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* ByTheBookCop: Adam believes in following regulations and police procedure. Unfortunately, this tends to get him stonewalled when certain aspects of his investigations prove to be not nearly as black-and-white as he'd like, or when his own desired outcome is hampered by the very procedure he upholds.
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* AmoralAttorney: The JerkAss ADA in the pilot, who Adam reveals had once tried to persuade him to perjure himself in court in an effort to convict a defendant.
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* DiplomaticImpunity: One VillainOfTheWeek is a foreign diplomat who has been holding a woman from his native country as a slave in his employ, and he and his agents make full use of the immunity to prosecution their positions grant them. When Grady hypothetically asks the ADA what to do if diplomats commit crimes such as murder, she admits that even in such cases, their immunity means they could just get away with it scot-free.
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* ShootHimHeHasAWallet: What kicks off the plot of "Friendly Fire." Adam and an older detective head to the scene of a burglary and get shot at by the crook, who escapes shortly after. Moments later, the burglar's partner-in-crime comes out of the building and attempts to flee, but stops when the cops order him to; from the way he is positioned, the other detective thinks he's going for a gun, and when the guy turns around to face them, the detective shoots him--despite Adam telling him to stay his hand mere seconds earlier. As it turns out, the guy wasn't armed at all, but the cop refuses to accept responsibility (as doing so would potentially cost him his pension) and he pins the blame on Adam instead, which Adam has to spend the rest of the episode [[ClearMyName clearing up]].
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* HeroicBSOD: Malloy goes through one in "Bashing," after her younger brother is beaten up by thugs for being gay [[spoiler:and subsequently dies from internal bleeding because he wouldn't go to the hospital]]. Grady finds her throwing glasses from the bar at the wall, while trying (and failing miserably) to hold back her crying.
* IAmTheNoun: In "Self Defense," Adam goes to confront a wife-beater at his usual watering-hole, and starts laying some threats on the man. One of the guy's buddies says he's going to call the cops, only for Adam to frostily inform him, "I ''am'' the cops, on unofficial business, of course."
* IAmTheNoun: In "Self Defense," Adam goes to confront a wife-beater at his usual watering-hole, and starts laying some threats on the man. One of the guy's buddies says he's going to call the cops, only for Adam to frostily inform him, "I ''am'' the cops, on unofficial business, of course."
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* ExactWords: In "Homecoming," while driving newly-released former gang-banger Miguel around, Adam responds to a dispatch-call about two armed felons in the area, and prior to giving chase he warns Miguel to stay in the car. Miguel does just that...while driving the car around the block to cut off the crooks' escape for Adam to catch them.
--> '''Miguel:''' You said stay in the car. I stayed in the car.
--> '''Miguel:''' You said stay in the car. I stayed in the car.
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* AllAbusersAreMale: The husband of Malloy's friend Lisa in "Self Defense" is a particularly manipulative example. Then there's the father in "Kid Stuff" who is shown to be a big JerkAss and is particularly hard on his adopted son, in addition to the other kids he coaches in basketball [[spoiler:but who is revealed to be a subversion, as while he's initially suspected of abusing the boy due to his general jerkassery, he's in fact innocent--it's ''his wife'' who's hurting the kid]].
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* DomesticAbuse: Malloy's friend Lisa, in "Self Defense," is made subject to physical and psychological abuse at her husband's hands, as the episode's ColdOpen reveals.
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* WhatTheHellHero:
** Roughly OnceAnEpisode, Grady catches hell from Adam whenever the former uses his usual hot-blooded tactics to try and solve the episode's problem, oftentimes without informing Adam, which in turn leads to the police's investigation of the situation getting even more complicated or the perp filing complaints against the department.
** Adam himself is on the receiving end of a harsh lecture from Willis in "The Group," after he uses their mutual support group for Vietnam War veterans to subtly interrogate, collect evidence on and then arrest the newest member, who Adam suspects of being behind the killings of three Vietnamese women over a two-week period.
--> '''Willis:''' Good bust for you, huh?
--> '''Adam:''' When I get a killer off the streets, it's always a good bust.
--> '''Willis:''' You used us, man. You used ''the group''.
--> '''Adam:''' The guy is dangerous.
--> '''Willis:''' Adam, ''every guy'' in our group is dangerous. And they got but one place to open up and talk about it. And you come and you trample all over it.
* WhatTheHellHero:
** Roughly OnceAnEpisode, Grady catches hell from Adam whenever the former uses his usual hot-blooded tactics to try and solve the episode's problem, oftentimes without informing Adam, which in turn leads to the police's investigation of the situation getting even more complicated or the perp filing complaints against the department.
** Adam himself is on the receiving end of a harsh lecture from Willis in "The Group," after he uses their mutual support group for Vietnam War veterans to subtly interrogate, collect evidence on and then arrest the newest member, who Adam suspects of being behind the killings of three Vietnamese women over a two-week period.
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--> '''Adam:''' When I get a killer off the streets, it's always a good bust.
--> '''Willis:''' You used us, man. You used ''the group''.
--> '''Adam:''' The guy is dangerous.
--> '''Willis:''' Adam, ''every guy'' in our group is dangerous. And they got but one place to open up and talk about it. And you come and you trample all over it.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: Adam's friend Willis runs a support-group for men who served in Vietnam and are still suffering the psychological trauma of the things they experienced while there; Adam himself is a regular member. [=S01E08=], "The Group," also focuses on one of these men, a newcomer to the support group who also happens to be an assistant instructor at the dojo where Grady teaches; the man in question still wears his dog-tags, and when first seen he's having a mental flashback where a woman screams "I'm on your side!" followed by an explosion, all while he's in the midst of a crowd witnessing a Vietnamese woman's lifeless body at a crime scene.
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* LastNameBasis: Pretty much everyone--Adam, Grady, recurring characters, guest characters--has this with Malloy, since she never goes by a first name. According to her, this was because her parents could never agree on a name for her during ''her first 12 years'', so she just stuck with using her surname.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Lt. Charlie Pine, Adam's chief. He cuts Adam quite a lot of slack, particularly as it relates to working with a loose cannon like Grady.
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* ExternalCombustion: The opening scene for "Shadows" has one of Adam's police friends get killed by one of these.
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: S01E05, "Tables Turned," has the good guys protect a female lawyer from her StalkerWithACrush, a rapist she'd previously gotten acquitted. At the end of the episode, the lawyer lets them know she's still going to continue representing clients like him, since they're considered innocent till proven guilty. Prompting Adam to ask: "If you had a daughter in your position, what would you tell her to do?"
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: S01E05, [=S01E05=], "Tables Turned," has the good guys protect a female lawyer from her StalkerWithACrush, a rapist she'd previously gotten acquitted. At the end of the episode, the lawyer lets them know she's still going to continue representing clients like him, since they're considered innocent till proven guilty. Prompting Adam to ask: "If you had a daughter in your position, what would you tell her to do?"
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: S01E05, "Tables Turned," has the good guys protect a female lawyer from her StalkerWithACrush, a rapist she'd previously gotten acquitted. At the end of the episode, the lawyer lets them know she's still going to continue representing clients like him, since they're considered innocent till proven guilty. Prompting Adam to ask: "If you had a daughter in your position, what would you tell her to do?"
--> '''Lawyer:''' ...I don't know.
--> '''Lawyer:''' ...I don't know.
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* EnemyEatsYourLunch: One episode has Grady intimidate the VillainOfTheWeek, a rapist who commits his crimes to asset his dominance, by sitting next to the guy in a crowded movie theater and snagging his popcorn right out of his bag while smirking. It works because Grady easily kicked the guy's ass earlier in the episode.
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* EnemyEatsYourLunch: One episode has Grady intimidate the VillainOfTheWeek, a rapist who commits his crimes to asset assert his dominance, by sitting next to the guy in a crowded movie theater and snagging his popcorn right out of his bag while smirking. It works because Grady easily kicked the guy's ass earlier in the episode.
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* EatingYourLunch: One episode has Grady intimidate the VillainOfTheWeek, a rapist who commits his crimes to asset his dominance, by sitting next to the guy in a crowded movie theater and snagging his popcorn right out of his bag while smirking. It works because Grady easily kicked the guy's ass earlier in the episode.
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* EatingYourLunch: EnemyEatsYourLunch: One episode has Grady intimidate the VillainOfTheWeek, a rapist who commits his crimes to asset his dominance, by sitting next to the guy in a crowded movie theater and snagging his popcorn right out of his bag while smirking. It works because Grady easily kicked the guy's ass earlier in the episode.
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* BullyingADragon: Happens to Grady pretty often. In the pilot alone, a gang of toughs try to mug him for his jacket...a CurbStompBattle is what they get.
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* AbusiveParents: The episode "Kid Stuff" has the mother of a child she gave up for adoption, who suspects that his new parents may be abusing him, a feeling strengthened by the fact that they've recently stopped her visitation rights. As well, Adam recalls that he once had a case where he confronted and beat an abusive dad for hitting his son; unfortunately, while Adam was being arraigned in court on assault charges from that incident, the father killed the boy.
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* AbusiveParents: The episode "Kid Stuff" has the mother of a child she gave woman fearing that her child, who she'd given up for adoption, who suspects that is being abused by his new parents may be abusing him, adopted parents, a feeling strengthened by the fact that they've recently stopped her visitation rights. As well, rights and the observation by one of the child's teachers that the father inspires fear in all the kids. In the same episode, Adam recalls that he once had a case where he confronted and beat an abusive dad for hitting his son; unfortunately, while Adam was being arraigned in court on assault charges from that incident, the father killed the boy.
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* CoolBike: Grady owns one.
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* LocalHangout: Malloy's, co-owned by the titular character and Adam, and it's where Grady works as a bartender.
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* BuddyCopShow: A variation, in that while Adam is a (mostly) straight-laced detective-sergeant, Grady isn't a cop at all, but a streetwise martial arts expert with disdain for the rules and red tape that come with police procedure. Nonetheless, TheyFightCrime.
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* AmoralAttorney: The JerkAss ADA in the pilot, who Adam reveals had once tried to persuade him to perjure himself in court in an effort to convict a defendant.
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* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: Grady employs quite a lot of spinning jump-kicks in his fighting style. The opening credits even shows a brief clip of a fight scene from the pilot two-parter where he performs a double spinning jump-kick.
* OrphanageOfFear: During the 20-year separation in the back-story, child!Grady grew up in one of these, whose caretaker frequently beat on him. Grady ran away from there eventually...but unfortunately he wound up in prison, where he would spend a significant portion of time before eventually making his way to the United States.
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--> '''Adam:''' That prison must've had some martial arts program.
--> '''Grady:''' Actually, the instructors weren't so hot, but they did know how to motivate a guy.
--> '''Adam:''' Yeah, like how?
--> '''Grady:''' Nightly showers.
* RedOniBlueOni: Grady's the red, Adam's the blue.
--> '''Adam:''' That prison must've had some martial arts program.
--> '''Grady:''' Actually, the instructors weren't so hot, but they did know how to motivate a guy.
--> '''Adam:''' Yeah, like how?
--> '''Grady:''' Nightly showers.
* RedOniBlueOni: Grady's the red, Adam's the blue.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Both Adam and Grady. This inevitably leads to the occasional SnarkToSnarkCombat.
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* ChaoticGood: Grady's a good guy, no doubt; he just doesn't subscribe to the letter of the law as Adam does.
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* LawfulGood: Adam, as a veteran detective. However, there are a few times when it's hinted that he might bend the rules a little to get a suitable outcome.
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''Street Justice'' was a crime drama TV series created by Creator/StephenJCannell and starring Carl Weathers and Bryan Genesse, which ran for two seasons from 1991 to 1993.
Police detective Adam Beaudreaux (Weathers), a former US Marine, reunites with Grady Jameson (Genesse), who Adam had befriended during his tour of duty in Vietnam, after 20 years of having searched for the then-preteen Grady. However, Adam is quick to learn that Grady, now a seasoned martial arts expert with street smarts picked up during those 20 years, isn't quite as respectful of law and order as Adam is, an issue which oftentimes causes friction between the two old friends.
In an effort to give Grady a sense of discipline and help him get back on his feet, Adam puts the younger man to work at a bar he co-owns with Malloy (Charlene Fernetz), the daughter of Adam's deceased police partner. Yet despite their clashing views on the law, Adam and Grady [[TheyFightCrime fight crime]] together, with Grady's street-savvy working in places where Adam's badge can't successfully go.
!!Tropes present in ''Street Justice'':
* ChaoticGood: Grady's a good guy, no doubt; he just doesn't subscribe to the letter of the law as Adam does.
* TheDeterminator: Adam kept up his search for Grady for 20 years, even putting a good portion of his police-detective salary toward hiring private detectives to find any trace of his former friend.
* IWillFindYou: The pilot two-parter reveals that, when Adam was forced to leave Vietnam, he promised Grady he would return and find him one day, no matter what. That promise was the driving force behind Adam's 20-year search for Grady.
* LawfulGood: Adam, as a veteran detective. However, there are a few times when it's hinted that he might bend the rules a little to get a suitable outcome.
* ParentalAbandonment: Grady's parents were Canadian missionaries who were killed during a raid on their village by Viet Cong soldiers.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: The main source of conflict between Adam and Grady. Putting it in simple terms, Adam believes in procedure, while Grady would rather take care of problems ''his'' way.
--> '''Adam:''' It's the law.
--> '''Grady:''' It's ''your'' law.
Police detective Adam Beaudreaux (Weathers), a former US Marine, reunites with Grady Jameson (Genesse), who Adam had befriended during his tour of duty in Vietnam, after 20 years of having searched for the then-preteen Grady. However, Adam is quick to learn that Grady, now a seasoned martial arts expert with street smarts picked up during those 20 years, isn't quite as respectful of law and order as Adam is, an issue which oftentimes causes friction between the two old friends.
In an effort to give Grady a sense of discipline and help him get back on his feet, Adam puts the younger man to work at a bar he co-owns with Malloy (Charlene Fernetz), the daughter of Adam's deceased police partner. Yet despite their clashing views on the law, Adam and Grady [[TheyFightCrime fight crime]] together, with Grady's street-savvy working in places where Adam's badge can't successfully go.
!!Tropes present in ''Street Justice'':
* ChaoticGood: Grady's a good guy, no doubt; he just doesn't subscribe to the letter of the law as Adam does.
* TheDeterminator: Adam kept up his search for Grady for 20 years, even putting a good portion of his police-detective salary toward hiring private detectives to find any trace of his former friend.
* IWillFindYou: The pilot two-parter reveals that, when Adam was forced to leave Vietnam, he promised Grady he would return and find him one day, no matter what. That promise was the driving force behind Adam's 20-year search for Grady.
* LawfulGood: Adam, as a veteran detective. However, there are a few times when it's hinted that he might bend the rules a little to get a suitable outcome.
* ParentalAbandonment: Grady's parents were Canadian missionaries who were killed during a raid on their village by Viet Cong soldiers.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: The main source of conflict between Adam and Grady. Putting it in simple terms, Adam believes in procedure, while Grady would rather take care of problems ''his'' way.
--> '''Adam:''' It's the law.
--> '''Grady:''' It's ''your'' law.
