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* AnAesop: Eyewitness identification is not enough to make a murder case, especially when the eyewitnesses are unreliable because they don't agree on what they saw.
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* ShoutOut: Munch tells Lewis the only thing he knows about Buddhism is Creator/RichardGere and his "Free UsefulNotes/{{Tibet}}" movement.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** Munch tells Lewis the only thing he knows about Buddhism is Creator/RichardGere and his "Free UsefulNotes/{{Tibet}}"movement.movement.
** Lewis compares Felder's fulsome public apology after his sex scandal to UsefulNotes/BillClinton's.
** Munch tells Lewis the only thing he knows about Buddhism is Creator/RichardGere and his "Free UsefulNotes/{{Tibet}}"
** Lewis compares Felder's fulsome public apology after his sex scandal to UsefulNotes/BillClinton's.
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* ShoutOut: Munch tells Lewis the only thing he knows about Buddhism is Creator/RichardGere and his "Free UsefulNotes/{{Tibet}}" movement.
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* ShoutOut: Munch tells Lewis the only thing he knows about Buddhism is Creator/RichardGere and his "Free UsefulNotes/{{Tibet}}" movement.movement.
* TraumaCongaLine: Yet another microcosm of the Trauma Conga Line that is Bayliss's life in general -- first he discovers that the Buddhist monk who he looked up to as a teacher was abusing his position to have sex with the younger and more attractive female students; his investigation ends with him shooting the killer dead, which sends him into another spiral of guilt and self-hatred when he starts second-guessing himself and worrying that he did it unnecessarily out of revenge or unjustified panic.
* TraumaCongaLine: Yet another microcosm of the Trauma Conga Line that is Bayliss's life in general -- first he discovers that the Buddhist monk who he looked up to as a teacher was abusing his position to have sex with the younger and more attractive female students; his investigation ends with him shooting the killer dead, which sends him into another spiral of guilt and self-hatred when he starts second-guessing himself and worrying that he did it unnecessarily out of revenge or unjustified panic.
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* RacialFaceBlindness: Gharty warns Ballard that cross-racial identification is often difficult, and when the victim's mother admits that she didn't get a good look at the killer she mentions that white men look alike to her.
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* HardWorkMontage: Of Bayliss interviewing people who might have seen Larry Moss and Lewis interviewing Felder's colleagues, until Bayliss sees Moss washing windows in the street, at which point it because a foot chase.
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* HardWorkMontage: Of Bayliss interviewing people who might have seen Larry Moss and Lewis interviewing Felder's colleagues, until Bayliss sees Moss washing windows windscreens in the street, at which point it because becomes a foot chase.
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* DontYouDarePityMe: Larry Moss' motive for killing Roshi Felder, as well as why he pulls a gun on Bayliss as well.
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The title is a play on ''Literature/ZenAndTheArtOfMotorcycleMaintenance''.
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Lewis reluctantly teams up with Bayliss to investigate the murder of Roshi James Felder, a Buddhist monk, and the two clash over the investigation (Bayliss thinks the murderer was one of the homeless people the monk worked with, while Lewis thinks it was one of the other monks), leading them to each investigate on their own, but Bayliss' end of the investigation leads him to shoot the suspect, which shatters his beliefs. Ballard and Gharty investigate what seems to be an airtight murder case, with three eyewitnesses, but none of them can agree on whether the suspect in custody was the murderer.
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Lewis reluctantly teams up with Bayliss to investigate the murder of Roshi James Felder, a Buddhist monk, and the two clash over the investigation (Bayliss thinks the murderer was one of the homeless people the monk worked with, while Lewis thinks it was one of the other monks), leading them to each investigate on their own, but Bayliss' end of the investigation leads him to shoot the suspect, which shatters his beliefs. Ballard and Gharty investigate what seems to be an airtight murder case, with three eyewitnesses, but none of them can agree on whether the suspect in custody was the murderer.
murderer. Elsewhere, Ballard and Falsone agree to end their relationship.
* AnAesop: Eyewitness identification is not enough to make a murder case, especially when the eyewitnesses are unreliable because they don't agree on what they saw.
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-->'''Gharty''': Are you thinkin what I'm thinking?\\
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-->'''Gharty''': Are you thinkin thinking what I'm thinking?\\
* DisproportionateRetribution: Larry Moss, the homeless man who killed Roshi Felder, did so because when he came to the soup kitchen Felder worked at, Felder offered him a spoon when all he wanted was soup, which he felt insulted his [[{{Pride}} pride]].
* HardWorkMontage: Of Bayliss interviewing people who might have seen Larry Moss and Lewis interviewing Felder's colleagues, until Bayliss sees Moss washing windows in the street, at which point it because a foot chase.
* HeroicBSOD: Bayliss has one after he shoots and kills Larry Moss, even though Giardello and Lewis assure him it was a justified shooting because Moss was holding a gun on him.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Lewis, who had been in Bayliss' face about his Buddhist beliefs in general and how it may be influencing his investigation of Roshi Felder's murder in particular, admits to Bayliss he was wrong and Bayliss was right about who committed the murder.
* KarmaHoudini: Jocko gets away with murder because the eyewitnesses Ballard and Gharty interview can't agree about whether or not he was the murderer. The last time we see Jocko (during the MontageOut at the end), he's disposing of the gun.
* HardWorkMontage: Of Bayliss interviewing people who might have seen Larry Moss and Lewis interviewing Felder's colleagues, until Bayliss sees Moss washing windows in the street, at which point it because a foot chase.
* HeroicBSOD: Bayliss has one after he shoots and kills Larry Moss, even though Giardello and Lewis assure him it was a justified shooting because Moss was holding a gun on him.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Lewis, who had been in Bayliss' face about his Buddhist beliefs in general and how it may be influencing his investigation of Roshi Felder's murder in particular, admits to Bayliss he was wrong and Bayliss was right about who committed the murder.
* KarmaHoudini: Jocko gets away with murder because the eyewitnesses Ballard and Gharty interview can't agree about whether or not he was the murderer. The last time we see Jocko (during the MontageOut at the end), he's disposing of the gun.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Giardello orders Lewis to let Bayliss help out with the investigation, Munch uses that as his excuse to go on sick leave.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Giardello orders Lewis to let Bayliss help out with the investigation, Munch uses that as his excuse to go on sick leave.leave.
* ShoutOut: Munch tells Lewis the only thing he knows about Buddhism is Creator/RichardGere and his "Free UsefulNotes/{{Tibet}}" movement.
* ShoutOut: Munch tells Lewis the only thing he knows about Buddhism is Creator/RichardGere and his "Free UsefulNotes/{{Tibet}}" movement.
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* ScrewThisImAOuttaHere: When Giardello orders Lewis to let Bayliss help out with the investigation, Munch uses that as his excuse to go on sick leave.
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* ScrewThisImAOuttaHere: ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Giardello orders Lewis to let Bayliss help out with the investigation, Munch uses that as his excuse to go on sick leave.
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* ScrewThisImAOutOfHere: When Giardello orders Lewis to let Bayliss help out with the investigation, Munch uses that as his excuse to go on sick leave.
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* ScrewThisImAOutOfHere: ScrewThisImAOuttaHere: When Giardello orders Lewis to let Bayliss help out with the investigation, Munch uses that as his excuse to go on sick leave.
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* ScrewThisImAOuttaHere: PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: The responding officer at Ballard and Gharty's murder scene tells Gharty, "What you see is what you get." When Gharty gives him a QuizzicalTilt, the officer explains it was a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip_Wilson Flip Wilson reference]].
* RedHerring: Tina Jeffries, one of Roshi Felder's colleagues, reveals to Bayliss and Lewis that Roshi Felder [[TeacherStudentRomance was sleeping with some of his female students]]. However, this ends up having nothing to do with the murder.
* ScrewThisImAOutOfHere: When Giardello orders Lewis to let Bayliss help out with the investigation, Munch uses that as his excuse to go on sick leave.
* RedHerring: Tina Jeffries, one of Roshi Felder's colleagues, reveals to Bayliss and Lewis that Roshi Felder [[TeacherStudentRomance was sleeping with some of his female students]]. However, this ends up having nothing to do with the murder.
* ScrewThisImAOutOfHere: When Giardello orders Lewis to let Bayliss help out with the investigation, Munch uses that as his excuse to go on sick leave.
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!Zen and the Art of Murder
->Directed By: Creator/MiguelArteta
->Story By: Creator/TomFontana and Julie Martin
->Teleplay By: Lloyd Rose
Lewis reluctantly teams up with Bayliss to investigate the murder of Roshi James Felder, a Buddhist monk, and the two clash over the investigation (Bayliss thinks the murderer was one of the homeless people the monk worked with, while Lewis thinks it was one of the other monks), leading them to each investigate on their own, but Bayliss' end of the investigation leads him to shoot the suspect, which shatters his beliefs. Ballard and Gharty investigate what seems to be an airtight murder case, with three eyewitnesses, but none of them can agree on whether the suspect in custody was the murderer.
!!This episode contains examples of:
* AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering: When Gharty hears there are three eyewitnesses to the murder they're investigating:
-->'''Gharty''': Are you thinkin what I'm thinking?\\
'''Ballard''': Yeah - [[TooGoodToBeTrue too good to be true]].
* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Spoon]]: Though Munch cracks to Lewis the spoon found at the crime scene of Felder's murder was not the murder weapon, the spoon turns out to be the motivation for the crime.
* ScrewThisImAOuttaHere: When Giardello orders Lewis to let Bayliss help out with the investigation, Munch uses that as his excuse to go on sick leave.
->Directed By: Creator/MiguelArteta
->Story By: Creator/TomFontana and Julie Martin
->Teleplay By: Lloyd Rose
Lewis reluctantly teams up with Bayliss to investigate the murder of Roshi James Felder, a Buddhist monk, and the two clash over the investigation (Bayliss thinks the murderer was one of the homeless people the monk worked with, while Lewis thinks it was one of the other monks), leading them to each investigate on their own, but Bayliss' end of the investigation leads him to shoot the suspect, which shatters his beliefs. Ballard and Gharty investigate what seems to be an airtight murder case, with three eyewitnesses, but none of them can agree on whether the suspect in custody was the murderer.
!!This episode contains examples of:
* AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering: When Gharty hears there are three eyewitnesses to the murder they're investigating:
-->'''Gharty''': Are you thinkin what I'm thinking?\\
'''Ballard''': Yeah - [[TooGoodToBeTrue too good to be true]].
* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Spoon]]: Though Munch cracks to Lewis the spoon found at the crime scene of Felder's murder was not the murder weapon, the spoon turns out to be the motivation for the crime.
* ScrewThisImAOuttaHere: When Giardello orders Lewis to let Bayliss help out with the investigation, Munch uses that as his excuse to go on sick leave.
