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* AnAesop: The problem of race relations in the U.S. will never go away until the country [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil deals with its past of white men having African-American slaves]], and whites saying they never owned slaves, or offering to buy an African-American a drink (both of which Falsone does at the end of the episode with Lewis) isn't going to help.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The usually phlegmatic Lewis is angered and disturbed by the shrine to the Confederacy in the victim's living room.

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* EurekaMoment: Pembleton is just as dismissive at the idea the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Civil War]] has anything to do with the murder Falsone and Lewis are investigating as Falsone and Giardello are, but when he hears the victim's name was Ridenour, Pembleton remembers how his grandmother told of a warning passed down to her family about Pamela Ridenour, who hunted runaway slaves.

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* TheDreaded: Patty Ridenour was notorious to the point that Pembleton remembers his grandmother using her as a boogeyman to scare him into not being naughty when he was a kid. Especially since Pembleton isn't even from the region, but New York City.
* EurekaMoment: Pembleton is just as dismissive at the idea the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Civil War]] has anything to do with the murder Falsone and Lewis are investigating as Falsone and Giardello are, but when he hears the victim's name was Ridenour, Pembleton remembers how his grandmother told of a warning passed down to her family about Pamela Patty Ridenour, who hunted runaway slaves.


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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Patty Ridenour is loosely based on the real-world Maryland kidnapper [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patty_Cannon Patty Cannon]].


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* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Stephanie Roth plays both Patty Ridenour in the nineteenth-century flashbacks and Ridenour's wife Pamela in the modern day.
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* EurekaMoment: Pembleton is just as dismissive as the idea the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Civil War]] has anything to do with the murder Falsone and Lewis are investigating as Falsone and Giardello are, but when he hears the victim's name was Ridenour, Pembleton remembers how his grandmother told of a warning passed down to her family about Pamela Ridenour, who hunted runaway slaves.

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* EurekaMoment: Pembleton is just as dismissive as at the idea the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Civil War]] has anything to do with the murder Falsone and Lewis are investigating as Falsone and Giardello are, but when he hears the victim's name was Ridenour, Pembleton remembers how his grandmother told of a warning passed down to her family about Pamela Ridenour, who hunted runaway slaves.
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* ShoutOut: During a montage of Falsone and Lewis interviewing people to find Rigby, Music/NinaSimone's version of "Sinnerman" plays.
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* AnAesop: The problem of race relations in the U.S. will never go away until the country [[SlaveryIsASpecialTypeOfEvil deals with its past of white men having African-American slaves]], and whites saying they never owned slaves, or offering to buy an African-American a drink (both of which Falsone does at the end of the episode with Lewis) isn't going to help.

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* AnAesop: The problem of race relations in the U.S. will never go away until the country [[SlaveryIsASpecialTypeOfEvil [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil deals with its past of white men having African-American slaves]], and whites saying they never owned slaves, or offering to buy an African-American a drink (both of which Falsone does at the end of the episode with Lewis) isn't going to help.
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* AnAesop: The problem of race relations in the U.S. will never go away until the country [[SlaveryIsASpecialTypeOfEvil deals with its past of white men having African-American slaves]], and whites saying they never owned slaves, or offering to buy an African-American a drink (both of which Falsone does at the end of the episode with Lewis) isn't going to help.
* ArmorPiercingResponse: After Rigby gives his justification for murdering Ridenour (see SinsOfOurFathers below), Lewis points out Ridenour had a one-year-old baby who's been deprived of a father. Rigby has no answer to that.


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* EurekaMoment: Pembleton is just as dismissive as the idea the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Civil War]] has anything to do with the murder Falsone and Lewis are investigating as Falsone and Giardello are, but when he hears the victim's name was Ridenour, Pembleton remembers how his grandmother told of a warning passed down to her family about Pamela Ridenour, who hunted runaway slaves.


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* InsideAWall: Turns out Rigby is hiding in a room behind a wall in his parents house, until Lewis figures it out.
* MirrorCharacter: Ridenour and Rigby were both obsessed with their past - Ridenour had Confederate flags and imagery hanging in his own, while Rigby had pictures of UsefulNotes/MalcolmX and other prominent African-Americans in his room.
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!Sins of the Father
->Directed By: Creator/MaryHarron
->Story By: Julie Martin and James Yoshimura
->Teleplay By: Darryl [=LeMont=] Wharton

Falsone and Lewis investigate the murder of a man who was lynched and beaten, and Lewis discovers that the motive extends back to the times before UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar.

!!This episode contains examples of:
* CallBack: Bayliss brings up [[Recap/HomicideLifeOnTheStreetS2E4AManySplendoredThing the time Pembleton told him he needed to confront his dark side]] as to why he's experimenting with dating both men and women.
* ComplimentBackfire: Lewis teases Falsone about the fact his reaction to seeing a modern-day lynching was to say, "Wow." Dr. Cox says the same thing when she arrives at the scene, and when Falsone points that our, Lewis points out since Dr. Cox is educated, it doesn't sound as bad coming from her, to which Dr. Cox replies, "Thanks, Lewis...I think."
* {{Hypocrite}}: Gharty has no problem needling Pembleton about Bayliss possibly being bisexual, but [[BerserkButton he gets very defensive when Pembleton brings up the fact Bayliss had breakfast with Ballard]].
* SinsOfOurFathers: It turns out this was Rigby's motivation for murdering Ridenour - Ridenour's great-great-great grandmother was a hunter of runaway slaves, she captured Rigby's great-great-great grandfather (who was not a runaway slave, but a free man), and beat and lynched him the same way Rigby did to Ridenour.
* WaxingLyrical: When Munch is talking to Bayliss and Pembleton about the old woman who accidentally killed someone by running over them with their vehicle, Munch refers to her as the "[[Music/JanAndDean little old lady from Pasadena]]".

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