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* PunkInTheTrunk: In 1x02, a young girl, Kimberley Brooks, is found dead in the boot of a car belonging to a well-respected judge, Peter Hopkins, in what seems like an open-and-shut case. Helen is suspicious and calls in the team to investigate, convinced the judge has been framed by an ex-policeman.
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* PunkInTheTrunk: In 1x02, a young girl, Kimberley Brooks, is found dead in the boot of a car belonging to a well-respected judge, Peter Hopkins, in what seems like an open-and-shut case.OpenAndShutCase. Helen is suspicious and calls in the team to investigate, convinced the judge has been framed by an ex-policeman.
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* LipstickAndLoadMontage: One is seen at the start of 1x02. The twist is that it turns out to be Charlie preparing to go undercover as a transsexual. [[spoiler:Except he isn't: it's a joke to welcome him to the team.]]
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* LipstickAndLoadMontage: One is seen at the start of 1x02. The twist is that it turns out to be Charlie preparing to go undercover as a transsexual.transgender person. [[spoiler:Except he isn't: it's a joke to welcome him to the team.]]
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''By Any Means'' is a British series (akin to ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' or perhaps ''Series/TheEqualizer'') in which a shadowy group of people, not officially connected to police, "rectify" miscarriages of (in)justice. The series features Warren Brown as Jack Quinn, the leader of the four-person group he is part of, which includes Andrew Lee Potts as the [[HollywoodHacking hacker]] "[=TomTom=]" Thomas Tomkins, Shelley Conn as Jessica Jones and Creator/ElliotKnight as Charlie, the newcomer. Also, an M-like figure in the background is Gina [=McKee=] as FriendOnTheForce and ReasonableAuthorityFigure Helen Barlow. Six episodes were aired and produced but the series was not renewed after the first season.
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''By Any Means'' is a British series (akin to ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' or perhaps ''Series/TheEqualizer'') in which a shadowy group of people, not officially connected to police, "rectify" miscarriages of (in)justice. The series features Warren Brown as Jack Quinn, the leader of the four-person group he is part of, which includes Andrew Lee Potts as the [[HollywoodHacking hacker]] "[=TomTom=]" Thomas Tomkins, Shelley Conn Creator/ShelleyConn as Jessica Jones and Creator/ElliotKnight as Charlie, the newcomer. Also, an M-like figure in the background is Gina [=McKee=] as FriendOnTheForce and ReasonableAuthorityFigure Helen Barlow. Six episodes were aired and produced but the series was not renewed after the first season.
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* PunkInTheTrunk: In 1x02, a young girl, Kimberley Brooks, is found dead in the boot of a car belonging to a well-respected judge, Peter Hopkins, in what seems like an open-and-shut case. Helen is suspicious and calls in the team to investigate, convinced the judge has been framed by an ex-policeman.
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* LondonGangster: In 1x01, an innocent family is terrorised and their father murdered in cold blood. Everyone knows that ruthless criminal Nick Mason is behind it and when Mason, known as the 'Teflon Man', walks free from his trial for the third time in five years that he has evaded justice, Helen Barlow, convinced Mason has at least one corrupt police officer on his payroll, calls on Jack Quinn and his team for help to take Mason down and get him off the streets.
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* TrickedIntoAnotherJurisdiction: In ep. 1x03, the team have to find a way to extract a shady real estate developer who has taken refuge inside the Colombian Embassy. although it initially appears that they are planning to abduct him during a an embassy party, [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee their real plan]] is to fake an abduction attempt to spook him into attempting to get out of the embassy and accept the ambassador's offer of a plane ride to Colombia. Only after the car has left the embassy does he realise it is not heading for the airport. When he starts to object, Jack, Jessica and Charlie pull a NotMyDriver by lowering the screen between the front and back seats before leaving him handcuffed to the railings outside a police station.
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* BoundAndGagged: In 1x03, Jack knocks out the Colombian ambassador's chauffeur and leaves him bound and gagged with duct tape when he 'borrows' the ambassador's limo.
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''By Any Means'' is a British series (akin to ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' or perhaps ''Series/TheEqualizer'') in which a shadowy group of people, not officially connected to police, "rectify" miscarriages of (in)justice. The series features Warren Brown as Jack Quinn, the leader of the four-person group he is part of, which includes Andrew Lee Potts as the [[HollywoodHacking hacker]] "[=TomTom=]" Thomas Tomkins, Shelley Conn as Jessica Jones and Elliot Knight as Charlie, the newcomer. Also, an M-like figure in the background is Gina [=McKee=] as FriendOnTheForce and ReasonableAuthorityFigure Helen Barlow. Six episodes were aired and produced but the series was not renewed after the first season.
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''By Any Means'' is a British series (akin to ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' or perhaps ''Series/TheEqualizer'') in which a shadowy group of people, not officially connected to police, "rectify" miscarriages of (in)justice. The series features Warren Brown as Jack Quinn, the leader of the four-person group he is part of, which includes Andrew Lee Potts as the [[HollywoodHacking hacker]] "[=TomTom=]" Thomas Tomkins, Shelley Conn as Jessica Jones and Elliot Knight Creator/ElliotKnight as Charlie, the newcomer. Also, an M-like figure in the background is Gina [=McKee=] as FriendOnTheForce and ReasonableAuthorityFigure Helen Barlow. Six episodes were aired and produced but the series was not renewed after the first season.
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->''Note: This page describes the 2013 drama series, not the 2008 spiritual sequel to'' Series/LongWayRound
''By Any Means'' is a British series (akin to ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' or perhaps ''Series/TheEqualizer'') in which a shadowy group of people, not officially connected to police, "rectify" miscarriages of (in)justice. The series features Warren Brown as Jack Quinn, the leader of the four-person group he is part of, which includes Andrew Lee Potts as the [[HollywoodHacking hacker]] "[=TomTom=]" Thomas Tomkins, Shelley Conn as Jessica Jones and Elliot Knight as Charlie, the newcomer. Also, an M-like figure in the background is Gina [=McKee=] as FriendOnTheForce and ReasonableAuthorityFigure Helen Barlow. Six episodeshave aired.
were aired and produced but the series was not renewed after the first season.
''By Any Means'' is a British series (akin to ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' or perhaps ''Series/TheEqualizer'') in which a shadowy group of people, not officially connected to police, "rectify" miscarriages of (in)justice. The series features Warren Brown as Jack Quinn, the leader of the four-person group he is part of, which includes Andrew Lee Potts as the [[HollywoodHacking hacker]] "[=TomTom=]" Thomas Tomkins, Shelley Conn as Jessica Jones and Elliot Knight as Charlie, the newcomer. Also, an M-like figure in the background is Gina [=McKee=] as FriendOnTheForce and ReasonableAuthorityFigure Helen Barlow. Six episodes
* BritishBrevity: One season of just six episodes of an hour each.
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* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Aspects of catching the bad guy ''in flagrante delicto'' involve things not revealed until after the denouement, when we learn what has happened through [[{{Flashback}} a series of flashbacks]].
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* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Aspects of catching the bad guy ''in flagrante delicto'' involve things not revealed until after the denouement, when we learn what has happened through [[{{Flashback}} a series of flashbacks]].
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* GenreSavvy / ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:Celia Butler reveals she caught on to the "rat catchers" being a surveillance team, because she used to be a codebreaker during World War II.]] She carries off the "set in her ways old lady" schtick rather well.
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* CovertGroup: The team does not officially exist.
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* NonActionGuy: [=TomTom=][=TomTom=]. He's usually at the computers back at HQ while Jack, Jessica and Charlie are out and about.
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** Practically the premise of the last half of 1x06.1x06, [[spoiler:as the entire team of four rally against the episode's BigBad, a crime lord.]]
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* NeverTrustATrailer: And how! The trailer after 1x02 made it look like 1x03 was going to be about an {{Expy}} of Julian Assange. Instead, [[spoiler:it turns out to be a property developer with a habit of skullduggery but is also hip-deep in connections, who scarpers to the Ecuadorian Embassy as soon as the ink's dry on the arrest warrant.]]
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* NeverTrustATrailer: And how! The trailer after 1x02 made it look like 1x03 was going to be about an {{Expy}} of Julian Assange. Instead, [[spoiler:it turns out to be a property developer with a habit of skullduggery but is also hip-deep in connections, who scarpers to the Ecuadorian Embassy as soon as the ink's dry on the arrest warrant.]]
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* JusticeByOtherLegalMeans: The team's mission is to either find some way that the criminals can be charged with their original crime, or find some other crime they can be charged with.
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* LipstickAndLoadMontage: One is seen at the start of 1x02. The twist is that it turns out to be Charlie preparing to go undercover as a transsexual.
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* LipstickAndLoadMontage: One is seen at the start of 1x02. The twist is that it turns out to be Charlie preparing to go undercover as a transsexual. [[spoiler:Except he isn't: it's a joke to welcome him to the team.]]
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* DirtyCop: One is feeding information to the BigBad in episode 1x06. helen takes a particular pleasure in having him arrested.
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* HighAltitudeInterrogation: In episode 1x06, Jessica and Charlie persuade a drug dealer to talk by hanging him by his ankles of the top storey of a high-rise block of flats.
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* StealthHiBye: Charlie does this in episode; disappearing when the DI he is talking to turns to look at the tied-up villain in the boot of a car Charlie has just delivered to him.
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* StealthHiBye: Charlie does this in episode; episode 1x02; disappearing when the DI he is talking to turns to look at the tied-up villain in the boot of a car Charlie has just delivered to him.
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* StealthHiBye: Charlie does this in episode; disappearing when the DI he is talking to turns to look at the tied-up villain in the boot of a car Charlie has just delivered to him.
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** A target's Smartphone is casually tapped into by TomTom so he can keep track of the phone numbers called on that mobile.
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* BoxedCrook: [=TomTom=] is working with the team instead of doing prison time after being convicted of computer embezzlement.
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* DangerTakesAbackSeat: The VictimOfTheWeek in 1x02 is chloroformed by an attacker hiding in the back of her car.
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