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Jane can annoy almost anybody into eventually giving him what he wants.

Cho just... doesn't participate.

Jane will spend five minutes setting up some elaborate argument and Cho will give him a two-word answer and go back to whatever he was doing.

What's funny is that Jane doesn't seem offended by it. If anything, he seems to genuinely respect Cho for not playing along.

They're probably the closest thing the show has to two people who understand exactly what the other is doing without needing to explain i

One thing I like about Shawn and Gus is that Gus can usually tell when Shawn's joking because he's genuinely amused and when he's joking because he's uncomfortable.

Shawn will start doing the whole routine — talking faster, making dumb references, pretending something isn't bothering him.

Gus usually doesn't call him out immediately.

He'll just let Shawn finish being Shawn and then quietly deal with whatever the actual problem is.

It's probably why Gus can put up with him for so long. He isn't fooled by the act, but he also doesn't constantly demand that Shawn drop it.

I've noticed Al does this thing where he'll be doing something else while someone is talking to him, barely looking at them, and then suddenly respond to the one specific part of what they said that actually mattered. The first time through it just looks like Al being dismissive. On rewatch, half the time he's clearly been paying attention the entire conversation.

Rewatching the early seasons, I forgot how often Chuck just asks Casey something completely unrelated to the mission and Casey actually answers him. He'll complain about it, obviously, but he still answers. At some point "Need to know" turns into Casey giving Chuck a three-sentence explanation and then getting annoyed that Chuck has another question.

There's a particular look Gus gives Shawn when Shawn reaches the correct conclusion but gets there through something completely ridiculous. It's different from his normal "Shawn is being an idiot" reaction. He looks genuinely irritated that the stupid explanation somehow worked. I started noticing it in the earlier episodes and it's probably one of my favorite parts of their dynamic.

I noticed this on a rewatch: early on, Casey shuts almost everyone down with "Need to know." But if Chuck asks him something, Casey usually gives a real answer after pretending he won't. Sometimes it's only a sentence, sometimes it's just enough to keep Chuck calm, but he does it way more often than I remembered.

Not because Chuck is more convincing with Morgan almost the opposite. Morgan will believe something that makes absolutely no sense if Chuck is the one saying it. Everyone else needs evidence first. Morgan's default setting is basically, "This is insane... but it's probably true."

Something I never paid attention to before: Sarah almost always pauses for a second before answering Chuck in the early seasons. Not because she's thinking of a cover story, but because she's checking whether he's asking as Chuck or as an asset. Once I noticed it, it happens constantly.

I kept noticing Garrett looking toward the door a second before someone interrupts a conversation. I don't know if it's intentional or just Colton Dunn picking up on cues during filming, but after a while it started standing out. It makes Garrett feel like he's been sitting in that room long enough to recognize everyone's footsteps.

Something I noticed this time around: T-Bag gets manipulated plenty, but he usually realizes it almost immediately. The interesting part is he almost never calls it out right away. He'll smile, go along with it, and start thinking about how to turn it back around instead. He spends surprisingly little time actually fooled compared to a lot of the other characters.