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* OfficeRomance: There is an on-and-off relationship between DI Banks and DS Cabbot.
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* OfficeRomance: There is an on-and-off relationship between DI DCI Banks and DS Cabbot.
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* VigilanteInjustice: "Friend of the Devil" features a vigilante on the loose [[spoiler: the new forensic pathologist Dr Elizabeth Waring]]. Having been the victim of a SerialRapist in their youth, they killed the rapist and now execute predators by slitting their throats with a scalpel. Whilst sympathetic it soon becomes apparent that despite their claims of helping remove dangers, all of this is just an unhealthy coping mechanism for their own trauma, leading to them kidnapping and executing [[TragicMonster Lucy Payne]] even though a paralyzed Lucy had already been arrested. Then they become convinced that a teen's murder means there yet another serial offender on the loose. Their attempts to kill them result in the accidental murder of an innocent detective (who ironically was also there trying to stop the mythical serial offender). On top of that their efforts to avoid capture only interfere with the original murder investigation so that the real culprit almost gets away. They even nearly murder Sergeant Cabbot in a last desperate attempt to escape.
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* RoleCalled: DCI stands for Detective Chief Inspector.
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* PhoneBooth: In "What Will Survive", the missing Estonian woman is making a panicked call for help from an extremely isolated phone booth when she is grabbed by her abductor. Tracing the call, the police find blood on the floor of the booth.
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* BeingGoodSucks: The cops in ''DCI Banks'' seem to be treated very coldly by the general public in Eastvale; absolutely thankless when cases are cracked, and apportioning blame and scorn when even the smallest thing goes 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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* 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.
** She is later forcibly seconded back to IA in season 3, to investigate DI Helen Morton's handling of a botched raid at a house. Once again, she chooses the team over promotion, and goes out of her way to ensure Morton is exonerated.
** She is later forcibly seconded back to IA in season 3, to investigate DI Helen Morton's handling of a botched raid at a house. Once again, she chooses the team over promotion, and goes out of her way to ensure Morton is exonerated.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Several examples here.
** DS Winsome Jackman abruptly disappears with no explanation after Season 2. She is replaced by DC Tariq Lang, who gets no welcome or introduction, and just 'appears' as part of the team one day.
*** Lang himself then drops off the face of the earth after Season 4 in the same fashion, and is replaced by DC Vince Grady (but Grady does get the luxury of being formally introduced to the team by CS Anderson).
** The same also happens to CS Ron Mclaughlin, a regular recurring character for the entire first four seasons of the show. He vanishes after Season 4, and CS Anderson suddenly shows up in his place in Season 5, again without any introduction of Anderson's character, or any explanation for Mclaughlin's disappearance.
** DS Winsome Jackman abruptly disappears with no explanation after Season 2. She is replaced by DC Tariq Lang, who gets no welcome or introduction, and just 'appears' as part of the team one day.
*** Lang himself then drops off the face of the earth after Season 4 in the same fashion, and is replaced by DC Vince Grady (but Grady does get the luxury of being formally introduced to the team by CS Anderson).
** The same also happens to CS Ron Mclaughlin, a regular recurring character for the entire first four seasons of the show. He vanishes after Season 4, and CS Anderson suddenly shows up in his place in Season 5, again without any introduction of Anderson's character, or any explanation for Mclaughlin's disappearance.
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* IHaveYourWife: In "Bad Boy", Banks' daughter Tracey is kidnapped in an attempt to get him to remove a gun being held in the evidence store.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: In "Wednesday's Child", Banks and his team investigate the abduction of an 11 year old boy. As the investigation proceeds, they discover the boy has been delivering heroin for a local dealer and helped to bury one of his friends who had died of an overdose.
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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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* PunkInTheTrunk: "Ghosts" opens with the camera following a car as it drives through the streets of the city, passing the revelers coming out of the pubs and clubs. The car drives out into the country where it stops. The driver gets out and opens the boot, revealing a dead body. the driver then drops the body down a ravine and drives off.
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* OrSoIHeard: In "Ghosts", the squad are discussing the lap dancing club the VictimOfTheWeek had visited before being murdered. Kenny wonders how a student could have afforded to go there, and mentions the exorbitant cover price. This earns him a significant look from DI Morton, and he adds "...or that's what I've been told".
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* ColdCash: In "The Buried", Banks and his team are searching a suspect's flat anf find a bag of cash hidden in the freezer. Banks makes a joke about 'frozen assets'.
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* GPSEvidence: In "The Buried", a footprint left behind at the scene of a crime contains the mixture of the chemicals used in match heads. This leads the police to the only old match factory in the area.
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* LockedInTheBathroom: 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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* WitnessProtection: In "The Buried", Banks and his team are baffled when a murder victim seems to have no history before five years ago. He turns out to be in the witness protection program. His new location was uncovered when he was photographed running a marathon in his new identity and the photo ran in the newspaper.
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* WrittenInInfirmity: In the second season, DS Annie Cabot becomes pregnant following a one-night stand and goes on maternity leave as a result of actress Andrea Lowe becoming pregnant.
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* EdibleBludgen: In "What Will Survive", DI Morton subdues a suspect in a fishmonger's by clocking him with a bag of frozen cockles.
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* NoSocialSkills: DI Helen Morton, as demonstrated by Banks' advice in "Dry Bones That Dream":
-->''"You actually want me to ''tell'' you how to fit in? ''([=sigh=])'' Well, um... Suffer a trip to the pub for a start. Using nicknames is good, or at least don't refer to your colleagues [[LastNameBasis by their rank all the time.]] Crack a joke or two, preferably at someone else's expense. Buy a round of coffees, it's really not... ''(notices Morton [[NoteToSelf is taking notes]], looks away in disgust)'' ...rocket science."''
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* WrittenInInfirmity: In the second season, DS Annie Cabot becomes pregnant following a one-night stand and goes on maternity leave as a result of actress Andrea Lowe becoming pregnant.
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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.
The tenacious and stubborn DCI Banks unravels disturbing murder mysteries on the Yorkshire dales aided by his young assistants, DS Annie Cabbot and DI Helen Morton.
!!''DCI Banks'' contains examples of:
* 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.
* HandOrObjectUnderwear: In "Friend of the Devil", Jackman arrives at a hotel looking for the father of a victim. After getting no answer to a knock at the door, she opens the door and the man suddenly appears holding a pillow over his crotch.
* SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: In "Innocent Graves", the killer murders a second girl using exactly the same M.O. as his first killing. The second killing is designed to make it look like a serial killer is at work.
* TheUnFavorite: Alan Banks is disliked by his father primarily because he became a policeman, which the father regards as joining the enemy because of the miner's strike during the Thatcher years. However, it also seems that even as a boy, nothing Alan did was good enough. Alan's younger brother was always the father's golden boy, despite becoming a venture capitalist, which should have been an anathema to the staunchly unionist father.
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The tenacious and stubborn DCI Banks unravels disturbing murder mysteries on the Yorkshire dales aided by his young assistants, DS Annie Cabbot and DI Helen Morton.
!!''DCI Banks'' contains examples of:
* 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.
* HandOrObjectUnderwear: In "Friend of the Devil", Jackman arrives at a hotel looking for the father of a victim. After getting no answer to a knock at the door, she opens the door and the man suddenly appears holding a pillow over his crotch.
* SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: In "Innocent Graves", the killer murders a second girl using exactly the same M.O. as his first killing. The second killing is designed to make it look like a serial killer is at work.
* TheUnFavorite: Alan Banks is disliked by his father primarily because he became a policeman, which the father regards as joining the enemy because of the miner's strike during the Thatcher years. However, it also seems that even as a boy, nothing Alan did was good enough. Alan's younger brother was always the father's golden boy, despite becoming a venture capitalist, which should have been an anathema to the staunchly unionist father.
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