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Ballard investigates the murder of a woman in the garage of Alvin Taylor, a famous sports doctor, and discovered the woman was a gambling addict. Elsewhere, Munch has to deal with an IRS audit, Bayliss and Shepherd decide to go out on a date, and Falsone decides to ask Ballard out.

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Ballard investigates the murder of a woman in the garage of Alvin Taylor, a famous sports doctor, and discovered the woman was a gambling addict. Elsewhere, Munch has to deal with an IRS audit, Bayliss and Shepherd Sheppard decide to go out on a date, and Falsone decides to ask Ballard out.



* AmbiguouslyBi: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] - when Shepherd asks Bayliss out (after she sees him hemming and hawing about it), she says he thought he was gay. Bayliss denies this, but admits he's [[Recap/HomicideLifeOnTheStreetS6E9ClosetCases gone out with men]], leading Shepherd to admit, "I'm a little bi-curious myself."
* BaitAndSwitchComment: When Stivers asks Falsone what's been going on with him and Shepherd, he responds Shepherd shot him down. Stivers thinks he means Shepherd turned him down when he asked her out, but what Falsone really means is Shepherd beat him at basketball.

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* AmbiguouslyBi: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] - when Shepherd Sheppard asks Bayliss out (after she sees him hemming and hawing about it), she says he thought he was gay. Bayliss denies this, but admits he's [[Recap/HomicideLifeOnTheStreetS6E9ClosetCases gone out with men]], leading Shepherd Sheppard to admit, "I'm a little bi-curious myself."
* BaitAndSwitchComment: When Stivers asks Falsone what's been going on with him and Shepherd, Sheppard, he responds Shepherd Sheppard shot him down. Stivers thinks he means Shepherd Sheppard turned him down when he asked her out, but what Falsone really means is Shepherd Sheppard beat him at basketball.



* LoveDodecahedron: A lot of the subplots of this episode involve romance and rivalry within the squad, with the general free-floating sexual tension involving Ballard and Shepherd versus Lewis, Falsone and Bayliss, and a developing rivalry between Munch and Gharty over Billie Lou.

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* LoveDodecahedron: A lot of the subplots of this episode involve romance and rivalry within the squad, with the general free-floating sexual tension involving Ballard and Shepherd Sheppard versus Lewis, Falsone and Bayliss, and a developing rivalry between Munch and Gharty over Billie Lou.
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* DrFeelgood: The manager of the boxing gym where Alvin Taylor once worked as a cuts man says that he banned him from the club after discovering that he was selling anabolic steroids to the boxers.
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* ContinuityNod: During the conversation about the "naked in public" dream, Munch mentions that he had a crush on [[Recap/HomicideLifeOnTheStreetS5E17Kaddish Helen Rosenthal]] at high school.
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* EatingTheEyeCandy: Ballard gets very excited when seeing Falsone stripped to the waist and fighting at a boxing club. Mike calls her on it.


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* LoveDodecahedron: A lot of the subplots of this episode involve romance and rivalry within the squad, with the general free-floating sexual tension involving Ballard and Shepherd versus Lewis, Falsone and Bayliss, and a developing rivalry between Munch and Gharty over Billie Lou.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] - when Shepherd asks Bayliss out (after she sees him hemming and hawing about it), she says he thought he was gay. Bayliss denies this, but admits he's [[Recap/HomicideLifeOnTheStreetS6E9ClosetCases gone out with men]], leading Shepherd to admit, "I'm a little bi-curious myself.

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* AmbiguouslyBi: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] - when Shepherd asks Bayliss out (after she sees him hemming and hawing about it), she says he thought he was gay. Bayliss denies this, but admits he's [[Recap/HomicideLifeOnTheStreetS6E9ClosetCases gone out with men]], leading Shepherd to admit, "I'm a little bi-curious myself."

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* ShoutOut: Taylor says he and his wife were watching ''Film/DarkVictory''.

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* BaitAndSwitchComment: When Stivers asks Falsone what's been going on with him and Shepherd, he responds Shepherd shot him down. Stivers thinks he means Shepherd turned him down when he asked her out, but what Falsone really means is Shepherd beat him at basketball.
* CallBack: The nurse at the hospital Ballard goes to [[Recap/HomicideLifeOnTheStreetS6E22FallenHeroesPartOne tells Ballard she's happy Ballard has recovered from being shot]].
* HardWorkMontage: To the tune of a cover of "[[Music/DustySpringfield The Look of Love]]", Ballard and Mike Giardello interview various gun range owners to see if the murder victim trained at any of them.
* IntimidatingRevenueService: Munch is pretty scared of having the IRS come after him, and Mike refuses to use his FBI connections to investigate the IRS agent because even he's scared of them.



** Munch and Billie Lou makes a date to watch the UsefulNotes/ZapruderFilm.

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** Munch and Billie Lou makes a date to watch the UsefulNotes/ZapruderFilm.UsefulNotes/ZapruderFilm.
* UndyingLoyalty: Taylor bails his wife out even though she might have tried to kill him.
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* NotWearingAnyPantsDream: Lewis and Munch talk about how they've each had a nightmare about wearing nothing except shoes and socks in front of a woman they were attracted to.

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* NotWearingAnyPantsDream: NotWearingPantsDream: Lewis and Munch talk about how they've each had a nightmare about wearing nothing except shoes and socks in front of a woman they were attracted to.
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!Just an Old-Fashioned Love Song
->Directed By: Leslie Libman and Larry Williams
->Written By: Eric Overmyer

Ballard investigates the murder of a woman in the garage of Alvin Taylor, a famous sports doctor, and discovered the woman was a gambling addict. Elsewhere, Munch has to deal with an IRS audit, Bayliss and Shepherd decide to go out on a date, and Falsone decides to ask Ballard out.

!!This episode contains examples of:
* AmbiguouslyBi: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] - when Shepherd asks Bayliss out (after she sees him hemming and hawing about it), she says he thought he was gay. Bayliss denies this, but admits he's [[Recap/HomicideLifeOnTheStreetS6E9ClosetCases gone out with men]], leading Shepherd to admit, "I'm a little bi-curious myself.
* NotWearingAnyPantsDream: Lewis and Munch talk about how they've each had a nightmare about wearing nothing except shoes and socks in front of a woman they were attracted to.
* ShoutOut: Taylor says he and his wife were watching ''Film/DarkVictory''.
** Munch and Billie Lou makes a date to watch the UsefulNotes/ZapruderFilm.

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