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* TrappedByGamblingDebts: Millie's partner. He stole from his suppliers to bet on the dogs. [[spoiler:They slit his throat.]]
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** In the second series, Millie has a very unpleasant encounter with her black-market-partner's Maltese suppliers. She manages to talk her way out of it, bargaining her services as the front man for their black market goods. But, on getting out, she pushes her luck with the guy who drove the windowless van...
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Referring to the Maltese and their trafficking in girls. Neither the police nor the Circle really care about scents and nylons, but as soon as it comes out that girls are being sold out of a hotel lobby...
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* SexSlave: Millie's partner's suppliers don't just smuggle goods. They traffic girls out of Russia and into their hotel. The girls' parents ''think'' they're getting them jobs as chambermaids...
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* VomitDiscretionShot: In the second series, after Millie discovers that the Maltese smugglers killed her partner.
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* TheBaroness: Somewhere between the two types. She's not unattractive, but not a sexpot. A "woman of a certain age", but willing to engage in cold-blooded torture. In the second series.
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* BadGuysPlayPool: In the second series, Jane and Lucy are trying to track down whoever [[spoiler:took Mellie]], and end up in a pool hall.
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* BadGuysPlayPool: In the second series, Jane and Lucy are trying to track down whoever [[spoiler:took Mellie]], and end up in a pool hall.
-->'''Jane:''' Did you see him with any bad types?
-->'''Bookie:''' It's all bad types in here, love.
-->'''Jane:''' Did you see him with any bad types?
-->'''Bookie:''' It's all bad types in here, love.
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* PluckyGirl: Susan, the bored mother of two, talks her way into a meeting with a police
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* PluckyGirl: Susan, the bored mother of two, talks her way into a meeting with a police police.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The general Susan talks to in the second episode of the second series. It turns out he's ''not'' behind the events, and as soon as she gives him all her information, he immediately works out what has happened and absolutely forgives Susan. He even provides her a car so she can go see her friends, one of whom has been hurt.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The general Susan talks to in the second episode of the second series. It turns out he's ''not'' behind the events, and as soon as she gives him all her information, he immediately works out what has happened and absolutely forgives Susan. He even provides her a car so she can go see her friends, one of whom has been hurt.
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* GloryDays: It's Susan's longing to recapture the sense of excitement and importance that she felt during the war years that galvanises her to go [[PuttingTheTeamBackTogether get the team back together]] and go in search of a serial killer.
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* GloryDays: It's Susan's longing to recapture the sense of excitement and importance that she felt during the war years that galvanises her to go [[PuttingTheTeamBackTogether [[PuttingTheBandBackTogether get the team back together]] and go in search of a serial killer.
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* GloryDays: It's Susan's longing to recapture the sense of excitement and importance that she felt during the war years that galvanises her to go [[PuttingTheTeamBackTogether get the team back together]] and go in search of a serial killer.
* GloryDays: It's Susan's longing to recapture the sense of excitement and importance that she felt during the war years that galvanises her to go [[PuttingTheTeamBackTogether get the team back together]] and go in search of a serial killer.
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** When Susan realized the first victim ... isn't. [[spoiler: She's the eighth, at least.]]
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* DeadManSwitch[=/=]MexicanStandoff: At the end, Susan has a gun, the killer has a grenade.
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* EurekaMoment: When Susan finally realizes the killer finds his victims on trains.
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** When Susan realized the first victim ... isn't. [[spoiler: She's the eighth, at least.]]
---> '''Susan''': The first time you baked a cake, what happened?
:: Unfortunately for the ladies' credibility with the police, sometimes the killer is further ahead than they had realized.
* FallGuy: [[spoiler: Gerald Wiggins]] The killer chooses a patsy first, ''then'' goes hunting for victims, and finally plants incriminating evidence.
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** When Susan realized the first victim ... isn't. [[spoiler: She's the eighth, at least.]]
---> '''Susan''': The first time you baked a cake, what happened?
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* FallGuy: [[spoiler: Gerald Wiggins]] The killer chooses a patsy first, ''then'' goes hunting for victims, and finally plants incriminating evidence.
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* BreaktheCutie: everyone but especially Lucy
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* PhotographicMemory: Lucy has a perfect memory, and is also a page-at-a-glance failure. PlayedForDrama later on.
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* PhotographicMemory: Lucy has a perfect memory, and is also a page-at-a-glance failure.reader. PlayedForDrama later on.
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* Housewife: what Susan and Lucy became after the war. Millie does her best to avoid this trope.
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* BadassLongcoat: The four ladies all frequently wear long coats, and they all look sexy and badass in them.
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* BadassLongcoat: The four ladies all frequently wear long coats, and they all look sexy and badass in them. Justified because it was the fashion at the time.
* DadTheVeteran: Timothy. But he does not seem to be much of a hardass.
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* DomesticAbuse: Lucy's husband isn't a nice man.husband, Harry
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* HiddenInPlainSight: The killer. They realize in the first episode that he's a ticket taker or something like that. [[spoiler:Only it turns out he doesn't take tickets. He's a rather clever bastard and he's done this sort of thing before, framing people for ''seven'' other murders. This time he's framing a railway guard who's rather simple thanks to a head wound.]]
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* HiddenInPlainSight: The killer. They realize in the first episode that he's a ticket taker or something like that. [[spoiler:Only it [[spoiler: But then the trope is subverted. It turns out he doesn't take tickets. He's a rather clever bastard and he's done this sort of thing before, framing people for that the killer is has has killed ''seven'' other murders.girls before and framed others for the crime. This time he's framing a railway guard who's rather simple thanks to a head wound.]]
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* NearRapeExperience: Lucy is used as bait to try and draw the killer out. Unfortunately, they snag a common date-rapist instead of a serial-killer/necrophiliac.
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* PhotographicMemory: Lucy has a perfect memory, and is also a page-at-a-glance failure. PlayedForDrama later on.
* PhotographicMemory: Lucy has a perfect memory, and is also a page-at-a-glance failure. PlayedForDrama later on.
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* FourGirlEnsemble:
** TheLeader: Susan. She does love her husband and children, it's just that they're not enough for her, so she decides to hunt a serial killer. She sees the patterns and provides the group with its drive to succeed.
** TheLancer: Millie. Whereas Susan settled down, Millie took her own advice to "Never be ordinary" and traveled the world. Only now she's working as a waitress for a pervert. Until she tells him where to shove it. Where Susan sees patterns, Millie tries to think outside the box.
** TheBigGuy: Jean. She's the TeamMom, who keeps everyone on point. She also pulls out the stops and threatens someone with blackmail in order to get her information.
** TheSmartGuy: Lucy. She's the small, naive one, but she can also memorize entire novels of data in a single sitting.
** TheLeader: Susan. She does love her husband and children, it's just that they're not enough for her, so she decides to hunt a serial killer. She sees the patterns and provides the group with its drive to succeed.
** TheLancer: Millie. Whereas Susan settled down, Millie took her own advice to "Never be ordinary" and traveled the world. Only now she's working as a waitress for a pervert. Until she tells him where to shove it. Where Susan sees patterns, Millie tries to think outside the box.
** TheBigGuy: Jean. She's the TeamMom, who keeps everyone on point. She also pulls out the stops and threatens someone with blackmail in order to get her information.
** TheSmartGuy: Lucy. She's the small, naive one, but she can also memorize entire novels of data in a single sitting.
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* AcceptableBreaksFromReality: You can't disarm a grenade by putting the pin back in; that's like unfiring a gun by unpulling the trigger. However, a massive explosion wouldn't have been in keeping with the rest of the miniseries.
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* FreudianExcuse: The killer was trapped under rubble with a dead woman for three days during the war, after which he was ''different''. However, the team's investigation showed that all that did was exacerbate his already existing tendencies (the woman he was obsessed with, whose death he's repeatedly recreating, filed a complaint against him three months before the bombing that killed her and trapped him with her body).
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* WorthyOpponent: The killer, by the end, comes to see Susan this way. He's enthralled and delighted that she is the only person ever to figure him out and see past the false trails he was laying.
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The Bletchley Circle is a 2012 miniseries about a quartet of women who solve crimes in 1952. The four worked as codebreakers during the war, though they're not allowed to say anything about it any more, of course. Their new career as criminal investigators begins when Susan, one of the four, takes advantage of her free time as a middle class housewife to investigate a pattern in a series of murders, using the information available from the BBC.
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* HiddenInPlainSight: The killer. They realize in the first episode that he's a ticket taker or something like that. [[spoiler:Only it turns out he doesn't. He's a rather clever bastard and he's done this sort of thing before, framing people for ''seven'' other murders. This time he's framing a railway guard who's rather simple thanks to a head wound.]]
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'''Millie:''' It means they weren't raped and then murdered. They were murdered and then raped.
-->'''Lucy:''' What does "post-mortem penetration" mean?\\
'''Millie:''' It means they weren't raped and then murdered. They were murdered and then raped.
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* WickedCultured: The killer can quote Latin poetry.
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* BookEnds: The series starts with Susan noticing a spiral pattern in the four murders. It ends when she notices a spiral pattern in all 12.
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* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Millie. She went on a series of adventures after the war, but now she has a crappy job with a pervert boss. Now she's a little bitter.
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* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Millie. She went on a series of adventures after the war, but now she has a crappy job with a pervert boss. Now she's a little bitter.
* BadassLongcoat: The four ladies all frequently wear long coats and they all look sexy and badass in them.
* EurekaMoment: When Susan finally realizes the killer finds his victims on trains.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Susan (sanguine), Jean (choleric), Millie (melancholic), and Lucy (phlegmatic).
* HiddenInPlainSight: The killer. They realize in the first episode that he's a ticket taker or something like that. He works for the railway, which makes the railway his perfect hunting ground.
* ILoveTheDead: The killer in the first episode. The first shot after the codebreaking intro is of the killer fondling a corpse. It's understatedly graphic.
* TheIngenue: Lucy is a little younger and a ''lot'' more innocent.
* BadassLongcoat: The four ladies all frequently wear long coats and they all look sexy and badass in them.
* EurekaMoment: When Susan finally realizes the killer finds his victims on trains.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Susan (sanguine), Jean (choleric), Millie (melancholic), and Lucy (phlegmatic).
* HiddenInPlainSight: The killer. They realize in the first episode that he's a ticket taker or something like that. He works for the railway, which makes the railway his perfect hunting ground.
* ILoveTheDead: The killer in the first episode. The first shot after the codebreaking intro is of the killer fondling a corpse. It's understatedly graphic.
* TheIngenue: Lucy is a little younger and a ''lot'' more innocent.
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* PluckyGirl: Susan, the bored mother of two, talks her way into a meeting with a police
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'''Millie:''' It means they weren't raped and then murdered. They were murdered and then raped.
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* TeamMom: Jean is older than the other three and was their supervisor in the war.
* TechnologyPorn: The opening credit sequence is chock full of WWII-era code equipment in use.
* TechnologyPorn: The opening credit sequence is chock full of WWII-era code equipment in use.
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