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* GlitterLitter: A glitter bomb is left on Jake's desk that not only covers everything in a yard's radius in red glitter, but shatters the windows and contaminates the only evidence from an open case on his desk. Jake tries to blame Terry by pointing out a hidden pair of suspenders with red glitter on them, but Dillman deduces the glitter is not from the prank but from Terry's twin daughters. [[spoiler:It turns out the bomb was planted by the ADA who assigned the case to Jake, hoping to blame the lack of evidence on him, {{exploit|edTrope}}ing the trope).]]
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When a man who's dedicated his life to law enforcement and an arrogant attitude is forced to work at a hobby store, it's no shock he treats it as beneath him and his boss there won't take his attitude to fire him.
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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the GreatDetective who uses SherlockScan to solve crimes. Despite his arrogance and Holt's faith in him, Dillman's simply makes wild assumptions based on small details and his claim to know everything about a person through a brief interactions is shown to be wrong. In real life crimes are solved through hard work and investigating thorough leads which is how Boyle is able to find the real culprit.
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** Jake makes a snarky comment about Dillman's baldness, Dillman reveals a tragic backstory behind it making Jake regret it, only to reveal that he was lying. This is similar to how Jake made a snarky comment about [[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS3E01NewCaptain Seth Dozerman repeating the word "efficiency"]], Dozerman revealing that he has a stutter, making Jake regret his quip, only to reveal that he is only kidding.

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* CallBack: In the first episode Terry describes Charles to Holt as "A grinder" and, the hardest working detective in the precinct because he's not exceptionally gifted like Jake. Indeed Charles solves this case by putting in the work, which Jake points out to Charles when he downplays it.

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* CallBack: In the first episode Terry describes Charles to Holt as "A grinder" and, the hardest working detective in the precinct because he's not exceptionally gifted like Jake. Indeed gifted. In this episode, while Jake and Dillman are competing to deliver elaborate summations, full of impressive deductions and shocking accusations, Charles quietly works in the background until he solves this case by putting in the work, which Jake points out to Charles when he downplays it. case.


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** Even when he gets it right, he goes to extremes, as when glitter is found on Terry's clothes and he goes through an elaborate chain of reasoning to deduce exactly which elementary school project it came from. Jake lampshades that the same point could he made by saying "he's got kids".

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Dillman knowing "a weird amount about glitter" isn't just good detective work, but probably something he picked up from his job at Yarn Barn.



* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When a man who's dedicated his life to law enforcement and an arrogant attitude is forced to work at a hardware store, it's no shock he treats it as beneath him and his boss there won't take his attitude to fire him.

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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When a man who's dedicated his life to law enforcement and an arrogant attitude is forced to work at a hardware hobby store, it's no shock he treats it as beneath him and his boss there won't take his attitude to fire him.
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* RightForTheWrongReasons: At random Jake accuses Officer Howard of the Glitter Bomb, he is correct, but he's just choosing a suspect at random.

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* RealityEnsues: When a man who's dedicated his life to law enforcement and an arrogant attitude is forced to work at a hardware store, it's no shock he treats it as beneath him and his boss there won't take his attitude to fire him.


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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When a man who's dedicated his life to law enforcement and an arrogant attitude is forced to work at a hardware store, it's no shock he treats it as beneath him and his boss there won't take his attitude to fire him.
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* SherlockScan: Parodied. Dillman is able to determine "everything about you as a person" just from the first thing someone says to him. Or at least that's what he ''thinks'' he can do. In reality, it's just a long string of BatDeductions.

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* SherlockScan: Parodied. Dillman is able to determine "everything about you as a person" just from the first thing someone says to him. Or at least that's what he ''thinks'' he can do. In reality, it's just a long string of BatDeductions.[[BatDeduction Bat Deductions]].

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* BatDeduction: Every action will have Dillman claiming he now "Knows everything there is to know about the person."



* SherlockScan: Parodied. Dillman is able to determine "everything about you as a person" just from the first thing someone says to him. Or at least that's what he ''thinks'' he can do.

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* SherlockScan: Parodied. Dillman is able to determine "everything about you as a person" just from the first thing someone says to him. Or at least that's what he ''thinks'' he can do. In reality, it's just a long string of BatDeductions.

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