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* KinkyCuffs: DCI Wise walks in on Friz feeling up DS Jane Penhaligon's legs while she's wearing her own handcuffs. When they realise the boss is watching, they jump up and Jane makes a clumsy attempt to slip them off her wrists unobtrusively.
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* KinkyCuffs: DCI Wise walks in on Friz Fitz feeling up DS Jane Penhaligon's legs while she's wearing her own handcuffs. When they realise the boss is watching, they jump up and Jane makes a clumsy attempt to slip them off her wrists unobtrusively.
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* BangFlagGun: In an amusing insert to an episode, Fitz is "being fired" in a test to see how a real manager would fire an employee. Fitz gets so distraught, in character, that he pretends to commit suicide with one of these guns.
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* AnonymousPublicPhoneCall: In "The Mad Woman In The Attic" part 2: a man, claiming to be a priest, calls the police from a railway station payphone claiming to be able to confirm a man suffering from amnesia after seemingly jumping off a train is the SerialKiller "Sweeny", as he told him he murdered a woman and dumped her body in a river in confession. The police are able to track the phone call to the platform but by then the caller has departed on the train. Searching the river the do find another body. [[spoiler: As Fitz quickly figures the caller is in fact Sweeny, who is trying to remove the one witness to his crime]].
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** In "The Mad Woman In The Attic" part 2: a man, claiming to be a priest, calls the police from a railway station payphone claiming to be able to confirm a man suffering from amnesia after seemingly jumping off a train is the SerialKiller "Sweeny", as he told him he murdered a woman and dumped her body in a river in confession. The police are able to track the phone call to the platform but by then the caller has departed on the train. Searching the river the do find another body. [[spoiler: As Fitz quickly figures the caller is in fact Sweeny, who is trying to remove the one witness to hiscrime]].crime]].
** Subverted in "To Say I Love You". Whilst on the run from the police Sean attempts to do this by using a payphone to contact the police about arresting his [[OutlawCouple girlfriend and partner]], however, his speech impediment means he's unable to even start the sentence, and failing to do so makes him so angry he just storms off.
** Floyd Malcolm the SerialRapist of "Men Should Weep" uses this to contact Fitz. First calling him on his radio show to try to get him to confirm his decision that he should just kill his next victim to avoid the police identifying him (and so he can pass the blame onto him), and then later at his home to confirm he took "his advice."
** [[{{Yandere}} Janice]], Fitz’s StalkerWithACrush from "True Romance", uses one of the university’s phone boxes to contact his radio show after it’s announced he's been taken off the investigation into the men she's been murdering to get his attention. The police manage to track the call, but despite Fitz's efforts to keep her on the line, they just miss her. Later, after Janice kidnaps [[spoiler: Fitz's son Mark]], they pre-emptively try to avert this by having officers watching all the public phones in the area, only for her to instead use her landline, knowing they would track it, so she can meet Fitz face to face.
** In "The Mad Woman In The Attic" part 2: a man, claiming to be a priest, calls the police from a railway station payphone claiming to be able to confirm a man suffering from amnesia after seemingly jumping off a train is the SerialKiller "Sweeny", as he told him he murdered a woman and dumped her body in a river in confession. The police are able to track the phone call to the platform but by then the caller has departed on the train. Searching the river the do find another body. [[spoiler: As Fitz quickly figures the caller is in fact Sweeny, who is trying to remove the one witness to his
** Subverted in "To Say I Love You". Whilst on the run from the police Sean attempts to do this by using a payphone to contact the police about arresting his [[OutlawCouple girlfriend and partner]], however, his speech impediment means he's unable to even start the sentence, and failing to do so makes him so angry he just storms off.
** Floyd Malcolm the SerialRapist of "Men Should Weep" uses this to contact Fitz. First calling him on his radio show to try to get him to confirm his decision that he should just kill his next victim to avoid the police identifying him (and so he can pass the blame onto him), and then later at his home to confirm he took "his advice."
** [[{{Yandere}} Janice]], Fitz’s StalkerWithACrush from "True Romance", uses one of the university’s phone boxes to contact his radio show after it’s announced he's been taken off the investigation into the men she's been murdering to get his attention. The police manage to track the call, but despite Fitz's efforts to keep her on the line, they just miss her. Later, after Janice kidnaps [[spoiler: Fitz's son Mark]], they pre-emptively try to avert this by having officers watching all the public phones in the area, only for her to instead use her landline, knowing they would track it, so she can meet Fitz face to face.
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* BurnBabyBurn: Jane Penhaligon burns her clothes after she's been raped, causing Fitz (who's unaware of the reason) to quip that burning a bra is "a bit too [[TheSixties Sixties]]."
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* BurnBabyBurn: Jane Penhaligon burns her clothes after she's been raped, causing Fitz (who's unaware of the reason) to quip that burning a bra is "a bit too [[TheSixties Sixties]]."Sixties]]".
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* DivineRaceLift: Fitz is present during a natural childbirth. As the delivering mother is (obviously) in pain, he leans in and asks "Still think God is a woman?" (Of course, he is an archetypal {{Jerkass}}...)
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* DivineRaceLift: Fitz is present during a natural childbirth. As the delivering mother is (obviously) in pain, he leans in and asks "Still think God is a woman?" (Of course, he is an archetypal {{Jerkass}}...)).
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* FingerFraming: Dean Saunders in ''The Big Crunch'' does this a lot; he's somewhat autistic and fixated on movies. Someone else comments on it at a church service that included the quote "We see the world through a glass, darkly": "You don't see the the world through a glass, darkly. You see it through your fingers."
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* FingerFraming: Dean Saunders in ''The Big Crunch'' does this a lot; he's somewhat autistic and fixated on movies. Someone else comments on it at a church service that included the quote "We see the world through a glass, darkly": "You don't see the the world through a glass, darkly. You see it through your fingers."fingers".
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* FlippingTheTable: Fitz loses all his money gambling, so he asks the manager of the casino to do him the favour of banning him. He refuses. So Fitz walks over to some Asian gamblers and flips over their table, to their fury. The manager gives a deadpan, "You're banned."
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* FlippingTheTable: Fitz loses all his money gambling, so he asks the manager of the casino to do him the favour of banning him. He refuses. So Fitz walks over to some Asian gamblers and flips over their table, to their fury. The manager gives a deadpan, "You're banned."banned".
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* MadnessMantra: In ''To Be a Somebody'', ''"L-I-V, E-R-P, Double-O L, Liverpool FC."''. For non-Brits, this is a traditional chant of supporters of the Liverpool football (soccer) team.
** ''The Big Crunch'': "All flesh is grass. All flesh is grass."
** ''The Madwoman in the Attic'': Fitz proposes that the murderer was hearing "Kill the bitch. Kill the bitch." repeatedly to the sound of the train. When the real murderer is shown later on a train, he's repeating various phrases ("I'm too tired. I'm too tired. I'm too tired.") while staring at his intended victim.
** ''The Big Crunch'': "All flesh is grass. All flesh is grass."
** ''The Madwoman in the Attic'': Fitz proposes that the murderer was hearing "Kill the bitch. Kill the bitch." repeatedly to the sound of the train. When the real murderer is shown later on a train, he's repeating various phrases ("I'm too tired. I'm too tired. I'm too tired.") while staring at his intended victim.
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* MadnessMantra: In ''To Be a Somebody'', ''"L-I-V, E-R-P, Double-O L, Liverpool FC."''.FC"''. For non-Brits, this is a traditional chant of supporters of the Liverpool football (soccer) team.
** ''The Big Crunch'': "All flesh is grass. All flesh isgrass."
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** ''The Madwoman in the Attic'': Fitz proposes that the murderer was hearing "Kill the bitch. Kill thebitch." bitch" repeatedly to the sound of the train. When the real murderer is shown later on a train, he's repeating various phrases ("I'm too tired. I'm too tired. I'm too tired.") tired") while staring at his intended victim.
** ''The Big Crunch'': "All flesh is grass. All flesh is
** ''The Madwoman in the Attic'': Fitz proposes that the murderer was hearing "Kill the bitch. Kill the
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* MeaningfulEcho: [[spoiler: Bilborough and Beck both say:]] "This is evidence. This is a dying man's statement."
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* MeaningfulEcho: [[spoiler: Bilborough and Beck both say:]] "This is evidence. This is a dying man's statement."statement".
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** In another episode, he not only deduces that someone is a closet gay, but also his alibis, because when questioned he said "I was at home with my girlfriend" rather than "I was at home with Lesley"—thus showing he was afraid of saying that his girlfriend's name was a potential man's name and letting Fitz think he was at home with a man (because, of course, everybody normally says "I was at home with [name]" to complete strangers, despite the stranger not having a clue who [name] would be).
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** In another episode, he not only deduces that someone is a closet gay, but also his alibis, because when questioned he said "I was at home with my girlfriend" rather than "I was at home with Lesley"—thus showing he was afraid of saying that his girlfriend's name was a potential man's name and letting Fitz think he was at home with a man (because, of course, everybody normally says "I was at home with [name]" to complete strangers, despite the stranger not having a clue who [name] would be). [[spoiler:But given the way it ends, it may be a way of showing that Fitz isn't infallible and can make mistakes - potentially dangerous ones.]]
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* FingerFraming: A character in one story did this a lot; he was somewhat autistic and fixated on movies. Someone else commented on it at a church service that included the quote "We see the world through a glass, darkly": "You don't see the the world through a glass, darkly. You see it through your fingers."
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* FingerFraming: A character Dean Saunders in one story did ''The Big Crunch'' does this a lot; he was he's somewhat autistic and fixated on movies. Someone else commented comments on it at a church service that included the quote "We see the world through a glass, darkly": "You don't see the the world through a glass, darkly. You see it through your fingers.""
** Most other characters either make fun of him for it, or push his hands away, but there's a scene where Fitz sits down opposite him and copies him, which helps him get through to the lad.
** Most other characters either make fun of him for it, or push his hands away, but there's a scene where Fitz sits down opposite him and copies him, which helps him get through to the lad.
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* SiblingYinYang: Danny Fitzgerald, Fitz's estranged brother. Fitz is an eccentric genius with Epicurean lifestyle and nation-wide fame. Danny is a simple down-to-Earth worker and labour activist who had never left their home town and had been looking after their mother for the rest of her life.
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* SiblingYinYang: Danny Fitzgerald, Fitz's estranged brother. Fitz is an eccentric genius with Epicurean lifestyle and nation-wide fame. Danny is a simple down-to-Earth worker and labour activist who had never left their home town and had been looking after their mother for the rest of her life.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Fitz frequently makes these to the murderers.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Fitz frequently makes these to the murderers.
* TheUnsolvedMystery: [[spoiler: ''One Day A Lemming Will Fly'']]
* TheUnsolvedMystery: [[spoiler: ''One Day A Lemming Will Fly'']]
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* Masochism - the pleasures of being hurt; the frisson of being self-destructive
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* Masochism - {{Masochism}}: the pleasures of being hurt; the frisson of being self-destructive
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* JerkAssWoobie: Most of the murderers, some of the {{Asshole Victim}}s, Jimmy Beck and, arguably, Fitz himself.
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* JerkAssWoobie: Most of the murderers, some of the {{Asshole Victim}}s, Jimmy Beck and, arguably, Fitz himself
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* ShownTheirWork: The show had some of the most genuinely realistic portrayals of murders and how they happen, at least in the first part of the story, such as why a man might kill a shopkeeper or a prostitute. The handling of the police characters and their relationships also earned high praise from real officers as being pretty much spot-on, though later stories started to mess the detectives up maybe a bit too much. In general though, believable characterisation was this series strongest point. The real life bases of the series are covered in the book ''Cracker: The Truth Behind the Fiction'' (ISBN-10: 0752209744)
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* ShownTheirWork: The show had some of the most genuinely realistic portrayals of murders and how they happen, at least in the first part of the story, such as why a man might kill a shopkeeper or a prostitute. The handling of the police characters and their relationships also earned high praise from real officers as being pretty much spot-on, though later stories started to mess the detectives up maybe a bit too much. In general though, believable characterisation was this series strongest point. The real life bases of the series are covered in the book ''Cracker: The Truth Behind the Fiction'' (ISBN-10: 0752209744).
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* ExpressLaneLimit: "To Be a Somebody" had Fitz get into an argument with a cashier while trying to use the express. His argument was that he technically only had two items (lager and some kind of junk food): he just just had multiple examples of each item.
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* ExpressLaneLimit: "To Be a Somebody" had Fitz get into an argument with a cashier while trying to use the express. His argument was that he technically only had two items (lager and some kind of junk food): he just just had multiple examples of each item.
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* DisposableSexWorker: "Brotherly Love" features a serial killer (or killers) targeting prostitutes. On the one hand, the investigating police turn their full resources on the case; but they also misidentify the killer(s) throughout the episode.
* DivineRaceLift: Fitz is present during a natural childbirth. As the delivering mother is (obviously) in pain, he leans in and asks "Still think God is a woman?" (Of course, he is an archetypal {{Jerkass}}...)
* DrinkBasedCharacterization: Fitz will have a Scotch and dry (a whisky and dry ginger ale). Make it a double if someone else is paying.
* DivineRaceLift: Fitz is present during a natural childbirth. As the delivering mother is (obviously) in pain, he leans in and asks "Still think God is a woman?" (Of course, he is an archetypal {{Jerkass}}...)
* DrinkBasedCharacterization: Fitz will have a Scotch and dry (a whisky and dry ginger ale). Make it a double if someone else is paying.
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* DisposableSexWorker: "Brotherly Love" features a serial killer (or killers) targeting prostitutes. On the one hand, the investigating police turn their full resources on the case; but they also misidentify the killer(s) throughout the episode.
* DivineRaceLift: Fitz is present during a natural childbirth. As the delivering mother is (obviously) in pain, he leans in and asks "Still think God is a woman?" (Of course, he is an archetypal {{Jerkass}}...)
* DrinkBasedCharacterization: Fitz will have a Scotch and dry (a whisky and dry ginger ale). Make it a double if someone else is paying.
* DivineRaceLift: Fitz is present during a natural childbirth. As the delivering mother is (obviously) in pain, he leans in and asks "Still think God is a woman?" (Of course, he is an archetypal {{Jerkass}}...)
* DrinkBasedCharacterization: Fitz will have a Scotch and dry (a whisky and dry ginger ale). Make it a double if someone else is paying.
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* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler: Floyd Malcolm attempts to rape Judith]]
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* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler: Floyd Malcolm attempts to rape Judith]]Judith]].
* AuthorTract: There's some political elements, like the deranged, homeless Falklands veteran, and much UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher-bashing, read with a certain easy authenticity by "Red Robbie" Coltrane. Fitz's occasional invective against religion comes off this way, too.
* AuthorTract: There's some political elements, like the deranged, homeless Falklands veteran, and much UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher-bashing, read with a certain easy authenticity by "Red Robbie" Coltrane. Fitz's occasional invective against religion comes off this way, too.
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* AuthorTract: There's some political elements, like the deranged, homeless Falklands veteran, and much UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher-bashing, read with a certain easy authenticity by "Red Robbie" Coltrane. Fitz's occasional invective against religion comes off this way, too.
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Averted with Albie, and [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Fitz:
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Averted with Albie, and [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Fitz:
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* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible
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This British CrimeAndPunishmentSeries was originally broadcast in the "Television Serial" format (also used for, e.g., ''Series/{{Doctor Who}}'' before 1996). The main character, Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald, played by Creator/RobbieColtrane, was a psychologist who did profiling for the Manchester police force. Of course, he usually ended up confronting the criminal and solving the crime solo (though a few times he makes the situation a whole lot worse). Aside from his grouchy, misanthropic demeanour, he was [[DefectiveDetective massively overweight and addicted to alcohol, tobacco and gambling]]. In his spare time, he also enjoyed a bit of {{UST}} with his [[TheWatson sidekick]], Jane "Panhandle" Penhaligon.
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This British CrimeAndPunishmentSeries was originally broadcast in the "Television Serial" format (also used for, e.g., ''Series/{{Doctor Who}}'' before 1996). The main character, Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald, played by Creator/RobbieColtrane, was a psychologist who did profiling for the Manchester police force. Of course, he usually ended up confronting the criminal and solving the crime solo (though a few times he makes the situation a whole lot worse). Aside from his grouchy, misanthropic demeanour, he was [[DefectiveDetective massively overweight and addicted to alcohol, tobacco and gambling]]. In his spare time, he also enjoyed a bit of {{UST}} UnresolvedSexualTension with his [[TheWatson sidekick]], Jane "Panhandle" Penhaligon.
