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''Trial and Retribution'' is a UK TV show that ran between 1997 and 2009, created by Lynda La Plante (''Series/{{Widows}}'', ''Series/PrimeSuspect''). Starring David Hayman as Mike Walker, a tough-talking [[ViolentGlaswegian Glaswegian]] police officer, paired with Pat North (Kate Buffery) until 2002 and then Roisin O'Connor (Creator/VictoriaSmurfit) from 2003.

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''Trial and Retribution'' is a UK TV show that ran between 1997 and 2009, created by Lynda La Plante Creator/LyndaLaPlante (''Series/{{Widows}}'', ''Series/PrimeSuspect''). Starring David Hayman as Mike Walker, a tough-talking [[ViolentGlaswegian Glaswegian]] police officer, paired with Pat North (Kate Buffery) until 2002 and then Roisin O'Connor (Creator/VictoriaSmurfit) from 2003.
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* NotTheFirstVictim: In "The Lovers", the killer is revealed to have murdered multiple people, both male and female, over decades by locking them in his outhouse and leaving them to starve to death.

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* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Michael and Rory are identical twins [[spoiler:who murdered their parents]] in "Mirror Image".
* EvilTwin: Exploited in "Mirror Image", where Michael and Rory both blame each other and exploit the fact that nobody can tell who killed their parents because they're identical.




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* TwinSwitch: [[spoiler:It's heavily implied that one twin switches out for the other at the end of "Mirror Image", going to prison for the murder of their parents.]]
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* RecycledInSpace: "The Lovers" bears a strong resemblance to ''Film/TheVanishing'': [[spoiler:an apparently [[TheyLookJustLikeEverybodyElse ordinary]] man is revealed to have been an unknown SerialKiller who kidnapped and imprisoned total strangers until they starved to death.]] The main protagonist is the bereaved partner of a missing person who is [[spoiler:revealed to have died, and she herself dies at the end of the episode.]] The only difference is that the protagonist undergoes a GenderFlip, from male to female, and more downer aspects are added in.

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* RecycledInSpace: "The Lovers" bears a strong resemblance to ''Film/TheVanishing'': [[spoiler:an apparently [[TheyLookJustLikeEverybodyElse ordinary]] man is revealed to have been an unknown SerialKiller who kidnapped and imprisoned total strangers until they starved to death.]] The main protagonist is the bereaved partner of a missing person who is [[spoiler:revealed to have died, and she herself dies at the end of the episode.]] The only difference is that the protagonist undergoes a GenderFlip, from male to female, and more downer aspects are added in.in.
* SplitScreen: A production staple throughout to show what is happening simultaneously, though it becomes less ubiquitous as the series goes on.

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* RecycledInSpace: "The Lovers" bears a strong resemblance to ''Film/TheVanishing'': [[spoiler:an apparently [[TheyLookJustLikeEverybodyElse ordinary]] man is revealed to have been an unknown SerialKiller who kidnapped and imprisoned total strangers until they starved to death.]] The main protagonist is the bereaved partner of a missing person who is [[spoiler:revealed to have died, and she herself dies at the end of the episode.]] The only difference is that the protagonist undergoes a GenderFlip, from male to female, and more downer aspects are added in.
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''Trial and Retribution'' is a UK TV show that ran between 1997 and 2009, created by Lynda La Plante (''Series/{{Widows}}'', ''Series/PrimeSuspect''). Starring David Hayman as Mike Walker, a tough-talking [[ViolentGlaswegian Glaswegian]] police officer, paired with Pat North (Kate Buffery) until 2002 and then Roisin O'Connor (Creator/VictoriaSmurfit) from 2003.

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