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** Double subverted in "The Lost Child." The case turns out to be a kidnapping, not a murder, and the baby is eventually returned to her family [[spoiler:albeit the birth mother who was tricked into giving her up, not the adoptive parents she was kidnapped from.]] However there is an AccidentalMurder midway through the episode - [[spoiler:committed by Sargeant Bacchus, no less.]]
* [[spoiler:BackForTheDead]]: China, Gently's informant who disappeared after the first season, in "Goodbye China."

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** Double subverted in "The Lost Child." Child". The case turns out to be a kidnapping, not a murder, and the baby is eventually returned to her family [[spoiler:albeit the birth mother who was tricked into giving her up, not the adoptive parents she was kidnapped from.]] However there is an AccidentalMurder midway through the episode - [[spoiler:committed by Sargeant Sergeant Bacchus, no less.]]
* [[spoiler:BackForTheDead]]: China, Gently's informant who disappeared after the first season, in "Goodbye China."China".



* BlackGalOnWhiteGuyDrama: In "Gently Northern Soul."

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* BlackGalOnWhiteGuyDrama: In "Gently Northern Soul."Soul".

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* ManOnFire: How the VictimOfTheWeek is killed in "The Burning Man".
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* BritishBrevity: 15 episodes so far

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* BritishBrevity: 15 25 episodes so farmade throughout 8 series were made.
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* HowWeGotHere: "Gently and the New Age" begins with a scene of Gently on a beach looking out onto the ocean [[spoiler:while uttering Isabella's name]]. The episode then backtracks five days to the start of the case and plays out chronologically, eventually revealling that the beach scene was actually [[spoiler:Gently's dying moments.]]

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* HowWeGotHere: "Gently and the New Age" begins with a scene of Gently on a beach uttering his wife's name while looking out onto the ocean [[spoiler:while uttering Isabella's name]].ocean. The episode then backtracks five days to the start of the case and plays out chronologically, eventually revealling that the beach scene was actually [[spoiler:Gently's dying moments.]]
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* HowWeGotHere: "Gently and the New Age" begins with a scene of Gently on a beach looking out onto the ocean [[spoiler:while uttering Isabella's name]]. The episode then backtracks five days to the start of the case and plays out chronologically, eventually revealling that the beach scene was actually [[spoiler:Gently's dying moments.]]
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* WhatWouldXDo: Bacchus and Rachel ask themselves what Gently would in the closing minutes of the series finale [[spoiler:as they start their investigation into the deaths of Gently, his wife, and the episode's initial VictimOfTheWeek.]]
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* EvilStatesOfAmerica: [[spoiler: The ManBehindTheMan in "Gently and the New Age". The American's want to build a new airbase on British soil, and their British contacts try to get George to convict a politican who's standing in their way of murder. George refuses to go along with their scheme and is killed for his troubles.]]
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* ArcWords: "Walk away", which are mentioned to a near-retirement George multiple times over the course of "Gently and the New Age". [[spoiler: George Gently ultimately refuses to walk away from investigating a high profile corruption case, a decision which gets him assassinated by agents of his own government.]]

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