History Series / TheTourist

** Anything involving the gas station where people have to sign a register to use the outside toilet is played for laughs.

* AFamilyAffair: [[spoiler: An accidental example. The Man impregnated Donal's wife unaware that he and Donal were cousins]].
* FeudingFamilies: The Cassidys and the [=McDonnells=] have been feuding for many years and the situation has been made worse by the fact that they both run extensive criminal networks competing for control of the local criminal underworld. They have been at an uneasy peace since Joe Cassidy was killed but the arrival of the Man starts the violence up again. It turns out that [[spoiler: the heads of the two families are actually brother and sister]].
* FightingIrish: In the second series, we have the Cassidys and the [=McDonnells=], two feuding Irish criminal families. The Man is shown to be capable of handling himself in a BarBrawl.
* FishOutOfWater: The Man is a Northern Irishman who (initially) has no idea who he is, or why he's in Australia. In the second series, Helen takes on this role as an Aussie visiting Ireland [[spoiler: and trying to find Elliot, who's been kidnapped]].

* GlobalIgnorance: When her conversation with The Man shifts from her and Ethan's intended honeymoon plans to travel in general, Helen remarks that she'd love to see the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg; given that she had just mentioned that they were going to go to Florida (which has a city of that name, named after the Russian original), it seems that she may have fallen victim to this trope. It's an [[AmbiguousSituation ambiguous case]], though, since she specifically mentioned where ''Ethan'' wanted to go when she mentioned Florida, and it's never confirmed whether or not she knows that the St.Petersburg where the Winter Palace is is actually the Russian one [[note]] this omission in detail may be partially justified as a possible hint that her personal wishes normally take a backseat to Ethan's in their rather one-sided relationship, and thus she rarely has a chance to actually express them in discussion since they'd be irrelevant (to him); given how switched-on she turns out to be, it does seem unlikely that she would fall victim to this trope [[/note]]. It's possible that she [[RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic simply assumes]] that The Man (with whom she shares the conversation) already understands the geographical distinction.

* SerialHomewrecker: In season 1, The Man learns that he had previously run off with Kosta's girlfriend, [[spoiler:Laci]]. Then in season 2 he discovers that he had an affair with [[spoiler:Donal [=McDonnell=]'s wife and is the biological father of Fergal [=McDonnell=]]]. Both of these revelations have massive consequences for the plot.

** Ethan again; although the fact that he has an app on his phone that tracks Helen's movements is rightly called out as stalking, it does [[spoiler: help him at Elliot to try and find Helen when she goes missing]].

* RevengeByProxy: [[spoiler:Lena shoots Helen in the stomach so The Man will have to live with pain of watching a loved one die, just like she did]].

* SerialHomewrecker: In season 1, The Man learns that he had previously run off with Kosta's girlfriend, [[spoiler:Laci]]. Then in season 2 he discovers that he had an affair with [[spoiler:Donal [=McDonnell=]'s wife and is the biological father of Fergal [=MacDonnell=]]]. Both of these revelations have massive consequences for the plot.

* KissingCousins: Albeit unknowingly. [[spoiler: Before leaving Ireland, Eugene Cassidy (a.k.a. Elliot Stanley, a.k.a. The Man) had an affair with Frank [[=McDonnell=]]'s daughter-in-law and fathered a child with her. Turns out, Frank is Eugene's biological uncle.]]

** The climax of season 2 reveals that the heads of the [[FeudingFamilies the Cassidy and [=McDonnell=] families are [[spoiler: half-siblings]].

* IHaveManyNames: The Man finds out that his name is [[Spoiler: Elliot Stanley]]. It is, however, revealed in the second series that [[spoiler: this was an alias, and his real name is Eugene Cassidy]].

* IncestIsRelative: The second series ends with [[TheReveal it being revealed]] that [[spoiler: the Cassidys and the [=McDonnells=] are related due to the adultery of an earlier generation. Ethan makes a remark about incest, following which he quickly leaves the pub before someone beats him up for pointing this out]].

** In the second series, Ruairi's next-door neighbour seems like a one-shot character but is actually this, as she's [[spoiler: the widow of the ''real'' Elliot Stanley]].

* CruelMercy: In the final episode, [[spoiler: Elliot finds out about the horrible things he did to Lena and her friends. He is willing to go to jail for it but Lena declines to talk to the cops. Having noticed that he has developed a conscience, she figures out that the guilt he will suffer for the rest of his life is the worst punishment she can offer him; prison would merely help him to assuage that guilt, and she wants him to have to live with it]].

** And as for The Man ... [[spoiler: Elliot was not just an accountant for Kosta's drug-smuggling operation, he was ''a key figure in that operation'', coercing Lena and at least two other women to have their stomachs cut open in order to smuggle bags of heroin into Australia; the other two died after the bags exploded. When he learns of this, he's so disgusted that he tries to kill himself. Twice]].

* MistakenForMurderer: When Ruairi goes to a hardware store and buys a shovel, some duct tape and a pair of heavy-duty rubber gloves, the cashier jokingly asks if he's murdered someone and trying to dispose of the body. Ruairi's laughing response seems a little ''too'' forced, given that [[spoiler: the second part of the question is, in fact, true]].

* KissingCousins: [[spoiler: Before leaving Ireland, Eugene Cassidy had an affair with Frank [[=McDonnell=]]'s daughter-in-law and fathered a child with her. Turns out, Frank is Eugene's biological uncle.]]