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* [[Amoral Attorney]]: "Limbo" Riley, because of how low he'll stoop.

** Bea McArdle, [[Foe Yay|who had a relationship with Steel]].

** Phyllis Gladstone, a virtual [[Straw Feminist]] who uses nearly every anti-male [[Double Standard]] trope in defending her female clients. Then she defends Alesha's rapist and still tries to spin this as an example of championing women's rights, claiming that she's doing it on behalf of the real victims whom Alesha is supposedly mocking with her [[False Rape Accusation]].

** Miriam Pescatore

*** "I been that kid, Ronnie."

** And as tragically seen in "Deals" and "Survivor's Guilt", Matt, for Ronnie.

** DI Natalie Chandler doesn't tolerate screw-ups from her detectives--or anyone else criticizing them.

* [[Birth-Death Juxtaposition]]/[[Retirony]]: Plays the first trope straight while simultaneously ''brutally'' subverting the second. At the end of "Deal", Ronnie gushes to Matt about the birth of his grandson and the possibility of reconciling with his daughter. Minutes later. . .it's ''Matt'' who's been shot.

** "Vice": The victim turns out to have been a former police officer.

** "Alesha": [[Berserk Button|Infuriated]] at what's happened to her, the group basically pulls out all the stops to bring her rapist to justice.

** "Samaritan": Not only is the victim a cop, so is the person indirectly responsible for his death (he didn't shoot him, but refused to help him).

** "Survivor's Guilt"

* [[They Call Me Mister Tibbs]]:

** The gangster Don Marsh expresses his contempt for the law in many ways, including addressing DS Brooks by his Christian name. Brooks will have none of it, insisting:

** Ronnie gets a similar moment on Matt's behalf when [[Dirty Cop]] Jimmy Valentine indicates similar contempt for *him*:

'''Brooks''': ''DS'' Devlin, you mean? }}

** In yet another scene, he and Matt interrogate another cop whom they suspect of being on the take. When she expresses reluctance about testifying against Valentine, he very pointedly refers to her by her "Detective Sergeant" title to remind her of her duty.

** [[Amoral Attorney|Phyllis Gladstone]] refers to Alesha as Jacob's assistant and insinuates that it's only a matter of time before she's sleeping with him. Alesha doesn't appreciate either implication:

'''Alesha''': When I see his "assistant", I'll be sure to warn her. }}

* [[Theme Music Abandonment]]: Though it must be said, this show ''does'' have [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPPmP4YnVdE a fairly rousing theme of its very own].

* [[Vigilante Man]]: The defendant in "Community Service." He might not have started out like this but he's definitely one by [[Downer Ending|the end]] thanks to a successful [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]] on a bipolar homeless man who harassed his neighbors.

* [[We Are Everywhere]]: A Neo-Nazi suspected of killing a Jewish man with a letter bomb make a speech like this, filling the air with tension, which DS Ronnie Brooks promptly bursts with:

* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: the stories are all based on US scripts.

* [[Yuri Fanboy]]: A suspect in the first episode.