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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Captain Andersen, in the first season. She cares deeply about her officers, and while she's quick to chew them out when they actually screw up, she's also the first to defend them when InternalAffairs is out for blood. Her officers respect the hell out of her.
** Played with in Season 1 with King Midas, the leader of the white supremacist gang in "Greenlight." [[spoiler: He's in prison, so his son is calling the shots, but he clearly has a sense of where the limit is when it comes to the police. Sergeant Gray is able to persuade him to lift the hit on Nolan, and he readily gives up his son to the police when his bloodthirsty antics cross a line.]]
** Played with in Season 1 with King Midas, the leader of the white supremacist gang in "Greenlight." [[spoiler: He's in prison, so his son is calling the shots, but he clearly has a sense of where the limit is when it comes to the police. Sergeant Gray is able to persuade him to lift the hit on Nolan, and he readily gives up his son to the police when his bloodthirsty antics cross a line.]]
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* MisplacedRetribution: In "Under Siege", the current attack on police is [[spoiler:partially organised by a former convict who just spent ninety days under arrest for elderly abuse, but regards that time in prison as having ruined his life because of the way he was treated by other criminals and his challenges in coping in the outside world afterwards. However, he ultimately blames the police for arresting him rather than acknowledge his own culpability, although it's revealed at the end that he was being influenced by another party to serve as a distraction]].
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* AnArmAndALeg: "Going Under" sees Nolan and Juarez assist Harper in investigating severed limbs that may relate to another case she is investigating, the investigation simultaneously uncovering an unrelated serial killer case.
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* PsychologicalProjection: When Bailey's friend Libby comes to L.A. for a few days of partying and departs telling Bailey that ''she'' is the alcoholic, this is clearly the most charitable interpretation of Libby's motives, projecting her own issues on to Bailey rather than facing them herself.
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** Season 4 introduces Jerry [=McGrady=], an old cop who's been on the job so long he still carries a revolver decades after the LAPD switched over to semi-automatics. Grey wants to push him into retirement, but Bradford finds that [=McGrady's=] extensive experience provides insights and intuition that younger cops lack while investigating a case involving a gold theft from two decades ago[[note]][=McGrady=] decides to retire on his own accord on the high of resolving that particular unresolved case[[/note]].
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** Season 4 ep "Poetic Justice" introduces Jerry [=McGrady=], an old cop who's been on the job so long he still carries a revolver decades after the LAPD switched over to semi-automatics. Grey wants to push him into retirement, but Bradford finds that [=McGrady's=] extensive experience provides insights and intuition that younger cops lack while investigating a case involving a gold theft from two decades ago[[note]][=McGrady=] decides to retire on his own accord on the high of resolving that particular unresolved case[[/note]].
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* StupidEvil: It says a great deal about the low intelligence of Tim and Lucy's doppelgangers that they are ''never'' shown attempting to use their resemblance to police officers as part of their crimes.
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** Celia Juarez attributes her decision to become a cop to Officer Joel Chambers, a police officer who investigated the abduction and death of her sister Blanca, so [[spoiler:is left devastated when evidence emerges that Chambers was the one who abducted Blanca in the first place]].
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* ForgottenFirstMeeting: In "A Hole in the World", Celina's mother [[spoiler:only remembers when questioned that she met Office Joel Chambers a month before the abduction of her daughter Blanca rather than just after, providing further evidence that Chambers abducted Blanca]].
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: In "A Hole in the World", [[spoiler:Nyla confirms that Officer Joel Chambers at least knows more about the abduction of Olivia, a little girl taken from her drug-addicted mother, when he's informed that Olivia's teddy bear was found in a garden of a nearby house but doesn't ask about Olivia herself, basically confirming that he knows where Olivia is]].
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* IdenticalGrandson: Suggested; "Double Trouble" sees the team find a long-lost portrait of a famous Haitian general who looks exactly like Sergeant Grey, prompting speculation that this man is Grey's ancestor.
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* ImmediateSelfContradiction: At one point a documentary maker is shown trying to interview an official in the CIA who states that the agency is happy to offer transparency wherever possible... and then states that she can't discuss anything about the case that the man is here to talk about.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: After [[spoiler:Jackson's]] actor leaving the show, we get introduced to Aaron Thorsen, who seems to carry over many of his traits, namely [[being Black police officers with inherent mistrust of the system, Jackson's dad being in IA, and Aaron being framed for murder in a well publicized case.]] He even comes to [[strike up a close platonic friendship with a fellow rookie]].
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: After [[spoiler:Jackson's]] actor leaving the show, we get introduced to Aaron Thorsen, who seems to carry over many of his traits, namely [[being [[spoiler:being Black police officers with inherent mistrust of the system, Jackson's dad being in IA, and Aaron being framed for murder in a well publicized case.case. ]] He even comes to [[strike [[spoiler:strike up a close platonic friendship with a fellow rookie]].
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melissa oniel on canadian idol is not a casting gag, and duplicated on actor allusion. put more appropriate example regarding emily deschanel
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* CastingGag: In "The Overnight", Chen is accidentally dragged into an ''Series/AmericanIdol'' audition. Her actress Melissa O'Neil won ''Canadian Idol'' in 2005.
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* CastingGag: In "The Overnight", Chen Creator/EmilyDeschanel is accidentally dragged into an ''Series/AmericanIdol'' audition. Her actress Melissa O'Neil won ''Canadian Idol'' in 2005.later cast as Nolan's Ex-Wife. {{Series/Bones}} was long considered a [[DuelingWorks DuelingShow]] with {{Series/Castle}}, and Creator/NoahHawley, who wrote for Bones, is the Brother of Castle/Rookie showrunner Alexi.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: After [[spoiler:Jackson's]] actor leaving the show, we get introduced to Aaron Thorsen, who seems to carry over many of his traits, namely [[being Black police officers with inherent mistrust of the system, Jackson's dad being in IA, and Aaron being framed for murder in a well publicized case.]] He even comes to [[strike up a close platonic friendship with a fellow rookie]].
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* AmoralAttorney: Elijah Stone's lawyer has no problem with outright suing the LAPD on behalf of her client even when they insist he's up to something dangerous.
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* AmoralAttorney: Monica Stevens, Elijah Stone's lawyer lawyer, has no problem with outright suing the LAPD on behalf of her client even when they insist he's up to something dangerous.
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* XanatosGambit: Monica Stevens, Elijah Stone's lawyer, eventually ends up in a position where she seems ready to betray Elijah to the LAPD after he threatened to kill her in the belief that she betrayed him. [[spoiler:It culminates in Elijah being arrested while the FBI catch his partner, but Monica arranged things so that she at least seems to have assisted the investigator while also discreetly helping the criminals]].
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** When Chen and Bradford [[spoiler:start a relationship, Chen fakes the loss of a pair of earrings taken from a suspect while he was in custody to make a point that Bradford is letting her get away with things he would have written anyone else up for in a relationship, affirming that they can't continue their relationship while he's her commanding officer]].
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** Chen's parents have no respect for her choice to become a cop. Her father practically [[IHaveNoSon disowns her]] when she arrests one of his patients... for breaking ''his'' arm. Her mother pretty much calls Lucy's job as an officer a "thankless job".
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** Chen's parents have no respect for her choice to become a cop. Her father practically [[IHaveNoSon disowns her]] when she arrests one of his patients... for breaking ''his'' arm. Her When she is invited over to her daughter's small celebration about being promoted to P2, her mother pretty much calls Lucy's job spends the entire time insisting that Lucy leave the police job, not viewing it as an officer a "thankless job".worthwhile career while also not respecting how Lucy enjoys making a difference as a cop.
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** Chen's parents have no respect for her choice to become a cop. Her father practically [[IHaveNoSon disowns her]] when she arrests one of his patients... for breaking ''his'' arm.
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* LetsYouAndHimFight: "The Con" sees [[spoiler:the LAPD try to deal with the threat of two gangs by provoking them into going after each other in the belief that the other party is planning to attack them already, but this plan backfires when a slight mistake by Thorsen tips one of the gang leaders off that something is wrong]].
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* CassandraTruth: Invoked by Rosalind as regards why she [[spoiler: never told anyone about her discovery of evidence indicating Armstrong was a crooked cop. As she herself says, who would ever take the word of a sociopathic serial killer over a highly respected police detective?]]
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** Invoked by Rosalind as regards why she [[spoiler: never told anyone about her discovery of evidence indicating Armstrong was a crooked cop. As she herself says, who would ever take the word of a sociopathic serial killer over a highly respected policedetective?]]detective?]]
** All but explicitly brought up when [[spoiler:Nolan's mother dies; he's so used to her trying to scam money out of him that when he receives a call from a doctor asking for her health insurance, he assumes that the doctor is just her latest partner in a scam, only to receive a call the next evening where he learns that his mother is dead]].
** Invoked by Rosalind as regards why she [[spoiler: never told anyone about her discovery of evidence indicating Armstrong was a crooked cop. As she herself says, who would ever take the word of a sociopathic serial killer over a highly respected police
** All but explicitly brought up when [[spoiler:Nolan's mother dies; he's so used to her trying to scam money out of him that when he receives a call from a doctor asking for her health insurance, he assumes that the doctor is just her latest partner in a scam, only to receive a call the next evening where he learns that his mother is dead]].
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* ChainOfDeals: After [[spoiler:Bradford transfers to the role of Court Liaison Sergeant so that he can stay in the precinct and be in a relationship with Chen, she sets up a complex network of deals to convince other officers to transfer to other divisions so that Bradford can move to Metro, which includes volunteering Tamara as a babysitter and Chen herself helping Smitty clean his RV]].
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* GoFastOrGoBoom: Cruelly subverted in "The Collar", which see's the police dealing with an criminal who forcibly attaches bomb collars around several people's neck, and tells them that if they don't keep on the move as fast as they can they will go off. However, following the first victim's death, the bomb squad assess that in actual fact the collars are set to go off after 47 minutes. Thus the instructions are just a lie to give their victims false hope and to make it harder for anyone to actually save them.
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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Oscar Hutchinson has spent so long betraying everyone he ever met in some way that when he's attacked by two different people to get revenge, he doesn't know who they are, even when one person provides such specific details as Hutchinson betraying his brother to rebels in another country.
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* GoFastOrGoBoom: Cruelly subverted in "The Collar", which see's the police dealing with an criminal who forcibly attaches bomb collars around several people's neck, and tells them that if they don't keep on the move as fast as they can they will go off. However, following the first victim's death, the bomb squad assess that in actual fact the collars are set to go off after 47 minutes. Thus the instructions are just a lie to give their victims false hope and to make it harder for anyone to actually save them.
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*TraineeFromHell: Downplayed but present in season five. John Nolan's initially excitement at finally becoming a training officer is quickly shaken when he discovers his new rookie, [[LeeroyJenkins Celina Juarez]] is a reckless, overreactive superstitious young woman who's first instinct is to run into situations half cocked simply off her intuitions. As Nolan quickly learns its him who will receive the blunt of the blame for Celina's screw ups, and it will reflect poorly on him if she doesn't shape up.
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** [[spoiler: Armstrong]] proves to be a cop on the take and in the service of the mob.
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* JustAFleshWound: The protagonists routinely get into gunfights but only rarely do they actually end up killing their opponents. More commonly, they wound their opponents and they are brought in alive.
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* CityOfAdventure: Los Angeles is full of countless violent crimes and weirdos engaged in shenanigans that our heroes stumble over constantly. It is a neverending source of crazy cases for our heroes to investigate.
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* DirtyCop: La Fiera has cops on the payroll in Guatemala to do her bidding.
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* TheLostLenore: "The Reckoning" has DEA agent Xavier Lind join Nolan and Celina in tracking down the drug dealer who killed his partner a decade ago. In the course of the investigation, Celina realises that Lind and his old partner were lovers, Lind affirming that the two kept the relationship secret as it obviously wasn't acceptable to have a gay relationship back then.
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* WretchedHive: Los Angeles is a city where there's always violent shoot outs with the police, terrorist plots, murders, and other scuzzier crimes like domestic abuse going on that the police need to rely on their rookies for.
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* DrillSergeantNasty: The three training officers take this role with their rookies, barking orders at them and quizzing them even when dealing with calls. Bradford, however, is the nastiest of the bunch. [[spoiler:Nolan tends to be a more nurturing training officer after he becomes one in the fifth season]].
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: A minor example; when [[spoiler:Bailey's tenants have avoided paying rent for six months, Wesley warns that they could tie up any potential eviction for up to three months, but when Nolan and Bailey discover that they have been making porn films in Bailey's house this invalidates the lease and allows Bailey to evict them straight away (although they skip town before she can do it herself)]].
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**When Nyla [[spoiler:is caught in a bank robbery while off-duty, she advises an employee to trigger the silent alarm and waits in hiding, as she isn’t equipped to go up against at least two men armed with machine guns when she only has a revolver, and sees no sense risking her life when the criminals are only taking money that would be covered by insurance. One civilian gets frustrated despite Nyla’s explanation and attempts to make a citizen’s arrest, only to get himself and another person shot while everyone else flees in a panic, allowing the thieves to escape where the police could have captured them if the man had done nothing and given them a few more moments to get into position]].
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*WhoWillTakeTheKids: When Nyla and James are considering who would take custody of their daughter if they died, they dismiss most of their biological relatives as too unreliable and ask Angela and Wesley if they’d be willing to do it (James privately notes to Wesley that they were also chosen as the richest people he and Nyla know).
