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The Night Of

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The Night Of	comment	The Night Of is a 2016 miniseries produced by HBO and BBC Worldwide, based on the 2008 BBC series Criminal Justice.The series stars Riz Ahmed as Nasir Khan, a sheltered Pakistani-American college kid who is accused of brutally murdering a young woman he had a one-night stand with. John Turturro co-stars as John Stone, an Ambulance Chaser who jumps at the chance to be his lawyer. Bill Camp, Jeannie Berlin, Payman Maadi, Michael K. Williams and Poorna Jagannathan round out the cast.
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The Night Of / int_1181a575	type	The Unsolved Mystery
The Night Of / int_1181a575	comment	The Unsolved Mystery: Andrea's killer is not brought to justice by the end, but it's heavily implied to be her accountant, and Box continues to investigate him.
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The Night Of / int_11d671f6	type	Stopped Caring
The Night Of / int_11d671f6	comment	Stopped Caring: In the end, Stone decides to stop caring what people think of him and simply live his life.
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The Night Of / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Night Of / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Stones mentions the show's title in his closing argument before the jury.
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The Night Of / int_1f0f3d6f	type	Cute Kitten
The Night Of / int_1f0f3d6f	comment	Cute Kitten: Images of cute kittens are used in the ASPCA TV commercial Stones watches in the final scene.
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The Night Of / int_1fd2efc9	type	Byronic Hero
The Night Of / int_1fd2efc9	comment	Byronic Hero: As the series progresses, this is John Stone: he's a grumpy, seemingly-bottom feeding lawyer who is divorced, lives alone, isn't terribly happy with himself and worried about how others think of him, and is afflicted with a pronounced case of eczema that basically isolates him from most people. He's also willing to take a flier on Naz's innocence, goes WAY beyond his job responsibilities to gather evidence, and delivers an absolutely killer closing argument that probably saved Naz's freedom. Also, he adopts Andrea's abandoned cat, despite being allergic.
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The Night Of / int_204340fc	type	Vomiting Cop
The Night Of / int_204340fc	comment	Vomiting Cop: One of Nasir's arresting officers runs from the crime scene and is seen dry-heaving on the street. A Running Gag has him constantly denying that he actually threw up, but in episode three he finally admits that he did. The trope is then deliberately exploited by Box: when the cop asks to leave the detail out of his report, he's told to leave it in because it humanizes him as a witness and thus helps the prosecution's case.
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The Night Of / int_23c132d9	type	Beneath Suspicion
The Night Of / int_23c132d9	comment	Beneath Suspicion: It's heavily implied that Andrea's financial adviser is the killer. He was interviewed in an earlier episode as part of Stone's investigation of Andrea's father.
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The Night Of / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
The Night Of / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: The mortician references Judges 16 in regard to Andrea. Chandra looks it up, and it's the story of Samson and Delilah (also referenced in the episode title).
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The Night Of / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
The Night Of / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Nasir delivers one to the guy who burned him, with the help of Freddy.
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The Night Of / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
The Night Of / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Box plays nice with Nasir to try and convince him to confess while Nasir is in police custody. He drops the act after Nasir refuses to do so and is brutally mean to almost everyone else for most of the rest of the series. Alison Crowe is this to the Khan family, though it's clear to the viewer that she's not a great person right from the start.
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The Night Of / int_2be15316	type	Ambiguously Jewish
The Night Of / int_2be15316	comment	Ambiguously Jewish: District Attorney Helen Weiss has a name that is common among Ashkenazi Jews, is in a profession traditionally overrepresented by Jews, lives in a city with a large Jewish population, and is played by a Jewish actress, but her actual background is never addressed.
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The Night Of / int_2d26bfd6	type	Cardboard Box of Unemployment
The Night Of / int_2d26bfd6	comment	Cardboard Box of Unemployment: Chandra packs one of those when she gets fired from her job.
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The Night Of / int_2ea2680a	type	That One Case
The Night Of / int_2ea2680a	comment	That One Case: Something about Naz's case eats at Stone, and eventually at Box too, causing both of them to put time into it even when they're off the clock.
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The Night Of / int_301c4238	type	Mama Didn't Raise No Criminal
The Night Of / int_301c4238	comment	Mama Didn't Raise No Criminal: Played with. When the crime scene photos are displayed in court, Naz's mother walks out in disgust and later wonders in Chandra's presence if she raised an animal.
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The Night Of / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
The Night Of / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Nasir meets a few, including two on "the night of" the murder as well as a number in jail. Chandra is deeply uncomfortable around the mortician from the gas station once he starts talking about certain women deserving to be put in their place.
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The Night Of / int_31df118	type	Attention Whore
The Night Of / int_31df118	comment	Attention Whore: Alison Crowe, a high-profile attorney who takes on cases with gratuitous media coverage for publicity purposes.
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The Night Of / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
The Night Of / int_33029735	comment	Andrea Dies Wide Open, as seen at the crime scene and highlighted in many coroner photographs.
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The Night Of / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Night Of / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Crowe mocks Stone in court and snaps angrily at Nasir's father before quitting Nasir's case and telling his parents that her firm will start charging them.
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The Night Of / int_34e15b76	type	Kindhearted Cat Lover
The Night Of / int_34e15b76	comment	Kindhearted Cat Lover: Stone takes in Andrea's cat, even though he's allergic. He buys it toys, plays with it through a door, and even dons a face mask and dishwashing gloves to pet it. In the finale episode Stone dumps the cat back at the pound, but the final shot reveals that he eventually takes it back.
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The Night Of / int_34f590c9	type	Off on a Technicality
The Night Of / int_34f590c9	comment	Off on a Technicality: Sort of. The final verdict in Naz's trial is a deadlocked jury. Six-six split. The only reason that Naz avoids another trial is because the DA decides not to re-file charges. At this point, she no longer believes that Naz even did it.
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The Night Of / int_37d94ed9	type	Agony of the Feet
The Night Of / int_37d94ed9	comment	Agony of the Feet: A great deal of focus is given to the eczema on Stone's feet, which is extreme enough that he cannot wear normal shoes or socks.
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The Night Of / int_3d8b73cf	type	Trouser Space
The Night Of / int_3d8b73cf	comment	Trouser Space: Chandra agrees to help smuggle things in and out of jail for Naz so he can get Freddie's protection inside. She puts them inside of her vagina for this.
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The Night Of / int_3e084baf	type	Only Bad Guys Call Their Lawyers
The Night Of / int_3e084baf	comment	Only Bad Guys Call Their Lawyers: When Naz is brought to the precinct, he eventually asks for a lawyer, to which one policeman comments that this move will reflect badly on him.
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The Night Of / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Night Of / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Nasir has been released, but he's alienated himself from his friends, family and community, acquired a drug addiction, and still mourns Andrea. Stone has decided not to care about what other people think of him, earning him some peace, but little apparent happiness, though he has adopted Andrea's cat. Box has been beaten down by his job so much that he quits and gets a menial job as a security guard, but teams with the DA to chase down the real killer. Chandra has lost her job and her career is possibly ruined.
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The Night Of / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
The Night Of / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: Stone's reaction to Chandra's decision to put Naz on the stand. As they sit outside the courtroom, on benches that face each other, he barely talks above a whisper, and Chandra cannot meet his eye.
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The Night Of / int_46290b93	type	Manic Pixie Dream Girl
The Night Of / int_46290b93	comment	Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Subverted. Andrea behaves a lot like one, taking Nasir out of his shell and on a midnight adventure, but she's a damaged person and ends up getting murdered. It's also revealed in the finale that on the night she jumped into Naz's cab, she was in fear for her life — she latched onto him as a way to protect herself, and possibly in part to escape from her own worries.
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The Night Of / int_4655ec83	type	Important Haircut
The Night Of / int_4655ec83	comment	Important Haircut: Nasir buzzes off his hair to present a tougher image in jail. Stone isn't happy to see his "good boy" client start looking like a thug. In the next episode, a character compares Andrea to Delilah, making Naz Samson.
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The Night Of / int_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
The Night Of / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: When Box interrogates Naz the night of the murder, he mentions that Naz asked the policemen in the car if "she was dead" which he should not have known anything about unless he was in the flat.
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The Night Of / int_4de1544	type	Had to Come to Prison to Be a Crook
The Night Of / int_4de1544	comment	Had to Come to Prison to Be a Crook: Naz slowly transforms into a thug while in jail. By the time he leaves, he's a tattooed drug addict.
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The Night Of / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Night Of / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Freddy is a ruthless prison kingpin who isn't opposed to beating a man unconscious with his own boxing skills or slicing a man's throat for crossing him. However, he's also very personable and takes Nasir under his wing, claiming that the only reason he's doing it is because he can see that Nasir is innocent and wants to protect him. In the end, it's implied that Freddie leaks footage of Chandra kissing Nasir in hopes of getting him a mistrial, even though getting Nasir freed would mean losing him as an ally.
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The Night Of / int_54a85cfa	type	Law Procedural
The Night Of / int_54a85cfa	comment	Law Procedural: The first episode indulges in Police Proceduralis while the rest of the series deals mostly with legal consequences.
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The Night Of / int_54d5ad9a	type	Asian Rudeness
The Night Of / int_54d5ad9a	comment	Asian Rudeness: The shopkeeper of the traditional Chinese medicine store is blunt and rude to Stone.
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The Night Of / int_55404918	type	Knuckle Tattoos
The Night Of / int_55404918	comment	Knuckle Tattoos: Nasir gets "SIN" tattooed on the fingers of one hand and "BAD" tattooed on the other while in prison as he slowly transforms into a thug under the influence of Freddy.
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The Night Of / int_55f4dd10	type	What Are You in For?
The Night Of / int_55f4dd10	comment	What Are You in For?: Discussed. The first "friend" Naz makes at prison tells him not to answer questions like this from any fellow inmate.
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The Night Of / int_582f5a70	type	This Is the Part Where...
The Night Of / int_582f5a70	comment	This Is the Part Where...: When John's steroids cause The Loins Sleep Tonight, he says "This is where the guy stares at the ceiling and says, 'That's never happened to me before,' and the girl touches his arm and says, 'It's okay. It happens.'"
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The Night Of / int_59788b2c	type	Hiding Behind the Language Barrier
The Night Of / int_59788b2c	comment	Hiding Behind the Language Barrier: When Naz and his parents talk at the precinct and realize that they are being recorded, they switch from English to Punjabi.
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The Night Of / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
The Night Of / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: Stone lists a number of types of people that defense attorneys should never allow in a jury, several of which he explains. When Chandra asks "Why sailors?" the show cuts to the next scene.
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The Night Of / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
The Night Of / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: Stone is on friendly terms with judges and even a top DA. A judge congratulates him on getting a high-profile case, and the DA gives sympathy to Stone after Crowe mocks him in court. This is part of the series's Punch-Clock Hero theme, where everyone in the justice system is just doing their job.
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The Night Of / int_5b0a8d6a	type	Racial Face Blindness
The Night Of / int_5b0a8d6a	comment	Racial Face Blindness: White characters tend to mistake Naz for an Arab.
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The Night Of / int_5f252b8b	type	One Phone Call
The Night Of / int_5f252b8b	comment	One Phone Call: Stones manages to get Naz a phone call after the latter gets arrested.
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The Night Of / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
The Night Of / int_627264e0	comment	Nasir receives many a Death Glare from people in prison and his own community.
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The Night Of / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Night Of / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The tall brute in Nasir's first holding cell is named Hightower. In spite of being a rather sleazy lawyer, John Stone has the strong, all-American name of a pulp hero. He turns out to be much more supportive to Nasir than his high-power attorney. Alison Crowe seems to be on the up-and-up, but turns out to be a scavenger who is only interested in using Nasir. She also loves "crowing" to the media to aggrandize herself.
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The Night Of / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Night Of / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: A boy in prison cuts his wrists when he can't take it anymore to be the sexual playtoy of another inmate.
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The Night Of / int_702c2de3	type	Line-of-Sight Alias
The Night Of / int_702c2de3	comment	Line-of-Sight Alias: Subverted. Trevor says that the name of his companion was "Duane Reade" while sitting across the street from a Duane Reade pharmacy. Stone calls him on it, but later discovers that it is the man's name.
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The Night Of / int_77b009ea	type	Phrase Catcher
The Night Of / int_77b009ea	comment	Phrase Catcher: Wherever anyone else would get a "How you doing?", Stone gets "How's the feet?"
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The Night Of / int_7dbd52b8	type	Light Is Good
The Night Of / int_7dbd52b8	comment	Light Is Good: Invoked. Stone is alarmed when Nasir comes in for the first day of his trial in a blue shirt. He insists that Nasir always wear white shirts to appear innocent, going as far as to give Nasir his own light-colored shirt while the jury files in.
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The Night Of / int_7f38c0cd	type	An Offer You Can't Refuse
The Night Of / int_7f38c0cd	comment	An Offer You Can't Refuse: Freddy offers his protection to Nasir after painstakingly explaining that without it, he'll be murdered.
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The Night Of / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Night Of / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Nasir gets a montage where he does fairly banal and innocent things, such as attend college, cheer the school team at practice and debate his brother on sports during a family dinner, establishing him as a regular, wholesome young man. This impression is called into question throughout the series, with revelations that Nasir uses Adderall and was expelled from one high school for pushing a classmate down a flight of stairs. While crime scene investigators arrive at Andrea's house to thumping hip-hop music, Detective Dennis Box is playing classical music. Alison Crowe is introduced smoothly delivering a victory speech to a media scrum and even trying to point out the hypocrisy of a journalist asking her a question, establishing her as a capable and intelligent yet attention-mongering attorney. The first we see of Freddy is his Luxury Prison Suite, featuring clippings of his boxing past and his collection of contraband cell phones.
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The Night Of / int_80b5924	type	Left Hanging
The Night Of / int_80b5924	comment	Left Hanging: While the show ends at the conclusion of the trial, a lot of the characters' futures are still up in the air. Does Nasir reconcile with his family and community? Does he straighten out or spiral out of control? Does his father get his taxi back? Does Box ever catch the real killer? Does Chandra manage to save her career? Only Stone's future seems pretty set.
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The Night Of / int_833d49b2	type	Broken-Window Warning
The Night Of / int_833d49b2	comment	Broken-Window Warning: Naz's parents get a stone thrown through their window by some "concerned citizens".
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The Night Of / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
The Night Of / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Freddy offers Naz protection because if word gets out that he raped and murdered a girl, his prison life would become hell.
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The Night Of / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
The Night Of / int_90c018ac	comment	Justified and Discussed regarding Andrea; the $10 million brownstone she lives in despite never having a steady job is an inheritance from her very wealthy mother. Box finds this out early on, but does nothing with the information, as he's focused on Naz. It's only when Stone asks the same questions that he finds information arousing suspicion about her Gold Digger stepfather.
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The Night Of / int_99208bf0	comment	Eye Motifs: Eyes and vision are a recurring theme. Nasir's large, brown, innocent eyes are frequently focused on and sometimes commented on. The stuffed horse head's glass eye is given several insert shots, including one in the opening credits. It becomes splattered with blood during "the night of," making it look like the horse cried blood. We see a number of shots from the perspective of a surveillance camera, and CCTV camera footage factors heavily into the story. Andrea Dies Wide Open, as seen at the crime scene and highlighted in many coroner photographs. Characters are frequently shown fixedly staring at things, particularly on "the night of," with plot significance: Duane Reade stares at Andrea and Nasir going into Andrea's house, leading characters to wonder if he was planning to rob them. The coroner stares at Andrea for a while, leading characters to wonder if he'd developed a spontaneous grudge against her. In the final episode, Box watches CCTV footage of Andrea glancing at something off-screen, giving him a lead. He freeze-frames on her looking into the camera. Nasir receives many a Death Glare from people in prison and his own community.
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The Night Of / int_9ae85487	comment	Dr. Jerk: In line with the show's themes, the doctors that Stone sees are generally rude to him. Extra points to the Chinese alternative medicine practitioner, who indulges in Asian Rudeness.
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The Night Of / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In spite of seeming to be a "good Muslim boy," Nasir rather boldly challenges two men on "the night of" for making a racial slur and has to be pulled away from a confrontation by Andrea. This sets up the revelation that Nasir has anger issues, having pushed a schoolmate down a flight of stairs. Chandra gets drunk and vents about just breaking up with her boyfriend, apparently still emotional about it. This sets up her impulsively kissing Nasir later.
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The Night Of / int_a603eaec	comment	Criminally Attractive: When Naz asks Chandra if she's just defending him for the money, she denies it, then shyly kisses him.
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The Night Of / int_a6bf7a7b	comment	Ambulance Chaser: John Stone spends his time trawling police precincts to recruit hookers and pushers as clients. One policeman makes a crack that Stone should run out and chase an ambulance siren he just heard.
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The Night Of / int_ad3e13c5	comment	The Loins Sleep Tonight: Stone suffers erectile dysfunction due to taking steroids for his eczema. He buys some black-market Viagra to compensate.
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The Night Of / int_b0c4bf9b	comment	Luxury Prison Suite: While other prisoners sleep on cots in the communal room, Freddy has a private cell featuring a television and quite a bit of furniture. To drive the point home, at one point Freddy is seen eating Grapes of Luxury in his cell.
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The Night Of / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: Chandra's decision to put Naz on the stand is supposed to engender jury sympathy, despite Stone's pleading not to do it. He's proven right: the prosecutor coldly and efficiently cross-examines Naz, painting him as unreliable, manipulative and self-centered, and even gets him to doubt his own innocence ("Did you kill her?" "I don't know"). It goes so badly that Chandra is shown trying not to tear up in court, and Stone is furious at the easily avoidable error the whole exercise was.
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The Night Of / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Night Of / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The show contains at least two cracks at the Nation of Islam: Box states that Nasir is a "real" Muslim, not just a member of the Nation of Islam. Freddy states that members of the Nation of Islam at Riker's secretly resent Nasir because he was born a Muslim and didn't just convert for protection and better food like them.
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The Night Of / int_b5b3599d	comment	Amoral Attorney: Stone is willing to use illegal means, such as lying to witnesses and paying off a patient to photograph medical files. Crowe isn't shown to use illegal methods, but her morality is suspect. She recruits an Indian associate to act as a "prop" to gain the Khans' trust and then dumps Nasir's case the second things don't go her way.
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The Night Of / int_bd2116fd	type	Accidental Kiss
The Night Of / int_bd2116fd	comment	Accidental Kiss: Chandra kisses Naz without really thinking about it during one of their meetings. She backs away shortly after coming to her senses and realizing what a terrible, terrible idea it is.
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The Night Of / int_c3945f1f	type	Rustproof Blood
The Night Of / int_c3945f1f	comment	Rustproof Blood: Many hours after the murder, the blood splattered around the bedroom is still bright red. In the coroner's photos, however, it looks black.
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The Night Of / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Night Of / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: While listening to Chandra talk about breaking up with her boyfriend, he mentions Meatloaf's "Paradise by the Dashboard Light," but Chandra doesn't get the reference.
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The Night Of / int_cfbbd075	comment	Porn Stash: Nasir's mother searches his room and discovers a stack of Maxim magazines hidden in his closet. He's so innocent that he doesn't even have real porn in his porn stash.
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The Night Of / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Stone critically describes how Detective Box stays just inside the limits of the law to do better at his job. He says this just a scene or two after insisting that Nasir not tell him what actually happened so that he isn't limited to arguing the truth in court. Stone's pitch to the Khans includes criticizing lawyers who churn through clients by copping quick pleas to maximize their profits. As we've seen, Stone is just this sort of attorney: trawling for low-effort cases and copping pleas. Crowe claims that Stone doesn't care about the case and will extort the Khans of money just to get Naz a plea deal, whereas she will fight for Naz free of charge. After getting the charges reduced, she tries to intimidate Naz into taking the plea deal without doing very much work on the case at all. After Naz refuses, she throws the case into an associate's lap and tells the Khans she's going to start charging them. Additionally, Crowe's criticism of Stone as an ambulance chaser. Replace "ambulance" with "news van" and she's pretty much the same thing.
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The Night Of / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
The Night Of / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Duane Reade, Don Taylor and the coroner are all alternative suspects presented by the defense. The real murderer is strongly implied to not be any of them or Nasir.
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The Night Of / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Naz's father takes on a delivery job after his cab was taken in and he ends up on Chandra's doorstep, creating an awkward moment for the two. That to happen in New York is very unlikely.
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The Night Of / int_dde43ab	comment	Tattooed Crook: Nasir gets a number of tattoos to fit in with the jail population. Stone laments them because they'll make him less sympathetic to the jury. He has to address it in his closing speech, saying that they're part of "surviving" jail.
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The Night Of / int_dfe687c9	comment	Alone with the Psycho: Chandra goes to interview a witness, but once she discovers he's intensely misogynistic and believes women like Andrea deserve whatever happens to them, she becomes uncomfortably aware of being alone in a dark room with him, and immediately backs off asking questions that suggest he's a suspect.
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The Night Of / int_e0c3f8bf	comment	Punch-Clock Hero: A recurring theme is that people in the criminal justice system are all just doing their jobs. We see many of them behaving surly, bored, tired or generally just putting in their nine-to-five before clocking out, which stands in direct contrast to the people they interact with, who are going through the worst period in their lives. Even the jury pool is shown napping through their orientation video. Stone and Box spend the series gradually moving away from the trope. In the series finale, the trope is discussed when a police officer suggests making a show about a cop who "doesn't give a shit." Overhearing him inspires the now-retired Box to put in some last-minute work to find the real killer.
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The Night Of / int_e9ae8248	comment	Prisons Are Gymnasiums: Working out is a major pastime during Naz's prison time.
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The Night Of / int_eb4f769f	comment	Race Fetish: John Stone has a thing for black women. His ex-wife is black, and he's seen sleeping with a black prostitute. When he mentions "young urban women," Chandra notes how "well-spoken" he is with that term. In the series finale, after Stone has decided to not care what other people think about him, he sits across from a black woman in the subway and scratches his eczema without embarrassment.
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The Night Of / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: One of the young arresting officers writes her report like this, in an apparent attempt to sound official. Detective Box tells her to rewrite it in simple language so the jury can understand it.
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The Night Of / int_f288cf3	comment	Innocent Innuendo: When a man in Stone's support group says he's "holding his own" in his dating life, Stone notes that it's an unfortunate choice of words.
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The Night Of / int_f4b18944	comment	Exposed Embarrassing Purchase: When Stone is at the drugstore, the clerk talks loudly about his Viagra pills on the phone with a supplier. This gets overheard by a female customer much to Stone's chagrin.
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The Night Of / int_f6b2bfb7	comment	Gold Digger: Andrea's financial adviser accuses her stepfather of being one due to his long history of shacking up with rich, older women.
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The Night Of / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Multiple people using the exact same wording to Stone when talking about Nasir's case: People keep describing Stone as being in the "right place, right time" to pick up Nasir as a client. People saying that Crowe landed a "sweetheart" of a deal for Nasir's plea. People bringing up how one of the arresting officers puked at the crime scene, and him insisting that he only gagged. Whenever Stone mentions that he has taken in the victim's cat, he then offers, "You want him?" Stone's local pharmacist is a total jerk who likes making fun of his various health concerns.
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The Night Of / int_fb4c41b4	comment	"Friends" Rent Control: Stone has a large and nice apartment in New York City despite the fact that he's said to have reported only $60,000 in earnings last year, half of that yet to be collected. One of his contacts notes that he's riddled with debt. Justified and Discussed regarding Andrea; the $10 million brownstone she lives in despite never having a steady job is an inheritance from her very wealthy mother. Box finds this out early on, but does nothing with the information, as he's focused on Naz. It's only when Stone asks the same questions that he finds information arousing suspicion about her Gold Digger stepfather.
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The Night Of / int_ffb55ae3	comment	Fauxshadow: Andrea's cat gets a lot of attention, telegraphing some kind of clue that would bring about a turn in the investigation. However, it never happens. The cat was merely there for Stone's character development.
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