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Alcatraz

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Alcatraz	label	Alcatraz
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Alcatraz	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Alcatraz is a 2012 Fox series produced by J. J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions. On March 21st, 1963, all of the prisoners and guards on duty at Alcatraz Federal Prison mysteriously vanished without a trace. The government quickly put down a Masquerade, saying that Alcatraz had been closed down due to outdated technology and soaring budget costs. Now, in the present day, one of the prisoners who disappeared, Jack Sylvane, turns up, not looking a day older, and goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge, killing a deputy warden who gave him a hard time while he was in prison. This brings him to the attention of SFPD detective Rebecca Madsen (Sarah Jones), who finds his fingerprints at the scene. This in turn brings her to the attention of the mysterious Emerson Hauser (Sam Neill), who claims to be an FBI agent investigating the murder. With the help of Alcatraz expert Diego "Doc" Soto (Jorge Garcia), she is able to track down Sylvane, which gets her and Diego involved with Hauser's real project: to track down and recapture all of the "63"'s, including the mysterious Inmate 2002, who turns out to be Rebecca's own grandfather, Thomas Madsen.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Not to be confused with the Alcatraz Series.
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Alcatraz / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Alcatraz / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Ernest Cobb is suspiciously similar to Charles Whitman. While they ultimately differ in characterization, motive, and methods the inspiration is clear and the allusion seems intentional (as opposed to unintentionally just using now stock traits) when it is stated that Cobb killed 16 people, as Whitman did in real life.
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Alcatraz / int_13dc1beb	type	Serial Killings, Specific Target
Alcatraz / int_13dc1beb	comment	Serial Killings, Specific Target: Cobb is a variartion on this. He is a serial killer, but at each kill he shoots a number of random people as 'noise' to mask his true choice of target.
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Alcatraz / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
Alcatraz / int_141a6acb	comment	Cobb's Madness Mantra, above; specifically, the number 47.
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Alcatraz / int_1c3d047e	type	The Rival
Alcatraz / int_1c3d047e	comment	The Rival: In the sixties, Beauregard to Lucy.
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Alcatraz / int_1e30fd35	type	Dangerously Close Shave
Alcatraz / int_1e30fd35	comment	Dangerously Close Shave: In "Cal Sweeney", the prison barber accidentally cuts Tiller while Tiller is demanding a cut of Sweeney's racket. The barber's reaction shows he expects some retribution from Tiller, but Tiller uses the cut as an opportunity to deliver a veiled threat to Sweeney about what happens if you shave against the grain.
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Alcatraz / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Alcatraz / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Kit Nelson was a constant target of the other inmates, the guards, and the warden, due to his status as a child killer.
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Alcatraz / int_32768814	type	Kick the Son of a Bitch
Alcatraz / int_32768814	comment	Edwin James, the warden of Alcatraz. He has been shown to resort to psychological torture in order to learn crucial information about prisoners, such as manipulating Ernest Cobb's attempts to be placed in solitary confinement or threatening to leave Kit Nelson in a small dark room until Nelson admits the truth about his first crime (although Kit Nelson really had it coming, having been sent to Alcatraz for being a child killer).
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Alcatraz / int_3403abfc	type	Mugged for Disguise
Alcatraz / int_3403abfc	comment	Mugged for Disguise: In "Garrett Stillman", Stillman hijacks an armoured car and steals the guards' uniforms, leaving them in an alleyway in their underwear.
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Alcatraz / int_3678fbfa	type	Mad Bomber
Alcatraz / int_3678fbfa	comment	Mad Bomber: Paxton Petty was a Korean War vet who felt betrayed by the government and started planting land mines in San Francisco. He even uses a landmine as a grenade.
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Alcatraz / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Alcatraz / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: The MO of Cal Sweeney. He seduces bank tellers to get to the safety deposit boxes.
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Alcatraz / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Alcatraz / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Hauser has his moments, like near the end of "Guy Hastings", where he lets Guy see (if not speak to) his daughter and grandchildren, and apologizing for what's happened to him. Also, in regards to Lucy, Hauser seems to soften up quite a bit. Understandable, since they were romantically involved prior to the disappearances.
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Alcatraz / int_4c23b50f	type	Land Mine Goes "Click!"
Alcatraz / int_4c23b50f	comment	Land Mine Goes "Click!": "Paxton Petty" is all about this, as Petty uses land mines as his primary weapon. Hauser steps on a mine Petty planted on the beach, hears it go click, and has to stand there for several hours until Rebecca and Soto realise that he is missing.
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Alcatraz / int_4f6cf75	type	Mirroring Factions
Alcatraz / int_4f6cf75	comment	Mirroring Factions: The "63's" tend to be vicious yet sympathetic criminals. The guards of the time and the group hunting them down in the present are protecting society in doing so, but are prone to casual sadism. The key theme of the series seems to be the similarities between criminals and those who hunt and/or punish them. The inmates appear to be pitiful wrecks with Freudian Excuses, often deserving of execution, but the dehumanizing treatment they received at the hands of its staff has not lessened the threat they pose to society but increased it. The guards appear to be sadistic monsters who have simply chosen a profession that permits them to practice their sadism in a socially acceptable manner. Whether or not this is Truth in Television has yet to be decided, but there is controversial evidence to support this theory.
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Alcatraz / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Alcatraz / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Sonny Burnett. He entered prison as a scared, rather pathetic kidnapper and subsequently reinventing himself into a musclebound badass through sheer force of will. But his assertion that the cops would "never" find his latest kidnap victim, followed in short order by them doing exactly that, proves he's still not much of a criminal.
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Alcatraz / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
Alcatraz / int_50ca4422	comment	Unresolved Sexual Tension: Averted. Rebecca and Doc are the typical female/male investigative duo that almost universally results in this, but they don't appear to have any romantic interest in each other.
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Alcatraz / int_588d766f	type	BlackAndGreyMorality
Alcatraz / int_588d766f	comment	Black-and-Grey Morality: Hauser's organization seems to exist solely to recapture 256 of the worst criminals the country's ever known. Except Hauser is the same kind of asshole who gets off on torturing prisoners. He's willing to put innocent lives in danger in order to insure that he can capture the "63s" - as in, Kit Nelson is a serial child murderer whose M.O. is kidnapping his victims from their beds on a Friday, messing with their heads for the next 48 hours, then putting their bodies back where he found them on Sunday. Hauser's solution? Send the police away and grab Nelson when he delivers the body.
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Alcatraz / int_5abe161f	type	Flawless Token
Alcatraz / int_5abe161f	comment	Flawless Token: Clarence Montgomery is the sole black inmate the team goes after, and he's not just less evil than some of the other maniacs in Alcatraz, he's a completely innocent man who was railroaded because he fell in love with a white woman.
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Alcatraz / int_5b19cc1b	type	Air-Vent Passageway
Alcatraz / int_5b19cc1b	comment	Air-Vent Passageway: Rebecca uses a air vent to sneak into a bank during a hostage situation in "Cal Sweeney".
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Alcatraz / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Alcatraz / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Rebecca's grandfather wasn't a guard at Alcatraz as she had been told, he was a prisoner, and to make matters worse, he was the guy she was chasing when her partner fell off a building to his death. Episode 2 reveals that Lucy was at Alcatraz in 1963, under the name Lucille Sengupta. At the end of Episode 3 Dr. Beauregard is revealed to be working for Hauser and, like Lucy, to not have aged since the 60's. Episode 4; those keys the prisoners were looking for were cut with anachronistic lasers, and they open a vault under the island that certain prisoners were sent to before they all vanished. Episode 5: Ray really is Rebecca's uncle, and he's been in contact with her grandfather.
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Alcatraz / int_7095c87e	type	TheMasquerade
Alcatraz / int_7095c87e	comment	The Masquerade: The US federal government, unwilling to disclose that the most successful prison break in recorded history occurred in 1963, released an official explanation for the closing of Alcatraz and created fake transfers to other prisons (signed by Robert Kennedy himself), then later issued fake death certificates saying they all died at the prisons they were transferred to.
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Alcatraz / int_71e8a5c5	type	Trauma Conga Line
Alcatraz / int_71e8a5c5	comment	Trauma Conga Line: Jack Sylvane's entire life basically comes down to a long series of these.
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Alcatraz / int_720e0c25	type	Grave Robbing
Alcatraz / int_720e0c25	comment	Grave Robbing: Paxton Petty stole Silver Star medals from the graves of dead soldiers to use as shrapnel in his landmines.
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Alcatraz / int_76df59f1	type	Thicker Than Water
Alcatraz / int_76df59f1	comment	Thicker Than Water: Subverted when Rebecca finally confronts her grandfather:
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Alcatraz / int_77b79db0	type	Hot Scientist
Alcatraz / int_77b79db0	comment	Hot Scientist: Lucy Banerjee aka Lucille Sengupta, one of the "63"'s.
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Alcatraz / int_78c5ce7e	type	Screw the Rules, I Make Them!
Alcatraz / int_78c5ce7e	comment	Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: It's entirely possible that Ernest Cobb would have happily spent the rest of his life at Alcatraz in solitary, a threat to no-one... except the warden found it necessary to screw with him until he completely lost his mind, just so he could call in Lucille Sengupta, AKA Lucy Banerjee for some as-of-yet undisclosed purpose.
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Alcatraz / int_78d103c3	type	Exposition of Immortality
Alcatraz / int_78d103c3	comment	Exposition of Immortality: The character of Lucy was just a minor character working on the special task force investigating the reappearing criminals who disappeared from Alcatraz Island several decades before, but a flashback revealed her working as a psychiatrist in the 60s on Alcatraz Island. A single video of her known to have been taken in the 60s is the one clue to the other characters of her true age. The criminals and guards who disappeared from Alcatraz in 1963 return to the present day the same age as when they left, as evidenced by photos of them taken in the prison, and a few individuals who happened to have known them before their disappearance.
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Alcatraz / int_7f38c0cd	type	An Offer You Can't Refuse
Alcatraz / int_7f38c0cd	comment	An Offer You Can't Refuse: When Warden James asks Tommy Madsen to work for him, it's not really something Tommy can refuse.
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Alcatraz / int_80b5924	type	Left Hanging
Alcatraz / int_80b5924	comment	Left Hanging: The final episode ended with Rebecca having been shot and seemingly dying on the operating table, and no indication what would happen to the 63s who were still at large.
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Alcatraz / int_8551ca25	type	Prank Date
Alcatraz / int_8551ca25	comment	Prank Date: In "Johnny McKee", one of these provides the motivation for McKee's mass murder attacks.
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Alcatraz / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
Alcatraz / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: Hauser, noted by Lucy who worries how much he's changed since she knew him in '63
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Alcatraz / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Alcatraz / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Johnny McKee's m.o. involves targeting these. Unfortunately he doesn't much care if Innocent Bystanders get killed, too.
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Alcatraz / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Alcatraz / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Garrett Stillman was once betrayed by his partner in crime so now he gets rid of all his accomplices after they have fulfilled their role. He's also the victim of this trope, c/o Tommy Madsen.
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Alcatraz / int_952f8f26	type	Deadly Prank
Alcatraz / int_952f8f26	comment	Deadly Prank: Johnny McKee was the victim of a nasty prank in high school that ended with a firecracker exploding between his legs and castrating him. He started killing people as revenge.
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Alcatraz / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Alcatraz / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: By the end of the first season, it would appear that Warden James is the one behind the disappearances and returns.
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Alcatraz / int_98f22e5f	type	Wardens Are Evil
Alcatraz / int_98f22e5f	comment	Wardens Are Evil: Edwin James, the warden of Alcatraz. He has been shown to resort to psychological torture in order to learn crucial information about prisoners, such as manipulating Ernest Cobb's attempts to be placed in solitary confinement or threatening to leave Kit Nelson in a small dark room until Nelson admits the truth about his first crime (although Kit Nelson really had it coming, having been sent to Alcatraz for being a child killer). Deputy Warden E.B. Tiller is corrupt and more open in his cruelty to the inmates.
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Alcatraz / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Alcatraz / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Every episode is named after the 63er that has to be caught in the episode.
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Alcatraz / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Alcatraz / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Rebecca gets a decent one in when Paxton Petty rolls a mine he just activated in her direction.
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Alcatraz / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Alcatraz / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: Whitten, who sold Ernest Cobb the Winchester-70, had his license to sell guns taken away by the ATF. When Rebecca inquires about this, he points out his wife's permits are all legal and up-to-date, allowing him to continue working in the store. Ernest himself used this to secure solitary confinement (he hates talking to people) by refusing to stand by his cell door during inspection, thus committing the barest infraction of the rules. The Warden congratulates him on his ingenuity in getting peace and quiet... then proceeds to give Ernest a cellmate who never shuts up.
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Alcatraz / int_b905c10c	type	The Alcatraz
Alcatraz / int_b905c10c	comment	The Alcatraz: Both the titular prison and the new Alcatraz prison that the federal government built specifically to house captured "63"'s.
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Alcatraz / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
Alcatraz / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: Garrett Stillman, who's explicitly mentioned as having an IQ that was "off the charts".
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Alcatraz / int_c007c53	type	Cool and Unusual Punishment
Alcatraz / int_c007c53	comment	Cool and Unusual Punishment / Loud of War: The warden of Alcatraz comes up with a unique punishment for Ernest Cobb, who deliberately got himself thrown in solitary because he hates people talking. He lets Cobb stay in solitary indefinitely, but puts another inmate who can't shut up in the same cell as him.
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Alcatraz / int_c2676b00	type	Jurisdiction Friction
Alcatraz / int_c2676b00	comment	Jurisdiction Friction: Alcatraz was a federal prison so Hauser and the FBI would have primary jurisdiction over the returnees. However, the government is not willing to make public what happened and the new crimes committed by the returnees would normally fall under SFPD jurisdiction. Since Rebecca is a SFPD detective the local cops are less likely to question her involvement and Hauser can later smooth things over with the SFPD brass. In "Cal Sweeney", Hauser deliberately creates jurisdiction issues as a stall tactic. He acts as the stereotypical arrogant FBI agent and tries to take charge of a hostage situation. This buys Rebecca enough time to implement her own plan to apprehend the returnee.
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Alcatraz / int_c6b8d37a	type	Cliffhanger
Alcatraz / int_c6b8d37a	comment	Cliffhanger: The end of the first season is this, ending with Rebecca on the operating table and flatlining. Whoops, make that the end of the series.
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Alcatraz / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Alcatraz / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The initial chase scene with Rebecca and her partner is very similar (in particular the camera angles and the way in which he holds on to the roof) to the opening chase scene in Vertigo, also set in San Francisco. Rebecca drives Bullitt's car One chase scene has Rebecca driving a deep impact blue 2013 Ford Mustang GT and chasing a black 2013 Dodge Charger R/T through the streets of San Francisco, with several shots recreated from Bullitt Cobb's Madness Mantra, above; specifically, the number 47.
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Alcatraz / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
Alcatraz / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: It's revealed at the end of the first episode that Rebecca's grandfather was one of the first returned inmates, and was actually the person who killed her first partner to shake her off. She seems more intrigued than anything else though.
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Alcatraz / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Alcatraz / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Johnny McKee was a victim of bullying in high school which culminated in a Deadly Prank that seriously injured him. As revenge he killed most of his classmates. While he initially only wanted to kill 'bullies', he escalates to killing people who are rude to him and then to just killing complete strangers.
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Alcatraz / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Alcatraz / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: The first inmate to show up, Jack Sylvane, skirts the edge of this with his sympathetic backstory. After serving in World War II, he got sent to federal prison for robbing a grocery store to feed his family. Then he killed a man in the showers for attempting to rape him, which got him sent to Alcatraz where E.B. Tiller messed with him apparently For the Lulz. On top of that, his wife divorced him to marry his brother.
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Alcatraz / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
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Alcatraz / int_d62184c3	comment	Theme Serial Killer: Cobb first appears to be killing randomly, until Rebecca figures out that he kills random people in order to conceal his real targets: 15-16 year old girls, like the sister he was resentful of because their mom took care of her but abandoned him at an orphanage. He also kills crows as a calling card. Kit Nelson is also this, kidnapping and killing 11 year old boys, the same age as his brother when Kit killed him. He kidnaps them on a Friday, leaves behind a chrysanthemum in the bed, then returns the dead body Sunday evening. Clarence Montgomery was turned into this by Dr. Beauregard. Though he was wrongfully convicted of killing his white girlfriend, Dr. Beauregard used a reversed version of Dr. Sengupta's treatments to make him kill people in the same manner as which she died.
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Alcatraz / int_e150c4c7	comment	Manchild: Hauser notes that Dr. Soto displays clear signs of arrested development, which is later revealed to be due to being kidnapped when he was 11.
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Alcatraz / int_e9ae8248	comment	Prisons Are Gymnasiums: In "Sonny Burnett'', Sonny uses his time in solitary to toughen up.
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Alcatraz / int_ea6f361f	comment	You Are Number 6: The prisoners tend to be known by their prisoner number rather than their names; the Deputy Warden in particular made a concerted effort in never referring to prisoners by their name. Tommy Madsen specifically introduces himself by number when he's introduced to keep The Reveal that he's Rebecca's grandfather secret a little longer.
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Alcatraz / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: Emerson Hauser, E.B. Tiller, and the Warden. It looks like Alcatraz in the 1960s just naturally attracted sadists to work as guards.
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