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* CrusadingWidow: Juan Lava. His fiancée refused to cow to Czarsky’s demands to use her restaurant as a front for his actions. In retaliation, Czarsky burned the place to the ground, killing her inside. Lava intends to murder Czarsky in revenge.
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* CrusadingWidow: Juan Lava. His fiancée refused to cow to Czarsky’s demands to use her restaurant as a front for his actions.actions, or pay for his "protection". In retaliation, Czarsky burned the place to the ground, killing her inside. Lava intends to murder Czarsky in revenge.
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* WakingNonSequitur: We get it, Gus doesn't.
-->'''Shawn:''' Kareem! You took off your goggles.\\
'''Gus:''' What?\\
'''Shawn:''' What?
-->'''Shawn:''' Kareem! You took off your goggles.\\
'''Gus:''' What?\\
'''Shawn:''' What?
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* WhoWillBellTheCat: At the very end, Shawn gives a RousingSpeech to the people in the neighborhood where Czarsky operates, saying that Czarsky won’t be able to take revenge if enough people testify against him. Finally, a middle-aged woman comes forward, willing to testify… and she’s followed, one by one, by just about everyone in the neighborhood who has dirt on him.
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* WhoWillBellTheCat: At the very end, Shawn gives a RousingSpeech to the people in the neighborhood where Czarsky operates, saying that Czarsky won’t be able to take revenge if enough people testify against him. Finally, a middle-aged woman comes forward, willing to testify… and she’s followed, one by one, by just about everyone in the neighborhood who has dirt on him.him.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: A VigilanteMan is trying to bomb a crime lord for destroying the former's business, killing his fiancee, and ruining his life, all as "punishment" for refusing to pay extortion money.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: A VigilanteMan is trying to bomb a crime lord for destroying the former's business, killing his fiancee, and ruining his life, all as "punishment" for refusing to pay extortion money.
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Shawn’s looking to have a very bad Christmas this year. He was recently caught on camera sneaking into the office of notorious criminal Sergei Czarsky to look for evidence, and the whole case has been thrown out of court as a result. Henry’s been fired, Shawn is on suspension, and with InternalAffairs breathing down their necks, everyone’s job is in jeopardy. While Shawn tries to laugh it off as usual, he falls asleep and has an odd, detailed dream with his Superego/conscience showing him how everyone’s lives would have been different if he had never returned to Santa Barbara…
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Shawn’s looking to have a very bad Christmas this year. He was recently caught on camera sneaking into the office of notorious criminal Sergei Czarsky to look for evidence, and the whole case has been thrown out of court as a result. Henry’s been fired, Shawn is on suspension, and with InternalAffairs breathing down their necks, everyone’s job is in jeopardy. While Shawn tries to laugh it off as usual, he falls asleep and has an odd, detailed dream with his Superego/conscience showing him how everyone’s lives would have been different if he had never returned to Santa Barbara…Barbara...
* TheMobBossIsScarier: Subverted, as a crowd is shamed into coming forward and telling the truth about the activities of a gang in their midst.
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* SmugSnake: Czarsky plays this part exceptionally well, always acting confident until he realizes the neighborhood has had enough of his criminal operations. Perfectly exemplified when he addresses Juan, who's wife died in a fire set by Czarsky.
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* SmugSnake: Czarsky plays this part exceptionally well, always acting confident until he realizes the neighborhood has had enough of his criminal operations. Perfectly exemplified when he addresses Juan, who's whose wife died in a fire set by Czarsky.
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* FakeBetterAlternateTimeline: The episode had Shawn being shown visions of what the world would be like if he'd never returned to Santa Barbara. The visions all contradict each other (one of them sees Lassie installed as a tyrant at the SBPD, another shows Gus with a family, and a third shows Jules as a successful cop in Miami), but Shawn's guide says that this is unimportant, and the real important thing is that Shawn himself would have been squandering his potential. The real lesson he was supposed to take away from the visions is that asking What If? is pointless.
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* CrusadingWidower: Juan Lava. His fiancée refused to cow to Czarsky’s demands to use her restaurant as a front for his actions. In retaliation, Czarsky burned the place to the ground, killing her inside. Lava intends to murder Czarsky in revenge.
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* CrusadingWidower: CrusadingWidow: Juan Lava. His fiancée refused to cow to Czarsky’s demands to use her restaurant as a front for his actions. In retaliation, Czarsky burned the place to the ground, killing her inside. Lava intends to murder Czarsky in revenge.
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* CrusadingWidower: [[spoiler: Juan Lava. His fiancée refused to cow to Czarsky’s demands to use her restaurant as a front for his actions. In retaliation, Czarsky burned the place to the ground, killing her inside. Lava intends to murder Czarsky in revenge.]]
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* CrusadingWidower: [[spoiler: Juan Lava. His fiancée refused to cow to Czarsky’s demands to use her restaurant as a front for his actions. In retaliation, Czarsky burned the place to the ground, killing her inside. Lava intends to murder Czarsky in revenge.]]
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* SinisterSurveillance: Shawn was caught on camera going through Czarsky’s office. Except it wasn’t a security camera, it was a camera from across the street. [[spoiler: The person behind the camera was keeping tabs on the office so he could kill Czarsky with a bomb.]]
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* SinisterSurveillance: Shawn was caught on camera going through Czarsky’s office. Except it wasn’t a security camera, it was a camera from across the street. [[spoiler: The person behind the camera was keeping tabs on the office so he could kill Czarsky with a bomb.]]
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* WhoWillBellTheCat: [[spoiler: At the very end, Shawn gives a RousingSpeech to the people in the neighborhood where Czarsky operates, saying that Czarsky won’t be able to take revenge if enough people testify against him. Finally, a middle-aged woman comes forward, willing to testify… and she’s followed, one by one, by just about everyone in the neighborhood who has dirt on him.]]
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* WhoWillBellTheCat: [[spoiler: At the very end, Shawn gives a RousingSpeech to the people in the neighborhood where Czarsky operates, saying that Czarsky won’t be able to take revenge if enough people testify against him. Finally, a middle-aged woman comes forward, willing to testify… and she’s followed, one by one, by just about everyone in the neighborhood who has dirt on him.]]
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* PoliceBrutality: In the alternate timeline, Lassiter runs the SBDP in a grim and lockstep manner, with prison bars everywhere, “Frau Vick” as his personal megaphone-toting lackey, and he spends some time chewing out the assembled officers for bringing “only” 31% of their suspects in with gunshot wounds.
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* PoliceBrutality: In the alternate timeline, Lassiter runs the SBDP in a grim and [[PuttingOnTheReich lockstep manner, manner]], with prison bars everywhere, “Frau Vick” as his personal megaphone-toting lackey, and he spends some time chewing out the assembled officers for bringing “only” 31% of their suspects in with gunshot wounds.
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* SubvertedSitcom: When Tony Cox explains just how much Gus's life would have sucked without Shawn in his life, Shawn compares it to the premise of "a UPN sitcom from the mid-90's." He then gets the idea to portray it as though it were, watching it from studio audience bleachers. While the details are depressing (a wife who cheats on him constantly, makes decisions for him with no consideration for his needs and is a financial burden to him, with a kid who isn't even his that hates his guts), the blow is cushioned by a Funky soundtrack, a laugh-track, hokey writing and impromptu disco-dancing. While Tony Cox finds the whole thing mean on Shawn's part, Shawn is perfectly willing to do it to "Sitcom-Gus."
* WelcomeToCorneria: Gus's (hypothetical) "son" only says "you ain't my daddy".
--> '''Shawn''': Is that all he says?\\
'''Tony Cox''': This season. Last year was "sniff this, unich!"
* WelcomeToCorneria: Gus's (hypothetical) "son" only says "you ain't my daddy".
--> '''Shawn''': Is that all he says?\\
'''Tony Cox''': This season. Last year was "sniff this, unich!"
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: As Tony Cox introduces Shawn to his dream's ItsAWonderfulPlot, we can see the Grinch stealing presents from a couple outside the Psych window.
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* ItsAWonderfulPlot: With something of a twist. Shawn sees the concept coming a mile away, but Tony Cox – his guide – isn’t there to tell him how he’s made others’ lives better, he’s there to show how those others have made Shawn’s life better, particularly pointing out that Lassiter got a promotion in Shawn’s absence, and Juliet’s life isn’t a major step down, though she does sometimes wonder how her career might have gone if she'd gone to Santa Barbara.
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* ItsAWonderfulPlot: With something of a twist. Shawn sees the concept coming a mile away, but Tony Cox – his guide – isn’t there to tell him how he’s made others’ lives better, he’s there to show how those others have made Shawn’s life better, particularly pointing out that Lassiter got a promotion in Shawn’s absence, better and Juliet’s life isn’t a major step down, though she does sometimes wonder how her career might have gone if she'd gone to Santa Barbara.he doesn't appreciate them enough.
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* TheRealHeroes: The team steps up and inspires the neighborhood, who all finally overcome their fear of Czarsky and step forward to testify.
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* SmugSnake: Czarsky plays this part exceptionally well, always acting confident until he realizes the neighborhood has had enough of his criminal operations.
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* SmugSnake: Czarsky plays this part exceptionally well, always acting confident until he realizes the neighborhood has had enough of his criminal operations. Perfectly exemplified when he addresses Juan, who's wife died in a fire set by Czarsky.
-->'''Czarsky:''' How's your wife? Not still smoking, I hope?
-->'''Czarsky:''' How's your wife? Not still smoking, I hope?
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* TheConscience: Tony Cox is the physical manifestation of Shawn’s Superego and conscience, and serves as a sort of spirit guide to his dream of the world where he never came back to Santa Barbara.
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* TheConscience: Tony Cox Creator/TonyCox is the physical manifestation of Shawn’s Superego and conscience, and serves as a sort of spirit guide to his dream of the world where he never came back to Santa Barbara.
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* SmugSnake: Czarsky plays this part exceptionally well, always acting confident until he realizes the neighborhood has had enough of his criminal operations.
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* CrusadingWidower: [[spoiler: Juan Lava. His fiancée refused to cow to Czarsky’s demands to use her restaurant as a front for his actions. In retaliation, he burned the place to the ground, killing her inside. Lava intends to murder Czarsky in revenge.]]
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* CrusadingWidower: [[spoiler: Juan Lava. His fiancée refused to cow to Czarsky’s demands to use her restaurant as a front for his actions. In retaliation, he Czarsky burned the place to the ground, killing her inside. Lava intends to murder Czarsky in revenge.]]
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* RabidCop: Shawn’s vision of Juliet in the alternate timeline. He never broke up Lassiter’s tryst with his former partner, the timing never worked out for Juliet’s transfer to Santa Barbara, and she’s thrown herself into her work, scaring the hell out of Shawn with her methods.
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* RabidCop: Shawn’s vision of Juliet in the alternate timeline. He Shawn never broke up Lassiter’s tryst with his former partner, the timing never worked out for Juliet’s transfer to Santa Barbara, and she’s thrown herself into her work, scaring the hell out of Shawn with her methods.
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* HenpeckedHusband: Shawn sees Gus as one in the timeline where he never returned to Santa Barbara. He’s married to a woman who sees him as her personal wallet, she moved her cousin into their house without mentioning it until she was already in, she has a son with a son from a previous marriage who hates him, and he’s overall deeply unhappy and unappreciated.
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* HenpeckedHusband: Shawn sees Gus as one in the timeline where he never returned to Santa Barbara. He’s married to a woman who sees him as her personal wallet, she moved her cousin into their house without mentioning it until she was already in, she has a son with a son from a previous marriage who hates him, and he’s overall deeply unhappy and unappreciated.
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* ItsAWonderfulPlot: With something of a twist. Shawn sees the concept coming a mile away, but Tony Cox – his conscience – isn’t there to tell him how he’s made others’ lives better, he’s there to show how those others have made Shawn’s life better, particularly pointing out that Lassiter got a promotion in Shawn’s absence, and Juliet’s life isn’t a major step down, though she does sometimes wonder how her career might have gone if she'd gone to Santa Barbara.
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* ItsAWonderfulPlot: With something of a twist. Shawn sees the concept coming a mile away, but Tony Cox – his conscience guide – isn’t there to tell him how he’s made others’ lives better, he’s there to show how those others have made Shawn’s life better, particularly pointing out that Lassiter got a promotion in Shawn’s absence, and Juliet’s life isn’t a major step down, though she does sometimes wonder how her career might have gone if she'd gone to Santa Barbara.
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* PoliceBrutality: In the alternate timeline, Lassiter runs the SBDP in a grim and lockstep manner, with prison bars everywhere, “Frau Vick” as his personal megaphone-toting lackey, and him chewing out the assembled officers for bringing “only” 31% of their suspects in with gunshot wounds.
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* PoliceBrutality: In the alternate timeline, Lassiter runs the SBDP in a grim and lockstep manner, with prison bars everywhere, “Frau Vick” as his personal megaphone-toting lackey, and him he spends some time chewing out the assembled officers for bringing “only” 31% of their suspects in with gunshot wounds.
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* ItsAWonderfulPlot: With something of a twist. Shawn sees the concept coming a mile away, but Tony Cox – his conscience – isn’t there to tell him how he’s made others’ lives better, he’s there to show how those others have made Shawn’s life better, particularly pointing out that Lassiter got a promotion in Shawn’s absence, and Juliet’s life isn’t a major step down, though she does sometimes wonder WhatCouldHaveBeen.
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* ItsAWonderfulPlot: With something of a twist. Shawn sees the concept coming a mile away, but Tony Cox – his conscience – isn’t there to tell him how he’s made others’ lives better, he’s there to show how those others have made Shawn’s life better, particularly pointing out that Lassiter got a promotion in Shawn’s absence, and Juliet’s life isn’t a major step down, though she does sometimes wonder WhatCouldHaveBeen.how her career might have gone if she'd gone to Santa Barbara.
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* WhoWillBellTheCat: [[spoiler: At the very end, Shawn gives a RousingSpeech to the people in the neighborhood where Czarsky operates, saying that Czarsky won’t be able to take revenge if enough people testify against him. Finally, a middle-aged woman comes forward, willing to testify… and she’s followed, one by one, by just about everyone in the neighborhood who has dirt on him.
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* WhoWillBellTheCat: [[spoiler: At the very end, Shawn gives a RousingSpeech to the people in the neighborhood where Czarsky operates, saying that Czarsky won’t be able to take revenge if enough people testify against him. Finally, a middle-aged woman comes forward, willing to testify… and she’s followed, one by one, by just about everyone in the neighborhood who has dirt on him.]]
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''Season 5, Episode 14''
!The Polarizing Express
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_polarizing_express_4.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Look, you don't get it. You're supposed to go on a journey of self-discovery, you boob. Now let's do this, because you got me wearing a dance belt up in here, son!"]]
-> Directed by Creator/JamesRoday
-> Written by Saladin K. Patterson and Creator/JamesRoday
Shawn’s looking to have a very bad Christmas this year. He was recently caught on camera sneaking into the office of notorious criminal Sergei Czarsky to look for evidence, and the whole case has been thrown out of court as a result. Henry’s been fired, Shawn is on suspension, and with InternalAffairs breathing down their necks, everyone’s job is in jeopardy. While Shawn tries to laugh it off as usual, he falls asleep and has an odd, detailed dream with his Superego/conscience showing him how everyone’s lives would have been different if he had never returned to Santa Barbara…
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* TheAtoner: Shawn wakes up with a new admiration for the people around him, and spends the rest of the episode busting his ass to make things better for everyone.
* ChristmasEpisode: The third in the series, with the same VariationsOnAThemeSong as the first two.
* TheConscience: Tony Cox is the physical manifestation of Shawn’s Superego and conscience, and serves as a sort of spirit guide to his dream of the world where he never came back to Santa Barbara.
* CrusadingWidower: [[spoiler: Juan Lava. His fiancée refused to cow to Czarsky’s demands to use her restaurant as a front for his actions. In retaliation, he burned the place to the ground, killing her inside. Lava intends to murder Czarsky in revenge.]]
* DenserAndWackier: Shawn’s dreams of the alternate timeline. His more grounded view of his father living in squalor in the beginning horrified him, so he deliberately made things silly and over-the-top (but with a basis in what he believes would have happened) to cheer himself up.
* DespairEventHorizon: Henry dove headfirst over it in the world where Shawn never returned to Santa Barbara. He’s a hopeless mess who lives in squalor until he can muster up the courage to call Madeleine, who’s now married to a Moroccan prince.
* DomCom: Shawn decides to watch Gus’ life in the alternate timeline in this format. It even has a theme song, and it’s called “Wilin’ with da’ Gusters”.
* FailedASpotCheck: It looks like Shawn did this in the beginning, missing the camera that caught him snooping through Czarsky’s office. Turns out he didn’t – it was filming him through a window across the street.
* HenpeckedHusband: Shawn sees Gus as one in the timeline where he never returned to Santa Barbara. He’s married to a woman who sees him as her personal wallet, she moved her cousin into their house without mentioning it until she was already in, she has a son with a son from a previous marriage who hates him, and he’s overall deeply unhappy and unappreciated.
* IHatePastMe: During his dream, Shawn has an argument with his child self, who wants to keep being silly and immature. Shawn ends up pushing him away, recognizing it’s past time he grew up.
* ItsAWonderfulPlot: With something of a twist. Shawn sees the concept coming a mile away, but Tony Cox – his conscience – isn’t there to tell him how he’s made others’ lives better, he’s there to show how those others have made Shawn’s life better, particularly pointing out that Lassiter got a promotion in Shawn’s absence, and Juliet’s life isn’t a major step down, though she does sometimes wonder WhatCouldHaveBeen.
* PoliceBrutality: In the alternate timeline, Lassiter runs the SBDP in a grim and lockstep manner, with prison bars everywhere, “Frau Vick” as his personal megaphone-toting lackey, and him chewing out the assembled officers for bringing “only” 31% of their suspects in with gunshot wounds.
* RabidCop: Shawn’s vision of Juliet in the alternate timeline. He never broke up Lassiter’s tryst with his former partner, the timing never worked out for Juliet’s transfer to Santa Barbara, and she’s thrown herself into her work, scaring the hell out of Shawn with her methods.
* ShameIfSomethingHappened: How Czarsky keeps his criminal activities quiet, despite roping lots of locals into his scams and schemes. He’ll go through with it, too.
* SinisterSurveillance: Shawn was caught on camera going through Czarsky’s office. Except it wasn’t a security camera, it was a camera from across the street. [[spoiler: The person behind the camera was keeping tabs on the office so he could kill Czarsky with a bomb.]]
* WhoWillBellTheCat: [[spoiler: At the very end, Shawn gives a RousingSpeech to the people in the neighborhood where Czarsky operates, saying that Czarsky won’t be able to take revenge if enough people testify against him. Finally, a middle-aged woman comes forward, willing to testify… and she’s followed, one by one, by just about everyone in the neighborhood who has dirt on him.
!The Polarizing Express
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_polarizing_express_4.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Look, you don't get it. You're supposed to go on a journey of self-discovery, you boob. Now let's do this, because you got me wearing a dance belt up in here, son!"]]
-> Directed by Creator/JamesRoday
-> Written by Saladin K. Patterson and Creator/JamesRoday
Shawn’s looking to have a very bad Christmas this year. He was recently caught on camera sneaking into the office of notorious criminal Sergei Czarsky to look for evidence, and the whole case has been thrown out of court as a result. Henry’s been fired, Shawn is on suspension, and with InternalAffairs breathing down their necks, everyone’s job is in jeopardy. While Shawn tries to laugh it off as usual, he falls asleep and has an odd, detailed dream with his Superego/conscience showing him how everyone’s lives would have been different if he had never returned to Santa Barbara…
!!Tropes:
* TheAtoner: Shawn wakes up with a new admiration for the people around him, and spends the rest of the episode busting his ass to make things better for everyone.
* ChristmasEpisode: The third in the series, with the same VariationsOnAThemeSong as the first two.
* TheConscience: Tony Cox is the physical manifestation of Shawn’s Superego and conscience, and serves as a sort of spirit guide to his dream of the world where he never came back to Santa Barbara.
* CrusadingWidower: [[spoiler: Juan Lava. His fiancée refused to cow to Czarsky’s demands to use her restaurant as a front for his actions. In retaliation, he burned the place to the ground, killing her inside. Lava intends to murder Czarsky in revenge.]]
* DenserAndWackier: Shawn’s dreams of the alternate timeline. His more grounded view of his father living in squalor in the beginning horrified him, so he deliberately made things silly and over-the-top (but with a basis in what he believes would have happened) to cheer himself up.
* DespairEventHorizon: Henry dove headfirst over it in the world where Shawn never returned to Santa Barbara. He’s a hopeless mess who lives in squalor until he can muster up the courage to call Madeleine, who’s now married to a Moroccan prince.
* DomCom: Shawn decides to watch Gus’ life in the alternate timeline in this format. It even has a theme song, and it’s called “Wilin’ with da’ Gusters”.
* FailedASpotCheck: It looks like Shawn did this in the beginning, missing the camera that caught him snooping through Czarsky’s office. Turns out he didn’t – it was filming him through a window across the street.
* HenpeckedHusband: Shawn sees Gus as one in the timeline where he never returned to Santa Barbara. He’s married to a woman who sees him as her personal wallet, she moved her cousin into their house without mentioning it until she was already in, she has a son with a son from a previous marriage who hates him, and he’s overall deeply unhappy and unappreciated.
* IHatePastMe: During his dream, Shawn has an argument with his child self, who wants to keep being silly and immature. Shawn ends up pushing him away, recognizing it’s past time he grew up.
* ItsAWonderfulPlot: With something of a twist. Shawn sees the concept coming a mile away, but Tony Cox – his conscience – isn’t there to tell him how he’s made others’ lives better, he’s there to show how those others have made Shawn’s life better, particularly pointing out that Lassiter got a promotion in Shawn’s absence, and Juliet’s life isn’t a major step down, though she does sometimes wonder WhatCouldHaveBeen.
* PoliceBrutality: In the alternate timeline, Lassiter runs the SBDP in a grim and lockstep manner, with prison bars everywhere, “Frau Vick” as his personal megaphone-toting lackey, and him chewing out the assembled officers for bringing “only” 31% of their suspects in with gunshot wounds.
* RabidCop: Shawn’s vision of Juliet in the alternate timeline. He never broke up Lassiter’s tryst with his former partner, the timing never worked out for Juliet’s transfer to Santa Barbara, and she’s thrown herself into her work, scaring the hell out of Shawn with her methods.
* ShameIfSomethingHappened: How Czarsky keeps his criminal activities quiet, despite roping lots of locals into his scams and schemes. He’ll go through with it, too.
* SinisterSurveillance: Shawn was caught on camera going through Czarsky’s office. Except it wasn’t a security camera, it was a camera from across the street. [[spoiler: The person behind the camera was keeping tabs on the office so he could kill Czarsky with a bomb.]]
* WhoWillBellTheCat: [[spoiler: At the very end, Shawn gives a RousingSpeech to the people in the neighborhood where Czarsky operates, saying that Czarsky won’t be able to take revenge if enough people testify against him. Finally, a middle-aged woman comes forward, willing to testify… and she’s followed, one by one, by just about everyone in the neighborhood who has dirt on him.
