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** Sandford has its own police force, like an American small town. In real life, it would be policed by Gloucestershire Constabulary. Because police forces have to have at least 1,000 employees, even large towns are too small to have a separate police force. (In reality, London is the only place with its own police force; the rest of England is divided up into police forces mostly based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counties_of_England 1974 counties]].)
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** Sandford has its own police force, like an American small town. In real life, it would be policed by Gloucestershire Constabulary. Because police forces have to have at least 1,000 employees, even large towns are too small to have a separate police force. (In In reality, London is and Manchester are the only place places with its their own police force; force (London actually has two); the rest of England is divided up into police forces mostly based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counties_of_England 1974 counties]].)
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* PicturePerfectPose: Simon Skinner makes his signature SlasherSmile right next to a framed Employee of the Month photo with him making the exact same face.
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* RuralGangsters: PlayedWith. The seemingly-idyllic village of Sandford is in fact plagued by the [[spoiler: deranged [[EvilOldFolks Neighborhood Watch Alliance]], who aren't a crime gang ''per se'', but are happy to murder anyone who ''possibly'' could interfere with [[EvilIsPetty Sandford's chances of winning Village of the Year]]]].
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* TheAce: Angel is the best cop in the Met, has an arrest rate five times higher than that of any other cop, is good with a lot of guns, and is a quick runner. Nicholas is also a {{deconstruction}} of this trope, being an insufferable workaholic who annoys everyone with InsistentTerminology and who makes the rest of the London [[InsistentTerminology Service]] look bad. It's reconstructed later on when he is the only man who can clean up the town he's reassigned to.
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* TheAce: Angel is the best cop in the Met, has an arrest rate five times higher than that of any other cop, is good with a lot of guns, and is a quick runner. Nicholas is also a {{deconstruction}} of this trope, being an insufferable workaholic who annoys everyone with InsistentTerminology and who makes the rest of the London [[InsistentTerminology Service]] look bad. It's reconstructed later on when he is the only man who can clean up the town he's reassigned to.to, and his (former) superiors in London beg for him to come back -- apparently, the city's gone to shit without him.
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* TyrannicalHomeownersAssociation: The Sanford Neighborhood Watch Alliance play a similar role to a homeowners' association, acting to protect the character of the village in hopes of winning a coveted "Village of the Year" award. They're ObsessivelyNormal with no tolerance for oddity, and [[spoiler:they're completely willing to murder anyone who deviates from that desired norm in any way, whether by living in a [=McMansion=], being a hammy actor in community theatre, or having an annoying laugh]].
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Nicholas operates as if he's in a standard, straightfoward crime drama. As such, he builds his case around understandable motivations like securing financial gain or political power. [[spoiler:He doesn't realize until much later that he's essentially up against people who wouldn't be out of place in a ''horror film,'' with their motivations for murder being far more petty and mundane. It completely breaks Nicholas worldview that the Neighborhood Watch Alliance would became a group of serial killers ''just to make the town a little bit nicer.'']]
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* BenevolentBoss: Butterman seems to honestly care about Nick. He repeatedly tries to convince him to stop the investigation rather than kill him right away.
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* BenevolentBoss: Butterman seems to honestly care about Nick. He repeatedly tries Nick, to the point of [[spoiler:repeatedly trying to convince him to stop the investigation rather than kill killing him right away.]]
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** [[spoiler: What a robed figure does to George Merchant before rigging his house to explode. Considering the blood coming from the wound and his lack of movement afterwards, this may have been his actual cause of death.]]
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The sword is not from a cane, it’s a display piece from the hotel.
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* SwordCane: [[spoiler:One of the NWA wields one instead of a gun]].
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** Nick is the LogicalLatecomer who notices a series of strange events in the town, which he considers possible murders, for this reason. He notes that people in a horrific car crash don't have only their bodies intact after losing their heads, and the car shows little damage. With the second "accident," Nick points out that the man in question was too drunk to start a fire, given he needed two people to help him home and was tucked into bed. And with Tim Messenger, statues don't just fall randomly from the sky as they're about to talk about an important story with a bobby. Conversely, the police officers dismiss him because they've seen such accidents all their lives and Nick is known for being extremely paranoid. [[spoiler:In fact, the Andys have a WaitWhat reaction when Nick points out in the climax that there's a large number of accidents in this town and not many homicides and note it ''is'' very strange]].
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** Nick is the LogicalLatecomer who notices a series of strange events in the town, which he considers possible murders, for this reason. He notes that people in a horrific car crash don't have only their bodies intact after losing their heads, and the car shows little damage. With the second "accident," Nick points out that the man in question was too drunk to start a fire, given he needed two people to help him home and was tucked into bed. And with Tim Messenger, statues don't just fall randomly from the sky as they're about to talk about an important story with a bobby. Conversely, However, the police officers dismiss him because they've seen such accidents all their lives and Nick is known for being extremely paranoid. [[spoiler:In fact, the Andys have a WaitWhat reaction when Nick points out in the climax that there's a large number of accidents in this town and not many homicides and note it ''is'' very strange]].
