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* FiveFiveFive

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* BottleEpisode: "Missing" and "Six Minutes".

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* DaChief: Lt. Michael Oakes.

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* FirstEpisodeTwist: Rosie Larsen dies.

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* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: Bullet, Kallie]].

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* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Bullet in Season 3]].

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* LastNameBasis: Linden and Holder.

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* OffTheWagon: Holder in Season 4 (though briefly).

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%% * OffTheWagon: Holder in Season 4 (though briefly).



* RasputinianDeath: The eponymous killing, which even ends in drowning.

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* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Bullet]] and [[spoiler: Ray Seward]] in season 3.
* ScaryMinoritySuspect: The Somali teacher.
* UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}: The race for mayor is a major plot point.

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%% * SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Bullet]] and [[spoiler: Ray Seward]] in season 3.
%% * ScaryMinoritySuspect: The Somali teacher.
* UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}: The race for mayor SecretSexWorker: Rosie's aunt Terry is revealed to be a major plot point.sex worker who kept it quiet from her family (especially her judgmental sister, Mitch, who views her as a screw-up), and it's implied that Rosie contemplated sex work (it's ambiguous if she went through with it) to get the money to leave town. Since Rosie would've only been a teenager, she hid it due to legal problems. [[spoiler:Though Terry does face condemnation when it's revealed that she's a sex worker, it's implied that the main reason she kept quiet about it was because she was in love with one of her clients and killed Rosie to protect him -- though she didn't know it was Rosie at the time.]]



* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Janek seems fond of this line.

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* ShootTheShaggyDog: Season 3's ending.

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* TheStoic: Linden

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* SympatheticMurderer: [[spoiler:Kyle]] in season 4.

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** Poor Jamie.

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* GreyRainOfDepression: A given in Seattle.

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* GriefInducedSplit: Between the first two seasons, Mitch has left her family to go on a road trip and deal with her grief. She ignores pleas to return home, only to [[SubvertedTrope rematerialize unannounced]] near the end of the season.
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Sexy Sweater Girl is new name, must be "tight sweaters for fanservice"


* SweaterGirl: Linden! In fact wearing the same type of sweater as her Danish counterpart, Sarah Lund
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* AdultFear: Trusting your seventeen year old daughter to be safe staying with friends for a weekend away, only to come back and be told she's missing and then finding out she's dead.
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* RemakeCameo: [[http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-03-24/sofie-grabol-to-appear-in-us-version-of-the-killing Sofie Gråbøl appeared in series 2]].

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* RemakeCameo: [[http://www.Creator/SofieGrabol [[[[http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-03-24/sofie-grabol-to-appear-in-us-version-of-the-killing Sofie Gråbøl appeared in series 2]].
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* DeathOfAChild: Several of the Pied Piper's victims are as young as 12, and one of the victims of the family massacre in Season 4 is a six year old girl, shot point blank in the face.



* InfantImmortality: Averted, several of the Pied Piper's victims are as young as 12, and one of the victims of the family massacre in Season 4 is a six year old girl, shot point blank in the face.
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* ConvenientPhotograph:
** Subverted by the picture of Rosie and Richmond. It's discussed a lot and thrusts Richmond into most people's suspicions, but [[spoiler:it really is completely innocent.]]
** Played straight by a picture that Linden finds in a victim's house in Season 4. It shows her in a picture with the Pied Piper - aka [[spoiler:Linden's ex and now-superior Skinner.]]
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Lund's hair is more of a brown, than black


''The Danish original is under ''Series/{{Forbrydelsen}}''. If your moody sweater-wearing detective has black hair, follow the link.''

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''The Danish original is under ''Series/{{Forbrydelsen}}''. If your moody sweater-wearing detective has black brown hair, follow the link.''

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* TheMole: There is one in Richmond's campaign. Also [[spoiler: Holder]], but he turned out to be a {{subversion}} when it was revealed that he had no idea that [[spoiler: the photo implicating Richmond was fake.]]

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* TheMole: There is one in Richmond's campaign. TheMole:
%%** [[spoiler:Jamie]] for the Richmond campaign.
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Also [[spoiler: Holder]], but he turned out to be a {{subversion}} when it was revealed that he had no idea that [[spoiler: the photo implicating Richmond was fake.]]



* ReverseMole: [[spoiler:Jamie]] for the Richmond campaign.
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* DisposableSexWorker and DispoableVagrant: The reason the Pied Piper in Season 3 targets teenage homeless girls; society has forgotten them, and their murders go unnoticed. However, the show does not portray them this way at all.

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* DisposableSexWorker and DispoableVagrant: DisposableVagrant: The reason the Pied Piper in Season 3 targets teenage homeless girls; society has forgotten them, and their murders go unnoticed. However, the show does not portray them this way at all.

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* AnimalMotifs: Butterflies.

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* AnimalMotifs: Butterflies.Butterflies, in Season 1-2.



* DisposableVagrant: The reason the Pied Piper in Season 3 targets teenage homeless girls; society has forgotten them, and their murders go unnoticed.

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* DisposableVagrant: DecompositeCharacter: The show stretches this trope over multiple seasons in the case of ''Series/{{Forbrydelsen}}''. In Season 1 of the latter, the killer was [[spoiler: Vagn Skærbeck, Theis' kind of pathetic best friend who gets close to the Larsens and seems to help them overcome their grief.]] His American counterpart is a sad-sack loner with serious mother issues too - although she is portrayed as extremely abusive [[spoiler:but he isn't the killer and actually commits suicide when Stan suspects him.]] [[spoiler:Vagn's]] loathsome qualities (such as the significant photograph found of one possible victim) and the suspicion that [[spoiler:he has been raping and killing for years]] is given to the Pied Piper in Season 3.
* DisposableSexWorker and DispoableVagrant:
The reason the Pied Piper in Season 3 targets teenage homeless girls; society has forgotten them, and their murders go unnoticed.unnoticed. However, the show does not portray them this way at all.
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* AnimalMotifs: Butterflies.

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* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Stansbury family in Season 4.

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* BigScrewedUpFamily: BigScrewedUpFamily:
** The Larsens in Season 1 and 2 - Mitch is a LadyMacbeth, Stan is a (supposedly) reformed gangster, Rosie was [[spoiler:contemplating prostitution and running away from home]] before being murdered, and her aunt Terry [[spoiler:killed Rosie accidentally after falling in love with one of her sex work clients.]]
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The Stansbury family in Season 4.



* ButchLesbian

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* ContrivedCoincidence: [[spoiler:Terry just happened to push the car into the water to stop it ruining her boyfriend's life...which turned out to be her niece Rosie.]]



* DrivingQuestion: Who killed Rosie Larsen?

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* DrivingQuestion: DrivingQuestion:
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Who killed Rosie Larsen?Larsen?
** Season 3: Who is the Pied Piper?
** Season 4: Who killed the Stansburys?



* FauxAffablyEvil: Janek seems like a very reasonable authority figure at first, especially for a criminal boss, but it's soon revealed as a front for a sneaky ManipulativeBastard.

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* FauxAffablyEvil: FauxAffablyEvil:
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Janek seems like a very reasonable authority figure at first, especially for a criminal boss, but it's soon revealed as a front for a sneaky ManipulativeBastard.ManipulativeBastard.
** In Season 3, the Pied Piper, [[spoiler:Skinner]], reveals that [[spoiler:he]] is a brutal, seemingly motiveless sexual sadist.



* ForegoneConclusion



* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Terry, who DesperatelyCravesAffection and is prone to falling in love with her clients. [[spoiler:Zigzagged when it's revealed she's the one who killed Rosie.]]



* MaybeEverAfter: [[spoiler:The Season 4 finale concludes with Holden and Linden meeting up, Linden telling him he was home for her, and the two of them driving away to an uncertain future.]]



* RapeAsDrama: The Pied Piper sometimes rapes his victims before killing them. Also, Bullet is beaten and raped by Goldie (disconcertingly, [[spoiler: she never tells anyone this happened, so with her death at the end of the season, Goldie never faces any justice for that particular crime]]) early in Season 3.

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* RapeAsDrama: RapeAsDrama:
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The Pied Piper sometimes rapes his victims before killing them. them.
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Also, Bullet is beaten and raped by Goldie (disconcertingly, [[spoiler: she never tells anyone this happened, so with her death at the end of the season, Goldie never faces any justice for that particular crime]]) early in Season 3.3.
** In Season 4, [[spoiler:Kyle's stepmother molested him and molested another kid.]]
* RapeLeadsToInsanity: Or molestation, in Season 4. [[spoiler:Being molested by his stepmother caused Kyle to snap and kill her and the rest of his family when he is forced to masturbate in front of the other cadets. Her other victim is also shown to be a violent misogynist as a result.]]


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* WalkingTheEarth: [[spoiler:Linden did this for five years between the Season 4 finale and the final scene.]]
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* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Rosie Larsen dies.

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* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: FirstEpisodeTwist: Rosie Larsen dies.

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** The Blue Moon bar is a real place, as mentioned below (See DidTheResearch), but it's in Seattle, not Tukwila.

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** The Blue Moon bar is a real place, as mentioned below (See DidTheResearch), but it's in Seattle, not Tukwila.



* DidTheResearch: Jasper says that during the night of the crime, he was at a bar called the Blue Moon in Tukwila. There actually is a Blue Moon Tavern in Washington.


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* ShownTheirWork: Jasper says that during the night of the crime, he was at a bar called the Blue Moon in Tukwila. There actually is a Blue Moon Tavern in Washington.

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* DomesticAbuser: Chief Jackson is eventually revealed as such, among other unpleasant characteristics.

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* DomesticAbuser: DomesticAbuse:
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Chief Jackson is eventually revealed as such, among other unpleasant characteristics.

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