History Series / DayBreak2006

** Even ADA Alberto Garza, the man Hopper is accused of killing, turns out to be dirty. The reason he was killed is because he tried to make a deal to [[HeKnowsTooMuch expose the conspiracy]].

* WardensAreEvil: Detweiler is a former Warden at San Quentin who has been hiring out assassins from among its prison population for at least 15 years. His successor is just as unscrupulous.

** Downplayed with Spivak and Choi. If they do the interrogation together, Spivak will typically be far more hostile and dismissive while Choi will be more receptive to evidence that might prove Hopper's innocence.

* GoodCopBadCop: Hopper and Damien act out a version of this after kidnapping Torrez. Damien is a gangster while Hopper is a police detective, so the latter frequently has to restrain the former from attacking Torrez. This ends disastrously when Damien shoots Torrez in the middle of the interrogation.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Hopper manages to break Garza's wife (who lied about him having killed her husband) during interrogation by revealing that Booth had Isabella Contrares murdered because of her pregnancy.]]

* OhCrap: Shelton is being his usual smug self when he berates Battle for being late for her IA meeting. He metaphorically craps his pants and promptly calls off the meeting when he sees a photo of Fencik and Buchalter on her police computer and realizes she's looking into them in relation to the Garza case on Hopper's behalf. Since he has a history with Buchalter, he knows this could lead back to him [[spoiler:and expose his cover-up of Rita killing her abusive father]].

** While Spivak is usually just an InspectorJavert who dismisses any leads that might prove Hopper's innocence, occasionally even he will do something nice, such as thanking Hopper after he saved Choi's life, and helping out Andrea with her investigation on Dominguez.

** Played with. At the end of the HostageSituation, the erstwhile dickish and obstructive Chad throws Hopper (who has been taken into custody) a bone, telling him not to bother searching Chad's office in the next loop because he can find the file that Hopper needs in Chad's parked car. However, Chad probably thinks Hopper is insane, making the gesture meaningless. Either that, or he taunts him with the whole hostage mess being avoidable.

* DoWithHimAsYouWill: At the end of the series, detective Brett Hopper discovers that the person who killed his father years earlier is actually [[spoiler:uncle Nick, his father's old partner]]. Hopper's informant Damien, a career gangster, captures him after he tried to double cross Damien and to give Hopper the satisfaction of killing him presents him with a gun. Hopper taunts the killer's protests that he had no choice by saying that there's ''always'' a choice and walks away. Damien executes the killer seconds later.

* FlashSideways: It's not fully explained how other characters besides Hopper are affected by the time loop, but [[spoiler:Andrea, Jennifer, Rita, and Choi]] all seem to have vague recollections of memories or emotions after significant events in previous loop cycles, causing them to behave differently and "change the day".

* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Hopper's friends, family, lover, enemies, his ''entire life'' is relevant to the murder of Alberto Garza.

* PetTheDog: Played with. At the end of the HostageSituation, the erstwhile dickish and obstructive Chad throws Hopper (who has been taken into custody) a bone, telling him not to bother searching Chad's office in the next loop because he can find the file that Hopper needs in Chad's parked car. However, Chad probably thinks Hopper is insane, making the gesture meaningless. Either that, or he taunts him with the whole hostage mess being avoidable.

* CasualDangerDialogue: Chad always retains his SmugSnake disdain for Hopper even on the multiple occasions where Hopper has him at gunpoint or they're trading blows. This may be NervesOfSteel, or maybe just his {{Jerkass}} tendencies beating out his self-preservation.

* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:Uncle Nick killed Hopper's father, who was about to blow the Jane Doe case wide open, to protect his own ass. In the final loop he tries to set Damien and Hopper against each other, but Damien realizes something isn't right and turns on Nick instead. Nick makes a rather pathetic plea for mercy before Hopper allows Damien to DoWithHimAsYouWill.]]

* HonoraryUncle: Nick Vukovich, his father's former partner, is affectionally known to Brett and the Hoppers as "Uncle Nick". [[spoiler:This is because Nick felt a bit guilty about killing him, and stayed close to his partner's family to, in his mind, make up for it at least somewhat.]]

* AmviguousSituation: [[spoiler:Mrs. Garza is found dead in her parked car on the final day. Her death is purposely meant to mimic the death of Isabelle Contrares, but there are still certain ambiguities, such as whether she simply killed herself or whether she was assassinated for exposing the plot, and whether Booth ordered it from his jail cell.]]

** Fencik and Buchalter are sheriff's deputies, and seem to have been into some shady dealings even when they were still on the force.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Fencik and Buchalter are sheriff's deputies who have since become HiredGuns for Booth. They're also apparently part of some sort of Neo-Nazi gang; when Choi walks into their BadGuyBar, they kidnap and nearly murder him.

* CrazyJealousGuy: [[spoiler:Chad Shelton.]]

* InternalAffairs: Chad Shelton is an obstructive internal affairs agent who dislikes Hopper because Hopper's girlfriend Rita is Shelton's ex-wife, pretty much accusing Hopper of "stealing" her. He also has some leverage over Hopper's partner and proves to be at least a bit corrupt as well, having [[spoiler:previously covered up a crime committed by Rita to protect her brother, and turns out to have forged the evidence used to convict Hopper of the Garza murder for his own reasons.]]