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* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: Stepha Odell]] left her baby in the countryside to die of exposure/starvation, because she could not bear the thought that [[spoiler: she might have passed on Huntington's disease to it, and have to watch it slowly die the way she just had her brother]].
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* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: Stepha Odell]] left her baby in the countryside to die of exposure/starvation, because she could not bear the thought that [[spoiler: she might have passed on Huntington's disease to it, and have to watch it slowly die the way she just had her brother]]. It's implied there was some major post partum depression involved as well.
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* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: Stepha Odell]] left her baby in the countryside to starve to death, because she could not bear the thought that [[spoiler: she might have passed on Huntington's disease to it]].
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* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: Stepha Odell]] left her baby in the countryside to starve to death, die of exposure/starvation, because she could not bear the thought that [[spoiler: she might have passed on Huntington's disease to it]].it, and have to watch it slowly die the way she just had her brother]].
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* RepressedMemories: [[spoiler: Gillian Tey]] finds it easier to block all the memories of her past life than come to terms with the horror she had to live through. She has a major FreakOut when Havers calls her by her past name [[spoiler: (although thankfully, it looks like she will recover)]].
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* RepressedMemories: [[spoiler: Gillian Tey]] finds it easier to block all the memories of her past life than come to terms with the horror she had to live through. She has a major ''major'' FreakOut when Havers calls addresses her by her past name [[spoiler: (although thankfully, it looks like she will recover)]].
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-> '''Barbara Havers''': Parents are supposed to take care of their kids, aren't they?
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'''Thomas Lynley''': That's the theory.
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* CrowningMomentofAwesome: one of the Yorkshire cops, asks Barbara if she's sleeping with Lynley (said cop is rather obviously holding a grudge from Lynley's previous rotation there). She asks [[DeadpanSnarker deadpan]] 'What do you think?' The Yorkshire bobby gives a reply that leaves no doubt that he definitely does think so, including that she looks like [[DoubleEntendre she's got a good strong grip]]. But Barbara doesn't let out her notorious temper; she just smirks, [[GroinAttack drops her hot tea in his lap]] and strolls away like the badass she is.
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* GenreSavvy: Lynley is well aware of what his superiors are trying to do to them both by pairing them together, and has no intention of letting them succeed.
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* CrowningMomentofAwesome: one of the Yorkshire cops, asks Barbara if she's sleeping with Lynley (said cop is rather obviously holding a grudge from Lynley's previous rotation there). She asks [[DeadpanSnarker deadpan]] 'What do you think?' The Yorkshire bobby gives a reply that leaves no doubt that he definitely does think so, including that she looks like [[DoubleEntendre she's got a good strong grip]]. But Barbara doesn't let out her notorious temper; she just smirks, [[GroinAttack drops her hot tea in his lap]] and strolls away like the badass she is.
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* BrokenBird: Barbara Havers in this episode is not so much "broken" as she is "crushed to powder beneath the world's collective boot heel". She doesn't know it, but that's about to change.
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* BrokenBird: Barbara Havers in this episode is not so much "broken" as she is "crushed to powder beneath the world's collective boot heel". She Though she doesn't know it, but that's about to change.
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* BrokenBird: Barbara Havers in this episode is not so much "broken" as she is "crushed to powder beneath the world's collective boot heel". She doesn't know it, but that's about to change.
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* SnarkToSnarkCombat: More than once, the viewer is caught in the crossfire of verbal [[TakeThat "take that"s]] between Lynley and Havers.
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* SnarkToSnarkCombat: More than once, the viewer is caught in the crossfire of verbal [[TakeThat "take that"s]] comebacks]] between Lynley and Havers.Havers. And that doesn't change even when they become TrueCompanions in future episodes.
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* NoodleImplements: Lynley spends a lot of time trying to figure out what exactly Tey used to torture [[spoiler: his daughters]]. It turns out that he used [[spoiler: PsychologicalHorror more than anything else]].
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* SnarkToSnarkCombat: More than once, the viewer is caught in the crossfire of verbal [[TakeThat "take that"s]] between Lynley and Havers.
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* RepressedMemories: [[spoiler: Gillian Tey]] finds it easier to block all the memories of her past life than come to terms with the horror she had to live through. She has a major FreakOut when Havers calls her by her past name [[spoiler: (although thankfully, it looks like she will recover)]].
* TortureCellar: Let's just say that the cellar in Tey's cottage wasn't a fun place for [[spoiler: his daughters...]]
* TortureCellar: Let's just say that the cellar in Tey's cottage wasn't a fun place for [[spoiler: his daughters...]]
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The pilot episode, in two parts. Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, eighth Earl of Asherton, is introduced to Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers as they are assigned to a murder investigation in Yorkshire, where farmer William Tey has been found hacked to death in his barn. Tey's 16-year-old daughter, Madeleine, who witnessed the event, is now mute with shock. The principal suspect is Tey's nephew, Richard, who stands to inherit the farm. Lynley and Havers have to overcome their personal troubles, mutual animosity, and a hostile local police force to try and solve the case.
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The pilot episode, in two parts. Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, eighth Earl of Asherton, is introduced to Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers as they are assigned to a murder investigation in Yorkshire, where farmer William Tey has been found hacked to death in his barn. Tey's 16-year-old daughter, Madeleine, Roberta, who witnessed the event, is now mute with shock. The principal suspect is Tey's nephew, Richard, who stands to inherit the farm. Lynley and Havers have to overcome their personal troubles, mutual animosity, and a hostile local police force to try and solve the case.
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* DaddysGirl: [[spoiler: Horribly subverted with Madeleine and Tessa]].
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* DaddysGirl: [[spoiler: Horribly subverted with Madeleine Roberta and Tessa]].Gillian]].
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* EmbarrassingCoverUp: Barbara tries to claim that Lynley slept with her in order to save Lynley from the allegation that he was seen sleeping with a suspect. It was a RedundantRescue, since [[spoiler: [[NotWhatItLooksLike Lynley hadn't slept with the suspect and could prove it]]]]. Yes, [[HypocriticalHeartwarming despite the fact that she still hates the man]].
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* EmbarrassingCoverUp: Barbara tries to claim that Lynley slept with her in order to save Lynley from the allegation that he was seen sleeping with a suspect. It was Even more embarrassingly, it turns out to be a RedundantRescue, since [[spoiler: [[NotWhatItLooksLike Lynley hadn't slept with the suspect and could prove it]]]]. Yes, all of this [[HypocriticalHeartwarming despite the fact that she still hates the man]].
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* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: Stepha Odell]] left her baby in the countryside to starve to death, because she could not bear the thought that [[spoiler: she might have passed on Huntington's disease to it]].
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* EmbarrassingCoverUp: Barbara tries to claim that Lynley slept with her in order to save Lynley from the allegation that he was seen sleeping with a suspect. It was a RedundantRescue, since [[spoiler: [[NotWhatItLooksLike Lynley hadn't slept with the suspect and could prove it.]]]]
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* EmbarrassingCoverUp: Barbara tries to claim that Lynley slept with her in order to save Lynley from the allegation that he was seen sleeping with a suspect. It was a RedundantRescue, since [[spoiler: [[NotWhatItLooksLike Lynley hadn't slept with the suspect and could prove it.]]]]it]]]]. Yes, [[HypocriticalHeartwarming despite the fact that she still hates the man]].
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* EmbarrassingCoverUp: Barbara tries to claim that Lynley slept with her in order to save Lynley from the allegation that he was seen sleeping with a suspect. It was a RedundantRescue, since [[spoiler: [[NotWhatItLooksLike Lynley hadn't slept with the suspect and could prove it.]]]]
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* WhatTheHellHero: Lynley and Barbara start throwing these at each other in this episode.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Lynley and Barbara start throwing these at each other in this episode. They're not going to be stopping any time soon.
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The pilot episode, in two parts. Lynley and Havers are assigned to a murder investigation in Yorkshire, where farmer William Tey has been found hacked to death in his barn. Tey's 16-year-old daughter, Madeleine, who witnessed the event, is now mute with shock. The principal suspect is Tey's nephew, Richard, who stands to inherit the farm. Lynley and Havers have to overcome their personal troubles, mutual animosity, and a hostile local police force, to try and solve the case.
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The pilot episode, in two parts. Lynley and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, eighth Earl of Asherton, is introduced to Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers as they are assigned to a murder investigation in Yorkshire, where farmer William Tey has been found hacked to death in his barn. Tey's 16-year-old daughter, Madeleine, who witnessed the event, is now mute with shock. The principal suspect is Tey's nephew, Richard, who stands to inherit the farm. Lynley and Havers have to overcome their personal troubles, mutual animosity, and a hostile local police force, force to try and solve the case.
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* CynicismCatalyst: Barbara reveals hers to Lynley at the end of the episode -- [[her little brother died of leukemia at fifteen]].
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* CynicismCatalyst: Barbara reveals hers to Lynley at the end of the episode -- [[her [[spoiler:her little brother died of leukemia at fifteen]].
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* CynicismCatalyst: Barbara reveals hers to Lynley at the end of the episode -- [[her little brother died of leukemia at fifteen]].
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* FriendshipDenial: Whenever Barbara and Thomas begin to get along, something or the happens, which leads to Barbara pointing out that the only reason ''she'' is keen to make their partnership work is that otherwise, she will be thrown out of the police force.
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* FriendshipDenial: Whenever Barbara and Thomas begin to get along, something or the other happens, which leads to Barbara pointing out that the only reason ''she'' is keen to make their partnership work is that otherwise, she will be thrown out of the police force.force.
* GenreSavvy: Lynley is well aware of what his superiors are trying to do to them both by pairing them together, and has no intention of letting them succeed.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Barbara has ''no'' problem going on a long diatribe about everything she thinks is wrong with Lynley as a man and as a detective. She ''does'' have a problem when a local copper tries to tell him the exact same things. Needless to say, this pretty much sets the precedent for their relationship.
* GenreSavvy: Lynley is well aware of what his superiors are trying to do to them both by pairing them together, and has no intention of letting them succeed.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Barbara has ''no'' problem going on a long diatribe about everything she thinks is wrong with Lynley as a man and as a detective. She ''does'' have a problem when a local copper tries to tell him the exact same things. Needless to say, this pretty much sets the precedent for their relationship.
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* JustFriends: The status of Lynley's relationship with Helen Clyde [[spoiler: who, as we know, goes on to become his wife in future episodes]].
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* JustFriends: The status of Lynley's relationship with Helen Clyde [[spoiler: who, as we know, goes on to become his wife in future episodes]].episodes]].
* PuppyDogEyes: Barbara has them. Fortunately, Lynley notices, and takes her anger for what it is -- a defense mechanism.
* WhatTheHellHero: Lynley and Barbara start throwing these at each other in this episode.
* PuppyDogEyes: Barbara has them. Fortunately, Lynley notices, and takes her anger for what it is -- a defense mechanism.
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[[caption-width-right:214: Whoever said first impressions are correct?]]
-> '''Barbara Havers''': Parents are supposed to take care of their kids, aren't they?
-> '''Thomas Lynley''': That's the theory.
The pilot episode, in two parts. Lynley and Havers are assigned to a murder investigation in Yorkshire, where farmer William Tey has been found hacked to death in his barn. Tey's 16-year-old daughter, Madeleine, who witnessed the event, is now mute with shock. The principal suspect is Tey's nephew, Richard, who stands to inherit the farm. Lynley and Havers have to overcome their personal troubles, mutual animosity, and a hostile local police force, to try and solve the case.
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* DaddysGirl: [[spoiler: Horribly subverted with Madeleine and Tessa]].
* DidNotGetTheGirl: The main source of {{angst}} for Lynley for most of this episode. He is trying to get over the fact that his best friend, Simon St. James, has just married Deborah, the girl he loves.
* FriendshipDenial: Whenever Barbara and Thomas begin to get along, something or the happens, which leads to Barbara pointing out that the only reason ''she'' is keen to make their partnership work is that otherwise, she will be thrown out of the police force.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: How Barbara Havers appears in this pilot episode. She snaps at Lynley and makes snide remarks about his privileged upbringing even when he is being nice to her. We don't get to see the "heart of gold" part a lot until the end.
* JustFriends: The status of Lynley's relationship with Helen Clyde [[spoiler: who, as we know, goes on to become his wife in future episodes]].
[[caption-width-right:214: Whoever said first impressions are correct?]]
-> '''Barbara Havers''': Parents are supposed to take care of their kids, aren't they?
-> '''Thomas Lynley''': That's the theory.
The pilot episode, in two parts. Lynley and Havers are assigned to a murder investigation in Yorkshire, where farmer William Tey has been found hacked to death in his barn. Tey's 16-year-old daughter, Madeleine, who witnessed the event, is now mute with shock. The principal suspect is Tey's nephew, Richard, who stands to inherit the farm. Lynley and Havers have to overcome their personal troubles, mutual animosity, and a hostile local police force, to try and solve the case.
!! Tropes
* DaddysGirl: [[spoiler: Horribly subverted with Madeleine and Tessa]].
* DidNotGetTheGirl: The main source of {{angst}} for Lynley for most of this episode. He is trying to get over the fact that his best friend, Simon St. James, has just married Deborah, the girl he loves.
* FriendshipDenial: Whenever Barbara and Thomas begin to get along, something or the happens, which leads to Barbara pointing out that the only reason ''she'' is keen to make their partnership work is that otherwise, she will be thrown out of the police force.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: How Barbara Havers appears in this pilot episode. She snaps at Lynley and makes snide remarks about his privileged upbringing even when he is being nice to her. We don't get to see the "heart of gold" part a lot until the end.
* JustFriends: The status of Lynley's relationship with Helen Clyde [[spoiler: who, as we know, goes on to become his wife in future episodes]].
