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* DrowningMySorrows: After Rusty's death, Jack "climbed into a bottle" for six months.
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* GenderBlenderName: Devon King. Devon was actually a fairly popular girls' name in the late 1980s, but it's rather anachronistic for someone her age.
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** Jack's priest is named Joe Demaggio.
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* TheFarmerAndTheViper: J. J. Killian tells Jack "The Scorpion and the Frog," with himself as the scorpion and Jack as the frog, to explain that it's in his nature to gamble even when it hurts himself and everyone around him.
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** In "A Cry in the Night," a crack addict gives birth to a baby girl with a low birth weight and Apgar score and probable brain damage. She's so horrified by what she's done that she agrees to go into rehab.
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* DeadGuyJunior: Lola Atkins from "A Cry in the Night" names her daughter Rayna, after her murdered husband Ray.
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* SaltAndPepper: Jack and Deacon, when they work together. Deacon is more relaxed and outgoing than Jack, but he takes his job very seriously, which can lead to conflict when Deacon publishes articles that hurt Jack's case.
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* WouldHurtAChild: A drug dealer in "A Cry in the Night" dangles his client's toddler in the air and threatens to drop him if he isn't paid.
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* InterruptedSuicide: Katie Killian tries to swallow a handful of pills after her relationship with Deacon fails. Jack and Deacon find her at the last minute and knock the pills out of her hand.
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* InterruptedSuicide: Katie Killian tries to swallow a handful of pills after her relationship with Deacon fails.fails, since she thinks she'll never be able to have a relationship without immediately screwing it up. Jack and Deacon find her at the last minute and knock the pills out of her hand.
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* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Devon inherited the near-bankrupt station when she was twenty-one and was turning a profit in three years. Her brother Jimmy was an incompetent businessman and an alcoholic who died in a drunk driving accident.
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** Devon inherited the near-bankrupt station when she was twenty-one and was turning a profit in three years. Her brother Jimmy was an incompetent businessman and an alcoholic who died in a drunk drivingaccident.accident.
** Jack is a responsible, law-abiding citizen with no criminal record who has been working since he got out of high school. His brother Frankie is a small-time thief who spent time in prison. His sister Katie clearly has borderline personality disorder; she has a long history of short-lived relationships that failed because she rushed into them too quickly, then freaked out when her boyfriend wanted to slow down.
** Devon inherited the near-bankrupt station when she was twenty-one and was turning a profit in three years. Her brother Jimmy was an incompetent businessman and an alcoholic who died in a drunk driving
** Jack is a responsible, law-abiding citizen with no criminal record who has been working since he got out of high school. His brother Frankie is a small-time thief who spent time in prison. His sister Katie clearly has borderline personality disorder; she has a long history of short-lived relationships that failed because she rushed into them too quickly, then freaked out when her boyfriend wanted to slow down.
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* InterruptedSuicide: Katie Killian tries to swallow a handful of pills after her relationship with Deacon fails. Jack and Deacon find her at the last minute and knock the pills out of her hand.
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* NeverOneMurder: In "The Added Starter," a prostitute vanishes. Since there's no evidence, the police don't believe the witness who says she was murdered, until her madam is murdered too.
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* VehicleVanish: In "The Added Starter," a hitman prepares to shoot a woman who is checking the mail when a truck drives between them. By the time it's gone, she's already vanished into an apartment.
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* DoesNotDrive: Jack doesn't like to drive, preferring to rely on public transportation and rides from friends.
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* StrugglingSingleMother: Teri Scanlon from "Blood Ties" holds jobs as a secretary and a waitress to support herself and her eleven-year-old son Brian.
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* HowUnscientific: The crying Jesus statue from "Do You Believe In Miracles?" is apparently a genuine miracle, even though nothing remotely supernatural happens in any other episode.
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* SpecialGuest: [[Music/TheWho Roger Daltrey]] guest stars in "Can't Say N-N-No" as a drug-addicted rock singer who used to be in a relationship with Nicky.
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* SpecialGuest: [[Music/TheWho Roger Daltrey]] guest stars in "Can't Say N-N-No" as a drug-addicted rock singer who used to be in a relationship with Nicky.Nicky Molloy.
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* SpecialGuest: [[Music/TheWho Roger Daltrey]] guest stars in "Can't Say N-N-No" as a drug-addicted rock singer who used to be in a relationship with Nicky.
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* CutHimselfShaving: When Jack has a black eye from being punched in the face, he tells Zymak that a book fell on him after he dozed off.
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* CutHimselfShaving: When Jack has a black eye from being punched in the face, face by someone he was trying to help, he tells Zymak that a book fell on him after he dozed off.
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* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: In "Play Blotto... And Die," a snitch in witness protection wanders around in a trenchcoat, hat, sunglasses, and fake beard.
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* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: In "Play Blotto... And Die," a snitch in witness protection wanders around in a trenchcoat, trench coat, hat, sunglasses, and fake beard.
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* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: In "Play Blotto... And Die," a snitch in witness protection wanders around in a trenchcoat, hat, sunglasses, and fake beard.
* FamedInStory: Jack is well-known enough, at least in the Bay Area, that most of the people he meets have heard of him. When he's chosen to select the winning numbers in the lottery, the host refers to him as a "celebrity number-puller."
* LookBothWays: In "Play Blotto... And Die," a hitman runs right into the path of a bus while fleeing the scene of a failed hit.
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* NamedLikeMyName: The father of Devon's child is named [[Creator/DickClark Richard Clark]]. He insists on being called Richard and not Dick.
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** Jack's priest is named Joe Demaggio.
** The father of Devon's child is named [[Creator/DickClark Richard Clark]]. He insists on being called Richard and notDick.Dick.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The crime lord Nathan Dread in "Play Blotto... And Die."
** Jack's priest is named Joe Demaggio.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The crime lord Nathan Dread in "Play Blotto... And Die."
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* TrespassingToTalk: In "Play Blotto... And Die," an acquaintance of Jack's picks his lock while he's at work. Jack comes home to find him asleep on the couch.
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* WingdingEyes: Referenced by Jack: "I've heard so much about money lately, I could puke. You know, multi-million dollar ball players, multi-million dollar business deals... What the hell is wrong with this country? It's like everybody's wearing contact lenses shaped like dollar bills or something."
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* AutopsySnackTime: Officer Martin Slocum likes to spend his lunch breaks in the morgue.
* DeadPartner: Implied with Officer Slocum in "Uninvited Guests." Zymak says that a dead INS agent was very close to his partner. Slocum replies, "That's why I don't like working with a partner."
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* TheIllegal: Kid Salinas, aka Carlos Mendez, came to America illegally before falling under the control of a corrupt boxing promoter.
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** Kid Salinas, aka Carlos Mendez, came to America illegally before falling under the control of a corrupt boxingpromoter.promoter.
** Alicia Flores from "Uninvited Guests" fled to America after her brother was murdered by military police. When she witnesses a murder, she doesn't want to go to the police for fear of being deported.
** Kid Salinas, aka Carlos Mendez, came to America illegally before falling under the control of a corrupt boxing
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* GoodGuyBar: Carmen's, where Jack hangs out with Billy after work and meets up with Deacon and Zymak.
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* GoodGuyBar: Carmen's, where Jack hangs out with Billy after work and meets up with Deacon and Zymak.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted by Tina, who reluctantly decides to have an abortion to avoid giving AIDS to her daughter.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted by Tina, who reluctantly decides to have an abortion to avoid giving AIDS to her daughter. Later played straight by Devon, who decides to keep her baby even though the father is gone and having a child could seriously mess up her career.
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* SupremeChef: Aldo from "That's Amore" is such a great chef that an American mobster hired him after eating only one meal at the Sicilian restaurant where he worked.
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* SupremeChef: Aldo Marino from "That's Amore" is such a great chef that an American mobster hired him after eating only one meal at the Sicilian restaurant where he worked.
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* SupremeChef: Aldo from "That's Amore" is such a great chef that an American mobster hired him after eating only one meal at the Sicilian restaurant where he worked.
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* AsHimself: Jerry Vale makes an appearance in "That's Amore," causing a mob boss to {{squee}}.
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Clemente's motivation in "Do You Believe In Miracles?" His mother sees the missing Jesus statue as a symbol of her dead husband's salvation and would be devastated if she found out it was missing.
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* {{Fingore}}: The mobster Ricky Roses has hated Nick Clemente ever since Clemente cut his thumb off.
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* CarFu: The villains of "With Malice Towards One" try to kill Jack by smashing their van into a phone booth he's using. When he dives out of the way, they chase him down several streets before he escapes into a building.
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* CarFu: The villains of "With Malice Towards One" try to kill Jack by smashing their van into a phone booth he's using. When After he dives out of the way, they chase him down several streets before the street until he escapes into a building.
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* CardboardBoxes: While Jack is running away from a shooter in "With Malice Towards One," he knocks over a trash can to delay him.
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* UnwillingSuspension: The villains of "With Malice Towards One" handcuff Jack to a pipe on the ceiling while they beat and taser him.
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* DaEditor: Deacon's boss, Chesleigh Brant.
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** In "Life Without Possibility," prisoners riot and take a number of guards hostage, demanding better conditions. Jack persuades them to let the guards go and take him as a hostage instead.
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* TattooedCrook: Carlos "Cha Cha" Valenzuela, an inmate from "Life Without Possibility," has the name Rosa tattooed on his fingers, a marijuana leaf on his neck, and some other tattoos on his arms that are harder to see.
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* OneHeadTaller: Jack and Tina, since Creator/GaryCole is 6 feet tall and Kay Lenz is only 5'1".
