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** [[spoiler:Ray discovers that his old boxing trainer, Old Bob, killed himself after he lost his gym and all of his money to a dodgy conman.]]


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* NeverSuicide: [[spoiler:When Ray visits the conman who ripped off Old Bob, he hangs him in his living room to make it appear as a suicide.]]
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* ItsPersonal: ''God help you'' if it ever comes to this with Ray. The child traffickers found this out the hard way.

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* ItsPersonal: ''God help you'' if it ever comes to this with Ray. The [[spoiler:The child traffickers and the con man who ripped off Old Bob]] found this out the hard way.
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* BaldOfAwesome / BaldOfEvil: Ray, depending on what he's up to in any given moment.

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* CelebrityParadox: One scene features Ray and Gary watching the film ''Film/{{Chopper}}''. Kenny Graham, who plays Ray's dad Bill, also played Chopper's dad Keith in that film.

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* CelebrityParadox: One scene features Ray and Gary watching the film ''Film/{{Chopper}}''. Kenny Graham, who plays Ray's dad Bill, also played Chopper's dad Keith in that film.[[note]] This was deliberate, as Graham's casting was an intentional ShoutOut to ''Chopper'', which served as a major source of inspiration for both ''The Magician'' and this series.[[/note]]



** [[spoiler:When Ray's friend Dirk robs Freddy after being fired, Freddy orders Ray to finish him off. Ray instead tries to give Dirk money to leave town for good, but a despondent Dirk, knowing the risk to Ray if Freddy ever finds out he's alive, throws himself off a cliff instead.]]

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** [[spoiler:When Ray's friend Dirk robs Freddy after being fired, Freddy orders Ray to finish him off. Ray instead tries to give Dirk money to leave town for good, but a despondent Dirk, both riddled with PTSD from his time in the army and knowing the risk to Ray if Freddy ever finds out he's alive, throws himself off a cliff instead.]]
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* AssholeVictim: Most of the characters Ray takes out fall under this category, being either ruthless criminals like Ray (but with [[EvenEvilHasStandards worse manners]]), or just straight-up despicable human beings. While the show goes out of its way to underline that murder is indeed a heinous act, when visited upon ''these'' people, it's also almost cathartic.
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* AffablyEvil: Ray may be a ruthless killer and criminal, but he's also quite easy-going, is a loving dad, supportive brother and stand-up friend, who tries to treat everyone he deals with - even his victims - with a modicum of respect. Many of the other characters he deals with, including Freddy, Gary and Dave, count to varying degrees as well.
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* BaldOfAwesome / BaldOfEvil: Ray, depending on what he's up to in any given moment.


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* SlasherSmile: Ray has one that he doesn't bring out very much, but when he does, it's frankly ''terrifying''.
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* CelebrityParadox: One scene features Ray and Gary watching the film ''Film/{{Chopper}}''. Kenny Graham, who plays Ray's dad Bill, also played Chopper's dad Keith in that film.
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Gary may be a total doofus most of the time, but when it comes to having Ray's back, the guy ''delivers''. The most notable example of this is when [[spoiler:Maddy]] is kidnapped by child sex traffickers. While Ray's rampaging through the city on a fruitless search for answers, Gary not only succeeds in finding out who took [[spoiler:her]], he manages to track the traffickers down, get into their home under the pretense of doing a drug buy, takes them all hostage, rescues [[spoiler:Maddy]], locks the traffickers in their own dungeon, and lets Ray know exactly where to find them. Even better, he manages to do all this over the course of ''one afternoon.''
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* ConsummateProfessional: Ray is one pretty composed dude, regardless of the situation. Even when mooks are trying to gun him down, he rarely loses his cool, and simply handles the situation. He also tends not to hold grudges against many of the people he comes up against, knowing that, for the most part, it's just business for them and really NothingPersonal.


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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Ray generally handles his underworld job and everything that comes with it with consummate cool, rarely becoming unflappable in a situation. This is why, when [[spoiler:Dirk's daughter Maddy is kidnapped while on a playdate with Brittany]], it's terrifying to see Ray go absolutely ''ballistic'' in trying to find her, and even Freddy realizes how volatile the situation has become when Ray [[spoiler:barges into the home of Davros's family in the mistaken belief that Davros's brother is involved, pulls a shotgun, and threatens to ''kill their grandmother'' while trying to get information, seriously damaging his relationship with Freddy in the process.]] It's the most out-of-control we've seen him, which just drives home how much of a BerserkButton [[spoiler:child endangerment]] is for Ray.

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''Mr Inbetween'' is an American-funded Australian DramaticHalfHour BlackComedy that aired on Fox Showcase (in Australia) and [[Creator/FXNetworks FX]] in America. It is created and written by Scott Ryan and directed by Nash Edgerton.

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''Mr Inbetween'' is an American-funded Australian DramaticHalfHour BlackComedy that aired on Fox Showcase (in Australia) and [[Creator/FXNetworks FX]] in America. It is created and written by Scott Ryan and directed by Nash Edgerton.
Edgerton, based on Ryan's 2005 independent film ''The Magician''.


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* AdaptationExpansion: Of ''The Magician'', the 2005 film that first introduced Ray. The film was more of a basic snapshot mockumentary that followed Ray's criminal activities, but didn't really show much of his home life. The series makes his personal life and relationships half of the focus, contrasting his underworld life with that of his everyday world as a father, boyfriend, brother and best friend, and Ray's struggles to balance both.
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* NotQuiteDead: A hilarious example involving Gary's brother-in-law Vasili. [[spoiler:Gary shoots Vasili in the head after the former tries to rob him, and enlists Ray to dispose of the body while Gary distracts his wife (Vasili's sister). Ray goes to cut up the body with a machete in order to dispose of it, only for Vasili to wake up screaming when Ray lands the first machete blow on his arm. Ray's "fuck me!" face when this happens is absolutely ''priceless''.]]

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* NotQuiteDead: A hilarious example involving Gary's brother-in-law Vasili. [[spoiler:Gary shoots Vasili in the head after the former latter tries to rob him, and enlists Ray to dispose of the body while Gary distracts his wife (Vasili's sister). Ray goes to cut up the body with a machete in order to dispose of it, only for Vasili to wake up screaming when Ray lands the first machete blow on his arm. Ray's "fuck me!" face when this happens is absolutely ''priceless''.]]

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* {{Dramedy}}: Scenes of criminal actions are interspaced with CringeComedy with friends and family, where Ray can be surprisingly a BumblingDad at times.


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* DueToTheDead: Ray is hired to dispose of the body of a young woman who overdosed at the home of a rich young guy. After retrieving said body, he's ordered by his client to take her to a remote pig farm and [[FedToPigs feed her to the pigs.]] Ray, already shaken by [[spoiler:Brittany finding his handgun at home]] and feeling the beginnings of true dissatisfaction with his criminal career, decides to bury the body in the bushland behind the pig farm instead.


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* LovableSexManiac: Gary is into fetish porn, specifically piss porn, and is also turned on by feet. This despite the fact that he's married to the gorgeous Tatiana.


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* RecklessGunUsage: [[spoiler:Brittany]] accidentally finds Ray's personal handgun that he keeps stashed under his bed, and plays around with it in her bedroom, before accidentally firing it into the wall. Although she tries to hide the damage before Ray gets home, he ''immediately'' figures out what she got up to upon smelling gunpowder when he walks in the door. He's very definitely [[TranquilFury not happy about it]].
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* TakingTheHeat: Ray hilariously agrees to do this for Gary after Tatiana finds Gary's porn DVD, and Gary tells her it's Ray's, resulting in a disgusted Tatiana calling Ray and pig and a pervert, made all the more hilarious with Ray somewhat meekly agreeing with her, even after finding out that the porn is ''urine-themed''.

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* TakingTheHeat: Ray hilariously agrees to do this for Gary after Tatiana finds Gary's porn DVD, and Gary tells her it's Ray's, resulting in a disgusted Tatiana calling Ray and a pig and a pervert, made all the more hilarious with Ray somewhat meekly agreeing with her, even after finding out that the porn is ''urine-themed''.
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* AffluentAscetic: Ray actually makes a very decent living in his criminal endeavours, easily earning thousands of dollars for every small job he undertakes, and ''hundreds'' of thousands for murders in particular. Despite this, he lives quite simply in a very ordinary suburban home, has a very plain and average dress style, and doesn't indulge in any bad habits like some of the more monied-up associates he has, such as Freddy. The only real sign shown that he has money at all is that he drives a BMW.

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''Mr Inbetween'' is an American-funded Australian DramaticHalfHour BlackComedy that aired on Fox Showcase (in Australia) and [[Creator/FXNetworks FX]] in America. It is written by Scott Ryan and directed by Nash Edgerton.

Scott Ryan plays Ray Shoesmith, a man with numerous criminal responsibilities including hitman, body disposal, drug running and money collection. On the side he navigates things in his personal life including romance, friendships, a brother with motor function problems and a ten-year-old daughter he sees on the weekends.

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''Mr Inbetween'' is an American-funded Australian DramaticHalfHour BlackComedy that aired on Fox Showcase (in Australia) and [[Creator/FXNetworks FX]] in America. It is created and written by Scott Ryan and directed by Nash Edgerton.

Scott Ryan plays Ray Shoesmith, a man with numerous criminal responsibilities including hitman, body disposal, drug running and money collection. On the side side, he navigates things in his personal life including romance, friendships, a brother with motor function problems and a ten-year-old daughter he sees on the weekends.



* DisproportionateRetribution: Due to his violent nature and hair-trigger temper, more than one character ends up on the receiving end of a beating as a result of disrespecting Ray or his family. It's actually one of the first red flags to drive a wedge in his relationship with Ally.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: Due to his violent nature and hair-trigger temper, more than one character ends up on the receiving end of a beating as a result of disrespecting Ray or his family. It's actually one of the first red flags to drive a wedge in his relationship with Ally.Ally [[spoiler:and eventually lands Ray in jail for a brief spell after he punches out a guy who walked in front of his car while he was driving, and gave Ray attitude when called out on it.]]


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* FireForgedFriends: Ray and Dave first meet when Dave is hired to [[spoiler:kidnap Ray and deliver him to Davros to be killed. After the two end up inadvertently teaming up to take Davros and his crew out]], they end up becoming sort-of mates, with Ray hiring Dave's services more than once in later episodes, and the two making a surprisingly effective team. [[spoiler:When Ray is sent to jail for assaulting a guy who cut him off, Dave even tracks the guy down and threatens him into dropping the charges on Ray's behalf.]]


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* TakingTheHeat: Ray hilariously agrees to do this for Gary after Tatiana finds Gary's porn DVD, and Gary tells her it's Ray's, resulting in a disgusted Tatiana calling Ray and pig and a pervert, made all the more hilarious with Ray somewhat meekly agreeing with her, even after finding out that the porn is ''urine-themed''.
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* SelfAdaptation: The series is based on Scott Ryan's 2005 mockumentary The Magician.
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* CountryMatters: Used with pretty high regularity, which shouldn't be that surprising, seeing as how the series is set in the seedy underbelly of the Australian crime world where the word is as ubiquitous as "fuck".

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''Mr Inbetween'' is an American-funded Australian DramaticHalfHour that aired on Fox Showcase (in Australia) and [[Creator/FXNetworks FX]] in America. It is written by Scott Ryan and directed by Nash Edgerton.

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''Mr Inbetween'' is an American-funded Australian DramaticHalfHour BlackComedy that aired on Fox Showcase (in Australia) and [[Creator/FXNetworks FX]] in America. It is written by Scott Ryan and directed by Nash Edgerton.



* BerserkButton: Ray has a few small ones, namely blatant disrespect and insulting his family or loved ones, but threaten or harm a child around him, and Ray will go out of his way to ''destroy you'' and not give a damn about the consequences. This is almost certainly a result of his own hellish, brutal upbringing.
* BlackComedy: Loads, often as a result of many of the criminals Ray deals with being woefully incompetent.



* BerserkButton: Ray has a few small ones, namely blatant disrespect and insulting his family or loved ones, but threaten or harm a child around him, and Ray will go out of his way to ''destroy you'' and not give a damn about the consequences. [[spoiler:This is almost certainly a result of his own hellish, brutal upbringing.]]



* HitmanWithAHeart: He may be a ruthless professional killer, but Ray's still a loving dad and generally decent guy (comparative to most everyone else in his line of work, anyway).



* NotQuiteDead: A hilarious example involving Gary's brother-in-law Vasili. [[spoiler:Gary shoots Vasili in the head after the former tries to rob him, and enlists Ray to dispose of the body while Gary distracts his wife (Vasili's sister). Ray goes to cut up the body with an axe in order to dispose of it, only for Vasili to wake up screaming when Ray lands the first axe blow on his arm. Ray's "fuck me!" face when this happens is absolutely ''priceless''.]]

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* NotQuiteDead: A hilarious example involving Gary's brother-in-law Vasili. [[spoiler:Gary shoots Vasili in the head after the former tries to rob him, and enlists Ray to dispose of the body while Gary distracts his wife (Vasili's sister). Ray goes to cut up the body with an axe a machete in order to dispose of it, only for Vasili to wake up screaming when Ray lands the first axe machete blow on his arm. Ray's "fuck me!" face when this happens is absolutely ''priceless''.]]
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* CreatorCameo: Series director and executive producer Nash Edgerton appears in "Can't Save You" as Ally's brother Trent.


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* DestinationDefenestration: After Ally's brother Trent takes the unicorn present off Brittany during the Christmas present swap, Ray tries to persuade him to give it back afterwards, as it's clearly a kid's present and Trent just took it to be a dick. Trent blows Ray off, who throws him through a glass sliding door for it in front of Ally's shocked family.
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* GoryDiscretionShot: We don't see what Ray does to [[spoiler:the three child traffickers who kidnapped Maddy]] due to Ray closing the door of the room when he enters, but considering he emerges absolutely covered head-to-toe in blood, one can surmise that it was appropriately ''nasty''.



* ManlyTears: Ray briefly sheds a couple at the end of "There Rust, and Let Me Die" after [[spoiler:he euthanizes Bruce and burns down the childhood home with the body inside.]]

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* ManlyTears: Ray briefly sheds a couple at the end of "There Rust, and Let Me Die" after [[spoiler:he euthanizes Bruce and burns down the their childhood home with the body inside.]]
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Due to his violent nature and hair-trigger temper, more than one character ends up on the receiving end of a beating as a result of disrespecting Ray or his family. It's actually one of the first red flags to drive a wedge in his relationship with Ally.


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** Ray reveals to Ally that he briefly considered this when he was young due to his horrendous upbringing, but ultimately decided against it.


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* ManlyTears: Ray briefly sheds a couple at the end of "There Rust, and Let Me Die" after [[spoiler:he euthanizes Bruce and burns down the childhood home with the body inside.]]
* NotQuiteDead: A hilarious example involving Gary's brother-in-law Vasili. [[spoiler:Gary shoots Vasili in the head after the former tries to rob him, and enlists Ray to dispose of the body while Gary distracts his wife (Vasili's sister). Ray goes to cut up the body with an axe in order to dispose of it, only for Vasili to wake up screaming when Ray lands the first axe blow on his arm. Ray's "fuck me!" face when this happens is absolutely ''priceless''.]]

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* BerserkButton: Ray has a few small ones, namely blatant disrespect and insulting his family or loved ones, but threaten or harm a child around him, and Ray will go out of his way to ''destroy you'' and not give a damn about the consequences. [[spoiler:This is almost certainly a result of his own hellish, brutal upbringing.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Both Ray and his brother Bruce endured an absolutely brutal childhood at the hands of their father, with Ray copping the worst of it due to always jumping in to protect his brother.
* DrivenToSuicide:
** [[spoiler:When Ray's friend Dirk robs Freddy after being fired, Freddy orders Ray to finish him off. Ray instead tries to give Dirk money to leave town for good, but a despondent Dirk, knowing the risk to Ray if Freddy ever finds out he's alive, throws himself off a cliff instead.]]
** [[spoiler:Bruce, fed up with his disability and feeling like a burden to his brother, convinces Ray to kill him by taking him to their childhood home and giving him a lethal injection.]]



* EyeScream: Ray nearly has his eye gouged out during his fight with the biker sent to kill him, and we can even see the dislodged eyeball ''hanging from the socket'' for a moment before Ray pushes it back into place. The injury results in his briefly adopting an EyepatchOfPower afterwards.
* ItsPersonal: ''God help you'' if it ever comes to this with Ray. The child traffickers found this out the hard way.



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It stars Scott Ryan as Ray Shoesmith, a hit-man who has to navigate his job while maintaining friendships, familial responsibilities and romance.

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It stars Scott Ryan as plays Ray Shoesmith, a hit-man who has to navigate his job while maintaining friendships, familial man with numerous criminal responsibilities including hitman, body disposal, drug running and romance.
money collection. On the side he navigates things in his personal life including romance, friendships, a brother with motor function problems and a ten-year-old daughter he sees on the weekends.



* {{Dramedy}}: Scenes of criminal actions are interspaced with CringeComedy with friends and family, where Ray can be surprisingly a BumblingDad at times.



* EvenEvilHasStandards: Ray does a lot of bad things, but he prefers dealing with people who are obviously bad guys themselves. Whenever his job intersects with innocent people [[BerserkButton he is not happy about things]].



* RunningGag: Ray doesn't like sandwiches, except when they're toasted.

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** He always has to find a shovel dig graves.
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* SelfAdaptation: The series is based on Scott Ryan's 2005 mockumentary The Magician.
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''Mr Inbetween'' is an American-funded Australian DramaticHalfHour that airs on Fox Showcase (in Australia) and [[Creator/FXNetworks FX]] in America. It is written by Scott Ryan and directed by Nash Edgerton.

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''Mr Inbetween'' is an American-funded Australian DramaticHalfHour that airs aired on Fox Showcase (in Australia) and [[Creator/FXNetworks FX]] in America. It is written by Scott Ryan and directed by Nash Edgerton.



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* PrisonEpisode: Ray is imprisoned at the end of "Coulda Shoulda", and spends most of "Champ" behind bars.

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''Mr Inbetween'' is an American-funded Australian DramaticHalfHour that airs on Fox Showcase (in Australia) and [[Creator/FXNetworks FX]] in America. It is written by Scott Ryan and directed by Nash Edgerton.

It stars Scott Ryan as Ray Shoesmith, a hit-man who has to navigate his job while maintaining friendships, familial responsibilities and romance.

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* AllGirlsLikePonies: Brittany likes unicorns.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first two scenes show Ray injuring a man who owes money to Freddy, and then helping a ladybug get out of his shower.
* ProfessionalKiller: Ray is a hitman.
* RunningGag: Ray doesn't like sandwiches, except when they're toasted.
* SeinfeldianConversation: A regular fixture of the show.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler: Ally gives one to Ray as she breaks up with him]]
* TropaholicsAnonymous: After assaulting two men, Ray is mandated by the court to attend anger management meetings.

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