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* RevealingReflection: In "How Long Has This Thing Been Going On?", Jake takes a female PrivateInvestigator to the house where the murder was committed. While pretending to search another part of the room, he watches in a mirror as she retrieves a listening device she had planted earlier. The fact that she went straight to where it was hidden proves she had been in the house before.

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* ImposterForgotOneDetail: Allows Jake, [=McCabe=] and Derek to work out how the TagTeamTwins pulled off the jewel theft in "Blues in the Night". Although the sisters were dressed in identical outfits, they were mirror twins and had cinched their belts in opposite directions.



* TwinSwitch: In "Blues in the Night", a pair of twin jewel thieves use this to steal a necklace at a fashion show. One twin is wearing the necklace and when the lights go out, she changes places with her sister, who is dressed in an identical outfit minus the necklace, who claims the necklace was snatched off her in the dark.
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* TwinSwitch: In "Blues in the Night", a pair of twin jewel thieves use this to steal a necklace at a fashion show. One twin is wearing the necklace and when the lights go out, she changes places with her sister, who is dressed in an identical outfit minus the necklace, who claims the necklace was snatched off her in the dark.
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* OrganTheft: In "Come Along with Me", Neely teams up with Jake to probe a series of murders connected to an organ-theft plot on behalf of a rich man who needs a new liver.


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* SlippingAMickey: The M.O. of the [[OrganTheft organ-leggers]] in "Come Along With Me". The man chats up a woman in a bar. His female accomplice then distracts the victim while he spikes her drink.
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* CigarChomper: In keeping with his LargeAndInCharge personality, J.L. [=McCabe=] (a.k.a. 'the Fatman') smokes cigars.
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* DiedInYourArms: In "Out of Nowhere", Jake's NewOldFlame falls into Jake's arms and dies after being shot InTheBack by the Perp of the Week.

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* DiedInYourArms: In "Out of Nowhere", Jake's NewOldFlame falls into Jake's arms and dies after being shot InTheBack by the Perp of the Week.
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* NewOldFlame: In "Out of Nowhere", Jake and the FBI go after Victor Potemkin, a suspected drug smuggler. But when they raid his house they find no drugs, but Jake finds someone he knows - a woman who disappeared overnight just as he was about to propose to her.
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* AbsenceOfEvidence: In "I'd Do Anything", a psychiatrist who manipulated one of her patients into murdering her husband then shoots the patient and [[WoundedGazelleGambit bruises and scratches herself]] so she can claim the patient attempted to rape her and that she killed him in self-defence. Jake is able to prove she is lying when the coroner doesn't find any of the psychiatrist's skin under the patient's fingernails.


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* WoundedGazelleGambit: In "I'd Do Anything", a psychiatrist who manipulated one of her patients into murdering her husband then shoots the patient and bruises and scratches herself so she can claim the patient attempted to rape her and that she killed him in self-defence.
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* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: In "Second Time Around", Jake is posing as mob enforcer as part of a sting to catch a high profile married couple involved in a pair of murders. After accepting $20,000 from the husband to kill the wife, he then accepts $30,000 from the wife to spare her and kill the husband. When the husband offers him $50,000 to go back to the original deal, the wife grabs Jake's gun and fires several shots at her husband. The husband screams, but then realises nothing has happened. Sirens sound around them, and [=McCabe=] steps out of hiding to reveal that Jake's gun is loaded with blanks, and he now has enough evidence to put both of them away.

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