History Series / TheMurders

* IHaveNoSon: "In My Feelings" has a hostage taker with a daughter who had disowned him for killing his wife, her mother. She only relents, speaking with him and addressing him as "dad", in hopes that he'll free the hostages.

* HasTwoMommies: Meg is married to another woman, with the couple having kids together. Their son gets in a fight at school after another boy calls them "dykes". Her wife Emily says not to pay attention, while Meg is glad he stood up for them, but says fighting isn't how he should handle it.

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* HomePornMovie: {{Played for drama}} when Kate gets sent a recording of her having sex with Pete (audio only), and initially thinks he made this, angrily ending their relationship because he didn't ask permission for doing that. However, it turns out he didn't do it, and she becomes anxious that she's the victim of a stalker. [[spoiler:It turns out to be even worse, as he's a ''serial killer''.]]

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* ConsultingAConvictedKiller: In "Stereo" after some similar murders to ones he committed happen, Kate speaks to [[spoiler:Evan Walker]], the "audiologist" serial killer from "The Long Black Veil", the pilot, who's serving a life sentence hoping he will help them catch the other guy.

* DaddysGirl: From her uniformly positive mentions and the fact she followed him into the police force, it seems Kate was closer to her deceased dad. This contrast with her more contentious relationship with her mom. Kate later admits she was always on her dad's side when they divorced, and says regretfully that she'd never really given her mom a chance.

** "In My Feelings" has Kate's mom taken hostage by a man whom she put in prison for murder comes back after getting released for revenge, stating she used false evidence. [[spoiler:She admits it's true, her husband had planted it but she wasn't aware at the time, failing to reveal this later so Kate wouldn't know what her father did. This is {{zigzagged}} as he later admits he'd killed his wife, although his conviction wasn't valid.]]

Her partner Mike Huntley covers up her error, with him and Kate tracking down the killer but Mike is killed while protecting her from him. Wrestling with her guilt over this, Kate struggles to prove herself with her new partner Nolan Wells while issues in her past also trouble her.

* ClosetGay: In "Black & Blue", a black rapper turns out to be a bisexual man who's closeted for his career. He remains in the closet at the end, though Kate says there's some out queer male rappers nowadays, but Meg (an open lesbian) replies they came out they got successful enough for it not to matter anymore.

* HomePornMovie: {{Played for drama}} when Kate gets sent a recording of her having sex with Pete (audio only), and initially thinks he made this, angrily ending their relationship because he didn't ask permission for doing this. However, it turns out he didn't do it, and she becomes anxious that she's the victim of a stalker. [[spoiler:It turns out to be even worse, as he's a ''serial killer''.]]

* MinorityPoliceOfficer: Kate is a biracial detective in a nearly all white police department. Her father (who's dead by the time of the show) was black and a fellow police officer. Kate's mother is white and currently running for mayor, with a part of her platform being to foster greater diversity in the force, with Kate being in a photo op by her side. This annoys Kate, seeing it as her mom just using her to score points as her biracial cop daughter. She later apologizes however. When talking with her mom too the latter notes that black people often dislike them being in the police force, as Kate's father had also experienced when serving.
** Kate works with a Chinese-Canadian police officer in her unit.

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* ClosetGay: In "Black & Blue" a black rapper turns out to be a bisexual man who's closeted for his career. He remains in the closet at the end, though Kate says there's some out queer male rappers nowadays, but Meg (an open lesbian) replies they came out they got successful enough for it not to matter anymore.

** Meg's wife Emily is a deaf lesbian, as we learn during her sole appearance in “Toxic”.

* ThereAreNoTherapists: {{Subverted}}, as Kate has to speak with a police psychiatrist to deal with the death of her partner Mike. She's "well defended" however as the doctor puts it, and doesn't ever open up much, thus it's no help at first. Kate admits to faking it later so she can just get through the process, saying the therapist will never understand. She later goes back however to get help after she's admitted it's necessary.

* ThereAreNoTherapists: {{Subverted}}, as Kata has to speak with a police psychiatrist to deal with the death of her partner Mike. She's “well defended” however as the doctor puts it, and doesn't ever open up much, thus it's no help at first. Kate admits to faking it later so she can just get through the process, saying the therapist will never understand. She later goes back however to get help after she's admitted it's necessary.

* 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.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "In My Feelings" has Kate's superior, Bill Chen, berating her for giving herself up to save her mother as a hostage. She first offers to [[TurnInYourBadge turn in her badge]], but since she and her mom saved the day, Kate's actually getting a commendation from the police chief. Chen warns her to not engage in any more theatrics though, since next time not work out.

* {{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.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: In “Never Kissed A Girl” one suspect is the father of the young women who a man was convicted then later exonerated for murdering, as he's never really gotten over her loss.

** "In My Feelings" has Kate's mom taken hostage a man whom she put in prison for murder comes back after getting released for revenge, stating she used false evidence. [[spoiler:She admits it's true, her husband had planted it but she wasn't aware at the time, failing to reveal this later so Kate wouldn't know what her father did. This is {{zigzagged}} as he later admits he'd killed his wife, although his conviction wasn't valid.]]

* LikeFatherLikeSon

** Kate, after her partner Mike's killed by a suspect, blames herself as he was aiding her. This occurred because she'd left her gun in her car unlocked, which was stolen and used in a murder, with Mike covering that up, leading them into the situation. She tearfully confesses the fact to her psychiatrist much later after she's finally opened up about it.
** In "Never Kissed A Girl" the father of a murder victim has blamed himself ever since her death. He'd locked her out when she missed curfew, leading her to the killer. After hearing this, Kate expresses her sympathy and empathizes due to her own past.
** "In My Feelings" has Kate's mother (rather than use the sympathy votes she garnered) decide to drop out of the race after being held hostage, as her campaign manager David died at the hostage-taker's hands, feeling that she doesn't deserve it. Kate convinces her to stay in the race however.

* IHaveNoSon: "In My Feelings" has a hostage taker whose own daughter completely disowned him for killing his wife, her mother. She only relents, speaking with him and addressing him as “dad”, in hopes that he'll free the hostages.

* FollowingInRelativesFootsteps: Kate is a police detective like her father was. Her mother is worried that she'll end up killed on duty as he'd been, and so she opposed Kate joining the police force.

* DisabledLoveInterest: Meg's wife Emily it turns out is deaf, and used sign language. She only appears in “Toxic”, and isn't treated as different from hearing characters.

* BrokenPedestal: Kate was [[DaddysGirl always closest to her father]], and followed him into the police force. She's devastated to learn he went along with his partner planting evidence, crying in devastation when her mother confesses what he'd done.

* HonorRelatedAbuse: "Queen of Hearts" has the father of the victim be revealed to have previously been acquitted on a conspiracy to commit murder charge in India because he was alleged to have aided in a relative's murder for running away from the [[ArrangedMarriage marriage the family arranged]]. As his own son was with a white girl in Canada after they immigrated, at first the police think he may have done the same thing. However, it turns out to be a {{red herring}}, since he was a cop while in India and attempting to ''help'' his relative, with him being exonerated due to his innocence.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Kate dislikes how her white mom upholds her as her biracial cop daughter while campaigning for mayor, or discussing her and Kate's dad [[MinorityPoliceOfficer being black people in the police force]]. She realizes her mom does mean well however.
* HomePornMovie: {{Played for drama}} when Kate gets sent a recording of her having sex with Pete (audio only), and initially thinks he made this, angrily ending their relationship because he didn't ask permission for this. However, it turns out he didn't do it, and she becomes anxious that she's the victim of a stalker. [[spoiler:It turns out to be even worse, as he's a ''serial killer''.]]
* HostageSituation: "In My Feelings" sees Kate's mom taken hostage with her staff. As she's a candidate for mayor (she and they are held at her campaign's headquarters), along with being a former prosecutor there are many possible motives that the hostage taker could have, but he refuses to simply say what his beef is, instead making her (literally) play a game of 20 Questions, initially with no demand made. She prosecuted him, it turns out, with the man feeling she demonized him to the jury in his case. It turns out that he wants her to admit he'd been wrongly convicted of his wife's murder on false evidence that she'd presented to the court, with her husband at the time (Kate's father) gathering this.

* PosthumousCharacter: Kate's father was also a cop, killed on duty two years before the series starts. He's mentioned frequently, and Kate gets respect from other cops when they learn she's his daughter. She's clearly still struggling to deal with her loss, and discusses his death with her psychiatrist.

ThemeSerialKiller: "The Long Black Veil" and Stereo feature two who are committing murders based on different famous {{murder ballad}}s.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: {{Subverted}}, as Kata has to speak with a police psychiatrist to deal with the death of her partner Mike. She's “well defended” however as the doctor puts it, and doesn't ever open up much, thus it's uncertain if this helps. Kate admits to faking it later so she can just get through the process, saying the therapist will never understand. She later goes back however to get help after she's admitted it's necessary.

* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Kate's mother is worried that she'll end up killed on duty as her father was, and so she opposed Kate joining the police force.

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It's never said where in Canada the show takes place specifically.

* PoliceProcedural: The show follows Kate Jameson, a homicide detective, with her colleagues as they investigate homicides, with each episode having a different case.