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Red Riding

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Red Riding	label	Red Riding
Red Riding	page	RedRiding
Red Riding	comment	A series of three TV movies based on David Peace's four Red Riding novels. The three specials take place over three years - 1974, 1980, and 1983 - in Yorkshire, and deal with a series of murders mirroring the Real Life Yorkshire Ripper killings. With an ensemble cast of British actors, Red Riding is a dark and engrossing (and disgusting) trilogy. The first film sees Intrepid Reporter Eddie Dunford of the Yorkshire Post investigate a child's murder which may or may not be connected with Corrupt Corporate Executive John Dawson's plan to build a shopping centre over the place that the body was found in. The second and third deal with the Yorkshire Ripper and Wearside Jack cases.
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Red Riding / int_1b5fa24a	type	The Brute
Red Riding / int_1b5fa24a	comment	The Brute: Bob Craven is known for beating people up. He does so to Eddie Dunforth in 1974 and he's by far the only example.
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Red Riding / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Red Riding / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Detective Sergeant (later Detective Superintendent) Bob Craven and Police Constable Tommy Douglas throughout 1974 (though their names are only revealed in 1980, where the same principle applies).
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Red Riding / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Red Riding / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Both Eddie and Peter, who think this is a story where the Intrepid Reporter and the By-the-Book Cop, respectively, beat the system in the end. It's not.
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Red Riding / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Red Riding / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: George Oldman and Bill Molloy; in the novels, Oldman was a minor character in the West Yorkshire Constabulary who did not show any apparent signs of corruption, but in the TV films, he is completely replaced by Bill Molloy - the ringleader of the corrupt cops and orchestrator of the novels' equivalent of the Karachi Club shootings - has in the novels. Also—though it's rather ambiguous—DS Bob Fraser, who in the novels was, while not the most morally sound of men, not part of the WYC crime ring, seems in the 1974 film—mainly due to Adaptation Explanation Extrication—to be a part of it in the TV films.
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Red Riding / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Red Riding / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Anywhere in the North before about 1990 is generally portrayed as exaggeratedly crappy and this is no exception. Systematic child sexual abuse is to be expected, the Yorkshire Ripper is out killing women, and other predators are making it look like the Ripper killed their victims.
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Red Riding / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
Red Riding / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: 'Scoop,' Jack Whitehead's mocking nickname for Eddie.
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Red Riding / int_39ed1c8a	type	Conspiracy Theorist
Red Riding / int_39ed1c8a	comment	Conspiracy Theorist: Barry Gannon. He's also right about everything, which may have been because B.J. was in love with him and feeding him information.
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Red Riding / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Red Riding / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Detective Inspector Maurice Jobson was party to the conspiracy from 1974 onwards, but he tries to atone in 1983.
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Red Riding / int_5037b961	type	Et Tu, Brute?
Red Riding / int_5037b961	comment	Et Tu, Brute?: How Peter Hunter meets his death at the hands of his number two, John Nolan.
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Red Riding / int_545f8c91	type	Abortion Fallout Drama
Red Riding / int_545f8c91	comment	Abortion Fallout Drama: Helen aborts her pregnancy, conceived out of an affair with her boss Hunter. She becomes close with Laws as a result.
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Red Riding / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
Red Riding / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: Helen in 1977 is the only significant female character, with the others only having small roles (such as Hunter's wife).
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Red Riding / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
Red Riding / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: Considering that the novels are even darker than these films, and it's also a trilogy that was slimmed down from four books, a lot is removed. Far fewer members of the conspiracy are seen, Jack Whitehead's whole storyline (which was the entire other book) is cut out save for a couple of scenes in each film,
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Red Riding / int_6357d489	type	Relationship Compression
Red Riding / int_6357d489	comment	Relationship Compression: Eddie Dunford develops a much closer and more nuanced relationship with DS Bob Fraser in the Nineteen Seventy-Four novel.
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Red Riding / int_64713b04	type	Pedophile Priest
Red Riding / int_64713b04	comment	Pedophile Priest: Reverend Martin Laws habitually preys on children.
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Red Riding / int_6486a1a9	type	Shoot the Dangerous Minion
Red Riding / int_6486a1a9	comment	Shoot the Dangerous Minion: When Dawson's "private weakness" becomes a liability, the cops facilitate Eddie's killing of him. Bob Craven ends up meeting a similar fate in 1983, when the cops kill him and frame Peter Hunter (who they have killed as well) for the crime.
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Red Riding / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Red Riding / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Eddie Dunford, but only after being viciously physically and psychologically tortured multiple times into near-insanity and imprisoned in a literal hole in the ground, after which he kills serial child killer John Dawson and then commits suicide.
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Red Riding / int_6e1e6488	type	Moving-Away Ending
Red Riding / int_6e1e6488	comment	Moving-Away Ending: The series ends with B.J. leaving the North to become "the one who got away" rather than risk being killed by the conspiracy.
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Red Riding / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Red Riding / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: The major focus of the middle episode, 1980, is on the Yorkshire Ripper, a real life serial killer.
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Red Riding / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
Red Riding / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: Eddie Dunford goes out this way, but not before taking John Dawson with him.
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Red Riding / int_738d1a0f	type	Because You Were Nice to Me
Red Riding / int_738d1a0f	comment	Because You Were Nice to Me: B.J. admits that he loved Barry 'because he was kind.'
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Red Riding / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
Red Riding / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: Two corrupt cops corner Eddie after he visits Dawson's ill wife in hospital, drag him out to his car and slam the door on his wrist, breaking it, with a few truncheon taps to the eyeball for good measure.
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Red Riding / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
Red Riding / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: B.J.
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Red Riding / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Red Riding / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: 1974 starts out with Eddie Dunford badly beat up, sitting in a booth at a pub. The rest of the episode shows what happened to get him that way.
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Red Riding / int_8cb4ea46	type	By-the-Book Cop
Red Riding / int_8cb4ea46	comment	Deconstructed by Assistant Chief Constable Peter Hunt in "1980". Brought in as a "squeaky clean" outsider in response to public backlash to the West Yorkshire Police's failure to catch the Ripper. Hunt is a genuinely honest, warm but authoritative man with a strong sense of justice, who quickly discovers evidence of a conspiracy involving corporate corruption, child abuse, and murder, which the local police are heavily complicit (if not active members) in. But his underestimation of the scale of the corruption and utter belief in good triumphing over evil spell his doom. He ends up finding all the evidence he needs to expose the conspiracy, but is murdered by DCS John Nolan, the man he believed he was his closest ally, having never suspected he was also corrupt.
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Red Riding / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Red Riding / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Pedophile and child murderer John Dawson at the end of 1974. Torturer and Corrupt Cop Bob Craven at the end of 1980. Arguably the equally corrupt Tommy Douglas as well, though Douglas attempted to atone before his death. The injuries that Craven and Douglas suffered at the hands of Eddie Dunford at the Karachi Club at the end of 1974 could qualify them as this as well. Pedophile, child rapist, and at least attempted murderer (with a power drill, no less) Reverend Laws at the end of 1983.
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Red Riding / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Red Riding / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Reverend Martin Laws and John Dawson. Both may act charming and are ostensibly pillars of the community; Laws comforts Helen and Dawson is able to talk the community into letting him have his shopping mall. Behind all of that, though, Laws is a pedophile who takes sadistic pleasure in hurting children, even sweet-talking B.J. into kneeling down for him so that he can drill a hole in his skull. Dawson is a serial killer and child rapist.
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Red Riding / int_99b2613a	type	Oop North
Red Riding / int_99b2613a	comment	Oop North: The series is set in the three districts, or 'ridings', of Yorkshire.
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Red Riding / int_9c5e78d0	type	Kill the Cutie
Red Riding / int_9c5e78d0	comment	Kill the Cutie: Surprisingly subverted: Young male prostitute B.J. is "the one that got away."
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Red Riding / int_a621882	type	The Bad Guys Are Cops
Red Riding / int_a621882	comment	The Bad Guys Are Cops: Although they're not only cops, the police are heavily involved in the conspiracy of child abuse and murder, both doing it and covering it up.
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Red Riding / int_a8357dc2	type	No Woman's Land
Red Riding / int_a8357dc2	comment	No Woman's Land: The only even somewhat significant characters are the wives and/or sex workers. The most important female character in 1974 is Paula (who disappears, presumably murdered) and John Dawson's wife Marjory, who has been locked up in a Bedlam House before being murdered.
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Red Riding / int_ae087674	type	I Can Still Fight!
Red Riding / int_ae087674	comment	I Can Still Fight!: Although when the characters can still fight, it ultimately doesn't get them anywhere.
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Red Riding / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Red Riding / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Several characters make reference to "the North, where we do what we want."
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Red Riding / int_bdc94cd9	type	Compressed Adaptation
Red Riding / int_bdc94cd9	comment	Compressed Adaptation: Based on David Peace's Red Riding Quartet; only three of the four original novels—Nineteen Seventy-Four, Nineteen Eighty, and Nineteen Eighty-Three—were adapted for this series, while Peace's second novel, Nineteen Seventy-Seven, is left out almost completely. Plot elements of Nineteen Seventy-Seven were put into the 1980 adaptation, and the introduction of Reverend Martin Laws is moved to the 1974 adaptation, but otherwise the novel itself receives no adaptation.
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Red Riding / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Red Riding / int_beb9a361	comment	Detective Inspector (later Chief Superintendent) Maurice Jacobs is a downplayed version particularly in "1983" (which says a lot about just how bad the other officers are). Whilst heavily complicit in the corruption, and party to several brutal acts of murder and torture himself, unlike all the other officers its made clear that he only joined due to knowing that if he didn't Bill Molloy would have murdered him, with it being clear the guilt of his actions is weighing heavily upon him and revealing he did try to assist Eddie Dunford and Hunt in their efforts to expose the corruption, only to be stampeded each time by his fear of reprisal. Finally making a stand in the climax he saves BJ from the ringleader of the conspiracy, Reverend Martin Laws, putting an end to the evil man, then assists John Piggot in saving Laws' final living victim.
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Red Riding / int_c6c5ce4	type	Bedlam House
Red Riding / int_c6c5ce4	comment	Bedlam House: Attley Nursing Home, where Marjorie Dawson is being held to prevent her telling the truth about her husband's "indiscretions".
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Red Riding / int_cd70c3dc	type	CorruptCop
Red Riding / int_cd70c3dc	comment	Torturer and Corrupt Cop Bob Craven at the end of 1980. Arguably the equally corrupt Tommy Douglas as well, though Douglas attempted to atone before his death. The injuries that Craven and Douglas suffered at the hands of Eddie Dunford at the Karachi Club at the end of 1974 could qualify them as this as well.
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Red Riding / int_d0c30f35	type	Did I Mention It's Christmas?
Red Riding / int_d0c30f35	comment	Did I Mention It's Christmas?: Both 1974 and 1980 take place before Christmas, but otherwise, the holiday isn't important to the plot, except maybe as an ironic counterpoint to what's going on.
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Red Riding / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Red Riding / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Jack Whitehead. Eddie suspects Whitehead of working with the West Yorkshire Police and changing the Clare Kemplay story to fit their needs; in reality it is The Yorkshire Post's editor, Bill Hadley.
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Red Riding / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
Red Riding / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: PC Tommy Douglas (Bob Douglas in the novels), DCS John Nolan (John Noble in the novels), and Bill Hadley (Bill Hadden in the novels), to name a few.
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Red Riding / int_dcdde3b	type	Inherent in the System
Red Riding / int_dcdde3b	comment	Inherent in the System: The Yorkshire Post and West Yorkshire Police are populated by sexual predators and murderers.
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Red Riding / int_e3048d1b	type	Amateur Sleuth
Red Riding / int_e3048d1b	comment	Amateur Sleuth: Eddie Dunford is this in 1974 as he investigates the circumstances behind Roma camp burnings and, as a result, the child murders that have been occurring.
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Red Riding / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Red Riding / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: The TV character John Dawson is a conflation of several different characters from the books, some of whom are hostile to each other and the majority of whom do not die.
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Red Riding / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
Red Riding / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: Nearly every character in the West Yorkshire Police with the notable exception of Maurice Jobson. Sgt. Bob Fraser's moral alignment is left ambiguous.
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