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''DCI Banks'' is a British crime drama series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the ITV network. The series is based on Peter Robinson's Inspector Alan Banks novels and stars Stephen Tompkinson as Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks.
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''DCI Banks'' is a British crime drama series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the ITV network. The series is based on Peter Robinson's Inspector Alan Banks novels and stars Stephen Tompkinson Creator/StephenTompkinson as Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks.
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* BathroomStallOfAngst: In "The Buried", DI Morton locks herself in a stall in the ladies room after she receives divorce papers from her husband. Banks somewhat timorously follows her in to find out what is wrong.
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* MyGreatestFailure: DCI Alan Banks has a bad habit of making stringent promises to grieving families that justice will be delivered, only for circumstances to inevitably conspire against delivering the promises. It usually earns Banks liberal amounts of scorn, hatred and blame from everybody, from grieving widows to the wrongly-accused.
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* MyGreatestFailure: DCI Alan Banks has a bad habit of making stringent promises to grieving families that justice will be delivered, only for circumstances to inevitably conspire against delivering the promises. It usually earns Banks liberal amounts of scorn, hatred and blame from everybody, from grieving widows to the wrongly-accused.wrongly accused.
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* InternalAffairs: DS Annie Cabbot starts off as an IA officer, investigating a young PC for police brutality at Banks's station. When she deliberately loses the evidence and ets the PC avoid jail, to stick one up the PR-focused chief constables, Banks offers her a transfer to his CID unit.
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* InternalAffairs: DS Annie Cabbot starts off as an IA officer, investigating a young PC for police brutality at Banks's station. station after a serial killer dies from wounds the PC inflicted on him when he murdered her partner. When she Cabbot deliberately loses the evidence and ets lets the PC avoid jail, to stick one up the PR-focused chief constables, Banks offers her a transfer to his CID unit.
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* BeingPersonalIsntProfessional: The second series introduces DI Helen Morton, replacing DS Annie Cabbot during [[WrittenInInfirmity the latter's maternity leave]]. At first, DI Morton feels no need or desire to share anything about her personal life with her colleagues, but she is eventually convinced to seek that human connection.
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* BeingPersonalIsntProfessional: The second series introduces DI Helen Morton, replacing DS Annie Cabbot during [[WrittenInInfirmity the latter's maternity leave]].leave. At first, DI Morton feels no need or desire to share anything about her personal life with her colleagues, but she is eventually convinced to seek that human connection.
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* OneHitWonder: In-universe, The Crystal Kiss, a pop group from the 80s that lost its chance at the big time after one of its members went to prison for manslaughter after the suspicious death of another memb er.
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* OneHitWonder: In-universe, The Crystal Kiss, a pop group from the 80s that lost its chance at the big time after one of its members went to prison for manslaughter after the suspicious death of another memb er.member.
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* OneHitWonder: In-universe, The Crystal Kiss, a pop group from the 80s that lost its chance at the big time after one of its members went to prison for manslaughter after the suspicious death of another memb er.
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* WhiteDwarfStarlet: Most of the [[spoiler:surviving]] members of The Crystal Kiss in "Piece of My Heart" have moved on from their brief flirtation with success - but not so much that they don't try to regroup when member Ian Bassett returns to the UK [[spoiler:in search of the money such a reunion would bring in, not to mention freedom from having to perform 80s nostalgia concerts in Spain]].
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* LetterboxArson: Fuel and fireworks dumped through a letterbox are used to start a fatal HouseFire in "What Will Survive''.
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* LetterboxArson: Fuel and fireworks dumped through a letterbox are used to start a fatal HouseFire in "What Will Survive''. [[spoiler:So it seems at first, but only the fireworks were dumped in and they didn't start the fire; it was ignited later from inside the house as a murder/suicide attempt]].
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* {{Retirony}}: DS Annie Cabot. [[spoiler:She is married to the father of her baby, but the marriage is breaking up and she states her intention to get back with Banks after a short time to clear things up. It's not retirement, but it's something they both look forward to. She is tragically murdered before the last episode of the series]].
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* {{Retirony}}: DS [[spoiler:DS Annie Cabot. [[spoiler:She Cabot]]. It's not retirement, but it's something [[spoiler:she]] looks forward to. [[spoiler:Annie is married to the father of her baby, but the marriage is breaking up and she states her intention to get back with Banks after a short time to clear things up. It's not retirement, but it's something they both look forward to. up. She is tragically murdered before the last episode of the series]].
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* Retirony: DS Annie Cabot. [[spoiler:She is married to the father of her baby, but the marriage is breaking up and she states her intention to get back with Banks after a short time to clear things up. It's not retirement, but it's something they both look forward to. She is tragically murdered before the last episode of the series]].
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* Retirony: {{Retirony}}: DS Annie Cabot. [[spoiler:She is married to the father of her baby, but the marriage is breaking up and she states her intention to get back with Banks after a short time to clear things up. It's not retirement, but it's something they both look forward to. She is tragically murdered before the last episode of the series]].
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* IfWeGetThroughThis: DS Annie Cabot. [[spoiler:She is married to the father of her baby, but the marriage is breaking up and she states her intention to get back with Banks after a short time to clear things up. She is tragically murdered before the last episode of the series]].
* InternalAffairs: DS Annie Cabbot starts off as an IA officer, investigating a young PC for police brutality at Banks's station. When she deliberately loses the evidence and lets the PC avoid jail, to stick one up the PR-focused chief constables, Banks offers her a transfer to his CID unit.
* InternalAffairs: DS Annie Cabbot starts off as an IA officer, investigating a young PC for police brutality at Banks's station. When she deliberately loses the evidence and lets the PC avoid jail, to stick one up the PR-focused chief constables, Banks offers her a transfer to his CID unit.
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* Retirony: DS Annie Cabot. [[spoiler:She is married to the father of her baby, but the marriage is breaking up and she states her intention to get back with Banks after a short time to clear things up. It's not retirement, but it's something they both look forward to. She is tragically murdered before the last episode of the series]].
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* DeadlyDeferredConversation: [[spoiler:Annie receives an important phone call and tries to tell DCI Banks. He asks, "Can it wait?" and she says, "Yeah." (She is murdered that night)]].
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* SexualExtortion: Chief Superintendent Anderson shows up at Helen Morton's house with a bottle of wine one evening and offers to help her study for her DCI promotion hearing. When she refuses a second glass of wine and starts to send him away, he asks if there is anything he can do to change her mind, even as her boss. The next day, she calls him out for being inappropriate. [[spoiler: He tries to sabotage her promotion hearing, but she passes anyway]].
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* SexualExtortion: Chief Superintendent Colin Anderson shows up at DI Helen Morton's house with a bottle of wine one evening and offers to help her study for her DCI promotion hearing. When she refuses a second glass of wine and starts to send him away, he asks if there is anything he can do to change her mind, even "even as her boss. [her] boss." The next day, she calls him out for being inappropriate. [[spoiler: He tries to sabotage her promotion hearing, but she passes anyway]].
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* IfWeGetThroughThis: DS Annie Cabot. [[spoiler:She is married to the father of her baby, but the marriage is breaking up and she states her intention to get back with Banks after a short time to clear things up. She is tragically murdered before the last episode of the series]].
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* OfficeRomance: There is an on-and-off relationship between DCI Banks and DS Cabbot. [[spoiler:She marries the father of her baby, but the marriage is breaking up and she intends to get back with Banks. But then she is tragically murdered before the last episode of the series]].
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* OfficeRomance: There is an on-and-off relationship between DCI Banks and DS Cabbot. [[spoiler:She marries the father of her baby, but the marriage is breaking up and she intends to get back with Banks. But then she is tragically murdered before the last episode of the series]].
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* OfficeRomance: There is an on-and-off relationship between DCI Banks and DS Cabbot. [[spoiler:She marries the father of her baby, but the marriage is breaking up and she intends to get back with Banks. But then she is tragically murdered before the last episode of the series]]. In contrast, DI Morton rebuffs an advance by a superior officer and calls him out for being inappropriate.
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* OfficeRomance: There is an on-and-off relationship between DCI Banks and DS Cabbot. [[spoiler:She marries the father of her baby, but the marriage is breaking up and she intends to get back with Banks. But then she is tragically murdered before the last episode of the series]]. In contrast, DI Morton rebuffs an advance by a superior officer and calls him out for being inappropriate.
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* TheMole: [[spoiler:Vince Grady, blackmailed over a crime committed by his father, spies on the team for the gangster Steve Richards.]]
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* OfficeRomance: There is an on-and-off relationship between DCI Banks and DS Cabbot. [[spoiler:She marries the father of her baby, but the marriage is breaking up and she intends to get back with Banks. But then she is tragically murdered before the last episode of the series]].
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* OfficeRomance: There is an on-and-off relationship between DCI Banks and DS Cabbot. [[spoiler:She marries the father of her baby, but the marriage is breaking up and she intends to get back with Banks. But then she is tragically murdered before the last episode of the series]]. In contrast, DI Morton rebuffs an advance by a superior officer and calls him out for being inappropriate.
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* OfficeRomance: There is an on-and-off relationship between DCI Banks and DS Cabbot.
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* OfficeRomance: There is an on-and-off relationship between DCI Banks and DS Cabbot. [[spoiler:She marries the father of her baby, but the marriage is breaking up and she intends to get back with Banks. But then she is tragically murdered before the last episode of the series]].
