Line #24 Series/Rellik


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3	A BBC FilmNoir mini-series which aired in 2017. Gabriel Markham (Richard Dormer) survives an acid attack perpetrated by the serial killer he and his partner, Elaine (Jodi Balfour) are hunting. The story [[BackToFront unravels in reverse]] as they try to find the killer, digging into suspects as diverse as PsychoPsychologist Isaac (Creator/PatersonJoseph) and fellow acid attack survivor Christine (Rosalind Eleazar).
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5	!!Contains examples of:
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7	* BackToFront: The whole premise is this.
8	* BlackAndGrayMorality: Gabriel's a vicious CowboyCop who is cheating on his wife with his partner. His wife covered up the fact that he might not be their daughter's father. Almost all of the other characters are [[spoiler:rapists, murderers, or both.]]
9	* ContrivedCoincidence:
10	** Elaine becoming Gabriel's partner, given that [[spoiler:she's been in love with him since he saved her as a child from a rape plot in a hospital.]]
11	** Christine's vicious burn marks and injuries. [[spoiler:A brief line implies she gave them to herself so she could be like her mother.]]
12	* CowboyCop: Gabriel is a vicious sociopath who will bully, intimidate, and at times physically harm suspects, while Elaine is a {{Yandere}} who is also [[spoiler:a serial killer.]]
13	* CrimeAfterCrime: Played with. The killer is fairly good at sticking to their intended target/s, but the investigation and [[spoiler:interventions from ''other'' killers]] often mean that more people end up dead than they intended.
14	* EvilCounterpart: Patrick to Gabriel. Both are respected men who [[spoiler:in Gabriel's case, probably]] raised girls who were not their own daughters. However, while Patrick ended up [[spoiler:sleeping with and, it seems, grooming his young-if-legal daughter]], Gabriel's daughter Hannah is his MoralityPet who he genuinely loves.
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16	* LoveMakesYouEvil and LoveMakesYouCrazy: All over the place.
17	** [[spoiler:Elaine]] has been obsessed with Gabriel since their meeting [[spoiler:when she was a child]], and it led to the acid attack on him.
18	** Sally kills [[spoiler:her mother]] to disguise her affair with her husband, [[spoiler:and Sally's [[{{Squick}} ''own stepfather''.]]]]
19	* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Gabriel's wife isn't sure if their daughter Hannah is his or his boss's, Benton's.
20	* MayDecemberRomance:
21	** Gabriel and Elaine. [[spoiler:She's been obsessed with him since she was a child.]]
22	** Patrick and Sally. [[spoiler:Made even more disturbing by the fact that she is his stepdaughter, who he raised and probably groomed.]]
23	* PlotHole: How did Elaine ever become a police officer in the first place, with [[spoiler:her extremely traumatic past and horrific link to Gabriel]]?
24	* RapeLeadsToInsanity: [[spoiler:It's Elaine's whole motivation.]]
25	* ScaryBlackMan: Isaac, who starts off being a NeatFreak oddball before it's revealed that he was part of [[spoiler:a pedophile plot in a children's hospital.]]
26	* ScaryBlackWoman: Christine, a psychopath who is also accused of murder.
27	* SignificantAnagram: Elaine Shepard is [[spoiler:an anagram for Helena, a young girl that Gabriel saved while still a newbie police officer.]]

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