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* ShoutOut: The episode title to the British gangster movie ''Film/GetCarter''. Also Reese's "[[ThereWasADoor knock knock]]" quip may be from the Creator/JohnWayne movie ''Film/{{Brannigan}}''.

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The episode episode's title to the British gangster movie ''Film/GetCarter''. ''Film/{{Get Carter|1971}}''.
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Also Reese's "[[ThereWasADoor knock knock]]" quip may be from the Creator/JohnWayne movie ''Film/{{Brannigan}}''.
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* FaceHeelTurn: Carter's informant Bottle Cap. He found Elias like Carter wanted...and [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse Elias made it clear he had a choice of either Bottle Cap or Carter dying.]]

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* FaceHeelTurn: Carter's informant Bottle Cap. He found Elias like Carter wanted...and [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse Elias made it clear he had a choice of either Bottle Cap dying or Carter dying.killing Carter.]]
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* FaceHeelTurn: Carter's informant Bottle Cap. He likes Carter, but has been coerced into killing her.

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* FaceHeelTurn: Carter's informant Bottle Cap. He likes Carter, but has been coerced into killing her.found Elias like Carter wanted...and [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse Elias made it clear he had a choice of either Bottle Cap or Carter dying.]]
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* WhoAreYou: One of Hector's kneecapped thugs groans, "Who are you, man?"
-->'''Reese:''' Tell Hector I'm the guy that just put him out of business. I see him again I'll close down more than this shop.
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* FaceHeelTurn: Carter's informant Bottle Cap.

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* FaceHeelTurn: Carter's informant Bottle Cap. He likes Carter, but has been coerced into killing her.

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* ShoutOut: ''Film/GetCarter''. Reese's "[[ThereWasADoor knock knock]]" quip may be from the Creator/JohnWayne movie ''Brannigan''.
* ShownTheirWork: The interrogation scenes are extremely realistic. %% That may be true, but I'm not sure that's what the trope is...

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* ShoutOut: The episode title to the British gangster movie ''Film/GetCarter''. Also Reese's "[[ThereWasADoor knock knock]]" quip may be from the Creator/JohnWayne movie ''Brannigan''.
* ShownTheirWork: The interrogation scenes are extremely realistic. %% That may be true, but I'm not sure that's what the trope is...
''Film/{{Brannigan}}''.
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* LotsaPeopleTryToDunIt: The problem with a cop whose number comes up is that there are lots of people who have her in her sights.

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* LotsaPeopleTryToDunIt: The problem with a cop whose number comes up is that there are lots of people who have her in her their sights.
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* DomesticAbuse: One of Carter's open cases is a Mr. Kovach who beats his wife, who frequently makes excuses for him hitting her.


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* LotsaPeopleTryToDunIt: The problem with a cop whose number comes up is that there are lots of people who have her in her sights.
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* YouAreTooLate: A teenager who was going to rat out Hector is gunned down. Carter is first on the scene... as is Reese, having been given the boy's number.
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recaps are supposed to be spoilers off, even when referencing later episodes, right?


* ADayInTheLimelight: For Detective Carter, this week's POI. We learn she served in Iraq and is the single mother of a teenage son. [[spoiler: Though it's implied that her husband is deceased, "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS03E08 Endgame]]" reveals that he is alive, but the relationship broke up when he refused to get treatment for his [=PTSD=].]]

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* ADayInTheLimelight: For Detective Carter, this week's POI. We learn she served in Iraq and is the single mother of a teenage son. [[spoiler: Though it's implied that her husband is deceased, "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS03E08 Endgame]]" reveals that he is alive, but the relationship broke up when he refused to get treatment for his [=PTSD=].]]

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* ShownTheirWork: The interrogation scenes are extremely realistic.
** WriteWhatYouKnow: [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4806809/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr195 Tony Camerino]], one of the show's technical consultants (and writers), is an Army veteran who worked as an interrogator in Iraq.

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* ShownTheirWork: The interrogation scenes are extremely realistic.
** WriteWhatYouKnow: [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4806809/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr195 Tony Camerino]], one of
realistic. %% That may be true, but I'm not sure that's what the show's technical consultants (and writers), is an Army veteran who worked as an interrogator in Iraq.trope is...

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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/detective_carters_numbers_come_up.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Carter's number's come up...]]
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* BeneathSuspicion: Carter's confidential informant turns out to be the assassin.

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* BeneathSuspicion: Carter's confidential informant turns out to be the assassin.assassin, coerced into doing the deed.
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Not So Different has been renamed, and it needs to be dewicked/moved


* NotSoDifferent: Carter invokes this with the man she's interrogating in the flashbacks. Reese points it out in the present, saying that the "stopping bad things from happening to good people" job that he and Finch do is something that Carter's been doing her whole life.

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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: Carter invokes this with the man she's interrogating in the flashbacks. Reese points it out in the present, saying that the "stopping bad things from happening to good people" job that he and Finch do is something that Carter's been doing her whole life.

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* BreakInThreat: Elias himself walks into the police station to put 'condolence' flowers on Carter's desk (as well as getting a peek at his own file).
* BeneathSuspicion: Carter's confidential informant turns out to be the assassin.
* CameraSniper: Reese surveilling Carter.
* CompensatingForSomething:
-->'''Kovacks:''' You come after me, and I will exercise my Second Amendment rights. [[DoubleEntendre I promise you, I've got a pretty big gun.]]\\
'''Carter:''' Man as angry and bitter as you are, [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre I got a feeling it isn't that big]].



** {{Flashback}}: To Carter's time as an army interrogator in Iraq.



* BeneathSuspicion: Carter's confidential informant turns out to be the assassin.
* BreakInThreat: Elias himself walks into the police station to put 'condolence' flowers on Carter's desk (as well as getting a peek at his own file).



* CatFight: Instigated by Carter between Hector's two girlfriends. She locks Fusco in the room with them and then giggles behind the closed door. The sounds of them fighting can be heard throughout the rest of the scene.

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* CameraSniper: Reese surveilling Carter.
* CatFight: Instigated by Carter between Hector's two girlfriends. She locks Fusco in the room with them and then giggles behind the closed door. The sounds of them fighting can be heard throughout the rest of the scene. The two girlfriends eventually decide to team up and sell Hector out as revenge.
* CompensatingForSomething:
-->'''Kovacks:''' You come after me, and I will exercise my Second Amendment rights. [[DoubleEntendre I promise you, I've got a pretty big gun.]]\\
'''Carter:''' Man as angry and bitter as you are, [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre I got a feeling it isn't that big]].


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* {{Flashback}}: To Carter's time as an army interrogator in Iraq.

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* CatFight: Instigated by Carter between Hector's two girlfriends. She locks Fusco in the room with them and then giggles behind the closed door.

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* CatFight: Instigated by Carter between Hector's two girlfriends. She locks Fusco in the room with them and then giggles behind the closed door. The sounds of them fighting can be heard throughout the rest of the scene.



* YouAreNotAlone

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* YouAreNotAloneYouAreNotAlone
* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith: Subverted. The DirtyCop Reese is dangling off the edge of the building protests that Reese is threatening a police captain. Reese's response is to threaten to shoot the man with his own gun.

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* QuipToBlack - Reese: "Oh I'm... pretty close."

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* QuipToBlack - Reese: "Oh I'm... pretty close."NotSoDifferent: Carter invokes this with the man she's interrogating in the flashbacks. Reese points it out in the present, saying that the "stopping bad things from happening to good people" job that he and Finch do is something that Carter's been doing her whole life.


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* QuipToBlack - Reese: "Oh I'm... pretty close."

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->'''Reese''': Your life's in danger.\\
'''Carter''': I'm a cop. My life's ''always'' in danger.

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->'''Reese''': ->'''Reese:''' Your life's in danger.\\
'''Carter''': '''Carter:''' I'm a cop. My life's ''always'' in danger.



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* CompensatingForSomething

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** Then he does a FingerGun to the potential witness she'd just been talking to.

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** Then :: :Then he does a FingerGun to the potential witness she'd just been talking to.



* NoKillLikeOverKill: Reese uses a GrenadeLauncher to [[ThereWasADoor blast his way into Hector's garage]]. No one ever accused him of being subtle.


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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverKill: Reese uses a GrenadeLauncher to [[ThereWasADoor blast his way into Hector's garage]]. No one ever accused him of being subtle.
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* ShoutOut: ''Film/GetCarter''. Reese's "[[ThereWasADoor knock knock]]" quip may be from the JohnWayne movie ''Brannigan''.

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* ShoutOut: ''Film/GetCarter''. Reese's "[[ThereWasADoor knock knock]]" quip may be from the JohnWayne Creator/JohnWayne movie ''Brannigan''.

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-->'''Kovacks:''' You come after me, and I will exercise my Second Amendment rights. [[DoubleEntendre I promise you, I've got a pretty big gun.]]
-->'''Carter:''' Man as angry and bitter as you are, [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre I got a feeling it isn't that big]].

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-->'''Kovacks:''' You come after me, and I will exercise my Second Amendment rights. [[DoubleEntendre I promise you, I've got a pretty big gun.]]
-->'''Carter:'''
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'''Carter:'''
Man as angry and bitter as you are, [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre I got a feeling it isn't that big]].



* ImpliedDeathThreat
-->'''Hector:''' You need to be careful, I heard some kid got popped on this block last night. You got any kids, detective?

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* ImpliedDeathThreat
-->'''Hector:'''
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** The gangbanger Carter is chasing.
--->'''Hector:'''
You need to be careful, I heard some kid got popped on this block last night. You got any kids, detective?

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<<|Recap/PersonOfInterest|>>

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-->'''Carter:''' Man as angry and bitter as you are, [[LampshadingTheDoubleEntendre I got a feeling it isn't that big]].

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-->'''Carter:''' Man as angry and bitter as you are, [[LampshadingTheDoubleEntendre [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre I got a feeling it isn't that big]].

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