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* MySecretPregnancy: [[spoiler:Tamsin]] is pregnant with [[spoiler:Jack's]] baby.

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* MySecretPregnancy: [[spoiler:Tamsin]] is pregnant with [[spoiler:Jack's]] baby.baby, and initially doesn't tell anyone.



* QueerEstablishingMoment: After an implied attraction has built up between them, Cat kissing Tish in "Episode 3". She apologizes and stops, then Tish says it's fine, kissing her back. Cat is thus shown to be a ButchLesbian due to her masculine style, and Tish bisexual (she had just broken up with her boyfriend).

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* QueerEstablishingMoment: After an implied attraction has built up between them, Cat kissing kisses Tish in "Episode 3". She apologizes and stops, then Tish says it's fine, kissing her back. Cat is thus shown to be a ButchLesbian due to her masculine style, and Tish bisexual (she had just broken up with her boyfriend).
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* TheGamblingAddict: Nancy's husband Richard is one. He started by losing 10,000 pounds on a horse race, and tried to get it back unsuccessfully, while losing increasing amounts of money. All of their bank accounts are empty, he lose their investments and put the couple's cars up as collateral (so they get repossessed). Nancy naturally is angry and fearful about this. Richard also owes a {{loan shark}}, who beats him up for late payments. [[spoiler:She blackmails her own friends for money anonymously to recoup his losses.]]

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* TheGamblingAddict: Nancy's husband Richard is one. He started by losing 10,000 pounds on a horse race, and tried to get it back unsuccessfully, while losing increasing amounts of money. All of their bank accounts are empty, he lose lost their investments and put the couple's cars up as collateral (so they get repossessed). Nancy naturally is angry and fearful about this. Richard also owes a {{loan shark}}, who beats him up for late payments. [[spoiler:She blackmails her own friends for money anonymously to recoup his losses.]]
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* TrackingDevice: Anna installs a tracking app to locate the phone of the person who called her for {{blackmail}}, which lets her find out [[spoiler:her friend Nancy did it]].
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* SympatheticMurderer: [[spoiler:Tamsin smothered Jack, but only because he said he'd make their baby's life a living hell if she hadit, plus her and her family's.]]

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* SympatheticMurderer: [[spoiler:Tamsin smothered Jack, but only because he said he'd make their baby's life a living hell if she hadit, had it, plus her and her family's.]]
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* ButWeUsedACondom: [[spoiler:Jack protested that he and Tamsin used protection after she tells him she's pregnant. She just replies that this doesn't always work.]]


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* StraightGay: Ryan turns out to be gay, which isn't obvious as he seems no different from the straight men in the series.
* SympatheticMurderer: [[spoiler:Tamsin smothered Jack, but only because he said he'd make their baby's life a living hell if she hadit, plus her and her family's.]]
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* TheGamblingAddict: Nancy's husband Richard is one. He started by losing 10,000 pounds on a horse race, and tried to get it back unsuccessfully, while losing increasing amounts of money. All of their bank accounts are empty, he lose their investments and put the couple's cars up as collateral (so they get repossessed). Nancy naturally is angry and fearful about this. Richard also owes a {{loan shark}}, who beats him up for late payments. [[spoiler:She blackmails her own friends for money anonymously to recoup his losses.]]
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* {{Blackmail}}: The ladies are blackmailed by someone with knowledge of them being with Jack's death before his murder, first demanding 5,000 pounds. It then goes up to 10,000. [[spoiler:Nancy, one of their number, turns out to be the culprit. She's covering for her husband's gambling debts, as [[GamblingAddict he's addicted]].]]
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* QueerEstablishingMoment: After an implied attraction has built up between them, Cat kissing Tish in "Episode 3". She apologizes and stops, then Tish says it's fine, kissing her back. Cat is thus shown to be a ButchLesbian due to her masculine style, and Tish bisexual (she had just broken up with her boyfriend).

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* AssholeVictim: Jack, the murder victim, sexually harassed many women, took advantage of a teenage girl, and attempted to rape another woman, plus he was an all around {{jerkass}}.
* AttemptedRape: Jack drunkenly bites Tish and seems about to rape her before the other women interrupt him.



* AttemptedRape: Jack drunkenly bites Tish and seems about to rape her before the other women interrupt him.


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* StickyFingers: Louie it turns out is one, having stolen new items for years, with many stuffed inside a closet in her house. She's finally caught and arrested for shoplifting, with her friends learning about this. It's made her feel powerful and in control, Louie explains, becoming addictive over time. Unlike in most examples, it's {{played for drama}} and portrayed pretty realistically.
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* LipstickLesbian: Tish is a bisexual with long hair who's seen early on wearing a very nice dress when off work.

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* LipstickLesbian: Tish is a bisexual with long hair who's seen early on wearing a very nice dress when off work. She ends her relationship with her boyfriend and later dates ButchLesbian Cat.
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* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: The masculine Cat enters a relationship with feminine Tish.

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* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: The ButchLesbian Cat (who has short hair, masculine Cat dress sense, and an AmbiguousCriminalHistory) enters a relationship with the feminine bisexual Tish.
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* LipstickLesbian: Tish is a lesbian with long hair who's seen early on wearing a very nice dress when off work.

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* LipstickLesbian: Tish is a lesbian bisexual with long hair who's seen early on wearing a very nice dress when off work.



* TokenMinority: The lesbian Cat to the main group of women is one sexuality-wise, and the mixed-race Tish is one to the broader all-white cast along with being a lesbian too.

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* TokenMinority: The lesbian Cat to the main group of women is one sexuality-wise, and the mixed-race Tish is one to the broader all-white cast along with being a lesbian bisexual too.

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* ButchLesbian: Cat is a short-haired lesbian with a masculine clothing style and slightly hard-edged personality.



* LipstickLesbian: Tish is a lesbian with long hair who's seen early on wearing a very nice dress when off work.



* TokenMinority: The lesbian Cat to the main group of women is one sexuality-wise, and the mixed-race Tish is one to the broader all-white cast.

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* TokenMinority: The lesbian Cat to the main group of women is one sexuality-wise, and the mixed-race Tish is one to the broader all-white cast.cast along with being a lesbian too.
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* OutDamnedSpot: Several allusions are made to this with Anna early on. [[spoiler: Played with; even though she's plagued with guilt, she's not actually the killer.]]

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