History Series / CrossingJordan

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: All over the place here, but it's especially evident between Macy, Nigel, and Woody, as well as anyone unlucky enough to have to work with Dr. Kate Switzer.

** Dr. Switzer. She's blunt, abrasive and makes absolutely no effort to soften toward her co-workers but when she has to fill in for Lily as grief counselor at one point, she's extremely compassionate and understanding to the victim's family, to the point the Woody is absolutely shocked by it.

* Dr. Switzer. She's blunt, abrasive and makes absolutely no effort to soften toward her co-workers but when she has to fill in for Lily as grief counselor at one point, she's extremely compassionate and understanding to the victim's family, to the point the Woody is absolutely shocked by it.

* ToothClenchedTeamwork: All over the place here, but it's especially evident between Macy, Nigel, and Woody, as well as anyone unlucky enough to have to work with Dr. Kate Switzer.

* Lily Lebowski, a sweet but eccentric grief counselor (played by Kathryn Hahn)

* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Dr. Garret Macy, the Chief M.E.
** TheLancer: Pathologist Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh. Also TheHero.
** TheBigGuy: Det. Woody Hoyt.
** [[ThoseTwoGuys Those Two]] [[TheSmartGuy Smart Guys]]: Criminologist Dr. Nigel Townsend and entomolgist Dr. Mahesh "Bug" Vijay.
** TheHeart: Lily Lebowski, the grief counselor.
** TeamDad: Max Cavanaugh, retired police officer.
** SixthRanger: [[RevolvingDoorBand Dr. Trey Sanders, Dr. Elaine Duchamps, Dr. Peter Winslow, Dr. Devan Maguire, Detective Lu Simmons, Dr. Kate Switzer]].

* {{Homage}}: An episode with ''Series/{{Quincy}}'' star Jack Klugman as an aging medical examiner.

* Woodrow "Woody" Hoyt, a detective for the Boston police and Jordan's on/off love interest (played by Jerry O'Connell)

* ThereAreNoTherapists: Subverted -- morgue employees are required to go through a yearly psychiatric evaluation, which they all dread

* BrokenPedestal: Jordan find out that many of the people she idolizes and has known for a long aren't that great. [[spoiler: Her father was a crooked cop who regularly planted evidence and framed a guy so he could steal his money. Her mother had another child in an affair and her mental state made her a danger to both children. Garret once ruled an obvious murder a suicide in order to help a politician.]]

* AbhorrentAdmirer: GenderFlipped, in keeping with the show's female lead. Jordan gets a fair number of these just because she's, well, [[SoBeautifulItsACurse Jordan]]. Lily seems to view [[JerkAss Det. Matt Seely]] as this at times, too.

[[caption-width-right:287:The cast of season 4 From L-R: [[TheShrink Lily]], [[LabRat Bug]], [[TheLeader Garret]], [[TheProtagonist Jordan]], [[TheBigGuy Woody]], [[TallDarkAndSnarky Nigel]].]]

* TheCoroner: Jordan, Garret, Bug, numerous others
* CowboyCop: Jordan constantly, Woody on a couple occasions as well, and Max used to be this going as far as planting evidence

* DeadpanSnarker: Nigel and Bug

* FreudianExcuse: One of these frequently comes up in the show

* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:Jordan's half-brother]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Detective Matt Seely

* TheLabRat: Nigel, Bug

* NaiveNewcomer: Woody in the first two seasons
* NecroCam: Pretty much every episode
* NoSocialSkills: almost every female medical examiner on the show: Jordan, Dr. Devan Maguire, and Dr. Kate Switzer
* OddFriendship: Bug and Nigel

* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Nigel

* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: "Sunset Division", though it was never picked up
* PutOnABus: Max, several minor characters

* TemporaryLoveInterest: [[spoiler: J.D. Pollack, Jeffrey Brandau, numerous others]]

** TheLancer: Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh. Also TheHero.

** [[ThoseTwoGuys Those Two]] [[TheSmartGuy Smart Guys]]: Lab tech Dr. Nigel Townsend and entomolgist Dr. Mahesh "Bug" Vijay.

** SixthRanger: [[RevolvingDoorCast Dr. Trey Sanders, Dr. Elaine Duchamps, Dr. Peter Winslow, Dr. Devan Maguire, Detective Lu Simmons, Dr. Kate Switzer]].

* Lily Lebowsky, a sweet but eccentric grief counselor (played by Kathryn Hahn)

* BelligerentSexualTension: Kate and Nigel

* CrossOver: With ''Series/LasVegas''

* EnhanceButton: Nigel, constantly

* JackTheRipoff: "Road Kill" is about a series of murders that emulate too many details of a pervious serial killer. Many of them are details that where never released to the public.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In "Wild Card" [[spoiler:Eric Brazil most definitly is a jerk. He seems to be unaffected by the murder of a teenager and is more concerned with taking down a gangster. Later he is suspected of killing said teenager and framing the gangster. In reality he was deeply affected by the death.]]

* CastingGag: In RealLife, Steve Valentine is a magician as well as an actor. Several times on the show, his character Nigel can be seen doing card tricks.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Jordan and Woody, as Jordan's inability to commit to a relationship is best described as "[[{{Homer}} homeric]]". During the ''Series/LasVegas'' crossovers, they would frequently hook up with Danny and Sam, respectively.

* Dr. Garret Macy, Jordan's crotchety superior (played by Miguel Ferrer)