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Breakout Kings

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Breakout Kings is an American drama television series created by Nick Santora and Matt Olmstead, of Prison Break fame. The show is based on the adage that it takes a thief to catch a thief. This time it takes the Best of the Worst to catch the same.Three deputy U.S. Marshals form a partnership with three convicts to apprehend escaped prisoners. In return for their services, the cons will be transferred to a minimum-security prison and have one month taken off their sentences for each fugitive they catch. If any of the cons themselves should try to escape, they will be returned to their original maximum-security prisons and their sentences will be doubled.The Team tries to catch fugitives within 72 hours of their escape, before they "get lost in the wind" or before they can cause too much collateral damage.Set in the Prison Break verse, Breakout Kings has also been called "Leverage meets White Collar", or "Thunderbolts without superheroes".The show was cancelled after two seasons in May 2012.
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Faux Yay
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Faux Yay: Emmy in "I Smell Emmy" pretends to be in love with her teacher Claire in order to get Claire to help her break out. However, it was all a ruse, and after stealing money from Claire's husband, Emmy calls her boyfriend who kills Claire.
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The Gambling Addict
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The Gambling Addict: Lloyd. He got himself so far into debt that he started selling illegal prescriptions, which led to a 25-year prison sentence.
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Heroic BSoD
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Heroic BSoD: Lloyd, after being kidnapped by Damien and forced to watch him kill a young woman.
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Character Overlap
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Character Overlap: In the third episode of the first season T-Bag breaks out from Fox River, yet again. An unprecedented case of a character crossing over to a show on a completely different network. The show was originally owned by Fox. Not to mention, it was unadvertised; only people who had seen Prison Break would know about the crossover.
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Title Drop
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Title Drop: The name "Breakout Kings" is suggested for the team in the pilot by Shea, who even designs a graffiti tag logo. The cons like and use it. Ray and Charlie keep protesting that it doesn't fit because "we're not breaking out of anything".
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Daddy's Girl
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Daddy's Girl: Ray's daughter, in a positive example. Erica used to be one.
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The Voice
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The Voice: Lloyd's mother is only ever heard on the phone.
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Saved by the Coffin
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Saved by the Coffin: In "Steaks", two convicts murder an obese inmate and then hide in his coffin in order to escape.
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Hidden Heart of Gold
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Hidden Heart of Gold: The inmates in particular are shown via several moments to care for one another's well being, even though they'll never openly admit it. Erica, for instance, picks a highly valuable watch off of a Jerkass detective to help Lloyd pay off his debt to another prison inmate. Shea intimidates that prison inmate into taking the watch and shaving off the rest of Lloyd's debt.
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Gentleman Thief
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Gentleman Thief: Andre in "One for the Money", although he can be more vicious than a typical example.
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Conveyor Belt o' Doom
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Conveyor Belt o' Doom: In "The Bag Man", T-Bag feeds one of his victims into a rock crusher at a quarry.
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Brutal Honesty
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Brutal Honesty: This appears to be how Lloyd views his profiling; he doesn't understand why Shea gets pissed when he rattles off statistics about black crime rates or why Erica is enraged to the point of attacking him when he realizes that she's got a daughter who she's been separated from. The fact he uses them to insult them may have part to do with it. Of course as the series goes on we see that Lloyd despite his intelligence suffers from self esteem issues and used his insults and intelligence to prove himself. Come season two when he feels more comfortable with the group he drops the insults and attitude.
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Fire-Forged Friends
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Fire-Forged Friends: Not so much in season one. With the Cons only out for themselves and the Cops having their own issues. However they soon earn each others trust. Come season two, Lloyd drops his insults and encourages Shea in his legitimate business pursuits. Shea warms up to him and has his and Erica's back. Erica trusts the others more. This even extends to the cops, Charlie turns down a promotion to ensure the program keeps going. Ray sometimes arms Erica and Shea when he needs tactical support and trusts them to back him up. Even Juliet is more open around them. This extends to the series finale when the Cons and Cops work together to save Ray's daughter without hesitation.
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Great Escape: Every episode opens with one — turns out there are dozens of novel ways to break out of prison.
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Spiritual Successor
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Spiritual Successor: to Prison Break. It's set in the same verse, and features crossover characters.
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Disappeared Dad: Lloyd never really knew his father, Lars. He tricks himself into believing whatever lies his mother tells him about the man because he doesn't want to confront the truth.
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Hollywood Hacking
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Hollywood Hacking: The hacking scene in "Like Father, Like Son" could have come straight out of an 80's movie.
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Prisoner's Work: In the pilot episode, the escapee works making licence plates in the prison workshop. He saves up the rejected plates and uses them to construct a shield that he uses to hide his presence when he breaks out via an Underside Ride.
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Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress
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Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress: In "Off the Beaten Path", Erica is captured and dressed in a wedding veil by the escapee after she has freed his original victim. Charlie rescues her by shooting the escapee, splattering Erica and the veil with his blood.
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Insufferable Genius
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Insufferable Genius: Lloyd. He's a child prodigy with an IQ of 210, and he never let's anyone forget how smart he is, boasting with his IQ and insulting others. However, he tones down in season 2 when he's more comfortable with the team, indicating this might be a defense mechanism.
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Arch-Enemy
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Arch-Enemy: Damien Fontleroy, to Lloyd in particular and the team in general.
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Hollywood Law
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Hollywood Law: There was a lot of this. First of all, the US Marshals' Service does not have the authority to reduce a prisoner's sentence by one month, or at all. This may seem shocking, but prison sentences are actually legal rulings imposed by courts of law, and cannot be altered by an agency of the executive branch.note It's not that a deal of some sort to shorten a convict's sentence could never happen at all, but it would be much more involved than what is depicted on the show. Secondly, the Marshals' service is part of the federal government, meaning that it has no responsibility or authority over state prisoners, but at least one of the convicts on the team, Shea, was in a state prison, Ossining State Prison, or Sing-Sing. Also, many of the runners the team chases are shown escaping from state prisons. Also, in the episode "SEAL'd Fate" in season 2, the plot turns on a private military contractor firm that was hired to carry out covert ops by the US government, one of which turned out to involve the commission of war crimes. At the end of the episode, the runner, who was an employee of the company who broke out to expose the company's culpability, was taken out of the Marshals' custody by the CIA. The CIA is barred by statute from arresting anyone on American soil, or conducting any kind of operations on US soil. Also in that episode, the marshals were locked in the company's offices when the runner broke into the building; after this, the marshals just walk away. Again, shockingly, it's actually a crime to imprison law enforcement officials (or anyone actually, outside certain obvious exceptions) against their will. For some reason, the marshals act like there is nothing they can do about this. That whole episode was obnoxiously idiotic.
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Recruiting the Criminal
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Recruiting the Criminal: The main premise of the show revolves around this.
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You Need to Get Laid
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You Need to Get Laid: All of the team in Episode 9; Erica in particular is quite "manmished".
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The Smart Guy
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The Smart Guy: Lloyd is the brain of the team.
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So Beautiful, It's a Curse
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So Beautiful, It's a Curse: in the backstory to "Steaks", Oliver would have suffered far less in prison if he wasn't such a Pretty Boy.
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Living Lie Detector
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Living Lie Detector: Lloyd. He's a highly-intelligent behaviorist, so it's to be expected.
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Noodle Incident: It's not outright stated as why Lloyd's in prison, but he was serving a 25-year sentence before he got on the task force, and he's lost his medical license. Until it is. Lloyd wrote illegal prescriptions to pay off his debts, and one girl committed suicide swallowing a handful of Percocet from one of them. He still beats himself up over it. A good lawyer would have gotten him a highly reduced sentence, and even gotten the manslaughter charge dismissed, since there was no doubt the girl committed suicide. His only actual crimes were the illegal prescriptions.
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Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon
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Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: In "Queen of Hearts", Erica gets a little annoyed at Lloyd for jeopardizing everyone's position on the team due to his gambling problem:
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Took a Level in Kindness: Ray in season 2. He treats the cons much better and has started to trust them. He lets them go off on their own and even gives them the night off in "Self Help".
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Faux Action Girl
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Faux Action Girl: Erica is supposed to be this badass former bounty hunter who can track anyone and killed five of the men who killed her father and so forth, but in "Out of the Mouths of Babes," a middle-aged former school counselor is able to outrun her and give her the slip. In "The Bag Man," T-Bag is able to get away from her by the simple expedient of closing a door and sticking a mop in the door handle. When she is useful, it's in a role that seems more like they were written for Philomena, as when she seduces/dominates the fugitive-of-the-week's accomplice in "Queen of Hearts."
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Manipulative Bastard
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Manipulative Bastard: Candice in "Ain't Love (50) Grand" who manipulates her daughter Lorraine's boyfriend Rodney into killing her husband in order to get his money. She does this by claiming her husband is abusing Lorraine terribly, and that she might kill herself if Rodney tries to talk about this with her or mentions it at the trial, thereby ensuring his silence.
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Shut Up, Hannibal!
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Shut Up, Hannibal!: Lloyd, when speaking to a villain they've just caught who made a lifetime out of victimizing people after he gives his Motive Rant.
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Elevator Going Down
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Elevator Going Down: Shea and his girlfriend Vanessa hook up in the elevator in the Kings's base in "One for the Money".
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Break the Cutie
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Break the Cutie: Lloyd, when in the second season Damien takes him hostage and forces him to play a game of cards to save a girl's life. Lloyd does, and he wins... but then Damien reminds Lloyd that he is insane, and kills the girl anyway. Right in front of him. It gets even worse in the season finale. Damien holds Ray's daughter hostage to force the team, particularly Lloyd, through a scavenger hunt intended to screw with his mind. This includes forcing them to dig through Charlie's ashes, and making Lloyd confront the parents of the girl who OD'ed from one of his bad prescriptions. Lloyd points out to Ray that he accepted 25 years for a simple manslaughter charge because he couldn't bear to face them in court. Topping off the twisted game, for the last step in the scavenger hunt, Damien demands that Lloyd kill an escaped convict in cold blood. Lloyd offers to do it, saying that Damien wanted to break him, and it worked. Fortunately the team finds Damien before Lloyd actually goes through with it.
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Had to Come to Prison to Be a Crook
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Had to Come to Prison to Be a Crook: Oliver in "Steaks". Sent to prison for a joyride that accidentally resulted in a death, he is torturing and murdering people following his escape.
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Cutlery Escape Aid
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Cutlery Escape Aid: In the pilot episode, Gunderson is dismissed from the team and sent back to prison after he attempts to steal a knife from a diner when the team stop for lunch.
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The Atoner
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The Atoner: Benny Cruz, the runner in "Cruz Control", a lifelong gangbanger looking to erase his sins... by killing the wicked.
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Smug Snake
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Smug Snake: Beaumont in "Like Father, Like Son." Andre in "One for the Money."
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Disproportionate Retribution
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Disproportionate Retribution: a lot of this show demonstrates both this trope and its inverse when it comes to the American justice system, where relatively innocent people get horrific sentences for their crimes (sometimes crimes complicated by circumstance, accidental or those they didn't commit at all), and the deeply guilty often get away with a light slap on the wrist (hence showing Truth in Television).
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Unresolved Sexual Tension
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Unresolved Sexual Tension : Lloyd and Jules.
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Beardless Protection Program: The team figures that a big prison break was supposed to have another participant who missed the escape because he was sent to the prison infirmary. He stands out since he recently shaved his head so he would look different from his mugshot pictures.
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Forced to Watch
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Forced to Watch: Damien kidnaps Lloyd and forces him to watch him kill a female hostage. Lloyd is unharmed, but it sends him into a Heroic BSoD and he quits the team.
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Disney Villain Death
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Disney Villain Death: Damien.
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You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good!
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You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good!: When Lloyd calls his mother to tell her about the deal, all she says is "You could have been so much more." Then she hangs up.
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Dying to Be Replaced
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Dying to Be Replaced: Now that Charlie's gone, it seems like Ray's going to be the new protagonist.
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Consulting a Convicted Killer
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The show also has another seeming team-member (Gunderson) cut (i.e. sent back to prison) before the end of the first episode, because he pocketed a knife while they were in a restaurant, apparently planning to escape. The guy shows up in a later episode wherein he aids the team from prison.
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Bigger Is Better in Bed
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Bigger Is Better in Bed: Erica is convinced that the perp in Episode 9 is packing; his lover doesn't dispute that fact.
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We Hardly Knew Ye
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We Hardly Knew Ye: Philly, from the Pilot episode, was originally on the task force. She, however, neglects to inform the authorities that she has over a million dollars in her bank account that she didn't get legally, and is thus sent back to her original correctional facility. Erica is her replacement. Gunderson, the bounty hunter from the pilot and another original Breakout King. He doesn't even make it into the field, though he makes a cameo appearance in "Off the Beaten Path."
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The Reveal
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The Reveal: The cons eventually find out that Ray is no longer a US Marshal, and Shea ends up calling him out on it. Ray reacts in anger, calling out the cons on their various crimes and revealing exactly why Lloyd is in prison. He sold prescription drugs to students to finance his gambling debts, and one student OD'd.
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My Greatest Failure
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My Greatest Failure: Ray once stole money from a crime scene to buy his teenage daughter a car for her birthday. It cost him his job as a Deputy US Marshal and earned him a criminal conviction. The crime that got Lloyd into prison. Unlike Shea and Erica, he's deeply sorry for what he's done, and unlike Ray, he never once tries to justify it. He's clearly deeply sorry and haunted by his actions.
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Would Not Shoot a Good Guy
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Would Not Shoot a Good Guy: The team are surprised when an escaped convict does not hurt people when given the opportunity. Based on his past crimes he should be acting violent and unstable. He was wrongfully convicted.
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Orphaned Punchline
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Orphaned Punchline: Lloyd's "tasty joke" from "There Are Rules":
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Prison Rape
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Prison Rape: The younger runner in "Steaks" was a victim of this, and escapes prison to kill the rapist.
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Brother–Sister Incest
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Brother–Sister Incest: T-Bag claims to be the product of this (brother-sister rape actually) in "The Bag Man".
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Beware the Quiet Ones
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Beware the Quiet Ones: When a mass breakout occurs, the team naturally are focused on the drug kingpin, gang member and even forger. It turns out that it's the former millionaire in for a Ponzi Scheme that's the ringleader and cold-blooded enough to kill to get his way. Lloyd points out how anyone willing to rip off the life savings of thousands of people is ruthless enough to do anything.
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N-Word Privileges
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N-Word Privileges: Shea stops doing business with Carmen Vega partly because she tried to get him to sleep with her and partly because she called him a "word he doesn't allow people who aren't black to call [him]
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Boxed Crook
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Boxed Crook: The premise of the show is basically a downplayed version of this trope, since the convicts get transferred to a minimum-security prison and earn a sentence reduction for every escapee they help catch.
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Potty Failure
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Potty Failure: Invoked by Emmy in "I Smell Emmy" so she could escape from her prison van drivers. This causes such as Squick reaction from Ray and Juliane that neither of them is prepared to actually say what happened.
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Snowball Lie
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Snowball Lie: A convicted child molester is revealed to be a victim of this. Only one victim was actually assaulted, and the guilty party was her own father. She was forced into blaming her teacher. The other "victims" were kids caught up in the hysteria.
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Tsundere
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Tsundere: Erica, Type A, toward Lloyd. Subverted, somewhat, in that she's mean to everyone, including him. She just happens to show him kindness once in a while.
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Outlaw Couple
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Outlaw Couple: Mars and Starla in "Fun with Chemistry".
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Evil Matriarch
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Evil Matriarch: Carmen Vega. Supposedly, the "kept wife," she was the true mastermind of her husband's drug business and let him take the fall for it all. She then goes so far as to have her own son murdered so she can use his funeral as a chance to escape.
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Large Ham
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Large Ham: Lloyd.
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Red Oni, Blue Oni
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Red Oni, Blue Oni: Charlie is the Blue Oni who is "intellectual, proud, traditional, introverted, and cultured" and his mystery is his heart condition. The passionate, determined, defiant, and more brawny than brainy Ray is the Red Oni.
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Murder-Suicide
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Murder-Suicide: After Lilah starts to spiral, she plans to kill both her son and herself, but she is stopped by the team.
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: On the law side of the team, we have Charlie, a former marine who has been restricted to desk work for six years due to a heart defect. Ray's aggressive style of policing cost him his badge and earned him a criminal conviction. Then we have Julianne, who suffers from panic attacks and other problems that forced her to give up a promising future. The cons consist of a former gang kingpin, a brilliant profiler with a gambling problem, and a woman who can and will hunt you down and kill you if you cross her.
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Wham Episode
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Wham Episode: The Season 2 premiere, which ends with Charlie dying. The series finale, which ends with Ray killing Damien. He is then investigated, with the investigator offering the cons to go free if they snitch on Ray.
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Voice with an Internet Connection
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Voice with an Internet Connection: Jules
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Asshole Victim
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Asshole Victim: This show is surprisingly fond of this trope. Erica's victims. Genevieve's rapists in "Paid in Full." Wayne and Roy in "The Bag Man." The rapist in "Steaks." Cruz's victims in "Cruz Control." The prison guard and Candace in "Ain't Love (50) Grand?" On a comedic note, anytime someone attacks Lloyd, its usually because he's being this.
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Femme Fatale
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Femme Fatale: Lilah in "Queen of Hearts." Starla in "Fun With Chemistry."
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Five-Man Band
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Also fits the sub-type of Five-Man Band of Three Plus Two or in this case Three Plus Three. Charles, Ray, Jules make up the base Power Trio and the Face–Heel Turn three round it out. The 'Legal' power trio is Beauty (Jules), Brains (Charlie), and Brawn (Ray), with Beauty also being the Naïve Newcomer. This interpretation is debatable, as Jules, while clearly attractive, is not there to be eye candy. Of the Legal trio, she is the Brains. Charlie is arguably the Beauty, as the most classically handsome out of the two field operatives. This set up is shaky at best though, with all three sharing at least two of these elements.
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Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life
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Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life: Oliver from "Steaks" was sent to prison for a joyride that went wrong. He was repeatedly raped and beaten, and became a torturer and murderer on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
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Big Bad
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Big Bad: Damien in Season 2. He escapes in the first episode, kills The Hero Charlie, and kidnaps several more women in the course of the season, sending Lloyd post cards with clues what he's doing, until he is finally killed in the finale after kidnapping Ray's daughter.
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Black Dude Dies First
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Black Dude Dies First: Charlie is the first (and only) protagonist who dies.
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Momma's Boy
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Momma's Boy: Lloyd, of the unhealthy kind, since most things he says about his mother point to Freudian Excuse.
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Evil Counterpart
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Evil Counterpart: Damien is this for Lloyd. Both have mother issues, crave attention, fake emotion when the situation demands, and are highly intelligent and well read. Damien just happens to be a psychopath.
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: It's the reason why T-Bag breaks out of prison. Subverted with Lloyd, as he wanted his teammates to tell his mother "I hate you" if he was killed.
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And That's Terrible
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And That's Terrible: The team's reaction to the pedophile in "Out of the Mouths of Babes."
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Stupid Crooks
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Stupid Crooks: The reaction of the team to Travis Muncey, who got arrested for possession of an stolen handgun after he accidentally shot himself in the butt and went to the emergency room, not knowing hospitals report any gunshot wounds to the police.
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Killed Mid-Sentence
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Killed Mid-Sentence: Happens "There Are Rules", when the white-collar criminal who masterminded the prison break of the week pulls a gun on his relatively violence-oriented accomplice, and the latter tries to Hannibal Lecture him:
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Karma Houdini
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Karma Houdini: in "Steaks", Oliver's former cell-mate who repeatedly raped him, and prostituted him to other prisoners, has been released early on good behavior and now has a comfortable life with a very nice and loving girlfriend. By the end of the episode, he's lost the last one, at least. When Oliver gave his tormentor his Motive Rant, the initially in-denial girlfriend believed him, and ends their relationship on the spot.
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Obfuscating Stupidity
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Obfuscating Stupidity: Or rather, Obfuscating Failure. Ronald Barnes in "There Are Rules" deliberately plans for all of his co-conspirators to get captured, so the Marshals will think his plan is coming apart.
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Handicapped Badass
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Handicapped Badass: T-Bag in "The Bag Man". He stabs a guard to death with his prosthetic hand and then proceeds to go an a Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
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Look Both Ways
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Look Both Ways: In one episode, one of the five convicts who broke out of prison tries to escape Ray and the others by sprinting across the street, at which point he's nailed by a passing bus.
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Abusive Parents
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Abusive Parents: Lloyd's mother. Definitely mentally and emotionally. Possibly physically as well. Following the Evil Twin theme, Damien claims the same about his mother, but he's a psychopath.
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Too Dumb to Live
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Too Dumb to Live: Lloyd might be an extremely smart guy but he lacks the street smarts to survive in prison. He keeps insulting people and unable to control his gambling habit, and thus he owes money to the wrong people. He needs to stay on the team since in a minimum security prison he at least has some chance of surviving.
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My Beloved Smother
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My Beloved Smother: See Momma's Boy and Freudian Excuse; Lloyd's not afraid to say that he hates her.
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Tonight, Someone Dies
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Tonight, Someone Dies: Several previews have trumpeted the idea that one of the crew members will get killed off during a hunt. So far they've all lied. The commercials for Season 2 seem to have a bit more weight on this trope... Confirmed. Charlie's dead.
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Enforced Method Acting
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Enforced Method Acting: In-Universe: Ray forces Lloyd into this when he enacts a plan that involves allowing the criminal they've captured to swipe his keys and gun and take them hostage, taking them straight to where her partner was holding several other hostages. Lloyd is understandably less than thrilled when he learns how he was manipulated. Ray and Charlie do it again a few episodes later, convincing a runner he's going to take a bribe so that he'll let go of Lloyd and give him a clear shot.
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Alliterative Name
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Alliterative Name: Lloyd Lowery
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Mission Control
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Mission Control: Jules, often with Lloyd.
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CharacterDeath
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Character Death: Charlie in "An Unjust Death".
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Show Some Leg
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Erica in Episode 12; she even lampshades the fact that she's wearing unnecessarily tiny panties. She then is used to try and bait a convict by dressing provocatively in the season 2 premiere, along with appearing only just with a Modesty Towel around her.
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Faked Food Contaminant: In the pilot episode, the team goes to a restaurant and con artist Philly puts a hair in her dish so she doesn't have to pay for it. Even though the waitress seems suspicious, it still works.
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And Starring
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And Starring: Jimmi Simpson
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Professional Killer
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Professional Killer: The con in "Paid in Full".
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Dropped After the Pilot: The con artist Philly in the pilot episode was intended to be a regular member of the team. She doesn't appear in the series, replaced by bounty hunter Erica. Her absence is at least explained, as the Marshals discovered she was concealing ill-gotten gains and she was thrown of the program and transferred to high-security prison. The show also has another seeming team-member (Gunderson) cut (i.e. sent back to prison) before the end of the first episode, because he pocketed a knife while they were in a restaurant, apparently planning to escape. The guy shows up in a later episode wherein he aids the team from prison.
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Cliffhanger: The shows ends in one due to its cancellation.
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Shout-Out: In one episode, Shea and Erica pose as the law to get some information. The cover names that Shea comes up with on the spot? Rakim and Erica B. To Bill Clinton. His infamous quote "I did not have sexual relations wit this woman" is a clue Damien sends to Lloyd. Lloyd also makes a number of throwaway references, for example to Kenny Rogers ("Double Down"), George Carlin ("Ain't Love (50) Grand") or Dennis Miller ("There are Rules").
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Freudian Excuse: Lloyd describes his mother at one point as unfit, and according to him, his self-worth-issues come from covering for her his entire life. It's implied she's an alcoholic, she lied to him about his father, and she's constantly picking on Lloyd. Also, when he was 14, she used to duct tape oven mitts to his hands to stop him from masturbating. When Lloyd thinks he might day, he asks Erica and Shea to tell his mother he hates her. Damien thinks he has one, claiming his mother is the reason for all of his problems.
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Charles, Ray, Jules make up the base Power Trio and the Face–Heel Turn three round it out.
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Broken Bird: Julianne is a mix of this and Shrinking Violet. The Broken Bird part comes from an incident as a child when she witnessed her cousin being kidnapped, presumably to be murdered.
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The Perfect Crime
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The Perfect Crime: More like the perfect murder, actually several of them. Erica is in prison on weapons charges, but she actually killed five of the six men responsible for her father's death, but did it flawlessly and was never caught for it. Ronnie Marcum, the runner in "Self-Help." He started a fight with another inmate, sent a fake anthrax letter to the warden, and used the panic to escape long enough to kill some old friends blackmailing him. He then managed to sneak back into prison, having been gone for just a few hours, claiming to have been hiding from the other inmates in the confusion of the anthrax scare. The team doesn't get their month off because they couldn't prove he ever escaped. Marcum doesn't win, though — they get him on a murder he committed as a teenager.
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What the Hell, Hero?
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What the Hell, Hero?: Lloyd takes Ray to task at the end of "Cruz Control" for using him to kill Cruz instead of letting him talk the guy down.
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Hypocrite: Ray treat the cons like trash, even calling them animals, but he's a convict as well, and is on parole after stealing money.
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Rabid Cop
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Rabid Cop: Ray has moments like this, including threatening to burn a suspect's genitals with a cigarette lighter in "Like Father, Like Son".
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Painted-On Pants
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Painted-On Pants: Erica's civilian attire.
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...In That Order
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...In That Order: Lloyd, in regards to T-Bag; "But of course, he was incarcerated for raping and killing a bunch of teenagers... not necessarily in that order."
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The Ditz
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The Ditz: Travis Muncey, an actor who got himself involved with a dangerous arms dealer.
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: While making a point about approaching a situation from an alternate angle, Shea denies ever stealing money from a rival gang by breaking into their hideout from next door.
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The Mole
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The Mole: Colburn in "Where in the World is Carmen Vega?"
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I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!
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I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: Philly
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Monster of the Week: Escaped Con of the Week in this case. Lampshaded by Ray in "SEAL'd Fate," when he introduces the "Scumbag of the Week" to the gang.
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Exact Words: Lloyd convinces a captured fugitive to turn on his partners by pretending to be a Marshal, and offering a deal. He never specifically says he is one; he just comes into the interrogation room, and behaves like he's Charlie's boss. He also says that the deal is "as legit as anything I can offer" (which is nothing) and that "an offer made by a U.S. Marshal cannot be rescinded under the law." (which it hasn't been) That is, of course, nonsense: an offer made by a marshal has no legal force whatsoever. Only a prosecutor can offer a deal.
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Shrinking Violet: Julianne is a mix of this and Broken Bird. The Shrinking Violet part comes from her severe social anxiety.
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Naïve Newcomer
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The 'Legal' power trio is Beauty (Jules), Brains (Charlie), and Brawn (Ray), with Beauty also being the Naïve Newcomer. This interpretation is debatable, as Jules, while clearly attractive, is not there to be eye candy. Of the Legal trio, she is the Brains. Charlie is arguably the Beauty, as the most classically handsome out of the two field operatives. This set up is shaky at best though, with all three sharing at least two of these elements.
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Underside Ride
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Underside Ride: The escapee in the pilot episode escapes this way.
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Earn Your Happy Ending: what the showrunners had planned for the Cons, if they'd had sufficient episodes, or advance notice of the cancellation. A Far Future Epilogue would have shown Erica reunited with her daughter and back to bounty hunting, Shea running a successful business with Vanessa, and Lloyd and Jules would have married and had a son named Charlie.
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Right-Wing Militia Fanatic: Christian Beaumont and the Patriot Front in "Like Father, Like Son".
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Running Gag
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Running Gag: EVERYONE in "Where in the World is Carmen Vega" thinks Flo-Flo's name is stupid.
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Bodybag Trick: In "Steaks", two convicts murder an obese inmate and then hide in his coffin in order to escape.
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Everything Is Racist
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Everything Is Racist: Shea tries this on Ray in the second episode of the second season, Ray says that the reason is that he doesn't trust Micks (Shea claims that he is 1/8th Irish.) he also tries this with Lloyd early on, after Lloyd remarks about the tendency of lower-class blacks to crime. Lloyd refutes this with "I'm not racist, I'm fact-ist", replying that the idea of black people being inferior is completely untrue, before citing statistics about black people simply being less likely to be highly educated, live in good neighborhoods or have high paying jobs. He then tells Shea not to repeat racial stereotypes, ending with 'But you can dance better than me, right?'
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Dark and Troubled Past: Both cons and cops have theirs.
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