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** Creator/CallieThorne as Laura Ballard.
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** Callie Thorne (Laura Ballard) is also best known for playing Sheila Keefe on ''Series/RescueMe'' and Dani Santino on ''Series/NecessaryRoughness''.
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** Creator/LeeTergesen also had a recurring role as Officer Chris Thormann. Tergesen is best known for playing Tobias Beecher on ''Series/{{Oz}}''.
** Creator/MekhiPhifer also had a recurring role as Junior Bunk. Phifer is best known for playing Dr. Greg Pratt on ''Series/{{ER}}'' and Ben Reynolds on ''Series/LieToMe''.
** Creator/MekhiPhifer also had a recurring role as Junior Bunk. Phifer is best known for playing Dr. Greg Pratt on ''Series/{{ER}}'' and Ben Reynolds on ''Series/LieToMe''.
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** Creator/LeeTergesen also had a recurring role as Officer Chris Thormann. Tergesen is best known for playing Tobias Beecher on ''Series/{{Oz}}''.
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** Creator/MekhiPhifer also had a recurring role as Junior Bunk.Phifer is best known for playing Dr. Greg Pratt on ''Series/{{ER}}'' and Ben Reynolds on ''Series/LieToMe''.
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** In addition to writing the book this series was based on and serving as producer, Creator/DavidSimon is best known as creator and executive producer of ''Series/TheWire'' and co-creator and co-executive producer of ''Series/{{Treme}}''.
** Creator/TomFontana wrote 67 episodes and served as executive producer. Fontana is best known as creator and executive producer of ''Series/{{Oz}}'' and ''Series/{{Borgia}}'' and as co-creator and executive producer of ''Series/{{Copper}}''.
** Creator/TomFontana wrote 67 episodes and served as executive producer. Fontana is best known as creator and executive producer of ''Series/{{Oz}}'' and ''Series/{{Borgia}}'' and as co-creator and executive producer of ''Series/{{Copper}}''.
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** In addition to writing Creator/DavidSimon wrote the book this series was based on and serving served as producer, Creator/DavidSimon is best known as creator and executive producer of ''Series/TheWire'' and co-creator and co-executive producer of ''Series/{{Treme}}''.
producer.
** Creator/TomFontana wrote 67 episodes and served as executive producer. Fontana is best known as creator and executive producer of ''Series/{{Oz}}'' and ''Series/{{Borgia}}'' and as co-creator and executive producer of ''Series/{{Copper}}''.
** Creator/TomFontana wrote 67 episodes and served as executive producer.
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** "In Search of Crimes Past" initially revolves around a woman taking Barnfather hostage in an attempt to stop her father's execution. The plot has a lot of potential to be extremely tense and suspenseful, but it's resolved halfway through the episode when her father is found innocent.
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* SeasonalRot: There's a lot of debate about this and really any point after the third season is up for consideration.
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* SeasonalRot: There's a lot of debate about this and really any point after the third season is up for consideration. It's unanimously agreed that it had set in at Season 7, which suffered from both the loss of [[BreakoutCharacter Pembleton]] and ExecutiveMeddling turning ''Homicide'' into a ''Series/LawAndOrder'' clone. There are some well-liked episodes, but the season was generally regarded as inferior to the seasons that came before.
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* ArcFatigue: The aftermath of the Luther Mahoney shooting in Season 6 started with a newcomer (Falsone) having a burning interest in a police shooting of a drug dealer from the year prior, morphed into laughable dramatics from Mahoney's "long lost sister" and basically destroyed the credibility of Lewis, Kellerman, and Stivers. Made worse by the fact that the shooting wasn't a black and white issue.
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* ArcFatigue: ArcFatigue:
** The disproportionate amount of focus on Bolander's love life in the first two seasons. Pretty much no one likes it, seeing as how none of the other detectives got nearly as much focus on their personal lives and how {{Narm}}y the writers' efforts to turn Creator/NedBeatty into a KavorkaMan were. Fortunately, the focus stopped in Season 3.
** The aftermath of the Luther Mahoney shooting in Season 6 started with a newcomer (Falsone) having a burning interest in a police shooting of a drug dealer from the year prior, morphed into laughable dramatics from Mahoney's "long lost sister" and basically destroyed the credibility of Lewis, Kellerman, and Stivers. Made worse by the fact that the shooting wasn't a black and white issue.
** The disproportionate amount of focus on Bolander's love life in the first two seasons. Pretty much no one likes it, seeing as how none of the other detectives got nearly as much focus on their personal lives and how {{Narm}}y the writers' efforts to turn Creator/NedBeatty into a KavorkaMan were. Fortunately, the focus stopped in Season 3.
** The aftermath of the Luther Mahoney shooting in Season 6 started with a newcomer (Falsone) having a burning interest in a police shooting of a drug dealer from the year prior, morphed into laughable dramatics from Mahoney's "long lost sister" and basically destroyed the credibility of Lewis, Kellerman, and Stivers. Made worse by the fact that the shooting wasn't a black and white issue.
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* IronWoobie: Giardello. He's been absolutely broken by both the death of his wife and the traumatic things he's seen on the job and he constantly has to deal with petty and venal superiors who have absolutely no respect for him and stalled any opportunity he had for career advancement, but he never gives up and does his damnedest to do good police work and protect his detectives.
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** Season 3 grows the beard again. While it does suffer a serious loss from Crosetti's absence, the season benefits from ending the disliked focus on Bolander's personal life, bringing more character depth to the detectives, and bringing the series's social commentary into sharp focus.
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** Season 3 grows the beard again. While it does suffer a serious loss from Crosetti's absence, the season benefits from ending the disliked focus on Bolander's personal life, bringing more character depth to the detectives, making Bayliss into a more likable character, and bringing the series's social commentary into sharp focus.
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** Season 3 grows the beard again. While it does suffer a serious loss from Crosetti's absence, the season benefits from ending the disliked focus on Bolander's personal life and bringing more character depth to the detectives.
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** Season 3 grows the beard again. While it does suffer a serious loss from Crosetti's absence, the season benefits from ending the disliked focus on Bolander's personal life and life, bringing more character depth to the detectives.detectives, and bringing the series's social commentary into sharp focus.
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** While the show starts off as great, it takes a bit to settle into its groove. For the first few episodes, the writers are clearly still figuring out how to write some of the characters and some of the plots were often overly whimsical and contrasted with the show's realistic and gritty setting. The show really starts getting good with "Three Men and Adena", which is widely regarded as one of the best episodes of television ever, brings Bayliss and Pembleton together as partners and sets up one of the best dynamics in the show, and firmly establishing ''Homicide'' as a realistic, deconstructive take on the PoliceProcedural where the cops were flawed and criminals could easily get away if the detectives didn't play their cards right.
** Season 3 grows the beard again. While it does suffer a serious loss from Crosetti's absence, the season benefits from ending the disliked focus on Bolander's personal life and bringing more character depth to the detectives.
** While the show starts off as great, it takes a bit to settle into its groove. For the first few episodes, the writers are clearly still figuring out how to write some of the characters and some of the plots were often overly whimsical and contrasted with the show's realistic and gritty setting. The show really starts getting good with "Three Men and Adena", which is widely regarded as one of the best episodes of television ever, brings Bayliss and Pembleton together as partners and sets up one of the best dynamics in the show, and firmly establishing ''Homicide'' as a realistic, deconstructive take on the PoliceProcedural where the cops were flawed and criminals could easily get away if the detectives didn't play their cards right.
** Season 3 grows the beard again. While it does suffer a serious loss from Crosetti's absence, the season benefits from ending the disliked focus on Bolander's personal life and bringing more character depth to the detectives.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Crosetti is one of the show's most interesting and beloved characters; he was a great PluckyComicRelief who added levity to whatever scene he was in, but still had a lot of depth and pathos to his character and his character arc in Season 1 is regarded as a series highlight. However, he was OutOfFocus in Season 2 due to the extremely shortened episode count, and written out [[spoiler:via suicide]] in Season 3 due to Creator/JonPolito's firing.
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* BaseBreakingCharacter: Bolander. Either he's a great mentor figure to the detectives or an annoying sadsack who drags down every scene he's in. Most of this boils down to the large amount of focus on his personal life, which most fans found boring, and he's generally regarded as the least interesting of the original cast.
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* BaseBreakingCharacter: Bolander. Either he's a great mentor figure to the detectives or an annoying sadsack who drags down every scene he's in. Most of this boils down to the large amount of focus on his personal life, life during the first two seasons, which most fans found boring, and he's generally regarded as the least interesting of the original cast.
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* BaseBreakingCharacter: Bolander. Either he's a great mentor figure to the detectives or an annoying sadsack who drags down every scene he's in. Most of this boils down to the large amount of focus on his personal life, which most fans found boring, and he's generally regarded as the least interesting of the original cast.
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** A young Creator/JakeGyllenhal plays [[Creator/RobinWilliams Robert Ellison]]'s son in "Bop Gun".
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** Robert Ellison from "Bop Gun". He's grieving the recent murder of his wife, which results in him lashing out at the detectives and desperately trying to put on a show of protecting her now that she's dead, out of guilt that he was unable to do so while she was alive.
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* OneSceneWonder: The show features a lot of memorable characters played by great actors who pop up for only one or two scenes.
** Creator/SteveHarris appears for two scenes in the pilot as a murderer who [[BlatantLies comes up with an obviously false alibi]] that Munch automatically sees through, [[BadLiar and then somehow comes up with an even more blatant lie]] when Munch interrogates him again.
** Gwen Verdon turns in a darkly comedic performance as an elderly woman who killed her abusive husband in "Ghost of a Chance" that netted her an Emmy nomination, which is all the more impressive since she only appears in three scenes.
** Creator/LuisGuzman as an eccentric cabinetmaker in "Son of a Gun". He's only around for one scene and kills himself shortly thereafter, but he makes a pretty good impression in his screentime.
** While she's TheGhost for most of her storyline, Calpurnia Church finally appears in person in "Son of a Gun" for a single scene. Mary Jefferson turns in a performance that's both vulnerable and creepy at the same time, nailing her performance as the frail old serial killer.
** Creator/PaulSchulze turns up in the same episode as a creepily amiable and icy "agent for hitmen".
** Dan Moran turns in a memorably eccentric performance as a fundamentalist abusive father in "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes".
** Lloyd Goodman only turns up in two scenes in "Bop Gun" as a regretful murderer, but they're some of the biggest {{Tearjerker}}s in the entire show.
** Creator/SteveHarris appears for two scenes in the pilot as a murderer who [[BlatantLies comes up with an obviously false alibi]] that Munch automatically sees through, [[BadLiar and then somehow comes up with an even more blatant lie]] when Munch interrogates him again.
** Gwen Verdon turns in a darkly comedic performance as an elderly woman who killed her abusive husband in "Ghost of a Chance" that netted her an Emmy nomination, which is all the more impressive since she only appears in three scenes.
** Creator/LuisGuzman as an eccentric cabinetmaker in "Son of a Gun". He's only around for one scene and kills himself shortly thereafter, but he makes a pretty good impression in his screentime.
** While she's TheGhost for most of her storyline, Calpurnia Church finally appears in person in "Son of a Gun" for a single scene. Mary Jefferson turns in a performance that's both vulnerable and creepy at the same time, nailing her performance as the frail old serial killer.
** Creator/PaulSchulze turns up in the same episode as a creepily amiable and icy "agent for hitmen".
** Dan Moran turns in a memorably eccentric performance as a fundamentalist abusive father in "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes".
** Lloyd Goodman only turns up in two scenes in "Bop Gun" as a regretful murderer, but they're some of the biggest {{Tearjerker}}s in the entire show.
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** Lee Tergesen also had a recurring role as Officer Chris Thormann. Tergesen is best known for playing Tobias Beecher on ''Series/{{Oz}}''.
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** Tom Fontana wrote 67 episodes and served as executive producer. Fontana is best known as creator and executive producer of ''Series/{{Oz}}'' and ''Series/{{Borgia}}'' and as co-creator and executive producer of ''Series/{{Copper}}''.
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** Tom Fontana Creator/TomFontana wrote 67 episodes and served as executive producer. Fontana is best known as creator and executive producer of ''Series/{{Oz}}'' and ''Series/{{Borgia}}'' and as co-creator and executive producer of ''Series/{{Copper}}''.
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** Creator/SteveHarris plays a suspect in "Gone for Goode" who spins a blatantly false alibi that sets Munch off on his Montel Williams rant.
** A young Creator/JakeGyllenhal plays [[Creator/RobinWilliams Robert Ellison]]'s son in "Bop Gun".
** A young Creator/JakeGyllenhal plays [[Creator/RobinWilliams Robert Ellison]]'s son in "Bop Gun".
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YMMV, but he doesn't really come off as homophobic (especially for the time), he just seems judgmental of Bayliss.
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* HilariousInHindsight: It can be very difficult to watch this series without thinking of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'' as both star Andre Braugher as hypercompetent police officers. Even more hilarious because Andre's character in this show was somewhat homophobic while his character in the newer show is an openly gay police commissioner.
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* HilariousInHindsight: It can be very difficult to watch this series without thinking of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'' as both star Andre Braugher as hypercompetent police officers. Even more hilarious because Andre's character in this show was somewhat homophobic while his character in the newer show is an openly gay police commissioner.
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* ValuesResonance: Tim Bayliss' ComingOutStory as bisexual was unheard of when the series first began. And it means even more in current times when more and more real people are coming out.
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* ValuesResonance: Tim Bayliss' ComingOutStory as bisexual was unheard of when the series first began. And it means its significance is even more greater in current times times, when more and more real people in {{Real Life}} are coming out.
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* ValuesResonance: Tim Bayliss' ComingOutStory as bisexual was unheard of when the series first began. And it means even more in current times when real people are coming out.
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* ValuesResonance: Tim Bayliss' ComingOutStory as bisexual was unheard of when the series first began. And it means even more in current times when more and more real people are coming out.
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** Also, Munch and his whole obsession with Stan "The Big Man" coming back ''for an entire season.''
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** Steve Burns is the perp in an episode aired just a few years before his stint on ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues''.
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** Steve Burns is the perp in an episode aired just a few years before his stint on ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues''.
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** John Lange from "Subway". The man is an asshole, but he is horrifically mangled and slowly and painfully dies over the course of several hours, with only Pembleton for company, all for no reason.
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Kellerman was forced to endure the humiliation of a corruption accusation with no one believing His innocence or willing to help Him which nearly drove him to suicide
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** Kellerman was forced to endure the humiliation of a corruption accusation with no one believing His innocence or willing to help Him which nearly drove him to suicide
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** Mekhi Phifer also had a recurring role as Junior Bunk. Phifer is best known for playing Dr. Greg Pratt on ''Series/{{ER}}'' and Ben Reynolds on ''Series/LieToMe''.
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** Mekhi Phifer Creator/MekhiPhifer also had a recurring role as Junior Bunk. Phifer is best known for playing Dr. Greg Pratt on ''Series/{{ER}}'' and Ben Reynolds on ''Series/LieToMe''.
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** In addition to writing the book this series was based on and serving as producer, David Simon is best known as creator and executive producer of ''Series/TheWire'' and co-creator and co-executive producer of ''Series/{{Treme}}''.
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** In addition to writing the book this series was based on and serving as producer, David Simon Creator/DavidSimon is best known as creator and executive producer of ''Series/TheWire'' and co-creator and co-executive producer of ''Series/{{Treme}}''.
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* TheWoobie: Bayliss.
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* TheWoobie: Bayliss.TheWoobie:
** Bayliss. After surviving an Abusive Childhood, he becomes a cop and joins homicide, only for everyone to treat him like shit because of his lack of experience from investigation. Then his first case is a murdered eleven-year-old girl which becomes high profile very quickly. The case is fucked from the get go with the scene contaminated, the lack of evidence and the superior detectives moving the body too soon, all of which he is blamed for. The case remains open and Bayliss is forever haunted. Then he has three years of being treated badly by his partner Pembleton whom he seems to idolise. After Pembleton has a stroke, he starts treating him better until Bayliss is shot which convinces Pembleton to retire. In the finale, he murders a released killer and is driven insane by guilt.
** Lewis was left traumatized by his partners suicide.
** Felton's unstable wife took his kids.
** Bolander is divorced with no children and is starting to realize just how much He regrets His path in life,
Kellerman was forced to endure the humiliation of a corruption accusation with no one believing His innocence or willing to help Him which nearly drove him to suicide
** Munch has three ex-wives, no luck in work or relationships, a partner who openly hates him and ignores him after he leaves and having to watch three of his fellow detectives get shot. He was miserable in high school, loved a girl who didn't love him and who later turned up murdered, and his father killed himself.
** While never specified, Crosetti was so unhappy he was driven to suicide.
** Bayliss. After surviving an Abusive Childhood, he becomes a cop and joins homicide, only for everyone to treat him like shit because of his lack of experience from investigation. Then his first case is a murdered eleven-year-old girl which becomes high profile very quickly. The case is fucked from the get go with the scene contaminated, the lack of evidence and the superior detectives moving the body too soon, all of which he is blamed for. The case remains open and Bayliss is forever haunted. Then he has three years of being treated badly by his partner Pembleton whom he seems to idolise. After Pembleton has a stroke, he starts treating him better until Bayliss is shot which convinces Pembleton to retire. In the finale, he murders a released killer and is driven insane by guilt.
** Lewis was left traumatized by his partners suicide.
** Felton's unstable wife took his kids.
** Bolander is divorced with no children and is starting to realize just how much He regrets His path in life,
Kellerman was forced to endure the humiliation of a corruption accusation with no one believing His innocence or willing to help Him which nearly drove him to suicide
** Munch has three ex-wives, no luck in work or relationships, a partner who openly hates him and ignores him after he leaves and having to watch three of his fellow detectives get shot. He was miserable in high school, loved a girl who didn't love him and who later turned up murdered, and his father killed himself.
** While never specified, Crosetti was so unhappy he was driven to suicide.
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** Falsone was so loathed by some fans that one of the first television hatedom websites was created in his honour.
** When his actor returned to the ''Law & Order'' franchise years later, he played a completely different character, no doubt to avoid any connections.
** When his actor returned to the ''Law & Order'' franchise years later, he played a completely different character, no doubt to avoid any connections.
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** Falsone was so loathed by some fans that one of the first television hatedom websites was created in his honour.
**honour. When his actor actor, Creator/JonSeda, returned to the ''Law & Order'' franchise years later, he played a completely different character, no doubt to avoid any connections.
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* CompleteMonster: {{Crossover}} between ''Series/LawAndOrder'' [[labelnote:Episode]]Season 6's "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS6E13CharmCity Charm City]]"[[/labelnote]] & ''Homicide's''' season 4's "For God and Country": [[WesternTerrorists Colonel Alexander Rausch]] is a former intelligence officer turned [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist killer]]. He [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates the recently-laid-off Brian Egan]] into setting off a gas bomb of [[DeadlyGas silver arsenic]] on the New York Subway, killing 20 black people and injuring others. Several years earlier, he had Egan commit a similar attack on a Baltimore church, resulting in six fatalities, all black people. Once Egan is captured, Rausch kills Egan's wife to prevent him from talking, with Egan's teenage son surviving due to hiding. When captured, Rausch admits that his goal is to provoke a race war, claiming he wants "the mongrels to stop feeding on the hard work and good faith of the rest of us", and that when "you have a cancer, you cut it out".
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* CompleteMonster: {{Crossover}} between ''Series/LawAndOrder'' [[labelnote:Episode]]Season 6's "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS6E13CharmCity Charm City]]"[[/labelnote]] & ''Homicide's''' season 4's "For God and Country": [[WesternTerrorists Colonel Alexander Rausch]] is a former intelligence officer turned [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist killer]]. He [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates the recently-laid-off Brian Egan]] into setting off a gas bomb of [[DeadlyGas silver arsenic]] on the New York Subway, killing 20 black people and injuring others. Several years earlier, he had Egan commit a similar attack on a Baltimore church, resulting in six fatalities, all black people. Once Egan is captured, Rausch [[MakeAnExampleOfThem kills Egan's wife wife]] to prevent him from talking, with Egan's teenage son surviving due to hiding. When captured, Rausch admits that his goal is to provoke a race war, claiming he wants "the mongrels to stop feeding on the hard work and good faith of the rest of us", and that when "you have a cancer, you cut it out".
