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* {{Crossover}}: In the pilot, there featured an appearance by Det. Bobby "Fearless" Smith (Mikelty Williamson), from the lamentably cancelled ''{{Series/Boomtown}},'' also produced by Graham Yost.
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* {{Crossover}}: In the pilot, there featured an appearance by Det. Bobby "Fearless" Smith (Mikelty Williamson), from the lamentably cancelled ''{{Series/Boomtown}},'' ''Series/Boomtown2002'' also produced by Graham Yost.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer
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* BunnyEarsLawyerBunnyEarsLawyer: Raines himself due to his tendency to converse with imaginary versions of the victims of the cases he investigates.
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* WhamLine: "And why do you imagine me with a cane? I didn't get shot in the leg, I got capped in the head!" [[spoiler:Charlie]] revealing to the audience that he's another of Raines' hallucinations.
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* ISeeDeadPeople: Subverted. Raines will meet every VictimOfTheWeek after they died and would even sometimes help him, but he knows full well that they're figments of his imagination, not actual ghosts.
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* BlackBestFriend: Charlie, [[spoiler: or Raines's hallucination of him. It's clear that Charlie was much more 'grounded' than Raines, so his 'sassiness' might just be Michael's own snark feeding through the hallucination.]]
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* TokenBlackFriend: Charlie, [[spoiler: or Raines's hallucination of him. It's clear that Charlie was much more 'grounded' than Raines, so his 'sassiness' might just be Michael's own snark feeding through the hallucination.]]
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* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: At a couple of points, Raines has a conversation with his former partner who left the force after being injured in a shootout. At the end of the episode, we learn [[spoiler:that the partner actually died in the shootout and is now another figment of Raines's imagination.]]
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* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: FirstEpisodeTwist: At a couple of points, Raines has a conversation with his former partner who left the force after being injured in a shootout. At the end of the episode, we learn [[spoiler:that the partner actually died in the shootout and is now another figment of Raines's imagination.]]
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This very promising show was cancelled in the middle of its first season, presumably as a result of the 2007 [[TVStrikes writers' strike]].
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This very promising show was cancelled in the middle of its first season, presumably as a result of the 2007 [[TVStrikes [[UsefulNotes/TVStrikes writers' strike]].
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* FridayNightDeathSlot: Where it ended up after only two episodes.
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* StartToCorpse: generally less than a minute, often matches up with OpeningMonologue.
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* StartToCorpse: generally less than a minute, often matches up with OpeningMonologue.OpeningNarration.
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* WhiteGangBangers: The 420 Mafia cross this with TheStoner.
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A police drama in which Creator/JeffGoldblum plays the title character. Michael Raines is a homicide detective who had ambitions to become a mystery writer. He solves murders by hallucinating reconstructions of the victims, building on the evidence at hand.
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''Raines'' is a police drama in which Creator/JeffGoldblum plays the title character. Michael Raines is a homicide detective who had ambitions to become a mystery writer. He solves murders by hallucinating reconstructions of the victims, building on the evidence at hand.
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It is available on [[http://www.hulu.com/raines Hulu]].
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* ComingOutStory: the victim of the week in [[spoiler: The Fifth Step was presented as having one of these, but then it turns out to have been a lie to cover up her other activities which embarassed her judge husband more.]]
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* ComingOutStory: the victim of the week in [[spoiler: The "The Fifth Step Step" was presented as having one of these, but then it turns out to have been a lie to cover up her other activities which embarassed her judge husband more.]]
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A police drama in which JeffGoldblum plays the title character. Michael Raines is a homicide detective who had ambitions to become a mystery writer. He solves murders by hallucinating reconstructions of the victims, building on the evidence at hand.
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A police drama in which JeffGoldblum Creator/JeffGoldblum plays the title character. Michael Raines is a homicide detective who had ambitions to become a mystery writer. He solves murders by hallucinating reconstructions of the victims, building on the evidence at hand.
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* ConstantlyCurious: Lampshaded in the episode "Inner Child". Raines asks Emily "Why are you so annoying?" after she keeps bombarding him with intrusive questions, to which she answers "Maybe it's easier if I'm annoying... You know, that I'm dead for no good reason. That I was murdered..."
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* ElephantsChild: Lampshaded in the episode "Inner Child". Raines asks Emily "Why are you so annoying?" after she keeps bombarding him with intrusive questions, to which she answers "Maybe it's easier if I'm annoying... You know, that I'm dead for no good reason. That I was murdered..."
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* InherentlyFunnyWord: In-universe example. Raines considers "Titicaca" this, which is probably the reason he remembers that one sentence of Spanish he speaks - something about the Lake Titicaca.
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* InherentlyFunnyWord: {{Inherently Funny Word|s}}: In-universe example. Raines considers "Titicaca" this, which is probably the reason he remembers that one sentence of Spanish he speaks - something about the Lake Titicaca.
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* AssholeVictim: A very real concern for the title character; as he hallucinates the victims, cases tend to be more strenuous for him if he doesn't like the person who died.
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* AssholeVictim: A very real concern for the title character; as he hallucinates the victims, cases tend to be more strenuous for him if he doesn't like the person who died. [[spoiler: Gets ''horrible'' when one of the victims is '' a guy who rapes little girls''.]]
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* InherentlyFunnyWord: In-universe example. Raines considers "Titicaca" this, which is probably the reason he remembers that one sentence of Spanish he speaks - something about the Lake Titicaca.
