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* StepfordSmiler: Everyone in Roy's district, but the Drews get a special shoutout, since it was their {{Dark Secret}}s that got Roy killed. To onlookers, they were the picture-perfect all-American family. But in reality, Glenn was having affairs with men, and physically abusing Diane and their son Kevin. Diane even said herself that she was tired of being this trope. When Roy confronted Glenn and demanded he leave them so they could be happy, Glenn stabbed him to death.
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* StepfordSmiler: Everyone in Roy's district, but the Drews get a special shoutout, since it was their {{Dark Secret}}s that got Roy killed. To onlookers, they were the picture-perfect all-American family. But in reality, Glenn was having affairs with men, and physically abusing Diane and their son Kevin. Diane even said herself that she was tired of being this trope. When Roy confronted Glenn and demanded he leave them his family so they could be happy, Glenn stabbed him to death.
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* BullyHunter: Roy killed his best friend and went to jail for years because the friend beat his wife. Even then, Roy doesn't regret it, and gladly confronts Glenn for the same crime.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Roy was a charmer who used his powers of persuasion to sell brushes to bored wives, raking in that dough. But he is a Bully Hunter who once killed a man--his best friend, no less!--because that man was abusing his wife.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Roy was a charmer who used his powers of persuasion to sell brushes to bored wives, raking in that dough. But he is was also a Bully Hunter BullyHunter who once killed a man--his best friend, no less!--because less!--[[WifeBasherBasher because that man was abusing his wife.wife]].
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* StereotypeFlip: Drew was a closeted gay man decades ago in a StepfordSuburbia, but unlike previous examples in the series, he's the villain, and not even a sympathetic one at that instead of a benign supporting character or the VictimOfTheWeek.
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* StereotypeFlip: Drew was a [[ClosetGay closeted gay man man]] decades ago in a StepfordSuburbia, but unlike previous examples in the series, he's the villain, and not even a sympathetic one at that that, instead of a benign supporting character or the VictimOfTheWeek.VictimOfTheWeek.
* WifeBasherBasher: Roy killed his best friend and went to jail for years because the friend beat his wife. Even then, Roy doesn't regret it, and gladly confronts Glenn for the same crime.
* WifeBasherBasher: Roy killed his best friend and went to jail for years because the friend beat his wife. Even then, Roy doesn't regret it, and gladly confronts Glenn for the same crime.
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* StereotypeFlip: Drew was a closeted gay man decades ago in a StepfordSuburbia, but is the villain, and not even a sympathetic one, instead of a benign supporting character or the VictimOfTheWeek.
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* StereotypeFlip: Drew was a closeted gay man decades ago in a StepfordSuburbia, but is unlike previous examples in the series, he's the villain, and not even a sympathetic one, one at that instead of a benign supporting character or the VictimOfTheWeek.
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* TooDumbToLive: Roy knocks down Glenn with one punch, but doesn't check whether he's knocked out before turning his back. That's when Glenn decides to [[DirtyCoward shank him in the back]].
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* DeadHatShot: Roy's hat floating on the surface of the duck pond his body was dumped in is the only indication of his murder.
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* ArmouredClosetGay: [[spoiler:Glenn Drew, who beat his son when the boy caught him getting a blow job from another man]].
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* ArmouredClosetGay: [[spoiler:Glenn Glenn Drew, who beat his son when the boy caught him getting a blow job from another man]].man.
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* BullyHunter: Roy killed his best friend and went to jail for years because the friend beat his wife. Even then, Roy doesn’t regret it, [[spoiler:and gladly confronts Glenn for the same crime]].
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* BullyHunter: Roy killed his best friend and went to jail for years because the friend beat his wife. Even then, Roy doesn’t regret it, [[spoiler:and and gladly confronts Glenn for the same crime]].crime.
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* StepfordSmiler: Everyone in Roy’s district, but the Drews get a special shoutout, since it was their {{Dark Secret}}s that got Roy killed. To onlookers, they were the picture-perfect all-American family. But in reality, [[spoiler:Glenn was having affairs with men, and physically abusing Diane and their son Kevin. Diane even said herself that she was tired of being this trope. When Roy confronted Glenn and demanded he leave them so they could be happy, Glenn stabbed him to death]].
* StereotypeFlip: [[spoiler:Drew]] was a closeted gay man decades ago in a StepfordSuburbia, but is the villain, and not even a sympathetic one, instead of a benign supporting character or the VictimOfTheWeek.
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Roy knocks down Glenn with one punch, but doesn't check whether he's knocked out before turning his back. That's when Glenn decides to [[DirtyCoward shank him in the back]]]].
* WouldHurtAChild: Glenn breaks his own son’s wrist because the boy caught him [[spoiler:having sexual relations with another man]].
* StereotypeFlip: [[spoiler:Drew]] was a closeted gay man decades ago in a StepfordSuburbia, but is the villain, and not even a sympathetic one, instead of a benign supporting character or the VictimOfTheWeek.
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Roy knocks down Glenn with one punch, but doesn't check whether he's knocked out before turning his back. That's when Glenn decides to [[DirtyCoward shank him in the back]]]].
* WouldHurtAChild: Glenn breaks his own son’s wrist because the boy caught him [[spoiler:having sexual relations with another man]].
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* StepfordSmiler: Everyone in Roy’s district, but the Drews get a special shoutout, since it was their {{Dark Secret}}s that got Roy killed. To onlookers, they were the picture-perfect all-American family. But in reality, [[spoiler:Glenn Glenn was having affairs with men, and physically abusing Diane and their son Kevin. Diane even said herself that she was tired of being this trope. When Roy confronted Glenn and demanded he leave them so they could be happy, Glenn stabbed him to death]].
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* StereotypeFlip:[[spoiler:Drew]] Drew was a closeted gay man decades ago in a StepfordSuburbia, but is the villain, and not even a sympathetic one, instead of a benign supporting character or the VictimOfTheWeek.
* TooDumbToLive:[[spoiler:Roy Roy knocks down Glenn with one punch, but doesn't check whether he's knocked out before turning his back. That's when Glenn decides to [[DirtyCoward shank him in the back]]]].
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* WouldHurtAChild: Glenn breaks his own son’s wrist because the boy caught him[[spoiler:having having sexual relations with another man]].man.
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* StereotypeFlip: [[spoiler:Drew]] was a closeted gay man decades ago in a StepfordSuburbia, but is the villain, and not even a sympathetic one, instead of a benign supporting character or the VictimOfTheWeek.
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* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Roy knocks down Glenn with one punch, but doesn't check whether he's knocked out before turning his back. That's when Glenn decides to [[DirtyCoward shank him in the back]]]].
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* BerserkButton: Never let Roy find out that you’ve been hitting your wife and[=/=]or child, else may God have mercy on your soul.
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After finding a skeleton in the lake next to a {{Suburbia}} neighborhood, the crew looks into the 1967 disappearance and murder of the owner, a door-to-door cleaning brush salesman, who discovered a few skeletons himself hiding in the closets of his clients.
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After finding a skeleton in the lake next to a {{Suburbia}} suburban neighborhood, the crew looks into the 1967 disappearance and murder of the owner, a door-to-door cleaning brush salesman, who discovered a few skeletons himself hiding in the closets of his clients.
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* TheAtoner: Even though Alice was more than relieved to finally to be free of her abusive husband following his death, Roy still felt guilty and sent her money to help her, as a way to make it up to him.
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* TheAtoner: Even though Alice was more than relieved to finally to be free of her abusive husband following his death, Roy still felt guilty and sent her money to help her, as a way to make it up to him.her.
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* DomesticAbuse / AbusiveParents: Glenn was both.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Roy was a charmer who used his powers of persuasion to sell brushes to bored wives, raking in that dough. But he is a BullyHunter who once killed a man—his best friend, no less!—because that man was abusing his wife.
* ScarsAreForever: Norm Fawnshawe, who became disfigured on the right side of his face in the Vietnam War, lasting from then to 2009 during the reinvestigation.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Norm became a nasty hermit who kept toys that accidentally wound up in his yard after getting disfigured during the Vietnam War.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Roy was a charmer who used his powers of persuasion to sell brushes to bored wives, raking in that dough. But he is a BullyHunter who once killed a man—his best friend, no less!—because that man was abusing his wife.
* ScarsAreForever: Norm Fawnshawe, who became disfigured on the right side of his face in the Vietnam War, lasting from then to 2009 during the reinvestigation.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Norm became a nasty hermit who kept toys that accidentally wound up in his yard after getting disfigured during the Vietnam War.
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* DomesticAbuse / AbusiveParents: Glenn was guilty of both.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Roy was a charmer who used his powers of persuasion to sell brushes to bored wives, raking in that dough. But he is aBullyHunter Bully Hunter who once killed a man—his best friend, no less!—because that man was abusing his wife.
* ScarsAreForever: Norm Fawnshawe, who became disfigured on the right side of his face in the VietnamWar, lasting from then to 2009 War. His scars are still visible during the reinvestigation.
reinvestigation in 2009.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Norm became a nasty hermit whokept claimed toys that accidentally wound up in his yard after getting disfigured during the Vietnam War.War.
* {{Suburbia}}: Roy's sales route is in a classic family neighborhood, complete with kids riding bikes, housewives hanging laundry, and baseballs being tossed back and forth.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Roy was a charmer who used his powers of persuasion to sell brushes to bored wives, raking in that dough. But he is a
* ScarsAreForever: Norm Fawnshawe, who became disfigured on the right side of his face in the Vietnam
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* {{Suburbia}}: Roy's sales route is in a classic family neighborhood, complete with kids riding bikes, housewives hanging laundry, and baseballs being tossed back and forth.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Glenn breaks his own son’s wrist because he caught him [[spoiler:having sexual relations with another man]].
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* WouldHurtAChild: Glenn breaks his own son’s wrist because he the boy caught him [[spoiler:having sexual relations with another man]].man]].
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* TheAtoner: Even though Alice was more than relieved to finally to be free of her abusive husband following his death, Roy still felt guilty and sent her money to help her, as a way to make it up to him.
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* ScarsAreForever: Norm Fawnshawe, who became disfigured on the right side of his face in the Vietnam War, lasting from then to 2009 during the reinvestigation.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Norm became a nasty hermit who kept toys that accidentally wound up in his yard after getting disfigured during the Vietnam War.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Norm became a nasty hermit who kept toys that accidentally wound up in his yard after getting disfigured during the Vietnam War.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Glenn breaks his own son’s wrist because he caught him having sexual relations with another man.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Glenn breaks his own son’s wrist because he caught him having [[spoiler:having sexual relations with another man.man]].
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* StepfordSmiler: Everyone in Roy’s district, but the Drews get a special shoutout, since it was their {{Dark Secret}}s that got Roy killed. To onlookers, they were the picture-perfect all-American family. But in reality, [[spoiler:Glenn was having affairs with men, and physically abusing Diane and their son Kevin. Diane even said herself that she was tired of being this trope. Diane even said herself that she was tired of being this trope. When Roy confronted Glenn and demanded he leave them so they could be happy, Glenn stabbed him to death]].
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* StepfordSmiler: Everyone in Roy’s district, but the Drews get a special shoutout, since it was their {{Dark Secret}}s that got Roy killed. To onlookers, they were the picture-perfect all-American family. But in reality, [[spoiler:Glenn was having affairs with men, and physically abusing Diane and their son Kevin. Diane even said herself that she was tired of being this trope. Diane even said herself that she was tired of being this trope. When Roy confronted Glenn and demanded he leave them so they could be happy, Glenn stabbed him to death]].
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* StepfordSmiler: Everyone in Roy’s district, but the Drews get a special shoutout, since it was their {{Dark Secret}}s that got Roy killed. To onlookers, they were the picture-perfect all-American family. But in reality, [[spoiler:Glenn was having affairs with men, and physically abusing Diane and their son Kevin. When Roy confronted Glenn and demanded he leave them so they could be happy, Glenn stabbed him to death]].
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* StepfordSmiler: Everyone in Roy’s district, but the Drews get a special shoutout, since it was their {{Dark Secret}}s that got Roy killed. To onlookers, they were the picture-perfect all-American family. But in reality, [[spoiler:Glenn was having affairs with men, and physically abusing Diane and their son Kevin. Diane even said herself that she was tired of being this trope. Diane even said herself that she was tired of being this trope. When Roy confronted Glenn and demanded he leave them so they could be happy, Glenn stabbed him to death]].
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* BersekButton: Never let Roy find out that you’ve been hitting your wife and[=/=]or child, else may God have mercy on your soul.
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* ArmouredClosetGay: [[Glenn Drew, who beat his son when the boy caught him getting a blow job from another man]].
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* ArmouredClosetGay: [[Glenn [[spoiler:Glenn Drew, who beat his son when the boy caught him getting a blow job from another man]].
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* BullyHunter: Roy killed his best friend and went to jail for years because the friend beat his wife. Even then, Roy doesn’t regret it, [[and gladly confronts Glenn for the same crime]].
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* BullyHunter: Roy killed his best friend and went to jail for years because the friend beat his wife. Even then, Roy doesn’t regret it, [[and [[spoiler:and gladly confronts Glenn for the same crime]].
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Roy was a charmer who used his powers of persuasion to sell brushes to bored wives, raking in that dough. But he is a BullyHunter who once killed a man—his best friend, no less!—because that man was abusing his wife.
* StepfordSmiler: Everyone in Roy’s district, but the Drews get a special shoutout, since it was their {{Dark Secret}}s that got Roy killed. To onlookers, they were the picture-perfect all-American family. But in reality, [[spoiler:Glenn was having affairs with men, and physically abusing Diane and their son Kevin. When Roy confronted Glenn and demanded he leave them so they could be happy, Glenn stabbed him to death]].
* StepfordSmiler: Everyone in Roy’s district, but the Drews get a special shoutout, since it was their {{Dark Secret}}s that got Roy killed. To onlookers, they were the picture-perfect all-American family. But in reality, [[spoiler:Glenn was having affairs with men, and physically abusing Diane and their son Kevin. When Roy confronted Glenn and demanded he leave them so they could be happy, Glenn stabbed him to death]].
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Roy was a charmer who used his powers of persuasion to sell brushes to bored wives, raking in that dough. But he is a BullyHunter who once killed a man—his best friend, no less!—because that man was abusing his wife.
* StepfordSmiler: Everyone in Roy’s district, but the Drews get a special shoutout, since it was their {{Dark Secret}}s that got Roy killed. To onlookers, they were the picture-perfect all-American family. family. But in reality, [[spoiler:Glenn was having affairs with men, and physically abusing Diane and their son Kevin. Kevin. When Roy confronted Glenn and demanded he leave them so they could be happy, Glenn stabbed him to death]].
* StepfordSmiler: Everyone in Roy’s district, but the Drews get a special shoutout, since it was their {{Dark Secret}}s that got Roy killed.
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* BerserkButton: Never let Roy find out that you’ve been hitting your wife and[=/=]or child, else may God have mercy on your soul.
* BullyHunter: Roy killed his best friend and went to jail for years because the friend beat his wife. Even then, Roy doesn’t regret it, [[and gladly confronts Glenn for the same crime]].
* BullyHunter: Roy killed his best friend and went to jail for years because the friend beat his wife. Even then, Roy doesn’t regret it, [[and gladly confronts Glenn for the same crime]].
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* BerserkButton: BersekButton: Never let Roy find out that you’ve been hitting your wife and[=/=]or child, else may God have mercy on your soul.
* BullyHunter: Roy killed his best friend and went to jail for years because the friend beat his wife. Even then, Roy doesn’t regret it, [[and gladly confronts Glenn for the same crime]].
* BullyHunter: Roy killed his best friend and went to jail for years because the friend beat his wife.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Roy was a charmer who used his powers of persuasion to sell brushes to bored wives, raking in that dough. But he is a BullyHunter who once killed a man—his best friend, no less!—because that man was abusing his wife.
* StepfordSmiler: Everyone in Roy’s district, but the Drews get a special shoutout, since it was their {{Dark Secret}}s that got Roy killed. To onlookers, they were the picture-perfect all-American family. But in reality, [[spoiler:Glenn was having affairs with men, and physically abusing Diane and their son Kevin. When Roy confronted Glenn and demanded he leave them so they could be happy, Glenn stabbed him to death]].
* StepfordSmiler: Everyone in Roy’s district, but the Drews get a special shoutout, since it was their {{Dark Secret}}s that got Roy killed. To onlookers, they were the picture-perfect all-American family. But in reality, [[spoiler:Glenn was having affairs with men, and physically abusing Diane and their son Kevin. When Roy confronted Glenn and demanded he leave them so they could be happy, Glenn stabbed him to death]].
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Roy was a charmer who used his powers of persuasion to sell brushes to bored wives, raking in that dough. But he is a BullyHunter who once killed a man—his best friend, no less!—because that man was abusing his wife.
* StepfordSmiler: Everyone in Roy’s district, but the Drews get a special shoutout, since it was their {{Dark Secret}}s that got Roy killed. To onlookers, they were the picture-perfect all-American family. family. But in reality, [[spoiler:Glenn was having affairs with men, and physically abusing Diane and their son Kevin. Kevin. When Roy confronted Glenn and demanded he leave them so they could be happy, Glenn stabbed him to death]].
* StepfordSmiler: Everyone in Roy’s district, but the Drews get a special shoutout, since it was their {{Dark Secret}}s that got Roy killed.
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* BersekButton: Never let Roy find out that you’ve been hitting your wife and[=/=]or child, else may God have mercy on your soul.
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After finding a skeleton in the lake next to a {{Suburbia}} neighborhood, the crew looks into the 1967 disappearance and murder of the owner, a door-to-door cleaning brush salesman, who discovered a few skeletons himself hiding in the closets of his clients.
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* ArmouredClosetGay: [[Glenn Drew, who beat his son when the boy caught him getting a blow job from another man]].
* BersekButton: Never let Roy find out that you’ve been hitting your wife and[=/=]or child, else may God have mercy on your soul.
* BullyHunter: Roy killed his best friend and went to jail for years because the friend beat his wife. Even then, Roy doesn’t regret it, [[and gladly confronts Glenn for the same crime]].
* TheCharmer: Roy was a top salesman because of his ability to charm bored housewives with his good looks and honied words.
* DomesticAbuse / AbusiveParents: Glenn was both.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Roy was a charmer who used his powers of persuasion to sell brushes to bored wives, raking in that dough. But he is a BullyHunter who once killed a man—his best friend, no less!—because that man was abusing his wife.
* StepfordSmiler: Everyone in Roy’s district, but the Drews get a special shoutout, since it was their {{Dark Secret}}s that got Roy killed. To onlookers, they were the picture-perfect all-American family. But in reality, [[spoiler:Glenn was having affairs with men, and physically abusing Diane and their son Kevin. When Roy confronted Glenn and demanded he leave them so they could be happy, Glenn stabbed him to death]].
* WouldHurtAChild: Glenn breaks his own son’s wrist because he caught him having sexual relations with another man.
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* ArmouredClosetGay: [[Glenn Drew, who beat his son when the boy caught him getting a blow job from another man]].
* BersekButton: Never let Roy find out that you’ve been hitting your wife and[=/=]or child, else may God have mercy on your soul.
* BullyHunter: Roy killed his best friend and went to jail for years because the friend beat his wife. Even then, Roy doesn’t regret it, [[and gladly confronts Glenn for the same crime]].
* TheCharmer: Roy was a top salesman because of his ability to charm bored housewives with his good looks and honied words.
* DomesticAbuse / AbusiveParents: Glenn was both.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Roy was a charmer who used his powers of persuasion to sell brushes to bored wives, raking in that dough. But he is a BullyHunter who once killed a man—his best friend, no less!—because that man was abusing his wife.
* StepfordSmiler: Everyone in Roy’s district, but the Drews get a special shoutout, since it was their {{Dark Secret}}s that got Roy killed. To onlookers, they were the picture-perfect all-American family. But in reality, [[spoiler:Glenn was having affairs with men, and physically abusing Diane and their son Kevin. When Roy confronted Glenn and demanded he leave them so they could be happy, Glenn stabbed him to death]].
* WouldHurtAChild: Glenn breaks his own son’s wrist because he caught him having sexual relations with another man.
