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-->'''Quincy''': [[spoiler: Your son didn't fall, and he wasn't thrown. [[DrivenToSuicide He jumped]].]]

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-->'''Quincy''': --->'''Quincy''': [[spoiler: Your son didn't fall, and he wasn't thrown. [[DrivenToSuicide He jumped]].]]



* AFatherToHisMen: Asten, at least at first, appeared to be a bureaucrat more worried about the budget and efficient performance. Hurt anyone under his employee, however, and he would often drop the facade and start to throw around his political weight to assist, and in one case he physically assaulted a diamond smuggler that tried to kill Quincy.



* {{Feghoot}}: An entire episode about a pair of property developers with the surname Butler who killed a man with X-ray machine-induced radiation poisoning (the X-ray machine being equipment used to inspect building structures for construction flaws). [[spoiler:Seemingly all to set up Quincy's line at the FadeToBlack: "You've known [whodunnit] for ''years!'' [[TheButlerDidIt The Butlers did it.]]"]]

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* AFatherToHisMen: Asten, at least at first, appeared to be a bureaucrat more worried about the budget and efficient performance. Hurt anyone under his employee, however, and he would often drop the facade and start to throw around his political weight to assist, and in one case he physically assaulted a diamond smuggler that tried to kill Quincy.
* {{Feghoot}}: An entire episode about a pair of property developers with the surname Butler who killed a man with X-ray machine-induced radiation poisoning (the X-ray machine being equipment used to inspect building structures for construction flaws). [[spoiler:Seemingly all to set up Quincy's line at QuipToBlack before the FadeToBlack: end credits: "You've known [whodunnit] for ''years!'' [[TheButlerDidIt The Butlers did it.]]"]]

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The beginning episodes make it clear that Lt. Monahan finds Quincy to be an incredibly annoying thorn in his side and even Sgt. Brill doesn't like him very much. Quincy is merely a single man living on a house boat with almost no backstory beyond his current girlfriend, Lee. Lee would later vanish without a word, the subplot of Quincy's deceased wife would be worked in, Lt. Monahan was retconned into having been friends with Quincy for years, and Brill even owed his job to Quincy for clearing him in a possible shooting death of a hostage.

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The beginning episodes make it clear that Lt. Monahan finds Quincy to be an incredibly annoying thorn in his side and even Sgt. Brill doesn't like him very much. Quincy is merely a single man living on a house boat with almost no backstory beyond his current girlfriend, Lee. Lee would later vanish without a word, the subplot of Quincy's deceased wife would be worked in, Lt. Monahan was retconned into having been friends with Quincy for years, and Brill even owed his job to Quincy for clearing him in a possible shooting death of a hostage.
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** An antagonistic example in one episode: after the owner of a burned-down warehouse is discovered to have been born into [[TheMafia a mafia family, a federal prosecutor gets involved and charges him not with arson or the death of a janitor, but with enough counts of mail fraud to carry a fifty-year sentence--stemming from his attempts to collect on the insurance policy. The prosecutor then compounds this by convening a second grand jury when the first one declines to indict, which doesn't count as double jeopardy since the grand jury isn't an actual criminal trial. Quincy accuses the prosecutor of engaging in a WitchHunt (and briefly ends up in jail for contempt after pulling GodwinsLaw), and finally shuts him down by proving that the fire was accidental.

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** An antagonistic example in one episode: after the owner of a burned-down warehouse is discovered to have been born into [[TheMafia a mafia family, family]], a federal prosecutor gets involved and charges him not with arson or the death of a janitor, but with enough counts of mail fraud to carry a fifty-year sentence--stemming from his attempts to collect on the insurance policy. The prosecutor then compounds this by convening a second grand jury when the first one declines to indict, which doesn't count as double jeopardy since the grand jury isn't an actual criminal trial. Quincy accuses the prosecutor of engaging in a WitchHunt (and briefly ends up in jail for contempt after pulling GodwinsLaw), and finally shuts him down by proving that the fire was accidental.
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** An antagonistic example in one episode: after the owner of a burned-down warehouse is discovered to have been born into a {{mafia}} family, a federal prosecutor gets involved and charges him not with arson or the death of a janitor, but with enough counts of mail fraud to carry a fifty-year sentence--stemming from his attempts to collect on the insurance policy. The prosecutor then compounds this by convening a second grand jury when the first one declines to indict, which doesn't count as double jeopardy since the grand jury isn't an actual criminal trial. Quincy accuses the prosecutor of engaging in a WitchHunt (and briefly ends up in jail for contempt after pulling GodwinsLaw), and finally shuts him down by proving that the fire was accidental.

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** An antagonistic example in one episode: after the owner of a burned-down warehouse is discovered to have been born into [[TheMafia a {{mafia}} mafia family, a federal prosecutor gets involved and charges him not with arson or the death of a janitor, but with enough counts of mail fraud to carry a fifty-year sentence--stemming from his attempts to collect on the insurance policy. The prosecutor then compounds this by convening a second grand jury when the first one declines to indict, which doesn't count as double jeopardy since the grand jury isn't an actual criminal trial. Quincy accuses the prosecutor of engaging in a WitchHunt (and briefly ends up in jail for contempt after pulling GodwinsLaw), and finally shuts him down by proving that the fire was accidental.

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* KarmaHoudini: Per the above example in HeroicBSOD concerning the snake incident- Quincy threatened to kill a man with a deadly snake yet receives no punishment for it. Then again, the only present witnesses to this were Monahan and Brill who probably didn't give a damn and let it slide, and if anything, they'd claim the killer's accusation was falsified.

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* JusticeByOtherLegalMeans:
** A kidnapper is arrested without the victim being found, creating a de facto HostageSituation. Quincy figures out from the forensic evidence that the kidnapper stashed the victim on the grounds of a national park, and the prosecutor tosses the case in exchange for the victim's exact location so they can be rescued. The kidnapper starts to walk out of the courtroom only to be immediately arrested by the FBI, and the prosecutor helpfully explains that because the national park is federal land, the federal Department of Justice also has jurisdiction in the case, so he's getting sent up the river by Uncle Sam.
** An antagonistic example in one episode: after the owner of a burned-down warehouse is discovered to have been born into a {{mafia}} family, a federal prosecutor gets involved and charges him not with arson or the death of a janitor, but with enough counts of mail fraud to carry a fifty-year sentence--stemming from his attempts to collect on the insurance policy. The prosecutor then compounds this by convening a second grand jury when the first one declines to indict, which doesn't count as double jeopardy since the grand jury isn't an actual criminal trial. Quincy accuses the prosecutor of engaging in a WitchHunt (and briefly ends up in jail for contempt after pulling GodwinsLaw), and finally shuts him down by proving that the fire was accidental.
* KarmaHoudini: Per the above example in HeroicBSOD concerning the snake incident- Quincy threatened to kill a man with a deadly snake yet receives no punishment for it. Then again, the only present witnesses to this were Monahan and Brill who probably didn't give a damn and let it slide, and if anything, they'd claim the killer's accusation was falsified.

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