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* NotSoDifferent: Web to the various [=UnSubs=], which is made explicit by Rebecca's voiceover profile in "Declawed":
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* BodyguardCrush: Many fans argue that Danny has this towards Rebecca. It's not explicitly explained but it's hinted that he develops a crush on her as the series progresses.
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* ActorAllusion: No way in the Verse Paul saying to [[Creator/AdamBaldwin Danny]] that he and his wife went to a [[Series/{{Firefly}} space western]] [[Film/{{Serenity}} movie]] wasn't one of these. Especially with Danny's snide "Sounds ''great''" response.
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''The Inside'' was a 2005 PoliceProcedural from Creator/TimMinear and Howard Gordon. It was based around the Violent Crimes Unit in Los Angeles, and a team of [[TheProfiler profilers]] that solved particularly brutal crimes. Comprising the team is TheLeader Virgil "Web" Webster, his NumberTwo Paul Ryan, Danny Love, Danny's {{sidekick}} Melody Sim, Carter Howard and rookie agent Rebecca Locke.
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''The Inside'' was a 2005 PoliceProcedural from Creator/TimMinear and Howard Gordon. It was based around the Violent Crimes Unit in Los Angeles, and a team of [[TheProfiler profilers]] that solved particularly brutal crimes. Comprising the team is TheLeader Virgil "Web" Webster, his NumberTwo Paul Ryan, [[TheBigGuy Danny Love, Love]], Danny's {{sidekick}} Melody Sim, tech genius Carter Howard and rookie agent Rebecca Locke.
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* CaptainObvious: Danny, virtually all the time.
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''The Inside'' was a 2005 PoliceProcedural from TimMinear Creator/TimMinear and Howard Gordon. It was based around the Violent Crimes Unit in Los Angeles, and a team of [[TheProfiler profilers]] that solved particularly brutal crimes. Comprising the team is TheLeader Virgil "Web" Webster, his NumberTwo Paul Ryan, Danny Love, Danny's {{sidekick}} Melody Sim, Carter Howard and rookie agent Rebecca Locke.
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* DamselInDistress: Rebecca's whole character is based on being bait for serial killers.
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* FauxActionGirl: Whenever Rebecca confronts the [=UnSub=] on her own, it rarely goes well for her.
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* ActorAllusion: No way in the Verse Paul saying to [[Creator/AdamBaldwin Danny]] that he and his wife went to a [[Series/{{Firefly}} space western]] [[Film/{{Serenity}} movie]] wasn't one of these. Especially with Danny's snide "Sounds ''great''" response.
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''The Inside'' was a 2005 PoliceProcedural from TimMinear and Howard Gordon. It was based around the Violent Crimes Unit in Los Angeles, and a team of [[TheProfiler profilers]] that solved particularly brutal crimes. Comprising the team is [[TheCaptain leader]] [[MagnificentBastard Virgil "Web" Webster]], his NumberTwo [[DoggedNiceGuy Paul Ryan]], DeadpanSnarker [[TheBigGuy Danny Love]], Danny's [[PlatonicLifePartners sidekick]] Melody Sim, TechnoWizard [[TokenMinority Carter Howard]] and [[BrokenBird rookie agent]] Rebecca Locke.
Web handpicked each member of his team to fill a role: Paul was TheConscience, frequently serving as Devil's Advocate for Web. Danny was the comic relief and action guy, there to conduct dangerous operations and make everyone laugh. Carter was frequently the OnlySaneMan, staying behind his computers. Mel - well, we have no idea what she was, because everyone else got CharacterDevelopment but her. And Rebecca was the voice of the victims, having been kidnapped and held hostage by a serial killer when she was a girl.
Web handpicked each member of his team to fill a role: Paul was TheConscience, frequently serving as Devil's Advocate for Web. Danny was the comic relief and action guy, there to conduct dangerous operations and make everyone laugh. Carter was frequently the OnlySaneMan, staying behind his computers. Mel - well, we have no idea what she was, because everyone else got CharacterDevelopment but her. And Rebecca was the voice of the victims, having been kidnapped and held hostage by a serial killer when she was a girl.
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''The Inside'' was a 2005 PoliceProcedural from TimMinear and Howard Gordon. It was based around the Violent Crimes Unit in Los Angeles, and a team of [[TheProfiler profilers]] that solved particularly brutal crimes. Comprising the team is [[TheCaptain leader]] [[MagnificentBastard TheLeader Virgil "Web" Webster]], Webster, his NumberTwo [[DoggedNiceGuy Paul Ryan]], DeadpanSnarker [[TheBigGuy Ryan, Danny Love]], Love, Danny's [[PlatonicLifePartners sidekick]] {{sidekick}} Melody Sim, TechnoWizard [[TokenMinority Carter Howard]] Howard and [[BrokenBird rookie agent]] agent Rebecca Locke.
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* BadassDamsel: Rebecca, who has the brains and the shooting skills of the rest of the team, but due to BrokenBird status, keeps managing to be kidnapped by the [=UnSubs=] and her weaknesses exploited.
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->''"Officially, we're part of the Bureau's Violent Crimes Section - in reality, we work for Web. While we have the full resources of the L.A. field office, we're semi-autonomous, by which I mean completely independent. We take the cases Web chooses, and we pursue them to his satisfaction, which may or may not be completion. He gets bored sometimes . . . Web picks people for one reason: they have something he needs."''
-->-- '''Special Agent Paul Ryan''', "New Girl in Town"
''The Inside'' was a 2005 PoliceProcedural from TimMinear and Howard Gordon. It was based around the Violent Crimes Unit in Los Angeles, and a team of [[TheProfiler profilers]] that solved particularly brutal crimes. Comprising the team is [[TheCaptain leader]] [[MagnificentBastard Virgil "Web" Webster]], his NumberTwo [[DoggedNiceGuy Paul Ryan]], DeadpanSnarker [[TheBigGuy Danny Love]], Danny's [[PlatonicLifePartners sidekick]] Melody Sim, TechnoWizard [[TokenMinority Carter Howard]] and [[BrokenBird rookie agent]] Rebecca Locke.
Web handpicked each member of his team to fill a role: Paul was TheConscience, frequently serving as Devil's Advocate for Web. Danny was the comic relief and action guy, there to conduct dangerous operations and make everyone laugh. Carter was frequently the OnlySaneMan, staying behind his computers. Mel - well, we have no idea what she was, because everyone else got CharacterDevelopment but her. And Rebecca was the voice of the victims, having been kidnapped and held hostage by a serial killer when she was a girl.
The show was extremely well-written, with such names as Minear, Gordon, Creator/JaneEspenson, David Fury, and Ben Edlund on its staff, and delighted in shocking its viewers with gory crime scenes and a fascinating cast of characters.
Unfortunately, ''The Inside'' had three big things working against it: it debuted the same year as another show about profilers, CBS's ''Series/CriminalMinds''; it was scheduled to air opposite ABC ratings juggernaut ''Series/DancingWithTheStars''; and [[ScrewedByTheNetwork it was on]] Creator/{{Fox}}. Only seven episodes (out of thirteen) were ever aired - [[TheFireflyEffect in completely random order, of course]] - and the series was summarily canceled. The moral of the story? Never let Tim work on your show if it's on Fox, as it will be ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' all over again. Unless you're [[Creator/JossWhedon Joss]]. [[Series/{{Dollhouse}} Then you'll get two half-seasons.]]
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!!Provides Examples Of:
* ActorAllusion: No way in the Verse Paul saying to [[Creator/AdamBaldwin Danny]] that he and his wife went to a [[Series/{{Firefly}} space western]] [[Film/{{Serenity}} movie]] wasn't one of these. Especially with Danny's snide "Sounds ''great''" response.
* AloneWithThePsycho: Rebecca, nigh constantly. At least four episodes have her kidnapped or otherwise incapacitated by the [=UnSub=].
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in Skin and Bones:
--->'''Mel:''' She's ''always'' working a case, and she's ''always'' getting taken.
--->'''Paul:''' Mel...
--->'''Mel:''' I'm just saying..."Girl to Grab" isn't just Volume Four of some encyclopedia, it's Rebecca's ''life''. She gets taken - like it's a hobby.
--->'''Danny:''' It ''is'' on the freaky side of often...
* AlwaysMurder
* AntiHero: Web, who only escapes VillainProtagonist status for two reasons - he works for the good guys and [[spoiler: it's never confirmed if he is or was in the past, a serial killer]].
* BackFromTheDead: An atypical example. [[spoiler:Special Agent Margaret Alvarez]] is killed in the pilot, but appears in "Thief of Hearts" since parts of it take place three years ago.
* BadassDamsel: Rebecca, who has the brains and the shooting skills of the rest of the team, but due to BrokenBird status, keeps managing to be kidnapped by the [=UnSubs=] and her weaknesses exploited.
* BatmanGambit: Web's [[PlanetOfHats hat]], which he demonstrates magnificently starting with "New Girl in Town" and keeps on doing in every episode. A good rule of thumb is that whatever is happening, Web's pulling the strings.
** One of Web's best is in "Thief of Hearts". He [[spoiler: bribes a woman to say she witnessed a suspect doing something suspicious, which was enough to get a warrant for the suspect's house, and planted the evidence he committed the crimes. All Paul had to do was not question the woman too much . . . which he doesn't do until three years later, when Web has a better team and can find the real killer.]] He may have also [[spoiler: acquired Stacey Travers' heart and buried it in Pope's garden, so that Paul would find it and "prove" Pope guilty.]] Is it possible to play XanatosSpeedChess with various {{Batman Gambit}}s? Because Virgil Webster does it for shits and giggles.
* BetterTheDevilYouKnow: Why Paul hasn't tried to take over from Web or allow anyone to remove Web from the S.A. position.
-->'''Paul''': I guess I felt that the world was safer with Web in here.
-->'''Rebecca''': In here. As in, not out there.
* BigBrotherInstinct: What Paul has for Rebecca and why he mistrusts Web, though Danny thinks that Paul really just wants Rebecca for himself.
* BondageIsBad: Played with in "Old Wounds". The [=UnSub=] is certainly playing the trope straight, and Paul shows disgust over the [=BDSM=] paraphernalia, but Web and Rebecca don't find anything out of the ordinary about it.
* BoomHeadshot: Web takes out the [=UnSub=] in the pilot like this, from out of nowhere.
-->'''Web''': Simon Gunther! *BANG* Let her go! *lowers his gun* Damn, got that backwards.
* BreakTheCutie: Rebecca comes pre-broken, but that doesn't stop Web from [[KickTheDog continuing to break her even further]], using her pain to [[TookALevelInBadass make her stronger]]. Paul gets this pretty badly in "Thief of Hearts".
* BrokenBird: Rebecca, bordering on EmotionlessGirl.
** Lampshaded by Mel in "Point of Origin":
--->''(to Paul) Awww, are you talking about your poor defenseless sparrow with the broken wing again?''
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Paul's wife Karen hears he's had a bad day, draws up a bath, and leaves her panties and a bottle of wine in the hallway for him when he gets home. The only problem is - it's the exact M.O. of [[ThatOneCase a serial killer Paul hunted]] three years ago and who's resurfaced.
* CatchPhrase: Like ''Criminal Minds'', ''The Inside'' uses "[=UnSub=]" to refer to its killers, short for "unknown subject".
* CaptainObvious: Danny, virtually all the time.
* CentralTheme: At what point as a profiler do you cease to do your job and become HeWhoFightsMonsters?. Also likes to play on the socially expected appearances a monster takes, to then show you the real one is unexpected and scarier.
* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Gun]]:
** Water added to aluminum iodine powder will start a fire. ("Point of Origin")
** Web instructing his hooker on how to act and dress, and dying her hair blonde. ("Declawed")
* TheChessmaster: Web. All others pale in comparison.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Subverted by "Everything Nice".
* ClearMyName: Web, in "Declawed", due to his actions in "Thief of Hearts". Rebecca does what she can to clear his name, but it's really Paul who gets Web his job back.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Rebecca Locke. Hoo boy, shall we count? Kidnapped as a small child by a serial killer, held hostage for months. Heavily hinted-at physical and sexual abuse. Only escaped due to a fire she'd set and ended up severely burned for a few years. Joined the FBI, where she's surrounded by a daily reminder of exactly how horrible people can be.
* DeadpanSnarker: Danny and Mel, who are a great double act. Carter gets in on it occasionally, as does Web, though his are usually [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Crowning Moments of Funny]]. The only two without this sense of humor are Paul and Rebecca.
* {{Determinator}}: Rebecca was - and is - willing to do anything to survive or solve a case, up to and including metaphorically sticking her fingers into her bloody psychological wounds. Deconstructed in ''The Loneliest Number'': her drive to survive makes it impossible for her to do her usual 'speak for the victims' whammy because she is literally incapable of empathizing with the desire to end your own life.
* DoubleMeaningTitle: ''All'' of them.
* DrivenToSuicide: The killer in "The Loneliest Number". Almost does it to Rebecca, though how much of that is the [=UnSub=] and how much of that is Rebecca being pre-[[BrokenBird broken]] is anyone's guess.
* EmotionlessGirl: Rebecca, due to her past.
* EmptyShell: The first victim in ''Gem''; Rebecca outright states she was dead long before her throat was cut.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** Rebecca getting stuck in the elevator because she's too busy reading a file to notice it's her floor, as well as carting all her luggage to the VCU because she came straight from LAX.
** Web interrogating Rebecca, discussing her failed applications to the BAU in DC (no, not [[Series/CriminalMinds that BAU]], [[ActorAllusion not yet anyway]]) and urging her to tell him her initial profile.
** Paul angrily packing up Alvarez's desk and watching Web's closed door.
** Mel being upset she didn't know Alvarez better, and asking Paul if she "seemed like a cat person".
** Danny reading the newspaper, saying they have no leads and offhandedly quipping "any one of us could be next".
* MrFanservice: Why hello there Adam Baldwin in kevlar, carrying a gun.
* FieryRedhead: Mel, though she's fairly level-headed and more likely to crack jokes at you.
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero - Rebecca Locke
** TheLancer - Paul Ryan
** TheBigGuy - Danny Love
** TheSmartGuy - Virgil Webster
** TheChick - Melody Sim
** SixthRanger - Carter
* FriendshipMoment: The end of "Skin and Bone", which is the finale. Rebecca's been kidnapped again and forced to confront the fact that she does need friends and she does need to start being a real human being. Paul, Danny, Mel, and Web show up to help redecorate her apartment, and Web [[ContinuityNod brings her a plant, telling her "welcome to Los Angeles"]].
* FromBadToWorse: Most cases, but most notably "Point of Origin" (whose unsub sets fires over ''all'' of Los Angeles, just to freak out the [=VCU=]).
* GoryDiscretionShot: Ahahaha, this show goes out of its way to ''show'' all the gore.
* GunNut: Danny shows elements of this, with his fondness for SWAT/tactical gear. A particular example comes in "Little Girl Lost" where his game of [[PlayingDoctor "I'll show you my gun if you show me yours"]] is used to stealth-disarm the park ranger/[=UnSub=] ''du jour.''
** Then again, he's played by [[Film/FullMetalJacket Animal Mother]][=/=][[{{Series/Chuck}} Col. Casey]]/[[{{Series/Firefly}} The Hero of Canton]], so no real surprise there...
* HandsomeLech: Danny, who totally wouldn't mind "pressing Rebecca's buttons".
* TheHeart: Paul's position on Web's team, made explicit in "Thief of Hearts". Though it's really Mel who serves as the best example of the trope.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Paul's turning into this, though he desperately doesn't want to. We don't know how far past this line Web is, but it's safe to say he's been this for a long time.
* HowWeGotHere: "Thief of Hearts" is how Paul joined the team three years ago.
* ItsPersonal: Pretty much every case, for Rebecca. "Thief of Hearts" and "Aiden" for Paul.
* KansasCityShuffle: If Web's ''not'' running a BatmanGambit, chances are he's running one of these instead.
* KickTheDog
* KillItWithFire: The serial arsonist in "Point of Origin". The episode also reveals this is how young Rebecca got away from her captor.
* LastNameBasis: Web, whom ''no one'' calls by anything other than "Web".
** In "Thief of Hearts", [[spoiler: Alvarez]] calls him "Virge", implying she knows him better than most.
* LittleMissBadass: The girl from "Little Girl Lost", who not only survives a march through the woods with a serial killer, she also deals with a rapidly-imbalanced and hallucinating Rebecca.
** Appropriately, [[spoiler: as the girl was herself a hallucination of Rebecca of her Becky George days]], Rebecca used to be one of these in her way. Like they said, very few kidnapping victims get home, even fewer make it there on their own.
* {{Manchild}}: Danny. Everyone on the team seems to regard his penchant for undercover ops and big sting operations as a kid playing with toys.
* TheMentallyDisturbed: Averted. Web berates Danny for reacting poorly to the revelation of [[spoiler:Alvarez]] being bipolar, saying that she was dealing with an illness and managing, not to be treated with scorn.
* MoodWhiplash: All the time, but "Thief of Hearts" is full of HappilyMarried Paul and his wife Karen juxtaposed with hideous murders involving hearts being ripped out of bodies and rolled-up Valentines stuck in their mouths.
* MonsterFangirl: Pope's lawyer, who legitimately thinks he's innocent and seems to have a moment of horror when he taunts the husband of one of his victims with how much he enjoyed killing the man's wife. Interestingly for this trope, Pope actually seems to care for her, as he [[spoiler: howls with as much anguish about her death as he did about getting caught]].
* NoMedicationForMe: Completely averted. [[spoiler: Special Agent Margaret Alvarez]] was bipolar, but medication and therapy seemed to be working well enough that no one suspected. That she went off her medication was a retroactive sign that she was self-destructing and no longer able to cope with the trauma of the case.
* NoSocialSkills: Rebecca, of course. To the point where even sitting in a restaurant and having a meal with her colleagues is uncomfortable.
* NotSoDifferent: Web to the various [=UnSubs=], which is made explicit by Rebecca's voiceover profile in "Declawed":
-->''Maybe something was taken from him. I believe we're looking for an older man - very lonely, very private, very patient. He chooses his victims carefully. They mean something to him.''
* PlatonicLifePartners: Danny and Mel.
* SadisticChoice
* ShakyPOVCam
* ShoutOut: In the pilot, Simon's security patch says "[[Series/{{Angel}} Wolfram]] Security".
** In "Everything Nice", Mel calls Bunch's knife his "[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings precious]]".
** Web's team works out of the "[[{{Film/Chinatown}} Hollis Mulray]] Federal Building."
* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Criminal Minds'' is ''The Inside'''s, and ''The Inside'' was one for ''Profiler''.
* StoryArc: "What happened to Rebecca as a child?" was explored and eventually revealed. "What's the deal with Web?" was not.
* SuicideIsPainless: Deconstructed by "The Loneliest Number", which shows both how painful suicidal impulses are, why people commit suicide, how suicide hotlines can be abused, and the impact a suicide has on family and friends.
* ThatOneCase: Paul has his in "Thief of Hearts".
* TokenMinority: Carter, the one black guy in LA.
* ToKnowHimIMustBecomeHim: What Web manipulates Rebecca into doing, regardless of her mental and emotional well-being.
** Lampshaded by Mel in ''Gem'', where she notes sarcastically that it's 'good' Rebecca isn't at the crime scene because she'd "do that creepy thing where she talks like the victim and solves the whole case and where's the fun in that for us?"
* TookALevelInBadass: Paul in "Declawed", when he shuts down Terry's investigation of Web because Terry threatened Rebecca.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Supervisory Special Agent Terry in "Declawed". Rebecca and Paul, in particular, are less than impressed.
* VillainProtagonist: If you ascribe to the theory that [[spoiler: Web is a serial killer and is training Rebecca to become one]].
* WhamLine:
** "Everyone is here. Ninth victim is [[spoiler: Margaret Alvarez]]." - Web, in "New Girl in Town"
*** And a double helping of Wham later: "You expect us to believe that [[spoiler:Alvarez did this to ''herself'']]?" - Danny
** "Him! That's the voice. Real distinctive voice." - "Thief of Hearts"
* WhatYouAreInTheDark:
** Paul would sit by and allow Jason Travers to kill Zora Petticoff and Billy Ray Pope, because Pope isn't a good man and Pope's manipulations indirectly lead to Karen losing their unborn child in a car accident.
** Rebecca - at eleven years old - would set her kidnapper/molester on fire to escape him.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Depending on how influential you think Web is, the entire series could be one for him.
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->''"Officially, we're part of the Bureau's Violent Crimes Section - in reality, we work for Web. While we have the full resources of the L.A. field office, we're semi-autonomous, by which I mean completely independent. We take the cases Web chooses, and we pursue them to his satisfaction, which may or may not be completion. He gets bored sometimes . . . Web picks people for one reason: they have something he needs."''
-->-- '''Special Agent Paul Ryan''', "New Girl in Town"
''The Inside'' was a 2005 PoliceProcedural from TimMinear and Howard Gordon. It was based around the Violent Crimes Unit in Los Angeles, and a team of [[TheProfiler profilers]] that solved particularly brutal crimes. Comprising the team is [[TheCaptain leader]] [[MagnificentBastard Virgil "Web" Webster]], his NumberTwo [[DoggedNiceGuy Paul Ryan]], DeadpanSnarker [[TheBigGuy Danny Love]], Danny's [[PlatonicLifePartners sidekick]] Melody Sim, TechnoWizard [[TokenMinority Carter Howard]] and [[BrokenBird rookie agent]] Rebecca Locke.
Web handpicked each member of his team to fill a role: Paul was TheConscience, frequently serving as Devil's Advocate for Web. Danny was the comic relief and action guy, there to conduct dangerous operations and make everyone laugh. Carter was frequently the OnlySaneMan, staying behind his computers. Mel - well, we have no idea what she was, because everyone else got CharacterDevelopment but her. And Rebecca was the voice of the victims, having been kidnapped and held hostage by a serial killer when she was a girl.
The show was extremely well-written, with such names as Minear, Gordon, Creator/JaneEspenson, David Fury, and Ben Edlund on its staff, and delighted in shocking its viewers with gory crime scenes and a fascinating cast of characters.
Unfortunately, ''The Inside'' had three big things working against it: it debuted the same year as another show about profilers, CBS's ''Series/CriminalMinds''; it was scheduled to air opposite ABC ratings juggernaut ''Series/DancingWithTheStars''; and [[ScrewedByTheNetwork it was on]] Creator/{{Fox}}. Only seven episodes (out of thirteen) were ever aired - [[TheFireflyEffect in completely random order, of course]] - and the series was summarily canceled. The moral of the story? Never let Tim work on your show if it's on Fox, as it will be ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' all over again. Unless you're [[Creator/JossWhedon Joss]]. [[Series/{{Dollhouse}} Then you'll get two half-seasons.]]
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!!Provides Examples Of:
* ActorAllusion: No way in the Verse Paul saying to [[Creator/AdamBaldwin Danny]] that he and his wife went to a [[Series/{{Firefly}} space western]] [[Film/{{Serenity}} movie]] wasn't one of these. Especially with Danny's snide "Sounds ''great''" response.
* AloneWithThePsycho: Rebecca, nigh constantly. At least four episodes have her kidnapped or otherwise incapacitated by the [=UnSub=].
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in Skin and Bones:
--->'''Mel:''' She's ''always'' working a case, and she's ''always'' getting taken.
--->'''Paul:''' Mel...
--->'''Mel:''' I'm just saying..."Girl to Grab" isn't just Volume Four of some encyclopedia, it's Rebecca's ''life''. She gets taken - like it's a hobby.
--->'''Danny:''' It ''is'' on the freaky side of often...
* AlwaysMurder
* AntiHero: Web, who only escapes VillainProtagonist status for two reasons - he works for the good guys and [[spoiler: it's never confirmed if he is or was in the past, a serial killer]].
* BackFromTheDead: An atypical example. [[spoiler:Special Agent Margaret Alvarez]] is killed in the pilot, but appears in "Thief of Hearts" since parts of it take place three years ago.
* BadassDamsel: Rebecca, who has the brains and the shooting skills of the rest of the team, but due to BrokenBird status, keeps managing to be kidnapped by the [=UnSubs=] and her weaknesses exploited.
* BatmanGambit: Web's [[PlanetOfHats hat]], which he demonstrates magnificently starting with "New Girl in Town" and keeps on doing in every episode. A good rule of thumb is that whatever is happening, Web's pulling the strings.
** One of Web's best is in "Thief of Hearts". He [[spoiler: bribes a woman to say she witnessed a suspect doing something suspicious, which was enough to get a warrant for the suspect's house, and planted the evidence he committed the crimes. All Paul had to do was not question the woman too much . . . which he doesn't do until three years later, when Web has a better team and can find the real killer.]] He may have also [[spoiler: acquired Stacey Travers' heart and buried it in Pope's garden, so that Paul would find it and "prove" Pope guilty.]] Is it possible to play XanatosSpeedChess with various {{Batman Gambit}}s? Because Virgil Webster does it for shits and giggles.
* BetterTheDevilYouKnow: Why Paul hasn't tried to take over from Web or allow anyone to remove Web from the S.A. position.
-->'''Paul''': I guess I felt that the world was safer with Web in here.
-->'''Rebecca''': In here. As in, not out there.
* BigBrotherInstinct: What Paul has for Rebecca and why he mistrusts Web, though Danny thinks that Paul really just wants Rebecca for himself.
* BondageIsBad: Played with in "Old Wounds". The [=UnSub=] is certainly playing the trope straight, and Paul shows disgust over the [=BDSM=] paraphernalia, but Web and Rebecca don't find anything out of the ordinary about it.
* BoomHeadshot: Web takes out the [=UnSub=] in the pilot like this, from out of nowhere.
-->'''Web''': Simon Gunther! *BANG* Let her go! *lowers his gun* Damn, got that backwards.
* BreakTheCutie: Rebecca comes pre-broken, but that doesn't stop Web from [[KickTheDog continuing to break her even further]], using her pain to [[TookALevelInBadass make her stronger]]. Paul gets this pretty badly in "Thief of Hearts".
* BrokenBird: Rebecca, bordering on EmotionlessGirl.
** Lampshaded by Mel in "Point of Origin":
--->''(to Paul) Awww, are you talking about your poor defenseless sparrow with the broken wing again?''
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Paul's wife Karen hears he's had a bad day, draws up a bath, and leaves her panties and a bottle of wine in the hallway for him when he gets home. The only problem is - it's the exact M.O. of [[ThatOneCase a serial killer Paul hunted]] three years ago and who's resurfaced.
* CatchPhrase: Like ''Criminal Minds'', ''The Inside'' uses "[=UnSub=]" to refer to its killers, short for "unknown subject".
* CaptainObvious: Danny, virtually all the time.
* CentralTheme: At what point as a profiler do you cease to do your job and become HeWhoFightsMonsters?. Also likes to play on the socially expected appearances a monster takes, to then show you the real one is unexpected and scarier.
* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Gun]]:
** Water added to aluminum iodine powder will start a fire. ("Point of Origin")
** Web instructing his hooker on how to act and dress, and dying her hair blonde. ("Declawed")
* TheChessmaster: Web. All others pale in comparison.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Subverted by "Everything Nice".
* ClearMyName: Web, in "Declawed", due to his actions in "Thief of Hearts". Rebecca does what she can to clear his name, but it's really Paul who gets Web his job back.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Rebecca Locke. Hoo boy, shall we count? Kidnapped as a small child by a serial killer, held hostage for months. Heavily hinted-at physical and sexual abuse. Only escaped due to a fire she'd set and ended up severely burned for a few years. Joined the FBI, where she's surrounded by a daily reminder of exactly how horrible people can be.
* DeadpanSnarker: Danny and Mel, who are a great double act. Carter gets in on it occasionally, as does Web, though his are usually [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Crowning Moments of Funny]]. The only two without this sense of humor are Paul and Rebecca.
* {{Determinator}}: Rebecca was - and is - willing to do anything to survive or solve a case, up to and including metaphorically sticking her fingers into her bloody psychological wounds. Deconstructed in ''The Loneliest Number'': her drive to survive makes it impossible for her to do her usual 'speak for the victims' whammy because she is literally incapable of empathizing with the desire to end your own life.
* DoubleMeaningTitle: ''All'' of them.
* DrivenToSuicide: The killer in "The Loneliest Number". Almost does it to Rebecca, though how much of that is the [=UnSub=] and how much of that is Rebecca being pre-[[BrokenBird broken]] is anyone's guess.
* EmotionlessGirl: Rebecca, due to her past.
* EmptyShell: The first victim in ''Gem''; Rebecca outright states she was dead long before her throat was cut.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** Rebecca getting stuck in the elevator because she's too busy reading a file to notice it's her floor, as well as carting all her luggage to the VCU because she came straight from LAX.
** Web interrogating Rebecca, discussing her failed applications to the BAU in DC (no, not [[Series/CriminalMinds that BAU]], [[ActorAllusion not yet anyway]]) and urging her to tell him her initial profile.
** Paul angrily packing up Alvarez's desk and watching Web's closed door.
** Mel being upset she didn't know Alvarez better, and asking Paul if she "seemed like a cat person".
** Danny reading the newspaper, saying they have no leads and offhandedly quipping "any one of us could be next".
* MrFanservice: Why hello there Adam Baldwin in kevlar, carrying a gun.
* FieryRedhead: Mel, though she's fairly level-headed and more likely to crack jokes at you.
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero - Rebecca Locke
** TheLancer - Paul Ryan
** TheBigGuy - Danny Love
** TheSmartGuy - Virgil Webster
** TheChick - Melody Sim
** SixthRanger - Carter
* FriendshipMoment: The end of "Skin and Bone", which is the finale. Rebecca's been kidnapped again and forced to confront the fact that she does need friends and she does need to start being a real human being. Paul, Danny, Mel, and Web show up to help redecorate her apartment, and Web [[ContinuityNod brings her a plant, telling her "welcome to Los Angeles"]].
* FromBadToWorse: Most cases, but most notably "Point of Origin" (whose unsub sets fires over ''all'' of Los Angeles, just to freak out the [=VCU=]).
* GoryDiscretionShot: Ahahaha, this show goes out of its way to ''show'' all the gore.
* GunNut: Danny shows elements of this, with his fondness for SWAT/tactical gear. A particular example comes in "Little Girl Lost" where his game of [[PlayingDoctor "I'll show you my gun if you show me yours"]] is used to stealth-disarm the park ranger/[=UnSub=] ''du jour.''
** Then again, he's played by [[Film/FullMetalJacket Animal Mother]][=/=][[{{Series/Chuck}} Col. Casey]]/[[{{Series/Firefly}} The Hero of Canton]], so no real surprise there...
* HandsomeLech: Danny, who totally wouldn't mind "pressing Rebecca's buttons".
* TheHeart: Paul's position on Web's team, made explicit in "Thief of Hearts". Though it's really Mel who serves as the best example of the trope.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Paul's turning into this, though he desperately doesn't want to. We don't know how far past this line Web is, but it's safe to say he's been this for a long time.
* HowWeGotHere: "Thief of Hearts" is how Paul joined the team three years ago.
* ItsPersonal: Pretty much every case, for Rebecca. "Thief of Hearts" and "Aiden" for Paul.
* KansasCityShuffle: If Web's ''not'' running a BatmanGambit, chances are he's running one of these instead.
* KickTheDog
* KillItWithFire: The serial arsonist in "Point of Origin". The episode also reveals this is how young Rebecca got away from her captor.
* LastNameBasis: Web, whom ''no one'' calls by anything other than "Web".
** In "Thief of Hearts", [[spoiler: Alvarez]] calls him "Virge", implying she knows him better than most.
* LittleMissBadass: The girl from "Little Girl Lost", who not only survives a march through the woods with a serial killer, she also deals with a rapidly-imbalanced and hallucinating Rebecca.
** Appropriately, [[spoiler: as the girl was herself a hallucination of Rebecca of her Becky George days]], Rebecca used to be one of these in her way. Like they said, very few kidnapping victims get home, even fewer make it there on their own.
* {{Manchild}}: Danny. Everyone on the team seems to regard his penchant for undercover ops and big sting operations as a kid playing with toys.
* TheMentallyDisturbed: Averted. Web berates Danny for reacting poorly to the revelation of [[spoiler:Alvarez]] being bipolar, saying that she was dealing with an illness and managing, not to be treated with scorn.
* MoodWhiplash: All the time, but "Thief of Hearts" is full of HappilyMarried Paul and his wife Karen juxtaposed with hideous murders involving hearts being ripped out of bodies and rolled-up Valentines stuck in their mouths.
* MonsterFangirl: Pope's lawyer, who legitimately thinks he's innocent and seems to have a moment of horror when he taunts the husband of one of his victims with how much he enjoyed killing the man's wife. Interestingly for this trope, Pope actually seems to care for her, as he [[spoiler: howls with as much anguish about her death as he did about getting caught]].
* NoMedicationForMe: Completely averted. [[spoiler: Special Agent Margaret Alvarez]] was bipolar, but medication and therapy seemed to be working well enough that no one suspected. That she went off her medication was a retroactive sign that she was self-destructing and no longer able to cope with the trauma of the case.
* NoSocialSkills: Rebecca, of course. To the point where even sitting in a restaurant and having a meal with her colleagues is uncomfortable.
* NotSoDifferent: Web to the various [=UnSubs=], which is made explicit by Rebecca's voiceover profile in "Declawed":
-->''Maybe something was taken from him. I believe we're looking for an older man - very lonely, very private, very patient. He chooses his victims carefully. They mean something to him.''
* PlatonicLifePartners: Danny and Mel.
* SadisticChoice
* ShakyPOVCam
* ShoutOut: In the pilot, Simon's security patch says "[[Series/{{Angel}} Wolfram]] Security".
** In "Everything Nice", Mel calls Bunch's knife his "[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings precious]]".
** Web's team works out of the "[[{{Film/Chinatown}} Hollis Mulray]] Federal Building."
* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Criminal Minds'' is ''The Inside'''s, and ''The Inside'' was one for ''Profiler''.
* StoryArc: "What happened to Rebecca as a child?" was explored and eventually revealed. "What's the deal with Web?" was not.
* SuicideIsPainless: Deconstructed by "The Loneliest Number", which shows both how painful suicidal impulses are, why people commit suicide, how suicide hotlines can be abused, and the impact a suicide has on family and friends.
* ThatOneCase: Paul has his in "Thief of Hearts".
* TokenMinority: Carter, the one black guy in LA.
* ToKnowHimIMustBecomeHim: What Web manipulates Rebecca into doing, regardless of her mental and emotional well-being.
** Lampshaded by Mel in ''Gem'', where she notes sarcastically that it's 'good' Rebecca isn't at the crime scene because she'd "do that creepy thing where she talks like the victim and solves the whole case and where's the fun in that for us?"
* TookALevelInBadass: Paul in "Declawed", when he shuts down Terry's investigation of Web because Terry threatened Rebecca.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Supervisory Special Agent Terry in "Declawed". Rebecca and Paul, in particular, are less than impressed.
* VillainProtagonist: If you ascribe to the theory that [[spoiler: Web is a serial killer and is training Rebecca to become one]].
* WhamLine:
** "Everyone is here. Ninth victim is [[spoiler: Margaret Alvarez]]." - Web, in "New Girl in Town"
*** And a double helping of Wham later: "You expect us to believe that [[spoiler:Alvarez did this to ''herself'']]?" - Danny
** "Him! That's the voice. Real distinctive voice." - "Thief of Hearts"
* WhatYouAreInTheDark:
** Paul would sit by and allow Jason Travers to kill Zora Petticoff and Billy Ray Pope, because Pope isn't a good man and Pope's manipulations indirectly lead to Karen losing their unborn child in a car accident.
** Rebecca - at eleven years old - would set her kidnapper/molester on fire to escape him.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Depending on how influential you think Web is, the entire series could be one for him.
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