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*RewatchBonus: The fact that Judge Schuller's name is the last one on the killer's is shown to the audience before the opening credits roll.
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Written by Creator/DanDworkin & Creator/Jay Beattie
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->Directed by Creator/KarenGaviola\\
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--> '''Rossi:''' ''"Justice without force is powerless. Force without justice is tyrannical." Blaise Pascal.''
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--> '''Rossi:''' ''"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruit than strict justice." Abraham Lincoln''
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* WholePlotReference: To ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'', except that here the judge employs a hitman rather than committing the murders himself.
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** Emma named her kitten for Creator/OscarWilde. He favorite play was "An Ideal Husband".
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** Emma named her kitten for Creator/OscarWilde. He His favorite play was "An Ideal Husband".Husband".
* TerminallyIllCriminal: The BigBad is a judge who, having been diagnosed with terminal cancer, decides to hire a hitman to kill a number of criminals who got OffOnATechnicality on his watch (the judge also puts his name on the list, [[KarmicNod accepting that what he's doing is monstrous]], and is the last person the hitman kills before [[RunForTheBorder getting the hell out of Dodge]]).
* TerminallyIllCriminal: The BigBad is a judge who, having been diagnosed with terminal cancer, decides to hire a hitman to kill a number of criminals who got OffOnATechnicality on his watch (the judge also puts his name on the list, [[KarmicNod accepting that what he's doing is monstrous]], and is the last person the hitman kills before [[RunForTheBorder getting the hell out of Dodge]]).
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* BloodSplatteredInnocents: JJ is right next to Schuller when he is shot and gets drenched in his blood.
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* ILied: Said verbatim by Schuller moments before being shot in broad daylight surrounded by the BAU and a crowd of press, revealing that HE was the true final target.
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A professional killer goes on a revenge spree against people who hurt children.
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A professional killer goes on a revenge spree against people who hurt children. A widowed and dying judge is revealed to be behind it, resenting that he has had to let people go who he felt were guilty because the children who were their victims withdrew the charges.
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* ShoutOut: The killer takes his codename from Theatre/TheDuchessOfMalfi.
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** The killer takes his codename fromTheatre/TheDuchessOfMalfi.Theatre/TheDuchessOfMalfi.
** Emma named her kitten for Creator/OscarWilde. He favorite play was "An Ideal Husband".
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** Emma named her kitten for Creator/OscarWilde. He favorite play was "An Ideal Husband".
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When three Commack, Long Island residents are shot at close range and mutilated post-mortem, the BAU sets out to track down a hitman hired to commit a series of vigilante murders. Meanwhile, Rossi finds himself forced to face his past after discovering a connection between a childhood friend and one of the hitman's intended targets.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Ray Finnegan, a mobster and old friend of Rossi, feels that the victims got what they deserved for messing with children.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Ray Finnegan, a mobster and old friend of Rossi, feels that the victims got what they deserved for messing with children.children.
* ShoutOut: The killer takes his codename from Theatre/TheDuchessOfMalfi.
* UnintentionallySympathetic: In-universe, a father saying he'll kill anyone who hurts his daughter makes his daughter afraid to report her stepfather's abuse of her, whether for not wanting her stepfather dead or for not wanting her father to go to prison on her account, or both.
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* ShoutOut: The killer takes his codename from Theatre/TheDuchessOfMalfi.
* UnintentionallySympathetic: In-universe, a father saying he'll kill anyone who hurts his daughter makes his daughter afraid to report her stepfather's abuse of her, whether for not wanting her stepfather dead or for not wanting her father to go to prison on her account, or both.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Judge Schuller, who not only succeeds in having all his victims killed and then goes out on his own turns via BetterToDieThanBeKilled.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Judge Schuller, who not only succeeds in having all his victims killed and then goes out on his own turns terms via BetterToDieThanBeKilled.
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* AssholeVictim: All of the victims were guilty of fairly horrific crimes, only getting off on technicalities or mistakes. The hitman himself proves to be this when he realizes he's about to die and [[EvilIsPetty his last act is to start telling a bigoted Irish joke]].
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* AssholeVictim: All of the victims were guilty of fairly horrific crimes, only getting off on technicalities or mistakes. The hitman himself proves to be this when he realizes he's about to die and [[EvilIsPetty his last act is to start telling a bigoted Irish joke]].joke]].
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: Sean, the subordinate of Rossi's mobster friend, is the one who kills Tony Meccaci.
* TheBadGuyWins: Judge Schuller, who not only succeeds in having all his victims killed and then goes out on his own turns via BetterToDieThanBeKilled.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Ray Finnegan, a mobster and old friend of Rossi, feels that the victims got what they deserved for messing with children.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: Sean, the subordinate of Rossi's mobster friend, is the one who kills Tony Meccaci.
* TheBadGuyWins: Judge Schuller, who not only succeeds in having all his victims killed and then goes out on his own turns via BetterToDieThanBeKilled.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Ray Finnegan, a mobster and old friend of Rossi, feels that the victims got what they deserved for messing with children.
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When three Commack, Long Island residents are shot at close range and mutilated post-mortem, the BAU sets out to track down a hitman hired to commit a series of vigilante murders. Meanwhile, Rossi finds himself forced to face his past after discovering a connection between a childhood friend and one of the hitman's intended targets.targets.
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* AssholeVictim: All of the victims were guilty of fairly horrific crimes, only getting off on technicalities or mistakes. The hitman himself proves to be this when he realizes he's about to die and [[EvilIsPetty his last act is to start telling a bigoted Irish joke]].
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* AssholeVictim: All of the victims were guilty of fairly horrific crimes, only getting off on technicalities or mistakes. The hitman himself proves to be this when he realizes he's about to die and [[EvilIsPetty his last act is to start telling a bigoted Irish joke]].
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When three Commack, Long Island residents are shot at close range and mutilated post-mortem, the BAU sets out to track down a hitman hired to commit a series of vigilante murders. Meanwhile, Rossi finds himself forced to face his past after discovering a connection between a childhood friend and one of the hitman's intended targets.
