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* OncePerEpisode: The ColdOpen consists of a few minutes where we meet the victim and get a little backstory before they fade away. This is what makes the moment when a ''second'' victim disappears halfway through the episode "Maple Street" so shocking.
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* WhamShot: Roughly halfway through the episode "Maple Street", after a young girl has vanished on her way to school, another girl is walked to the same bus stop. . . and disappears just like her friend did, instantly making an already dire situation even moreso.
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* TakingTheKids: Eventually getting fed up with him always putting his FBI work ahead of his family, Jack's wife, Maria, accepts a job offer in Chicago and takes their daughters, Hannah and Kate, with her, leaving him alone in NYC.
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*UncoolUndies: In the episode "Cloudy with a Chance of Gettysburg," a man named Kirby Morris is suspected in the kidnapping of a man named Ben Coleman, partly because of a prank that Ben had pulled on Kirby when they had been in high school together about a decade earlier. In a flashback, it is revealed that Ben and another student had donned masks and stripped Kirby of most of his clothing just as Kirby was about to go onstage to receive an award. Kirby was then pushed onstage by Ben and the other student in nothing but his underwear, which happened to be a pair of Jockey briefs (or "tighty-whities"). The flashback was set in the late '90s, a time when boxer shorts were considered the acceptably "cool" type of underwear for young men in high school and tighty-whities had mostly been deemed nerdy and outdated. The whole school laughs at the humiliated Kirby, who has no choice but to run offstage in embarrassment. It is subsequently revealed that, as a result of his uncool underwear choice, Kirby was saddled with unflattering nickname "Fruit of the Loom" for the rest of high school (despite the fact that his briefs are clearly Jockey brand).
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* GriefInducedSplit: Chet Collins's son Sean went missing when he was two. Though he locates Sean six years later, his marriage fell apart in the interim.
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* AllAbusersAreMale: A school councilor assumes a student is being beaten by his father and is tight-lipped about it. To be fair, she was basing her assumption around her own experiences with parental abuse where her father [[spoiler:killed her mother in a drunken rage when she called him out on it]], and eventually the boy opens up to correct her and state that it's his mother who is the abuser. Thankfully the episode is a subversion because both the councilor and the agents respond in the same negative way you'd expect to the mother for this.
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* AllAbusersAreMale: A school councilor counselor assumes a student is being beaten by his father and is tight-lipped about it. To be fair, she was basing her assumption around her own experiences with parental abuse where her father [[spoiler:killed her mother in a drunken rage when she called him out on it]], and eventually the boy opens up to correct her and state that it's his mother who is the abuser. Thankfully the episode is a subversion because both the councilor counselor and the agents respond in the same negative way you'd expect to the mother for this.
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* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome: Noted in a number of episodes, but heavily discussed (and ultimately deconstructed) in "White Balance", which focuses on two missing teens: a black male and a white female. The disparity in media coverage is heavily featured, as well as the UnfortunateImplications of the boy suddenly getting more media attention, but only when it looks like he might be behind the girl's disappearance. Famous for its ending - [[spoiler: a NoEnding in which it's revealed only one of the teens was found alive, but not which teen.]]
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* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome: Noted in a number of episodes, but heavily discussed (and ultimately deconstructed) in "White Balance", which focuses on two missing teens: a black male and a white female. The disparity in media coverage is heavily featured, as well as the UnfortunateImplications of the boy suddenly getting more media attention, but only when it looks like he might be behind the girl's disappearance. Famous for its ending - [[spoiler: a NoEnding in which it's revealed only one of the teens was found alive, but not which teen.]]
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* CorruptedContingency: "The Damage Done" involves the disappearance of Julia Martik the girlfriend, Albanian mob boss Sadik Marku, and their son Pedros. Julia is found but Pedros remains missing. It is revealed that Julia hadn't actually been kidnapped; she was planning to leave Sadik and take their son in order to protect him from Sadik's influence. She bought a gun for protection, but Pedros found it while she was packing and accidentally shot himself while playing with it.
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* WorkingWithTheEx: Samantha, after her relationships with Jack and Martin end. For the most part, despite the lingering feelings, they're able to keep things professional.
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* WorkingWithTheEx: Samantha, after her relationships with Jack and Martin end. For the most part, despite the lingering feelings, they're able to keep things professional.professional.
* XCalledTheyWantTheirYBack: In "Two of Us", a girl disappears on prom night. The last person to see her handed her a glass of alcohol laced punch, and then added more alcohol at her urging. She then downed the whole cup in a single draught, causing him to remark:
-->''The navy called. They want their sailor back.''
* XCalledTheyWantTheirYBack: In "Two of Us", a girl disappears on prom night. The last person to see her handed her a glass of alcohol laced punch, and then added more alcohol at her urging. She then downed the whole cup in a single draught, causing him to remark:
-->''The navy called. They want their sailor back.''
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* RhymingTitle:
** "Upstairs, Downstairs"
** "Fight/Flight"
** "Upstairs, Downstairs"
** "Fight/Flight"
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* VigilanteInjustice:
** "The Damage Done" sees the team investigating the disappearance of Albanian mob boss Sadik Marku's girlfriend and son. The team come to suspect an Aryan Brotherhood gang member is behind the kidnapping as revenge for Sadik screwing him over a weapons deal in the past. When they arrive at the man's apartment, they find him being tortured by Sadik. Not only does the gang member turn out to be innocent of the kidnapping, but he is also revealed to be an undercover cop and Sadik is now in major trouble for torturing him.
** "The Bogie Man" focuses on the disappearance of Daisy Horne. Everyone in town believes the culprit to be Curtis Thorpe who was also suspected but never proven to have murdered a girl named Amber Bryce seven years ago. When Curtis is found dead, the team learns that he was confronted by a mob that included Amber's father, but they aren't the ones who killed him. It is ultimately revealed that Daisy ran away from home because her father had been sexually abusing her. She had confided this in Curtis who refused to tell her father where she was going, resulting in him being killed. To make matters worse, the team learn that the sheriff had discovered and unintentionally tampered with evidence that could have proven Curtis's innocence.
** "The Damage Done" sees the team investigating the disappearance of Albanian mob boss Sadik Marku's girlfriend and son. The team come to suspect an Aryan Brotherhood gang member is behind the kidnapping as revenge for Sadik screwing him over a weapons deal in the past. When they arrive at the man's apartment, they find him being tortured by Sadik. Not only does the gang member turn out to be innocent of the kidnapping, but he is also revealed to be an undercover cop and Sadik is now in major trouble for torturing him.
** "The Bogie Man" focuses on the disappearance of Daisy Horne. Everyone in town believes the culprit to be Curtis Thorpe who was also suspected but never proven to have murdered a girl named Amber Bryce seven years ago. When Curtis is found dead, the team learns that he was confronted by a mob that included Amber's father, but they aren't the ones who killed him. It is ultimately revealed that Daisy ran away from home because her father had been sexually abusing her. She had confided this in Curtis who refused to tell her father where she was going, resulting in him being killed. To make matters worse, the team learn that the sheriff had discovered and unintentionally tampered with evidence that could have proven Curtis's innocence.
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* AdultFear: And ''how''. A loved one, especially a child, disappearing and possibly turning up dead. One episode had Vivian talking down a kidnapper by talking about her son; she later says that she's going to hug her son tightly that night.
* FormulaBreakingEpisode:
** "Malone vs. Malone" doesn't feature a missing persons case, but Jack's deposition regarding his divorce and custody hearing. Though we get flashbacks in the same manner as typical episodes.
** No one disappears in "Showdown" either. Instead, it's about the team's hunt for the gunmen who killed a detainee and injured Martin in the process.
** Several other episodes have featured the re-opening of a cold case rather than the typical "hot" ones.
** In "Deep Water", we know from the very beginning that the VictimOfTheWeek is dead, as we see her being murdered, though there is still the customary suspense as to who her killer is.
** "Malone vs. Malone" doesn't feature a missing persons case, but Jack's deposition regarding his divorce and custody hearing. Though we get flashbacks in the same manner as typical episodes.
** No one disappears in "Showdown" either. Instead, it's about the team's hunt for the gunmen who killed a detainee and injured Martin in the process.
** Several other episodes have featured the re-opening of a cold case rather than the typical "hot" ones.
** In "Deep Water", we know from the very beginning that the VictimOfTheWeek is dead, as we see her being murdered, though there is still the customary suspense as to who her killer is.
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: "Malone vs. Malone" doesn't feature a missing persons case, but Jack's deposition regarding his divorce and custody hearing. Though we get flashbacks in the same manner as typical episodes.
** No one disappears in "Showdown" either. Instead, it's about the team's hunt for the gunmen who killed a detainee and injured Martin in the process.
** Several other episodes have featured the re-opening of a cold case rather than the typical "hot" ones.
** In "Deep Water", we know from the very beginning that the VictimOfTheWeek is dead, as we see her being murdered, though there is still the customary suspense as to who her killer is.
** The show itself. Creator/EricClose stated during a talk show appearance that unlike most [[PoliceProcedural cop shows]] where the VictimOfTheWeek is already dead, there's a chance that the victim is still alive, leading to a sense of urgency to find him/her before it's too late--many episodes take place over a very short time period, sometimes as little as a day.
** No one disappears in "Showdown" either. Instead, it's about the team's hunt for the gunmen who killed a detainee and injured Martin in the process.
** Several other episodes have featured the re-opening of a cold case rather than the typical "hot" ones.
** In "Deep Water", we know from the very beginning that the VictimOfTheWeek is dead, as we see her being murdered, though there is still the customary suspense as to who her killer is.
** The show itself. Creator/EricClose stated during a talk show appearance that unlike most [[PoliceProcedural cop shows]] where the VictimOfTheWeek is already dead, there's a chance that the victim is still alive, leading to a sense of urgency to find him/her before it's too late--many episodes take place over a very short time period, sometimes as little as a day.
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* AllAbusersAreMale: A school councilor assumes a student is being beaten by his father and is tight-lipped about it. To be fair, she was basing her assumption around her own experiences with parental abuse where her father [[spoiler:killed her mother in a drunken rage when she called him out on it]], and eventually the boy opens up to correct her and state that it's his mother who is the abuser. Thankfully the episode is a subversion because both the councilor and the agents respond in the same negative way you'd expect to the mother for this.
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* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: In "Pentinence", the agents investigate the disappearance/possible escape of an inmate named James [=MacAvoy=]. Martin and Vivian interview a guard who says that [=MacAvoy=] and another inmate escaped through a gate while the guard that was supposed to be guarding it was trying to break up a prison fight. When Vivian says they need to see that guard, the one they are talking to reveals that he was the guard in question.
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* AilmentInducedCruelty: One of the two missing people in "In The Dark" is Kelly Corcoran, a teenage girl who recently went blind. Her introductory scene and one flashback depict her as being very bitter about her situation and especially prone to lashing out at her parents.
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* EngineeredHeroics: [[spoiler:Elena's ex-husband Carlos hires an ex-con to kidnap their daughter. The plan was for Carlos to fake rescuing her from the kidnapper, whose identity was to remain unknown. Unfortunately, the babysitter that was taking care of Elena was able to see the kidnapper's face and her description of him matched a crook Elena had put away years back. This only strengthened her conviction that Carlos was involved.]]
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* EngineeredHeroics: [[spoiler:Elena's ex-husband ex-boyfriend Carlos hires an ex-con to kidnap their daughter. The plan was for Carlos to fake rescuing her from the kidnapper, whose identity was to remain unknown. Unfortunately, the babysitter that was taking care of Elena was able to see the kidnapper's face and her description of him matched a crook Elena had put away years back. This only strengthened her conviction that Carlos was involved.]]
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The headquarters set in the premiere is completely different from what it is in subsequent episodes.
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** The headquarters set in the premiere is completely different from what it is in subsequent episodes.
** The headquarters set in the premiere is completely different from what it is in subsequent episodes.
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* WitnessProtection:
** Digging into the past of one victim, they can't find record of him before a certain point. Turns out, he was in the program, which not even his wife knew. He saw he was being followed, assumed the man he was testifying against had found him, and ran off with his daughter so that they wouldn't kill him. [[spoiler:He had been reluctant to testify at a retrial, so his handler had sent a few agents to "stalk" him, hoping that he'd run begging to testify in return for more protection. Oops. Jack's team winds up faking his death—which they hide even from the marshals—so that he can start over again for real.]]
** In one episode, a father and his two children go missing. The team learns that the son and one of his friends witnessed a mob hit on the way to school and the killer saw the son (but not the friend). The father attempted to protect his children by having them disappear, but they quickly get in over their head. After barely surviving a shootout, the father agrees to have his son testify and enter the program. The mobsters show up again, but the family doesn't, so they did a better job of it that time.
** Digging into the past of one victim, they can't find record of him before a certain point. Turns out, he was in the program, which not even his wife knew. He saw he was being followed, assumed the man he was testifying against had found him, and ran off with his daughter so that they wouldn't kill him. [[spoiler:He had been reluctant to testify at a retrial, so his handler had sent a few agents to "stalk" him, hoping that he'd run begging to testify in return for more protection. Oops. Jack's team winds up faking his death—which they hide even from the marshals—so that he can start over again for real.]]
** In one episode, a father and his two children go missing. The team learns that the son and one of his friends witnessed a mob hit on the way to school and the killer saw the son (but not the friend). The father attempted to protect his children by having them disappear, but they quickly get in over their head. After barely surviving a shootout, the father agrees to have his son testify and enter the program. The mobsters show up again, but the family doesn't, so they did a better job of it that time.
