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* {{Crossover}}: This episode is part 1 of a plotline concluding in the "[[Recap/HomicideLifeOnTheStreetS4E12ForGodAndCountry For God and Country]]" episode of ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet''.

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* {{Crossover}}: This episode is part 1 of a plotline concluding in the "[[Recap/HomicideLifeOnTheStreetS4E12ForGodAndCountry For God and Country]]" episode of ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet''. Pembleton and Bayliss, both from ''Homicide: Life on the Street'', are in this episode.
* DeathOfAChild: There are references to children having died in both bombings. In the subway, one of them is 15-year-old Thomas Bell.


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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: The witness who helped the sketch artist draw the culprit was the father of one of the dead.

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* ShoutOut: Egan registers at the motel under the name Creator/RonaldReagan.

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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Two events: The Tokyo subway sarin attack of 1995, and the Colin Ferguson/Long Island rail road shooting of 1993.



* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Two events: The Tokyo subway sarin attack of 1995, and the Colin Ferguson/Long Island rail road shooting of 1993.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The photo Munch sees in the Egan's house of Kenny and his "Uncle Alex" will become important in the next episode.

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The photo Munch sees in the Egan's house of Kenny and his "Uncle Alex" will become important in the next episode.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Egan admits he didn't know there were kids in the church he set the bomb off in.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Egan admits he didn't know there were kids in the church he set the bomb off in.bombed in Baltimore.
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* TitleDrop: When he and Bayliss are interrogating Egan, Pembleton asks, "You miss Charm City, Brian?"
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* NoTellMotel: Briscoe guesses Egan would want to stay at one of these because he wants to remain incognito. He's proven right when the clerk at one of the motels he and Curtis visit recognizes Egan's face.
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** When Briscoe wonders if the bomb was just a chemistry experiment gone wrong, the forensics expert quips, "[[DeadpanSnarker If your chemist is]] [[UsefulNotes/JosefMengele Dr. Mengele]]."
** When Kincaid wonders if the jury will let political considerations cloud their verdict, [=McCoy=] brings up [[UsefulNotes/RodneyKingAndTheLosAngelesRiots the Rodney King verdict]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Washington,_D.C.,_mayoral_election Marion Barry getting re-elected as mayor despite his drug conviction]].
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* YouHaveNoIdeaWhatYoureDealingWith: When [=McCoy=] tries to make a deal with Egan to get him to give up the man he's working for:

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* YouHaveNoIdeaWhatYoureDealingWith: YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith: When [=McCoy=] tries to make a deal with Egan to get him to give up the man he's working for:
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* AngryWhiteMan: Le Clair (Creator/LeoBurmester), Brian Egan's (Creator/KevinGeer) lawyer, does a lot of race-baiting in his cross-examinations, as well as his closing statement. McCoy is able to take that on in his closing to get a guilty verdict.

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* AngryWhiteMan: Le Clair (Creator/LeoBurmester), Brian Egan's (Creator/KevinGeer) lawyer, does a lot of race-baiting in his cross-examinations, as well as his closing statement. McCoy [=McCoy=] is able to take that on in his closing to get a guilty verdict.

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* {{Crossover}}: This episode is part 1 of a plotline concluding in the "For God and Country" episode of ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet''.

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* {{Crossover}}: This episode is part 1 of a plotline concluding in the "For "[[Recap/HomicideLifeOnTheStreetS4E12ForGodAndCountry For God and Country" Country]]" episode of ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet''.''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet''.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Egan admits he didn't know there were kids in the church he set the bomb off in.



* {{Foreshadowing}}: The photo Munch sees in the Egan's house of Kenny and his "Uncle Alex" will become important in the next episode.
** Both Bayliss and then Curtis ask Pembleton if they think Egan acted alone, which also becomes important in the following episode.



* SarcasmMode: Kincaid, incredulous [=McCoy=] would allow a change of venue outside of the city (in Westchester) because,

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* SarcasmMode: Kincaid, incredulous [=McCoy=] would allow a change of venue outside of the city (in Westchester) because, Westchester), comments on the racial makeup there compared to what would have been in another New York City borough and adds, "I'm sorry, I must have missed the day they taught ethnic stereotypes in law school."



* ShoutOut: Egan registers at the motel under the name Creator/RonaldReagan.
** Munch brings up Creator/ClintEastwood's suit against ''The National Enquirer''.
** Pembleton tells Egan with 26 bodies on his name, he's up in UsefulNotes/TedBundy territory.



* YouHaveNoIdeaWhatYoureDealingWith:

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* YouHaveNoIdeaWhatYoureDealingWith:YouHaveNoIdeaWhatYoureDealingWith: When [=McCoy=] tries to make a deal with Egan to get him to give up the man he's working for:
-->'''Egan''': You don't see anything. You have no idea what's really going on.\\
'''[=McCoy=]''': Why don't you tell me?\\
'''Egan''': I'm just the tip of the iceberg.\\
'''[=McCoy=]''': You're a racist and a murderer, and you just found out your country won't tolerate it.\\
'''Egan''': You mean ''your'' country won't. Mine is growing. You think you can stop it? You can't stop anything.

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* AngryWhiteMan: Le Clair (Creator/LeoBurmester), Brian Egan's (Creator/KevinGeer) lawyer, does a lot of race-baiting in his cross-examinations, as well as his closing statement. McCoy is able to take that on in his closing to get a guilty verdict.
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: There is no 106th Street subway station in New York City.



* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Two events: The Tokyo subway sarin attack of 1995, and the Colin Ferguson/Long Island rail road shooting of 1993.

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* FirstNameBasis: Bayliss insists Kincaid, whom he's flirting with, call him Tim.
* JurisdictionFriction: Between the New York City and Baltimore cops.
* SarcasmMode: Kincaid, incredulous [=McCoy=] would allow a change of venue outside of the city (in Westchester) because,
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Two events: The Tokyo subway sarin attack of 1995, and the Colin Ferguson/Long Island rail road shooting of 1993.1993.
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: When Le Clair pushes for a change of venue because he claims the Bronx jury would automatically be prejudiced against his client, Judge Scarletti calls that ''chutzpah'' in the first degree.
* YouHaveNoIdeaWhatYoureDealingWith:
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A gas bomb goes off in the subway, killing 20 African-American people in what turns out to be an attempt to set off a race war. Pembleton and Bayliss come up all the way from Baltimore; the bombing is related to an earlier bombing in an African American church.
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* {{Crossover}}: This episode is part 1 of a plotline concluding in the "For God and Country" episode of ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet''.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Two events: The Tokyo subway sarin attack of 1995, and the Colin Ferguson/Long Island rail road shooting of 1993.

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