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* ForeignQueasine: In "Jailbait", Mary visits her boyfriend's relatives, lifts the lid off a pot on the stove and is shocked to see what looks like a dog's carcass (it's actually a goat); Subverted in that what really freaks Mary out is not her disgust at the sight of the "dog", but the fact that the stew smells ''great''.
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* GunsAkimbo: Both Mary and Marshall pull out their backup weapon in order to drive off some assassins coming after the witness they're protecting. Played realistically: the only time anyone manages to hit anyone during that gunfight is using a single gun, and the two guns are used more for suppressive fire than to actually kill anyone.

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* GunsAkimbo: Both In "Lola", both Mary and Marshall pull out their backup weapon in order to drive off some assassins coming after the witness they're protecting. Played realistically: the only time anyone manages to hit anyone during that gunfight is using a single gun, and the two guns are used more for suppressive fire than to actually kill anyone.
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* NotGoodWithPeople: Mary's good with sorting out other people's lives. Her own, not so much. Lampshaded in the pilot.
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* HasAType: Mary and Rafe's wife tease him about his type: [[EveryoneLovesBlondes blonde]], with [[BuxomIsBetter boobs]].

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* HasAType: Mary and Rafe's wife tease him about his type: [[EveryoneLovesBlondes blonde]], with [[BuxomIsBetter [[BuxomBeautyStandard boobs]].
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Marshall. His full name is Marshall Mann. Making him Marshall Marshall Mann.
* FairCop: USMarshal Mary Shannon is [[HeadTurningBeauty very attractive]] and [[DudeMagnet gets a lot of attention from the opposite sex]].

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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Marshall. [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep His full name is Marshall Mann.Mann]]. Making him Marshall Marshall Mann.
* FairCop: USMarshal Mary Shannon is [[HeadTurningBeauty very attractive]] and [[DudeMagnet gets a lot of attention from the opposite sex]].
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* SuperficialSuggestionBox: In the special features of ''Series/InPlainSight,'' Mary and Marshall use the suggestion box for dueling suggestions, driving Stan crazy to the point he actually puts suggestions in his own box.

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* SuperficialSuggestionBox: In the special features of ''Series/InPlainSight,'' features, Mary and Marshall use the suggestion box for dueling suggestions, driving Stan crazy to the point he actually puts suggestions in his own box.
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* SuperficialSuggestionBox: In the special features of ''Series/InPlainSight,'' Mary and Marshall use the suggestion box for dueling suggestions, driving Stan crazy to the point he actually puts suggestions in his own box.

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* RantInducingSlight: Mary gets sent through the [[TraumaCongaLine wringer]], including betrayal, kidnapping, and attempted rape. She [[TheDeterminator keeps it together]]... until she's safe, secure, and her car won't start. Then the sobbing and breakdown ensue.

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* RantInducingSlight: RageBreakingPoint: Mary gets sent through the [[TraumaCongaLine wringer]], including betrayal, kidnapping, and attempted rape. She [[TheDeterminator keeps it together]]... until she's safe, secure, and her car won't start. Then the sobbing and breakdown ensue.

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* NoOneSeesTheBoss: The US Marshals transport a man who is the go-between for a mysterious female assassin known as "Lola", who agreed to inform on her after being caught in a sting. It turns out [[spoiler: There is no "Lola", he is the assassin, and he let himself be caught just so he could get at a target in the jail he was being held at, confident his lieutenants would free him from the marshalls.]]

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* NoOneSeesTheBoss: The US Marshals transport a man who is the go-between for a mysterious female assassin known as "Lola", who agreed to inform on her after being caught in a sting. It turns out [[spoiler: There is no "Lola", [[TheManInFrontOfTheMan he is the assassin, assassin]], and he let himself be caught just so he could get at a target in the jail he was being held at, confident his lieutenants would free him from the marshalls.]]



** Subverted. Marshall gets shot, and gets back up to help Mary fight off their assailants. Then he collapses. A good portion of the rest of the episode is spent dealing with the wound - which punctured his lung(!) - and he spends a few episodes in a cast.
** Point of fact: The bullet did not puncture his lung, only the pleural space (the empty space in the chest not taken up by organs and such). This led to a tension pneumothorax, in which air is pulled into the chest cavity, preventing the lungs from inflating. He explains all this when performing his water seal with a bottle trick.

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** Subverted. Marshall gets shot, and gets back up to help Mary fight off their assailants. Then he collapses. A good portion of the rest of the episode is spent dealing with the wound - which punctured his lung(!) - and he spends a few episodes in a cast.
** Point of fact: The bullet did not puncture his lung, only
More specifically it hit the pleural space (the empty space in the chest not taken up by organs and such). This led to a tension pneumothorax, in which air is pulled into the chest cavity, preventing the lungs from inflating. He explains all this when performing his water seal with a bottle trick. A good portion of the rest of the episode is spent dealing with the wound, and he spends a few episodes in a cast.
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* DestroyTheEvidence: In the season one finale, Mary takes the suitcase full of crystal meth from Brandi’s room and, through deliberate editing, seems to magically make it disappear just as the police, F.B.I. and Marshal Service arrive to search the house and vehicles for it. The final scene of the episode is of Raph smiling at batting practice and then the back of a line-painting machine on the baseball diamond, implying that she got the very tipsy Raph to help her get rid of the evidence.

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* DestroyTheEvidence: In the season one finale, Mary takes the suitcase full of crystal meth from Brandi’s room and, through deliberate editing, seems to magically make it disappear just as the police, F.B.I. and Marshal Service arrive to search the house and vehicles for it. The final scene of the episode is of Raph smiling at batting practice and then the back of a line-painting machine on the baseball diamond, implying that she got the very tipsy Raph to help her get rid of the evidence. [[spoiler: In S2E2, we find out Raph must have swapped out the drugs the night Brandi came to see him in tears, *before* Mary’s kidnapping, and Mary didn’t know anything about it until she discovered in that episode that he didn’t have any towels in his apartment.]]
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* DestroyTheEvidence: In the season one finale, Mary hides cocaine from the police and Marshall Service to protect her little sister. The final shot of the episode is of the back of a line-painting machine on a football field, implying that this is how she got rid of the evidence.

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* DestroyTheEvidence: In the season one finale, Mary hides cocaine takes the suitcase full of crystal meth from Brandi’s room and, through deliberate editing, seems to magically make it disappear just as the police police, F.B.I. and Marshall Marshal Service arrive to protect her little sister. search the house and vehicles for it. The final shot scene of the episode is of Raph smiling at batting practice and then the back of a line-painting machine on a football field, the baseball diamond, implying that this is how she got the very tipsy Raph to help her get rid of the evidence.
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In Plain Sight is an American CrimeAndPunishmentSeries television series that premiered on the Creator/USANetwork on June 1, 2008 and part of the ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' SharedUniverse. The show features US Marshal [[TwoFirstNames Mary Shannon]] (Creator/MaryMcCormack) and Marshall Mann (Creator/FredWeller) who work with people in [=WitSec=] (WitnessProtection) in UsefulNotes/{{Albuquerque}}. This leads to them sometimes having to uncover crimes, track down killers, work at protecting them, etc., in addition to somewhat nannying their clients. Their boss Stan [=McQueen=] (Creator/PaulBenVictor) likes to stick to official WITSEC doctrine as often as possible but will still stand up for both Marshall and Mary when they hit trouble. In season 4 they're joined by detective Abigail Chaffee (Creator/RachelBoston), Marshall's girlfriend who is extremely outgoing and friendly, much to the annoyance of Mary.

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In ''In Plain Sight Sight'' is an American CrimeAndPunishmentSeries television series that premiered on the Creator/USANetwork on June 1, 2008 and part of the ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' SharedUniverse. The show features US Marshal [[TwoFirstNames Mary Shannon]] (Creator/MaryMcCormack) and Marshall Mann (Creator/FredWeller) who work with people in [=WitSec=] (WitnessProtection) in UsefulNotes/{{Albuquerque}}. This leads to them sometimes having to uncover crimes, track down killers, work at protecting them, etc., in addition to somewhat nannying their clients. Their boss Stan [=McQueen=] (Creator/PaulBenVictor) likes to stick to official WITSEC doctrine as often as possible but will still stand up for both Marshall and Mary when they hit trouble. In season 4 they're joined by detective Abigail Chaffee (Creator/RachelBoston), Marshall's girlfriend who is extremely outgoing and friendly, much to the annoyance of Mary.
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* AlliterativeName: '''M'''arshall '''M'''ann. Which makes him [[PunnyName Marshal Marshall]]. He also does this with his GoToAlias '''M'''arshall '''M'''iller

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* IdiotSavant: Judy Wagrowski from "Her Days Are Numbered" (3x10), a math savant with Asperger's. One of her coworkers even jokingly refers to her as "Rain Man". She was the perfect witness because she couldn't lie, but she was the worst [[WitnessProtection protected witness]] because it was impossible for her to maintain a new identity. She hits all the key tropes: HatesBeingTouched, SarcasmBlind, GoodWithNumbers, BrutalHonesty, CannotTellALie, PhotographicMemory, and when Mary is doing one of her CharacterFilibuster[=s=], Judy points out, "That's called monologuing, what you just did. I do it all the time." On top of that she still believed her boss was her friend and tried to visit him ''during the trial'', which nearly got her killed.



* TheRainman: Judy Wagrowski from "Her Days Are Numbered" (3x10), a math savant with Asperger's. One of her coworkers even jokingly refers to her as "Rain Man". She was the perfect witness because she couldn't lie, but she was the worst [[WitnessProtection protected witness]] because it was impossible for her to maintain a new identity. She hits all the key tropes: HatesBeingTouched, SarcasmBlind, GoodWithNumbers, BrutalHonesty, CannotTellALie, PhotographicMemory, and when Mary is doing one of her CharacterFilibuster[=s=], Judy points out, "That's called monologuing, what you just did. I do it all the time." On top of that she still believed her boss was her friend and tried to visit him ''during the trial'', which nearly got her killed.
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In Plain Sight is an American CrimeAndPunishmentSeries television series that premiered on the Creator/USANetwork on June 1, 2008 and part of the ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' SharedUniverse. The show features US Marshal [[TwoFirstNames Mary Shannon]] (Creator/MaryMcCormack) and Marshall Mann (Creator/FredWeller) who work with people in [=WitSec=] (WitnessProtection) in UsefulNotes/{{Albuquerque}}. This leads to them sometimes having to uncover crimes, track down killers, work at protecting them, etc., in addition to somewhat nannying their clients. Their boss Stan [=McQueen=] (Creator/PaulBenVictor) likes to stick to official WITSEC doctrine as often as possible but will still stand up for both Marshall and Mary when they hit trouble. In season 4 they're joined by setective Abigail Chaffee (Creator/RachelBoston), Marshall's girlfriend who is extremely outgoing and friendly, much to the annoyance of Mary.

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In Plain Sight is an American CrimeAndPunishmentSeries television series that premiered on the Creator/USANetwork on June 1, 2008 and part of the ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' SharedUniverse. The show features US Marshal [[TwoFirstNames Mary Shannon]] (Creator/MaryMcCormack) and Marshall Mann (Creator/FredWeller) who work with people in [=WitSec=] (WitnessProtection) in UsefulNotes/{{Albuquerque}}. This leads to them sometimes having to uncover crimes, track down killers, work at protecting them, etc., in addition to somewhat nannying their clients. Their boss Stan [=McQueen=] (Creator/PaulBenVictor) likes to stick to official WITSEC doctrine as often as possible but will still stand up for both Marshall and Mary when they hit trouble. In season 4 they're joined by setective detective Abigail Chaffee (Creator/RachelBoston), Marshall's girlfriend who is extremely outgoing and friendly, much to the annoyance of Mary.

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