History Series / TheNightManager

--->'''Roper''': [[SuddenlyShouting DON'T YOU DARE THREATEN ME!]] You saw who did this! Arab militia! [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Little brown rats like the rest of you!]]

* CulturedBadass: Jonathan Pine is the Night Manager of several high class hotels. Having a taste for classic literature (Including Seven Pillars of Wisdom) and smart suits qualifies him for the cultured part. For the badass, he was a former soldier turned mercenary and now a dangerous criminal, manages to trick [[MagnificentBastard Richard Roper]] and personally kill both [[spoiler: Freddie Hammid and [[TheDragon Lance Corkoran]].]]

* Diabolical Mastermind: Richard Roper, a ruthless arms dealer.

** Roper clearly believes he can literally get away with murder, and indeed he has done so many times when the story starts. Then, in the last episode, [[spoiler: he is arrested in Egypt, while the heroes have plenty of evidence against him. He remains confident and threatening at that point, and might indeed still survive, given his wealth and connections -- except that some very ruthless people who think he's scammed them for vast sums of money take him away from the police. ''Then'' [[AvertedTrope he breaks]].]]

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: When Jed wants to put her pearls in the hotel safe, Roper indignantly says that Arabs aren't all thieves, then adds, "I'm kidding, dear, they are all thieves." He also calls the Arab militia "little brown rats" during a tantrum.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Jed, who is frequently barefoot and only ever wears light sandals.

* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: Jed is apparently a single mother, the father of her son unmentioned and unseen (we can surmise he isn't involved or providing them support as she's Roper's mistress since her family has cut her off).

* CulturedBadass: Jonathan Pine is the Night Manager of several high class hotels. Having a taste for classic literature (Including Seven Pillars of Wisdom) and smart suits qualifies him for the cultured part. For the badass, he was a former soldier turned mercenary and now a dangerous criminal, manipulate [[MagnificentBastard Richard Roper]] and personally kill both [[spoiler: Freddie Hammid and [[TheDragon Lance Corkoran]].]]

-->'''Roper:''' You drink my wine, you steal my woman. Proud of you, Danny.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Corky is easily the most consistently unpleasant person in the miniseries. He's also completely correct in his suspicions about Pine.

* PregnantBadass: The pregnant Angela Burr, mostly a back-office intelligence officer, shows a definite if desperate badass side in episode 6, when she ambushes PsychoForHire Frisky, who has been sent to kill her and who is holding Jed hostage, shooting him in the leg.

* DarkChick: Subverted. As Roper’s mistress Jed initially appears to be this. However she proves to be a much more sympathetic character, who honestly wants nothing to do with Roper’s operations and is with Roper mostly for financial security to support her and her son, after being estranged from her family.

* ArtisticLicenseFirearms: The stock list of weapons that Roper sells, includes several impractical, obsolete and high unlikely items for a mid-range weapons dealer to sell. It includes such items as a Trident Missile, the F-22 Raptor, and the Avro Vulcan jet (Of which none are currently airworthy!).