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* ObfuscatingDisability: Luther plays up his advanced age to disqualify himself as a suspect in the Sullivan case. Seth Frank isn't fooled for a moment.
-->'''Luther''': This person went down a rope in the middle of the night? If I could do something like that, I'd be the star of my AARP meetings.
-->'''Luther''': This person went down a rope in the middle of the night? If I could do something like that, I'd be the star of my AARP meetings.
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* ObfuscatingDisability: Luther plays up his advanced age to disqualify himself as a suspect in the Sullivan case. Seth Frank isn't fooled for a moment.
-->'''Luther''': This person went down a rope in the middle of the night? If I could do something like that, I'd be the star of my AARP meetings.
-->'''Luther''': This person went down a rope in the middle of the night? If I could do something like that, I'd be the star of my AARP meetings.
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* ObfuscatingDisability: Luther plays up his advanced age to disqualify himself as a suspect in the Sullivan case. Seth Frank isn't fooled for a moment.
-->'''Luther''': This person went down a rope in the middle of the night? If I could do something like that, I'd be the star of my AARP meetings.
-->'''Luther''': This person went down a rope in the middle of the night? If I could do something like that, I'd be the star of my AARP meetings.
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* SarcasticConfession: When Seth Frank finds Luther at the museum to question him, Luther [[CanAlwaysSpotACop immediately identifies him as a detective]], and cheerfully concedes that he's the obvious suspect because of his rap sheet. When Frank asks what kind of man he should be looking for, Luther says, probably someone just like him - an older, experienced thief with enough patience to do the kind of research needed to break into a target like Walter Sullivan's mansion.
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: An inverted variant. Luther overhears Christy telling Alan that she got out of her family vacation to Barbados to go out with him by claiming she was sick. When questioned later, her husband Walter says that she just changed her mind, noting how fickle women are. When Luther is later speaking to Walter to convince him that Alan is the killer, he brings up how Alan knew she was sick when he hadn’t told him that. This is what partially convinces Walter that Luther is telling the truth.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Right when it seems a hitman has Luther in his sights and is about to shoot him during a planned cop operation, a beam of sunlight blinds him at that moment, making him fire and miss his shot. This startles the Secret Service agent into firing ''his'' shot prematurely as well, which also misses. All this leads to Luther realizing there’s an actual attempt on his life (which he was only considering as a slight possibility) and pulling a ScrewThisImOuttaHere, with the whole area devolving into complete chaos and the operation failing.
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Unless the writers are goddamn time travelers, I doubt it was Donnie.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: A President involved in a scandal involving a sexual encounter? [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump That sure sounds familiar.]]
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: A President involved in a scandal involving a sexual encounter? [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump encounter in 1997? [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton That sure sounds familiar.]]
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''Absolute Power'' is a 1997 film directed by Creator/ClintEastwood. It is adapted from [[Literature/AbsolutePower a 1996 political thriller novel]] by Creator/DavidBaldacci, with significant changes including omitting the novel's protagonist Jack Graham.
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''Absolute Power'' is a 1997 film directed by Creator/ClintEastwood. It is adapted from [[Literature/AbsolutePower [[Literature/AbsolutePower1996 a 1996 political thriller novel]] by Creator/DavidBaldacci, with significant changes including omitting the novel's protagonist Jack Graham.
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* PresidentEvil: President Alan Richmond, while an upstanding man to the outside world, is in his private life a philanderer and serial abuser. When one of his escapades results in the accidental murder of a young woman, Richmond further resorts to cover it up and dispose of any witnesses to his crime.
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* PresidentEvil: President Alan Richmond, while [[VillainWithGoodPublicity an upstanding man to the outside world, world]], is in his private life a philanderer and serial abuser. When one of his escapades results in the accidental murder of a young woman, Richmond further resorts to cover it up and dispose of any witnesses to his crime.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: A President involved in a scandal involving a sexual encounter? [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton That sure sounds familiar.]]
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: A President involved in a scandal involving a sexual encounter? [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump That sure sounds familiar.]]
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* {{Irony}}: Walter Sullivan married Christy because he wanted to ensure that his second wife would outlive him and not have to go through that kind of loss again. Christy is murdered by President Richmond when Walter himself is still alive and didn't even reach old age like his first wife.
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* EmasculatedCuckold: Because of [[MayDecemberRomance his advanced age and his much younger wife's "needs"]], Walter Sullivan took to sitting in a chair and watched her from behind a two-way mirror in his bedroom when she was with other men. The whole thing was Christy's idea, and as he admits to Detective Seth Frank (who hates even having to ask him about the topic while investigating Christy's death as he deeply respects the man), he didn't enjoy it anyway.
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* PapaBear: Luther, who's previously established as never using violence, kills Collin to protect his daughter Kate (whom Collin's about to murder).
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* PapaBear: PapaWolf: Luther, who's previously established as never using violence, violence (he'd killed in the Korean War as a soldier, though not since then), kills Collin to protect his daughter Kate (whom Collin's about to murder).
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* DeathByAdaption: [[spoiler:Richmond]] does not die in the book. He's caught and convicted of murdering Christy offscreen, getting the death penalty (while unlikely this will ever get carried out, because [[spoiler:he's a former President]].
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* DeathByAdaption: DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Richmond]] does not die in the book. He's caught and convicted of murdering Christy offscreen, later, getting the death penalty (while unlikely this will ever get carried out, because [[spoiler:he's a former President]].
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Adding tropes. It's left ambiguous how Richmond died, so I'm removing and editing things to reflect that.
* AdaptationalModesty: The scene with Christy is more explicit in the book, to the point that she removes her panties entirely, with Luther having an unwanted look at her genitals. Here, they don't go nearly that far.
* AmbiguousSituation: At the end, it's unclear if [[spoiler:Walter Sullivan murdered Richmond and made this look like suicide, or talked him into it.]]
* AmbiguousSituation: At the end, it's unclear if [[spoiler:Walter Sullivan murdered Richmond and made this look like suicide, or talked him into it.]]
* AttemptedRape: Richmond's consensual encounter with Christy turns into attempted rape after he slaps her around ([[{{Sadist}} apparently for fun]]) and she resists afterward.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Agent Burton kills himself out of guilt. [[spoiler: President Richmond's death is also passed off as suicide.]]
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* DeathByAdaption: [[spoiler:Richmond]] does not die in the book. He's caught and convicted of murdering Christy offscreen, getting the death penalty (while unlikely this will ever get carried out, because [[spoiler:he's a former President]].
* DrivenToSuicide: Agent Burton kills himself out of guilt.[[spoiler: President Richmond's death is also passed off as suicide.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: Agent Burton kills himself out of guilt.
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* IKEAWeaponry: Both Agent Collin and Sullivan's million-dollar hit-man are assembling sniper rifles out of cases.
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* IKEAWeaponry: Both Agent Collin and Sullivan's million-dollar hit-man hitman are assembling sniper rifles out of cases.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Walter stabs Richmond with the same letter opener with which Christy attempted to defend herself.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Walter stabs Richmond (or talked him into suicide) with the same letter opener with which Christy attempted to defend herself.]]
* MissingMom: Luther's wife, Kate's mother, died in the past. It becomes a plot point when Luther swears he's telling the truth about President Richmond by saying he's swearing to this on her grave. Kate knows he would never do that and lie, so it convinces her.
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* NeverSuicide: Walter Sullivan [[spoiler:murders President Richmond and claims Richmond committed suicide]].
* PapaBear: Luther, who's previously established as never using violence, kills Collin to protect his daughter Kate (whom Collin's about to murder).
* RaceLift:
** Gloria Russell in the book is part Native American. Here she's played by a wholly Caucasian actress.
** Both agents in the book are White. Here Collin is Black.
** Gloria Russell in the book is part Native American. Here she's played by a wholly Caucasian actress.
** Both agents in the book are White. Here Collin is Black.
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* WhamShot: Alan Richmond being the President of the United States is revealed like this. Initially, the audience isn't aware who he is when Luther witnesses his affair with and murder of Christy Sullivan; the presence of his security staff hints that he's a high-placed person, but he's not formally introduced until a White House press conference when the camera pans up to reveal that the President is the same man who is responsibe for the death of a young woman that night.
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* WhamShot: Alan Richmond being the President of the United States is revealed like this. Initially, the audience isn't aware who he is when Luther witnesses his affair with and murder of Christy Sullivan; the presence of his security staff hints that he's a high-placed person, but he's not formally introduced until a White House press conference when the camera pans up to reveal that the President is the same man who is responsibe responsible for the death of a young woman that night.
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* ClearMyName: Luther is a prime suspect in the murder of Christy. Christy's husband is convinced that he did it and he hires a hitman to kill Luther.
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* GentlemanThief: Luther is a charming thief who avoids violence and robs very rich people like Walter Sullivan. He exposes those responsible for the murder of Christy.
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* ProfessionalKiller: Walter Sullivan hires a hitman to kill Luther, because he thinks Luther murdered his wife. The hitman misses his target.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Christy Sullivan is killed when a burglar happens to be in her house. Moreover, by pure coincidence, Gloria Russell, who does not know that there is actually a burglar in the house, suggests they should stage the crime scene to look like a burglary gone wrong.
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* NeverSuicide: Walter Sullivan [[spoiler:murders President Richmond and claims Richmond committed suicide]].
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Cuckold is now on Definition Only Pages; examples in bulleted lists aren't allowed. Examples that focus on the husband's feelings can go in Emasculated Cuckold
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* {{Cuckold}}: Because of [[MayDecemberRomance his advanced age and his much younger wife's "needs"]], Walter Sullivan took to sitting in a chair and watched her from behind a two-way mirror in his bedroom when she was with other men. The whole thing was Christy's idea, and as he admits to Detective Seth Frank (who hates even having to ask him about the topic while investigating Christy's death as he deeply respects the man), he didn't enjoy it anyway.
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'''Luther:''' [[PreMortemOneLiner I just ran out]]. [injects fatal dose]
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'''Luther:''' [[PreMortemOneLiner I just ran I'm fresh out]]. [injects fatal dose]
