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* {{Jerkass}}: Lange is unpleasant and short-tempered, and frequently curses out people who are only trying to help him.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Lange is unpleasant and short-tempered, and frequently curses out people who are only trying to help him.him though it's hard to fault him given the utterly hellish situation he finds himself in.
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** Lange's killer isn't a sociopath or someone with a grudge against him but a normal man who shoved Lange for no reason. Many killers in real life aren't motivated by passion or greed but flimsy reasons even they don't fully understand and many victims die for no other reason than they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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** Lange's killer isn't a sociopath or someone with a grudge against him but a normal man who shoved Lange for no reason.reason and barely seems to understand the gravity of doing so or why he's been arrested. Many killers in real life aren't motivated by passion or greed but flimsy reasons even they don't fully understand and many victims die for no other reason than they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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* DownerEnding: Lange dies instantly when the [=EMTs=] push the train with the airbags before Falsone and Lewis can find his girlfriend, and Pembleton is left emotionally drained from the experience.
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* DownerEnding: Lange dies instantly when the [=EMTs=] push the train with the airbags before Falsone and Lewis can find his girlfriend, and Pembleton is left emotionally drained from the experience. Even catching the killer is of little satisfaction since he's a mentally ill man who barely seems aware of what he's done.
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** It's made abundantly clear from the start that Lange is going to die and there is nothing that can be done to save him, only to find out who did it. There are no last-minute rescues or miracles. As soon as he's released, he dies almost instantly.
** Lange's killer isn't a sociopath or someone with a grudge against him but a normal man who shoved Lange for no reason. Many killers in real life aren't motivated by passion or greed but flimsy reasons even they don't fully understand and many victims die for no other reason than they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
** Lange's killer isn't a sociopath or someone with a grudge against him but a normal man who shoved Lange for no reason. Many killers in real life aren't motivated by passion or greed but flimsy reasons even they don't fully understand and many victims die for no other reason than they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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* SuitWithVestedInterests: A transit official repeatedly tries to get Pembleton and Bayliss to let Lange die so the trains can get moving again.
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* SuitWithVestedInterests: A transit official repeatedly tries to get Pembleton and Bayliss to let Lange die so the trains can get moving again.again.
* WhoDunnitToMe: Lange is already dead until they lift the train off him, and helps Pembleton and Bayliss to find out who killed him.
* WhoDunnitToMe: Lange is already dead until they lift the train off him, and helps Pembleton and Bayliss to find out who killed him.
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!!Subway
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-> Written By: James Yoshimura\\
Directed By: Sean Fleder
Commuter John Lange (Creator/VincentDOnofrio) is pinned between a train and a subway platform, and Bayliss and Pembleton are called in to investigate.
!!List of tropes applying to this episode:
* AssholeVictim: Deliberately invoked and deconstructed by Lange. He's a total dick, but it's made abundantly clear that what's happened to him is tragic and unfair regardless.
--> '''James Yoshimura:''' Tragedy can happen to jerky people too and I think it'd be much more interesting to see how that kind of character's circumstances transcends the typical clichéd TV kind of victim.
* ButtMonkey: The EMT attending to Lange, who gets repeatedly insulted for her constant empty platitudes and refusal to give him drugs.
* CallBack: Pembleton discusses his stroke with Lange.
* DownerEnding: Lange dies instantly when the [=EMTs=] push the train with the airbags before Falsone and Lewis can find his girlfriend, and Pembleton is left emotionally drained from the experience.
* DramaticIrony: Though it's never outright stated, it's implied Sara, Lange's girlfriend, is the one seen jogging near the station at the beginning and end of the episode, and Falsone and Lewis are unable to find her before Lange dies.
* ForTheEvulz: Biedron had no reason to kill Lange. It's justified, since he has some sort of mental illness that gives him a compulsion to push people into subway trains.
* InsaneEqualsViolent: Biedron, who compulsively pushes people in front of subway trains and seems barely aware that he's even done it.
* {{Jerkass}}: Lange is unpleasant and short-tempered, and frequently curses out people who are only trying to help him.
* MaskOfSanity: Biedron is good at looking sane at first, but after Bayliss presses him hard enough he reveals himself to be a barely lucid PsychopathicManchild.
* PsychopathicManchild: After he drops his MaskOfSanity, Biedron acts like a confused child and complains about being hot, even when Lange is dying horrifically right in front of him as a direct result of his actions.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Lewis and Falsone are unable to find Lange's girlfriend in the park because it's simply too much ground for them to successfully cover.
** Biedron's efforts to hide his past fall apart the second Bayliss starts investigating his background.
* SkewedPriorities: The [=EMT=] refuses to give Lange painkillers because it could endanger his life, even though she acknowledges it would take a million-in-one-chance for him to survive anyway.
* SuitWithVestedInterests: A transit official repeatedly tries to get Pembleton and Bayliss to let Lange die so the trains can get moving again.
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/e7822908_8c49_4dad_b977_3aeff04b01ac.jpeg]]
-> Written By: James Yoshimura\\
Directed By: Sean Fleder
Commuter John Lange (Creator/VincentDOnofrio) is pinned between a train and a subway platform, and Bayliss and Pembleton are called in to investigate.
!!List of tropes applying to this episode:
* AssholeVictim: Deliberately invoked and deconstructed by Lange. He's a total dick, but it's made abundantly clear that what's happened to him is tragic and unfair regardless.
--> '''James Yoshimura:''' Tragedy can happen to jerky people too and I think it'd be much more interesting to see how that kind of character's circumstances transcends the typical clichéd TV kind of victim.
* ButtMonkey: The EMT attending to Lange, who gets repeatedly insulted for her constant empty platitudes and refusal to give him drugs.
* CallBack: Pembleton discusses his stroke with Lange.
* DownerEnding: Lange dies instantly when the [=EMTs=] push the train with the airbags before Falsone and Lewis can find his girlfriend, and Pembleton is left emotionally drained from the experience.
* DramaticIrony: Though it's never outright stated, it's implied Sara, Lange's girlfriend, is the one seen jogging near the station at the beginning and end of the episode, and Falsone and Lewis are unable to find her before Lange dies.
* ForTheEvulz: Biedron had no reason to kill Lange. It's justified, since he has some sort of mental illness that gives him a compulsion to push people into subway trains.
* InsaneEqualsViolent: Biedron, who compulsively pushes people in front of subway trains and seems barely aware that he's even done it.
* {{Jerkass}}: Lange is unpleasant and short-tempered, and frequently curses out people who are only trying to help him.
* MaskOfSanity: Biedron is good at looking sane at first, but after Bayliss presses him hard enough he reveals himself to be a barely lucid PsychopathicManchild.
* PsychopathicManchild: After he drops his MaskOfSanity, Biedron acts like a confused child and complains about being hot, even when Lange is dying horrifically right in front of him as a direct result of his actions.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Lewis and Falsone are unable to find Lange's girlfriend in the park because it's simply too much ground for them to successfully cover.
** Biedron's efforts to hide his past fall apart the second Bayliss starts investigating his background.
* SkewedPriorities: The [=EMT=] refuses to give Lange painkillers because it could endanger his life, even though she acknowledges it would take a million-in-one-chance for him to survive anyway.
* SuitWithVestedInterests: A transit official repeatedly tries to get Pembleton and Bayliss to let Lange die so the trains can get moving again.
