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The Closer

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The Closer	label	The Closer
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The Closer	comment	The Closer (2005—2012) was a crime drama on TNT starring Kyra Sedgwick in an Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning performance as Brenda Leigh Johnson, deputy chief of the Atlanta Police Department (and former CIA agent), who transfers to Los Angeles. She leads a special LAPD unit that solves high-profile murder cases, with her supervisor being an ex-lover of hers.Largely self-contained with several character-driven story arcs (most notably, dealing with Brenda's romance and marriage to an FBI agent, among others), the series began with and maintained considerable popularity and helped TNT, after several high profile failures, successfully launch its own programming block of shows on the network.The series aired every summer beginning in 2005. The last season aired in 2012, giving the show a seven-year run. It was followed by Major Crimes, starring Mary McDonnell as Sharon Raydor. Most of The Closer's main cast returned for Major Crimes, which took over its parent show's 9 pm timeslot.This series has a character sheet.Not to be confused with the 2004 film Closer.
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The Closer / int_10a6623b	type	Fair Cop
The Closer / int_10a6623b	comment	Fair Cop: The show stars, among others, Kyra Sedgwick and Mary McDonnell. This trope, of course, is in play.
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The Closer / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
The Closer / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: "Tapped Out" features the murder of a parody of VH-1's Mystery, from The Pickup Artist. However, instead of being a guy in odd clothes who's good at chatting up women, "Intrigue" is actively a dick, taping his sex with the women he picks up, showing his "students" how to make a clean getaway, and showing the videotape to the woman later. He is an exaggeration of every negative image of a Pickup Artist, ever. The idea, presumably, is to make him so over the top even actual Pickup Artists hate him. The preteen singer and her fame-hungry father in "Star Turn" are likely based on Miley "Hannah Montana" Cyrus and Billy Ray Cyrus. Seemed more like a female Justin Bieber (with the singing career starting on YouTube) crossed with the "Balloon Boy" hoax.
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The Closer / int_1434e55c	type	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
The Closer / int_1434e55c	comment	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Johnson's. Let's just say "Culture Clash" and leave it at that.
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The Closer / int_14c791fb	type	Conflicting Loyalty
The Closer / int_14c791fb	comment	Conflicting Loyalty: The entire squad is torn between Taylor and Johnson during Season One. Poor Gabriel tends to be the lightning rod for this particular clash, however. Johnson even sympathetically acknowledges this in a season one episode where he was especially torn. Naturally, all their loyalties eventually switch to Brenda.
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The Closer / int_170128e9	type	Right Behind Me
The Closer / int_170128e9	comment	Right Behind Me: "Standards and Practices" opens with Provenza at a crime scene imitating Brenda giving instructions to the team. Then Brenda arrives and adds that those are all great ideas and everybody should get on them. Happens to Provenza again in "To Serve With Love". He's called the squad to the crime scene and is adamant that "the Chief does not need to know about this." Fritz arrives and finds him seconds later.
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The Closer / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
The Closer / int_1777688d	comment	In another episode, a cooler containing a body is left in a storage facility for five years. The owner of the facility has no idea what's in it but nevertheless thinks there's something not quite right about someone abandoning a cooler sealed with duct tape, and tries unsuccessfully to get the LAPD to take a look at it. Finally, he has enough and mails the box to the Major Crimes Division. The squad does the same thing to catch the killer.
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The Closer / int_1868c8db	type	Spousal Privilege
The Closer / int_1868c8db	comment	Spousal Privilege: Appears on several occasions; see the trope page for details.
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The Closer / int_186c2c62	type	Diet Episode
The Closer / int_186c2c62	comment	Diet Episode: In "Blue Bloods", Brenda starts a diet that prohibits sugar and processed foods. Needless to say, it doesn't last very long.
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The Closer / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Closer / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: One episode was about a dead hooker inside a dead cop's casket. The funeral director gets interrogated and claims he is "The Closer", meaning the last guy to shut the casket before it's sent to the wake.
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The Closer / int_18e11001	type	Victim of the Week
The Closer / int_18e11001	comment	Pope gives one to a Victim of the Week's abusive husband after he's been cleared.
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The Closer / int_1ba34641	type	The Glomp
The Closer / int_1ba34641	comment	The Glomp: When Johnson becomes worked up, stressed out, upset, or emotional—in other words, Once an Episode—she has a tendency to fly at the nearest character for a cooldown hug or in extreme cases Cry into Chest. Her common targets are Fritz or Pope, but she's occasionally targeted others. On one or two hilarious occasions, a deeply uncomfortable Gabriel finds himself awkwardly patting his boss on the back.
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The Closer / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
The Closer / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Flynn and Provenza. If you think procedural cop dramas are immune to the Police Are Useless trope, just watch any episode where they get A Day in the Limelight.
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The Closer / int_1f0f3d6f	type	Cute Kitten
The Closer / int_1f0f3d6f	comment	Cute Kitten: After Brenda's cat dies, her husband gets a new kitten, Joel. Joel's presence provides much needed "cute relief" from the horrific events of the episode's murder case. There's also the episode where Brenda and Fritz decide to stay in Mexico for a vacation after closing a case there. Brenda gets Sgt. Gabriel to look after a litter of kittens at her house. Getting a bunch of kittens to behave the way he wants goes about as well as you'd expect.
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The Closer / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Closer / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: Pope starts being this when Brenda competes with him for the Chief position. He eventually relents when she gets to the next step of the process... and he doesn't. Raydor, as Internal Affairs, falls directly into this. (Her debut episode is even called "Red Tape".) Almost every FBI agent who isn't Fritz seems to be some combination of this and Police Are Useless.
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The Closer / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
The Closer / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Knight in Sour Armor: Sharon Raydor, pre-Major Crimes. Provenza too.
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The Closer / int_225d4412	type	PlayedStraight
The Closer / int_225d4412	comment	Played Straight with Dennis Dutton, who appears for two episodes before being completely forgotten. To wit, he first appears as a suspect in "The Butler Did It" for killing both his step-mother and later the family's butler before being cleared. He then returns in Season 2's "Aftertaste", where again he is a suspect in a murder before, again, being cleared; both times it's brought up that he was suspected of murdering his ex-girlfriend and escaped prosecution note It's implied and more or less confirmed he did kill her. He's also implied to be much smarter than anyone gives him credit for and shows an interest in Brenda, hinting that they would clash again and Brenda would nail him finally. He never appears again.
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The Closer / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Closer / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: At least half the episodes have some seemingly irrelevant detail that ends up becoming the final lynchpin Brenda needs to close a case...
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The Closer / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
The Closer / int_234fa9ba	comment	Mayâ€“December Romance: The much-married Provenza heads in that direction during Season 5. It doesn't end too well. But on the plus side, as Flynn puts it, at least the relationship ended before Provenza got married again. He finally broke the cycle.
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The Closer / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
The Closer / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: Brenda's pursuit of a rapist who used his power as an attorney to stay out of jail was seemingly dropped after a few episodes. Subverted when he's mentioned in Peter Goldman's list of cases where Brenda has allegedly violated suspects' civil rights at the end of the Season 7 summer finale before eventually being brought back toward the end of the series. He finally gets caught (and shot) in the finale, albeit non-fatally. A running subplot through Major Crimes is the preparations for his trial and he proves to be a recurring threat until that series' finale where he's finally put down for good. Played Straight with Dennis Dutton, who appears for two episodes before being completely forgotten. To wit, he first appears as a suspect in "The Butler Did It" for killing both his step-mother and later the family's butler before being cleared. He then returns in Season 2's "Aftertaste", where again he is a suspect in a murder before, again, being cleared; both times it's brought up that he was suspected of murdering his ex-girlfriend and escaped prosecution note It's implied and more or less confirmed he did kill her. He's also implied to be much smarter than anyone gives him credit for and shows an interest in Brenda, hinting that they would clash again and Brenda would nail him finally. He never appears again.
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The Closer / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
The Closer / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: When she's flustered or upset, Brenda will often repeat the operative word of her sentence three, three, three times. Willie Rae does it too.
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The Closer / int_26e2cc1	type	The Schlub Pub Seduction Deduction
The Closer / int_26e2cc1	comment	The Schlub Pub Seduction Deduction: Provenza and Flynn really should have figured this out a lot sooner in "Layover".
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The Closer / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
The Closer / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: In the episode, "Mom Duty," Brenda's mother comes over to visit the station while they're discussing a case. After being grossed out by the case in question, she leaves the room, taking pictures of the rest of the station. The flash from her camera is visible and frequent. In another episode, when they receive a suspicious package, Provenza rouses himself from his Crossword Puzzle long enough to call the bomb squad. As the bomb squad sniffs around the box, you can see Provenza in the background still casually working away at his crossword puzzle! "Relative Matters" has Brenda confessing to Chief Pope that her father has cancer. She wasn't sure if she could work the case and talked about how her father's sick and has massive mood swings and that she has to be there for him at home. While she was talking, Chief Pope saw her parents entering the Murder Room and handing out presents and smiling. In "Junk in the Trunk", while Provenza is on the phone trying to convince Johnson that she didn't just hear Sanchez at the crime scene when he's supposed to be on desk duty, the car with the body breaks free and rolls down the hill behind him with the rest of the squad chasing after it.
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The Closer / int_26fa627a	type	Elephant in the Living Room
The Closer / int_26fa627a	comment	Elephant in the Living Room: Brenda and Fritz never directly discuss whether or not they want kids, picking their way circumspectly around the subject while house-hunting.
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The Closer / int_2765af58	type	Language Fluency Denial
The Closer / int_2765af58	comment	Language Fluency Denial: In "Junk in the Trunk", a person of interest claimed that she didn't speak English, so Brenda had Buzz question her in Spanish. It turned out that she spoke perfect English but barely spoke Spanish!
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The Closer / int_2d409194	type	Unsettling Gender-Reveal
The Closer / int_2d409194	comment	Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Done in the pilot. The victim, a fugitive, had gotten plastic surgery and was living as a man. When the woman they were having a non-physical affair with found out, she snapped and killed them. Poor, poor Sanchez. Provenza has this happen as well, when his former partner George Georgette shows up.
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The Closer / int_2f106c00	type	SomebodyElsesProblem
The Closer / int_2f106c00	comment	Somebody Else's Problem: Pope is incredulous that Provenza and Flynn are invoking this in "Tapped Out", as they're having breakfast while police cars are rolling up to a crime scene across the street. Flynn points out that they're in Central Bureau's Area of Responsibility, and that if they're needed, Central will call Major Crimes and they'll go over.
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The Closer / int_3064b642	type	Bathroom Break-Out
The Closer / int_3064b642	comment	Bathroom Breakout: Happens to Provenza and Flynn in "Layover", when they allow two stewardesses they are arresting to use the bathroom before taking them down to the station. To add insult to injury, the stewardesses then steal Provenza's car.
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The Closer / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Closer / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Murder the friendly old neighborhood shopkeeper and his grandson, and the local gang will kill you. Brenda exploits this to do an indirect Vigilante Execution on the murderer, who had been given immunity in the case in exchange for his testimony. That's not the whole story. The shopkeeper and his shop were under the gang's protection. Turell, the gang member who killed the shopkeeper, placed the blame on Reggie, a fellow gang member who went into the shop as Turell left. Turell subsequently gave Reggie's name to the police. Reggie tried to kill Turell in an act of revenge. The rest of the gang didn't get involved until Turell sold Reggie out in return for immunity. Reggie subsequently called the others and filled them on Turell's numerous betrayals.
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The Closer / int_327bebcc	type	Season Fluidity
The Closer / int_327bebcc	comment	Season Fluidity: Surprisingly low for a crime drama, especially with regard to Johnson's personal life (usually the B plot of each episode). Each season also has its own theme that even carries over into the cases: a woman in a man's world, partnerships, family, power, change, attraction, and love and loss.
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The Closer / int_34e7d601	type	Sleuth Dates Cop
The Closer / int_34e7d601	comment	Sleuth Dates Cop: Brenda's boyfriend-turned-husband Fritz is an FBI agent. Brenda belongs to the LAPD, but she has often found it useful to have an inside source in the FBI who can get information or do things that the LAPD cannot. He will sometimes offer to help, but there have been times when the FBI and the LAPD both had mutually exclusive interests in the same suspect (for example, a suspected murderer may be a mid-level member of a crime syndicate, and the FBI may consider his usefulness as a snitch above the interests of the LAPD). In these cases, Brenda will do something underhanded, in essence tricking the FBI, and, more personally, Fritz. Fritz will often take this very hard, and will call Brenda out, often gaining the sympathies of the audience (Brenda will often take an "ends justify the means" defense with Fritz when he reacts this way).
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The Closer / int_35499a79	type	Title-Only Opening
The Closer / int_35499a79	comment	Title-Only Opening
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The Closer / int_35ae6a23	type	Lethal Chef
The Closer / int_35ae6a23	comment	Lethal Chef: Claire's all-vegan selection, judging by Fritz and Brenda's reactions.
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The Closer / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
The Closer / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Very rarely, but this has happened to Kyra Sedgwick on occasion.
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The Closer / int_380faa43	type	Your Tomcat Is Pregnant
The Closer / int_380faa43	comment	Your Tomcat Is Pregnant: Played absolutely straight. Brenda adopts a stray she calls 'Kitty' whom she assumes is male. Up until 'he' gives birth. She persists in using male pronouns to refer to Kitty for the rest of the series, much to Fritz's annoyance.
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The Closer / int_3929e0db	type	You Need to Get Laid
The Closer / int_3929e0db	comment	You Need to Get Laid: Another character advances this opinion, about Brenda, to Fritz (unaware of the latter's relationship to the former). Fritz's utterly deadpan response is to opine that he doesn't really think that's the problem.
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The Closer / int_3d7ff013	type	How Dare You Die on Me!
The Closer / int_3d7ff013	comment	How Dare You Die on Me!: Johnson to Sanchez in a mid-season cliffhanger. He was wounded taking bullets for Provenza, and there wasn't much notion that he wasn't going to survive.
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The Closer / int_3ed17fe0	type	Wide-Eyed Idealist
The Closer / int_3ed17fe0	comment	Buzz is an inquisitive, Wide-Eyed Idealist, while his TV weather girl sister Casey is a world-weary cynic.
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The Closer / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
The Closer / int_3ed23024	comment	Ultimately deconstructed since as of the seventh season (especially the finale) all of Brenda's enormous law mistakes come back to bite her.
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The Closer / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
The Closer / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: Brenda was a master of this, usually dramatic (questioning a horrible killer) but also for laughs (see anytime Provenza and Flynn pull a screw-up).
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The Closer / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
The Closer / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Brenda may detest Captain Sharon Raydor, but even she thoroughly, if grudgingly, respects Raydor's investigative skills. See also Enemy Mine.
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The Closer / int_48309ad4	type	Screaming Woman
The Closer / int_48309ad4	comment	Screaming Woman: Marie Morgan, the love interest of the victim in "Tapped Out", kept on screaming so loudly that Flynn and Provenza had to wear ear plugs part of the time.
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The Closer / int_4968ed35	type	Door-Closes Ending
The Closer / int_4968ed35	comment	Door-Closes Ending: The last we see of Brenda in the Grand Finale is her eating one of her long-missed chocolate cakes as the elevator doors close.
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The Closer / int_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
The Closer / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: Brenda's questioning of a suspect rattles him to the point of mentioning a detail of the murder he shouldn't have known in "A Family Affair". Also happens in "Problem Child". The police never established a time of death... Raydor tells Pope and Taylor she received a job offer and is considering retiring, knowing that would get back to Priority Homicide. When the lawyer who apparently has inside information on the unit, Goldman, mentions it, she tells him there was no offer and he's just confirmed he has a source inside the department leaking information to him.
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The Closer / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
The Closer / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: Flynn is attacked in a parking lot, and stabs the guy with a windshield wiper.
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The Closer / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Closer / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: So many perps. Tend to be people with power (or who are adjacent to power), younger people who think their age will protect them from serious consequences, or people who simply don't think Brenda and her crew have the goods to put them away.
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The Closer / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Closer / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: In the pilot, all the members of the newly-formed Priority Homicide squad turn in requests to be transferred to other departments because of their overly demanding new boss. Chief Johnson demonstrates her displeasure by dropping each form one by one into a trash can while giving each of her subordinates an assignment. In the last episode of the first season, when an anonymous complaint puts Johnson's job at risk, an almost identical scene occurs, but with the team's letters of resignation, effective immediately upon Johnson's termination, being discarded instead. Also happens in season 3. The opening credits of the season premiere are interspersed with crime scene footage from Buzz's new camera. The same technique is used later, in part one of the next-to-last episode. Used for the series itself. We are introduced to Brenda Leigh Johnson standing over a dead body, holding a mask to her face and saying sarcastically, "It looks like love." As television says goodbye to Brenda Leigh seven years later, she ends the series finale holding a new handbag full of her favorite snack as a gift from her team. Tears in her eyes, she says with utter sincerity, "It looks like love." End show. Cue blubbering.
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The Closer / int_535865be	type	I Resemble That Remark!
The Closer / int_535865be	comment	I Resemble That Remark!: In "Elysian Fields", Provenza complains when Detective Olin is brought in to advise on a case.
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The Closer / int_54bb502b	type	Nobody Poops
The Closer / int_54bb502b	comment	Nobody Poops: Averted in the side story of an episode where Brenda constantly fought with Fritz over their clogged toilet. She wanted him to fix it, he wanted to call the landlord. The only problem was they had a cat (forbidden in their lease) and Brenda thought it was much easier for him to fix than to hide the cat for a day. The funniest part of the whole situation came when Brenda asked why he wasn't as fed up as she was about waiting until they left the house to go. When Fritz replied "I took a shower this morning," Brenda's horror was priceless.
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The Closer / int_55fa41e2	type	NietzscheWannabe
The Closer / int_55fa41e2	comment	Nietzsche Wannabe: The "EE" kids in "Time Bomb". Natural Selection does not work that way!
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The Closer / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
The Closer / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Brenda and Capt. Sharon Raydor. They loathe working together, but they just happen to be nearly unstoppable when they team up. Which completely baffles them both. In one memorable scene, Goldman pretty much declares war on the LAPD. Taylor, Pope, Raydor, and Johnson remind him about the "Blue Wall" and stand shoulder to shoulder against him.
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The Closer / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Closer / int_59907e4f	comment	Almost every FBI agent who isn't Fritz seems to be some combination of this and Police Are Useless.
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The Closer / int_5ece868a	type	Consulting a Convicted Killer
The Closer / int_5ece868a	comment	Consulting a Convicted Killer: Brenda ends up having to do this with Bill Croelick in the Season 4 premiere.
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The Closer / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
The Closer / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: Four months pass between "Overkill" and "Serving the King."
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The Closer / int_607d4ada	type	Run for the Border
The Closer / int_607d4ada	comment	Run for the Border: In "Good Housekeeping", the murderer of an illegal immigrant's daughter flees to Mexico to escape prosecution. Brenda waives extradition in exchange for his confession. Turns out Brenda's investigation revealed that the victim had been born on the Mexican side of the border, so the Mexican police have grounds to nail the culprit for murdering one of their citizens. And Mexican jails are much worse than American, especially for a pretty-boy white American. Prisoners in general don't like people who hurt kids, and rapists are only slightly better off than pedophiles. Brenda doesn't tell him the girl was Mexican until he's finished, and there are two Mexican cops in the room. He desperately tries to get her to take him back, but it's too late.
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The Closer / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Closer / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Captain Taylor starts out as a stereotypical sleazy, underhanded cop looking to climb the ladder, especially unhappy about Brenda essentially taking over his division. Through Character Development and mutual respect, he eventually becomes supportive of Brenda's position, even if he'll still point out her failings, and by Major Crimes has taken strong steps towards becoming a Reasonable Authority Figure.
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The Closer / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
The Closer / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Johnson is extremely successful at work, but her personal life...
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The Closer / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
The Closer / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: The gambit of "Detective" Richard Tracy in "Tapped Out".
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The Closer / int_639aa0cd	type	Did You Just Have Sex?
The Closer / int_639aa0cd	comment	Did You Just Have Sex?: Brenda becomes... very cheerful after rampant sex.
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The Closer / int_664bc28f	type	British Brevity
The Closer / int_664bc28f	comment	British Brevity: While obviously not British, each season consists of only 15 episodes. note Except for the final season, which had a more standard-length 21. This can be attributed to it being a summer show produced by TNT.
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The Closer / int_678a72a9	type	And a Diet Coke
The Closer / int_678a72a9	comment	And a Diet Coke: An obese victim in the episode "Junk in The Trunk" had a last meal that consists of four triple burgers with extra cheese, six orders of fries, and a diet Coke.
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The Closer / int_680c8fd	type	Outranking Your Job
The Closer / int_680c8fd	comment	Outranking Your Job: The Major Crimes Division consists of three Lieutenants (Flynn, Provenza & Tao), two Detectives (Sanchez and Daniels, who later transfers out) and one Sergeant (Gabriel, who later adds "Detective" to his rank), with a Deputy Chief (Johnson) in charge. Ordinarily a police unit will be headed by a Lieutenant or Captain, with the rest of the squad being no higher ranked than Sergeant. Justified, as the point of the unit is to assemble a team of top investigators. A conversation between Taylor and Gabriel acknowledges this, as Taylor explains that in any other squad, "Sergeant" would be a supervisory position. Lampshaded in the series premiere of Major Crimes, when Provenza has been given command of the squad... for all of a week until Captain Raydor transfers in.
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The Closer / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Closer / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Goldman, the lawyer prosecuting Brenda for every shady call she's made over the course of the series. She, well, actually did everything he's accusing her of. Similarly, Ricardo Ramos, a reporter who accused them of focusing on media-attracting/"important" people's deaths—which was, y'know, kind of true. Were both men dicks? Yeah. They also happen to be right. In "The Big Picture," Brenda accuses Taylor's men of doing a shoddy job investigating a murder, because they considered the victim "just some Russian hooker." Taylor points out that he didn't hear her clamoring to have the case named a "priority homicide" until it turned out the victim had well-connected politicians for clients, and asks if that was because she thought the victim was just some Russian hooker. Brenda doesn't dispute it. Captain Raydor may be (by her own admission, no less!) a total bitch, but the work she does is necessary.
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The Closer / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Closer / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: An ultra-ironic one: Dr. Crippen.
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The Closer / int_6e2163a3	type	Crossword Puzzle
The Closer / int_6e2163a3	comment	In another episode, when they receive a suspicious package, Provenza rouses himself from his Crossword Puzzle long enough to call the bomb squad. As the bomb squad sniffs around the box, you can see Provenza in the background still casually working away at his crossword puzzle!
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The Closer / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
The Closer / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: Season 3's "Next of Kin", Season 6's "Living Proof", and Season 7's "You Have The Right to Remain Jolly".
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The Closer / int_71598ac8	type	Internal Affairs
The Closer / int_71598ac8	comment	Raydor, as Internal Affairs, falls directly into this. (Her debut episode is even called "Red Tape".)
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The Closer / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Closer / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Don't try to run out of police headquarters, especially when Gabriel and/or Sanchez is around. You will not make it. Especially since Priority Homicide specifically is located somewhere on the middle floors of a high-rise. Additionally, as we learned in "Overkill", if you pull a gun in the murder room, you're going to die.
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The Closer / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
The Closer / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: Mentioned several times as being the case in the intelligence world when Brenda is enlisted by the CIA to help them deal with a situation involving terrorists getting a hold of plutonium. Her former mentor expresses his feelings about being involved in a situation where this time was one of the few where it was a clear case of good guys versus bad guys and he was on the right side.
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The Closer / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
The Closer / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: As far as regards to Brenda. Characters who are helping her will wear colors that match or complement her clothes. A prime example is in season one, where she and Captain Taylor collaborate on an operation after several episodes of rivalry. There is a shot of hem walking in beautiful matching blue. Also especially prominent in Season 7's "Silent Partner". Brenda wears a blue blazer with a dark purple scarf while Sharon Raydor, who has increasingly had Brenda's back in Season 7, wears a lavender blazer with a blue shirt.
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The Closer / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
The Closer / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: Sgt. Gabriel gets an admission out of a child molester by giving him a black eye. To cover it up, Taylor arranges for the suspect to be sent to central booking, and lets slip he's a child molester. The resulting beatdown is significantly worse than a black eye.
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The Closer / int_746569a5	type	Embarrassing Cover-Up
The Closer / int_746569a5	comment	Embarrassing Cover Up: A version where Provenza takes one for the team and only embarrasses himself, in "Off the Hook". He's trying to conceal that he's talking to Brenda on the phone:
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The Closer / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
The Closer / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Detective Garth disappears from the squad without explanation during Season 1. Actually disappeared after the pilot episode. The actor playing him probably found other work between filming this pilot and TNT's purchase of the show. Detective Daniels, who gets promoted out of the squad after season four.
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The Closer / int_758c3034	type	Prison Rape
The Closer / int_758c3034	comment	Prison Rape : Is mentioned as a sort of karmic justice for a rapist, who was the son of an L.A. County Sheriff Commander.
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The Closer / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
The Closer / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: So gloriously averted. Fritz and Brenda's relationship begins with liking each other and enjoying each others' company. It's a shocking concept for television, no? Played straight with Gabriel and Daniels, however.
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The Closer / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
The Closer / int_762b9223	comment	"Time Bomb" opens with a crime scene sweep that turns into a bomb search that's Played for Laughs. It ends with a shootout on the roof of a mall and Sanchez being seriously wounded.
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The Closer / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
The Closer / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: Kitty's death. First, one of the two cats playing Kitty died; then, the second one also became terminally ill, prompting the storyline. Priority Homicide's transfer to the Counter Terrorism Bureau in Season 3, although played as a bureaucratic paper shuffle by Sgt. Gabriel, mirrors the real life transfer of Major Crimes to be under the Counter Terrorism and Special Operations Bureau. Also, Major Crimes' move to the new LAPD HQ, which happened in the same year the LAPD moved out of Parker Center. Season 3, which aired in the summer and fall of 2007, ends with Brenda and Fritz moving out of Brenda's bungalow. Season 4 begins with them in a rental... because of the 2008 housing market crash.
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The Closer / int_79a0e313	type	Bolivian Army Ending
The Closer / int_79a0e313	comment	Bolivian Army Ending: The end of "War Zone," with the suspect facing the Bolivian Army of his neighborhood.
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The Closer / int_80d55f20	type	Cuteness Proximity
The Closer / int_80d55f20	comment	Cuteness Proximity: Combined with Cute Kitten. One Season 6 episode had Major Crimes working from Brenda's dining room, since Pope had taken over their office for a major operation. Brenda had to shoo Joel, the kitten, away before they could get any work done, since he was such a cute distraction.
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The Closer / int_819b6384	type	Sympathetic Murderer
The Closer / int_819b6384	comment	Sympathetic Murderer: Carmen, a girl who shot a 12-year old wannabe gang banger, who was guarding her for the gang members who'd gang-raped her for several days. Nobody in Major Crimes is very keen on charging her for murder.
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The Closer / int_829b958e	type	Embarrassing First Name
The Closer / int_829b958e	comment	Embarrassing First Name: Lt. Provenza's first name is "Lieutenant" to you. It's Louis ("Louie"), but as that can also be short for Lieutenant, we still might not be sure. When being served with a subpoena, his name is officially confirmed to be Louie M. Provenza. Buzz's real first name turns out to be Francis.
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The Closer / int_8391b1c7	type	Artistic License â€“ Law
The Closer / int_8391b1c7	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law: Brenda's interrogations often may violate the Sixth Amendment right to counsel. Once a suspect asks for a lawyer, the interrogation must stop unless the suspect initiates further conversation. Otherwise the entire interrogation may be tossed. Exaggerated in "Cherry Bomb" where Brenda acts as a minor suspect's lawyer in a date rape case to get him to rat on his buddy (who committed the rape and whose father is an L.A. County Sheriff's Commander) and uses his statement to locate another victim who is willing to testify. Whether "Fruit of the Poisonous Tree" was violated is questionable, since Brenda didn't use the suspect's statement against him or the rapist, but impersonating an attorney is still a felony; doing so by a law enforcement officer is official misconduct and could have gotten the case thrown out but no one calls her out on this. Played with in "Identity Theft". Brenda gets the confession, but Deputy District Attorney Hobbs panics because the suspect wasn't read their rights. Taylor and Provenza correctly point out that Brenda never actually asked a question, using only statements and a mockup of the crime scene to get the confession. Ultimately deconstructed since as of the seventh season (especially the finale) all of Brenda's enormous law mistakes come back to bite her.
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The Closer / int_853e45d1	type	Mistaken for Pregnant
The Closer / int_853e45d1	comment	Mistaken for Pregnant: One time when Brenda's parents are visiting, her (more than usual) random emotions lead Willie Ray to think Brenda's pregnant. Brenda quickly corrects her, informing her mother that she's actually going through early-onset menopause.
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The Closer / int_85537320	type	Police Procedural
The Closer / int_85537320	comment	Police Procedural
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The Closer / int_87ab7f69	type	Sharp-Dressed Man
The Closer / int_87ab7f69	comment	Sharp-Dressed Man: Gabriel, to the point where Buzz's visiting sister knows who he is because of this. Flynn has excellent taste in suits, if the $500 jacket he's wearing in "To Serve with Love" is any indication. Provenza, in Season 5 (for romantic purposes). Flynn is horrified.
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The Closer / int_8928fe5f	type	Dead Man's Chest
The Closer / int_8928fe5f	comment	Dead Man's Chest: In one episode, a morbidly obese man is stuffed in the trunk of his own car for several days. The decomposition and the sheer size of his body makes it impossible to get him out of there in one piece. In another episode, a cooler containing a body is left in a storage facility for five years. The owner of the facility has no idea what's in it but nevertheless thinks there's something not quite right about someone abandoning a cooler sealed with duct tape, and tries unsuccessfully to get the LAPD to take a look at it. Finally, he has enough and mails the box to the Major Crimes Division. The squad does the same thing to catch the killer.
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The Closer / int_8a1215e0	type	Bratty Teenage Daughter
The Closer / int_8a1215e0	comment	Bratty Teenage Niece: Brenda's niece, Charlie. Emphasis on "bratty".
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The Closer / int_8a164766	type	Never Got to Say Goodbye
The Closer / int_8a164766	comment	Never Got to Say Goodbye: Brenda puts off a heart-to-heart with her mother. Who then manages to die in the roughly ten hour span that Brenda put it off. Oops.
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The Closer / int_8aebd5bd	type	Throw 'Em to the Wolves
The Closer / int_8aebd5bd	comment	Throw 'Em to the Wolves: In "Good Housekeeping", spoiled rich youth Austin Philips flees south of the border to avoid prosecution for killing the daughter of a Mexican immigrant. Brenda knows she can't get him extradited, goes to Mexico to get the full story from him, and he refuses to come back to the US no matter what she tries. Brenda meets him in a Mexican police station and asks him for the story so she can close the case, and offers to drop the accessory charges against his parents. The killer tearfully confesses that he did it by "accident". Then Brenda hands the Mexican cops evidence the victim was actually born in Mexico, not America, which made her a Mexican citizen. As she leaves, Brenda points out that the Mexican justice is not going to go easy on a rich, arrogant gringo who killed (and possibly raped) a poor Mexican girl. The Mexican cops take Austin into custody despite his sudden pleas to go back to the US with Brenda.
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The Closer / int_8af7b342	type	Sibling Yin-Yang
The Closer / int_8af7b342	comment	Sibling Yin-Yang: "War Zone": Twin brothers. One is a dedicated soldier with a spotless record, the other a banger who killed a kind old man and a little boy over a six-pack of beer. Guess who's the victim of the week. Not that Brenda's unwilling to set it up so that Laser-Guided Karma will take care of him. There's also the calm, grounded, FBI Agent Fritz and his younger sister Claire, who is a vegan spiritualist who has been a soap maker, a glass blower, a yoga instructor, and then a psychic. Buzz is an inquisitive, Wide-Eyed Idealist, while his TV weather girl sister Casey is a world-weary cynic.
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The Closer / int_8b4f491c	comment	Villainy-Free Villain: It seems that we are supposed to cheer for Brenda when she gets one over on Captain Raydor, but the Captain is a professional, zealous, by-the-book investigator who is doing exactly what her job description says she is supposed to do, which is to investigate misconduct within the LAPD. Given Brenda's underhanded tactics, Raydor had good enough reason to track her every move. Later, she openly backs Brenda as a candidate for Chief of Police. And in Season 7, she is doing her best to stop investigating Brenda and her team, to the point of opening up the investigation by emphatically telling Brenda that she was being forced to investigate and, at numerous points in the investigation, trying to give strong hints to Brenda that she was being forced to continue the investigation against her will. Brenda is so insulted by the idea that she's being investigated at all that she just brushes Raydor off without thinking about the meaning of her words. By the mid-season finale this appears to have changed somewhat, as Raydor is the first person Brenda looks to after she is cleared. Raydor's face is wreathed in smiles, and Brenda nods her thanks to Raydor before the scene ends.
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The Closer / int_8c52888c	type	What a Drag
The Closer / int_8c52888c	comment	What a Drag: In "Elysian Fields", a suspected rapist and murderer is dragged behind a car by someone torturing to get him to reveal the location of the body of his victim.
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The Closer / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
The Closer / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: The wealthy parents of a perp in "Good Housekeeping" stand out. They helped their son flee to Mexico to avoid being tried as an adult for the rape and murder of a teenage girl because Mexico would refuse to extradite a minor who faces a life sentence. The father tries to use this as leverage to get his son a favorable deal. This rapidly turns into an Epic Fail because neither the father nor mother had considered that their actions — helping their son flee the country and interfering with the authorities — puts them in very serious legal trouble. Because the mother was using easily-traced bank accounts and checked into a luxury resort, the mother and son were easy to find. Their son also didn't realize that he did have the right to ask for consular assistance no matter what Brenda said. Nor did he realize that he was confessing to the rape and murder of a Mexican citizen in front of Mexican police officers, while ensuring that he'll not get extradited to the US. So, all three of them face prison with the son ending up far worse off had he simply stayed put and got a lawyer or simply kept his mouth shut.
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The Closer / int_8d463bfd	comment	Parenthetical Swearing: Brenda can make "Thank you so much" and "bless your heart" sound like insults. She's a woman from the Southern United States. "Bless your/his/her/their heart" is an insult. At best, it's an expression of pity for the terminally stupid. In one episode, a female suspect who happens to also be from the South explains that "Thank you (ever so much)" is basically used as a Precision F-Strike depending on who's saying it and who's on the receiving end. She and Brenda volley this at one another as she's being carted off to booking. Father Jack and Flynn both make "Bless you" sound like an insult, especially when saying it to each other.
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The Closer / int_8d4799d1	type	Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl
The Closer / int_8d4799d1	comment	Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Fritz Howard is the low-key point of stability for the very flighty and energetic Brenda.
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The Closer / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Seen in "Problem Child", among others. To be specific about the above, the victim in the episode was an adopted Russian 13-year-old sociopath in the making who terrorized everyone around him, including his sister, his only friend, and all of his neighbors, and got away with it since his adoptive parents refused to punish him due to his poor childhood in Russia, leaving Brenda with no shortage of suspects. He meets his end when his foster father, having overheard him plotting to rape and murder his sister and learned that he'd run over the neighbor's dog in cold blood, finally took matters into his own hands and beat the boy to death with a hammer. In "Tapped Out", the victim's total unlikability leads to a plea deal (Brenda says DDA Garnett couldn't get through three minutes of the victim's TV show) and avoids a trial — which would have exposed Pope, Provenza and Flynn getting fooled by and handing evidence to a police impersonator. The victims in "Heart Attack" were all gang members who raped a 12-year old girl. Their killer is a surgeon who kills them and steals their organs to perform transplants.
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The Closer / int_8f48d89	type	Lawman Gone Bad
The Closer / int_8f48d89	comment	Lawman Gone Bad: An Immigration, Customs & Enforcement agent in "Help Wanted", who made a habit of raping illegal immigrants and then deporting them so they couldn't press charges.
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The Closer / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Closer / int_90e31482	comment	"War Zone": Twin brothers. One is a dedicated soldier with a spotless record, the other a banger who killed a kind old man and a little boy over a six-pack of beer. Guess who's the victim of the week. Not that Brenda's unwilling to set it up so that Laser-Guided Karma will take care of him.
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The Closer / int_9182ea54	type	Crazy Cat Lady
The Closer / int_9182ea54	comment	Crazy Cat Lady: Brenda lives in fear of turning into one of these and, after her cat (who she thought was male) has kittens, she wonders how she became one of those single women with too many cats.
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The Closer / int_91df3195	type	Military Brat
The Closer / int_91df3195	comment	Military Brat: Johnson, the daughter of a Navy man. Causes an It's Personal moment when a group of soldiers are murdered.
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The Closer / int_9aef4f64	type	Propping Up Their Patsy
The Closer / int_9aef4f64	comment	Propping Up Their Patsy: Phillip Stroh uses his position as a defence attorney for accused sexual predators—including his own accomplices—to cover up his own crimes as a sexual predator himself.
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The Closer / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
The Closer / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Raydor in the Season 7 episode "Death Warrant," where she shocked Brenda's whole team by shooting a bad guy right between the eyes with a bean bag round.
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The Closer / int_9ce6492a	type	Taking the Bullet
The Closer / int_9ce6492a	comment	Taking the Bullet: Sanchez does this for Provenza in "Time Bomb."
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The Closer / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Closer / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The Major Crimes Unit's first meeting with Peter Goldman involves him serving everyone involved with Terrell Baylor's death with subpoenas on Baylor's family's behalf—everyone except Sgt. Gabriel—who does finally get served by the end of the episode. After several episodes of legal ramification hell for Brenda, The Mole who had been feeding Goldman information was revealed to be none other than Gabriel's girlfriend at the time and she was the reason Gabriel didn't get subpoenaed since she had fallen for him by then, and had begged Goldman not to.
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The Closer / int_9dd2cbc2	comment	Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Fritz's sister, Claire. Played by Amy Sedaris. Dr. Terrence also qualifies.
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The Closer / int_9f8fc4ba	type	AndZoidberg
The Closer / int_9f8fc4ba	comment	And Zoidberg: (Possibly) Inverted
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The Closer / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
The Closer / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: Priority Homicide are True Companions. This makes the murder of Det. Sanchez's brother personal for the entire squad. That said, Sanchez, naturally, takes it harder than anyone else. The Season 5 finale gives Captain Raydor massive amounts of this in the central case. In the Season 7 summer finale, Brenda asks the lawyer who's been hounding her if she personally offended him in some way. He says no; he simply thinks she is a menace, and he plans to end her, leaving her trembling.
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The Closer / int_a18042f1	comment	Left the Background Music On: The source of the music playing over the opening of "Standards and Practices" is revealed to be a CD player at the crime scene. In "Unknown Trouble", a rap song plays while the team investigates a crime scene. After Provenza complains, Tao finds the remote and turns off the TV that's playing the music. It happens again in the murder room later in the episode, with the video for the same song.
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The Closer / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
The Closer / int_a4be7043	comment	Da Chief: A rare example of this archetype as a primary character, in the case of Johnson. Pope is this to her.
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The Closer / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Closer / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: One episode starts with Flynn and Provenza talking on the phone, apparently setting up a comedic Breather Episode. Then Flynn witnesses a hit-and-run and talks to a young motorcyclist as she dies. There's a rare moment of utter familial peace and comfort between Fritz, Brenda, and her father at the breakfast table, with Clay finally feeling back to his old self after his cancer treatment. Brenda then goes to have a heart-to-heart with her mother and include her, only to discover that her mother died that night and start screaming for Fritz. Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap... "Time Bomb" opens with a crime scene sweep that turns into a bomb search that's Played for Laughs. It ends with a shootout on the roof of a mall and Sanchez being seriously wounded.
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The Closer / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
The Closer / int_a6123b72	comment	To be specific about the above, the victim in the episode was an adopted Russian 13-year-old sociopath in the making who terrorized everyone around him, including his sister, his only friend, and all of his neighbors, and got away with it since his adoptive parents refused to punish him due to his poor childhood in Russia, leaving Brenda with no shortage of suspects. He meets his end when his foster father, having overheard him plotting to rape and murder his sister and learned that he'd run over the neighbor's dog in cold blood, finally took matters into his own hands and beat the boy to death with a hammer.
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The Closer / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Closer / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Bill Croelick is a particularly odious example. He's a Sociopath with a Dark and Troubled Past who's sexually aroused by burning women to death, but gets off for a variety of reasons: first the only witness against him ODs, then in both the cases where he's a suspect, the real murderer turns out to be someone else. He's also a Manipulative Bastard who loves to harass Brenda and company while staying just within legal bounds. At least Brenda gets him to leave her jurisdiction and never return.
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The Closer / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
The Closer / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Brenda Leigh Johnson is a sweet, scatterbrained Southern eccentric — until her suspect slips up and gives her a piece of information she wants. At which point said suspect learns that Brenda Leigh Johnson is also a CIA-trained interrogator.
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The Closer / int_a8c9088d	type	Stereotype Reaction Gag
The Closer / int_a8c9088d	comment	Stereotype Reaction Gag: In "Culture Shock," Provenza asks Tao to talk to some onlookers who apparently know only Chinese. Tao proceeds to address them in English, then dryly points out to Provenza that he's fourth-generation American and doesn't know any Chinese. He does know Japanese, but only because his wife is Japanese. Performed again later, when Sanchez expects Tao to know about ninjas. Of course, being a nerd, he does know all about ninjas! Plus, as mentioned above, his wife is Japanese and share that knowledge/interest.
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The Closer / int_ad1ae986	type	Know Your Vines
The Closer / int_ad1ae986	comment	Know Your Vines: In "Lover's Leap", Brenda ignores Buzz's urgent attempts to tell her something while she is examining a crime scene. What he was trying to tell her was that she was standing in poison oak. This later becomes an important clue in revealing the killer.
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The Closer / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
The Closer / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: Season 5's "Elysian Fields" opens with Brenda having a nightmare about Philip Stroh breaking into her home. It happens in the Series Finale.
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The Closer / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
The Closer / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Johnson's distinctive "Thank yeeeww". The emphasis she puts on the "so" in "Thank you so much" is generally a clue as to how sincere she is about it. Also, "Uurrghh, that woman!" whenever she shares an episode with Raydor. "Oh, for heaven's sakes!"
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The Closer / int_b1f4c5bb	type	Enhance Button
The Closer / int_b1f4c5bb	comment	Enhance Button: Doubly subverted. When asked to "blow the picture up," Buzz just gives Chief Johnson a look. She corrects herself by asking him to make it bigger... only for the picture to come out perfectly anyway. Actually, Buzz's look when Brenda almost suggests he "blow it up" is because earlier in that same episode, Brenda's crime scene was blown up. This episode contained several explosive puns.
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The Closer / int_b25b4758	type	Collapsed Mid-Speech
The Closer / int_b25b4758	comment	Collapsed Mid-Speech: Chief Delk collapses during a speech at the end of "Unknown Trouble". In the next episode, we find out he died of an aneurysm.
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The Closer / int_b3f4b615	type	Raging Stiffie
The Closer / int_b3f4b615	comment	Raging Stiffie: In "Layover" Provenza had taken some Viagra before having 'fun' with a flight attendant before finding a dead body in the bathtub. He had to stay seated to hide his erection from Brenda and Tao.
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The Closer / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Closer / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Fritz is in AA. Disrespecting that, or trying to hand him "special" brownies, is liable to be hazardous to your health. (Keep in mind that he's an FBI agent. Literally offering drugs to one regardless of their past sobriety would make most people Too Dumb to Live.)
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The Closer / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
The Closer / int_b5b3599d	comment	In one memorable scene, Goldman pretty much declares war on the LAPD. Taylor, Pope, Raydor, and Johnson remind him about the "Blue Wall" and stand shoulder to shoulder against him.
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The Closer / int_b5fc9737	type	Tricked into Another Jurisdiction
The Closer / int_b5fc9737	comment	Tricked into Another Jurisdiction: An inverted version occurs in "Good Housekeeping", where a perp flees Brenda's jurisdiction but she tricks him into confessing to a crime he can be arrested for in the new jurisdiction. Spoiled rich youth Austin Philips flees south of the border to avoid prosecution for killing the daughter of a Mexican immigrant. Knowing she can't get him extradited, Brenda goes to Mexico to get the full story from him, and he refuses to come back to the US no matter what she tries. Brenda meets him in a Mexican police station and asks him for the story so she can close the case, and offers to drop the accessory charges against his parents. The killer tearfully confesses that he did it by "accident". Then Brenda hands the Mexican cops evidence the victim was actually born in Mexico, not America, which made her a Mexican citizen. The Mexican cops take Austin into custody despite his sudden pleas to go back to the US with Brenda.
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The Closer / int_bac9f95d	type	Sweet Tooth
The Closer / int_bac9f95d	comment	Sweet Tooth: Johnson's habit of stashing junk food and candy anywhere she can hide it, including her purse and desk drawers. TNT has caught on to this, and featured Product Placement for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups on the show.
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The Closer / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The Closer / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Brenda says this word for word in "Forgive Us of Our Trespasses", but it's an aversion, as she's being literal — she's trying to reassure the squad that the civil lawsuit the Baylor family has filed doesn't have anything to do with them.
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The Closer / int_bb53d08	type	Tear Jerker
The Closer / int_bb53d08	comment	Used for the series itself. We are introduced to Brenda Leigh Johnson standing over a dead body, holding a mask to her face and saying sarcastically, "It looks like love." As television says goodbye to Brenda Leigh seven years later, she ends the series finale holding a new handbag full of her favorite snack as a gift from her team. Tears in her eyes, she says with utter sincerity, "It looks like love." End show. Cue blubbering.
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The Closer / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
The Closer / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: Brenda, in spades, whenever suspects are shown to be beyond the reach of the law. "The Big Picture" has a serial rapist and murderer who is protected as an FBI informant against his father. Since she can't arrest him, Brenda just mentions his informant status in front of the family lawyer. The suspect is dead in the next scene. "Tijuana Brass" features a foreign police officer who ordered a jail hit on an innocent man. Brenda has the foreign cop sent to prison using the innocent man's name. The cop is murdered in jail. She does this frequently over the years, though less frequently than in some other shows. Unusually, it gets deconstructed in a major way: Every single case that she did something wildly illegal or resembling street justice over the course of the entire series comes back to bite her in the form of a massive federal class action lawsuit. Her job is threatened, the city may be out millions, she's running out of money, and her work is hampered by constant oversight.
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The Closer / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Closer / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: In the Season 6 summer finale, Brenda and her team corner an aspiring suicide bomber in the LAPD parking garage. He's carrying an oxygen tank filled with Sarin nerve gas, and when he gets shot, it rolls down a ramp and towards a concrete pillar... until Tao steps in and stops it with his foot. Cue realization of how close he is to death and "Holy CRAAAAAAAP!"
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The Closer / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Closer / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Sitting on Provenza's desk is a bad idea. Fritz is in AA. Disrespecting that, or trying to hand him "special" brownies, is liable to be hazardous to your health. (Keep in mind that he's an FBI agent. Literally offering drugs to one regardless of their past sobriety would make most people Too Dumb to Live.) See Sharon Raydor. See Sharon Raydor get played. See Sharon Raydor team up with Brenda Johnson and take the bitch down. See the birth of a dynamic duo that will one day undoubtedly rule the LAPD. Probably not wise to screw over Brenda. Her squad is... protective... of her. Crimes against children are a special kind of evil to Major Crimes, even though half of the team note Johnson, Gabriel, Sanchez, and Daniels don't have kids. Pope and Tao are the only ones with minor children (Provenza and Flynn have adult children, though Provenza also has grandkids.) Brenda's particularly sensitive to cases involving sexual assault or domestic abuse. And she has no patience for anyone who abuses the elderly or sick, as a crooked nursing home manager and a cancer drug salesman find out.
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The Closer / int_bcb452a9	type	Weirdness Magnet
The Closer / int_bcb452a9	comment	Weirdness Magnet: The fuel that powers every "Provenza and Flynn get into hijinks" episode: Season 2's "To Protect & Serve": Flynn's car dies on his way to pick up Provenza for a Dodgers game, and they find a dead woman in the latter's garage. Season 3's "Saving Face": Provenza and Flynn are pallbearers at a former colleague's funeral. The coffin breaks and his body falls out... along with a naked woman. Season 4's "Dial M For Provenza": Provenza's car, which contains all of the evidence in a murder-for-hire case, is stolen from a diner parking lot. Season 5's "Tapped Out": Pope, Provenza and Flynn take over a murder case in Central division, only to be fooled by a police impersonator. Season 6's "Layover": Returning to L.A. after escorting a prisoner from Dallas, Provenza and Flynn pick up two flight attendants and go home with them, and Provenza finds a dead man in their bathtub. Season 7's "To Serve With Love": Provenza and Flynn rope Buzz into driving them to a hotel on a side job to serve a summons, then the man they serve is shot dead and thrown out of his hotel room, landing on Buzz's car. And it wasn't even the guy they thought they were serving. Season 7's "Fool's Gold": Provenza, Flynn, and Provenza's first wife stumble into a robbery at a pawn shop while trying to get a wedding ring back. Before they even notice what's going on, the crooks get away with the gold and they find a dead man in the back of the store. (If you're counting, that's five occasions where Provenza and Flynn met outside of work, stumbled across a dead body, and failed to react properly.)
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The Closer / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Brenda and Fritz seem to be developing into this; a rare dramatic example. Not that they haven't had their ups and downs, but their relationship has been solid since season one. It is also most definitely of the passionate variety.
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The Closer / int_c1408ad1	type	Oppressive Immigration Enforcement
The Closer / int_c1408ad1	comment	Oppressive Immigration Enforcement: "Help Wanted" features Joe Myers a vicious, bigoted ICE agent who uses his much-abused son to find him nannies and babysitters who are undocumented immigrants. Myers then proceeds to torture and rape the poor women, silencing them with the threat of deportation. Panicking when he discovers his latest victim is in fact a legal immigrant, Myers beats her to death and then starts rounding up all his victims to kill or deport, to ensure the police don't link her death to him.
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The Closer / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
The Closer / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: Priority Homicide was originally called the Priority Murder Squad. The acronym went on their stationery. Brenda was not amused.
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The Closer / int_c2676b00	type	Jurisdiction Friction
The Closer / int_c2676b00	comment	Jurisdiction Friction: Happens at least Once a Season between Brenda/the LAPD and Fritz/the FBI. After they get married, Brenda and Fritz make a concerted effort to avoid this. It doesn't (and can't) last. Season 1 opens with this between Brenda and Capt. Taylor. And in Season 5's "Strike Three", Brenda and Captain Raydor butt heads over an investigation: the two officers killed in the line of duty are Brenda's investigation, but Captain Raydor's investigating the dead civilian killed at the crime scene, who may or may not have been a suspect or a victim.
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The Closer / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Priority Homicide. At first they're united in that they despise Brenda; by the end of season 1, they're united in that they'd put their jobs and lives on the line for her.
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The Closer / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
The Closer / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Fritz gives this to a corrupt ICE agent in "Help Wanted", while he's in a Mexican Standoff with Brenda and her division. The moment his gun points at Brenda, Fritz takes him down.
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The Closer / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Brenda and Captain Raydor. Though they work together much more peaceably by the middle of Season 7.
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The Closer / int_c3b51bb3	type	You Are Better Than You Think You Are
The Closer / int_c3b51bb3	comment	You Are Better Than You Think You Are: On her wedding day, Brenda was scared because while she loves Fritz with her whole heart, she feels that her heart is tiny. Fritz reassured her that she has a big enough heart for him, the job, and then some.
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The Closer / int_cda501da	type	Killed Off for Real
The Closer / int_cda501da	comment	Killed Off for Real: Brenda's mom, the first of the series.
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The Closer / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
The Closer / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Once an Episode
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The Closer / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Closer / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Johnson gets this treatment when she blackmails her niece Charlie into signing a sworn statement about Jake's ex-girlfriend getting pregnant with his child and her father's subsequent threat by threatening to send Charlie's parents a tape of Charlie describing in detail all the sexual high-jinks she got into with her ex-boyfriend. Sanchez gets this in Season 6 when the team finds out that his search for a child's missing, deported mother was actually him searching for babysitters and schools, and that he hadn't called anywhere in Mexico to even start looking for the mother. Johnson has a tendency to put closing the case before all else, sometimes including other people's investigations, even Fritz's. Notably, in "Live Wire", she scares the murderer out of taking a deal with the FBI so that he'll go to jail rather than get off on a lighter charge, despite this screwing up Fritz's case against a major drug cartel. This was after messing with Fritz's investigation through out the episode. He calls her out on it. Brenda also gets this... well, all the time when someone finds out that she was circumventing procedures and throwing pre-existing investigations off track, but especially throughout Season 7 when she is facing the repercussions of blatantly setting up an untouchable murderer to be executed by his own gang in Season 6. She herself kept giving one to Fritz about the FBI (and the LAPD, as he keeps insisting that she remember) doing something similar when they set a dangerous drug dealer on a rap star in order to get him to do something incriminating. And then she did the exact same thing, only it turns out that the FBI/LAPD's actions didn't cause the crime, but hers did result in three people being badly beaten in an incident that involved shots being fired. Though in all fairness, one of those was the criminal and she did get to arrest a bunch of criminals, including one that the FBI considered "untouchable." Another one occurs in the second season episode "Borderline". Brenda leaves the scene of a minor car accident (which occurred while she was on her cell phone) to get to a crime scene. She's then, to her annoyance, told to fill out an accident report and may lose her driving privileges. When the captain in charge of the Traffic division personally reminds her of the reports, she scornfully dismisses his "silly investigation". He quietly responds that car accidents cause as many deaths in L.A. as murders do, and the victims' survivors mourn them, and even build roadside shrines to them. There is nothing silly about his job. Not only is Brenda put in her place, but this provides her with a clue to her current case.
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The Closer / int_d78d5f96	type	Inconveniently Vanishing Exonerating Evidence
The Closer / int_d78d5f96	comment	Inconveniently Vanishing Exonerating Evidence: Gabriel returns fire on a fleeing murderer but the gun isn't found and it appears he's shot an unarmed man. Brenda realizes that the shooter, the man's partner in the original murder, had been standing right by him and disappeared in the darkness after Gabriel returned fire.
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The Closer / int_d820f28	type	Reaction Shot
The Closer / int_d820f28	comment	Reaction Shot: In the season 7 summer finale, "Fresh Pursuit", Brenda wins her case about the man she left to die. Then the lawyer shows up with several more of her case files, and tells her he's going to Federal Court, and plans to end her. After he leaves, there's a shot of Brenda trembling with rage, or fear, or both.
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The Closer / int_d839c530	type	The Unfettered
The Closer / int_d839c530	comment	Peter Goldman, who's already an unfettered jerk with a point when it comes to Brenda, crosses the line into this and Hypocrite territory when he pays off Ann Mason to become The Mole by getting close to Gabriel, who he said was a dirty cop.
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The Closer / int_da0eeab5	type	Breakout Character
The Closer / int_da0eeab5	comment	Breakout Character: Captain Sharon Raydor (Mary McDonnell) started out as a walk-on role in 2009. In 2012, Sharon Raydor took over as the head of the Major Case Squad when Sedgwick (and Brenda) left the show and The Closer became Major Crimes. Apparently Mary McDonnell is just that good.
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The Closer / int_da360137	type	Prone to Tears
The Closer / int_da360137	comment	Prone to Tears: Despite being a tough Action Girl, our heroine is always one blink away from tearing up.
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The Closer / int_dae7053d	type	Sexy Stewardess
The Closer / int_dae7053d	comment	Sexy Stewardess: Provenza and Flynn get taken for a ride by a pair of sexy flight attendants in "Layover".
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The Closer / int_db30c9d0	type	Deconstructed
The Closer / int_db30c9d0	comment	She does this frequently over the years, though less frequently than in some other shows. Unusually, it gets deconstructed in a major way: Every single case that she did something wildly illegal or resembling street justice over the course of the entire series comes back to bite her in the form of a massive federal class action lawsuit. Her job is threatened, the city may be out millions, she's running out of money, and her work is hampered by constant oversight.
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The Closer / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
The Closer / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: ...and about half of these have a person of interest or the lead suspects themselves revealing said detail under interrogation, Miranda warnings and the Fifth Amendment be damned.
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The Closer / int_de5e9f69	type	Bluffing the Murderer
The Closer / int_de5e9f69	comment	Bluffing the Murderer: Practically Once an Episode.
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The Closer / int_dee56696	type	Innocuously Important Episode
The Closer / int_dee56696	comment	Innocuously Important Episode: "War Zone" seems like another episode in which Brenda uses less-than-lawful tactics to make sure that a killer gets his Just Desserts. However, the events of that episode end up being the catalyst for the final season's story arc, in which all of Brenda's actions are finally exposed.
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The Closer / int_e135b3de	type	Pass the Popcorn
The Closer / int_e135b3de	comment	Pass the Popcorn: The squad considers Johnson's interrogations a spectator sport.
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The Closer / int_e1fa333c	type	Hannibal Lecture
The Closer / int_e1fa333c	comment	Hannibal Lecture: Averted in most cases. Johnson is Genre Savvy enough to not answer the bad guy's questions unless it is advantageous to her. Which is how it actually works in real life. Of course, from their perspective, she's the Hannibal.
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The Closer / int_e26465db	type	Backhanded Apology
The Closer / int_e26465db	comment	Backhanded Apology: Brenda turns this into a "The Reason You Suck" Speech towards the FBI, District Attorney's office, and Robbery-Homicide Division in the Season 1 finale. Pope gives one to a Victim of the Week's abusive husband after he's been cleared.
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The Closer / int_e288e579	type	Lying to the Perp
The Closer / int_e288e579	comment	Lying to the Perp: The Series Summed up in this little chat:
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The Closer / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
The Closer / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis / You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious / First-Name Basis: The evolution of the relationship between Brenda and her squad. Note that refers to what she calls them—she's always going to be Chief Johnson to them.
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The Closer / int_e4ba33fc	type	Disaster Dominoes
The Closer / int_e4ba33fc	comment	Disaster Dominoes: "In Junk in the Trunk", the car containing a decomposing body that could burst if not handled carefully breaks loose from the tow truck, rolls the hill, smashes (trunk first) into a power pole. And then a hot wire and transformer falls on it. And then the car catches fire.
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The Closer / int_e4c95972	type	Innocent Bigot
The Closer / int_e4c95972	comment	Innocent Bigot: Johnson's parents show the faintest, most innocent shades of this, with their gift of maracas to the (hispanic) Sanchez, and their implied denial of a son's homosexuality ("I don't understand why he spends so much time with that roommate of his!")
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The Closer / int_e70127	type	The Mole
The Closer / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: The leak in the department was Gabriel's girlfriend Ann. Goldman hired her to cozy up to Gabriel for inside information about the LAPD and Brenda's cases especially. Gabriel is legally cleared of wrongdoing, since everything he shared with Ann was said in confidence. He's still heavily scorned by members of the team for his accidental role in the leak.
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The Closer / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
The Closer / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Brenda does this several times, letting a perp know that if he gives her the information she needs, she and the LAPD won't have any further business with them. Every time she says this, she's telling the truth... because this is always followed by Fritz and the FBI moving in to make their own arrest.
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The Closer / int_eb48170d	type	Cramming the Coffin
The Closer / int_eb48170d	comment	Cramming the Coffin: In "Saving Face", the funeral of a former police colleague of Flynn and Provenza takes an unexpected turn when the casket is dropped, revealing not only their friend's body, but that of a nude, blonde woman.
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The Closer / int_ee7885fa	type	Southern-Fried Genius
The Closer / int_ee7885fa	comment	Southern-Fried Genius: Johnson is, well, a closer, phenomenally skilled at obtaining confessions.
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The Closer / int_eeaee38c	type	Geeky Turn-On
The Closer / int_eeaee38c	comment	Geeky Turn-On: Fritz's face has shown this more than once whenever Brenda does something particularly clever.
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The Closer / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
The Closer / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: In the most unexpected of places. Raydor's loyalty, over the course of three seasons, has come to rest wholly with a woman she once despised. Johnson is stunned when she realises it.
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The Closer / int_f19b8b46	type	The Coroner
The Closer / int_f19b8b46	comment	The Coroner: Dr. Crippen, followed by Dr. Morales.
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The Closer / int_f247d841	type	Intoxication Ensues
The Closer / int_f247d841	comment	Intoxication Ensues: Johnson delves into her niece's "special brownies" during Season 5. Fritz is not amused when he discovers this.
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The Closer / int_f466c9b1	type	Overly Long Scream
The Closer / int_f466c9b1	comment	Overly Long Scream: A 6-year-old girl did this in the police station to demonstrate what her parents told her to do if the recently murdered child molester living next door ever approached her. In Season 5's "Tapped Out", a grown woman does one of these when confronted with a dead body... and continues to do so throughout the investigation, to the point of it being a one-episode Running Gag.
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The Closer / int_f4b1129f	type	Anger Born of Worry
The Closer / int_f4b1129f	comment	Anger Born of Worry: In "Help Wanted", right after he kills a corrupt ICE agent who was in a standoff with (and about to shoot) Brenda, Fritz freaks out and yells at her to never do that again.
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The Closer / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
The Closer / int_f511ea9b	comment	TNT has caught on to this, and featured Product Placement for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups on the show.
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The Closer / int_f6370d13	type	Organ Theft
The Closer / int_f6370d13	comment	Organ Theft: The victims in "Heart Attack" are killed for their organs.
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The Closer / int_f6698528	type	Vigilante Execution
The Closer / int_f6698528	comment	Vigilante Execution: "Heroic Measures."
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The Closer / int_f85354eb	type	Attempted Rape
The Closer / int_f85354eb	comment	Attempted Rape: In Season 1's "Fantasy Date", Brenda goes alone at night to check something at a crime scene. She is attacked and nearly raped before she manages to draw her gun and force the would-be rapist to back off. Turns out he was responding to a sex ad and thought Brenda was playacting when she resisted.
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The Closer / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
The Closer / int_f9f2c33	comment	She persists in using male pronouns to refer to Kitty for the rest of the series, much to Fritz's annoyance.
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The Closer / int_fb4e0f18	type	Asian and Nerdy
The Closer / int_fb4e0f18	comment	Asian and Nerdy: Lt. Tao. Dear God, Lt. Tao. If he and Grant Imahara stepped into a room, that room would explode. Or turn into a giant robot. Whatever. And that's before we learned in Major Crimes that Tao attended med school for a while.
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The Closer / int_fdbd6162	type	With Friends Like These...
The Closer / int_fdbd6162	comment	With Friends Like These...: Flynn and Provenza, although it's usually Provenza instigating whatever goes wrong this time.
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The Closer / int_ff9e9dde	comment	Once a Season: Starting with Season 2, there will always be one comedic episode that starts with Flynn and Provenza getting in trouble and the team investigating whatever situation the two find themselves in.
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The Closer	hasFeature	Da Chief / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Dead Man's Chest / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Dead Person Impersonation / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Definite Article Title / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Detective Mole / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Did You Just Have Sex? / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Disguised in Drag / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Don't Answer That / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Door-Closes Ending / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Eagle-Eye Detection / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Embarrassing Cover-Up / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Embarrassing First Name / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Fake Nationality / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	False Confession / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Fingerprinting Air / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Genius Sweet Tooth / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Gonna Need More X / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Good Cop/Bad Cop / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Granola Girl / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Honor-Related Abuse / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	How Dare You Die on Me! / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Howl of Sorrow / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Hysterical Woman / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	I Always Wanted to Say That / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	I Lied / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	I Resemble That Remark! / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Iconic Item / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Impersonating an Officer / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Inappropriate Hunger / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Inconveniently Vanishing Exonerating Evidence / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Innocent Bigot / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Insane Equals Violent / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube! / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Insurance-Motivated Murder / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Internal Affairs / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Interrupting Meme / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Intoxication Ensues / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	It Never Gets Any Easier / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Kindhearted Cat Lover / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Know Your Vines / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Language Fluency Denial / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Married to the Job / int_47607004
MaryMcDonnell	seeAlso	The Closer
The Closer	hasFeature	Meta Twist / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Miranda Rights / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Mundane Luxury / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	My Friends... and Zoidberg / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Narrowed It Down to the Guy I Recognize / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	No Sense of Direction / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Noble Bigot with a Badge / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Not Quite the Right Thing / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Not-So-Final Confession / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Not Staying for Breakfast / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Oppressive Immigration Enforcement / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Outranking Your Job / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Over-the-Shoulder Carry / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Overly Long Scream / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Pass the Popcorn / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Passed in Their Sleep / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Plea Bargain / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Police Brutality Gambit / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Politically Incorrect Hero / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Pragmatic Hero / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Prone to Tears / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Propping Up Their Patsy / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Pyromaniac / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Rage Against the Legal System / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Rape and Revenge / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Recovered Addict / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Removing the Earpiece / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Rummage Fail / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Run for the Border / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Seamless Scenery / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Secret Other Family / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Secret Snack Stash / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Serial Spouse / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Series of the 2000s / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Sexy Stewardess / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Shady Real Estate Agent / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Shaking the Rump / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Sleuth Dates Cop / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Smoking Hot Sex / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Southern-Fried Genius / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Spousal Privilege / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Stepping Out for a Quick Cup of Coffee / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Stereotype Reaction Gag / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	"Strangers on a Train"-Plot Murder / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Stray Shots Strike Nothing / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	"Success Through Sex" Accusation / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Super Identikit / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Sure, Let's Go with That / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Sweet Tooth / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Sympathetic Murderer / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	That One Case / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	That Was Objectionable / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	The Alleged Boss / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	The Big Board / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	The Bluebeard / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	The Butler Did It / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	The Internet Is for Porn / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	The Maiden Name Debate / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	The Plot Reaper / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	The Schlub Pub Seduction Deduction / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Throw 'Em to the Wolves / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Transatlantic Equivalent / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Trans Character, Cis Actor / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Trick-and-Follow Ploy / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Tricked into Another Jurisdiction / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Unsettling Gender-Reveal / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Unsuspectingly Soused / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Vigilante Execution / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Vomiting Cop / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	What a Drag / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Working with the Ex / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Written-In Infirmity / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	You Need to Get Laid / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Your Tomcat Is Pregnant / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Good News, Bad News / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	How Much Did You Hear? / int_47607004
The Closer	hasFeature	Trophy Wife / int_47607004
thecloser	sameAs	The Closer

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