Tropes seen in this episode:
- Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: The one that busts Baker and Poncherello for speeding and letting the car thieves get away by it.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: How Ponch takes down Macedon.
- Oh, Crap!: When Baricza pulled out his gun, it was obvious on Billy's face, as in "bringing-a-knife-to-a-gunfight".
- Suicide by Cop: Averted. Billy, who is armed with nunchucks, and nearly given the cop a Curb-Stomp Battle, and when Baricza draws and points his service revolver at Billy, it was natural that the punk went from Big Bad to Dirty Coward, realizing he was one more strike away from getting a .357 Magnum round through a vital organ that would have been fatal and decided Screw This, I'm Outta Here.
- The Fagin: Crime boss Andy Macedon.
