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Another show (2002-2009) from the ''[[CSI]]-[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit|SVU]]'' school of "let's focus on a lesser-known faction of the criminal investigation world";
It should be noted that while the investigation should stop with the discovery of a body, the unit very frequently ends up investigating murders along the way as well as that of the missing person, should that scenario appear.
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* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Happens a lot whenever a kid disappears as the parents would prefer to deny that their kids might have been involved in something they shouldn't have.
* [[Bottle Episode]]: A great deal of the Doppelganger was an intense mind game interrogation scene.
** The same could be said of the episode that focuses mostly on Jack's deposition for his parental custody dispute.
* [[Crime-Time Soap]]: Every character gets some drama at some point, but Jack Malone takes the cake. His utterly horrific personal life came to dominate the series for a time. When he's killed off
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: {{spoiler|[[Broken Bird|Samantha]], [[Rape as Backstory|as]] [[Freudian Excuse|revealed]] in Season 5}}.
* [[Death Seeker]]: Jack eventually becomes one for reasons that are obvious to any longtime viewer.
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* [[Hollywood Pudgy]]: One episode had, as the victim, a girl with a noticeable but reasonable amount of heft to her. Needless to say she was treated as though she were morbidly obese: she had only one friend, was constantly terrorized for her weight, and had massive self-esteem issues.
* [[I Am the Noun]]: In one of the later episodes, Jack's girlfriend Anne must have surgery following a miscarriage. Jack is in the waiting room and starts to get annoyed, rather loudly, that nobody has the courtesy (his words) to tell him what's going on. The nurse tells him that she'll call the police if he doesn't quiet down and he replies "I am the damn police!" She tells him that she'll see if she can get a nurse.
* [[In Medias Res]]: One of the basic foundations of the show. The story typically begins just before the disappearance and the remainder of the show is spent fleshing out the back-story through the use of flashbacks during interviews. ▼
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Both averted and played straight. Children and teens turn up missing in quite a few episodes, and their turning up alive is ''never'' guaranteed.
▲* [[In Medias Res]]: One of the basic foundations of the show. The story typically begins just before the disappearance and the remainder of the show is spent fleshing out the back-story through the use of flashbacks during interviews.
* [[It's Personal]]
* [[Love Triangle]]: Repeatedly, between the different members of the squad.
* [[Mama Bear]]: Elena is willing to go as far as to disobey direct orders and ''hold a corrupt cop at gunpoint in his car'' to rescue her daughter Sophie.
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* [[Murder.Com]]: "Party Girl".
* [[No Ending]]
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: Poppy Montgomery's accent has racked up enough frequent flyer miles over the Pacific that it will never need to buy a plane ticket again.
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* [[Perp Walk]]: Pretty much whenever the Missing Persons case leads to an arrest.
* [[Proscenium Reveal]]: Security guard sees suspicious car. He looks inside and sees a bomb, which explodes, setting him on fire. Turns out this security guard is actually a stuntman, participating and shooting of B-Movie. Then he walks away from the set and never comes back.
▲* [[Punny Name]]: Samantha "Sam" Spade, named for the hero of ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]''
* [[Rape as Backstory]]: {{spoiler|Samantha's sister was raped by a local man. Sam beat him to death with a shovel, and the sisters buried him in the woods}}.
* [[Rape Discretion Shot]]: Seen in two episodes, both during flashback sequences. In one episode, a blind girl recounts how she and her female tutor were kidnapped by two teens, one of whom proceeded to rape the tutor while the blind girl listened with terror on her face. The other episode uses this during the revelation of {{spoiler|Samantha's}} [[Dark and Troubled Past]].
* [[Town with a Dark Secret]]: A favorite trope of the show, especially in "Our Sons and Daughters".
* [[Vomiting Cop]]
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: In the Season 4 episode "White Balance
{{quote|'''Mother:''' Let me tell you what the real issue is here, Mr. Malone. My ''black'' son's life isn't half as important as that ''white'' girl's!}}
** In a later episode, Samantha brings Jack to task for doing an unauthorized background check into the past life and criminal history of her child's father, which results in the guy waiving his parental rights to the unborn child.
{{quote|'''Jack:''' I was just trying to do what I thought was right.
'''Samantha:''' How long are you going to keep using that as an excuse to screw people over?}}
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