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Due South

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Due South	label	Due South
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Due South	comment	A Buddy Cop Show / Odd Couple, where the Odd Couple is an American detective and a Canadian Mountie. The series lasted from April 1994 to March 1999; a total of 67 episodes in four seasons (Canada, where it aired on CTV, and the rest of the world) or three seasons (in the US, where it was seen on CBS), depending on location.The Mountie, Constable Benton Fraser, came to Chicago on the trail of the killers of his father; and, "for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture", remained attached as liaison with the Canadian Consulate, working with local detective Ray Vecchio - who, for various reasons having to do with actor availability, is later replaced by Stanley (Raymond) Kowalski. Yes, that is his name (his dad was a fan of Marlon Brando). He even married a woman named Stella, though they had divorced by the time Ray K moved to Chicago.Cst. Benton Fraser (rhymes with "razor", though Ray V usually pronounces it "Frasier") is the living incarnation of almost every Mountie stereotype ever conceived. He's polite to a fault, can track a man for months across an Arctic waste, fights honorably, doesn't lie, and is almost always impeccably clean, even after climbing out of a sewer. During the first two seasons, he's frequently shown wearing civilian clothes, but during the last seasons, he almost always wears the formal red dress uniform, which in real life is only worn for special public occasions or for publicity.Ray Vecchio is, in his own way, also the quintessential cynical American cop: from his attitudes and his eating habits, to his clothes and his car.Ray Kowalski is similar in many ways, but more prone to wear his heart on his sleeve, has a unique manner of speaking ("I'm gonna jump Bogart all over you!").Rounding out the cast is Diefenbaker, Fraser's half-wolf Canine Companion, who is deaf (but can read lips).Due South is both a buddy cop comedy and a drama and handles both genres quite well. Fraser and both Rays play well off of one another, and make each other's more exaggerated characteristics work.It also included some elements of magical realism, most notably Sgt. Bob Fraser (usually called "Fraser Sr.", "Dead Bob", or "OFDM" (for "Our Favourite Dead Mountie") by the fandom), the ghost of Fraser's father. Only Fraser could see and hear his father, unless Fraser Sr. wanted to show himself to someone else (this happened three times—he appeared to his killer, to his wife's killer, and to his best friend from the force), or they were also related to him (happened once). Ray V's dad's ghost also popped up once or twice, and interacted with Fraser Sr once, though he was never a regular character.Recap page and Character page are both under construction.
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Due South / int_10a6623b	type	Fair Cop
Due South / int_10a6623b	comment	Fair Cop: Fraser almost never looks less than dashingly handsome. Constable Maggie Mackenzie is a beautiful Mountie. Inspector Margaret Thatcher is another beautiful Mountie who, according to Fraser, looks particularly good in red serge: in "Red, White and Blue", he uses semaphore to tell her that "Red suits you". On the American side, both Rays have their physical attributes and admirers Family-Friendly Stripper: In the episode 'Body Language' Ray and Fraser tour the city's strip clubs in search of an arsonist but see nothing but lingerie clad dancers.
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Due South / int_121865ac	type	Noble Savage
Due South / int_121865ac	comment	Noble Savage: Quinn subverts this trope in Easy Money, portraying himself in this manner and then commenting to Fraser "I've been getting into this native roots and it seems to work. Besides, I thought the Tonto act might impress that little jackass." But he also embodies the trope, as he was a very formative mentor to Fraser and he does the right thing in the end.
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Due South / int_12f078f3	type	Artistic License – Linguistics
Due South / int_12f078f3	comment	Artistic License – Linguistics: in "A Hawk and a Handsaw," Fraser says that the Inuit have over 60 words for snow. (Linguist Geoffrey Pullum estimates that the actual number is around five, roughly the same as in English; however, this might have more to do with settler colonialism and resulting language loss as revealed on a recently unearthed CBC archival recording of an Inuit elder, and that linguists and native speakers don't necessarily agree on what counts as a 'word'.) The trope is somewhat averted in that this is a very widespread myth, but Fraser's character is a stickler for detail who grew up in a part of Canada with a large Inuit population; you'd think he'd have noticed the 50-some-odd missing words for snow, at some point.
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Due South / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Due South / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Subverted. At the beginning of Say Amen you can briefly see the titles of three previous episodes (Dead Guy Running, Good for the Soul and Seeing is Believing) on a movie theatre billboard.
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Due South / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Due South / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Detectives Huey and Louis. Later, Huey and Dewey.
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Due South / int_1d3d3c32	type	Welcome to the Big City
Due South / int_1d3d3c32	comment	Welcome to the Big City: Fraser in the pilot movie, except that — as befits the general theme of the show — some of it ends up coming out right in the end (e.g., the panhandler he "loans" $100 to returns it at the end of the episode). In "One Good Man," Fraser is shocked when the new owner of his apartment building has no interest in the existing tenants and intends to redevelop it plus the surrounding 6 blocks; nearly every other character mocks him for his optimism in choosing to fight back. Subverted in that the sleazy building supervisor ends up saving the day by pointing out that he (the super) holds a lease valid for 4 more years, meaning the building can't be torn down for at least that long. In "White Men Can't Jump To Conclusions," Fraser has to leave his boots behind in a bad part of the city in order to save a kid that's been shot—and his boots disappear. Fraser is certain that some Good Samaritan picked the boots up off the street in order to find him and at the end of the episode is proven entirely right
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Due South / int_1e7f218c	type	Drowning Pit
Due South / int_1e7f218c	comment	Drowning Pit: "Vault"
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Due South / int_1eb8c95b	type	That Didn't Happen
Due South / int_1eb8c95b	comment	That Didn't Happen: The "contact" in "All the Queen's Horses"
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Due South / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Due South / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: At the end of "Victoria's Secret", it's unclear whether or not Victoria was pointing a gun at Fraser as he tried to jump on her train. The scene has shots from different character's perspectives that show it either way.
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Due South / int_1fe36347	type	Take My Hand!
Due South / int_1fe36347	comment	Take My Hand!: Fraser Sr. to the man who had him killed, in "A Bird In The Hand". Subverted: Fraser Sr. is a ghost. His hands are intangible, just like the rest of him. You don't have to be a Mountie to deduce what happens next. However, despite being a ghost, Fraser Sr. is able to punch out the guy who murdered his wife.
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Due South / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Due South / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's (Unloaded) Gun: In the "Pilot," Fraser pulls out his gun in a Chicago bar, then explains that it's empty because he doesn't have a local permit. Later, when his father's killer grabs the gun in a fight and tries to shoot him, it isn't loaded.
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Due South / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
Due South / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: Frannie's messing up of police jargon, Ray K's trouble with remember words, Fraser's 'thank you, kindly', etc.
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Due South / int_27690f66	type	Literary Allusion Title
Due South / int_27690f66	comment	Literary Allusion Title: The title of the Christmas episode "The Gift of the Wheelman" is a reference to O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi. In case the reference wasn't clear, the opening shot also includes a store called "O. Henry's Gift Shop." Also, the wheelman in question is one William Sydney Porter.
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Due South / int_2a55a77a	type	Bare-Handed Blade Block
Due South / int_2a55a77a	comment	Bare-Handed Blade Block: In "Seeing is Believing," Fraser catches a knife thrown at him.
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Due South / int_2c62c9f0	type	You Would Do the Same for Me
Due South / int_2c62c9f0	comment	You Would Do the Same for Me
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Due South / int_2d3f662b	type	Chained Heat
Due South / int_2d3f662b	comment	Chained Heat: Fraser and Inspector Thatcher in All the Queen's Horses and Fraser and RayV in Red, White or Blue.
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Due South / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Due South / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Randall Bolt, the crazy White Supremacist terrorist.
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Due South / int_2f9d1595	type	You Can See Me?
Due South / int_2f9d1595	comment	You Can See Me?: In "Hunting Season", Constable Maggie MacKenzie can see the ghost of Fraser's father. "All The Queen's Horses" had a variation of sorts, with Fraser and Buck both surprised the other could see Bob. Mama Lala appears aware of Bob's existence as well in "Mojo Rising"
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Due South / int_311bcac6	type	Beard of Sorrow
Due South / int_311bcac6	comment	Beard of Sorrow: In "A Hawk and a Handsaw," Fraser mentions that after his mother died, his father quit shaving for a while.
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Due South / int_3322dd48	type	Hollywood Law
Due South / int_3322dd48	comment	Hollywood Law: On at least two occasions people with vendettas are satisfied when they get the person who killed their loved one to confess in front of a police officer. This ignores the fact that the admissibility of a confession extracted at gunpoint is highly dubious - any competent lawyer could argue that his client was willing to say just about anything if it got his tormentor to put the gun away. On one occasion the person doing this was a police officer and should have known this.
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Due South / int_3573371e	type	Dinner and a Show
Due South / int_3573371e	comment	Dinner and a Show: Ray V's family.
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Due South / int_35ff3a1b	type	All a Part of the Job
Due South / int_35ff3a1b	comment	All a Part of the Job: Fraser is baffled and uncomfortable when his heroics draw media attention. When reporters ask how he feels about having prevented a horrible disaster (in "Red, White, or Blue", referencing the events of "All the Queen's Horses"), all he can come up with is "Fine."
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Due South / int_36c64123	type	Gentle Giant
Due South / int_36c64123	comment	Gentle Giant: the large prisoner who helps out Fraser and Ray in "The Witness" is a variation on this: he's not exactly gentle (we see him throttling a lunchroom attendant when he tells him to move along because he doesn't have any food left), but he does keep the bad guy away because he was impressed with Fraser's courtesy
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Due South / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Due South / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Waaaaaay over on the idealistic side. So much so that the times when it does even a slightly dark or ambiguous episode it can come across as a Bizarro Episode.
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Due South / int_38119dcf	type	Not the Fall That Kills You
Due South / int_38119dcf	comment	Not the Fall That Kills You…: In Call of the Wild, Fraser and Ray Kowalski jump and is pushed by Fraser, respectively, from an airplane without parachutes, but they are not injured because the snow is "bottomless."
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Due South / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Due South / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Directly invoked in "Mountie on the Bounty" between Inspector Thatcher and Sergeant Sam Thorn.
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Due South / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
Due South / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: In "Mountie on the Bounty", a replica of the sailing ship HMS Bounty, crewed by Mounties in Red Serge and equipped with 18th-century cannons, takes on a modern Great Lakes freighter equipped with modern military guns and defended by a gang of armed criminals. The Mounties not only survive the attack, but grapple to the side and launch a successful boarding party.
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Due South / int_3d8b73cf	type	Trouser Space
Due South / int_3d8b73cf	comment	Trouser Space: Mild example played for laughs. Fraser sneaks a case file past some obstructive FBI Agents by shoving it down his pants.
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Due South / int_3ec7c277	type	Every Car Is a Pinto
Due South / int_3ec7c277	comment	Every Car Is a Pinto: Every 1971 Buick Riviera seems to be, though to be fair One of them was rigged with a bomb
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Due South / int_3f99197c	type	Beleaguered Childhood Friend
Due South / int_3f99197c	comment	Beleaguered Childhood Friend: Fraser's friend Mark Smithbauer, in "The Blue Line".
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Due South / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Due South / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The last few minutes of the final episode, when Fraser tells of what happened to those whom he considered as friends. Fraser's voiceover is hated by some fans, who think that not all of the characters got happy endings, and wrote fix-it fanfics with better endings.
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Due South / int_4192763e	type	Malaproper
Due South / int_4192763e	comment	Malaproper: Francesca Vecchio is constantly misquoting typical police jargon (for instance, saying "broiling" rather than "grilling" a suspect). In "Mountie On the Bounty," this is weaponized, as a suspect finally cracks after listening to her do it constantly for minutes on end
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Due South / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Due South / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: All of the Haitians in "Mojo Rising" speak with essentially American accents. The actor who played Kowalski is Canadian, and his Canadian accent is very noticeable at times, even though his character is supposed to be a native Chicagoan.
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Due South / int_4583a262	type	Shirtless Scene
Due South / int_4583a262	comment	Shirtless Scene: Fraser has a few of these throughout the series. In Diefenbaker's Day Off, we see him taking a bath, and later he walks out of communal bathroom (with his neighbours waiting for their turn) wearing only his Stetson and a Modesty Towel around his waist. He's bare-chested while he's reading his father's journal in The Deal. In Victoria's Secret, Fraser is shirtless after he makes love to Victoria, and again when Ray visits his apartment after he failed to show up for the pool game.
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Due South / int_474e3977	type	You Have Failed Me
Due South / int_474e3977	comment	You Have Failed Me: In the episode Gift of the Wheelman, the leader of the bag guys pulls this one out of the villain's playbook.
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Due South / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Due South / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Ray Vecchio, who doesn't always make the best first impression, but dearly loves his mother, his sister, the rest of his family and his best friend Fraser, and has demonstrated that he's a caring person at times to others.
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Due South / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Due South / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In the episode "A Hawk and a Handsaw," when someone asks Fraser how a mountie came to live in Chicago, he replies that it's a long story which takes exactly two hours to tell (i.e., the length of the pilot). In the episode "Vault," Ray remarks, "In the last two years you’ve risked our lives 24 times," (i.e., the number of episodes to that point in the series).
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Due South / int_4c23b50f	type	Land Mine Goes "Click!"
Due South / int_4c23b50f	comment	Land Mine Goes "Click!": in the episode "The Edge".
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Due South / int_4d92da97	type	Get into Jail Free
Due South / int_4d92da97	comment	Get into Jail Free: A key witness is behind bars and Fraser's partner is jailed for contempt. Fraser gets himself arrested to join them and be in position to protect them. He's such a straight arrow that he can't bring himself to shoplift a candy bar, and his police friends have to plant it on him. In another episode, he gets himself interred in a mental hospital (to help break Ray out) by showing up in his RCMP uniform and telling them the unaltered truth of how he ended up in Chicago.
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Due South / int_4eb0815	type	The Nth Doctor
Due South / int_4eb0815	comment	The Nth Doctor: At the start of the third season, Fraser returns from a vacation and finds a new Ray Vecchio working in the police station, recognized by everyone in the office and with the correct ID. Subverted; this “Ray Vecchio” is in fact Ray Kowalski, who is impersonating the real Vecchio while he works undercover.
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Due South / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Due South / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Frank Zuko, who likes to appear to be a suave business man who only cares for his community (as opposed to his extortion business), but after seeing him blatantly cheat while playing basketball with Fraser, it is impossible to see him as anything but a Smug Snake
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Due South / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Due South / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: From the episode "A Hawk and a Handsaw": From the episode "Vault":
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Due South / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Due South / int_5313c266	comment	A variation gets brought up as a book end. In the series finale, Fraser and the gang (including both Rays working together at one point go up against the gun runner who killed his mother.
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Due South / int_544b2bff	type	Signature Item Clue
Due South / int_544b2bff	comment	Signature Item Clue: Subverted. There is evidence that a hitman has been watching Fraser's apartment: cigarette butts from his distinctive brand are found near a hallway window in a building opposite where Fraser lives. But the cigarettes aren't stamped out as if the hitman stepped on them, or crushed as if he put them out on the windowsill; they're evenly snuffed, as if the alleged hitman had put them out in an ashtray at an earlier time and then someone else trying to frame the hitman (and Fraser) planted them there - which is exactly what happened.
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Due South / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
Due South / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: how Fraser ended up in Chicago after pissing off his entire chain of command. Chicago seems to be a dumping ground: Constable Turnbull seems to be too stupid to serve anywhere else, and even Inspector Thatcher isn't too keen on being there, and wants to transfer back to Toronto as soon as she can. In "Mountie on the Bounty", it is explained that Sergeant Sam Thorn was assigned to train cadets on the shores of the Great Lakes because she is "BTC - big time crazy" and fell out with RCMP brass. More specifically, she believes the RCMP should be a major naval power, partially to defend against a possible US invasion.
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Due South / int_58626d87	type	Genius Ditz
Due South / int_58626d87	comment	Genius Ditz: Turnbull, while not an idiot, is not that great at his job. However, he is very good at art, cooking, trivia, and perhaps cleaning. Doesn't help that he's a Cloud Cuckoo Lander to boot. Frannie as well. She may not get the jargon right or even understand some basics of policing, but she's good at finding information. Thankfully, that's her job, so she's a step ahead of Turnbull.
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Due South / int_5cd8680b	type	Doorstop Baby
Due South / int_5cd8680b	comment	Doorstop Baby: "A Cop, a Mountie, and a Baby"
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Due South / int_5fc68f05	type	There Was a Door
Due South / int_5fc68f05	comment	There Was a Door: Fraser, all the time.
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Due South	hasFeature	Due South / int_5fc68f05
Due South / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
Due South / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: The serial bank robber that RayK pursues in "Eclipse".
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Due South	hasFeature	Due South / int_648fe274
Due South / int_64c38832	type	Inevitable Waterfall
Due South / int_64c38832	comment	Inevitable Waterfall: "North" and "Burning Down the House"
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Due South / int_673c9dd8	type	Insignia Rip-Off Ritual
Due South / int_673c9dd8	comment	Insignia Rip-Off Ritual: Thatcher cuts Fraser's lanyard when she's handing down punishment for Fraser disobeying orders and helping his sister Maggie when she breaks into the consulate.
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Due South	hasFeature	Due South / int_673c9dd8
Due South / int_6968c6b0	type	Not So Remote
Due South / int_6968c6b0	comment	Not So Remote: In the Cold Open of "A Likely Story", Fraser and Ray seem to be out camping in the woods; it's quickly revealed that they're actually in a city park in the middle of Chicago. In "The Call of the Wild", Fraser is out on a lake, attempting to ice fish but getting no bites. The snowy hills that can be seen surrounding the lake appear heavily wooded. Then Ray shows up.
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Due South	hasFeature	Due South / int_6968c6b0
Due South / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Due South / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: A maid who accidentally throws away a matchbox central to the plot is named Mrs. MacGuffin. Later, we see that store security guard "Niffug, C M"note shown reversed, in a mirror, as M C GUFFINpockets the same box.
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Due South / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Due South / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: The coroner's name is Mort.
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Due South	hasFeature	Due South / int_6d7026fa
Due South / int_7012424f	type	Stealth Hi/Bye
Due South / int_7012424f	comment	Stealth Hi/Bye: Fraser, in "A Cop, a Mountie, and a Baby".
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Due South / int_70f9a879	type	Family-Friendly Stripper
Due South / int_70f9a879	comment	Family-Friendly Stripper: In the episode 'Body Language' Ray and Fraser tour the city's strip clubs in search of an arsonist but see nothing but lingerie clad dancers.
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Due South / int_71329e49	type	Turn in Your Badge
Due South / int_71329e49	comment	Turn in Your Badge: Happens to RayV in Victoria's Secret and Fraser in Hunting Season.
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Due South / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
Due South / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: "And off we went, to find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea. And if we do find his hand - the reaching out one - we'll let you know."
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Due South / int_74c3078d	type	TheRashomon
Due South / int_74c3078d	comment	The Rashomon: "Seeing is Believing," where Ray K, Thatcher, and Walsh all witness an argument between two men and a woman which ends with one of the men stabbed to death. Ray K thinks the young guy did it, Thatcher thinks the young woman did it, and Walsh thinks the two conspired to kill the other man as part of a mob war. it was actually a fourth man who created a distraction and then threw the knife at the victim Also, the climax of "Victoria's Secret" makes it unclear to the audience whether or not Victoria is pointing a gun at Fraser. A love-struck Fraser sees an open hand reaching to pull him aboard the train, while some distance away a suspicious Ray sees a gun being aimed at his partner. Camera shots from their different perspectives show either case.
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Due South / int_759afbab	type	Joke Name Tag
Due South / int_759afbab	comment	Joke Name Tag: A store security guard has a "Niffug, C. M." name tag, which is conveniently shown in a mirror. Viewers who know their film history will spot this as a Shout-Out to Hitchcock.
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Due South / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
Due South / int_771f6307	comment	Brother–Sister Incest: A one-sided version occurs in Hunting Season. Fraser is very attracted to Maggie Mackenzie, to the point where he and Ray K become rivals for her affection, until he discovers that she is actually his half-sister.
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Due South / int_7a21fc07	type	New Old Flame
Due South / int_7a21fc07	comment	New Old Flame: Ray V has Irene Zuko ("Juliet is Bleeding"); Fraser has Victoria Metcalf ("Victoria's Secret").
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Due South / int_7a2a34ef	type	Not With the Safety On, You Won't
Due South / int_7a2a34ef	comment	Not With the Safety On, You Won't: in "Free Willie"
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Due South / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
Due South / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: Buck Frobisher's resemblance to "legendary Canadian actor Leslie Nielsen" is remarked upon in "Burning Down the House".
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Due South / int_7d163c9c	type	Dating Catwoman
Due South / int_7d163c9c	comment	Dating Catwoman: For Fraser, Victoria Metcalf ("Victoria's Secret"). Ray V, in "You Must Remember This", has a brief romance that seems to be this trope, but ends up subverted as his love interest turns out to be an undercover agent running a sting, not a thief.
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Due South / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Due South / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: This is how Benton Fraser is introduced (in a two part introduction) to the audience: first, having established that he's chasing down a criminal on a dogsled in a horrendous blizzard (and that his coworkers think he's crazy), the door bursts open to reveal Fraser, fresh from the blizzard with the fugitive slung over his shoulder, delivering the immortal first line: "That's the last time he'll fish over the limit." However, once that's had a minute to establish itself in everyone's minds, he politely explains to his apoplectic boss that the man was in fact dynamiting the streams with plastic explosive and nitroglycerin, which Frasier has confiscated. Oh yes, and he's donated the resultant four-and-a-half tons of fish to the nearest Native village, who are very happy with the police force about now. Benton Fraser: completely insane, but a hell of a cop.
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Due South / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Due South / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In "Mountie on the Bounty", Constable Turnbull finds it entirely reasonable that Sergeant Sam Thorn is so enamoured with the idea of the RCMP as a naval force she uses RCMP cadets to build a full-scale replica of the HMS Bounty, complete with cannons, and trains them to sail it. He objects to her adding a naval officer's sword to her uniform.
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Due South / int_81bdc398	type	He's Back!
Due South / int_81bdc398	comment	He's Back!: "The Edge"
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Due South / int_829b958e	type	Embarrassing First Name
Due South / int_829b958e	comment	Embarrassing First Name: Played straight with Stanley Ray Kowalski, who shared his name with the protagonist of A Streetcar Named Desire. Subverted with Fraser, who had an odd first name ("Benton"), but wasn't even remotely embarrassed by it.
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Due South / int_83446991	type	UST
Due South / int_83446991	comment	UST: Fraser and his boss, Inspector Margaret "Meg" Thatcher.
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Due South	hasFeature	Due South / int_83446991
Due South / int_86a00a8e	type	If My Calculations Are Correct
Due South / int_86a00a8e	comment	If My Calculations Are Correct: In "Vault," Fraser begins with "Now, I don’t have the specifications for the door, Ray. But I’ve been making calculations based on its thickness, the depth of the existing hole and the reflection of the tonal input as it percusses against my tuning fork." Several scenes later, after much bickering, he concludes with "That is, providing they maintain a constant rate of drilling."
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Due South	hasFeature	Due South / int_86a00a8e
Due South / int_875f008a	type	Psychometry
Due South / int_875f008a	comment	Psychometry: The clairvoyant homeless man's powers appear to work this way in "Heaven and Earth". He gets visions of the missing girl after finding her necklace, and they intensify when someone later presses the necklace into his hand.
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Due South / int_890e2f58	type	Informed Self-Diagnosis
Due South / int_890e2f58	comment	Informed Self-Diagnosis: "North"
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Due South / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Due South / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: Vecchio's 1971 Buick Riviera, which kept getting blown up, and later Kowalski's GTO.
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Due South / int_8eb2b9a7	type	Singing Mountie
Due South / int_8eb2b9a7	comment	Singing Mountie: Constable Benton Fraser sings multiple times throughout the series, and on one occasion a train car full of his fellow Mounties joins in.
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Due South / int_8f9e2b4f	type	Elevator Conference
Due South / int_8f9e2b4f	comment	Elevator Conference: Done once in a while, except Fraser and Ray would use a nearby broom closet, occasionally leading to other people finding them there and being left to draw their own conclusions.
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Due South / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
Due South / int_90c018ac	comment	Many of the Chicago police officers and people from Fraser's neighborhood will also refer to Fraser in the third person as "The Mountie", though they also just often refer to him by name. Justified, as he really is one of only three or so mounties in Chicago at any given time.
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Due South / int_90f6d157	type	Confessional
Due South / int_90f6d157	comment	Confessional: Fraser, in "Victoria's Secret" Played for laughs by Francesca in The Deal, where she attempts to pre-emptively confess for a sin she plans to commit (seducing Fraser). The priest, exasperatedly, points out that she can't keep confessing for a sin she never actually commits. Inverted in the same episode when Fraser asks the priest what he thought of Don Zuko. His answer, as vague as it is, implies that he has gone to confessional himself for wishing harm upon Zuko.
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Due South / int_959cb9aa	type	One Degree of Separation
Due South / int_959cb9aa	comment	One Degree of Separation: Played with in that the Canadian characters (Fraser and Turnbull especially) seem to know almost every Canadian who pops up in an episode. Perhaps most especially in "Mountie on the Bounty".
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Due South / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Due South / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: from "All the Queen's Horses," Randall Bolt, the psychopathic White Supremacist terrorist who captures a whole train of Mounties in order to send it into another train full of radioactive fuel rods, who is willing to kill his men, including his girlfriend, all with a broad smile across his face
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Due South / int_9d6e002e	type	Whole Episode Flashback
Due South / int_9d6e002e	comment	Whole Episode Flashback: In an episode appropriately called "Flashback".
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Due South / int_9e869a0c	type	Un-Paused
Due South / int_9e869a0c	comment	Un-Paused: In the notorious train episode. An entire train car full of Mounties is gassed and pass out while singing early in the episode. Right before the climax, every single one of them wakes up simultaneously, at which point they resume singing the chorus.
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Due South / int_9f1b0b39	type	Counting Bullets
Due South / int_9f1b0b39	comment	Counting Bullets: Frasier does this once when facing off against an armed opponent. Thatcher, Kowalski and Welsh where apparently counting too but each gives conflicting numbers adding to the confusion.
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Due South / int_a0bb0b37	type	Knight Templar Big Brother
Due South / int_a0bb0b37	comment	Knight Templar Big Brother: One episode revolves around Fraser and Ray K solving a murder that may very well have been committed by Ray V. The reason they think Ray V might have done it? The dead guy is implied to have tried to rape Frannie.
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Due South / int_a3c6c2b7	type	"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner
Due South / int_a3c6c2b7	comment	"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: The plot that sets up the whole show.
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Due South / int_a3eea2ea	type	Cop Killer
Due South / int_a3eea2ea	comment	Cop Killer: The series begins with the murder of a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman in the wilderness of the Northwest Territories. The plot of the pilot episode centers around his son, Benton Fraser (also a Mountie) , teaming up with a Chicago detective to track down the killer after he crosses the border into the United States. It turns out the killer was hired by another Mountie, a close friend of the Frasers, no less.
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Due South / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
Due South / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: In "Chicago Holiday", with copious lampshading. Another, less heavily lampshaded reference is provided in "An Invitation To Romance.
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Due South / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Due South / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Victoria is a borderline case. On the one hand she escaped scot-free after framing Ray and Fraser for murder and theft and putting Fraser's life in danger in order to launder some of the money to get diamonds, and Fraser still tried to go with her, on the other she's now a wanted criminal for the same murder and theft, she lost all of the money and got none of the diamonds, and Fraser didn't go with her (admittedly because Ray accidentally shot him).
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Due South / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Due South / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Almost everyone believes Fraser's putting on an act by being such a stereotypical Mountie in order to con people, because no one is really that honest, polite and noble. And sometimes, very rarely (see "Bird in the Hand," "Odds"), he actually does let the mask slip.
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Due South / int_a9f392fd	type	Pilot Movie
Due South / int_a9f392fd	comment	The Pilot Movie has Fraser pursuing the man who killed his father (with help from Ray Vecchio), and the series finale has Fraser pursuing the man who killed his mother (with help from Ray Kowalski)
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Due South / int_aa368af0	type	Two Scenes, One Dialogue
Due South / int_aa368af0	comment	Two Scenes, One Dialogue: In Red, White or Blue, Fraser and Ray each spill out their frustrations aloud in their separate homes, and their words form one dialogue. In Seeing is Believing Fraser's interviews of Inspector Thatcher, RayK and Welch blend smoothly from one to the next in midstream.
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Due South / int_ab1064b3	type	Modesty Towel
Due South / int_ab1064b3	comment	In Diefenbaker's Day Off, we see him taking a bath, and later he walks out of communal bathroom (with his neighbours waiting for their turn) wearing only his Stetson and a Modesty Towel around his waist.
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Due South / int_ad68d006	type	Elevator Snare
Due South / int_ad68d006	comment	Elevator Snare: In "Call of the Wild, Part 1", Fraser and Ray Kowalski are chasing a man who turns out to be Ray Vecchio, still undercover. The man then dodges into an elevator, Ray tosses Fraser his cell phone, and while Fraser races up the stairs, Ray calls from a payphone to tell him which floor the elevator stops on.
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Due South / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Due South / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Ray V and Sergent Buck Frobisher
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Due South / int_af696bef	type	Fish out of Water
Due South / int_af696bef	comment	Fish out of Water: Fraser had trouble adjusting to life in a bustling city after being a backwoods policeman. It is pointed out in the pilot that Fraser had trouble adjusting to life in a small city the one time they assigned him to work in one. If anything, he seems to adapt better to a big city for some reason. Inversely, neither of the Rays seem to do so hot themselves when they end up in the Canadian wilderness. It gets worse if you know more about mounties, all members of the RCMP are allowed to carry guns in the states Why does Fraser only have Canadian currency on him, even if he only gets paid in Canadian money for some reason he could get it converted when he cashes his pay check at the bank. Also becomes funny when you realize mounties (and other Canadian law enforcement) are paid almost twice what American cops make but Fraser keeps borrowing money from Ray. Well, yes. Fraser's paid in Canadian, and Chicago people generally don't accept Canadian money. Still leaves the problem of converting it to US dollars, though. This may have to do with the fact that it is a lot easier to pay for stuff with American money in Canada than the reverse, but Canadians will still expect to be able to use their own currency in the US
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Due South / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
Due South / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: "You see, no one knew that I had found her. The police didn't even know her name. I could just let her go and she could walk away that night."
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Due South / int_affdffd9	type	Stupid Good
Due South / int_affdffd9	comment	Stupid Good: Against all reason, usually averted by Fraser. He is evidently a spectacular judge of character with some highly noteworthy exceptions. In the pilot episode, he loans a large sum of money to a complete stranger with a likely story, only to have him approach him days or weeks later to pay him back. This is mostly guided by Rule of Funny, as it serves to annoy the unholy hell out of RayV for the sheer unlikeliness of it.
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Due South / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Due South / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Quite a long one, too. Starting in season three, whenever someone asks Fraser what he's doing in America (see Once an Episode), he usually responds: Often as not, somebody else gives this or some variation as an explanation. "This is Fraser, he first came to Chicago on the trail of the killers of his father, etc." Also "Oh dear", whenever anything is about to go wrong, and "thank you kindly". Subverted when, in one episode, Fraser complains about the supposed Mountie Motto "We always get our man" - it's actually "Maintiens le droit"note Defending The Law, although Fraser states it as Defend The Right, regardless of what everyone, including his dead father, seems to think.
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Due South / int_b1f4c5bb	type	Enhance Button
Due South / int_b1f4c5bb	comment	Enhance Button: Averted in "The Blue Line." Vecchio asks a technician to enlarge a frame from a video tape so he can identify a face in a crowd. The technician says it would be pointless because the resolution is too low. Fraser points out that they don't need to identify the man by his face; they just need his seat number, since the suspect almost certainly holds a season ticket. They figure out the seat number by counting rows and seats, rather than 'enhancing'.
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Due South / int_b2176eb6	type	Now or Never Kiss
Due South / int_b2176eb6	comment	Now or Never Kiss: in "All the Queen's Horses"
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Due South / int_b2727706	type	Narrowed It Down to the Guy I Recognize
Due South / int_b2727706	comment	Narrowed It Down to the Guy I Recognize: Actually discussed by Vecchio in "They Eat Horses Don't They" when talking about one of the suspects, who he insists looks like an actor who is always cast as the villain in TV shows. Fraser is somewhat annoyed when this works.invoked
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Due South / int_b52a20be	type	Take Five
Due South / int_b52a20be	comment	Take Five: When Vecchio wants to talk with Zuko in private after Zuko had Constable Fraser beaten to a pulp, Zuko tells his men to go get him and Ray some coffee. Ray proceeds to beat Zuko senseless.
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Due South / int_b5785433	type	ColdOpen
Due South / int_b5785433	comment	In the Cold Open of "A Likely Story", Fraser and Ray seem to be out camping in the woods; it's quickly revealed that they're actually in a city park in the middle of Chicago.
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Due South / int_b6b1d9fe	type	Hero Ball
Due South / int_b6b1d9fe	comment	Hero Ball: It's the Mountie national sport.
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Due South / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Due South / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue, ranging from the sensible to the hysterical (Frannie's "virgin" pregnancy and Turnbull's political career - which came to an abrupt end when he was accidentally run over by his own campaign bus)
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Due South / int_b96fdd94	type	Extra-Long Episode
Due South / int_b96fdd94	comment	Extra-Long Episode: "Chicago Holiday" on its first run.
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Due South / int_ba112560	type	Throwing the Fight
Due South / int_ba112560	comment	Throwing the Fight: "The Blue Line" revolves around the question of whether a big-time hockey player took money to throw an important game.
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Due South / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
Due South / int_ba236071	comment	In another episode, he gets himself interred in a mental hospital (to help break Ray out) by showing up in his RCMP uniform and telling them the unaltered truth of how he ended up in Chicago.
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Due South / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
Due South / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: Frank Zuko pretends to be one, claiming that everything he does is in service to his neighborhood, as opposed to his extortion business
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Due South / int_bc103f8b	type	Subverted
Due South / int_bc103f8b	comment	Subverted when, in one episode, Fraser complains about the supposed Mountie Motto "We always get our man" - it's actually "Maintiens le droit"note Defending The Law, although Fraser states it as Defend The Right, regardless of what everyone, including his dead father, seems to think.
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Due South / int_bcb313b3	type	UnCancelled
Due South / int_bcb313b3	comment	Un-Cancelled: Twice, believe it or not. CBS canceled it after its first season, un-canceled it when CBS's next season lineup bombed, and then canceled it again after its second season. In both cases, the show's producers (Canadian company Alliance) saved it thanks to international funding, because of its success in Canada and elsewhere (hence financing from The BBC and Germany's Pro Sieben).
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Due South / int_bd79d896	type	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
Due South / int_bd79d896	comment	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: Fraser once talks Ray V into ticketing a guy who had parked in the fire lane. A little later they find out that the trunk of the illegally parked vehicle is full of guns. On at least two occasions Fraser brings in a guy on a charge that while technically true, is a mild description of the actual crime (a man who was dynamite fishing for 'fishing over the limit (by 4 tons)', and a man who was illegally dumping hazardous waste for 'littering').
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Due South / int_c16b3149	type	Going by the Matchbook
Due South / int_c16b3149	comment	Going by the Matchbook - A variation in Chicago Holiday, averting the typical Clingy Macguffin quality of plot-important matchbooks.
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Due South / int_c2676b00	type	Jurisdiction Friction
Due South / int_c2676b00	comment	Jurisdiction Friction: Though maybe because the two Feds sent were incompetent jerkasses
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Due South / int_c271fe08	type	Machiavelli Was Wrong
Due South / int_c271fe08	comment	Machiavelli Was Wrong: The Deal, After Zuko gives his Breaking Speech to Fraser about how people respect him, Fraser points out that there is a difference between being respected and being feared. That is to say, fear can be overcome. By the end of the episode, after Ray Vecchio beats Zuko senseless in his own gym, Zuko suddenly finds that he is no longer respected or feared. This has consequences in the next season of the show.
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Due South / int_c614edde	type	Another Story for Another Time
Due South / int_c614edde	comment	Another Story for Another Time: Fraser's "But that's not important, what is important..."
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Due South / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Due South / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The oft-repeated line, "that's not important right now."
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Due South / int_c93ae7fc	type	High-Dive Escape
Due South / int_c93ae7fc	comment	High-Dive Escape: Fraser does one of these on “Mountie on the Bounty” to escape a ship.
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Due South / int_cf23bb98	type	Strange Cop in a Strange Land
Due South / int_cf23bb98	comment	Strange Cop in a Strange Land: The premise of the show: A Canadian Mountie working in the city of Chicago.
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Due South / int_cf4fa6b9	type	Lonely Bachelor Pad
Due South / int_cf4fa6b9	comment	Lonely Bachelor Pad: Lampshaded repeatedly. Constable Fraser's apartment is not only in a run-down apartment building in a bad neighborhood (Detective Vecchio claims that drug dealers are afraid to go there), but it is also very sparsely furnished. In one episode, where Fraser is suffering from Easy Amnesia, he sees his apartment and wonders if he was living like that as punishment for something he had done.
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Due South / int_d1a6c9d7	type	British Royal Guards
Due South / int_d1a6c9d7	comment	British Royal Guards: Constable Benton Fraser would mimic these guards' "statuesque" reputation whenever he stood on guard duty at the Canadian Consulate, as did his junior, Constable Renfield Turnbull in Season 3. Once in season two, when Fraser was stuck in a (metaphoric) well, he sent his half-wolf/half-dog Diefenbaker to get help; Dief patiently waited in front of one unnamed Mountie until his tour was up, at which point he finally barked the news about Fraser to him and said Mountie was able to respond.
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Due South / int_d2579e9c	type	Career-Revealing Trait
Due South / int_d2579e9c	comment	Career-Revealing Trait: In one episode, Benton is able to tell that the woman he's having dinner with is not a nurse as she claims to be, as the way she sits at the table implies she spends a lot of time at a computer or typewriter, making it more likely that she is a journalist.
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Due South / int_d429d0f6	type	Canada, Eh?
Due South / int_d429d0f6	comment	Canada, Eh?/Eagleland: The series is a commentary on, and gentle ribbing of, Canadian AND American approaches to policing and life.
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Due South / int_d45bdfee	type	Locked in a Freezer
Due South / int_d45bdfee	comment	Locked in a Freezer: "They Eat Horses, Don't They?" In a variation, We are the Eggmen, Fraser and Inspector Thatcher get locked in an incubator.
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Due South / int_d49f90ea	type	Western Terrorists
Due South / int_d49f90ea	comment	Western Terrorists: in "All the Queen's Horses," a train carrying a whole bunch of mounties is captured by a White Supremacist group. Randall Bolt, the leader, later returns to cause chaos at his trial
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Due South / int_d54b9eb3	type	Inter-Service Rivalry
Due South / int_d54b9eb3	comment	Interservice Rivalry: The 27th Precinct quickly came to appreciate the frequent presence of Canada's Deputy Liasion Officer but they never worked well with the FBI, and there were problems among the Secret Service, Chicago police and Mexican officials in The Edge.
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Due South / int_d64f16b2	type	One of Our Own
Due South / int_d64f16b2	comment	Oneof Our Own: In Eclipse, Dead Guy Running, Victoria's Secret and Heaven and Earth.
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Due South / int_d679279c	type	Only Barely Renewed
Due South / int_d679279c	comment	Only Barely Renewed: After season one.
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Due South / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Due South / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Although they did refer to him by name a few times in The Deal, more often than not, Joey Paducci is referred to as "The Shoemaker". Many of the Chicago police officers and people from Fraser's neighborhood will also refer to Fraser in the third person as "The Mountie", though they also just often refer to him by name. Justified, as he really is one of only three or so mounties in Chicago at any given time.
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Due South / int_d8085f48	type	Hollywood Voodoo
Due South / int_d8085f48	comment	Hollywood Voodoo: in "Mojo Rising," although they seem to have done their homework fairly well.
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Due South / int_da2f3716	type	Intimate Healing
Due South / int_da2f3716	comment	Intimate Healing: Fraser tells a story (twice) about how he found Victoria freezing to death on a mountain, and shared body heat with her so that they could both survive.
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Due South / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
Due South / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Fraser is "Benny" to Ray V.
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Due South / int_de306ba6	type	Worst Aid
Due South / int_de306ba6	comment	Worst Aid: A man is hit by a car and Fraser carries him to the hospital, hoisted over his shoulders. Maybe they don't have ambulances in Canada?
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Due South / int_e0dc6390	type	Go Among Mad People
Due South / int_e0dc6390	comment	Go Among Mad People: "Hawk and a Handsaw"
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Due South / int_e12c0ab2	type	"Rear Window" Homage
Due South / int_e12c0ab2	comment	"Rear Window" Homage: Fraser witnesses a crime through his hospital window in one episode, then starts spying on the suspects with the help of a physical therapist who even kind of looks like Grace Kelly.
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Due South / int_e1fa8421	type	Dead Person Conversation
Due South / int_e1fa8421	comment	Dead Person Conversation: With Fraser Sr., very frequently. Ray V also spoke occasionally with the ghost of his own father, though their relationship was much more antagonistic than the Frasers'.
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Due South / int_e303d198	type	Whole-Plot Reference
Due South / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: "Chicago Holiday" was an affectionate remake of the Audrey Hepburn classic Roman Holiday. Much of "Letting Go" is a homage to Rear Window
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Due South / int_e33e4e8	type	That Was the Last Entry
Due South / int_e33e4e8	comment	That Was the Last Entry: Fraser reads his late father's journals occasionally throughout the series, and in "Easy Money" he tells a friend, "There's a short entry in one of my father's journals that reads 'My adversaries appear ready to listen. I'm nearing victory.' And that entry was written the day before he was shot." In "Mountie On the Bounty", Fraser told Ray K about the freight vessel Robert McKenzie, which was destroyed in a storm with loss of all hands. According to Fraser (and echoed in the song "Robert McKenzie" that plays throughout the story) the captain's last transmission was simply "Thirty-two men down."
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Due South / int_e3d06d0c	type	Bash Brothers
Due South / int_e3d06d0c	comment	Bash Brothers: In the series finale Detectives Ray Vecchio and Ray Kowalski partner up with each other briefly.
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Due South / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Due South / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Both Fraser and Dief. As the saying goes, they always get their man. On at least one occasion, Fraser has worried that Dief will literally run his paws off rather than give up pursuit.
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Due South / int_e6ab61d	type	Magic Realism
Due South / int_e6ab61d	comment	Magic Realism: Throughout (see Spirit Advisor), but also in such episodes as "Heaven and Earth", where a homeless man's clairvoyant powers appear to be genuine.
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Due South / int_e7b0229a	type	Laser-Guided Amnesia
Due South / int_e7b0229a	comment	Laser-Guided Amnesia: In the episode "Flashback", Fraser loses his memory. He can't remember who he is, his personal history, or his manners. When Ray tells Fraser about himself, Fraser thinks he sounds like a moron. Funny Moments: Fraser confronted with the unfurnished apartment in which he and his half-wolf sleep on the floor: "Why do I live like this? Am I being punished?"
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Due South / int_e9414ca3	type	Sled Dogs Through the Snow
Due South / int_e9414ca3	comment	Sled Dogs Through the Snow: In the pilot episode, the snowmobiles the modern RCMP use are all frozen up, so Fraser -to the incredulity of his coworkers- pursues a criminal through a blizzard by dog sled as part of his Establishing Character Moment as a heroic "traditional" Mountie. Yes, he gets his man.
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Due South / int_e95acf73	type	Wooden Ships and Iron Men
Due South / int_e95acf73	comment	Wooden Ships and Iron Men: Invoked and quoted verbatim in “Mountie on the Bounty”.
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Due South / int_ea1c4fb2	type	Ditch the Bodyguards
Due South / int_ea1c4fb2	comment	Ditch the Bodyguards: The plot of Chicago Holiday.
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Due South / int_ea2ae106	type	Windmill Crusader
Due South / int_ea2ae106	comment	In "Mountie on the Bounty", it is explained that Sergeant Sam Thorn was assigned to train cadets on the shores of the Great Lakes because she is "BTC - big time crazy" and fell out with RCMP brass. More specifically, she believes the RCMP should be a major naval power, partially to defend against a possible US invasion.
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Due South / int_eae41a	type	The Vamp
Due South / int_eae41a	comment	The Vamp: Victoria Metcalf was this to Fraser.
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Due South / int_eb5b71fe	type	Clingy Jealous Girl
Due South / int_eb5b71fe	comment	Clingy Jealous Girl: Ray V's sister, Francesca ("Frannie") Vecchio, pursued Fraser aggressively—at one point even telling people that they had slept together. (In case simple common sense isn't enough to convince you that they hadn't, Word of God has confirmed it.) Inspector Thatcher, though less clingy and more jealous; Francesca never got upset with Fraser for bringing strange women home or working with exotic dancers. Ray Kowalski is a male version of this during the finale, when he's so jealous of Fraser's friendship with Ray V.
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Due South / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
Due South / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: Frank Zuko, who manages to be an extortionist mafia don Smug Snake who cheats at basketball who has the gall to act like a Knight Templar. And the two FBI agents.
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Due South / int_f05444a4	type	Once per Episode
Due South / int_f05444a4	comment	Once per Episode: Defenestration (someone/something going through a window), particularly in the first two seasons, and also Fraser's CatchPhrases, especially the longer one in latter seasons (see above).
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Due South / int_f19b8b46	type	The Coroner
Due South / int_f19b8b46	comment	The Coroner: Mort.
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Due South / int_f19e8a55	type	Bad "Bad Acting"
Due South / int_f19e8a55	comment	Bad "Bad Acting": Fraser and Ray K., when they realize Ray's apartment has been bugged.
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Due South / int_f237981e	type	The Alleged Car
Due South / int_f237981e	comment	The Alleged Car: In "The Wild Bunch," the motor-pool car Ray Vecchio is driving due to destroying his beloved Riv in the previous episode.
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Due South / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Due South / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute (Ray is replaced for the final two seasons, for valid in-show reasons. Fraser spends most of the first episode trying to prove that the person who is manifestly not Ray is indeed not Ray while all the other characters pretend not to notice.)
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Due South / int_f645ee0d	type	Never Win the Lottery
Due South / int_f645ee0d	comment	Never Win the Lottery: in "We Are The Eggmen".
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Due South / int_f7eda5d8	type	Snow Means Love
Due South / int_f7eda5d8	comment	Snow Means Love: Near the end of the first season, Fraser and Victoria's relationship is repeatedly symbolized by metaphorical falling snow. Somewhat subversive in that this relationship isn't especially healthy - the snow could as much symbolize Victoria's lies & deception as love.
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Due South / int_f7fd8809	type	I See Them, Too
Due South / int_f7fd8809	comment	I See Them, Too: Whenever anyone other than Fraser sees his father.
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Due South / int_fb6b207f	type	You Killed My Father
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