History YMMV / DayBreak2006

** Andrea returns the favor when Hopper is not only framed for Garza's murder, but [[spoiler:Chad and Rita's]] as well, basically keeping him from giving up all hope when he's truly ready to [[DespairEventHorizon throw in the towel]].

* MagnificentBastard: [[AmoralAttorney Defense attorney Barry Colburn]] is the secret mastermind of a cabal that controls much of Los Angeles behind the scenes. Seeking to exert his vision of justice on the entire city and maintain the system that he built, Colburn and his junior partner city councilman Tobias Booth [[FrameUp frame]] Detective Brad Hopper for the murder of ADA Alberto Garza and blackmail his loved ones to cover up a separate murder tied to Booth. Colburn volunteers as Hopper's defense counsel to better manipulate him, while also planning to assassinate the defiant Judge Nitzberg and several of his colleagues. Hopper is only able to defeat the conspiracy by exploiting a GroundhogDayLoop. Despite this, Colburn remains a free man with enough resources to rebound from this setback, and willingly gives his greatest enemy some peace of mind by revealing the identity of his father's killer [[PetTheDog despite standing nothing to gain from it]].

** The day gets even worse in episode 11 and 12 because of bad karma, resulting in [[spoiler:Rita and Chad]] both dying. The second time around, Hopper tries to prevent it by warning them, but fails again, then visits them in the morgue, visibly holding back tears.

* TearJerker: In "What If She's Lying", Hopper rushes to the hospital after an armed stand-off gone wrong, but is too late to [[spoiler:prevent his sister's death.]] He then flashes back to their difficult relationship and all the people who died during the loops as a result of his direct actions. The first thing he does when the next day comes is to drive over to her house and hug her.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Many moments, since the series thrives on {{karma}}.

** Andrea returns the favor when Hopper is not only framed for Garza's murder, but [[spoiler:Chad and Rita's]] as well, basically keeping him from giving up all hope when he's truly ready to throw in the towel.

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: After a tense HostageSituation at the police headquarters, Chad throws Hopper a bone in case he's right about being stuck in a temporal loop: "Oh, and by the way.. If you're right, the book's on the front seat of my car."]]

** [[spoiler:Jared watching Hopper after he solved everything and is finally living a happy life.]]

* FridgeHorror: In every timeline where Hopper is arrested and brought to the Quarry, Rita will be assassinated as a threat to Hopper. If he doesn't get arrested and she doesn't meet with Billy, Chad will take her home and she appears to be safe. It's not until very late in the season that we find out Dominguez will visit them at night and kill both of them.

* FridgeHorror: In every timeline where Hopper is arrested and brought to the Quarry, Rita will be assassinated as a threat to Hopper. If he doesn't get arrested, Chad will take her home and she appears to be safe. It's not until very late in the season that we find out Dominguez will visit them at night and kill both of them.

** Hopper helps Andrea's junkie boyfriend from shooting someone, then threatening to shoot himself, by talking him down and admitting that he did him wrong, but that he's going to help him now.

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* NarrowedItDownToTheGuyIRecognize: Subverted. Mitch Pileggi plays an InspectorJavert-type detective who is made to appear to be TheMole, but later turns out to be a RedHerringMole.