History Series / BlueLights

* AmoralAttorney: Aodhan [=McAllister=] helps Gordy Mackle get OffOnATechnicality for punching Annie in the face.

''Blue Lights'' is a 2023 CopShow that follows three trainee police officers during their probationary period at Blackthorn police station in Belfast.

!!Provides examples of:

* CopKiller: The station has a photoboard commerating officers who've been killed.

* PoliceAreUseless: {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in "Full Moon Fever" where the lack of manpower and resources lead directly to members of the public being harmed.

* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: [[spoiler:Jonty and Jen]] have sex in the station's first aid room, where they are overheard by Helen.

** The driver of the Passat, an undercover officer, is a SmugSnake who acts unprofessionally. [[spoiler:This gets him and his partner arrested after running from an officer-involved shooting and punched in the face by Gerry's partner when they're forced to let them go. Later on, they're both [[LaserGuidedKarma taken off field duty]] and assigned to protect Gordy and Sarah Mackle.]]

* MafiaPrincess: James [=McIntyre=]'s estranged wife, who seems to be living quite comfortably. She still does the odd favour for James, like [[spoiler:letting one of his goons shoot up her house to create a distraction while he tries to recover and replace a bad batch of pregabalin which had already been dealt out across the sitting.]]

** After what happens and unlike her predecessor, [[spoiler: James [=McIntyre=]'s estranged wife]] is not a push-over and is clearly going to call the shots in her dealings with [=MI5=].

** [[spoiler:Jonty]] is compelled to resign after the incident that left [[spoiler:Gerry dead]], his lack of properly documenting his interactions with [=MI5=], his failure to tell his officers the bare minimum about the [=OOBs=] and [[spoiler:his affair with Jen.]]

** For starters, one of the cars that they use, a ten-year-old VW Passat, has a newer license plate. This attracts Gerry's attention when the car passes in front of him.

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''Blue Lights'' is a 2023 PoliceProcedural that follows three trainee police officers during their probationary period at Blackthorn police station in Belfast.

* IdiotBall: The counter-terrorism undercover officers and their leader makes several bad decisions and bear some of the responsibility for the events that take place in the series.

** It doesn't matter if you're an undercover agent. If you're driving a car recklessly through narrow public streets, lead police on a pursuit and refuse to stop, they will keep pursuing you and they will catch you and put you under arrest. Especially if you were running from where [[spoiler:a police officer got shot.]]

** Their leader all but bullies his liaison, Jonty, into issuing [=OOBs=] without giving him a reason why that he could give his officers. The police officers under his command bristle and break said [=OOBs=] more than once, eventually leading to [[spoiler:Gerry's death, James and his son's arrest, and Jonty's resignation]] over the whole mess.

** It doesn't matter what "they" owe you, if it's not a legally-binding agreement, the people you made a deal with can change the rules and conditions any time they want to. [[spoiler:James [=McIntyre=] and his son end up getting arrested instead of extracted after their mishandling of the operation is held over their leader's head.]]

* OffOnATechnicality: The police actually manage to pull one off in their favour in "Full Moon Fever." [[spoiler:DCS Robinson reveals that Geraldine did not get the correct written authorisation to carry out her Article 2 investigation, thereby voiding all the interviews she had just done with the officers at the station.]]

** [[spoiler:Jonty]] is compelled to resign after the incident that left [[spoiler:Gerry dead]] and his lack of properly documenting his interactions with [=MI5=], his failure to tell his officers the bare minimum about the [=OOBs=] and [[spoiler:his affair with Jen.]]

* HotPursuit: The first episode opens with Grace and Stevie chasing down Gordy Mackle in James [=McIntyre=]'s stolen car.

* DisappearedDad: Neither Cal's nor Annie's fathers are anywhere to be seen.
* FairWeatherFriend: One of Cal's friends is very quick to openly accuse people of being racist towards Cal, even when Cal tells him to drop it. When Cal actually gets into an altercation with a police officer, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere he legs it]].

* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: [[spoiler:Jonty and Jen]] have sex in the station sickbay, where they are overheard by Helen.

* OldFashionedCopper: Part of the show's draw is meant to be showing how policing in Northern Ireland deviates from the more benevolent image of the OldFashionedCopper, mostly with the use of weapons. All the police are armed with handguns, including the probationers. At the start of the series, Tommy's at risk of not passing out at all because he's such a terrible shot, whereas if he was trying to become a regular beat cop in any other police service in the UK, this wouldn't be a major issue. The opening episode also shows that in addition to the officer's personal weapons, the patrol cars are all have a massive rifle in the boot that can be used as a secondary weapon.

* PoliceBrutality: Annie bashes the nose of a man's arrested for sexual assault into the roof of her patrol car while trying to get him into the back seat.

* RenegadeSplinterFaction: The death threat against Annie has apparently come from some "dissident Republicans".
* TheReveal: It isn't until the end of "Bad Batch" that we find out that [[spoiler:Gerry and Sandra are married]].

** [[spoiler:Jonty]] is compelled to resign after the incident that left [[spoiler:Gerry dead]] and his lack of properly documenting his interactions with [=MI5=], his failure to tell his officers the bare minimum about the [=OOBs=] and his affair with Jen.
** It doesn't matter if you're an undercover agent. If you're driving a car recklessly through narrow public streets, lead police on a pursuit and refuse to stop, they will keep pursuing you and they will catch you and put under arrest. Especially if you were running from where [[spoiler:a police officer got shot.]]

** Unlike her predecessor, [[spoiler: James [=McIntyre=]'s estranged wife]] is not a push-over and is clearly going to call the shots in her dealings with [=MI5=].

** The driver of the Passat, an undercover officer, is a SmugSnake who acts unprofessionally. [[spoiler:This gets him and his partner arrested after running from an officer-involved shooting and punched in the face by Gerry's partner when they're forced to let them go. Later on, they're both taken off field duty and assigned to transport and protect two witnesses.]]

** The driver of the Passat, an uncover officer, fails to keep a low profile and is a SmugSnake who acts unprofessionally.

* DirtyCop: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. All the officers regularly remove their name badges before entering situations that are likely to turn particularly violent or nasty. It's [[AmbiguousSituation unclear]] if this is to make them more difficult to identify (they still have their indivdiual numbers on their epaulettes]] or if it's so individual officers can't be clocked as having a Catholic or Protestant name depending on who they're dealing with.

* TakenOffTheCase: Jonty bars Grace from having any further interaction with Angela Mackle after [[Joseph tells Jonty that Angela Mackle is OOB]].

* OldFashionedBritishCopper: Part of the show's draw is meant to be showing how policing in Northern Ireland deviates from the more benevolent image of the OldFashionedBritishCopper, mostly with the use of weapons. All the police are armed with handguns, including the probationers. At the start of the series, Tommy's at risk of not passing out at all because he's such a terrible shot, whereas if he was trying to become a regular beat cop in any other police service in the UK, this wouldn't be a major issue. The opening episode also shows that in addition to the officer's personal weapons, the patrol cars are all have a massive rifle in the boot that can be used a secondary weapon.
* PoliceBrutality: Annie bashes the nose of a man's arrested for sexual assault into the roof of her patrol car while trying

* InSeriesNickname: The [[UndercoverCop undercover officers]] working counter-terrorism are known as the "sneaky beakys".