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* QuestioningTitle: Who shot the Sheriff?
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* CaptainObvious: Will warns the other outlaws that dogs are hunting them... over the sound of barking dogs, which the others have already commented on.
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* HeldGaze: The episode ends with one of these taking place between Robin and Marian.
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* HeldGaze: The episode ends with one of these taking place between Robin and Marian.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: In a conversation with Gisborne, Marian says that even when her father was Sheriff, politics were "beyond me." This is clearly untrue, as it's already been established she's a keen political observer.
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* SympatheticMurderer: Lacey's motivation for trying to kill the Sheriff is to avenge his wife, who died after the two of them were evicted from their home. He's clearly still mourning her, and to make matters worse he's been roped back into active service to ''protect'' the Sheriff despite his grief and advanced age.
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* EnemyMine: Robin realizes that in order to catch the assassin he needs to team up with the Sheriff.
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* AccidentalMurder: Lacey was aiming for the Sheriff when he ends up shooting and killing Matthew.
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* FrameUp: The Sheriff seizes the opportunity to not only blame Robin for the deaths of the tax collectors and his page boy, but orders de Fourtney to commit several more that can ''also'' be pinned on Robin.
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* DeathOfAChild: Matthew, the Sheriff's young page boy, leading to a huge outpouring of grief and rage by the people of Nettlestone when they hold Robin responsible.
* FrameUp: The Sheriff seizes the opportunity to not only blame Robin for the deaths of the taxcollectors collector and his page boy, but orders de Fourtney to commit several more that can ''also'' be pinned on Robin.
* FrameUp: The Sheriff seizes the opportunity to not only blame Robin for the deaths of the tax
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* ShootTheShaggyDog: Lacey has the relatively noble goal of shooting the tyrannical Sheriff to avenge his wife's death, only to end up an innocent young boy who gets in the way. Then, when he finally finds himself in a good position, Robin and Marian shoot him, he realizes the man he killed wasn't the Sheriff at all, and he's duly ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by Gisborne. He dies knowing that he failed utterly.
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* ShootTheShaggyDog: Lacey has the relatively noble goal of shooting the tyrannical Sheriff to avenge his wife's death, only to end up killing an innocent young boy who gets in the way. Then, when he finally finds himself in a good position, Robin and Marian shoot him, he realizes the man he killed wasn't the Sheriff at all, and he's duly ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by Gisborne. He dies knowing that he failed utterly.
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* AnachronismStew: De Fourtney wears a beret, a type of hat that wouldn't be invented until the 17th century, in France.
* HeldGaze: The episode ends with one of these taking place between Robin and Marian.
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* VoodooShark: To complain why Marian has combat training, she reveals to Robin that her father had her taught to use a sword so that she "would have choices." This does not jive ''at all'' with Edward's characterization, who is an anxious conformist who advises his daughter to keep her head down and not create any sort of public stir.
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* SamusIsAGirl: Everyone assumes that the Nightwatchman is a man, including Robin until the moment he pulls off his hood and mask to reveal it's Marian.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: Lacey has the relatively noble goal of shooting the tyrannical Sheriff to avenge his wife's death, only to end up an innocent young boy who gets in the way. Then, when he finally finds himself in a good position, Robin and Marian shoot him, he realizes the man he killed wasn't the Sheriff at all, and he's duly ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by Gisborne. He dies knowing that he failed utterly.
* VoodooShark: Tocomplain explain why Marian has combat training, she reveals to Robin that her father had her taught to use a sword so that she "would have choices." This does not jive ''at all'' with Edward's characterization, who is an anxious conformist who advises his daughter to keep her head down and not create any sort of public stir.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: Lacey has the relatively noble goal of shooting the tyrannical Sheriff to avenge his wife's death, only to end up an innocent young boy who gets in the way. Then, when he finally finds himself in a good position, Robin and Marian shoot him, he realizes the man he killed wasn't the Sheriff at all, and he's duly ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by Gisborne. He dies knowing that he failed utterly.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Robin doesn't even know Marian is staying in the castle at the time, but somehow manages to find himself in her room to hide from the guards.
* CrusadingWidower: Lacey is motivated by the death of his wife Ruth. The two of them were evicted by the Sheriff's orders, and it's suggested she died of illness not long afterwards.
* FrameUp: The Sheriff seizes the opportunity to not only blame Robin for the deaths of the tax collectors and his page boy, but orders de Fourtney to commit several more that can ''also'' be pinned on Robin.
* CrusadingWidower: Lacey is motivated by the death of his wife Ruth. The two of them were evicted by the Sheriff's orders, and it's suggested she died of illness not long afterwards.
* FrameUp: The Sheriff seizes the opportunity to not only blame Robin for the deaths of the tax collectors and his page boy, but orders de Fourtney to commit several more that can ''also'' be pinned on Robin.
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* MysteryEpisode: This episode is essentially a murder mystery, involving several suspects who each have differing motives as to why they might be trying to kill the Sheriff.
* VoodooShark: To complain why Marian has combat training, she reveals to Robin that her father had her taught to use a sword so that she "would have choices." This does not jive ''at all'' with Edward's characterization, who is an anxious conformist who advises his daughter to keep her head down and not create any sort of public stir.
* VoodooShark: To complain why Marian has combat training, she reveals to Robin that her father had her taught to use a sword so that she "would have choices." This does not jive ''at all'' with Edward's characterization, who is an anxious conformist who advises his daughter to keep her head down and not create any sort of public stir.
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* CompleteTheQuoteTitle: Or "Complete the Song Lyric Title", in which a character cries: "I shot the Sheriff!" only for said Sheriff to respond with a paraphrase of Eric Clapton's lyrics: "No, you shot the deputy!"
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