Directed by Brian Cox
Written by Tom Fontana
Tropes for the episode:
- Ambition Is Evil: Glynn starts to compromise his principles as he exploits his daughter's rape in order to become lieutenant governor.
- Asshole Victim: Goergen wasn't a very sympathetic character so few people will feel sorry for his death.
- Blackmail : Goergen threatens to expose Basil a a cop if he doesn't watch his back.
- Dirty Cop: Goergen was one of these before he went to prison.
- Evil Feels Good: Rebadow admits to Sister Pete that killing Hernandez made him feel alive.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Keller tries to put an end to Beecher's nightmares by asking Mukada to get Sister Pete to talk to him.
- Even Evil Has Standards:
- Morales honors his promise to give Rebadow whatever he wants in exchange for killing Hernandez.
- Moses gets the hospital staff to look at Nat,not wanting him to suffer a slow death from aids.
- For the Evulz: Keenan tells Ryan he raped Gloria because he felt like it.
- He Knows Too Much: Basil kills Goergen to keep him from exposing him as a cop.
- Jerkass: Tidd and Brown antagonize Goergen for no reason.
- Lack of Empathy: When Nat's clearly sick Miles's only concern is how his coughing keeps him up at night.
- Manipulative Bastard: Ryan tricks Hoyt into trying to kill Stanislofsky, allowing him to take the cell phone in the confusion.
- Not Me This Time: Vern frames Keller for Gary's death.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: When Beecher thinks Keller had Gary killed he tries to kill him in revenge.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Hoyt again refused to kill Ryan for pragmatic reasons.
- Prison Rape: Brown make an attempt at this via oral sex on Cyril.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Goergen really doesn't like black people.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Murphy openly rebels against Querns.
- Talking the Monster to Death: Mukada gets through to the small bit of compassion left in Vern and convinces him to let Beecher's daughter go unharmed.
