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For a show supposedly taking a gritty realistic approach to crime solving, there sure is a lot of Awesome in Cracker.


  • He may be an overweight alcoholic womanizing gambling addict, but Fitz got in an early CMOA in the first episode when he interrogated a suspect in front of a moving train.
    Suspect: [screaming in sheer terror] There's a train coming!
    Fitz: Sorry, can't hear you, there's a train coming.
  • DCI Bilborough (who, like his actor, is a fervent supporter of Manchester United Football Club) gets one in "To Be a Somebody": while leading a raid on a far right skinhead club (full of racist neo-Nazi skinheads), he discovers a picture of the then-Manchester United first team and shows it to the lead skin-head:
    Bilborough: Ince is black! Dublin is black! Parker is black! Schmeichel's a Dane. Kanchelskis is a bloody Ukrainian and Cantona's French! You stupid soft sod.
    • But this is nothing compared to later in the episode when he is fatally stabbed, and yet still manages to call in for help and give a precise and detailed description of the killer.
      • Including that it's a "dying statement" so the call will be accepted as evidence in court.
  • Even DS Beck, the homophobic rapist, gets one at the end of "Brotherly Love" where he gets a confession from the killer...by handcuffing himself to the killer and leaping off a ten storey block of flats with him.
    • In One Day A Lemming Will Fly, he threatens to put a school bully who used to pick on the Victim of the Week in a cell with the victim's rather volatile older brother - "You picked on Tim for years, now you can show his big brother how it's done!"
  • Fitz interviewing Albie with aggression and contempt is a high point of the whole series, and overall "To Be a Somebody" is something of a Wham Episode.
    • Really, any time Fitz interviews the suspect is bound to be this.
    • Special mention goes to Albie attempting to stonewall Fitz by chanting "L-I-V-E-R-P-double O-L Liverpool F.C." at him. Fitz responds by getting in Albie's face and chanting "CELTIC! CELTIC! CELTIC! CELTIC!". Also a surprisingly funny moment, given how dark the storyline was.
  • Floyd Malcolm in "Men Should Weep" may be a serial rapist and eventual killer but to date he has been the only suspect to break into Fitz's home to rape Judith. None of the other criminals have ever gotten that close. And then Mark smashes him over the head with a bottle. Which is a crowning moment for him.
  • Penhaligon breaking into Jimmy Beck's home.
  • Michael Trant finally standing up to his older brother Kenneth at the end of The Big Crunch, revealing his guilt and Dean Saunders' innocence.

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