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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: The police have a discussion in Kaylin's apartment after her murder.
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* SecretSexWorker: Bridget, a college student, is found murdered. The cops find items in Bridget's room that are too expensive for her given her reported job at the campus store. One clue leads them to a bar where the bartender recognizes her from a picture and says she is a sex worker. One of her college friends, also in the same prostitution ring, begs the detectives [[DontTellMama not to tell her parents]].
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* IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow: On the stand, Richland describes turning tricks as "do[ing] the job." [=McCoy=] uses more blatant terms and requires her to agree that she was having sex for money.


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* SexualEuphemism: On the stand, Richland describes turning tricks as "do[ing] the job." [=McCoy=] uses more blatant terms and requires her to agree that she was having sex for money.
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Directed by Creator/ChristopherMisiano

Written by Creator/EdZuckerman, Creator/SuzanneOMalley, & Creator/JeremyRLittman

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* CompensatedDating: Mixed with HighClassCallGirl, the variant of prostitution highlighted here, albeit an Americanized version.



* IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow: On the stand, Richland describes turning tricks as "do[ing] the job." [=McCoy=] forces her to admit to having sex for money.

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* IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow: On the stand, Richland describes turning tricks as "do[ing] the job." [=McCoy=] forces uses more blatant terms and requires her to admit to agree that she was having sex for money.



* WhamLine: "She's a working girl."

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* WhamLine: "She's a working girl.""
* UnproblematicProstitution: Pretty much all of the girls' take on their enterprise.

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* FelonyMisdemeanor: Not actually a misdemeanor, in this case, but [=McCoy=]'s decision to prosecute Taggert after all for enterprise corruption is used much the same way.


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* SelectiveEnforcement: An odd case where it's the same perp on both ends. Initially, [=McCoy=] is just bluffing with the charges of enterprise corruption against Taggert in order to seize his assets and bring Shelly back into his jurisdiction; after she succeeds in forever tainting any prosecution against her father for murder, though, [=McCoy=] realizes that he can still send Taggert to prison on those original bluffs.
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Barry is led off. Shelly smirks as he is taken away.

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Barry is led off. Shelly smirks as he is taken away.away.

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* DudeNotFunny: Van Buren's reaction to the rape "joke" recounted by Curtis.
* FelonyMisdemeanor: Not actually a misdemeanor, in this case, but [=McCoy=]'s decision to prosecute Taggert after all for enterprise corruption is used much the same way.
* IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow: On the stand, Richland describes turning tricks as "do[ing] the job." [=McCoy=] forces her to admit to having sex for money.
* KarmaHoudini: Shelly Taggert. There is no reason to suspect she will ever be punished for the murder she almost certainly committed.
* WhamLine: "She's a working girl."

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