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* ScholarshipStudent: Buchanon's status as a scholarship boy attracted [=McPhee=]'s hostility and made him more vulnerable to the bullying.
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* ScholarshipStudent: Buchanon's Buchanan's status as a scholarship boy attracted [=McPhee=]'s hostility and made him more vulnerable to the bullying.
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* {{Technophobia}}: [=McPhee=] detests computers and arrogantly refuses to learn anything about them. This ends up as the [[FatalFlaw root cause]] of his defeat, when he got his minions to erase Buchanan's hard drive without considering the possibility that there were back-ups.
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** Bayliss repeatedly toys with the idea that [=McPhee=] sexually assaulted his victims, with no real reason to believe it. According to Kyle Secor, this was deliberate foreshadowing of the later revelation that Bayliss was molested as a child.
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* HatesRichPeople: Bayliss is surprisingly hostile to the school and the teachers and pupils from the start, given that he has always been one of the more stereotypically middle-class of the regulars. He explains to Frank that this is because the school rejected his [[Recap/HomicideLifeOnTheStreetS3E19Colors cousin's]] application, he believes because his cousin's family were [[NouveauRiche the wrong kind of rich]], and that the disappointment and humiliation had a permanent negative effect on his personality.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Bayliss outright physically assaults [=McPhee=] during the interrogation, although the main purpose was to establish him as the "bad cop" so that Lewis could play "good cop" and flatter [=McPhee=] into confessing.
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Lewis takes advantage of [=McPhee=]'s arrogance to charm him into boasting about his own villainy in rather too much detail.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Bayliss outright physically assaults [=McPhee=] during the interrogation, although the main purpose was to establish him as the "bad cop" so that Lewis could play "good cop" and flatter [=McPhee=] into confessing.
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Lewis takes advantage of [=McPhee=]'s arrogance to charm him into boasting about his own villainy in rather too much detail.
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* ScholarshipStudent: Buchanon's status as a scholarship boy attracted [=McPhee=]'s hostility and made him more vulnerable to the bullying.
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* UncleTomfoolery: Lewis coaxes admissions out of [=McPhee=] by pretending to be a submissive black man who admires him, even after [=McPhee=] racially insults him to his face.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Kellerman and Pembleton both snark at Brodie for shooting the water cooler, footage of which will show up in the documentary Brodie shows them in a future episode.
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** Kellerman and Pembleton both snark at Brodie for shooting the water cooler, footage of which will show up in the documentary Brodie shows them in a future episode.
** Kellerman and Pembleton both snark at Brodie for shooting the water cooler, footage of which will show up in the documentary Brodie shows them in a future episode.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Kellerman and Pembleton both snark at Brodie for shooting the water cooler, footage of which will show up in the documentary Brodie shows them in a future episode.
** Dr. Cox and Kellerman hit it off, which becomes important later.
** Dr. Cox and Kellerman hit it off, which becomes important later.
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* MamaBear: No matter how much [=McPhee=] may hate her, Judge Andahl will still do whatever she can to keep him out of jail.
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* MamaBear: No matter how much [=McPhee=] may hate her, Even after Judge Andahl sees [=McPhee=] tell Lewis he wanted Kemp to kill her, she will still do whatever she can to keep him out of jail.
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* ShoutOut: In shooting the water cooler, Brodie says he's trying to invoke the movies of Creator/AndyWarhol.
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* TerminologyTitle: Also serves as a CallBack - Pembleton had said before how [[Recap/HomicideLifeOnTheStreetS5E4BadMedicine the true test of his coming back to Homicide was not the firearms test, but the box]].
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!The True Test
->Directed By: Alan Taylor
->Story By: Noel Behn and Creator/TomFontana
->Teleplay By: Noel Behn
Bayliss and Lewis investigate the death of a prep school student, which puts them in conflict with [=McPhee=] Broadman (Creator/ElijahWood), an arrogant student Bayliss thinks is responsible for the murder. However, [=McPhee=] happens to be the son of Judge Susan Andahl. Pembleton finally passes his firearms exam.
!!This episode contains examples of:
* GoodCopBadCop: Lewis and Bayliss do this to [=McPhee=] to get him to confess to manipulating Kemp into committing murder.
* MamaBear: No matter how much [=McPhee=] may hate her, Judge Andahl will still do whatever she can to keep him out of jail.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: [=McPhee=] has managed to avoid prosecution over his crimes because he's the son of a judge.
* SmugSnake: [=McPhee=], which is one of the reasons why Bayliss can't stand him.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Pembleton gets so nervous about his exam, he throws up, though we only hear it.
->Directed By: Alan Taylor
->Story By: Noel Behn and Creator/TomFontana
->Teleplay By: Noel Behn
Bayliss and Lewis investigate the death of a prep school student, which puts them in conflict with [=McPhee=] Broadman (Creator/ElijahWood), an arrogant student Bayliss thinks is responsible for the murder. However, [=McPhee=] happens to be the son of Judge Susan Andahl. Pembleton finally passes his firearms exam.
!!This episode contains examples of:
* GoodCopBadCop: Lewis and Bayliss do this to [=McPhee=] to get him to confess to manipulating Kemp into committing murder.
* MamaBear: No matter how much [=McPhee=] may hate her, Judge Andahl will still do whatever she can to keep him out of jail.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: [=McPhee=] has managed to avoid prosecution over his crimes because he's the son of a judge.
* SmugSnake: [=McPhee=], which is one of the reasons why Bayliss can't stand him.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Pembleton gets so nervous about his exam, he throws up, though we only hear it.
