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The Method

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The Method	comment	The Method (Russian: Метод) is a 2015 Russian Detective Drama directed by Yuri Bykov, produced by Konstantin Ernst and Alkesandr Tsekalo (who also appears in a bit part) and starring Konstantin Khabensky and Paulina Andreeva.Rodion Meglin is an eccentric police investigator, renowned for three things: his hands-on, borderline brutal, approach to investigation, specialization in Serial Killer cases and solving the unsolvable. When he apprehends a killer of her fellow law school graduate, Yesenya Steklova decides that an internship with Meglin is her best bet to learning the skills she needs to solve the case of her mother's murder which she was a witness to a long time ago.Surprising everyone, the Cowboy Cop agrees. They fight crime as Meglin gradually turns the idealistic Yesenya into a copy of himself by dragging her along into brutal cases, up to and including using her as bait for the Villain of the Week.The creators have waved off any allegations of ripping off Dexter, if anything, it's closer to MPD Psycho in tone and treatment of Gorn.Having won several American awards as Best Foreign Criminal Drama, it, along with several other series from the same producers, may be coming to Netflix in 2017, which was interesting considering that the Russian Duma was debating legislation in 2016 that threatened to make watching Netflix IN Russia impossible. However, as of October 2019, not only is Netflix still available in Russia but Netflix is targeting expansion in Russia.A second season premiered on Russia's Channel One on November 8th, 2020.
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The Method / int_1520ad7e	type	Jumping Off the Slippery Slope
The Method / int_1520ad7e	comment	Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Both the Saturday killer and his copycat. Arguing Social Darwinist theories online and coming to morally questionable conclusions is one thing. Going on killing sprees to prove your theories is Dostoyevsky-grade wrong.
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The Method / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
The Method / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: School shootings are a relatively recent thing for Russia, 'imported' in a sense due to higher degree of integration into the world news field. Hence, the episode about a school shooting, showong what sort of person would it take to do one.
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The Method / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Method / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Meglin's "Method" of catching the perpetrators is brought up every time a non-major character talks about him.
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The Method / int_19a5d773	type	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!
The Method / int_19a5d773	comment	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: The Series.
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The Method / int_19da8a03	type	Incurable Cough of Death
The Method / int_19da8a03	comment	Incurable Cough of Death: A variation - the progress of Meglin's deteriorating health is shown by the migraines and hallucinations he experiences, and they intensify in strength and frequency as the story goes on.
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The Method / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
The Method / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: Apparently intentionally invoked. The episodes premiered in pairs of two, and the On the Next spots intermix scenes from the next week's episodes making them appear to be different from what the real order of events will be, thus averting Trailers Always Spoil. They also sometimes show scenes that aren't actually shown in the episode they advertise, though their consequences are.
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The Method / int_1aa76d29	type	Death by Origin Story
The Method / int_1aa76d29	comment	Death by Origin Story: Meglin's parents, Yesenya's mother.
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The Method / int_1c0dbffc	type	Pyromaniac
The Method / int_1c0dbffc	comment	Pyromaniac: One of Meglin's "graduates" we get to see is a pyromaniac who works at a scrapyard and sublimates his urges into burning dummies. He's also used as an example of what happens when one of the graduates goes rogue.
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The Method / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Method / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death interspersed with Cool and Unusual Punishment: Every instance of Ironic Death and one terrifying case of Torches and Pitchforks. The series finale also sees Meglin deciding the Villain of the Week should be Buried Alive next to his fifteen latest victims.
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The Method / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
The Method / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: One killer's wife, upon learning what her husband did, and where he got her all this jewelry, does not hesitate to try and cut off her finger when one of the rings gets stuck on it when she tried to remove it.
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The Method / int_1fd2efc9	type	Byronic Hero
The Method / int_1fd2efc9	comment	Byronic Hero: Meglin. Zhenya, the drug-using classmate of Yesenya's, is implied to be on the path to becoming one.
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The Method / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
The Method / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good is Not Nice: Neither lead shows much hesitation in hurting the Villain of the Week most of the time, Pay Evil unto Evil and all that. Culminates in the series finale when the final Villain of the Week is Buried Alive.
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The Method / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
The Method / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Knight in Sour Armor: Meglin is apparently type two, a born cynic. Yesenya evolves into type one as Break the Cutie sets in. That said, they both have shades of light. Meglin is excessively gentle and kind with most surviving victims (creating a crazy Mood Whiplash when he first touchingly promises a survivor of one killer's attack to bring her assailant to justice — and then brings him in, blinded and delirious from the pain of it) and a Friend to All Children whenever he's not in Comedic Sociopathy mode. Yesenya stops him from killing a Villain of the Week once (then begs him to let her kill another).
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The Method / int_22cf50f9	type	Chekhov's Gag
The Method / int_22cf50f9	comment	Chekhov's Gag: The black pencil Yesenya always uses to tie her hair up and takes crime scene notes with, throwing her hair loose whenever she pulls it out? It's used as a Once an Episode for half the series before she starts stabbing people with it, once as an Improvised Weapon and then as a habit.
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The Method / int_241ca0d8	type	Back for the Dead
The Method / int_241ca0d8	comment	Back for the Dead: As of Season 2, Sasha.
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The Method / int_2482df9c	type	Companion Cube
The Method / int_2482df9c	comment	Yesenya uses her pencil when cornered. It's rather effective. She seems to leave it behind at the start of Season 2 following her Important Haircut.
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The Method / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
The Method / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Several cases have children as victims.
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The Method / int_2a7e7af1	type	Limited Wardrobe
The Method / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe: Meglin apparently owns only one coat - when he's wounded, the gash in his sleeve (along with the poorly washed-out bloodstain) remains there for the remainder of the series.
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The Method / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
The Method / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: The titular method is pretty simple: Meglin gets in the headspace of the next mentally unhinged person doing nasty things to people in order to either track them to their lair or predict the pattern and prevent the next attack. The catch is that his brain damage makes him hallucinate the killer's Freudian Excuse most of the time. It's made painfully clear that Meglin considers himself no different from those he pursues. It is why he is so torn up about what happened to Olya and so proud-yet-harsh on his "graduates" - he knows they don't kill, but he also knows how easy it is to slip off the wagon. Yesenya's Break the Cutie is also taking her down this road, although she appears more remorseful about it. It's implied that once, so was Meglin.
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The Method / int_2d364c81	type	Tomboy and Girly Girl
The Method / int_2d364c81	comment	Tomboy and Girly Girl: Yesenya and her friend Anyuta. Who is brutally murdered in the first episode.
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The Method / int_2ea2680a	type	That One Case
The Method / int_2ea2680a	comment	That One Case: The murder of Yesenya's mother. It is her sole motivation at the start of the series, and Meglin apparently knows more about it than he lets on. Anyuta's murder becomes this for Sasha as he thinks solving it will negate Yesenya's reasons for following Meglin.
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The Method / int_30adeff3	type	Defective Detective
The Method / int_30adeff3	comment	Defective Detective: Meglin is a borderline alcoholic, and Yesenya is quickly catching up. On top of that Meglin has an unspecified brain problem which causes migraines and hallucinations, leading him to black out from the pain at plot-appropriate moments.
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The Method / int_37499c8	type	OnceAnEpisode
The Method / int_37499c8	comment	Once an Episode: With variations showcasing the Character Development of the leads. The local cops complain about these Moscow know-it-alls. Meglin's Catchphrase and Sherlock Scan evolves to a point where he's showing off Yesenya's grasp of The Method more than using it himself. Yesenya defending Meglin's actions before The Men in Black or her father. Meglin's hallucinations intervening in the investigation or propelling the story arc of Olya - notably it's always either one or the other, they coincide only once. Yesenya's hair-supporting pencil graduates to When All You Have Is a Hammer… some time after she uses it as an Improvised Weapon.
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The Method / int_3a10b632	type	Playing Against Type
The Method / int_3a10b632	comment	Playing Against Type: Pretty much everyone who isn't a one-off background cop character. The rotund jovial Aleksandr Tsekalo as the killer of Yesenya's classmate in the first episode sets the tone for the entire series. Played surprisingly straight with Igor Savochkin's character, abducting girls to Stockholm Syndrome them into becoming his adopted daughters. His character on Night Watch was similarly aloof and disconnected with reality.
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The Method / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
The Method / int_3b113b7	comment	Yesenya joking about Meglin's cactus collection. Grows increasingly darker when she learns its story... And changes the jokes accordingly, to show her Character Development is not taking her to a nice place.
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The Method / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Method / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: The Framing Device implies Yesenya will survive whatever threats she faces with (or in) Meglin with at least all her limbs intact. Sanity, not so much.
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The Method / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Method / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: However it is Yesenya's mother died is exceptionally vague and her father is dead set on keeping it that way for some reason.
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The Method / int_3ec18c6f	type	Sherlock Scan
The Method / int_3ec18c6f	comment	Sherlock Scan: Deconstructed. It looks like this to outside observers, but Meglin isn't looking for what's instantly going to solve the case, he's focusing on what doesn't fit at the crime scene. Yesenya has to work against her preconceptions to grasp this idea, but ends up proudly showing off in front of common cops. What they don't realize is that Meglin is a Sink or Swim Mentor, he drills her relentlessly into it.
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The Method / int_4415efaf	type	Serial-Killer Killer
The Method / int_4415efaf	comment	Serial-Killer Killer: Meglin. He's not proud of it, but sometimes it's better than letting them back out into the wild because there's not enough evidence for a conviction. The Mastermind cons one of Meglin's graduates into this in an attempt to get Meglin to kill them too. Grey-and-Grey Morality abounds.
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The Method / int_445bc425	type	GreyAndGreyMorality
The Method / int_445bc425	comment	The Mastermind cons one of Meglin's graduates into this in an attempt to get Meglin to kill them too. Grey-and-Grey Morality abounds.
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The Method / int_44ba9580	type	The Snark Knight
The Method / int_44ba9580	comment	The Snark Knight: Both leads, to varying degrees.
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The Method / int_46ec76fb	type	Working the Same Case
The Method / int_46ec76fb	comment	Working the Same Case: Occurs when two series of murders in the same area with different M Os turn out to be two aspects of one killer's Freudian Excuse. The series finale also uses this, when Zhenya reveals his part in the taskforce to capture an escaped killer that turns out to be actively hunting Meglin.
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The Method / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
The Method / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn: ...or showing the disrepair of post-Soviet times, or juxtaposing the beauty of nature with yet another freakish crime scene.
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The Method / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Method / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: A subdued example - their cases take them around a lot of cities and small towns, having fun with showing off views of Glorious Mother Russia. Scenery Gorn: ...or showing the disrepair of post-Soviet times, or juxtaposing the beauty of nature with yet another freakish crime scene.
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The Method / int_4a4d6f7c	type	Comedic Sociopathy
The Method / int_4a4d6f7c	comment	Meglin being an asshole to someone in clear violation of safety rules, most often a beat cop, in a bout of Comedic Sociopathy.
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The Method / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
The Method / int_4b316d47	comment	Yesenya's Break the Cutie is also taking her down this road, although she appears more remorseful about it. It's implied that once, so was Meglin.
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The Method / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
The Method / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: One killer's item of preference is a screwdriver. Another favors random everyday objects to facilitate Death by Irony. A third uses a knitting needle. Yesenya uses her pencil when cornered. It's rather effective. She seems to leave it behind at the start of Season 2 following her Important Haircut.
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The Method / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
The Method / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Meglin buys a cactus for every person he's had to kill, in the line of duty or otherwise. His apartment is overflowing with them. In a meta sense, the very reason he ended up as an investigator. Several killers have their own little rituals they do after each death, seemingly showing belated remorse for what they've done.
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The Method / int_518de95b	type	Always Murder
The Method / int_518de95b	comment	Always Murder: Subverted. In the Dachnik case nobody even dies!
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The Method / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
The Method / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: Meglin used to be partners with Yesenya's father, but that didn't quite work out.
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The Method / int_59938d30	type	Better than Sex
The Method / int_59938d30	comment	Better than Sex: Yesenya describes the feeling of mutilating one of the killers this way, indicating her becoming no different from Meglin.
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The Method / int_5d86966a	type	Man on Fire
The Method / int_5d86966a	comment	Man on Fire: Multiple instances of death by flames are shown. In an interesting turns, one such death is shown only in an On the Next stinger, but not in the actual episode it advertises.
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The Method / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
The Method / int_62fd5552	comment	Meglin's Bavarian Fire Drill introductions of Yesenya.
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The Method / int_63499260	type	VillainOfTheWeek
The Method / int_63499260	comment	Culminates in the series finale when the final Villain of the Week is Buried Alive.
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The Method / int_69121204	type	The Un-Favourite
The Method / int_69121204	comment	The Un Favourite: One twin does well in school. The other doesn't. One stays at home, the other runs away and starts helping a maniac. And all because of the way their mother treated them.
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The Method / int_6941e30b	type	Room Full of Crazy
The Method / int_6941e30b	comment	Room Full of Crazy: Multiple instances, from the teacher funneling her hatred for her work into defacing yearbook photos of her students, to the Stalker Shrine one Villain of the Week devotes to Yesenya, to the crochet-doll-filled den of the killer who makes dolls from the clothing of his victims.
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The Method / int_694da243	type	At the Opera Tonight
The Method / int_694da243	comment	At the Opera Tonight: Used to introduce the key players in one of the cases.
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The Method / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
The Method / int_6ee10e0	comment	My Greatest Failure: Meglin is genuinely distraught over the fate of a woman he convicted (and who was institutionalized instead) in one of his first cases. Yesenya ends up meeting her when she lands in the same Bedlam House. See also The Scapegoat below.
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The Method / int_7141f5cd	type	I Didn't Mean to Kill Him
The Method / int_7141f5cd	comment	I Didn't Mean to Kill Him: One killer is remorseful about the fact that his victims were killed by accident, he even plants trees over their otherwise unmarked graves. Sadly, the plural in there is what attracts Meglin to the case in the first place.
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The Method / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
The Method / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: When the Framing Device wraps up, Yesenya takes over Meglin's 'department', files and 'graduates' as The Mastermind, aka You Can't Catch Me resurfaces.
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The Method / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Method / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: You have the wounded serial killer you are chasing who has already killed the one that shot them cornered and pleasing for help. Why would you ever holster your gun and try to look at their wound without waiting for your backup if you can't see their hands? The Season 2 premiere seems to be built on handing these out to many of the cast members to remind us that they can't catch anyone without Meglin.
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The Method / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
The Method / int_7301ae04	comment	Some of the deaths the Mastermind orchestrates rely on this, such as mimicking the MO of a Serial Killer to kill him to get Meglin's attention.
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The Method / int_7360806f	type	In-Series Nickname
The Method / int_7360806f	comment	In-Series Nickname: Meglin's "graduates", as he calls them. It's implied they're people he's managed to prevent from becoming Serial Killers, some of them don't even know he's a cop! Sadly, some of them fall off the wagon from time to time.
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The Method / int_78255ad7	type	Passing the Torch
The Method / int_78255ad7	comment	Passing the Torch: It takes a while for Yesenya to realize Meglin is training her to be his replacement.
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The Method / int_794095d7	type	Boxed Crook
The Method / int_794095d7	comment	Boxed Crook: It's unclear what his exact thought process was, but the guy that recruited Meglin into the police seemed to have been rearing him into a pet assassin at first. It's a miracle he turned out to be as compassionate as he is when he meets Yesenya.
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The Method / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Method / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Meglin's first appearance demonstrates his cold attitude towards other cops, his capacity for empathizing with both the victim and the killer, and his preference for talking the killer down if the option is available. The second episode demonstrates he's equally willing to brutally and efficiently slaughter them if talking is off the table.
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The Method / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
The Method / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The Framing Device is a debriefing of Yesenya by two Men in Black after her internship is over. The exact nature of the inquiry is deliberately kept vague until the final episode: they suspect, but cannot prove, that Meglin didn't commit suicide, but rather was a Mercy Kill by Yesenya.
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The Method / int_80818684	type	Sleeping Their Way to the Top
The Method / int_80818684	comment	Sleeping Their Way to the Top: Played for laughs. Ultimately Double Subverted: While she does share his bed once she moves in with him, they do not have sex, so it's a case of Exact Words - they do sleep together, but they do not sleep together. But then they eventually do.
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The Method / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
The Method / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: Yesenya wasn't all roses even before she met Meglin, but together they form a monstrous combination of maladjustment.
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The Method / int_8cb4ea46	type	By-the-Book Cop
The Method / int_8cb4ea46	comment	Sasha starts out as the Betty, being a By-the-Book Cop wannabe and as opposed to Yesenya's apprenticeship like her father is. Becomes the Veronica as she distances herself from the life she had as a student and the relationship he thought they had.
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The Method / int_8f48d89	type	Lawman Gone Bad
The Method / int_8f48d89	comment	Lawman Gone Bad: One of the cases has a cop as the killer. Another has a cop's son, who was driven to crime because his father was a Corrupt Cop.
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The Method / int_8f9c00fd	type	The Apprentice
The Method / int_8f9c00fd	comment	The Apprentice: Yesenya to Meglin. She and her father are the only ones who call her apprenticeship an 'internship', in fact.
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The Method / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
The Method / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Zig-zagged. The two guys Yesenya has the closest to 'boyfriend' status trade places as her character is warped by Meglin's influence. Zhenya starts out as the Veronica, he's a 'bad boy' womanizer with a drug habit and he's the one who gets her on the thought train of apprenticeship to Meglin in the first place. Later on, he becomes the Betty as the only one she can even talk to outside of work. Sasha starts out as the Betty, being a By-the-Book Cop wannabe and as opposed to Yesenya's apprenticeship like her father is. Becomes the Veronica as she distances herself from the life she had as a student and the relationship he thought they had.
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The Method / int_97d54bb0	type	Tragic Keepsake
The Method / int_97d54bb0	comment	Tragic Keepsake: Future!Yesenya is shown drinking from Meglin's hip flask and smoking cigarettes out of his cigarette case.
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The Method / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
The Method / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: The Saturday Killer (Subbotnik) kills his victims in a way he considers ironic - waterboarding a drug dealer with acetone, drilling the eardrums of a man that drove his neighbours up the walls with his apartment renovation, exploding a firecracker in a dominatrix's intimates, etc. Some of the deaths the Mastermind orchestrates rely on this, such as mimicking the MO of a Serial Killer to kill him to get Meglin's attention.
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The Method / int_9cede50e	type	Toplessness from the Back
The Method / int_9cede50e	comment	Toplessness from the Back in Yesenya's case, though.
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The Method / int_a0cdc32e	type	I Am Who?
The Method / int_a0cdc32e	comment	I Am Who?/Tomato in the Mirror: The series finale reveals that Olga Berestova was the real name of Yesenya's mother, and she was kept out of jail by her husband's connections while another took the fall, protected by having already been committed to a mental institution. Hence, Yesenya inherited her Insane Equals Violent qualities and that and the fact that Meglin was her mother's killer was why he took her on as an apprentice.
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The Method / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Method / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Some victims end up this way. One case ends with Yesenya putting out the eyes of her attacker when she's used as bait and he bites too soon. A crazed yet brilliant clothing designer sewed his eyes up when the 'crazy' part overpowered the 'brilliant'. It had a profound impact on the sanity of his family.
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The Method / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Method / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Even at his most dramatic, Meglin will not let the viewer forget he's a messed-up person.
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The Method / int_a5f998ea	type	Stockholm Syndrome
The Method / int_a5f998ea	comment	Played surprisingly straight with Igor Savochkin's character, abducting girls to Stockholm Syndrome them into becoming his adopted daughters. His character on Night Watch was similarly aloof and disconnected with reality.
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The Method / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
The Method / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Most killers the protagonists deal with have some sort of media-assigned moniker. A more regular example in Glukhoi (The Deaf Man), Meglin's confidant. In many cases, the killer's real name isn't revealed at all, leaving the viewers with just the moniker as well.
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The Method / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
The Method / int_b01abe4f	comment	Yesenya snarking at Meglin's Catchphrase of "What do you see?".
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The Method / int_b3e3a659	type	Trading Bars for Stripes
The Method / int_b3e3a659	comment	Trading Bars for Stripes: Apparently, Meglin became a Serial-Killer Killer first and police officer second. He was recruited off death row. He first did a stint in the army though, to get combat training.
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The Method / int_b5171e10	type	Tragic Villain
The Method / int_b5171e10	comment	Tragic Villain: Opera singer Ptakha murders his former patrons, seeking revenge for years of horrific child abuse.
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The Method / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
The Method / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Rodion is a moderately common name in modern Russia. Yesenya is a rarely-used diminutive form of Yesenia, an already rare name. The series finale discusses the fact in-universe.
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The Method / int_bf698238	type	When All You Have Is a Hammerâ€¦
The Method / int_bf698238	comment	When All You Have Is a Hammer…: We don't know what Yesenya's pencils are made of, but they should make swords and armour out of that stuff considering what she does with them over the course of the series.
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The Method / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
The Method / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Some of the victims are shown in inappropriate detail before, after and during they're drenched in blood and gore. Or burned alive.
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The Method / int_c6c5ce4	type	Bedlam House
The Method / int_c6c5ce4	comment	Bedlam House: Played for drama. The psych clinic Meglin reports to for his checkups and which also houses several of unrecoverable "graduates", is run-down and messy, but for lack of funding, not a lack of intent to help from the staff. Spending two days there in wait for a suspects leaves Yesenya sympathetic with his refusal to check himself in to get stable help.
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The Method / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
The Method / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: A high percentage of the killers in the series.
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The Method / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
The Method / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Season 2 gives us the deranged and brain-damaged Meglin Back from the Dead.
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The Method / int_cd8ca67a	type	DoubleSubverted
The Method / int_cd8ca67a	comment	Ultimately Double Subverted: While she does share his bed once she moves in with him, they do not have sex, so it's a case of Exact Words - they do sleep together, but they do not sleep together. But then they eventually do.
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The Method / int_d72164e9	type	Must Have Nicotine
The Method / int_d72164e9	comment	Must Have Nicotine: Played with. Meglin is a chain smoker and his positively ancient beat-up cigarette case is filled with mismatched cigarettes he obviously filched off people. He picks one at random whenever he needs a smoke, be it a Marlboro or a Vogue. When the cigarette case ends up in Yesenya's possession, she seems to smoke for the memory of Meglin than the actual nicotine.
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The Method / int_da2f3716	type	Intimate Healing
The Method / int_da2f3716	comment	Intimate Healing: Played for drama. At first, Yesenya tries to use her encounters with Zhenya as this, but he eventually calls her out on using him for sex only, and she turns to drinking instead.
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The Method / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Method / int_dc8ba6d5	comment	The Scapegoat: Olga "Olya" Berestova, for reasons unknown. Double subverted. She's not even guilty of the original crime she was convicted of, nor is she even the real Olga. She IS guilty of a crime, however, which is how she was conned into accepting the blame. See also Tomato in the Mirror.
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The Method / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
The Method / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Nikolai, the pyromaniac "graduate", introduced as part of an introduction to the graduates for a few sad one-off jokes about alcoholism and coping with wanting to be a serial killer. He falls off the wagon towards the end of the series, though it is mitigated somewhat in that he only kills other graduates.
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The Method / int_dd234c2f	type	Hallucinations
The Method / int_dd234c2f	comment	Hallucinations: Meglin gets these sometimes, either showing him his vision of the killer's logic or where he sees the face of My Greatest Failure before him.
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The Method / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
The Method / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: The show milks its 18+ rating for all its worth, in a first for previously puritanical Russian Channel One, which produced the series.
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The Method / int_e57c714d	type	Insane Equals Violent
The Method / int_e57c714d	comment	Insane Equals Violent: Played with. Some killers are straight examples, some kill by accident, unaware of what they were doing. As someone on the receiving end of this, Meglin also discusses it with Yesenya on several occasions.
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The Method / int_e6c8cd60	type	Fed to Pigs
The Method / int_e6c8cd60	comment	Fed to Pigs: One killer uses his Rottweilers for Disposing of a Body.
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The Method / int_f0926237	type	AllegedCar
The Method / int_f0926237	comment	Alleged Car: Meglin owns diesel-powered Mercedes-Benz W123. May count as Cool Car.
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The Method / int_f0c4ce7d	type	The Lost Lenore
The Method / int_f0c4ce7d	comment	The Lost Lenore: Anyuta's death affects three of her classmates into action in different ways. Yesenya goes to become Meglin's apprentice. Sasha decides to find The Man Behind the Man, while Zhenya, after floundering around, becomes a detective on his own, although he tries to aid the other two whenever he isn't pissing them off with his unhealthy habits.
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The Method / int_f42f2adc	type	Corner of Woe
The Method / int_f42f2adc	comment	Corner of Woe: One scene in the Framing Device has Yesenya sit in the corner of the interrogation room huddled up as much as possible.
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The Method / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
The Method / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Multiple, mostly in the banter of the leads. Yesenya snarking at Meglin's Catchphrase of "What do you see?". Yesenya joking about Meglin's cactus collection. Grows increasingly darker when she learns its story... And changes the jokes accordingly, to show her Character Development is not taking her to a nice place. Meglin's Bavarian Fire Drill introductions of Yesenya. Meglin being an asshole to someone in clear violation of safety rules, most often a beat cop, in a bout of Comedic Sociopathy.
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The Method / int_fb6b207f	type	You Killed My Father
The Method / int_fb6b207f	comment	You Killed My Father: Meglin witnessed his parents' murder as a child. When he grew up, he found and butchered the one that did it.
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The Method / int_fc451ba4	type	Follow the Leader
The Method / int_fc451ba4	comment	Follow the Leader: The series has been accused of borrowing from Dexter, even though the only remotely comparable between the two is the notion of a Detective Drama with lots of Gorn.
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The Method / int_ff202ce0	type	Scar Survey
The Method / int_ff202ce0	comment	Scar Survey: A non-sexual case, Yesenya studies Meglin's collection of bullet and knife wounds after she patches up yet another one.
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