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* {{Determinator}}: The killer of the episode "Terminaal" doesn't stop at anything to murder his victims, despite being terminally ill and in chronical pain. It takes two bullets to the leg to stop him in his tracks.
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* {{Determinator}}: The killer of the episode "Terminaal" doesn't stop at anything to [[TerminallyIllCriminal murder his victims, despite being terminally ill ill]] and in chronical pain. It takes two bullets to the leg to stop him in his tracks.
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* CerebusSyndrome: The series as a whole went through quite a bit of this over the course of the seasons. While the show always had examples of gruesome crimes (it's a detective series, after all), it's tone throughout the first few seasons was still rather optimistic. This started to change a bit after [[spoiler: Dimi's death]] near the start of season 3, yet, it wasn't until supporting characters such as Walter, Bieke and Annie started leaving that it truly set in. The show had fully gone through it's Cerebus transition at the start of season 8, after Witse left Annemie and ended up living in a dreary apartment. Then, season 9 raised the bar even further, by adding several (now banned) episodes about particularly gruesome cases (the two-parter "Vijf", "Ademnood" and "Zinloos" being notably good examples). This resulted in the series' downer ending, where Witse decides to hang up his hat, after a particularly nasty mass-shooting case had gotten to him. The entire process is best summed up by Witse's final words of the series:
--> '''Witse''' ''[To Tine]'': DI Smets... Never become cynical.
--> '''Witse''': Never...
--> '''Witse''' ''[To Tine]'': DI Smets... Never become cynical.
--> '''Witse''': Never...
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* FriendsWithBenefits: The victim of the episode "Tattoo Tim" and his girlfriend had a very extensive case of this going on, as they were in an open relationship with an apprentice of the eponymous shop and the victim's cousin. It should be noted here that everyone was in a relationship with everyone in this case (except for the victim and his cousin, which would have been weird). Most of these relationships, however, were only driven by sex, firmly placing it in the "friends with benefits" category.
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Rutger de Witte from the episode "Tattoo Tim" would count as a (somewhat strange) example of this. He lies about his alibi twice to conceal that he had broken into his parent's home to steal their valuables, in order to support a luxurious lifestyle. When he, eventually, admits this to Witse, he adds the following statement to his testimony:
--> '''Rutger''' ''[to Witse]'': You're not going to tell my mom about this, are you?
--> ''[Witse is taken aback by the statement and starts laughing.]''
--> '''Rutger''' ''[to Witse]'': You're not going to tell my mom about this, are you?
--> ''[Witse is taken aback by the statement and starts laughing.]''
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* IfICantHaveYou: Said word for word by [[spoiler: Eddy de Wulf]], after he confesses to [[spoiler: killing his wife and her lover]].
--> '''Witse''' ''[in response to Eddy's confession]'': Babs... didn't deserve this.
--> '''Eddy''': Yes... Yes, she did!
--> '''Eddy''': If I couldn't have her, then nobody else could!
--> '''Witse''' ''[in response to Eddy's confession]'': Babs... didn't deserve this.
--> '''Eddy''': Yes... Yes, she did!
--> '''Eddy''': If I couldn't have her, then nobody else could!
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* AbusiveOffspring: Camille Declerck from the episode "Moederliefde" physically abused her mother, in a variety of ways ranging from "household accidents" to cutting her and beating her up. Her reason for doing so was that she blamed her mother for her father's (accidental) death.
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* AbusiveOffspring: Camille Declerck from the episode "Moederliefde" physically abused her mother, in a variety of ways ranging from "household accidents" to cutting her and beating her up. Her reason for doing so was that she blamed her mother for her father's (accidental) death. She [[spoiler: ends up kiling her mother's new boyfriend]], as payback for getting involved in the matter.
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* AbusiveOffspring: Camille Declerck from the episode "Moederliefde" physically abused her mother, in a variety of ways ranging from "household accidents" to cutting her and beating her up. Her reason for doing so was that she blamed her mother for her father's (accidental) death.
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** Camille Declerck from the episode "Moederliefde" was physically abusive against her mother (and, occasionally, against her sister) and [[spoiler: murdered her mother's new boyfriend]], when he tried to do something about it. Then, she burned [[spoiler: the boyfriend's corpse]] to erase any trace leading to her.
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* HollywoodHeartAttack: Witse has one of these at the start of the episode "Vrije slag", as a result of his unhealthy lifestyle, after his break up with Annemie. He ends up spending the entire episode at the hospital, while his team solves the case of the week.
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* JackTheRipoff: This trope was used to make a convicted killer look innocent in the episode "Ongestoord bezoek". During the episode, a woman is murdered with the gun used to kill the wife of Antoine Gijsels, who was convicted for her murder. Antoine, who has been in jail ever since, claims that he got framed for his wife's murder and that one of his former colleagues killed her (and Liesbeth, with whom he had an affair) to spite him. Witse takes Antoine's theory with a grain of salt, but when the gun turns up in the locker of a former colleague with a crush on Antoine, he starts to doubt Antoine's guilt. [[spoiler: It eventually turns out that Antoine manipulated said colleague to kill Liesbeth for him, so he could frame her for both murders (and get out of jail scot-free).]]
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* NewMediaAreEvil: The episode "Game Over" plays this trope (mostly) straight. Throughout the episode, it's revealed that the killer was a teenage video game designer, who accidentally killed a woman while testing one of his father's guns (in order to use the experience to program realistic gun physics into his video game). This message was accompanied by clips of violent, ultra-realistic shooters like Crysis. Ironically, the killer wanted to turn himself in, but was stopped (at all costs) by his father, who turned out to be the episode's true villain.
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* TwinSwitch: The episode "Hoofdzaak" revolves around this trope. The victim of the week turns out to be the twin brother of a local butcher. Said butcher claims to not have seen his brother in 15 years, yet, Witse suspects (quite early on) that he's lying and that the butcher is, in fact, impersonating his dead twin brother (the actual butcher). Finding proof for this theory turns out to be much more difficult than expected and it eventually turns out that [[spoiler: not he, but the butcher's daughter, was the murderer and that he was merely impersonating his brother for financial reasons.]]
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** Veerle Leyts has a consensual sexual relationship with [[spoiler: her father]], beats up her younger sister when he starts to give her more attention and eventually stabs him with a knife and sets the house on fire when he "breaks it off" with her.
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** Veerle Leyts from the episode "Onder vuur" has a consensual sexual relationship with [[spoiler: her father]], beats up her younger sister when he starts to give her more attention and eventually stabs him with a knife and sets the house on fire when he "breaks it off" with her.
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* ConvictedByPublicOpinion: Witse is stamped as a racist by the Kurdish community in the two-parter "Rellen", mainly because of (biased or falsified) photographic evidence against him. Actual evidence of him being racist is, obviously, non-existent. This even comes to a head during the eponymous "riots" mentioned in the episode's title.
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* FightingBackIsWrong: When Witse is labeled as a racist in the two-parter "Rellen", he has to face several acts of both physical and verbal aggression against him from the Kurdish community. When he stands up against a (rather egrigious) act of violence, he is, misguidedly, judged by the public as the aggressor and treated as such, even by some people at work. Things do get cleared out by the end of the two-parter.
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* MadeOutToBeAJerkass: Happens to Witse in the two-parter "Rellen", when his (somewhat brash) action are misconstrued as racism by a (rather extremist) part of the Kurdish community. They even try to frame him for alleged racism in order to destroy his credibility.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Jonas Hoste, [[spoiler: the killer]] from the episode "Klare lijn", ends up throwing himself off the roof of the art academy after Witse [[spoiler: reveals him as the killer.]] Some of Jonas' drawing, later shown to Witse (and the audience), reveal that he was planning on going this way all along.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Jonas Hoste, [[spoiler: the killer]] from the episode "Klare lijn", ends up throwing himself off the roof of the art academy after Witse [[spoiler: reveals him as the killer.]] killer]]. Some of Jonas' drawing, later shown to Witse (and the audience), reveal that he was planning on going this way all along.
