History Series / InTheDark

* ButchLesbian: Sterling, who gets involved with Jess, has BoyishShortHair and also dresses in a pretty masculine way. Sam, meanwhile, is [[spoiler:also revealed as being with her]] and even more of an example: she's a [[BaldHeadOfToughness shaven-headed stone-cold badass female gangster]].

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Murphy starts masturbating while Max is in the shower, which he comes out to find her doing. They have sex, and when it's over she claims to have been "masturbating with your body".

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:Jess and Stirling]] decide to hit the road, leaving Chicago behind, rather than staying trapped in the drug game.

* EntitledToHaveYou: Jason towards Murphy in season 4. He tries to make a move on her, figuring that she owes him for everything she's put him through.

** Jess, her friend and housemate, is a lesbian who's dark-skinned.
** Jess' first girlfriend, Vanessa, is also dark-skinned (played by Latina actress Creator/HumberlyGonzalez, who's Venezuelan-Canadian).

** In the season 3 finale, Murphy is stunned that, after spending all season [[spoiler: trying to find a presumed-dead Jess, she realizes her friend faked her death. When Murphy asks if Jess honestly was okay with Murphy spending her life thinking her dead, she replies [[BluntYes"Yeah."]]]]

** In the season 3 finale, Murphy is stunned that, after spending all season [[spoiler: trying to find a presumed-dead Jess, she realizes her friend faked her death. When Murphy asks if Jess honestly was okay with Murphy spending her life thinking her dead, her friend replies "pretty much."]]

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Jess looks like she could be mixed race and or possibly Latina. However, her ethnicity hasn't been commented on.

** Jess, her friend and housemate, is a lesbian who's AmbiguouslyBrown.
** Jess' first girlfriend, Vanessa, is also AmbiguouslyBrown (played by Latina Creator/HumberlyGonzalez, who's Venezuelan-Canadian).

* InspectorJavert: Josh is this in Season 4 as his obsession with proving Murphy's guilt overwhelms him. Gene has to call him out on it when Josh following Felix to prove he has drugs on him leads to a suspect being killed and revokes Josh's pass on this case.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: In season 4, when discovering [[spoiler: Trey]] is the gang boss, Murphy and Darnell let him go with the police coming up empty on a raid. Murphy later confesses it to Gene and "we can still get him." When Gene asks how, he realizes Murphy's entire plan is just "arrest him" and tell her off on how that would have been much easier when the cops had the place surrounded with possible hostages inside rather than with [[spoiler: Trey]] in the wind, Gene demoted and no evidence.

Murphy Mason is a surly, alcoholic, blind woman who lives in Chicago and works for her parents' school for guide dogs. She lost her sight at fourteen and pretty much dislikes everyone except for her vet roommate, Jess, and Tyson, a teenage drug dealer who once saved Murphy from a mugger.

* GayBestFriend: Jess, who's a lesbian, is Murphy's, along with her housemate.

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: In Season 4, after each is kicked out by Leslie and their car stolen, Felix moans on "we are at rock bottom" and nowhere to go. Max just stares at him before pointing out Felix can simply call his ''millionaire'' grandmother to let them stay at her mansion for a while.

** Murphy tells Jess and Max to just give the money they stole to the cops and accept protection as "not all cops are bad." She then learns how [[spoiler: the cops are going to let Dean skate on killing Tyson as if nothing happens.]] Murphy races to stop her friends from trusting the cops again.
** Josh and Gene decide to skip part of Murphy's trial in Season 4 as "nothing will happen." Cut to the trial as a witness [[spoiler: not only accuses Murphy of killing her brother but reveals she and Max slept together to a stunned Leslie]].

* InstantlyProvenWrong: Murphy tells Jess and Max to just give the money they stole to the cops and accept protection as "not all cops are bad." She then learns how [[spoiler: the cops are going to let Dean skate on killing Tyson as if nothing happens.]] Murphy races to stop her friends from trusting the cops again.

* HollywoodLaw: A busted taillight isn't enough to warrant searching a vehicle. While the reason to stop them was faked, Gene already called in the excuse for dispatch, which would make it difficult assuming he'd actually found drugs by his search of the back.

** In Season 4, Murphy is worried about Pretzel being sick but Max thinks she just wants an excuse to get him out of the house so she can do something. He realizes she's right when he finds a score of chocolate wrappers under the bed Pretzel was eating.

* ObfuscatingDisability: A unique variation. Murphy truly is blind and often has a hard time getting around because of it. However, she enjoys playing up being far more helpless and unobservant than she really is as part of her schemes, knowing folks will assume her blindness also affects her mental process. A common trick is Murphy acting like she can't go more than five steps without bumping into something when she's far better trained to adjust to her surroundings.

* InspectorJavert: Josh is this in Season 4 as his obsession with proving Murphy's guilt overwhelms him. Gene has to call him out on it when Josh following Felix to prove her has drugs on him leads to a suspect being killed and revokes Josh's pass on this case.

* DirtyCop: [[spoiler: Dean]] turns out to be one, having accepted bribes from Nia in return for tips on police efforts against her, and [[spoiler: killed Tyson so this wouldn't come out.]]

* HowWeGotHere: The second season episodes open with a FlashForward of [[spoiler: Murphy and the gang being involved in another murder then show what led up to it.]]

* ButchLesbian: Sterling, who gets involved with Jess, has {{boyish short hair}} and also dresses in a pretty masculine way. Sam, meanwhile, is [[spoiler:also revealed as being with her]] and even more of an example: she's a [[BaldHeadOfToughness shaven-headed stone-cold badass female gangster]].