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It stars David Sutcliff as Detective Aiden Black, a SWAT officer suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder who is transferred to the newly-formed Psych Crimes and Crisis Unit after an outburst involving barnyard noises in a diner. He and his new partner, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Daniella Ridley (Stefanie von Pfetten), and another pair consisting of Detective Poppy Wisnefski (Luisa D'Oliveira) and psychiatric nurse Leo Beckett (Dayo Ade) report to Inspector Diane Caligra (Karen [=LeBlanc=]) are called in to investigate any crime that seems likely to involve an emotionally disturbed person.
As of the start of Season 2, Daniella Ridley has left the show, and Aidan has been partnered with the younger Dr. Clara Malone (Brooke Nevin).
As of the start of Season 2, Daniella Ridley has left the show, and Aidan has been partnered with the younger Dr. Clara Malone (Brooke Nevin).
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It stars David Sutcliff as Detective Aiden Black, a SWAT officer suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder who is transferred to the newly-formed Psych Crimes and Crisis Unit after an outburst involving barnyard noises in a diner. He and his new partner, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Daniella Ridley (Stefanie von Pfetten), and another pair consisting of Detective Poppy Wisnefski (Luisa D'Oliveira) and psychiatric nurse Leo Beckett (Dayo Ade) report to Inspector Diane Caligra (Karen [=LeBlanc=]) are called in to investigate any crime that seems likely to involve an emotionally disturbed person.
person, whether as a perpetrator, victim, or witness. Resistant to the idea at first, Aiden slowly learns to appreciate the job and trust his partner, while trying to balance his job and his disastrous personal life, including the fallout from an ugly breakup with his girlfriend of three years, Detective Liz Liette (Mayko Nguyen).
As of the start of Season 2, Daniella Ridley has left the show, and Aidan has been partnered with the younger Dr. Clara Malone (BrookeNevin).
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As of the start of Season 2, Daniella Ridley has left the show, and Aidan has been partnered with the younger Dr. Clara Malone (Brooke
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Aiden Black. Several characters suggest he has PTSD, as well as some unspecified anxiety and mood problems, but no actual diagnosis is ever reached, despite his being interviewed by four different psychiatrists. Daniella calls him "cracked" in lieu of a real label.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Dr. Sean [=McCray=] comes off as affable on the surface, but is a jackass under the surface, with Daniella eventually concluding he is a narcissist. Eli from the Season 1 finale is a far more extreme example, being a NiceGuy on top, and a psychopath underneath.
* BlondesAreEvil: Played straight by Erin from "White Knight", an insane stalker, histrionic personality, and GreenEyedMonster. Played with in the case of Esme from "The Light in Black" who was cheating on her husband, but is still visibly horrified by his murder. Averted in the cases of Daniella Ridley and Carla Malone, who are both fundamentally good people with the best intention's of their patients at heart.
* BlondesAreEvil: Played straight by Erin from "White Knight", an insane stalker, histrionic personality, and GreenEyedMonster. Played with in the case of Esme from "The Light in Black" who was cheating on her husband, but is still visibly horrified by his murder. Averted in the cases of Daniella Ridley and Carla Malone, who are both fundamentally good people with the best intention's of their patients at heart.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Dr. Sean [=McCray=] comes off as affable on the surface, but is a jackass under the surface, with Daniella eventually concluding he is a narcissist. Eli Eliot from the Season 1 finale "The Light In Black" is a far more extreme example, being a NiceGuy on top, and a psychopath underneath.
* BlondesAreEvil: Played straight by Erin from "White Knight", an insane stalker, histrionic personality, and GreenEyedMonster. Played with in the case of Esme from "The Light in Black" who was cheating on her husband, but is still visibly horrified by his murder. Averted in the cases of Daniella Ridley andCarla Clara Malone, who are both fundamentally good people with the best intention's of their patients at heart.
* BlondesAreEvil: Played straight by Erin from "White Knight", an insane stalker, histrionic personality, and GreenEyedMonster. Played with in the case of Esme from "The Light in Black" who was cheating on her husband, but is still visibly horrified by his murder. Averted in the cases of Daniella Ridley and
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* DaChief: Inspector Diane Caligra plays this role to Aiden.
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* DaChief: Inspector Diane Caligra plays this role to Aiden.Aiden and the rest of the unit.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Aiden.Aiden, whose sarcasm is a defensive mechanism.
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* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Aiden and Daniella engage in this a lot, particularly in "How The Light Gets In".
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* GladiatorGame: "The Valley" has a pair of teenage boys who get homeless men to fight one another for the entertainment of paying customers on the Internet.
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* GladiatorGame: GladiatorGames: "The Valley" has a pair of teenage boys who get homeless men to fight one another for the entertainment of paying customers on the Internet.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Aiden and Poppy arrest Mackenzie and Ian from "The Valley" on charges of "conspiracy to commit assault, aiding and abetting, obstruction of justice, outdoor drinking, littering, and dueling." No one but Aiden knew that the last charge was still on the books.
* DisposableVagrant: Mackenzie and Ian from "The Valley" believe that homeless men are "garbage" and use offers of money and booze to bribe them into starring in their Internet GladiatorGames.
* GladiatorGame: "The Valley" has a pair of teenage boys who get homeless men to fight one another for the entertainment of paying customers on the Internet.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Ian and Mackenzie from "The Valley" think that this applies to them, and their fathers' money will get them out of anything, even running an underground fighting ring. Aiden proves them wrong.
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* TeensAreMonsters: "Cherry Blossoms" has a teenage girl DrivenToSuicide by bullying from the AlphaBitch, who is characterised as a sociopath with a penchant for underage drinking. Said AlphaBitch is subsequently the victim of a practical joke turned lethal from the suicide victim's friends. There's also teen mother Isabel from "Spirited Away" who is simply insane, though she's counterbalanced by the presence of the young man with Tourettes' syndrome who looked after her child when he found it.
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* TeensAreMonsters: "Cherry Blossoms" has a teenage girl DrivenToSuicide by bullying from the AlphaBitch, who is characterised as a sociopath with a penchant for underage drinking. Said AlphaBitch is subsequently the victim of a practical joke turned lethal from the suicide victim's friends. There's also teen mother Isabel from "Spirited Away" who is simply insane, though she's counterbalanced by the presence of the young man with Tourettes' syndrome who looked after her child when he found it. "The Valley" features Ian St. Clair and Mackenzie, a pair of rich teenage boys who convince homeless men to fight each other, then film it and put it up on a pay website; they consider the homeless beneath themselves, and have no issues exploiting them for profit.
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It stars David Sutcliff as Detective Aidan Black, a SWAT officer suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder who is transferred to the newly-formed Psych Crimes and Crisis Unit after an outburst involving barnyard noises in a diner. He and his new partner, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Daniella Ridley (Stefanie von Pfetten), and another pair consisting of Detective Poppy Wisnefski (Luisa D'Oliveira) and psychiatric nurse Leo Beckett (Dayo Ade) report to Inspector Diane Caligra (Karen [=LeBlanc=]) are called in to investigate any crime that seems likely to involve an emotionally disturbed person.
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It stars David Sutcliff as Detective Aidan Aiden Black, a SWAT officer suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder who is transferred to the newly-formed Psych Crimes and Crisis Unit after an outburst involving barnyard noises in a diner. He and his new partner, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Daniella Ridley (Stefanie von Pfetten), and another pair consisting of Detective Poppy Wisnefski (Luisa D'Oliveira) and psychiatric nurse Leo Beckett (Dayo Ade) report to Inspector Diane Caligra (Karen [=LeBlanc=]) are called in to investigate any crime that seems likely to involve an emotionally disturbed person.
* DemotedToExtra: Detective Liz Liette, Aiden's ex-girlfriend, was in the opening credits in Season 1 and featured in numerous episodes. In Season 2 she's been removed from the credits and shows up less regularly.
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* PutOnABus: Daniella goes on a leave of absence to meet the son she gave up for adoption, and decides to stay near him. This comes right after she and Aiden had decided to try and repair their working relationship, so it definitely stands out. Detective Liette also appears to have left the show, and Sean [=McCray=] announced that he was moving during Season 1.
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* PutOnABus: Daniella goes on a leave of absence to meet the son she gave up for adoption, and decides to stay near him. This comes right after she and Aiden had decided to try and repair their working relationship, so it definitely stands out. Detective Liette also appears to have left the show, and Sean [=McCray=] announced that he was moving during Season 1.
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* SuicideNotMurder: The solution in "The Valley". [[spoiler:Simon Kelley killed himself, but his mother, who was having a nervous breakdown, came by afterwards and cleaned up, destroying the evidence, and (unintentionally) making it look like a murder because she "couldn't bear to leave him like that."]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: The girl from "Cherry Blossoms" offed herself due to torment from her classmates. Liette believes that this will eventually happen to Aiden.
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* DrivenToSuicide: The girl from "Cherry Blossoms" offed herself due to torment from her classmates. In "The Valley" it's revealed that [[spoiler:Simon Kelley killed himself]]. Liette believes that this will eventually happen to Aiden.
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* InterruptedSuicide: Aiden has to stop [[spoiler:Alice Kelley]] from jumping to her death in "The Valley". He's also halted a couple of would-be [[SuicideByCop suicides by cop]].
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* ParentalSubstitute: Annika from "The Price" acts as this to her niece, Courtney.
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* BadassBaritone: Leo has the lowest voice of any cast member, as he proves in "The Price" can be quite the badass.
* CloserToEarth: Downplayed. Leo Beckett is probably the most rational member of the cast. However, none of the others are idiots, and the fact that DaChief is also black helps to downplay any UnfortunateImplications.
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* UncomfortableElevatorMoment: Aiden is forced to ride pantsless in the elevator with Danielle and the bipolar rock star he [[ItMakesSenseInContext had to give his pants to]]. Everyone but the rocker carefully pretends it's all normal, while the rocker is in a manic phase and cheerfully oblivious.
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* UncomfortableElevatorMoment: Aiden is forced to ride pantsless in the elevator with Danielle and the bipolar rock star he [[ItMakesSenseInContext had to give his pants to]]. Everyone but the rocker carefully pretends it's all normal, while the rocker is in a manic phase and cheerfully oblivious.oblivious.
* WhiteMaleLead: Aiden Black, the lead character, and only white man in a cast that otherwise includes two white women, one black woman, and a black man.
* WhiteMaleLead: Aiden Black, the lead character, and only white man in a cast that otherwise includes two white women, one black woman, and a black man.
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* BaldOfAwesome: Leo Beckett.
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* NonActionGuy: Subverted by Leo. As a psychiatric nurse he has no reason to be a badass. This doesn't stop him from clobbering a gun and knife wielding hitman in "The Price".
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* ProfessionalKiller: Tyrell from "The Price" is a professional drugrunner, thug, and hitman.
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* DistressedDamsel: Happens to Daniella Ridley in both "The Fallen" and "The Light In Black", requiring Aiden to rescue her the first time, and in a twist, Poppy to bail her out the second time. Neither of these incidents could remotely be conisdered Daniella's fault; both times she just had the bad luck to be visiting someone who, despite their having no apparent involvement in the case, turned out to be the perpetrator. In "White Knight" something similar happens to Detective Liette when she's taken captive by Aiden's stalker, Erin.
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* {{Antivillain}}: As people afflicted with mental illnesses, most perpetrators fall into this category, as much victims of their illness as the people they hurt.
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Eliot from "The Light in Black" seems genuinely angry over having missed his mother's funeral.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Eliot from "The Light in Black" seems to be upset about [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas mother's funeral]], and may actually care about his sister and niece; at the very least, Daniella notes he'd never hurt them. Nolan from "Swans" is a dangerous offender with a lengthy rapsheet, but does care about his mentally ill girlfriend, Emily, who returns the favour. Many of the other perpetrators also have family that they care about, but given that they are, for the most part, delusional, or otherwise mentally impaired, calling them "evil" would be unfair.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Eliot from "The Light in Black" seems to be upset about [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas mother's funeral]], and may actually care about his sister and niece; at the very least, Daniella notes he'd never hurt them. Nolan from "Swans" is a dangerous offender with a lengthy rapsheet, but does care about his mentally ill girlfriend, Emily, who returns the favour. Many of the other perpetrators also have family that they care about, but given that they are, for the most part, delusional, or otherwise mentally impaired, calling them "evil" would be unfair.
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: The perpetrator from "How The Light Gets In" commits all of his crimes in the name of saving his mother's life. Eliot from "The Light in Black" seems genuinely angry over having missed his mother's funeral.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Eliot from "The Light in Black" seems to be upset about missing his [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas mother's funeral]], and may actually care about his sister and niece; at the very least, Daniella notes he'd never hurt them. Nolan from "Swans" is a dangerous offender with a lengthy rapsheet, but does care about his mentally ill girlfriend, Emily, who returns the favour. Many of the other perpetrators also have family that they care about, but given that they are, for the most part, delusional, or otherwise mentally impaired, calling them "evil" would be unfair.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Eliot from "The Light in Black" seems to be upset about missing his [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas mother's funeral]], and may actually care about his sister and niece; at the very least, Daniella notes he'd never hurt them. Nolan from "Swans" is a dangerous offender with a lengthy rapsheet, but does care about his mentally ill girlfriend, Emily, who returns the favour. Many of the other perpetrators also have family that they care about, but given that they are, for the most part, delusional, or otherwise mentally impaired, calling them "evil" would be unfair.
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* HearingVoices: Very common. Michael, a bipolar psychotic from "The Fallen" hears voices and sees things that convince him TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt has arrived, and that he must gather an arsenal to battle {{Satan}} with. Mandar Kush from "No Traveller Returns" heard voices that told him demons were coming for he and his son Arun, and that he had to fend them off, leading to his spectacular murder of Peter Fong.
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* HearingVoices: Very common. The schizophrenic perpetrator from "How The Light Gets In" heard the voice of a doctor telling him that he could save his mother by stealing the energy from other people. Michael, a bipolar psychotic from "The Fallen" hears voices and sees things that convince him TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt has arrived, and that he must gather an arsenal to battle {{Satan}} with. Mandar Kush Kush, the paranoid schizophrenic, from "No Traveller Returns" heard voices that told him demons were coming for he and his son Arun, and that he had to fend them off, leading to his spectacular murder of Peter Fong.
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* RescueRomance: Subverted in "White Knight" when a woman named Erin develops a crush on Aiden after he saves her life. She's eventually revealed to be an obsessive histrionic personality with a lengthy history of restraining orders being filed against her, and snaps when Aiden refuses to return her affections.
* SerialKiller: The perpetrator from "How The Light Gets In" was well on his way. A schizophrenic who believed that he could save his mother's life by ramming light bulbs into the chests of his victims, draining their energy, and then injecting said energy into his mother, he had killed one boy, failed to break into a second house, and was in the midst of trying to claim a third victim when Aiden stopped him.
* SerialKiller: The perpetrator from "How The Light Gets In" was well on his way. A schizophrenic who believed that he could save his mother's life by ramming light bulbs into the chests of his victims, draining their energy, and then injecting said energy into his mother, he had killed one boy, failed to break into a second house, and was in the midst of trying to claim a third victim when Aiden stopped him.
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* {{Badass}}: Aiden Black, in typical cop show fashion.
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* Main/AmoralAttorney: Crown Attorney Houseman who tries to destroy Aiden's reputation in "Inquest" in order to make her own career. Averted by Aiden's attorney in the same episode, and by Michael from "The Fallen" who, despite being a bipolar psychotic is a very good attorney who completely changed the life of at least one of his clients (getting her off of drugs and into a college).
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* Main/AmoralAttorney: AmoralAttorney: Crown Attorney Houseman who tries to destroy Aiden's reputation in "Inquest" in order to make her own career. Averted by Aiden's attorney in the same episode, and by Michael from "The Fallen" who, despite being a bipolar psychotic is a very good attorney who completely changed the life of at least one of his clients (getting her off of drugs and into a college).
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* AmoralAttorney: Crown Attorney Houseman who tries to destroy Aiden's reputation in "Inquest" in order to make her own career. Averted by Aiden's attorney in the same episode, and by Michael from "The Fallen" who, despite being a bipolar psychotic is a very good attorney who completely changed the life of at least one of his clients (getting her off of drugs and into a college).
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* AmoralAttorney: Main/AmoralAttorney: Crown Attorney Houseman who tries to destroy Aiden's reputation in "Inquest" in order to make her own career. Averted by Aiden's attorney in the same episode, and by Michael from "The Fallen" who, despite being a bipolar psychotic is a very good attorney who completely changed the life of at least one of his clients (getting her off of drugs and into a college).
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* ArchangelMichael: Michael, the bipolar psychotic from "The Fallen" sees himself as Michael or a representative of him (it isn't clear) during a delusional phase, even thinking that the knife he's carrying is the archangel's FlamingSword.
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* AxeCrazy: Despite what you might expect, the number of violently insane people on this show is relatively low. That said, Ken Hobart from "White Knight" is a definite case while under the influence of bath salts, as is Isabel from "Spirited Away" when during the throes of postpartum psychosis--she storms into her parents' house, brandishing a carpet knife, and planning to cut up her daughter.
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* AxeCrazy: Despite what you might expect, the number of violently insane people on this show is relatively low. That said, Ken Hobart from "White Knight" is a definite case while under the influence of bath salts, salts (regressing to a non-verbal, animalistic state), as is Isabel from "Spirited Away" when during the throes of postpartum psychosis--she storms into her parents' house, brandishing a carpet knife, and planning to cut up her daughter.daughter. Mandar Kush, paranoid a schizophrenic and cannibal who believed he was being haunted by demons might be the standout, though we only see him like this in flashback.
* BaldOfEvil: Michael from "The Fallen", Ken Hobart from "White Knight", and Mandar Kush from "No Traveller Returns" all have this look, but in a subversion are all deeply sorry after regaining their sanity, and in Michael's case, never hurt anybody in the first place.
* BaldOfEvil: Michael from "The Fallen", Ken Hobart from "White Knight", and Mandar Kush from "No Traveller Returns" all have this look, but in a subversion are all deeply sorry after regaining their sanity, and in Michael's case, never hurt anybody in the first place.
* EvilBrit: Mandar Kush has the accent, but none of the actual evil, having been legally insane at the time of his (admittedly horrifying) crime.
* TheHeart: The role of the psychiatrist and the nurse on the team, acting as the compassionate counterparts to the more cynical and punishment prone cops.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Mandar Kush, the schizophrenic sidewalk murderer and cannibal from "No Traveller Returns" (who cut out a man's heart and ate it because he thought God told him he was a Hindu demon) is a fairly obvious stand-in for schizophrenic Winnipeg bus murderer and cannibal Vince Li (who decapitated a man and ate part of him because he thought God told him the man was an alien invader), right down to the eventual recovery and remorse.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Mandar Kush, the schizophrenic Toronto sidewalk murderer and cannibal from "No Traveller Returns" (who cut out a man's heart and ate it because he thought God told him he was a Hindu demon) is a fairly obvious stand-in for schizophrenic Winnipeg bus murderer and cannibal Vince Li (who decapitated a man and ate part of him because he thought God told him the man was an alien invader), from their status as immigrants, to the nature of their crime, right down to the eventual recovery and remorse.
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* TeensAreMonsters: Episode 9 of Season 1 has a teenage girl DrivenToSuicide by bullying from the AlphaBitch, who is characterised as a sociopath with a penchant for underage drinking. Said AlphaBitch is subsequently the victim of a practical joke turned lethal from the suicide victim's friends. There's also teen mother Isabel from "Spirited Away" who is simply insane, though she's counterbalanced by the presence of the young man with Tourettes' syndrome who looked after her child when he found it.
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* TeensAreMonsters: Episode 9 of Season 1 "Cherry Blossoms" has a teenage girl DrivenToSuicide by bullying from the AlphaBitch, who is characterised as a sociopath with a penchant for underage drinking. Said AlphaBitch is subsequently the victim of a practical joke turned lethal from the suicide victim's friends. There's also teen mother Isabel from "Spirited Away" who is simply insane, though she's counterbalanced by the presence of the young man with Tourettes' syndrome who looked after her child when he found it.
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* AlphaBitch: The prime suspect in Episode 9, Season 1, who drove a fellow classmate to suicide and doesn't feel bad about it at all. [[spoiler:She's drugged insensate by her victim's friends, and then killed by one of their mothers]].
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* AlphaBitch: The prime suspect in Episode 9, Season 1, "Cherry Blossoms", who drove a fellow classmate to suicide and doesn't feel bad about it at all. [[spoiler:She's drugged insensate by her victim's friends, and then killed by one of their mothers]].
* BlondesAreEvil: Played straight by Erin from "White Knight", an insane stalker, histrionic personality, and GreenEyedMonster. Played with in the case of Esme from "The Light in Black" who was cheating on her husband, but is still visibly horrified by his murder. Averted in the cases of Daniella Ridley and Carla Malone, who are both fundamentally good people with the best intention's of their patients at heart.
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* HearingVoices: Very common. Michael, a bipolar psychotic from "The Fallen" hears voices and sees things that convince him TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt has arrived, and that he must gather an arsenal to battle {{Satan}} with. Mandar Kush from "No Traveller Returns" heard voices that told him demons were coming for he and his son Arun, and that he had to fend them off, leading to his spectacular murder of Roman Fong.
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* HearingVoices: Very common. Michael, a bipolar psychotic from "The Fallen" hears voices and sees things that convince him TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt has arrived, and that he must gather an arsenal to battle {{Satan}} with. Mandar Kush from "No Traveller Returns" heard voices that told him demons were coming for he and his son Arun, and that he had to fend them off, leading to his spectacular murder of Roman Peter Fong.
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* TakingTheBullet: Mandar Kush tries to do this at the end of "No Traveller Returns", shoving Daniella behind him as a car hurtles towards them.
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Mandar Kush from "No Traveller Returns" stabbed a man over a hundred times, cut out his heart, and then ate it, just to make sure he would not return from the dead (he thought the man was a demon).
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The reaction of Ken Hobart after coming down from his bath salt high. Mandar Kush has a similar reaction upon regaining his sanity, and believes he should have died in the place of his victim.
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* ActionGirl: Poppy gets to demonstrate her action girl credentials on a number of occasions, most notably when she drops the perpetrator in the Season 1 finale.
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* ActionGirl: Poppy gets to demonstrate her action girl credentials on a number of occasions, most notably when she drops the perpetrator in the Season 1 finale.finale with a single shot.
* AxeCrazy: Despite what you might expect, the number of violently insane people on this show is relatively low. That said, Ken Hobart from "White Knight" is a definite case while under the influence of bath salts, as is Isabel from "Spirited Away" when during the throes of postpartum psychosis--she storms into her parents' house, brandishing a carpet knife, and planning to cut up her daughter.
* DaddyIssues: Eliot from "The Light in Black" was shipped off to boarding school in Europe by his father, who later paid him to stay away. As Eliot comments "Thanks to him I missed my own mother's funeral. When he died last year I made sure to come back for his."
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Eliot from "The Light in Black" seems genuinely angry over having missed his mother's funeral.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Eliot from "The Light in Black" seems to be upset about [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas mother's funeral]], and may actually care about his sister and niece; at the very least, Daniella notes he'd never hurt them. Nolan from "Swans" is a dangerous offender with a lengthy rapsheet, but does care about his mentally ill girlfriend, Emily, who returns the favour. Many of the other perpetrators also have family that they care about, but given that they are, for the most part, delusional, or otherwise mentally impaired, calling them "evil" would be unfair.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Eliot from "The Light in Black" seems to be upset about [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas mother's funeral]], and may actually care about his sister and niece; at the very least, Daniella notes he'd never hurt them. Nolan from "Swans" is a dangerous offender with a lengthy rapsheet, but does care about his mentally ill girlfriend, Emily, who returns the favour. Many of the other perpetrators also have family that they care about, but given that they are, for the most part, delusional, or otherwise mentally impaired, calling them "evil" would be unfair.
* EvilUncle: Averted by Eliot. His liking for his niece is one of his few good traits.
* KnifeNut: Dominic Lazlo, a schizophrenic man who boards a schoolbus armed with a kitchen knife, stabs the busdriver to death, and then cuts the throat of a boy hostage during his death throes. Michael from "The Fallen" and Mandar Kush from "No Traveller Returns" are also fond of knives, and Eliot uses one on Daniella during "The Light in Black".
* MyGreatestFailure: How Aiden sees the incident on the schoolbus, where he was unable to prevent Dominic Lazlo from killing the boy he'd taken hostage.
* OutlawCouple: "Swans" has former teen delinquent Nolan and mental patient Emily whom he breaks out of the psyche ward so they can get married. It's a far less romantic version than most though--the attraction clearly isn't healthy, Nolan spirals out of control quickly, and in the end Emily is brought to the conclusion that they belong in prison.
* PipePain: Ken Hobart from "White Knight" bludgeons a man to death with a piece of piping while under the influence of bath salts.
* StalkerWithACrush: Erin from "White Knight" who has a history of developing obsessions with men she meets and harassing them, as she proceeds to do to Aiden.
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* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: A theme in the show, with Aiden and his partner taking turns talking down various mentally ill people. In "Old Soldiers", Jessie, a badly damaged Afghan veteran does this for his old comrade Pete Kovacs.
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* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: A theme in the show, with Aiden and his partner taking turns talking down various mentally ill people.people; it's Clara's success at this in "Swans" that convinces him she might make a good replacement for Daniella. In "Old Soldiers", Jessie, a badly damaged Afghan veteran does this for his old comrade Pete Kovacs.
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* PutOnABus: Daniella goes on a leave of absence to meet the son she gave up for adoption, and decides to stay near him. This comes right after she and Aiden had decided to try and repair their working relationship, so it definitely stands out.
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* PutOnABus: Daniella goes on a leave of absence to meet the son she gave up for adoption, and decides to stay near him. This comes right after she and Aiden had decided to try and repair their working relationship, so it definitely stands out. Detective Liette also appears to have left the show, and Sean [=McCray=] announced that he was moving during Season 1.
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It stars David Sutcliff as Detective Aidan Black, a SWAT officer suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder who is transferred to the newly-formed Psych Crimes and Crisis Unit after an outburst involving barnyard noises in a diner. He and his new partner, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Daniella Ridley (Stefanie von Pfetten), and another pair consisting of Detective Poppy Wisnefski (Luisa D'Oliveira) and psychiatric nurse Leo Beckett (Dayo Ade) report to Inspector Diane Caligra (Karen [LeBlanc=]) are called in to investigate any crime that seems likely to involve an emotionally disturbed person.
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It stars David Sutcliff as Detective Aidan Black, a SWAT officer suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder who is transferred to the newly-formed Psych Crimes and Crisis Unit after an outburst involving barnyard noises in a diner. He and his new partner, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Daniella Ridley (Stefanie von Pfetten), and another pair consisting of Detective Poppy Wisnefski (Luisa D'Oliveira) and psychiatric nurse Leo Beckett (Dayo Ade) report to Inspector Diane Caligra (Karen [LeBlanc=]) [=LeBlanc=]) are called in to investigate any crime that seems likely to involve an emotionally disturbed person.
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* AmoralAttorney: Crown Attorney Houseman who tries to destroy Aiden's reputation in "Inquest" in order to make her own career. Averted by Aiden's attorney in the same episode, and by Michael from "The Fallen" who, despite being a bipolar psychotic is a very good attorney who completely changed the life of at least one of his clients (getting her off of drugs and into a college).
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Dr. Sean [=McCray=] comes off as affable on the surface, but is a jackass underneath. Eli from the Season 1 finale is a far more extreme example, being a NiceGuy on top, and a psychopath underneath.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Dr. Sean [=McCray=] comes off as affable on the surface, but is a jackass underneath.under the surface, with Daniella eventually concluding he is a narcissist. Eli from the Season 1 finale is a far more extreme example, being a NiceGuy on top, and a psychopath underneath.
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* HappilyMarried: Even after everything he did and an eleven year separation, Mandar Kush's wife is looking forward to his coming home. If that isn't a strong marriage I don't know what is.
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* HappilyMarried: Even after everything he did and an eleven year separation, Mandar Kush's wife is looking forward to his coming home. If that isn't a strong marriage I don't know what is. Leo is also married, for the most part, happily.
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* InsaneEqualsViolent: Averted. Most of the mentally ill people shown are acting violently, but only because the taskforce is called in on police incidents involving emotionally unstable people. In the second episode, despite finding a knife-waving bipolar man covered in a murdered woman's blood, they don't think he killed her. [[spoiler:He didn't.]]
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* InsaneEqualsViolent: Averted. Most of the mentally ill people shown are acting violently, but only because the taskforce is called in on police incidents involving emotionally unstable people. In the second episode, despite finding a knife-waving bipolar man covered in a murdered woman's blood, they don't think he killed her. [[spoiler:He didn't.]]]] There are also several cases in which the insane person is the victim, which tends to be true in real life.
* ManipulativeBastard: Narcissist Sean [=McCray=] and psychopath Eliot both have a go at this. Of the two Eliot is by far the better.
* PoliceBrutality: Aiden is accused of this by Crown Attorney Houseman.
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* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted and defied. In addition to the main character being in therapy and partnered with a psychiatrist who is supposed to keep an eye on him, two of the main characters are psychiatrists, and the unit's purpose is to deal with crimes likely to involve mentally ill people and ensure their fair treatment.
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* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted and defied. In addition to the main character being in therapy and partnered with a psychiatrist who is supposed to keep an eye on him, him (and she herself is also seeing a shrink), two of the main characters are psychiatrists, and the unit's purpose is to deal with crimes likely to involve mentally ill people and ensure their fair treatment.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Sean cheated on his wife with Daniella, which should have been a tip off to her that he was a bastard. In "The Light in Black", suspect Esme cheats on her husband, Oscar, with his boss whenver she gets home from a trip. Annalise from "Rocket Man" cheated on her boyfriend (and later husband) with rockstar Billy, and then on Billy with his parter Max. Somehow we're supposed to find both she and Esme sympathetic.
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It stars David Sutcliff as Detective Aidan Black, a SWAT officer suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder who is transferred to the newly-formed Psych Crimes and Crisis Unit after an outburst involving barnyard noises in a diner. He and his new partner, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Daniella Ridley (Stefanie von Pfetten), and another pair consisting of Detective Poppy Wisnefski (Luisa D'Oliveira) and psychiatric nurse Leo Beckett (Dayo Ade) are called in to investigate any crime that seems likely to involve an emotionally disturbed person.
As of the start of Season 2, Daniella Ridley has left the show, and Aidan has been partnered with the much younger Dr. Clara Malone.
As of the start of Season 2, Daniella Ridley has left the show, and Aidan has been partnered with the much younger Dr. Clara Malone.
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It stars David Sutcliff as Detective Aidan Black, a SWAT officer suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder who is transferred to the newly-formed Psych Crimes and Crisis Unit after an outburst involving barnyard noises in a diner. He and his new partner, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Daniella Ridley (Stefanie von Pfetten), and another pair consisting of Detective Poppy Wisnefski (Luisa D'Oliveira) and psychiatric nurse Leo Beckett (Dayo Ade) report to Inspector Diane Caligra (Karen [LeBlanc=]) are called in to investigate any crime that seems likely to involve an emotionally disturbed person.
As of the start of Season 2, Daniella Ridley has left the show, and Aidan has been partnered with themuch younger Dr. Clara Malone.
Malone (Brooke Nevin).
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* TheAtoner: Mandar Kush from "No Traveller Returns", who deeply regrets the murder he committed while in the midst of a schizophrenic break with reality.
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* TheAtoner: Mandar Kush from "No Traveller Returns", who deeply regrets the murder he committed while in the midst of a schizophrenic break with reality. He's now on a regime of medication that he can't go off of (he receives injections at a hospital and will be returned to the mental hospital if he misses an appointment) and believes he will have to spend the rest of his life making up for it.
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* BenevolentBoss: Inspector Calligra certainly does her best to protect both Aiden and the Psych Crimes unit as a whole, and makes an impassioned defence of them in "Inquest".
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* BeardOfEvil: Eliot from "The Light in Black" has a classic one.
* BenevolentBoss: InspectorCalligra Caligra certainly does her best to protect both Aiden and the Psych Crimes unit as a whole, and makes an impassioned defence of them in "Inquest".
* BenevolentBoss: Inspector
* DaChief: Inspector Diane Caligra plays this role to Aiden.
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* DefectiveDetective: Aiden has PTSD along with possible unspecified mood and anxiety disorders.
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* DefectiveDetective: Aiden has aspects of PTSD along with possible unspecified mood and anxiety disorders. Poppy's father, a long term cop who may be developing Alzheimer's, is in the same boat.
* HappilyMarried: Even after everything he did and an eleven year separation, Mandar Kush's wife is looking forward to his coming home. If that isn't a strong marriage I don't know what is.
* ImAHumanitarian: Mandar Kush cut out a man's heart and ate it. In his defence, he believed that the man in question was a demon, and that only by eating his heart could he ensure that he stayed dead and stopped posing a threat to his son.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: In "The Light in Black" Eliot kills two of his victims this way, and then moves on to Daniella.
* PapaWolf: Mandar Kush, a schizophrenic who butchered a man in the street and ate his heart because he believed the man was a Hindu demon and posed a threat to his son, Arun.
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* PlatonicLifePartners: Poppy and Leo quickly settle into this dynamic. Beautifully highlighted when they are temporarily assigned different partners and make it clear they want each other back.
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* PlatonicLifePartners: Poppy and Leo quickly settle into this dynamic. Beautifully highlighted Highlighted when they are temporarily assigned different partners and make it clear they want each other back. back.
* PutOnABus: Daniella goes on a leave of absence to meet the son she gave up for adoption, and decides to stay near him. This comes right after she and Aiden had decided to try and repair their working relationship, so it definitely stands out.
* PutOnABus: Daniella goes on a leave of absence to meet the son she gave up for adoption, and decides to stay near him. This comes right after she and Aiden had decided to try and repair their working relationship, so it definitely stands out.
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* TheSociopath: The villain of the season one finale is a diagnosed psychopath. While easily the worst of the show's villains (thus far), he's still treated as an actual person.
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* TheSociopath: The Eliot, the villain of the season one finale is a diagnosed psychopath.psychopath with a string of murders behind him. While easily the worst of the show's villains (thus far), he's still treated as an actual person.
