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%% Doesn't explain what the reaction is. * Berserk Button: Backstrom doesn't think too kindly of anyone or anything but he's particularly vicious towards adults who don't fulfill their obligations as authority figures and allow children to do whatever they want.

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%% Doesn't explain what the reaction is. * Berserk Button: BerserkButton: Backstrom doesn't think too kindly of anyone or anything but he's particularly vicious towards adults who don't fulfill their obligations as authority figures and allow children to do whatever they want.
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* BerserkButton: Backstrom doesn't think too kindly of anyone or anything but he's particularly vicious towards adults who don't fulfill their obligations as authority figures and allow children to do whatever they want.

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%% Doesn't explain what the reaction is. * BerserkButton: Berserk Button: Backstrom doesn't think too kindly of anyone or anything but he's particularly vicious towards adults who don't fulfill their obligations as authority figures and allow children to do whatever they want.
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->'''Portrayed by''': Genevieve Angelson

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->'''Portrayed by''': Kristoffer Polaha

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->'''Portrayed by''': Page Kennedy

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->'''Portrayed by''': Beatrice Rosen

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** His ex-fiance, who still cares for him, is played by Sarah Chalke. Backstrom, being Backstrom, interprets her past attempts to fix him as trying to control him.

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** His ex-fiance, who still cares for him, is played by Sarah Chalke.Creator/SarahChalke. Backstrom, being Backstrom, interprets her past attempts to fix him as trying to control him.
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->'''Portrayed by''': Thomas Dekker

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* AdaptationalSexuality: [[HideYourLesbians Originally a lesbian in the original CBS pilot]] (and BiTheWay in the original novels), hints at [[GirlOnGirlIsHot experimenting with other girls in college]] in "Enemy Of My Enemies"

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* AdaptationalSexuality: [[HideYourLesbians Originally a lesbian in the original CBS pilot]] (and BiTheWay bi in the original novels), hints at [[GirlOnGirlIsHot experimenting with other girls in college]] in "Enemy Of My Enemies"
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->'''Portrayed by''': Dennis Haysbert

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* AdaptationalSexuality: [[HideYourLesbians Originally a lesbian in the original CBS pilot and BiTheWay in the original novels]], hints at [[GirlOnGirlIsHot experimenting with other girls in college]] in "Enemy Of My Enemies"

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* AdaptationalSexuality: [[HideYourLesbians Originally a lesbian in the original CBS pilot and pilot]] (and BiTheWay in the original novels]], novels), hints at [[GirlOnGirlIsHot experimenting with other girls in college]] in "Enemy Of My Enemies"




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* TheOtherMarty: [[https://youtu.be/V6O5uD-ySw8 had been played by Mamie Gummer in the original 2012 CBS pilot]]
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Backstrom's roommate and "underworld connection". He deals in antiques and often handles materials of dubious origins. He's also a former prostitute. He and Backstrom are half-brothers.

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Backstrom's roommate and "underworld connection". He deals in antiques and often handles materials of dubious origins. He's also a former prostitute. He and Backstrom are half-brothers. based, in part, on the character of "GeGurra" in the novels, who while a bent art dealer (and gay) is not related to Bäckström.
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A former Vice detective, she was transferred into Backstrom's unit after engaging in unknown behavior that caused her to fall into disfavor. Based on the character of Annika Carlsson in the original novels.

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A former Vice detective, she was transferred into Backstrom's unit after engaging in unknown behavior that caused her to fall into disfavor. Based on the character of Annika Carlsson in the original novels.novels conflated with aspects of Lisa Mattei.
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Commander of the Portland Bureau of Police's Special Crimes Unit. He doesn't care for social niceties and his insensitive remarks constantly get him in trouble. His superiors want to fire him but he's too good of a detective to fail at solving all the sensitive and difficult cases they hand him. He's in such poor health, however, that there's a good chance that he'll be dismissed from the Bureau on medical grounds or drop dead of a coronary.

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Commander of the Portland Bureau of Police's Special Crimes Unit. He doesn't care for social niceties and his insensitive remarks constantly get him in trouble. His superiors want to fire him but he's too good of a detective to fail at solving all the sensitive and difficult cases they hand him. He's in such poor health, however, that there's a good chance that he'll be dismissed from the Bureau on medical grounds or drop dead of a coronary. Based on the original character of Evert Bäckström who displays all these traits, and more, in the novels.



* KavorkaMan: Backstrom is an abrasive, misanthropic, overweight, smoker and drinker. He managed to attract the team's hot French civilian administrator ''by accident'' (temporarily dumbfounding him) and she continues to flirt with him.

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* KavorkaMan: Backstrom is an abrasive, misanthropic, overweight, smoker and drinker. He managed to attract the team's hot French civilian administrator ''by accident'' (temporarily dumbfounding him) and she continues to flirt with him. (In the novels, he misses her obvious attraction to him completely leaving her somewhat annoyed).
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A former Vice detective, she was transferred into Backstrom's unit after engaging in unknown behavior that caused her to fall into disfavor.

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A former Vice detective, she was transferred into Backstrom's unit after engaging in unknown behavior that caused her to fall into disfavor. Based on the character of Annika Carlsson in the original novels.



* AdaptationalSexuality: [[HideYourLesbians Originally a lesbian in the original CBS pilot]], hints at [[GirlOnGirlIsHot experimenting with other girls in college]] in "Enemy Of My Enemies"

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* AdaptationalSexuality: [[HideYourLesbians Originally a lesbian in the original CBS pilot]], pilot and BiTheWay in the original novels]], hints at [[GirlOnGirlIsHot experimenting with other girls in college]] in "Enemy Of My Enemies"



* FieryRedhead: almost perpetually hostile to Backstrom.

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* FieryRedhead: almost perpetually hostile to Backstrom. (In the novels she is well disposed towards him and finds him strangely attractive.)



The Special Crimes Unit's forensic liaison.

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The Special Crimes Unit's forensic liaison. Based on the character of Peter Niemi in the original novels.



The [=SCU's=] civilian administrator. She's originally from France and is the only member of the team Backstrom doesn't show any disdain towards.

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The [=SCU's=] civilian administrator. She's originally from France and is the only member of the team Backstrom doesn't show any disdain towards. Based on the character of Nadja Holbörg in the original novels.



* DarkAndTroubledPast: Nadia Paquet isn't her real name. She was involved in something shady enough to warrant her going into witness protection with a new identity.

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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Nadia Paquet isn't her real name. She was involved in something shady enough to warrant her going into witness protection with a new identity. In the novels she is originally a highly-skilled refugee from the old Soviet Union who was internally exiled for wanting to emigrate, who illegally crossed the border into Finland, then Sweden, and asked for asylum. Her skills and a security clearance got her into the Stockholm police.
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* GenreSavvy: His cynicism helps him see that many of the SCU's cases are assigned to the unit because of politics within the Bureau of Police and/or the city government rather than actually important.



* GenreSavvy: His decades of experience means that he knows when a case is assigned to the SCU because of connections and/or politics while his colleagues still believe that the unit is called upon because it is needed.
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-->'''Almond''': "It was Chief Cervantes who found [Backstrom] holed up in a motel in Port Orford trying to drink himself to death."

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-->'''Almond''': "It It was Chief Cervantes who found [Backstrom] holed up in a motel in Port Orford trying to drink himself to death."

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* RoomFullOfCrazy: Often decorates the evidence board like this. It's so confusing to Backstrom that he has no clue as to how it is set up.
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* BookDumb: He is a good cop but often doesn't think his theories through.

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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Valentine and Backstrom's relationship most closely mirrors that of two bickering brothers. Admittedly, a rather vitriolic duo, but still.

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* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Valentine will blatantly hit on any man he finds attractive (especially Neidermayer) and will sleep with anyone who's willing.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Valentine and Backstrom's relationship most closely mirrors that of two bickering brothers. Admittedly, a rather vitriolic duo, but still. Then it's revealed that they really are half-brothers.
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** He minored in Studio Art in college.

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** He minored in Studio Art in college.college and, despite his outward disdain, he can explain in eloquent detail precisely what an artist is trying to achieve. One performance artist actually prostrates herself before him in admiration.
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* NoodleIncident: While working undercover as a call girl she managed to net 24 johns with slam dunk convictions. Something went wrong with the surveillance equipment on the 25th john (apparently someone well-connected) and the blame fell on her and led to the previous 24 convictions being vacated. Her career would have been ruined if ADA Steve Kines hadn't done something to keep her from being fired.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: A successful stint in Vice would have meant her career would take off, but she did something wrong (see NoodleIncident above) and got assigned to Backstrom's unit instead.

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* NoodleIncident: While working undercover as a call girl she managed to net 24 johns with slam dunk convictions. Something went wrong with the surveillance equipment on the 25th john (apparently someone well-connected) and the blame fell on her and led to the previous 24 convictions being vacated. Her career would have been ruined if ADA Steve Kines hadn't done something to keep her from being fired.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: A The successful stint in at Vice would should have meant helped her career would take off, career, but she did something wrong (see NoodleIncident above) and got ended up assigned to Backstrom's unit instead.
unit. She had unknowingly busted someone well-connected during a prostitution sting and the evidence related to that bust was either destroyed or went missing. This was enough to get Gravely's previous 24 convictions vacated and she would have been fired if ADA Steve Kine's hadn't protected her from the worst of the fallout.

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