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* TheBeard: A subplot in season 1 has Eliza's landlady Ms. Parker [[ArrangedMarriage trying to marry off her son Rupert]], first to Eliza herself, then eventually to another woman. Eliza learns during an investigation that Rupert is gay (both he and the BodyOfTheWeek have blue roses on display, a covert signal to other gay men at a time when male homosexuality was illegal), so she would have been his beard, as is the German gentlewoman he ultimately marries.
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* FramingTheGuiltyParty: By accident. An episode in season 2 has Eliza being arrested for breaking in the the city mortuary and stealing some files, as her mother's ring was found at the scene of the crime. [[spoiler:She had snuck into the mortuary (when the ring had slipped off her finger), but it was earlier in the day and she didn't break in--she had earlier duplicated the key to the mortuary--nor had she stolen any files, merely looked at some related to her cases and then put them back]].
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* FramingTheGuiltyParty: By accident. An episode in season 2 has Eliza being arrested for breaking in the the city mortuary and stealing some files, as her mother's ring was found at the scene of the crime. [[spoiler:She She had snuck into the mortuary (when the ring had slipped off her finger), but it was earlier in the day and she didn't break in--she had earlier duplicated the key to the mortuary--nor had she stolen any files, merely looked at some related to her cases and then put them back]].back.
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* PutOnABus: Season 4 ends with William [[spoiler:[[LoveConfession finally telling Eliza he's in love with her]]]], but then getting on a ship to the United States. It was subsequently announced that he would not be returning for season 5, leading to the series being retitled ''Miss Scarlet'' to avoid an ArtifactTitle.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: In season 2, [[{{Nepotism}} William is made to take the police commissioner's well-meaning but untalented son under his wing]], and takes the role of mentor seriously despite his initial misgivings. [[spoiler:Fitzroy ultimately saves William's job by organizing the detective squad to stand up to his father: they threaten a mass resignation if the PC tries to retaliate against William when Fitzroy is injured in the line of duty, forcing him to back down.]]
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* {{Expy}}: Ms. Scarlet is one for Lizzy Bennet and The Duke for Mr. Darcy.
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* DownerEnding: Season 3's "The Heir", [[spoiler: Ms. Scarlet goes to great lengths to help a man come into his fortune of 20,000 pounds for him and his pregnant wife. At the end, she discovers he murdered his father and is thus going to the gallows and to inherit nothing. What's worse, his wife will be left with a child and destitute and the victim was an AssholeVictim who had it coming.]]
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* DownerEnding: Season 3's "The Heir", [[spoiler: Ms. Scarlet Eliza goes to great lengths to help a man come into his fortune of 20,000 pounds for him and his pregnant wife. At the end, she discovers he murdered his father and is thus going to the gallows and to inherit nothing. What's worse, his wife will be left with a child and destitute and the victim was an AssholeVictim who had it coming.]]
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* TheUnfairSex: Eliza is prone to openly breaking the law and engaging in CowboyCop activities that would land her in jail if not for the fact she often is treated as harmless by the police, more a nuisiance than an actual criminal.
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* DownerEnding: Season 3's "The Heir", [[spoiler: Ms. Scarlet goes to great lengths to help a man come into his fortune of 20,000 pounds for him and his pregnant wife. At the end, she discovers he murdered his father and is thus going to the gallows and to inherit nothing. What's worse, his wife will be left with a child and destitute and the victim was an AssholeVictim who had it coming.]]
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* YouHaveFailedMe: The season 1 ArcVillain executes two men under him for failing to [[spoiler:keep a forger they had kidnapped in their custody and letting Will and Eliza escape]].
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* YouHaveFailedMe: The season 1 ArcVillain executes two men under him for failing to [[spoiler:keep a forger they had kidnapped in their custody and letting Will and Eliza escape]].escape]].
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Despite being set in the Victorian era, there are a lot of anachronisms. One of the most amusing is a reversal of the show's premise. IN fact, in Victorian England, there were quite a number of female private detectives. By 1858, there was an entire profession of them opening up due to the Matrimonial Causes Act resulting in many job opportunities for female investigators (primarily of men for adultery). Ms. Scarlet investigating murders would have been strange but not the idea of a lady detective at all.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Despite being set in the Victorian era, there are a lot of anachronisms. One of the most amusing is a reversal of the show's premise. IN In fact, in Victorian England, there were quite a number of female private detectives. By 1858, there was an entire profession of them opening up due to the Matrimonial Causes Act resulting in many job opportunities for female investigators (primarily of men for adultery). Ms. Scarlet investigating murders would have been strange but not the idea of a lady detective at all.
