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A TV series adaptation starring Creator/DougrayScott began airing in 2021.
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-->'''Gillman''': All that stuff aboot being a hunter... made me laugh, that yin. Ye know, ah don’t see that. Ah see [[BasementDweller a middle-aged guy who lives at hame with ehs ma.]]
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Tianna, a result of being raised by [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Robyn]], surrounded by all manner of vices, as well as years of sexual abuse by her mother's boyfriends and associates. At one point, she decides that the best way to repay Ray's kindness [[spoiler: is to sleep with him.]] Ray's [[{{Squick}} reaction]] is understandable.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Tianna, a result of being raised by [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Robyn]], surrounded by all manner of vices, as well as years of sexual abuse by her mother's boyfriends and associates. At one point, she decides that the best way to repay Ray's kindness [[spoiler: is to sleep with him.]] Ray's [[{{Squick}} reaction]] is understandable.understandable.
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* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: Lance pulls a gun on Ray at the end of a chapter. [[spoiler:The next reveals he shoots himself]].
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* TragicKeepsake: Tianna's baseball card which are the only thing her father left her.
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* TragicKeepsake: Tianna's baseball card cards which are the only thing her father left her.her. [[spoiler:This turns out to be a lie. She found them in an attic.]]
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* TextualCelebrityResemblance: Footballer Albert Kidd is said to look like Bobby Ball from the ''Cannon and Ball'' comedy duo.
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: When teenage Ray tries to see his old friend Les, he's greeted by Les throwing live, flaming pigeons at him.
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* BringMyBrownPants: When Ray and Tianna swap motel rooms, he finds she's peed the bed.
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* BringMyBrownPants: BringMyBrownPants;
** When Ray and Tianna swap motel rooms, he finds she's peed thebed.bed.
** Johnnie later sets himself when Day is beating and interrogating him.
* BullyHunter: Ray decided to join the police because he hates bullies.
** When Ray and Tianna swap motel rooms, he finds she's peed the
** Johnnie later sets himself when Day is beating and interrogating him.
* BullyHunter: Ray decided to join the police because he hates bullies.
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* MagicalSeventhSon: A commentator invokes the trope when he says one of these with second sight wouldn't have guessed that Hearts would be playing for the championship.
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* RapeAsBackstory: A late flashback reveals that [[spoiler:Ray and his friend Les were raped by three men when they were children.]]
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Ray believes this about pedophilia, they're the only type of criminal he really wants to catch.
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* CallBack: When Ray confronts Hillman over sleeping with an underage sex worker, Hillman reminds Ray that he turned a blind eye to Bruce blackmailing an underage girl for sex back in ''Literature/{{Filth}}''.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: When Ray goes to a police station to report the man for trying to molest Tianna, [[spoiler:the first person he sees working there is the paedophile's friend who was there that night.]]
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* ContrivedCoincidence: When Ray goes to a police station to report the man Johnnie for trying to molest Tianna, [[spoiler:the first person he sees working there is the paedophile's Johnnie's friend Lance who was there that night.]]
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* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Ray has problems getting hard since investigating Britney's murder and his mother cheats on his father for the same reason.
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* PartingWordsRegret: The last time Ray sees his father alive, he blows him off because he's annoyed that he won't stand up for himself to his cheating wife.
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* ContrivedCoincedence: When Ray goes to a police station to report the man for trying to molest Tianna, [[spoiler:the first person he sees working there is the paedophile's friend who was there that night.]]
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* ContrivedCoincedence: ContrivedCoincidence: When Ray goes to a police station to report the man for trying to molest Tianna, [[spoiler:the first person he sees working there is the paedophile's friend who was there that night.]]
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* BringMyBrownPants: When Ray and Tianna swap motel rooms, he finds she's peed the bed.
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* ContrivedCoincedence: When Ray goes to a police station to report the man for trying to molest Tianna, [[spoiler:the first person he sees working there is the paedophile's friend who was there that night.]]
* CrapsackWorld: Every other man seems to be a paedophile.
* CrapsackWorld: Every other man seems to be a paedophile.
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* SequelGoesForeign: ''Literature/{{Filth}}'' was set in Scotland, now we're in Miami.
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* TragicKeepsake: Tianna's baseball card which are the only thing her father left her.
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* MemeticMolester: In-universe the police refer to the man who took Britney as "The Confectioner" after a character from [[ https://youtu.be/gxFiVgD2xNk this Toblerone ad]] because he looks like a stereotype sex beast and bribes children with sweets.
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* MemeticMolester: In-universe the police refer to the man who took Britney as "The "Mr Confectioner" after a character from [[ https://youtu.[[https://youtu.be/gxFiVgD2xNk this Toblerone ad]] because he looks like a stereotype sex beast and bribes children with sweets.
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* MemeticMolester: In-universe the police refer to the man who took Britney as "The Confectioner" after a character from [[ https://youtu.be/gxFiVgD2xNk this Toblerone ad]] because he looks like a stereotype sex beast and bribes children with sweets.
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* MoralityPet: Tianna serves as one for Ray, sparking his CharacterDevelopment and redemption quest.
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* SmugSnake: Mr. Confectioner, who prides himself in being a CompleteMonster criminal mastermind who can plan out flawless kidnapping, rape, and murder, while avoiding capture by the police. While Ray is taken in by the man's self-image, it's ultimately a result of his own issues with such people; the man is ultimately just a predator of weak, defenseless children, who, in final review, was captured using [[ReturningToTheScene a very simple and common tactic]].
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* SmugSnake: Mr. Confectioner, who prides himself in being a CompleteMonster criminal mastermind who can plan out flawless kidnapping, rape, and murder, while avoiding capture by the police. While Ray is taken in by the man's self-image, it's ultimately a result of his own issues with such people; the man is ultimately just a predator of weak, defenseless children, who, in final review, was captured using [[ReturningToTheScene a very simple and common tactic]].
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* CanNotSpitItOut: On multiple occasions Ray considers revealing to his exasperated fiancee just how depressed and broken he feels. He can never bring himself to do so, and the last time the urge hits him he responds by telling her to [[FromBadToWorse "fuck off"]].
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* ReturningToTheScene:ReturningToTheScene: The police often use this habit of murderers to catch their targets, sometimes setting up fake graves which are under constant surveillance. [[spoiler: It's how the egotistical Mr. Confectioner is caught.]]
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An Creator/IrvineWelsh novel published in 2008, following the misadventures of Ray Lennox, a character previously seen in ''Literature/{{Filth}}''.
Eight years after the death of his mentor Bruce Robertson and a promotion to Detective Inspector, Ray Lennox is on leave in Miami, Florida, following a harrowing case which he had become perhaps ''too'' invested in. Accompanied by his fiancee Trudi, the vacation intended for relaxation and wedding planning is anything but for the "polisman", whose anxiety and depression drive him toward excessive alcohol consumption and a relapse in his cocaine habit. Quickly growing estranged from his soon-to-be wife and throwing himself into the vices of the nightlife, he crosses paths with HardDrinkingPartyGirl Robyn and her 10-year old daughter, [[BrokenBird Tianna]]. The chance meeting reveals an insidious criminal plot, and catalyzes a quest of redemption for the traumatized policeman, as the details surrounding his most recent case, as well as the childhood events which led to his dedication to law enforcement, are slowly revealed.
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* AntiClimax: The hunt for "Mr. Confectioner" ends when [[spoiler: he falls for a very simple trick exploiting ReturningToTheScene. He's arrested without resistance or protest, smiling all the while.]]
* BerserkButton: Pedophilia and sexual crimes against children for Ray. [[spoiler: There's a reason for it.]]
* BreakTheHaughty: Though Ray is easy prey for Mr. Confectioner's [[BreakThemByTalking self-aggrandizing speeches]], Gillman quite casually dismisses it, mocks the idea of him being a "predator", and intimidates the man into fearful silence.
* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: Tianna says things no 10 year old should.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Robyn, whose indulgences in alcohol, drugs, and partying with "friends" spell out horrible consequences for her 10-year old daughter.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Robyn, after Ray reveals what exactly her carefree, irresponsible life has exposed her beloved daughter to.
* PaedoHunt: The focus of the story. Ray absolutely ''despises'' pedophiles and sexual predators [[spoiler: especially after an encounter with such during his younger years]]. He considers crimes against children one of the few he can pursue as a policeman with absolutely no moral qualms, and is in fact the sole reason he became one. [[spoiler: After witnessing an AttemptedRape against Tianna and subsequent revelations of past sexual abuse against her, he becomes adamantly dedicated to her safety.]]
* ReturningToTheScene:
* SexEqualsLove: How Tianna has been conditioned to think. [[{{Squick}} She's 10.]]
* SmugSnake: Mr. Confectioner, who prides himself in being a CompleteMonster criminal mastermind who can plan out flawless kidnapping, rape, and murder, while avoiding capture by the police. While Ray is taken in by the man's self-image, it's ultimately a result of his own issues with such people; the man is ultimately just a predator of weak, defenseless children, who, in final review, was captured using [[ReturningToTheScene a very simple and common tactic]].
-->'''Gillman''': All that stuff aboot being a hunter... made me laugh, that yin. Ye know, ah don’t see that. Ah see [[BasementDweller a middle-aged guy who lives at hame with ehs ma.]]
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Tianna, a result of being raised by [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Robyn]], surrounded by all manner of vices, as well as years of sexual abuse by her mother's boyfriends and associates. At one point, she decides that the best way to repay Ray's kindness [[spoiler: is to sleep with him.]] Ray's [[{{Squick}} reaction]] is understandable.
Eight years after the death of his mentor Bruce Robertson and a promotion to Detective Inspector, Ray Lennox is on leave in Miami, Florida, following a harrowing case which he had become perhaps ''too'' invested in. Accompanied by his fiancee Trudi, the vacation intended for relaxation and wedding planning is anything but for the "polisman", whose anxiety and depression drive him toward excessive alcohol consumption and a relapse in his cocaine habit. Quickly growing estranged from his soon-to-be wife and throwing himself into the vices of the nightlife, he crosses paths with HardDrinkingPartyGirl Robyn and her 10-year old daughter, [[BrokenBird Tianna]]. The chance meeting reveals an insidious criminal plot, and catalyzes a quest of redemption for the traumatized policeman, as the details surrounding his most recent case, as well as the childhood events which led to his dedication to law enforcement, are slowly revealed.
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!!Provides examples of the following tropes:
* AntiClimax: The hunt for "Mr. Confectioner" ends when [[spoiler: he falls for a very simple trick exploiting ReturningToTheScene. He's arrested without resistance or protest, smiling all the while.]]
* BerserkButton: Pedophilia and sexual crimes against children for Ray. [[spoiler: There's a reason for it.]]
* BreakTheHaughty: Though Ray is easy prey for Mr. Confectioner's [[BreakThemByTalking self-aggrandizing speeches]], Gillman quite casually dismisses it, mocks the idea of him being a "predator", and intimidates the man into fearful silence.
* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: Tianna says things no 10 year old should.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Robyn, whose indulgences in alcohol, drugs, and partying with "friends" spell out horrible consequences for her 10-year old daughter.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Robyn, after Ray reveals what exactly her carefree, irresponsible life has exposed her beloved daughter to.
* PaedoHunt: The focus of the story. Ray absolutely ''despises'' pedophiles and sexual predators [[spoiler: especially after an encounter with such during his younger years]]. He considers crimes against children one of the few he can pursue as a policeman with absolutely no moral qualms, and is in fact the sole reason he became one. [[spoiler: After witnessing an AttemptedRape against Tianna and subsequent revelations of past sexual abuse against her, he becomes adamantly dedicated to her safety.]]
* ReturningToTheScene:
* SexEqualsLove: How Tianna has been conditioned to think. [[{{Squick}} She's 10.]]
* SmugSnake: Mr. Confectioner, who prides himself in being a CompleteMonster criminal mastermind who can plan out flawless kidnapping, rape, and murder, while avoiding capture by the police. While Ray is taken in by the man's self-image, it's ultimately a result of his own issues with such people; the man is ultimately just a predator of weak, defenseless children, who, in final review, was captured using [[ReturningToTheScene a very simple and common tactic]].
-->'''Gillman''': All that stuff aboot being a hunter... made me laugh, that yin. Ye know, ah don’t see that. Ah see [[BasementDweller a middle-aged guy who lives at hame with ehs ma.]]
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Tianna, a result of being raised by [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Robyn]], surrounded by all manner of vices, as well as years of sexual abuse by her mother's boyfriends and associates. At one point, she decides that the best way to repay Ray's kindness [[spoiler: is to sleep with him.]] Ray's [[{{Squick}} reaction]] is understandable.
