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* HoYay: The show has many acknowledged gay couples but "One Night" has an ambiguous relationship between Justin (who was almost a victim) and his friend Valentino that is often interpreted as this.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: The killer in "The Hen House" can be seen as either an attempted {{Atoner}} tragically pushed back into doing evil again, or simply a murdering, [[spoiler:identity-stealing, Nazi]] scuzzball through-and-through.
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* PlotHole: As outlined under DidNotDoTheResearch on the main page, the ''entire plot'' of "Torn" essentially hinges on one of these, which hampers the enjoyability of the episode.
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* MagnificentBitch: [[spoiler:Caroline Hargreave from "The Runaway Bunny," to the point of being one of only two non-sympathetic villains in the show to [[TheBadGuyWins win]]]].
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** Moe Kitchener also seems to have very few fans even for a villain, owing largely to [[ArcFatigue his arc being dragged out]].
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** In "Jurisprudence," Doherty having Kat transferred, simply as RevengeByProxy to spite Stillman.
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* PlotHole: As outlined under DidNotDoTheResearch on the main page, the ''entire plot'' of "Torn" essentially hinges on one of these, which hampers the enjoyability of the episode.
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* MoralEventHorizon: Alessandro from "Sabotage" is initially very sympathetic, for a SerialKiller... until it's revealed who he sent his final bomb to: [[spoiler:[[WouldHurtAChild his preteen niece]], as he wanted his brother, whom he viewed as responsible for the TraumaCongaLine he had endured, to [[RevengeByProxy know the pain of losing a child as he had]]]].
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* WhatAnIdiot: The revelation of who the doer was in "Time to Crime" was [[TearJerker heartbreaking]], to say the least, that doesn't really change the fact that he was a ''complete and utter moron''. Dude buys a gun that he intends to use to kill someone ''from the same person he intends to kill'', then instead of, say, [[JustShootHim shooting him right there]], he waits until the guy is in the middle of a crowded park, then fires randomly into said crowded park, and not only misses his target, but [[spoiler:hits his own sister by accident]].
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* TheScrappy: Frankie Rafferty.
* StrawmanHasAPoint: When Moe Kitchener fills a complaint for harassment against Lilly for stalking him. When you think about it, she has no evidence but a DyingDream to prove he was the one person that tried to kill her in "Into the Blue"
** When Patrick Doherty points out that Stillman's repetitive actions to protect his team when they keep JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope are more counterproductive than anything.
* StrawmanHasAPoint: When Moe Kitchener fills a complaint for harassment against Lilly for stalking him. When you think about it, she has no evidence but a DyingDream to prove he was the one person that tried to kill her in "Into the Blue"
** When Patrick Doherty points out that Stillman's repetitive actions to protect his team when they keep JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope are more counterproductive than anything.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The serial killer from ''It Takes a Village'' and (''[[YourMileageMayVary possibly]]'') the one from ''Sabotage''.
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* CompleteMonster: Quite a few perps, and quite a few victims as well, with George Marks and John Smith being the most prominent examples of the former (and George has a FreudianExcuse mentioned in spoilers).
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* CompleteMonster: Quite a few perps, and The handful of perps who aren't [[SympatheticMurderer Sympathetic Murderers]]. And quite a few victims as well, with well. George Marks and John Smith being the most prominent examples of the former (and (though at least George has a FreudianExcuse mentioned in spoilers).
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Many of the death scenes, especially Mitchell Bayes' in ''Churchgoing People'' and the young girl in ''Mindhunters'', with her scream of "I want my Daddy!".
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: HilariousInHindsight: Anytime Biggie says the word "Management" in the episode ''Metamorphosis'' is hysterical if you've seen ''{{Carnivale}}'' (where Michael J. Anderson plays virtually the same role and Management is a [[MagnificentBastard sinister figure]]).
* {{Narm}}: In ''Andy in C Minor'' the tension between deaf and hearing people is about as bad as 1960s racial tension, complete with everyone trying to pull apart two lovers because they belong to different worlds, and the victim having been killed [[spoiler: because he wanted to get a cochlear implant.]]
* NightmareFuel: Many of the death scenes, especially Mitchell Bayes' in ''Churchgoing People'' and the young girl in ''Mindhunters'', with her scream of "I want my Daddy!".
* {{Narm}}: In ''Andy in C Minor'' the tension between deaf and hearing people is about as bad as 1960s racial tension, complete with everyone trying to pull apart two lovers because they belong to different worlds, and the victim having been killed [[spoiler: because he wanted to get a cochlear implant.]]
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* HilariousInHindsight: Anytime Biggie says the word "Management" in the episode ''Metamorphosis'' is hysterical if you've seen ''{{Carnivale}}'' (where Michael J. Anderson plays virtually the same role and Management is a [[MagnificentBastard sinister figure]]).
* {{Narm}}: In ''Andy in C Minor'' the tension between deaf and hearing people is about as bad as 1960s racial tension, complete with everyone trying to pull apart two lovers because they belong to different worlds, and the victim having been killed [[spoiler: because he wanted to get a cochlear implant.]]
* {{Narm}}: In ''Andy in C Minor'' the tension between deaf and hearing people is about as bad as 1960s racial tension, complete with everyone trying to pull apart two lovers because they belong to different worlds, and the victim having been killed [[spoiler: because he wanted to get a cochlear implant.]]
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* CompleteMonster: Quite a few perps, and quite a few victims as well, with George Marks and John Smith being the most prominent examples (though the former has a FreudianExcuse mentioned in spoilers).
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* BittersweetEnding: The flashbacks spend a lot of time developing the victim's character, allowing the audience to get to know him or her, often making them so nice that it's easy to forget that he/she is going to end up dead. Even their killer finally being arrested can't take away the sting of this person being gone forever. And in the case of the occasional AssholeVictim, it bites that someone's being arrested for killing someone who probably got what he or she deserved.
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** Phil, one of the robbers from ''Dog Day Afternoons'', also qualified as such. Despite his cold, almost murderous exterior, he actually had somewhat of a heart, and actually wanted to get out of the robbery business for good, unlike his boss Julius Carver, and even attempted to warn Roween Ryan about Julius' lying nature as well as his having another accomplice that he seduced to helping him rob the bank. When she decided to have Julius be turned in, Phil also attempted to stand up to Julius when he ordered for her to be executed, but unfortunately, he was verbally and emotionally broken by Julius' words, and thus ended up having to kill her anyways. At the end, despite his being the murderer, you actually have to pity him.
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* CrowningMomentofAwesome: The victim of the week often gets one of these in the trailer, or at some point in the episode, just before they turn up dead.
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* CrowningMomentofAwesome: The victim of the week often gets one of these in the trailer, or at some point in the episode, just before they turn up dead. Sadly, this is sometimes the very reason they end up dead. (ex: the victim in "Blood On The Tracks" who wanted to confess to a crime committed years ago, but was murdered to ensure his silence, the reporter in "Breaking News" who was about to blow the lid off a scandal, etc.)
* CrowningMomentofAwesome: The victim of the week often gets one of these in the trailer, or at some point in the episode, just before they turn up dead. Sadly, this is sometimes the very reason they end up dead. (ex: the victim in "Blood On The Tracks" who wanted to confess to a crime committed years ago, but was murdered to ensure his silence, the reporter in "Breaking News" who was about to blow the lid off a scandal, etc.)
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** ''Best Friends''. "I used to wonder if it was wrong, the feelings I had for her." "No. It was just... the wrong time."
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** Oh gods ''The Good-bye Room''. This [[TheStoic troper]] broke down crying in the second half.
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** ''One Night''": ''I'm sorry about the car, Dad...'' and ''We can ride the horses in the field...''
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* TitleConfusion: Contrary to what many fans believe, the main characters are ''not'' a specialized team that works in cold cases only. They are average Homicide detectives that from time to time reopen old cases, and they often talk about recent cases they closed before they went cold (and are rarely shown through the series). If the cold case is recent enough, there is a chance you'll see one of the main characters themselves putting the box on the shelf in the prologue. Lilly, though, seems to have built an informal fame as "cold case investigator" over the years.
** A lot of that confusion comes from the episode ''Love Conquers All'' in which Det. Valens is introduced. He complains to Lilly about working in cold cases when he would rather be out solving live ones. Lilly then tells him that she chose it because everyone deserves justice, no matter how long it takes.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The serial killer from ''It Takes a Village'' and (''[[YourMileageMayVary possibly]]'') the one from ''Sabotage''.
** A lot of that confusion comes from the episode ''Love Conquers All'' in which Det. Valens is introduced. He complains to Lilly about working in cold cases when he would rather be out solving live ones. Lilly then tells him that she chose it because everyone deserves justice, no matter how long it takes.
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** ''The River''": made this troper cry ManlyTears because the main victim reminded him of a friend of his and one of the main characters beating up an innocent man because he done nothing wrong, really made me cry.
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