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* UnusualDysphemism: After being convinced that Mike actually is part black and part Italian, Emmet refers to him as "[[UsefulNotes/CuisinesInAmerica chitlin scallopini]]".
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* FromBadToWorse: The siege begins with Emmet shooting a uniformed officer in the foot after a row with his sister-in-law. Then Emmet kills his wife, and finally himself and his son.
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* BottleEpisode: The entire episode takes place in and around the apartment building where Emmet, Zach and Zoey are, and the only detectives who appear on the show are Mike, Gharty, Bayliss and Lewis.
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* BottleEpisode: The entire episode takes place in and around the apartment building where Emmet, Zach and Zoey are, and the only detectives regular characters who appear on the show are Mike, Gharty, Bayliss and Lewis.
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* DiabolusExMachina: Lucy manages to get through the police lines to shout at Emmet from the courtyard, and then Emmet manages to shoot her dead by firing wildly out of the window with a short-barrelled pistol. Lewis even calls it a "miracle shot".
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* PaterFamilicide: Emmet shoots his wife, his son and himself, sparing his stepdaughter because she wasn't a blood relative.
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Mike and Gharty have to talk down Emmet (Creator/RonEldard), an unemployed man who's taken his son and stepdaughter hostage.
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Mike and Gharty have to talk down Emmet (Creator/RonEldard), an unemployed man who's taken his son Zach and stepdaughter Zoey hostage.
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* BottleEpisode: The entire episode takes place in and around the apartment building where Emmet and his two children are, and the only detectives who appear on the show are Mike, Gharty, Bayliss and Lewis.
* HeroicRROD: Mike goes through this after Emmet shoots his son and then himself, to the point he [[PunctuatedPounding kicks Emmet's dead body in a rage]].
* HeroicRROD: Mike goes through this after Emmet shoots his son and then himself, to the point he [[PunctuatedPounding kicks Emmet's dead body in a rage]].
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* BottleEpisode: The entire episode takes place in and around the apartment building where Emmet Emmet, Zach and his two children Zoey are, and the only detectives who appear on the show are Mike, Gharty, Bayliss and Lewis.
* DownerEnding: Mike is unable to stop Emmet from shooting Zach and then himself. Not even the fact he was able to save Zoey makes him feel any better.
* HeroicRROD: Mike goes through this after Emmet shootshis son Zach and then himself, to the point he [[PunctuatedPounding kicks Emmet's dead body in a rage]].
* DownerEnding: Mike is unable to stop Emmet from shooting Zach and then himself. Not even the fact he was able to save Zoey makes him feel any better.
* HeroicRROD: Mike goes through this after Emmet shoots
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: A variation - Emmet asks for Mike because he saw on television the other cops laughing at what happened (in reality, they were laughing at the fact Emmet tried to shoot a cop at point-blank range and only hit his foot), and Mike wasn't laughing.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Bayliss and Lewis do this to Lt. Jasper after Lucy slips by QRT and gets killed.
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* HeroicRROD: Mike goes through this after Emmet shoots his son and then himself, to the point he [[PunctuatedPounding kicks Emmet's dead body in a rage]].
* LetMeGetThisStraight:
-->'''Gharty''' Let me get this straight - these crisis guys, they're going to let you go up to the door with this pizza, and our pal Emmet, he's gonna open the door, you're going to hand him the damn pizza, and he's gonna give you his gun?\\
'''Mike''': That's the plan, champ.\\
'''Gharty''': And what if he doesn't give you the gun?\\
'''Mike''': QRT. They shoot him dead?\\
'''Gharty''': What if he shoots first? Shoots you? And then your old man comes back into town, he's where?\\
'''Mike''': I don't know, out of town somewhere.\\
'''Gharty''': The lieutenant comes back into town, and I gotta tell him you got shot?\\
'''Mike''': My father's here, he'd be the first one through that door.
* WhatTheHellHero: Bayliss and Lewis do this to Lt. Jasper after Lucy slips by QRT and getskilled.killed by Emmet.
* LetMeGetThisStraight:
-->'''Gharty''' Let me get this straight - these crisis guys, they're going to let you go up to the door with this pizza, and our pal Emmet, he's gonna open the door, you're going to hand him the damn pizza, and he's gonna give you his gun?\\
'''Mike''': That's the plan, champ.\\
'''Gharty''': And what if he doesn't give you the gun?\\
'''Mike''': QRT. They shoot him dead?\\
'''Gharty''': What if he shoots first? Shoots you? And then your old man comes back into town, he's where?\\
'''Mike''': I don't know, out of town somewhere.\\
'''Gharty''': The lieutenant comes back into town, and I gotta tell him you got shot?\\
'''Mike''': My father's here, he'd be the first one through that door.
* WhatTheHellHero: Bayliss and Lewis do this to Lt. Jasper after Lucy slips by QRT and gets
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!Lines of Fire
->Directed By: Creator/KathrynBigelow
->Story By: Creator/TomFontana and James Yoshimura
->Teleplay By: James Yoshimura
Mike and Gharty have to talk down Emmet (Creator/RonEldard), an unemployed man who's taken his son and stepdaughter hostage.
!!This episode contains examples of:
* BlatantLies: When Emmet shoots his ex-wife Lucy, Mike tells Emmet he didn't kill her when in reality, she's dead.
* BottleEpisode: The entire episode takes place in and around the apartment building where Emmet and his two children are, and the only detectives who appear on the show are Mike, Gharty, Bayliss and Lewis.
* WhatTheHellHero: Bayliss and Lewis do this to Lt. Jasper after Lucy slips by QRT and gets killed.
->Directed By: Creator/KathrynBigelow
->Story By: Creator/TomFontana and James Yoshimura
->Teleplay By: James Yoshimura
Mike and Gharty have to talk down Emmet (Creator/RonEldard), an unemployed man who's taken his son and stepdaughter hostage.
!!This episode contains examples of:
* BlatantLies: When Emmet shoots his ex-wife Lucy, Mike tells Emmet he didn't kill her when in reality, she's dead.
* BottleEpisode: The entire episode takes place in and around the apartment building where Emmet and his two children are, and the only detectives who appear on the show are Mike, Gharty, Bayliss and Lewis.
* WhatTheHellHero: Bayliss and Lewis do this to Lt. Jasper after Lucy slips by QRT and gets killed.
