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[[folder: Season One]]
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[[folder: Justice for Some ]]

* Jack and Trixie are hired by a client who says he wants them to protect his wife's diamonds from potential thieves but is actually setting up three conpeople to take the fall when he steals them himself to collect on the insurance and sell them to raise money for his ailing finances. Jack and Trixie are not inclined to let any of the three cons be framed for a crime they didn't commit, but particularly sweet is that one of them had found true love and was trying to go straight, an effort threatened by the frame up. Jack and Trixie make a special point to ensure her date (unaware of his fiancee's checkered past) isn't aware of her being a suspect and wish her luck in her new life.

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[[folder: Justice Delayed ]]

* The client is a loving husband who thinks his wife, Helen, is haunted by the unsolved murder of her first husband and wants to give her peace of mind by hiring Jack and Trixie to find the truth with money as no object. In-universe, the usually cynical Jack and Trixie also find this pretty sweet. In light of what we learn about Helen's first marriage, knowing she found such a caring husband the second time around, is extra heartwarming.
* As Jack and Trixie investigate, they find out that the first husband was physically abusing his wife and that his murder was actually self-defense on the wife's part. Sabien was in charge of the case at the time and decided the right thing to do was to cover it up and let the wife move on with her life. When Jack and Trixie are poking around and clearly aren't going to give up, Sabien finally tells them what really happened and makes it clear he'll fight them tooth and nail if they disagree with his choice. Jack and Trixie agree with his choice.
-->'''Sabien:''' I've had a few rotten nights for things that I've done. Walking away from the Crandall murder? It ain't one of them.

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[[folder: Justice and the Deluge ]]

* Jack and Trixie are hired to find the client's sister, Mary, who ran away. Only they find out that the client is actually the Mary's stalker whom she's been fleeing. They arrange a misdirect to throw the stalker off her trail, and Jack gives Mary the five-hundred dollars that their client paid them to help her on her way, even though he knows Trixie will be mad later.

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[[folder: No Justice ]]

* Trixie complains about Jack constitutively, but when he goes missing, she teams up with Sabien to find him and seems genuinely worried that he might be dead.
* Jack and Trixie both stick up for Freddy when Sabien wants to arrest him on the grounds that Freddy took a beating rather than talk which both save him and Jack and kept evidence in a police murder out of criminal hands.

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[[folder: Justice in Love and War ]]

* The episode opens with Jack literally stumbling across a man who'd been beaten up by mobsters. He and Trixie proceed to hear his story and help him get the woman he's fallen for away from the mobster who took a shine to her. All of this is done at high risk and no pay. Yet, according to Jack, the letter he received from the couple a year later telling him and Trixie they were doing well, had a baby on the way, and making promises about the baby's name Jack doubted would come to pass was the nicest fee either of them had ever received.

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[[folder: Justice and the Happy Ending ]]

* Sabien realizes that the shark the mobsters sent to town is an old pal of Jack's and tries to warn him to stay out of it (though the warning might have been more effective had he given Jack more details). Later when Jack is forced to shoot his old friend to protect Trixie, Sabien keeps certain details from becoming public to protect Jack and Trixie from the mobsters' wrath.
* Both heartwarming and a tearjerker, Trixie walks in right as Jack's old friend, Tom Fellows, finishes outlining his plan for Jack to join him in becoming big fish on the wrong side of the law. When Fellows, assuming Jack's assent with his plan, is about to shoot Trixie as the first step, Jack stops him and says to let Jack be the one to do it. Jack then apologizes, "Sorry, partner," and shoots his old partner, Tom, to save his new partner, Trixie.
* After the events with Tom, Jack finally adds Trixie's name to the door, "Justice and Dixon Investigations." Trixie understands him well enough not to say a word.
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[[folder: Season Two]]
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[[folder: How Much Is That Gumshoe In The Window? ]]

* The story of how Jack and Trixie got a dog. They're hired to investigate a "dognapping" case, where a pregnant champion beagle has gone missing from the kennel -- turns out she wasn't dognapped at all, just taken away for a bit by one of the kennel owners to hide the fact that her newborn litter of puppies were mutts (a case which, if it got out, would damage the reputation of the kennel). Trixie, who has been treating the entire case with a mix of amused disdain and annoyed exasperation, completely falls for the seven newborn puppies, and is the one who insists on staying on the case for long enough to find good homes for them all. She also takes a clear liking to one of the pups, "the one with the little fat stomach and the crazy-quilt patches everywhere"...
-->'''Trixie:''' Awwww, come on, Jack! Pleeeeease?\\
'''Jack:''' You've never said "please" to me in your life.\\
'''Trixie:''' That's why it should be really impressive now!\\
'''Jack:''' Where'll he stay?!\\
'''Trixie:''' We'll take turns!\\
'''Jack:''' It's ridiculous! It's impractical! I absolutely forbid it!\\
'''Trixie:''' ''(narrating)'' [[GilliganCut And that was how King Junior came to be the agency dog.]] He wouldn't be doing very much crime-busting in the forseeable future... but it made sitting around and waiting for a case a more pleasant thing. There was something about watching a pup sleep in a sunbeam that was more satisfying than reading your name backwards on the door... even if Black Jack tried to pretend he didn't think so.
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[[folder: Season Three]]
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[[folder: Payback ]]

* The episode starts with Jack getting out of prison after serving 26 days for alleged contempt of the court. When he gets back to the office, Trixie's gotten a selection of his favorite coffee beans and even seems a little glad to see him, though she'd shoot you if you ever said so.
* Sabien complains about Jack pestering him, saying that Jack being in prison being the best 26 days of his life. Jack counters that if Sabien counted the days, he must have missed Jack. Sabien is floored in a way that suggests that frustrations aside, there is some truth to this.

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[[folder: Trixie's Pet ]]

* Button-Down Theo from Braithwaite's is, through no particular fault of his own, in a jam of a case that if he doesn't solve will probably get him fired. Despite not being especially interested in him and having no professional interest in helping Braithwaite's, Trixie cares enough to wheedle Jack, including saying "Whatever you say, Jack," into helping Theo and not even charging him.

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[[folder: Much Ado About Norman ]]

* When Trixie and Jack's client thinks his wife is cheating on him and storms off before they can talk him down, they take steps to get the wife somewhere safe, in case her husband gets ideas about taking justice in his own hands, and then spend three hours trying to track down their client to make sure he doesn't do himself harm. Technically they're still on the clock, but they spend a fair bit of time trying to help an extremely frustrating client.
* As it turns out, the wife was not showing the least bit of interest in cheating on their client, and Jack and Trixie give him a bit of free marriage counseling on how she must have married him for love and the best thing he can do is tell her how much she means to him more often. Considering how most of their divorce cases end, this is about as happy an ending as Jack and Trixie see.
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[[folder:Season Five]]
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[[folder: Journey's End ]]

* Jack finally asks out a woman he's attracted to, even though he doesn't have confidence that it will last (specifically, that he'd like to see her socially, at least until she realizes that he was a lot more charming when he had a concussion), and she says yes.
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[[folder:Season Six]]
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[[folder: Auld Lang Syne ]]

* A very attractive female client walks in, and Jack is trying really hard not to look at her figure because he's now going steady with Dot. Jack may pad expense accounts and tread some moral gray ground, but he is not a cheater.
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[[folder: The Albatross ]]

* This episode highlights more than any other Jack's and Trixie's VitriolicBestBuds relationship with Sabien.
** They immediately realize something is wrong when Sabien comes to their office bearing donuts and not joining in on their SnarkToSnarkCombat, even after Jack gives him a wide opening. When they see the his latest murder investigation is affecting him deeply, Jack and Trixie both drop the snark and offer their advice and sympathy.
** Both try to persuade Sabien against pursuing the case he's on after homicide is taken off of it. Failing that, they reluctantly accept his request to hire them, taking a week's worth of $35 a day and no expenses rather than their normal fee. While Jack thinks this will do more harm than good, Trixie convinces him to at least give Vic the comfort of knowing that he saw it through the best he could.
** When Sabien is prepared to kill the episode's murderer, Jack talks him down. Not because he gives a single solitary damn about the man Sabien's ready to kill, in fact Jack specifically tells him he and Trixie won't stop him, won't tell on him, and won't even think less of him for it if he decides to shoot anyway, but because Jack knows full well this ''won't'' alleviate any of Sabien's guilt and only add this scumbag to his burden.
** Finally, when all is said and done, Sabien comes to Jack's office and stays long enough to let Jack read a police file he'd brought. The file contains information on one of Jack's old cases, briefly mentioned in front of Sabien during the episode and mentioned as early as episode ''one'' as being one Jack could never let go of. The file gives Jack closure, lifting one of his own long held burdens as it reveals that the client he'd long thought wrongfully convicted and executed was, in fact, guilty all along.
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[[folder: Season Eight]]
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[[folder: The Late Mr. Justice ]]

* Crossing over with Awesome, an old enemy of Jack's, Rick Morales, is released from prison and almost immediately launches a plan to kill Jack. To do so, Morales kidnaps Jack's girlfriend, Dorothy, and promises to kill her unless Jack lets Morales kill him. However, Morales makes the mistake of giving Jack time to make a plan and he uses it to get every friend and ally he can get. The encounter ends on a shootout between Morales' gang and Jack, Trixie, Sabien, Nelson, "Button-Down" Theo, and hotel detective Alf [=McKinney=] while Freddy the Finger sneaks Dorothy free and out of the line of fire. Some of those allies say it was more for Dot's sake than Jack's, but the sentiment is there either way.
* After Jack first finds out Morales is out, he and Trixie go to see Sabien for information, who yells at Jack for not hiding out until Sabien can find something to bust Morales back to prison for. Doesn't exactly sound heartwarming until you realize that yelling at people for doing stupid stuff that recklessly endangers their safety is how Sabien shows he cares.
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[[folder: Season Ten]]
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[[folder: Strange Bedfellows ]]

* Mr. Corsetti, feared mobster with blood on his hands, and also a loving father who just wants the best for his daughter and doesn't want her heart to get broken.
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[[folder: The Road to Hell ]]

* Jack unintentionally hits a sore spot of Trixie's: the size of her hands. He backs off when he realizes she's starting to get teary about it.
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[[folder: The One That Got Away ]]

* Jack, despite being rather intoxicated, tries hard not to get Trixie involved in the problem of the episode since it would necessitate telling her that Theo is getting married, and he knows that this will hurt her more than she wants to let on.
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[[folder: Season Eleven]]
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[[folder: As the Northern Star ]]

* When Jack and Trixie interrogate Sabien about the federal agent visit, Sabien lets slip that he thought about calling to warn them not to do anything stupid and tries to encourage them to lay low and not get involved. For all his complaining, he does care about them.
* When Freddy seems to be under suspicion of being a Communist (never a great thing in American history but especially deadly in that time period), Jack pulls out all the stops to help "[his] brother" with Trixie right along behind him, despite her own distaste for Freddy.
* Freddy trusts Jack and Trixie enough to write them a letter of explanation, that Freddy's going undercover to help the F.B.I. root out real Communists, and expresses the hope that afterward they can get together and go fishing.
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[[folder: Chess Pains ]]

* Jack and Trixie help a pair of awkward teenagers communicate their feelings for each other and set them up on a date, even though it wasn't exactly what they were hired to do and neither feels very qualified in the role of matchmaker.
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[[folder: Date Night ]]

* After years of Jack being a moody loner, it's sweet seeing him and Dot still head over heels for each other even after the honeymoon period is over.
* Jack tries to play wingman for Sabien by setting up a double date with Jack, Dot, Sabien and Dot's coworker, Hilda, around whom Sabien is mutually tongue-tied in his feelings. Being Jack, the plan goes hilariously wrong and earns him death threats from both Sabien and his wife, but even Sabien admits Jack was trying to help (and even refers to him as a friend).
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[[folder: Dead Men Run]]
* Despite not having been partners with Jack for very long and constantly putting him down in conversation and narration, as is Trixie's wont, she never for an instant doubts his innocence and works hard to clear his name, even when Jack's methods drive her up a wall.
* Freddy, despite being a self-admitted coward, creates a diversion so Jack can escape the cops, knowing that at worst he could be shot in the confusion and at best the cops will not be happy when they realize what he was doing.
* At the end, Jack has been cornered in a factory with no way out and is sitting in a room, waiting for the cops to open the door and shoot him on sight (since he's a suspected cop-killer on the run). Instead, Sabien opens the door and fires one shot in the air. We learn that he's cooperating with Trixie to fake Jack's death to protect him from zealous cops seeking to avenge their comrade's death and to lure the real murderer into a trap. At this point, Sabien still doesn't much like Jack, but he also doesn't want Jack dead for something he didn't do.
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