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* SinisterSuffocation:
** In "Sub Silentio" ("In Silence"), Harrow attempts to dig up Francis Chester's grave in order to prove Chester is still alive. Chester overpowers Harrow and injects him with a fast acting anesthetic. When Harrow wakes up, he is inside the coffin, and since his request for an exhumation was denied and he's been suspended so isn't expected at work, no one even knows he's missing and he knows no rescue is coming. Harrow, a medical examiner, knows exactly how important it is to keep calm and breathe slowly, but since Chester keeps sending Harrow video of stalking ''his daughter'' and eventually trying to kill her, the keeping calm part is rather difficult. Harrow's breathing gets more rapid as his air goes bad, and [[spoiler: eventually he starts to lose consciousness just as his attempts to scratch his way through the coffin-lid start to succeed — meaning Harrow barely has time or energy to cover his mouth and nose with a cloth before dirt bursts into the coffin, burying him even more completely.]]
** Chester's usual M.O. for his murders is to target couples, using a paralytic on the male victim and forcing him to watch helplessly as Chester strangles the female victim. Since any paralytic powerful enough to completely immobilize a man, yet leave him conscious, would also paralyze his diaphragm, the male victim would be suffocating too. In "Pater Familias" ("Father of the Family") Chester tries to do this to Harrow and his daughter Fern, [[spoiler: but Harrow has taken an agent to counteract the paralytic and is able to fight back.]]
** In "Sub Silentio" ("In Silence"), Harrow attempts to dig up Francis Chester's grave in order to prove Chester is still alive. Chester overpowers Harrow and injects him with a fast acting anesthetic. When Harrow wakes up, he is inside the coffin, and since his request for an exhumation was denied and he's been suspended so isn't expected at work, no one even knows he's missing and he knows no rescue is coming. Harrow, a medical examiner, knows exactly how important it is to keep calm and breathe slowly, but since Chester keeps sending Harrow video of stalking ''his daughter'' and eventually trying to kill her, the keeping calm part is rather difficult. Harrow's breathing gets more rapid as his air goes bad, and [[spoiler: eventually he starts to lose consciousness just as his attempts to scratch his way through the coffin-lid start to succeed — meaning Harrow barely has time or energy to cover his mouth and nose with a cloth before dirt bursts into the coffin, burying him even more completely.]]
** Chester's usual M.O. for his murders is to target couples, using a paralytic on the male victim and forcing him to watch helplessly as Chester strangles the female victim. Since any paralytic powerful enough to completely immobilize a man, yet leave him conscious, would also paralyze his diaphragm, the male victim would be suffocating too. In "Pater Familias" ("Father of the Family") Chester tries to do this to Harrow and his daughter Fern, [[spoiler: but Harrow has taken an agent to counteract the paralytic and is able to fight back.]]
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Harrow falls hard for the redheaded Sgt. Dass. However, his secrets and her innate curiosity drive a wedge between them.
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* ObfuscatingPostmortemWounds: In "Aurum Potestas Est" ("Gold is Power"), one VictimOfTheWeek dies during an EroticAsphyxiation session gone wrong. Someone looking to cover things up places the body on the railroad tracks where it is run over by a train; hoping that the massive damage will hide the real cause of death.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: When Harrow is buried alive in "Sub Silentio" ("In Silence"), he finds the hollowest-sounding panel in the lid, then begins scratching through the wood using the protrusion where his watch band attaches to the watch. After hours of scraping and pushing on the area trying to get through it, as Harrow starts losing consciousness from oxygen starvation, [[spoiler: we hear wood cracking, and the panel drops into the coffin, earth rapidly spilling through the hole. Harrow gets a cloth over his mouth and nose, but the dirt quickly covers his head, as well as the dying cell phone, leaving darkness and silence except for the muffled battery-low beep.]]
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: When Harrow is buried alive in "Sub Silentio" ("In Silence"), he finds the hollowest-sounding panel in the lid, then begins scratching through the wood using the protrusion where his watch band attaches to the watch. After hours of scraping and pushing on the area trying to get through it, as Harrow starts losing consciousness from carbon dioxide poisoning [[note]]accumulated exhaled carbon dioxide kills in a confined space long before oxygen starvation, levels can get dangerously low[[/note]], [[spoiler: we hear wood cracking, and the panel drops into the coffin, earth rapidly spilling through the hole. Harrow gets a cloth over his mouth and nose, but the dirt quickly covers his head, as well as the dying cell phone, leaving darkness and silence except for the muffled battery-low beep.]]
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* FalseConfession: In "Parce Sepulto" ("Forgive the Dead"), Nichols is grilling Connor, a suspect in the murder of the week, who is protesting his innocence. Nichols then says that Connor can prove his innocence by taking a blood test. Connnor agrees, but then asks how a blood test will prove his innocence. Nichols tells that the killer left cannabinoid residue on the skin of the victim, and if Connor's system is free of cannabioids, he cannot be the killer. Connor then changes his tune and immediately confesses. Nichols has him arrested, but Harrow thinks this was bit too sudden, and Nichols agrees. It turns out, [[spoiler:the killer is actually Connor's terminally ill fiancee Rebecca, and Connor is confessing to save her from going to prison]].
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* FalseConfession: In "Parce Sepulto" ("Forgive the Dead"), Nichols is grilling Connor, a suspect in the murder of the week, who is protesting his innocence. Nichols then says that Connor can prove his innocence by taking a blood test. Connnor agrees, but then asks how a blood test will prove his innocence. Nichols tells that the killer left cannabinoid residue on the skin of the victim, and if Connor's system is free of cannabioids, he cannot be the killer. Connor then changes his tune and immediately confesses. Nichols has him arrested, but Harrow thinks this was bit too sudden, and Nichols agrees. It turns out, [[spoiler:the [[TerminallyIllCriminal killer is actually Connor's terminally ill fiancee fiancee]] Rebecca, and Connor is confessing to save her from going to prison]].
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* CellPhonesAreUseless: When Daniel is buried alive in "Sub Silentio" ("In Silence"), Francis Chester leaves him a cell phone, but it's locked so it can't make outgoing calls, and there is no Emergency Call function (presumably Chester either hacked the phone to block that function, or found an older model that didn't have it).
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* IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow: In "Aurum Potestas Est" ("Gold is Power"), Simon is telling Dass about a bet between him and Harrow about who could stand in the new freezer the longest naked:
-->'''Harrow:''' And I would have won if I hadn't had to take that phone call.\\
'''Dass:''' Is that what the kids are calling it now?
-->'''Harrow:''' And I would have won if I hadn't had to take that phone call.\\
'''Dass:''' Is that what the kids are calling it now?
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* SympatheticMurderBackstory: The plot of the first season. It starts with a flashback to Daniel disposing of a body in the first episode, and we gradually learn [[spoiler: that the body was his ex-wife's new husband, who had been sexually abusing (raping) and terrorizing Daniel's then-early-teens daughter Fern. When Daniel confronted him, he tried to kill Daniel, although there is some question as to what degree of premeditation there was in Daniel setting up the situation. It probably would have been ruled self-defense, but Daniel had just learned what Fern went through and didn't want to risk being in jail when she needed him, so he hid the body.]]
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* ShownTheirWork: When Francis Chester is shown sneaking up behind Daniel or Fern and injecting them to [[InstantSedation knock them out very quickly]], he's inserting the needle into the top of the left shoulder, making it believable that Chester, a trained anesthetist who would know the anatomy very well, is injecting into the subclavian vein, a site which actually is used for vascular access and could deliver a drug with a relatively short trip to reach the brain.
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* ShownTheirWork: When Francis Chester is shown sneaking up behind Daniel or Fern and injecting them to [[InstantSedation knock them out very quickly]], he's inserting the needle into the top of the left shoulder, making it believable that Chester, a trained anesthetist who would know the anatomy very well, is injecting into the subclavian vein or jugular vein, a site which actually is used for vascular access and could deliver a drug with a relatively short trip to reach the brain.brain. While most such insertions are done with ultrasound guidance now, when Chester was practicing it would have been done based on anatomic landmarks, which were handily visible in the tops Daniel and Fern were wearing.
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* ShownTheirWork: When Francis Chester is shown sneaking up behind Daniel or Fern and injecting them to [[InstantSedation knock them out very quickly]], he's inserting the needle into the top of the left shoulder, making it believable that Chester, a trained anesthetist who would know the anatomy very well, is injecting into the subclavian vein, a site which actually is used for vascular access and could deliver a drug with a relatively short trip to reach the brain.
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* InstantSedation: A rare case of this trope being done believably in the second season, since serial killer Francis Chester was an anesthetist and could calculate drug dosages based on weight, physical condition, and other factors, and deliver them through the correct routes, to knock a victim out quickly without killing them...or [[AndIMustScream immobilize them]] so he can make them [[ForcedToWatch watch helplessly]] as he kills a loved one in front of them.
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* TargetedToHurtTheHero: The second season features a BigBad with this as his primary goal, most notably framing Harrow's daughter for drug possession and killing his protege Simon.
->'''Francis Chester:''' I did warn you, Doctor -- '''everything''' you love.
->'''Francis Chester:''' I did warn you, Doctor -- '''everything''' you love.
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* PrematureEulogy: In "Abo Imo Pectore" ("From the Deepest Chest") after Daniel recovers from being shot, he learns that Fairly did a very heartfelt practice eulogy, in case Daniel didn't make it.
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* MistakenDeathConfirmation: A major plot point of series 2 is that Harrow believes Francis Chester is still alive, but no one can believe that Laurie Badcoe could have been wrong about the identity of the body.
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* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Harrow's lawyer friend Paul Haberecht is introduced in "Audere Est Facere" ("To Dare Is to Do") with a bit of a cough he says is a flu he can't seem to shake. In "Malum In Se" ("Evil in Itself") we learn [[spoiler: Paul was exposed to asbestos while hiding a girl's body, and now almost certainly has asbestosis]].
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* BodyOfTheWeek: The main protagonist is a Medical Examiner, so there's usually at least one, often several. In contrast to most American shows that feature dead bodies, ''Harrow'' makes no effort to cover up female corpses' chests, but as they are, well, corpses, presented in a very matter-of-fact manner, there is nothing titillating about there being bare breasts on camera.
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* WakingUpElsewhere: When Harrow tried to dig up Francis Chester's coffin to prove he's still alive in "Sub Silentio" ("In Silence"), he's attacked from behind and injected with a syringe. When he wakes up, he's inside the coffin, buried alive, with a locked cell phone (with no emergency call function) which Chester uses to call Harrow to taunt him, as well as send video calls as he stalks Fern.
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* LockedInAFreezer: In "Locus Poenitentiae" ("Place of Penitance") a woman who had been held as a sex slave for three years is locked in a large freezer to try to kill her; she suffers severe frostbite but is able to escape before dying. Later Harrow is locked in the same freezer; he figures out another way to escape, but is almost killed by his captor before Fairly comes to the rescue.
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* HorribleCampingTrip: The main plot of season 3's "Per Stirpes" ("By Roots") is Fairly asking Harrow and Nichols to join him on a camping trip, and the many, ''many'' things that go wrong on it.
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** When Callan's boss identifies Francis Chester's picture as their kitchen hand Frank, Fern tries to call her dad to tell him, but she never even tries to tell Nichols, who could have confirmed this and then had actual ''evidence'' independent of Harrow that Chester was still alive.
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* MyGreatestFailure: Grace reveals in Season 2 why she quit neurosurgery for pathology: [[spoiler: she convinced a boy's parents that she could remove a brain tumour all other doctors they'd seen deemed inoperable. As it turned out, the tumor had spread so deep into the boy's brain she had to remove most of his brain to excise it. Though he survived the operation, it was at the cost of reducing him to an EmptyShell, and Grace believes she should have kept her mouth shut and let the boy have what little time he had left with his family]].
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* MyGreatestFailure: Grace reveals in Season 2 why she quit neurosurgery for pathology: [[spoiler: she convinced a boy's parents that she could remove a brain tumour all other doctors they'd seen deemed inoperable. As it turned out, the tumor had spread so deep into the boy's brain she had to remove most a significant amount of his ''healthy'' brain tissue to excise it. Though he survived the operation, operation and the cancer was indeed cured, it was at the cost of reducing him to an EmptyShell, EmptyShell who couldn't talk or recognize his parents, and Grace believes she should have kept her mouth shut and let the boy have what little time he had left with his family]].
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* AccidentalMisnaming: In first season Harrow calls Simin's partner "Vivian" at one point early on. He gets it right the rest of the season, though.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: A RunningGag in first season is that Harrow seems incapable of remembering the name of Simon's partner, resulting in all kinds of creative guesses.
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* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: After [[spoiler: Chester injects Callan with a large dose of succinylcholine]] in "Facilis Descensus" ("The Descent is Easy"), Harrow first does CPR, then gets a crash cart and shocks him with a defibrillator. Trouble is, the EKG is shown as a flat line at the time. A shock is used when disorganized electrical signals, fibrillations, are messing up the normal electrical impulses that make the heart beat properly. Such disorganized signals show up as an erratically wiggling line. If there's a flatline, then shocking the heart won't help; it's only if there are still fibrillations happening that shocking the heart can return them to normal patterns.
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* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: In "Facilis Descensus" ("The Descent is Easy") Harrow does CPR on [[spoiler: Callan after Chester injects him with a heavy dose of succinylcholine.]] Despite a flatline on the EKG, at which point electrical shocks won't do anything in real life, Harrow successfully revives him using a crash cart defibrillator. [[spoiler: Callan]] appears to be fine after recovering.
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* {{Bookends}}: The titles of the first and last episodes of season one, "Actus Reus" ("Guilty Act") and "Mens Rea" ("Guilty Mind").
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* NoodleIncident: When Harrow comes into the morgue barefoot in "Hic Sunt Dracones" ("Here be Dragons"), Dass and Simon start guessing what happened to his shoes. When Simon guesses "Threw them at a Councilman?" Harrow replies, "That only happened ''once''."
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* NoodleIncident: When Harrow comes into the morgue barefoot in "Hic Sunt Dracones" ("Here be Dragons"), Dass and Simon start guessing what happened to his shoes. When Simon guesses "Threw them at a Councilman?" Council worker?" Harrow replies, "That only happened ''once''."
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* NoodleIncident: When Harrow comes into the morgue barefoot in "Hic Sunt Dracones" ("Here be Dragons"), Dass and Simon start guessing what happened to his shoes. When Simon guesses "Threw them at a Councilman?" Harrow replies, "That only happened ''once''."
