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* DisabledLoveInterest: Meg's wife Emily it turns out is deaf, and uses sign language. She only appears in "Toxic", and isn't treated as different from hearing characters.
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* ActionGirl: Kate, as a trained police detective, displays her skill with a gun or in unarmed combat on multiple occassions.

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* ActionGirl: Kate, as a trained police detective, displays her skill with a gun or in unarmed combat on multiple occassions.occasions.

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* ActionGirl: Kate, as a trained police detective, displays her skill with a gun or in unarmed combat on multiple occassions.
* BadassInDistress: Kate is an ActionGirl, though she gets in danger from criminals more than once and needs help from her colleagues.


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* CopKiller: In the last episode, "Stereo", the ThemeSerialKiller murders two cops.
* CriminalMindGames: The ThemeSerialKiller who Kate pursues in "Stereo" turns out to have already been stalking her, delivering various clues as to his identity and location.


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* FreudianExcuse: Kate tells Nolan that generally {{serial killer}}s have suffered child abuse or neglect. In the case of the ThemeSerialKiller who they're hunting in "Stereo" it's revealed [[MurderSuicide his father had murdered his mother and then shot himself]] while he watched as a boy. This resembled a song by Music/BobDylan, with him later becoming fixated on {{murder ballad}}s, recreating murders from them while he targeted people who had suffered severe losses like him, believing that by murdering them he's [[MercyKill ending their pain]].
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* ShoutOut: In "The Long Black Veil" and "Stereo" [[spoiler:Evan Walker]] ("the audiologist") and his partner reference famous {{murder ballad}}s in committing murders, with the cops looking into many different ones to catch them.

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* ShoutOut: In "The Long Black Veil" and "Stereo" [[spoiler:Evan Walker]] ("the audiologist") and his partner friend reference famous {{murder ballad}}s in committing murders, with the cops looking into many different ones to catch them.

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* {{Polyamory}}: In "Black & Blue" it turns out that a rapper is not only a bisexual man but that he's involved with his girlfriend and boyfriend simultaneously, which both of them accept. Nolan expresses surprise, and Meg explains a lot of modern young people are into it, especially the queer ones.

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* {{Polyamory}}: In "Black & Blue" it turns out that a rapper is not only a bisexual man but that he's involved man, who'd formely had a relationship with his girlfriend and boyfriend simultaneously, which both supposed rival. At the end of the episode he starts seeing them accept.both, at her instigation. Nolan expresses surprise, and Meg explains a lot of modern young people are into it, especially the queer ones.



* QueerEstablishingMoment:
** Meg is shown to be a lesbian pretty early on when she mentions her wife, who makes an appearance later.
** In "Black & Blue" a rapper turns out to be secretly bisexual when his sister is revealed to have recorded as he'd spoken to his ex-boyfriend, planning to sell it for tabloid fodder.



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** In "Black & Blue", a rapper and his friend, both of them young black men, are revealed to also be a couple (the latter bisexual as he's [[{{Polyamory}} with his girlfriend too]]).

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** In "Black & Blue", a rapper and his friend, both of them young black men, are revealed to also be a couple have been involved before (the latter bisexual as he's [[{{Polyamory}} with his girlfriend too]]).now]]). They [[[[{{Polyamory}} all get together]] with her instigation.
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* HandSignals: Meg's wife Emily is deaf, so she communicates in sign language along with speaking, while Meg and their son use the same dual methods.
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* WhoMurderedTheAsshole: In "Toxic" the police have to find who murdered the victim, who it turns out is a SerialRapist.

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* WhoMurderedTheAsshole: In "Toxic" the police have to find who murdered the victim, who it turns out is who's revealed as being a SerialRapist.
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It's never said where in Canada the show takes place specifically. It's filmed in Vancouver and background materials have confirmed this as the location however.

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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It's never said where in Canada the show takes place specifically. It's filmed in Vancouver and background materials have confirmed this as the location however.however.
* WhoMurderedTheAsshole: In "Toxic" the police have to find who murdered the victim, who it turns out is a SerialRapist.
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: [[spoiler:In "Never Kissed A Girl" it turns out Jeremy revealed to Bo that he murdered Sadie (after raping her) by mentioning she liked an album that she'd been introduced to just that night, so he must have been the last person to see her while alive.]]


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* SayingTooMuch
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* TheGamblingAddict: In "Queen of Hearts" it's revealed a person's gambling addiction instigated the murder that's the episode's focus. [[spoiler:Daria, the fiancée of the victim, was a gambling addict who'd gotten deep into debt over her losses. She put up her car as collateral, but then ran away instead of handing it over after losing again. The winner tracked her down, running her car off of the road, but it was actually her fiancé inside [[MurderByMistake whom he killed instead]]. She started getting help for this, but relapsed when her loss occurred.]]
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It's never said where in Canada the show takes place specifically. It's filmed in Vancouver and thus probably there however.

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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It's never said where in Canada the show takes place specifically. It's filmed in Vancouver and thus probably there background materials have confirmed this as the location however.
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Kate Jameson is a rookie police detective in the homicide division for a police force in an unnamed Canadian city. She is introduced right after making a major error-leaving her gun in her car unlocked, where it's promptly taken and used to commit a murder.

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Kate Jameson is a rookie police detective in the Vancouver Police Department homicide division for a police force in an unnamed Canadian city.division. She is introduced right after making a major error-leaving her gun in her car unlocked, where it's promptly taken and used to commit a murder.

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