History Literature / LastManStanding

Web is the SoleSurvivor of a textbook HRT raid, which turned into a massacre. Wracked with PTSD and SurvivorGuilt, Web tries to piece his life back together, investigate the massacre and protect Billy and Gwen Caulfield, two horse ranchers who are the target of a right wing militia. While seeing a shrink named Claire for his PTSD, Web explores events from his childhood that he’d long thought suppressed, while Claire herself uncovers a sinister conspiracy involving a drug kingpin and a fellow psychologist. As they uncover the details of the massacre, it’s originator could be one of the Caulfields themselves.

!Tropes encountered here are

* AbusiveParents: Web’s stepfather was a failed artist who drank away some of his frustrations and took the rest of them out on a young Web and his mother. [[spoiler: When he got old, big and strong enough to do so, Web finally defended his mom and killed his stepfather]].
* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: [[spoiler: Gwen is sleeping around with one of her ranch hands because Billy has been emotionally cold to her ever since their son died. We later find out he has a very good reason to outright blame her for their son’s death]].
* [[SentryGun Auto Turret]]: A jury rigged one took out Web’s team.
* AppealToWorseProblems: Francis Westbrook has this kind of attitude towards right wing militias. He thinks their “problems” are nothing compared to what poor black folk like him went through in the ghetto.

* DidNotGetTheGuy: Claire clearly wants to get with Web. She dresses up for him, has a romantic dinner, but then reveals that she [[spoiler: gave Web a post hypnotic suggestion to suppress the memory of him killing his drunk abusive stepfather as a child]]. He is understandably pissed off and walks out on her.

* EqualOpportunityEvil: Francis Westbrook’s chiefly African American drug gang has a white security chief, Clyde Macy.
* ForWantOfANail: The attempt by HRT to rescue all the kids taken hostage by the right wing militia ended up with some kids dead because one kid’s cellphone chirped, compromising the assault team that was inserting stealthily.
* FriendlySniper: Web is an an affable guy who is deadly accurate with a rifle.
* HypnoFool: [[spoiler: Web is revealed to be a somnambulant (sleepwalker) and therefore extremely succeptible to hypnotic suggestion. This was used to make him freeze up during the ambush of his team.]]

* [[spoiler: MisplacedRetribution: Gwen blames HRT for causing her son’s death. In actuality they weren’t at fault at all. Their otherwise textbook assault on the school got compromised because Gwen called her son’s cellphone right when HRT was inserting. The sound of the cellphone ringing alerted the hostage takers, who found the HRT assaulters and fired at them and the children. So, Gwen actually is solely responsible for her son’s death.]]
* BigBrotherInstinct / [[spoiler: PapaWolf]]: Francis towards Kevin.

* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler: Gwen had Web’s team massacred and Web deliberately left alive, because she blames them and particularly him for a botched hostage rescue that left her son dead]].
* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: The Free Society, who first targeted a school where the Caulfields had sent their son. These guys want to finish the job and kill the Caulfields too. These guys even officially change their last names to “Free”.

* ShellShockedVeteran / SurvivorGuilt : Web, very much so. He seeks therapy thinking he’d frozen in the alley due to PTS, the sight of Claire’s feet causes him to flash back to the sight of blood and viscera of his former team’s corpses and there is his [[spoiler: somnambulant tendencies caused by childhood trauma]].

* TurnInYourBadge: Web is forced to do this after he participates in a HRT raid on the Free Society militia even though he hasn’t been cleared to return to active duty as an assaulter yet. A director gives Percy Bates a choice - either Web has to go, or the ASAC of the entire HRT has to go. Web volunteers to be the one dismissed. That said, Web gets reinstated in the end when the psychologist bugging scandal is revealed.

* WellDoneSonGuy: Romano’s father very much wanted to be a cop with NYPD, but a weak heart prevented him from being accepted. He therefore wanted very much for Paul to become a cop instead. When Paul got accepted into Columbia, graduated and was then accepted into the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and even started thinking about a career as an academic, Romano Sr had a heart attack and his last words were that Paul had shamed him. This led to Paul joining the Army, Delta, then the FBI and HRT. He ended up becoming one of the most elite of all lawmen in America.

* FriendlySniper: Web.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Gwen.

* ShellShockedVeteran / SurvivorGuilt : Web, very much so.

* WellDoneSonGuy: Romano’s father very much wanted to be a cop with NYPD, but a weak heart prevented him from being accepted. He therefore wanted very much for Paul to become a cop instead. When Paul got accepted into Columbia, graduated and was then accepted into the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and even started thinking about a career as an academic, Romano Sr had a heart attack and his last words were that Paul had shamed him. This led to Paul joining the Army, Delta, then the FBI and HRT. He ended up becoming one of the most elite of all lawmen in America.
* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: Gwen]]

* OverprotectiveBigBrother / [[spoiler: PapaWolf]]: Francis towards Kevin.

* [[spoiler: MisplacedRetribution: Gwen blames HRT for causing her son’s death. In actuality they weren’t at fault at all. Their otherwise textbook assault on the school got compromised because Gwen called her son’s cellphone right when HRT was inserting. The sound of the cellphone ringing alerted the hostage takers, who found the HRT assaulters and fired at them and the children. So, Gwen actually is solely responsible for her son’s death]].

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Gwen.

* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: A lot of HRT members are ex-Special Forces, ex-[[UsefulNotes/NavySEALs SEALs]], with Teddie Riner and PaulRomano even being ex-Delta. But that said, HRT itself is considered an elite SWAT team.

Tropes encountered here are

* AutoTurrett: A jury rigged one took out Web’s team.

* AutoTurret: A jury rigged one took out Web’s team.

* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: The Freedom Brethren, who first targeted a school where the Caulfields had sent their son. These guys want to finiSh the job and kill the Caulfields too. These guys even officially change their last names to “Free”.

Web is the SoleSurvivor of a textbook HRT raid, which turned into a massacre. Wracked with PTSD and SurvivorGuilt, Web tries to piece his life back together, investigate the massacre and protect Billy and Gwen Caulfield, two horse ranchers who are the target of a right wing militia. While seeing a shrink named Claire for his PTSD, Web explores events from his childhood that he’d long thought suppressed, while Claire herself uncovers a sinister conspiracy involving a drug kingpin and a fellow psychologist. As they uncover the details of the massacre, it’s originator could be one of the Caulfields themselves.