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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Burke does this to Mickey Gosney, staging an overdose, and [[spoiler:Hank and Britt do this to Lindus, making it look like a (different) car accident]].
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Burke [[spoiler:Burke]] does this to Mickey Gosney, staging an overdose, and [[spoiler:Hank and Britt do this to Lindus, making it look like a (different) car accident]].
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Burke does this to Mickey Gosney, staging an overdose, and [[spoiler:Hank and Britt do this to Lindus, making it look like a (different) car accident]].
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* {{Cliffhanger}}:
** "Change Partners": Someone is secretly living in Hank's attic.
** "Fustercluck": Robert Lindus [[spoiler:dies in Hank's bathroom and Steph approaches the body with an ice pick.]]
** "Change Partners": Someone is secretly living in Hank's attic.
** "Fustercluck": Robert Lindus [[spoiler:dies in Hank's bathroom and Steph approaches the body with an ice pick.]]
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* WhamShot: [[spoiler:Armand Foster jumping out the window after Hank revealed he had sex with Foster's wife.]]
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* AssholeVictim: Gavin wasn't the one who took advantage of Katie when she was drunk, but he tried to.
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* AssholeVictim: Gavin wasn't the one who took advantage of Katie when she was drunk, but he tried to. It's hard to feel bad for him when Britt beats the hell out of him.
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* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Subverted by Katie who seems to harbour no desire for Britt to get a "real" job and even [[spoiler: gets turned on by the revelation he first met her after finding out where she worked while robbing her apartment]]
** Played straight wtih Gretchen, who married a cop, divorced him when his alcoholism overtook him, and then gets engaged to Jason, a NiceGuy with a steady, well-paying job.
** Played straight wtih Gretchen, who married a cop, divorced him when his alcoholism overtook him, and then gets engaged to Jason, a NiceGuy with a steady, well-paying job.
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* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan:
** Subverted by Katie who seems toharbour harbor no desire for Britt to get a "real" job and even [[spoiler: gets turned on by the revelation he first met her after finding out where she worked while robbing her apartment]]
** Played straightwtih with Gretchen, who married a cop, divorced him when his alcoholism overtook him, and then gets engaged to Jason, a NiceGuy with a steady, well-paying job.
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* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: [[spoiler: Britt drunkly beating Gavin, believing he is the man his girlfriend slept with, effectively ruins his life.]]
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* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: [[spoiler: Britt ATragedyOfImpulsiveness:
** [[spoiler:Britt drunkly beating Gavin, believing he is the man his girlfriend slept with, effectively ruins his life.]]
** [[spoiler:Britt drunkly beating Gavin, believing he is the man his girlfriend slept with, effectively ruins his life.]]
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* TheCaper: "Fustercluck" and "Agua Caliente" both involve breaking into a secure location and stealing something extremely valuable (a quarter of a million dollars in bearer bonds and a garbage bag full of cocaine, respectively).
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* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Michela the prostitute spares her client from this in "Pimp Daddy" when she realizes he's not aware she's trans.
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* HoneyTrap: Britt pulls one on Ashley while pretending to work for Zeitlin.
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* AssholeVictim: Gavin wasn't the one who took advantage of Katie when she was drunk, but he tried to.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: Tom Cutshaw, the man behind the plot to pave over Ocean Beach and replace it with an airport.]]
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* BarBrawl: Britt and Ray get into one in Mexico, as part of a [[GetIntoJailFree Get Into Jail Free]] scheme.
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* CapturedOnPurpose: Brit and Ray intentionally get locked up in a Mexican jail to steal confiscated drugs.
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* GetIntoJailFree: Ray and Britt start a [[BarBrawl bar fight]] in Mexico so they can steal confiscated drugs.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Gustafson finally trades out his [AddictionDisplacement cigarette holders]] for the real deal in the final episode.
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* AtTheCrossroads: The ending and cliffhanger shows them ''literally'' at the crossroads, deciding whether [[spoiler:Britt should turn himself in and go to prison or go straight to Mexico.]]
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* BrutalHonesty: Whatever else, Cutshaw is perfectly upfront on at least one point: When Hank asks [[spoiler: why, if paving over Ocean Beach to make a new airport is so great]], he wouldn't just ask the people if they wanted it, he replies "what if they said no?"
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* BaitAndSwitch: In the finale, [[spoiler: Hank is with the two guys who confessed to killing Jason with the cop claiming an SUV is following them. When he pulls into an alley, Hank thinks he's going to be killed by a corrupt cop...and it's really Gustafason calling in a favor from a cop to let Hank go to clear his name]].
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* CorruptPolitician: The [[spoiler: hippie city councilman who Hank and Britt turn to]].
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* CorruptPolitician: The [[spoiler: hippie city councilman who Hank and Britt turn to]].to. He openly relates how anyone can make "political hay" with the idea of getting a new airport...and he's the one to do it]].
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* FrameUp: The finale has [[spoiler: Hank arrested for hiring two guys to kill Jason.]]
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* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: The Whitman case got Hank fired, and arguably ruined his marriage.]]]
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* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: The Whitman case got Hank fired, and arguably ruined his marriage. To make it worse, he realizes years later, it wasn't Whitman at all but a fellow cop.]]]
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* OriginsEpisode: "Sins of the Past"Past" shows what got Hank kicked off the rope.
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* UnderestimatingBadassery: What a poor reporter does with [[spoiler: Zeitlin when she meets him. She brushes off his threats with him laughing off a claim of planting drugs in her car but it's when his enforcer tells her they're ready to kill her mother that she realizes this isn't just some mildly corrupt businessman]].
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* ContrivedConcidence: There was Hank, all about to let the whole conspiracy case drop...and then [[spoiler: he overhears the bosses talking in a men's room at the ex-wife's wedding he wasn't supposed to attend to set him on it all over again]]. Hank himself lampshades how amazing this coincidence is.
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* ContrivedConcidence: ContrivedCoincidence: There was Hank, all about to let the whole conspiracy case drop...and then [[spoiler: he overhears the bosses talking in a men's room at the ex-wife's wedding he wasn't supposed to attend to set him on it all over again]]. Hank himself lampshades how amazing this coincidence is.
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* ContrivedConcidence: There was Hank, all about to let the whole conspiracy case drop...and then [[spoiler: he overhears the bosses talking in a men's room at the ex-wife's wedding he wasn't supposed to attend to set him on it all over again]]. Hank himself lampshades how amazing this coincidence is.
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* ThreatBackfire: After discovering that Jason [[spoiler: was implicated in a child molestation case]], Hank threatens that "either you're telling Gretchen or I will" and adamant this means no wedding. Jason simply says "do what you want." Of course, what Hank doesn't realize until he [[spoiler: reveals the file to Gretchen is that Jason told her about this on their ''second'' date. Just as Jason knew, Gretchen is far more upset about Hank investigating Jason like this and disinvites him to the wedding]].
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* SpottingTheThread: Of all people, it's the schizophrenic Steph who realizes the supposed ground soil toxicology report is a fake because it's simply not possible for compounds to mix with earth soil in ''that'' huge numbers unless someone planted them there.
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* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/{{Chinatown}}''. It's a JigsawPuzzlePlot set around a land grab in metropolitan California with a private eye lead (well, two). In contrast to ''Chinatown'', though, the water aspect is a total RedHerring and the goal is actually an airport. It also culminates in a single scene with the BigBad, [[spoiler:Tom Cutshaw]], who is heavily implied to be a pedophile like Noah Cross.
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Hank Dolworth (Creator/DonalLogue) is an ex-cop and a recovering alcoholic who makes his living as an unlicensed PrivateDetective in Ocean Beach, California, along with his partner Britt Pollack (Michael Raymond-James), a reformed thief. They typically get jobs from their lawyer Maggie, some reluctant police help from Hank's former partner, Detective Mark Gustafson, and usually part of the mix each episode are Hank's ex-wife Gretchen, her new fiance Jason, and Britt's girlfriend Katie. Life is cruisey, until the duo agree to take on a job from real estate developer Robert Lindus that involves tracking down Eleanor Gosney, the daughter of Hank's old buddy Mickey. [[FirstEpisodeTwist Cue a murder, a scandal,]] and the beginnings of the biggest and most dangerous case Hank and Britt have ever had to deal with.
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Hank Dolworth (Creator/DonalLogue) is an ex-cop and a recovering alcoholic who makes his living as an unlicensed PrivateDetective in Ocean Beach, California, along with his partner Britt Pollack (Michael Raymond-James), (Creator/MichaelRaymondJames), a reformed thief. They typically get jobs from their lawyer Maggie, some reluctant police help from Hank's former partner, Detective Mark Gustafson, and usually part of the mix each episode are Hank's ex-wife Gretchen, her new fiance Jason, and Britt's girlfriend Katie. Life is cruisey, until the duo agree to take on a job from real estate developer Robert Lindus that involves tracking down Eleanor Gosney, the daughter of Hank's old buddy Mickey. [[FirstEpisodeTwist Cue a murder, a scandal,]] and the beginnings of the biggest and most dangerous case Hank and Britt have ever had to deal with.
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* YourCheatingHeart:[[spoiler: Katie.]]
** [[spoiler: DateRape: Katie was so drunk that she couldn't find her car, then fended off advances from a classmate before her professor white knighted his way into the scene. He does not appear to be drunk, has been giving her lecherous glances in class, and is in a position of power over her. That's not cheating. That's date rape.]]
** [[spoiler: DateRape: Katie was so drunk that she couldn't find her car, then fended off advances from a classmate before her professor white knighted his way into the scene. He does not appear to be drunk, has been giving her lecherous glances in class, and is in a position of power over her. That's not cheating. That's date rape.]]
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Hank Dolworth (Creator/DonalLogue) is an ex-cop and a recovering alcoholic who makes his living as an unlicensed PrivateDetective in Ocean Beach, California, along with his partner Britt Pollack (Michael Raymond-James), a reformed thief. They typically get jobs from their lawyer Maggie, some reluctant police help from Hank's former partner, Detective Mark Gustafson, and usually part of the mix each episode are Hank's ex-wife Gretchen, her new fiance Jason, and Britt's girlfriend Katie. Life is cruisey, until the duo agree to take on a job from real estate developer Robert Lindus that involves tracking down Eleanor Gosney, the daughter of Hank's old buddy Mickey. [[FirstEpisodeSpoiler Cue a murder, a scandal,]] and the beginnings of the biggest and most dangerous case Hank and Britt have ever had to deal with.
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Hank Dolworth (Creator/DonalLogue) is an ex-cop and a recovering alcoholic who makes his living as an unlicensed PrivateDetective in Ocean Beach, California, along with his partner Britt Pollack (Michael Raymond-James), a reformed thief. They typically get jobs from their lawyer Maggie, some reluctant police help from Hank's former partner, Detective Mark Gustafson, and usually part of the mix each episode are Hank's ex-wife Gretchen, her new fiance Jason, and Britt's girlfriend Katie. Life is cruisey, until the duo agree to take on a job from real estate developer Robert Lindus that involves tracking down Eleanor Gosney, the daughter of Hank's old buddy Mickey. [[FirstEpisodeSpoiler [[FirstEpisodeTwist Cue a murder, a scandal,]] and the beginnings of the biggest and most dangerous case Hank and Britt have ever had to deal with.
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* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Zigzagged by Hank and his twin sister Steph. Steph is a very serious variant of the CloudCuckoolander (she has schizophrenia which has resulted in her having to abandon her whole life), while Hank is the CloudCuckoolandersMinder who is trying to get clean from alcoholism and go straight. Ultimately, though, [[spoiler:it's Steph who realizes she needs help and takes responsibility for her life by going back to psychiatric care, while Hank spirals deeper into a conspiracy.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Most of the main characters, but especially Hank, Britt, and Gustafson. Gustafson is frequently antagonistic towards Hank and seems to disapprove of his business, but this is because Gustafson tried to help Hank out many times while he was OffTheWagon and it always failed (he later shows how much he cares for and respects Hank); Britt is a petty thief and dropout who nevertheless cares deeply for both Hank and Katie and is trying to be better, and Hank is a recovered alcoholic who is often sour and abrasive, but he shows how loyal and caring he is too.
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* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: The Whitman case got Hank fired, and arguably ruined his marriage.]]
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* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: The Whitman case got Hank fired, and arguably ruined his marriage.]]]]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: [[spoiler:Tom ''Cut''shaw]] is highly corrupt and [[spoiler:almost certainly a pedophile.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: [[spoiler:Tom ''Cut''shaw]] is highly corrupt and [[spoiler:almost certainly a pedophile.]]
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: TheConspiracy is a group of murderers and {{CorruptCorporateExecutive}}s. But there's a reason that the final BigBad we meet is [[spoiler:a pedophile, and probably a child rapist, who built a children's hospital in Mexico to cover up his crimes.]]
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* RealLifeRelative: Donal Logue's younger sister Karina as Hank's sister Steph.
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* HoYay: Hank and probably half the male cast, but with Britt especially.
-->'''Britt''': ''Will you visit me in prison?''\\
'''Hank''': ''For conjugal visits, yeah.''
** Gustafson even refers to Britt as Hank's ''boytoy''.
-->'''Britt''': ''Will you visit me in prison?''\\
'''Hank''': ''For conjugal visits, yeah.''
** Gustafson even refers to Britt as Hank's ''boytoy''.
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[[caption-width-right:300:[[EarWorm Got a ride with a trickster and a javelin man...]] ]]
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