they get a complete reading on a test for sepsis, Rakesh, Edmond and Ian burst into Elizabeth's office (where she sleeps) to let her know. They start jumping up and down in celebration: "We have sepsis! We have sepsis!" After the Wall Street Journal article gets published, Sunny leads the Theranos employees into a rousing chant of "Fuck you, Carreyrou!"
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The Dropout / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Dropout / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: We already know that Elizabeth lied about her blood testing machine, that Theranos went bankrupt and, as of February 2022, that she was found guilty of four counts of defrauding investors.
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The Dropout / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Dropout / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Sunny. In every sense. Elizabeth doesn't share Sunny's habits of yelling, threatening, and throwing things. But she has no problem firing anyone who questions her too much on the spot, and she has zero consideration for her employees' personal lives or energy levels. She won't even let them take a birthday cake break if it means holding up work.
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The Dropout / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
The Dropout / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: Multiple examples. When called in front of the board of directors, Elizabeth is more concerned that she will be fired from her own company than she is by the fact that her machine doesn't work, and is in fact decades away from even remotely close to being possible. Elizabeth is spending time focusing on marketing and a new logo design at a time when Walgreens has given her a firm deadline to have her machine ready and the machine still doesn't work. When she learns Ian killed himself, Elizabeth is more focused on how he can no longer testify in Richard Fuisz's lawsuit than she is in grieving for her friend, something that takes even Sunny by surprise.
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The Dropout / int_3eb0f889	type	Pun-Based Title
The Dropout / int_3eb0f889	comment	Pun-Based Title: Elizabeth dropped out of college trying to create something that could make something out of a single drop of blood.
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The Dropout / int_3ed17fe0	type	Wide-Eyed Idealist
The Dropout / int_3ed17fe0	comment	Wide-Eyed Idealist: Early on, Elizabeth seems to genuinely believe that her idea for a new form of blood-testing is possible. This fades as she dives headfirst into outright fraud, blatantly lying to her staff, investors, board members, and even cancer patients, and even Sunny calls her out on the fact that she's a decade of work away from delivering on anything she promised the board was already happening. Tyler Shultz and Erika Cheung start out like this. It fades gradually for both: Tyler thinks just telling his grandfather about the fake tests will be enough, but George Shultz refuses to believe him. Erika is surprised when she is told to erase data from tests and later is told explicitly to not ask questions.
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The Dropout / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
The Dropout / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: The Holmes family in spades. When Elizabeth and her brother come home from school to find out their father has lost his job due to being involved in the Enron scandal, her brother's first instinct is to whine about not wanting to move from their luxurious home. Despite her family relying on Richard Fuisz financially to help them out, Elizabeth avoids going to him for help in starting up her medical technology company. It makes no sense to Fuisz since he founded and sold off a medical technology company himself. Fuisz is so insulted he actually invents and patents a technology that would make dealing with him essential, only for Elizabeth and Theranos to sue him. When Elizabeth leaves a meeting with Larry Ellison to see her father who's been hospitalized, he bluntly chastises her for it and demands that she "get back to work." Edmond sacrifices time with his family to help get the initial Edison machine off the ground, even cutting into a family trip to help the team when they are pitching to overseas investors. But when he resigns after participating in a phony trial involving cancer patients, he's coldly led out of the company and not even allowed to keep any of the material he brought from home. George Shultz accuses Erika of being this to Elizabeth by repaying the opportunity of working at Theranos with tales of falsified data.
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The Dropout / int_407d3e6d	type	Morton's Fork
The Dropout / int_407d3e6d	comment	Morton's Fork: After Ian gets subpoenaed, he has three outcomes which are equally terrible: he testifies and tells the truth, in which he'd be violating his NDA and get sued by Theranos, which he can't financially recover from; he testifies and lies, which would be perjury; or he gets a doctor's note saying he's unwell, but it's highly unlikely he'd ever work again if he did that. So, he takes the only way out he can think of and commits suicide.
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The Dropout / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Dropout / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Elizabeth lies to everyone about the machine working when she does not even have a working prototype. Elizabeth invoked crosses the line from stubbornly believing in her flawed, unworkable idea into outright fraud when she blatantly fakes a successful test result during a demonstration after the prototype suddenly stops working in Switzerland.
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The Dropout / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Dropout / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: For people like Tyler Shultz, Erika Cheung, John Carreyrou, Dr. Phyllis Gardner, and Richard Fuisz, their efforts finally pay off: Theranos is dissolved and Elizabeth and Sunny will rightly face serious legal consequences. Erika Cheung uses her experiences to create a nonprofit for ethics in entrepreneurship. However, there is plenty of "bitter" in there: Dr. Gardner's prediction that Elizabeth's fraudulent actions would make things harder for women who wanted to start companies proves true. Fuisz's obsession to prove Elizabeth Holmes wrong ended up breaking up his marriage. Tyler Shultz did end up reconciling with his grandfather before the latter's death but he will never recover the lost time. Billions of dollars from investors have been thrown away. Anybody who worked for Theranos has a stain in their employment record. And nothing will bring back Ian Gibbons, or undo any harm done to actual people who relied on the inaccurate info from tests. Elizabeth deserves whatever punishment is headed her way, but she did start out as a Wide-Eyed Idealist wanting to do good and trying to advance medical science. Her ambition and ego grow out of control and she fully completes a journey to becoming a villain. On top of that, whether through Selective Obliviousness or Lack of Empathy, she does not accept any responsibility, chalking it all up to "failure to deliver'', and mentally distances herself from her wrongdoings. To top it off, before Elizabeth was found guilty of several charges, she'd met a new partner, had a child, and was pregnant again towards the end of her trial. She was later sentenced to 11 years and 3 months in prison, meaning those children will be separated from their mother for years on end.
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The Dropout / int_4211d102	type	Confess to a Lesser Crime
The Dropout / int_4211d102	comment	Confess to a Lesser Crime: When Linda from legal confronts Elizabeth on all the patients she lied to, employees she hurt and investors she defrauded, Elizabeth will only admit that she "failed to deliver," but denies that she committed any crimes.
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The Dropout / int_4276401c	type	Shoot the Messenger
The Dropout / int_4276401c	comment	Shoot the Messenger: Avie tells Don Lucas about Elizabeth not being ready to be CEO and that there is not a single contract to back up her projections. In response, Don tells him that he wants Avie's resignation. Avie leaves but yells at Don, "Fine! Just start asking questions. She's lying to you!" Don does start asking questions and eventually realizes Avie was right.
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The Dropout / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
The Dropout / int_43b785f9	comment	Nothing but Hits: Every episode is packed with hits, either indie rock or pop, from the year it's set in, e.g. Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Y Control" and Justin Timberlake's "Rock Your Body" in 2003, Feist's "1234" and Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black" in 2007, etc.
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The Dropout / int_453871ec	type	What Could Have Been
The Dropout / int_453871ec	comment	What Could Have Been: An in-universe example. At the end of the second episode, Elizabeth sees a group of young men and woman partying at a bar, and remarks that she would have been graduating around this time. The clear emphasis placed on this is that Elizabeth's life may have got in a different, and almost certainly better, direction had she stayed in education to refine her skills and find new places to focus her ambitions and intelligence towards.
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The Dropout / int_47fe2e12	type	Consistent Clothing Style
The Dropout / int_47fe2e12	comment	Consistent Clothing Style: In the beginning, Elizabeth's work wardrobe consists of a lot of untucked button-down shirts, even when going out for presentations to venture capitalists. After her makeover, it mainly consists of black turtlenecks like the ones worn by Steve Jobs and matching slacks, or little black dresses for fancy occasions.
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The Dropout / int_4971b851	type	Aggressive Categorism
The Dropout / int_4971b851	comment	Aggressive Categorism: Played with: Elizabeth's ambition is so single-minded that the pervasive sexism of Silicon Valley never occurs to her as a potential problem. Only when she's already a cover-story billionaire does she start leaning on straw feminism when it suits her.
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The Dropout / int_4e52a624	type	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
The Dropout / int_4e52a624	comment	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Elizabeth and Sunny are used to getting their way by dazzling people with what amounts to good marketing—none of which means anything to Gary Yamamoto, the CMS inspector, whose only job is to inspect the lab. Quietly and surprisingly revealed to be a driving factor for Mark Roessler who takes seriously the Hippocratic oath and cannot live with his deception.
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The Dropout / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Dropout / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: From the CMS report, and in all caps:
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The Dropout / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
The Dropout / int_5008a1bb	comment	Mysterious Informant: Mark, the lab director, meets after dark in Richard Fuisz's car. He says outright that he will not be a whistleblower, but he does point Richard in the right direction.
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The Dropout / int_507ac08d	type	Blunt "No"
The Dropout / int_507ac08d	comment	Blunt "No": Gary Yamamoto from CMS is on a mission to check out the Theranos labs. This is his response when Sunny tries to show him a presentation as a distraction from his mission.
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The Dropout / int_5084c972	type	Appeal to Novelty
The Dropout / int_5084c972	comment	Appeal to Novelty: Dr. Jay sells Theranos to his colleagues by saying that they're old and out-of-touch and need to get on board with the new tech represented by Holmes and her company.
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The Dropout / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Dropout / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Richard Fuisz, a friend of Elizabeth's parents, patent-trolls Theranos in an attempt to get a cut of her money, apparently because he was offended she didn't come to him for advice. Neither Elizabeth nor her parents can believe Richard would be that petty.
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The Dropout / int_50b9b3d0	type	Crazy Jealous Guy
The Dropout / int_50b9b3d0	comment	Crazy Jealous Guy: Sunny is extraordinarily possessive of Elizabeth, but not because of a romantic rival. He recognizes that she's more devoted to Theranos than anything or anyone and lets her know how much he resents this. He doesn't even mind that she only brings him aboard as COO for his $20 million investment, as long as he gets to be at her side.
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The Dropout / int_5141fc93	type	Forgot to Pay the Bill
The Dropout / int_5141fc93	comment	Forgot to Pay the Bill: After the first failed test of the machine, the lights go out at Theranos. Elizabeth is able to pass this off as the machine tripping the breakers when it shorted out, but she has to put the power bill on a credit card other than the one she was using.
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The Dropout / int_516f986d	type	Loving a Shadow
The Dropout / int_516f986d	comment	Loving a Shadow: During the argument that ends their relationship, Sunny accuses of Elizabeth of being a "ghost" that he "invented." She's not the highly competent CEO he tried to mold her into, nor is she the loving and compliant girlfriend he wanted.
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The Dropout / int_52196c03	type	Age-Gap Romance
The Dropout / int_52196c03	comment	Age-Gap Romance: Sunny is about two decades older than Elizabeth is, with their actors having a similar age gap.
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The Dropout / int_530350d5	type	Trouble Entendre
The Dropout / int_530350d5	comment	Trouble Entendre: One of Elizabeth and Sunny's final conversations is absolutely brimming over with this.
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The Dropout / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
The Dropout / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: Both Amanda Seyfried and Naveen Andrews are much easier on the eyes than the real Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani, especially in the latter's case.
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The Dropout / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Dropout / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: In the show, after Ian Gibbons commits suicide, a mass email is sent out to employees announcing in his death. In reality, no one in Theranos was told about his passing. One of his colleagues did later send around a memorial email, but it was not to the whole company and only contained information about his inventions. The show depicts Elizabeth as having just about zero girlfriends, except for one unnamed girl who comes by her dorm room with a DVD and a bong. In fact, she was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority at Stanford, and one good girlfriend of hers worked at Theranos for a time. Some of her former sisters even attended her trial in support, although others backed off. In the show, Elizabeth only needs a few minutes and some well-placed Crocodile Tears to talk the board out of firing her as CEO. In real life, she spent two hours persuading them to let her stay on, and although she was reportedly contrite, there's no record of her crying. It's implied by the show that Holmes is able to persuade Ian Gibbons to come on-board because he urgently needs a healthcare plan after his cancer battle. In real life, Gibbons had already been working for Theranos for two years before he was diagnosed with cancer. In the show, Sunny's attempt to dazzle Gary Yamamoto with a big presentation fails when Yamamoto politely but bluntly refuses to see it. In real life, Yamamoto let him do the presentation, he just wasn't impressed by it.
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The Dropout / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
The Dropout / int_5798bfbf	comment	Head of chemistry Ian Gibbons is fired for discussing his concerns about Elizabeth with a board member and personal friend. The next day, engineer Brendan and all employees under him threaten to quit in protest. Ian is rehired, but he is Reassigned to Antarctica.
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The Dropout / int_58b70952	type	Failure Montage
The Dropout / int_58b70952	comment	Failure Montage: Elizabeth makes the rounds at several venture capitalists' offices, presenting her concept. None of them show interest, as she has no working prototype, has yet to meet with pharmaceutical companies, and she dropped out of Stanford.
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The Dropout / int_5963b221	type	Eviler than Thou
The Dropout / int_5963b221	comment	Eviler than Thou: "Evil" is a strong word, but in the finale Elizabeth proves herself to be far more callous than Sunny, casually tossing him aside and trying to pin the blame entirely on him. Sunny is completely blindsided by how easily Elizabeth throws him under the bus and cuts all ties with him.
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The Dropout / int_5a28b615	type	Fuzz Therapy
The Dropout / int_5a28b615	comment	Fuzz Therapy: The Siberian Husky Elizabeth gets as part of her plan, along with a younger boyfriend, to relax and have fun. It also serves as a distraction from facing the consequences of the fraud (bankruptcy, possible prison time).
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The Dropout / int_5e13dc69	type	Competition Freak
The Dropout / int_5e13dc69	comment	Competition Freak: Elizabeth doesn't remember having any hobbies as a child. When she asks her mother about this, Noel reminds her that she ran track and climbed a mountain, and her brother recalls her reacting angrily to losing at Monopoly. Even then, even Elizabeth's fun required her to surpass other people.
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The Dropout / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
The Dropout / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: Elizabeth seems to take Theranos' implosion, and all the harm that she did to people, remarkably in stride. Lampshaded when Linda Tanner asks "Is there something wrong with you?"
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The Dropout / int_5f52cfcf	type	Intrepid Reporter
The Dropout / int_5f52cfcf	comment	Intrepid Reporter: John Carreyrou, and to a lesser extent his boss Judith, refuse to give up on the Theranos expose even as their sources diminish and when Theranos sends their Army of Lawyers to intimidate them.
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The Dropout / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
The Dropout / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Kevin on the Walgreens team is neurotic and is first shown anxiously hoarding plane snacks, earning a side-eye and reprimand from Dr. J. However, he is extremely competent and discerning, always seeing through Theranos's lies and smokescreens. Unfortunately, he's never taken seriously, not only due to Elizabeth's influence but also possibly because Dr. J thinks he's odd.
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The Dropout / int_6531fa39	type	Professional Voice Dissonance
The Dropout / int_6531fa39	comment	Professional Voice Dissonance: Elizabeth puts on a fake contralto voice to sound more professional and authoritative in public, in contrast to her higher sounding natural voice.
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The Dropout / int_69ac64a0	type	Too Broken to Break
The Dropout / int_69ac64a0	comment	Too Broken to Break: After 12 years of Sunny's Hair-Trigger Temper, control freakery, and verbal and near-physical abuse, Elizabeth barely flinches when he reacts to her abrupt breakup by grabbing a box out of her arms and dumping its contents on the ground.
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The Dropout / int_69d46274	type	Justice by Other Legal Means
The Dropout / int_69d46274	comment	Justice by Other Legal Means: After realizing that Carreyrou can't bring Theranos down on his own, Erika executes the Batman Gambit of writing to the CMS, hoping they'll take her warning seriously enough to spring a surprise mandatory inspection on Elizabeth. It works.
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The Dropout / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Dropout / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Some of the venture capitalists Elizabeth contacts early on are fairly rude and dismissive towards her, particularly when they find out she has no real medical or engineering training. In another story they might be seen as villains stifling the spirit of a determined young woman (and Elizabeth clearly thinks they are), but they're eventually proved to be right not to have put their money behind her. The Theranos board is frequently shown to give sexist and ageist comments towards Elizabeth, but they are also obviously right when they move to dismiss her by saying that she's in over her head and floundering. Richard Fuisz may be arrogant, but he's correct in how it is odd that despite the fact that he founded a medical technology company that Elizabeth wouldn't come to him for help. Especially after her family came to him for financial help, and definitely after he invents a system that would be essential for the Edison device to operate. Special note goes to when he points out how odd it is for his wife Lorraine to call Noel Holmes "Mrs. Holmes" in deference, despite the pair supposedly being friends. When Richard, Phyllis Gardner and Rochelle Gibbons are trying to figure out how to expose Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, Phyllis and Rochelle wonder how she is able to get away with it all. Richard points out that she's young, attractive and blonde. Phyllis retorts that she is actually very skilled at manipulating others, but Richard reiterates that it helps she's a very attractive young woman which helps her pull the wool over other people's eyes. Though Elizabeth's speech to the Apple Store worker was beyond inappropriate, she is right in that having big goals is a huge burden.
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The Dropout / int_6b5a92dc	type	Uncanny Valley
The Dropout / int_6b5a92dc	comment	Uncanny Valley: At the end of the sixth episode, when Elizabeth is giving an interview, the oddly-shaped lights reflecting in her eyes makes her look outright inhuman.
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The Dropout / int_6b96cc36	type	Explosive Results
The Dropout / int_6b96cc36	comment	Explosive Results: One stack of malfunctioning Theranos machines literally starts sparking and blows up in Sunny's face.
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The Dropout / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Dropout / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Poor Ian Gibbons. His job is stressful enough and he is staying merely for the health insurance. Then he is subpoenaed for the Fuisz/Theranos lawsuit, but he is in an impossible position. If he testifies, he would violate the NDA he signed and Theranos would sue him. The only other option his lawyer can see, is for him to fabricate a drinking problem, so that he can be declared unfit for testifying due to alcoholism, but this also will likely mean that he will never be able to work as a chemist again. It all becomes too much.
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The Dropout / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Dropout / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: After the trial on cancer patients in a Nashville clinic. "This is an inspiring step forward." It's the phrase that Elizabeth says out loud over and over again to practice her contralto. She uses it to justify the trials on cancer patients to both Edmond and Don Lucas. Also doubles as Madness Mantra. Anytime Elizabeth or Sunny get a question and they canâ€™t answer it, they respond with "Thatâ€™s proprietary information."
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The Dropout / int_7503483d	type	Original Position Fallacy
The Dropout / int_7503483d	comment	Original Position Fallacy: Despite having spent much of the series at her side and seeing how callous she can be, Sunny is still genuinely blindsided when Elizabeth tosses him aside as well, clearly never imagining she would do to him what she did to others.
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The Dropout / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
The Dropout / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: A lot of the people who break ties with Theranos or warn of its dangers are never seen again in the narrative. Tropes Are Tools here, as it was to establish the long term problems with the company and how people were constantly being dismissed and experts ignored. Fuisz's final scene also carries impact with this in mind, as now that Elizabeth is on her way down, he has nothing left to contribute, in-universe or out. Even Sunny, who is arguably the antagonist deuteragonist of the series, isn't seen again after halfway into the final episode, as Elizabeth has thrown him under the bus and cut him out of her life.
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The Dropout / int_775a1af6	type	Married to the Job
The Dropout / int_775a1af6	comment	Married to the Job: Elizabeth. Before moving in with Sunny, she slept in her office, spends nearly her entire time at Theranos, and at one point has to cancel a date with Sunny due to having to take a work call. She also doesn't seem to understand that her employees have lives outside of work.
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The Dropout / int_7a1856ba	type	I Reject Your Reality
The Dropout / int_7a1856ba	comment	I Reject Your Reality: Elizabeth, to a truly staggering degree. She seems legitimately incapable of processing any information she doesn't want to hear, whether about the investigations or investors or the fact that the Edison simply isn't going to work in the time she has boasted about. Even at the end, after she has lost everything and is facing the very real prospect of spending the next twenty years in prison, she still can't fully grasp her circumstances, speaking as though she is simply about to take an extended vacation from her work and as though Theranos was just a normal failed Silicon Valley venture like any other and the only reason for that was bad timing and a timid tech community rather than a company whose unethical and illegal practices did serious damage to real people. It's to the point that you wonder if she is genuinely delusional.
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The Dropout / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Dropout / int_7a53b67d	comment	Sinister Surveillance: Both employees and visitors to Theranos are bothered by the increasing amount of security and cameras in the building. Tyler advises new hire Erika to put tape over her computer's webcam so they can't spy on her.
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The Dropout / int_7b405f5b	type	Percussive Therapy
The Dropout / int_7b405f5b	comment	Percussive Therapy: Elizabeth gets out her stress by smashing her iPhone into her desk until it's thoroughly destroyed.
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The Dropout / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
The Dropout / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Elizabeth yells at Sunny for dropping by the engineering lab, claiming to be a consultant and asking questions. Sunny responds calmly, asking, "Do you want to talk about that, or the fact you're 10 years away from the promises you've made to the board?"
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The Dropout / int_7d7c8e54	type	Being Watched
The Dropout / int_7d7c8e54	comment	Being Watched: All of the Theranos whistleblowers begin to get followed around by some mysterious security detail in order to intimidate them into silence. It gets so bad that Mark deletes all the emails he was going to give to John and Tyler begins to sleep with a knife next to him since it makes him feel more safe.
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The Dropout / int_7ef7e1cd	type	Every Man Has His Price
The Dropout / int_7ef7e1cd	comment	Every Man Has His Price: A recurring theme in the series is how many brilliant minds from business, government, and tech become Elizabeth's allies against all better judgment—at least until it becomes clear that Theranos is a fraud that won't keep making money.
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The Dropout / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Dropout / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: When we first meet Elizabeth as a teenager, she's struggling to finish a race at a track meet while all of her other classmates have finished and are impatiently waiting for her to be done. This establishes Elizabeth's tenacity and her headstrong nature while also establishing how she is blind to the needs of others and literally lags behind others who are far more talented than her.
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The Dropout / int_805deb6e	type	Small Role, Big Impact
The Dropout / int_805deb6e	comment	Small Role, Big Impact: Gary Yamamoto, a minor bureaucrat from a minor agency, shows up late in the series to do an inspection. He's a small, dull man who can't seem to figure out his phone. His report completely destroys Theranos.
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The Dropout / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
The Dropout / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: At a point when Elizabeth is facing the shutdown of her labs, a federal ban from operating a new lab, a bad breakup with Sunny, the loss of her wealth and public adoration, possible jail time, a mass exodus of employees and board members, exposure as a liar and a fraudster whose great idea never worked, and the likelihood that nobody will ever invest in her again... Noel Holmes feels it necessary to add that she's "very angry" at her daughter.
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The Dropout / int_812fc350	type	Turn of the Millennium
The Dropout / int_812fc350	comment	Turn of the Millennium: The first half of the show takes place in the 2000s, from Elizabeth's college days to Theranos becoming an up-and-coming Silicon Valley startup. A few things, such as a DVD of Vanilla Sky, Elizabeth constantly using her iPod, and the launch of the iPhone mark the time period.
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The Dropout / int_83641c73	type	Logical Weakness
The Dropout / int_83641c73	comment	Logical Weakness: This is ultimately what destroys Theranos. While Elizabeth can dazzle investors with nice words and intimidate journalists with lawsuits and bad press, she can't do a thing to stop government organizations from inspecting the company nor can she distract them with anything but the raw data. When they do, it destroys the company almost instantly.
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The Dropout / int_83975f3b	type	Convenient Replacement Character
The Dropout / int_83975f3b	comment	Convenient Replacement Character: None of Elizabeth's Always Female executive assistants last longer than one episode.
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The Dropout / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
The Dropout / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Several of Theranos' employees lose faith in Elizabeth as she gets deeper into fraud. The first is Edmond, who becomes disillusioned with the company after the Pfizer trial, and quits shortly after; Ana, who quite bluntly tells Elizabeth that she doesn't remember what she saw in her after finding out about said trial, and takes the entire design team with her; and Rakesh, who quits following Edmond's resignation. In the early years of Theranos, Ian earnestly believed in Elizabeth and genuinely came to care for her, seeing her as a friend. However, when he learns that Elizabeth is trying to get the Edison out into stores and operate them on actual people, his faith in her shatters and he's clearly distraught by how far she's fallen.
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The Dropout / int_87572663	type	Wrong Side of the Tracks
The Dropout / int_87572663	comment	Wrong Side of the Tracks: To save costs, Elizabeth opens the first office for Theranos in a questionable neighborhood. Sure enough, when parking her car, a stray bullet shatters her window and misses her head by inches. She is so spooked that she calls Sunny despite having broken up with him.
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The Dropout / int_88443a8a	type	Establishing Character Music
The Dropout / int_88443a8a	comment	Establishing Character Music: A song that plays repeatedly in the first episode is Alabama's Iâ€™m In A Hurry (And Donâ€™t Know Why), with repeated emphasis on the hook line I'm in a hurry to get things done reflecting Elizabeth's impatience to become rich and successful, played early on in the car and then later when Elizabeth dances in frustration when Enron collapses and her father loses his job. It's also reflected in the name of the first episode.
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The Dropout / int_88aa2bb9	type	Sucks at Dancing
The Dropout / int_88aa2bb9	comment	Sucks at Dancing: Watching Sunny dance at the celebration for the approval of herpes tests is just painful. Elizabeth often dances alone in her bedroom, office, or car to release pent-up frustrations, and she looks absolutely ridiculous every time.
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The Dropout / int_8aa496df	type	Rape Discretion Shot
The Dropout / int_8aa496df	comment	Rape Discretion Shot: At a frat party, Elizabeth is shown in her Little Black Dress, practicing a flirtatious laughter. The next shot shows her glassy-eyed and with mussed hair, leaving the party by herself in a daze.
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The Dropout / int_8b8b0ac5	type	Resign in Protest
The Dropout / int_8b8b0ac5	comment	Brendan had threatened to Resign in Protest after Ian Gibbons was fired but stayed after Ian returned to work. However, after Ian's death by suicide, Brendan writes a heartfelt eulogy that he sends to everyone and leaves the company, armed with his Cardboard Box of Unemployment.
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The Dropout / int_8c918c9d	type	Broken-System Dogmatist
The Dropout / int_8c918c9d	comment	Broken-System Dogmatist: Elizabeth becomes an embodiment of Silicon Valley's worst stereotypes: ambitious to the point of sociopathic, willing to tell bald-faced lies in pursuit of investment, always looking for ways to bypass established safeguards, ready to sacrifice her own relationships and health for the sake of her career. And she never sees anything wrong with any of this, not even after everyone else has.
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The Dropout / int_8d0461e2	type	Destructive Romance
The Dropout / int_8d0461e2	comment	Destructive Romance: Elizabeth and Sunny, full stop. Just starting with the fact that Sunny is 20 years older than Elizabeth, he met her while she was a teenager and they were both on a college trip where she initially thought he was a professor. Once they get back, Sunny obsessively calls her to try and insert himself into her life. Sunny tries to control every aspect of Elizabeth's life, even whining when she tries to get her own car because he wants to drive her everywhere. Sunny also constantly belittles and insults Elizabeth, calling her a child when she starts to spiral. Despite all their proclamations of love, when faced with serious consequences for misleading the public, Elizabeth coldly hints to Sunny that she'd have no problem throwing him under the bus to save herself, which she eventually does.
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The Dropout / int_9230c618	type	Hypocrisy Nod
The Dropout / int_9230c618	comment	Hypocrisy Nod: When Linda Tanner chews out Elizabeth in the finale, she acknowledges her own complicity in the Theranos scandal, but is appalled that Elizabeth is trying to brush it all aside without even acknowledging the gravity of her actions.
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The Dropout / int_927289f5	type	Cathartic Scream
The Dropout / int_927289f5	comment	Cathartic Scream: Elizabeth does this (in addition to banging her iPhone on her desk until the screen breaks) after Don Lucas tells her that he is going to call for a vote of no confidence from the board of directors.
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The Dropout / int_939d9a9e	type	Unfocused During Intimacy
The Dropout / int_939d9a9e	comment	Unfocused During Intimacy: Elizabeth seems more bewildered than anything while having sex with her college boyfriend, staring up at him blankly while he sings along with Justin Timberlake.
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The Dropout / int_93b92ca4	type	Lousy Lovers Are Losers
The Dropout / int_93b92ca4	comment	Lousy Lovers Are Losers: When we see Elizabeth sleeps with her boyfriend at Stanford, it's boring and rhythmic sex, while she stares blankly at the ceiling, clearly not enjoying it, all while the boyfriend ironically sings along "Rock Your Body" and doesn't notice her disinterest.
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The Dropout / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
The Dropout / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: A dark, tragic example. Ian Gibbons is subpoenaed to testify in Richard Fuisz's lawsuit. He either testifies truthfully, at which point he will not only be fired but will also lose his health insurance coverage and face lawsuits from Theranos itself which he cannot stave off, or he lies on the witness stand, in which case someone as vindictive as Fuisz would almost certainly make sure he was convicted of perjury, which would leave Gibbons out of a job (since Theranos would have to cut him loose to make sure they didn't appear to be complicit in his lies) and with a criminal record. Theranos' lawyers come up with a way to avoid having him testify at all by having him sign an affidavit that says he has a drinking problem, which means he will never be able to practice chemistry again. Ian instead takes a fourth option and decides to commit suicide.
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The Dropout / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Dropout / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Two in the final episode. Sunny completely breaks down once Elizabeth breaks up with him, fires him from the company and makes it clear she's pinning everything on him. He realizes that the woman he loved didn't exist, and she was using him this entire time. After Theranos is dissolved and she gets called out by Linda, Elizabeth runs from the deserted building to get an Uber. While she's waiting, she screams in frustration about everything that happened, only to put on a smiling face once her ride arrives.
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The Dropout / int_97e96e2b	type	The Unblinking
The Dropout / int_97e96e2b	comment	The Unblinking: Just as in real life, Elizabeth avoids blinking as much as possible when talking to people.
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The Dropout / int_98c4ccf1	type	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!
The Dropout / int_98c4ccf1	comment	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: At a dinner for the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows, Elizabeth bumps into Phyllis Gardner. Dr. Gardner knows about the Wall Street Journal article and gives a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Elizabeth. Elizabeth tries to slip away with a lame "It was good to see you, Phyllis."
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The Dropout / int_9b5a308c	type	Crocodile Tears
The Dropout / int_9b5a308c	comment	Crocodile Tears: Elizabeth turns on the waterworks as part of her ploy to get the board to not fire her, before presenting her alternate proposal for funding that would allow her to stay as CEO.
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The Dropout / int_9d72c7fe	type	Fan Boy
The Dropout / int_9d72c7fe	comment	Fanboy: Elizabeth is a huge fan of Steve Jobs. She dances to a poster of him, name-drops him several times, hires one of his closest associates as one of her board members and his chief designer to design the Edison, mentions feeling a deep connection to him despite having never even met him, and begins wearing black turtlenecks like he did in order to be taken more seriously. This idolization of Steve Jobs was very common in Silicon Valley at the time.
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The Dropout / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
The Dropout / int_9e1e14ea	comment	Ambition Is Evil: Elizabeth's ambition to make her mark leads her to make promises she is unable to deliver. She even conducts a trial of her blood-testing machine on actual cancer patients, despite the fact that the machine does not work.
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The Dropout / int_9e9203e1	type	Dramatically Missing the Point
The Dropout / int_9e9203e1	comment	Dramatically Missing the Point: Elizabeth is called out multiple times for misrepresenting the results on the Edison device. Edmond tries to tell Elizabeth how faking the test on the Edison is immoral, only for her to tell him that people lie during trials all the time. Ian tries to express to Elizabeth later on how their technology is not ready for implementation in stores, only to be rebuffed and fired. In both instances, Elizabeth seems incapable of acknowledging the fact that while lying in software trials is a thing, it doesn't endanger anyone; these are medical trials involving human beings, and what they are doing could put people's lives at serious risk.
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The Dropout / int_9f62723d	type	Get Out!
The Dropout / int_9f62723d	comment	Get Out!: One that's not a demand, but a warning: Tyler Shultz arrives for his first day of work at Theranos. At the lobby, he sees everybody is heading toward the same direction. Confused, he turns toward the first person he sees, Brendan, seemingly oblivious to the Cardboard Box of Unemployment that Brendan carries:
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The Dropout / int_9fbf8969	type	Cut Lex Luthor a Check
The Dropout / int_9fbf8969	comment	Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Elizabeth is smart, determined, cunning, capable of picking up concepts pretty quickly, and persuasive. She probably could've done great things had it not been for her stubborn naivete, loose sense of ethics, and compulsive lying.
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The Dropout / int_a0a005d1	type	Protagonist Journey to Villain
The Dropout / int_a0a005d1	comment	Protagonist Journey to Villain: Elizabeth starts out as a misguided but well-intentioned young woman who just wants to help others and change the world. However, as she gets deeper and deeper into the lies she's built her company on, she becomes more ruthless and aggressive, shaping into the fraudster she is today.
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The Dropout / int_a10775b7	type	Mean Boss
The Dropout / int_a10775b7	comment	Mean Boss: At the company's holiday party, Elizabeth gets drunk and her assistant Miriam calls Sunny (Elizabeth's boyfriend) to pick her up. Elizabeth rewards Miriam by firing her just before Sunny takes her home. Once Sunny becomes chief operating officer, he runs the company with an iron fist: guards in the lobby to prevent employees from talking to each other, virtually locking the chemists in their laboratories, and suddenly and secretly firing staff, which the other employees refer to as "disappearing".
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The Dropout / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Dropout / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Multiple times over the series. Notably George Shultz and Linda Tanner in the finale.
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The Dropout / int_a39d6056	type	NiceToTheWaiter
The Dropout / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: Ian is shown to be friendly to receptionists and assistants and remembers their names; this shocks one, who admits that she's usually only ever referred to as Elizabeth's new subordinate.
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The Dropout / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Dropout / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: David Bowie's "Heroes" plays as Elizabeth rises to the halls of power and begins amassing praise and honors... then the music abruptly stops as a doctor bluntly explains how Theranos endangered her patients' lives.
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The Dropout / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
The Dropout / int_a8f905e3	comment	While Rome Burns: As Theranos collapses, forced to declare bankruptcy and hemorrhaging employees, Elizabeth is more concerned with relaxing and having fun with her younger boyfriend and new Siberian husky.
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The Dropout / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
The Dropout / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: Throughout the series, Sunny continually belittles Elizabeth for acting like child and urges her to grow up and face their problems. However, when Elizabeth breaks up with him and fires him from the company, essentially pinning all the blame on him, Sunny breaks down, lamenting that he never knew who Elizabeth was at all.
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The Dropout / int_abc28948	type	Straw Misogynist
The Dropout / int_abc28948	comment	Straw Misogynist: Invoked: Elizabeth accuses several of her critics, most notably Carreyrou, of giving her a tough time only because she's a woman in tech.
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The Dropout / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
The Dropout / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: Gary Yamamoto from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) does not allow himself to be distracted from his objective by the prospect of Sunny's presentation, or to be intimidated by Sunny or Linda, the Theranos attorney.
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The Dropout / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Dropout / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Before the meeting with Theranos lawyers in "Heroes", John Carreyrou and his editor Judith Baker don't have enough to publish the article due to the efforts of Theranos to intimidate the witnesses into silence. During the tense meetingâ€”where both sides agree to record the events for protectionâ€”a member of Theranos admits that they were using Siemens machines in their trials, which gives John and Judith the confirmation they needed to publish the article that would seal Theranos' doom. George Shultz is firmly on the side of Theranos despite his grandson Tyler's objections, and has basically all but convinced his grandson to recant his story. However, when Linda Tannerâ€”the Theranos lawyerâ€”pulls a fast one and tries to get Tyler to sign a new, more restrictive NDA, it causes George to step in and settle things on Tyler's behalf, negotiation being what George Shultz is best known for. George's intervention allows enough time for Tyler's new step grandmother to get him in touch with their lawyer, who advises them not to sign anything.
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The Dropout / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Dropout / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Brendan's expression when he sees a model of the miniLab device, which is less than two feet wide on any side but requires him to fit an entire blood-testing mechanism into it. David and Linda's expressions when they realize they just admitted to Carreyrou that Theranos lied to the public about its tech.
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The Dropout / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
The Dropout / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: Even though she hates it the first time she tries it, Elizabeth's diet eventually consists of almost nothing but the green juice that Sunny prepares for her. By the end of the series, she's so used to drinking the juice all day that she's forgotten if she had a real favorite food before. She does maintain a fondness for chocolate-covered coffee beans, if only for the energy boost.
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The Dropout / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
The Dropout / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: Unlike everyone else who trying to take Theranos down to hold Elizabeth and Sunny morally responsible for their reprehensible actions, Fuisz was doing so out of petty revenge, after feeling he had been slighted and humiliated by Elizabeth. After receiving a call from Carreyrou, about how the article concerning Theranos and Elizabeth will be published, he viciously laughs, only for him to realize that his wife and family has left him and he has lost everything in his obsession with Elizabeth.
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The Dropout / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Dropout / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: As played by Stephen Fry, Ian Gibbons gets to show off his British Humour. In Episode 2, "Satori", shortly after being hired, he tells Elizabeth that he believes in her vision. Right after that: Brendan joins in with Ian as the company becomes increasingly secretive and siloed.
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The Dropout / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
The Dropout / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: In the end, all the lying, sacrifices, and intimidation were essentially pointless. Not only did the Edison machine not work, but it never could have. Billions of dollars were wasted on a project that didn't progress the cause of science in any significant way.
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The Dropout / int_aedf9091	type	There Is No Try
The Dropout / int_aedf9091	comment	There Is No Try: Invoked literally by Elizabeth. She has a Yoda sticker in her idea notebook. As a sophomore in Stanford, she tries to convince Dr. Phyllis Gardner to work with her by quoting the famous line "Do or do not. There is no try." Dr. Gardner points out that "science is trying" and advises her to never use lines from Yoda again when she is trying to convince others.
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The Dropout / int_affc0c98	type	Significant Wardrobe Shift
The Dropout / int_affc0c98	comment	Significant Wardrobe Shift: Ana suggests to Elizabeth that she should dress more like a CEO, but Elizabeth is not interested in spending energy in her appearance. By the end of the "Green Juice" episode, after convincing Sunny to join the company, Elizabeth has gone from untucked button-down shirts and baggy sweaters to a female version of Steve Jobs in black turtlenecks and slacks, complemented by red lipstick.
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The Dropout / int_b3b1115f	type	My Rules Are Not Your Rules
The Dropout / int_b3b1115f	comment	My Rules Are Not Your Rules: Elizabeth always looks for ways to bypass any rule, regulation, or review process that might hinder operations at Theranos. Leaning on her connections, her financial arguments, or her moral arguments works in a few cases—until CMS forces her to abide by the one rule she can't get around.
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The Dropout / int_b5619979	type	Was It All a Lie?
The Dropout / int_b5619979	comment	Was It All a Lie?: People's general reactions when they find out about how badly Elizabeth misled them. In the final episode, Sunny asks this of Elizabeth after she breaks up with him, pins all the blame on him, and moves out of their house, wondering if she ever loved him at all or if she was just using him like everyone else.
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The Dropout / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
The Dropout / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: When Ana and Elizabeth meet, Ana tells her that she needs to dress more formally so that investors will take her more seriously. Elizabeth replies that she met Mark Zuckerberg at a conference and he was wearing shorts and sandals. Ana says that that won't work for her, since Elizabeth is a woman and has to work twice as hard to be taken seriously in Silicon Valley as a man would.
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The Dropout / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
The Dropout / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: According to the finale, Elizabeth has been indicted and awaits sentencing. She and her new partner are now parents. Also featured in the epilogue are Sunny (jury selection started on March 2022), Tyler (George Shultz praised his integrity before dying in 2021), and Erika (cofounded a nonprofit for ethics in entrepreneurship).
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The Dropout / int_ba0114dc	type	Penny Among Diamonds
The Dropout / int_ba0114dc	comment	Penny Among Diamonds: New lab worker Erika Cheung comes from a lower-middle class background, making her perspective unique compared to the well-off professors, board members, and nepotism hires around Theranos. It also raises the stakes when she notices all the improprieties going on; her colleague Tyler Shultz can afford to Resign in Protest, but she really needs her job.
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The Dropout / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
The Dropout / int_ba236071	comment	After her birthday party, Elizabeth and Sunny share an extremely awkward and bizarre dance together, with the masks of Elizabeth's face that they're wearing not helping.
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The Dropout / int_ba5bd7	type	Ignored Expert
The Dropout / int_ba5bd7	comment	Ignored Expert: Elizabeth goes to Phyllis Gardner while in her first year at Stanford to discuss her idea about what would become the Edison device. However, Dr. Gardner politely but soundly dismisses her idea by pointing out that there is simply no realistic way for it to work. Elizabeth tries to pursue the point, even quoting Yoda's "There is no try" speech to show her determination, only for Dr. Gardner to shut her down entirely. After Elizabeth founds Theranos, she posts Yoda's speech in the front lobby as a sort of Take That! to her old professor.
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The Dropout / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The Dropout / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: As time goes on, it becomes increasingly clear that Elizabeth is more focused on her own success and being seen as a visionary instead of legitimately wanting the Edison machine to work.
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The Dropout / int_bba9ea51	type	Good Stepmother
The Dropout / int_bba9ea51	comment	Good Stepmother: Step-grandmother, in this case. Charlotte Shultz tries to play peacemaker between Tyler and George and generally treats Tyler kindly and sympathetically.
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The Dropout / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Dropout / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: After a doctor gives Carreyrou a fairly technical medical explanation of how Theranos endangered her patient:
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The Dropout / int_bd0d6395	type	No Social Skills
The Dropout / int_bd0d6395	comment	No Social Skills: Elizabeth, in spades. Elizabeth sees an Easy-Bake Oven in Edmond's work area that belongs to his daughter and wonders why the kid does not just play with the real oven instead. He has to tell her that real ovens are not safe for children. She also has serious difficulty socializing with others, to the point that she is seen practicing stock responses to banter at a party. While it would ordinarily be commendable that she takes her immersion seriously when studying abroad in China, she comes off as so abrasive and overly serious to the other students that it's no wonder the only friend she makes is Sunny. Though her charisma improves as the series goes on, as evidenced by her winning over lots of investors, she remains friendless and alone; when her 30th birthday arrives, she invites mostly rich guests she knows through work, and struggles to find any actual friends to invite. During an interview, when asked to keep her tone and responses formal and casual, as if "speaking to a friend," she seriously struggles and doesn't seem to know what to do.
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The Dropout / int_c2612ea8	type	Lost Pet Grievance
The Dropout / int_c2612ea8	comment	Lost Pet Grievance: Inverted: Ian's dogs whine in despair at the locked bathroom door, sensing he's dying in there.
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The Dropout / int_c295cb84	type	Evil Minions
The Dropout / int_c295cb84	comment	Evil Minions: Daniel Young, Sunny's "enforcer."
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The Dropout / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
The Dropout / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Dr. Phyllis Gardner teams up with Richard Fuisz to try and reveal Elizabeth's fraud, but it's very clear that she does not like him much at all. His response after she talks about the sexism she has had to face in her field:
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The Dropout / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Dropout / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: The first version of what would become the Edison device does work as intended after a ton of trial and error, in time for the Novartis meeting in Switzerland. It stops working right after the team arrives, and no later version seems to work more often than it fails.
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The Dropout / int_c4240537	type	Moral Event Horizon
The Dropout / int_c4240537	comment	Elizabeth invoked crosses the line from stubbornly believing in her flawed, unworkable idea into outright fraud when she blatantly fakes a successful test result during a demonstration after the prototype suddenly stops working in Switzerland.
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The Dropout / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
The Dropout / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Ian is polite, easygoing, and gets along very well with his colleagues, knowing all of their names, and is close friends with several of the people in his department. This makes the Trauma Conga Line he eventually goes through all the more tragic.
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The Dropout / int_c5ef2d50	type	Cringe Comedy
The Dropout / int_c5ef2d50	comment	Cringe Comedy: A good amount of the series' humor comes from Holmes' No Social Skills interactions with others. The meeting between Theranos and Walgreens is rife with this, due to Elizabeth and Sunny's obvious attempts at stalling Kevin from seeing the labs. At the event celebrating Walgreens as partnership with Theranos, Roland serenades Elizabeth with a ditty set to the tune of "What I Like About You": Tyler performs a song he wrote extolling Elizabeth's greatness, literally called "Elizabeth the Great." It would probably be painful enough on its own, but it's even worse because by this point Tyler has realized Elizabeth's fraud but still has to perform it anyway. And when he finishes, Elizabeth (who is aware that Tyler knows what is going on) makes him play it a second time. After her birthday party, Elizabeth and Sunny share an extremely awkward and bizarre dance together, with the masks of Elizabeth's face that they're wearing not helping.
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The Dropout / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
The Dropout / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Elizabeth herself implies this when she reminds Noel of the advice she gave Elizabeth after the latter was sexually assaulted; to just forget about it and not think about it. The implication is that this is how Elizabeth learned to deal with anything that she didn't want to accept or acknowledge.
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The Dropout / int_c9fa1dbf	type	Speaking Like Totally Teen
The Dropout / int_c9fa1dbf	comment	Speaking Like Totally Teen: Dr. Jay is desperate to sound down with the youths at all times.
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The Dropout / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
The Dropout / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Do we really need to say it?
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The Dropout / int_cc7fae30	type	Outside-Context Problem
The Dropout / int_cc7fae30	comment	Outside-Context Problem: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Unlike investors and reporters, Theranos can't pull the wool over their eyes with fancy presentations and empty promises, nor can Sunny go over anyone's heads to intimidate them into silence or compliance. All they want is to see the labs, and won't go anywhere until they do.
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The Dropout / int_ccfc0535	type	Letting Her Hair Down
The Dropout / int_ccfc0535	comment	Letting Her Hair Down: Once it finally dawns on Elizabeth that Theranos is falling apart, she releases her hair from her trademark bun, looking like her younger and much less corrupt self.
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The Dropout / int_cdd835ce	type	Dude, Not Funny!
The Dropout / int_cdd835ce	comment	Dude, Not Funny!: How the Walgreens execs react to Dr. J's attempt to make a joke of Wade's recent DUI.
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The Dropout / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
The Dropout / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Avie raises red flags about Theranos to Don Lucas, including warnings that Elizabeth is not qualified to be CEO and that there is no substance behind her financial projections. He's promptly fired. Don Lucas himself eventually realizes that Elizabeth's been lying to him all along and initiates a vote of no confidence to have her removed. She torpedoes his efforts by bringing Sunny Balwani on board as COO. Ian tells Channing (Elizabeth's former professor and board member) that the machine doesn't actually work and later tells Elizabeth that she doesn't understand the science behind the machine or the real-world implications of using an unreliable-at best- blood-testing machine on real people. Walgreens sends four people to check out Theranos. They want to see the labs before committing but Sunny and Elizabeth keep stalling, distracting them from that, and giving evasive answers to direct questions. Kevin points out all the red flags. Wade appears to believe at first, but eventually Walgreens does pair with Theranos. After quitting, Tyler tries telling the truth about the fraud to his grandfather. George Shultz refuses, because Elizabeth has him convinced that Tyler just does not understand the data. Phyllis Gardner condemns Elizabeth for her actions and for claiming that the only reason people oppose her is sexism, saying that when she fails that women CEOs are going to have a hard time being taken seriously because of her actions. In the final episode, the epilogue states that female CEOs are having a hard time finding funding in Silicon Valley, with one woman being told to dye her hair to avoid looking like Elizabeth Holmes.
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The Dropout / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
The Dropout / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: While not without humor, the second half of the show is much more serious than the first half, showing just how scary and life-threatening it would be to attempt to expose a billion-dollar company willing to do anything to stop the truth from getting out and having the resources to do so.
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The Dropout / int_cff05c2c	type	Honor Thy Abuser
The Dropout / int_cff05c2c	comment	Honor Thy Abuser: Elizabeth and Sunny's relationship hits a serious low point, marked by a fight that nearly becomes physical, around the time the board begins to doubt her leadership. She feels she has no choice but to stay with Sunny and bring him (along with his $20 million) into the company for the sake of her own position.
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The Dropout / int_d075a135	type	Now What?
The Dropout / int_d075a135	comment	Now What?: "That's done." Those are the last words from Fuisz in his last appearance in the series, just before it sinks in his obsessive mission with bringing down Elizabeth out of petty anger has cost him his marriage. All he can do now is sit alone in his empty bedroom, surrounded by nothing but binders of (now useless) records and facts.
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The Dropout / int_d1726c18	type	What, Exactly, Is His Job?
The Dropout / int_d1726c18	comment	What, Exactly, Is His Job?: Elizabeth's younger brother, Christian, is "Associate Director of Strategic Initiatives." Judging by the glares of his co-workers, no one knows exactly what that means. Sunny holds the title of Chief Operating Officer, but since he has zero medical, chemical, or engineering experience, nobody knows what he's meant to do, short of enforcing Elizabeth's orders. Elizabeth herself has very little involvement with the company's products or processes after completing her initial schematics of the device. Mostly she just travels around wooing investors and shooting commercials.
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The Dropout / int_d371868b	type	Precious Puppy
The Dropout / int_d371868b	comment	Precious Puppy: In the final episode, when Linda and Elizabeth are at Theranos taking care of some loose ends, while the former is talking about Elizabeth filing for bankruptcy, the latter is paying more attention to her new dog, an adorable Siberian Husky.
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The Dropout / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
The Dropout / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: The board lets Elizabeth know that they have voted in favor of no confidence on her as CEO and appointed an interim CEO. In response, Elizabeth repeats what the girl fixing her broken iPhone said at the store ("I am sorry! I followed all the steps!") but claims she has an old friend coming in with expertise and $20 million to invest. It is true, it's just that she has not asked him yet. Sunny figures this out when Elizabeth asks him to come work with her and agrees to invest $12 million, which quickly becomes $20 million anyway when Elizabeth offers him the position of COO.
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The Dropout / int_d6707631	type	Waxing Lyrical
The Dropout / int_d6707631	comment	Waxing Lyrical: Dr. Jay quotes Katy Perry's "Firework," which he had been listening to much earlier on, in an attempt to sell his colleagues on a Theranos partnership.
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The Dropout / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
The Dropout / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Ian and Brendan become these after some initial tension.
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The Dropout / int_d833090a	type	Right Hand Versus Left Hand
The Dropout / int_d833090a	comment	Right Hand Versus Left Hand: While Carreyrou is working on a Wall Street Journal article exposing Theranos, Elizabeth goes to the Wall Street Journal opinion section and has them publish an editorial promoting Theranos.
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The Dropout / int_d839c530	type	The Unfettered
The Dropout / int_d839c530	comment	The Unfettered: Elizabeth never backs down from her position that she was only trying to help patients and would have succeeded if not for the system screwing her over. Yet when you consider the corners she was willing to cut in pursuit of becoming a billionaire inventor, was she really all that concerned with patients, or were they just a means to her end?
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The Dropout / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
The Dropout / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: Theranos cofounder Shaunak Roy becomes Rakesh Madhava. Lead engineer Tony Nugent becomes Brendan Morris. Lab director Adam Rosendorff becomes Mark Roessler.
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The Dropout / int_dce6cd15	type	Family Versus Career
The Dropout / int_dce6cd15	comment	Family Versus Career: Discussed: Larry Ellison warns Elizabeth that she'll have to sacrifice having a marriage and children if she wants to be a CEO, and he seems mildly amused when he points out that he didn't have to make that choice.
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The Dropout / int_de4bda37	type	Angry Dance
The Dropout / int_de4bda37	comment	Angry Dance: Elizabeth's father has lost his job at Enron. After returning from a humiliating visit at the neighbors' home, an angry Elizabeth dances in her bedroom, stopping for a second before a poster of Steve Jobs.
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The Dropout / int_dfa40c1b	type	Didn't See That Coming
The Dropout / int_dfa40c1b	comment	Didn't See That Coming: A major issue with Theranos. Elizabeth founded the company with the notion that with sheer determination, they should be able to make the impossible possible. She doesn't ever seem to catch onto the fact that what she is asking for simply cannot be done, and there is no way around it. Theranos has gotten used to pulling the wool over everyone's eyes with flashy presentations, or intimidating others into silence by the use of bullying tactics and coercion. But when they go up against the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), they find that they can't simply razzle-dazzle them, or go over their heads; they have to comply. This is ultimately what ends up destroying the company. After spending so much time following Erika and Tyler, it certainly is a surprise to audiences that Mark Roessler comes to Richard Fuisz. Roessler had spent so much of the episode being a downtrodden Punch-Clock Villain that you would easily be forgiven for assuming that's all there is to him. Turns out, Everyone Has Standards. Sunny believed he was one in control of the relationship, molding Elizabeth into the ideal CEO and being the wise council she needed. He had no idea she was callously using him the same way she did everyone else, and had no problem throwing him to the side if it meant saving herself.
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The Dropout / int_e0040f41	type	Start of Darkness
The Dropout / int_e0040f41	comment	Start of Darkness: There are two main ones for Elizabeth: The first, lower-key one is her meeting with Larry Ellison, who encourages her to take on the more radical, risk-taking ethos of Silicon Valley and to stop seeing her employees as her friends. This leads to her becoming an even colder and more impersonal boss than she already was, setting up a competing design team within Theranos, and falsifying test results in order to get investors on-board. The second, more major instance is her nearly getting fired as CEO of Theranos, which forces her to bring in Sunny to save her position. Sunny's arrival completely changes the culture of the company, and Elizabeth's approach to running it, for the worse.
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The Dropout / int_e135b3de	type	Pass the Popcorn
The Dropout / int_e135b3de	comment	Pass the Popcorn: When Elizabeth throws Wade's argument against Theranos back at his face, the camera sometimes cuts to Dr. J and Roland listening in, clearly amused at what's going on.
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The Dropout / int_e150c4c7	type	Manchild
The Dropout / int_e150c4c7	comment	Manchild: Elizabeth. She's clearly far more immature than she pretends to be, having an almost naÃ¯ve and childlike attitude towards the world at time. She quotes Yoda, plays with finger puppets and a diorama-like a dollhouse, and tries to seduce Sunny by awkwardly lip-syncing a rap song. As the series goes on and her deception becomes more serious and she shows her callous side, she goes into the other side of this trope.
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The Dropout / int_e38b0f45	type	Snake Oil Salesman
The Dropout / int_e38b0f45	comment	Snake-Oil Saleswoman: Elizabeth is depicted as a modern-day Silicon Valley version of this, her company's miraculous medical testing device turning out to be powered by fakery and wishful thinking.
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The Dropout / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
The Dropout / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Linda Tanner, of the entire Theranos in-house legal team. David Boies and his associates still appear in the show, however.
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The Dropout / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
The Dropout / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Whenever Sunny wants to try and control Elizabeth's behavior, he tells her she's acting like a child.
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The Dropout / int_e90a93b2	type	Creepy Monotone
The Dropout / int_e90a93b2	comment	Creepy Monotone: Elizabeth's general speaking style, especially when trying to adopt her deeper voice. It makes her come across more like a malfunctioning robot than a person. In-universe, she terrifies a young female worker at the Apple store by telling her, in unblinking monotone, that the girl's life was meaningless and unimportant, scaring her so much so that the girl accidentally erases everything on Elizabeth's phone. She switches to a much more lively tone after the company collapses and she starts going by "Lizzie".
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The Dropout / int_eda30d58	comment	0% Approval Rating: Except for Elizabeth herself, absolutely nobody at Theranos likes, respects, or understands the purpose of Sunny.
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The Dropout / int_f33ff01c	comment	Adaptational Context Change: Tyler Shultz really did perform a song exalting Elizabeth for her 30th birthday party, but according to his account, he ended up playing it again because a guest showed up late. In the show, Elizabeth herself is the one who makes him play it again as an intimidation tactic after she realizes that Tyler is catching on to her lies.
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The Dropout / int_f4b744f5	comment	Unkempt Beauty: At least before her Significant Wardrobe Shift, Elizabeth wears untucked shirts that need ironing and messy ponytails. Even afterwards, her Messy Hair remains.
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The Dropout / int_f5ab45cb	comment	Incompetence, Inc.: Theranos is portrayed as a company lead by an egomaniac with an unfeasible vision creating a product that was doomed from the start and held together solely by Holmes' superficial charm and ability to talk up investors.
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The Dropout / int_f5f79e56	comment	Hard-Work Montage: Just before Elizabeth is to present the machine to Novartis in Switzerland, the prototype does not work. She and her team work through the night trying everything to fix it, with everybody contributing blood samples. Finally, she has Rakesh rig the demo so that they call up the good reading they did get in the lab.
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The Dropout / int_f648dc43	comment	Great Accomplishment, Weak Credibility: In "Iron Sisters", Erika Cheung and Tyler Shultz send an e-mail to Elizabeth about the company's falsified blood tests, with Tyler making Erika take her name off the e-mail so she doesn't get fired. When both Tyler and Erika are called to Sunny's office over this action, Tyler tries to take full responsibility for the e-mail, but Sunny doesn't buy it for a second because of Tyler's average-at-best intelligence.
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The Dropout / int_f740a274	type	Historical Beauty Update
The Dropout / int_f740a274	comment	Historical Beauty Update: Likely to happen to any woman played by Amanda Seyfried.
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The Dropout / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: How Erika describes the CMS regulatory agency when talking to Tyler:
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