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The Professionals

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The Professionals	comment	The Professionals was a British Action Series that aired for five seasons (1977–83) on ITV. The show follows the adventures of Criminal Intelligence 5 (CI5) agents Ray Doyle (Martin Shaw), William Bodie (Lewis Collins), and their boss George Cowley (Gordon Jackson). CI5 dealt with serious crime beyond the capacity of the ordinary police, and were authorised to use any means—including illegal ones—in doing so (as lampshaded by the page quote). Being a typical show of the times, much of the action centres around girls, guns, car chases, and drinking, not unlike its inspiration The Sweeney.Interestingly the two leads were cast precisely because they had not got on while working together on a previous project and creator Brian Clemens thought that this would give the onscreen relationship between Doyle and Bodie the edge he wanted. While they worked out their differences in fairly short order and became friends offscreen, they were good enough actors to retain the onscreen dynamic Clemens sought. However, they later fell out over Shaw blocking repeats of the series—not because, as was commonly believed, he was trying to move away from the typecasting the role had given him, but more prosaically because he didn't think that the repeat fees ITV were offering were good enough. Shaw finally relented after Gordon Jackson passed away and his widow ran into financial difficulties.There was a Revival (CI5: The New Professionals) on Sky One in 1999, which was not warmly received, to put it politely. Not even having Edward Woodward take over the Cowley role could save the show from being a pale shadow of the original. Lasting for just one season, it is available on DVD, but only in Australia/New Zealand.It's rumoured that there's a remake being made, prompting a collective Big "NO!" from the fandom. The good news is that in 2014 the original series was reissued on DVD and Blu-ray in a fully restored and remastered version.Jackson died in 1990 and Collins passed away in 2013, leaving Shaw as the only surviving main cast member.It was a major inspiration of the Japanese manga Appleseed and its sequels, such as Ghost in the Shell.Not to be confused with the 1966 Western film of the same name.
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The Professionals / int_10134c97	type	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety
The Professionals / int_10134c97	comment	Artistic License – Gun Safety: For "Professionals" their habit of tossing loaded guns to each other is somewhat disturbing. In "Hunter/Hunted", even Cowley does this, and when Doyle winces points out that he knew the safety was on. As a former soldier Cowley should have known that safeties can be unreliable. Then at the end of the episode, Cowley wants to know how Bodie got hold of an experimental laser-sighted rifle with a thousand yard range.
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The Professionals / int_129749df	type	All Men Are Perverts
The Professionals / int_129749df	comment	All Men Are Perverts: At the end of "Killer with a Long Arm," Cowley catches Bodie and Doyle sniggering over a long-range sniper rifle they've captured. He takes a peek through the telescopic sight and sure enough finds it pointed at a scantily dressed girl in an apartment a couple of miles away. Cowley chews out the shamefaced pair...then corrects their estimation of the girl's dimensions. "Blackout" opens with our heroes eagerly speeding across London to investigate a case involving an unconscious blonde wearing only a pink bra and panties. The lads are oft seen enlivening a boring stakeout by checking out any passing birds.
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The Professionals / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Professionals / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Doyle briefly slips into one in 'The Rack' after a suspect dies in custody. Bodie snaps him out of it.
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The Professionals / int_14c10915	type	Crashing Through the Harem
The Professionals / int_14c10915	comment	Crashing Through the Harem: Invoked when a detective friend of Doyle times a narcotics bust at a strip club so he'll be in the dressing room when the girls come offstage.
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The Professionals / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
The Professionals / int_1616e13	comment	Even though stories were Ripped from the Headlines, terrorists featured on the show were the No Celebrities Were Harmed version. The Organisation in "Runner" appears to be a Scottish version of the IRA, there's a German terrorist group in "Close Quarters" that's inspired by the Baader-Meinhof Group, and Ramos in "Long Shot" is likely an expy of Carlos the Jackal.
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The Professionals / int_171e14be	type	London Gangster
The Professionals / int_171e14be	comment	"Hijack" has a corrupt Soviet official arranging with a London Gangster to steal a lorry-load of silver bullion.
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The Professionals / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
The Professionals / int_17501df2	comment	Cowley is an ex-army officer and veteran of several wars, including World War II. He's a dour Scotsman who barks roughly at his underlings, but of course always defends them to the hilt.
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The Professionals / int_17d9043d	type	Read the Fine Print
The Professionals / int_17d9043d	comment	Read the Fine Print In "Old Dog with New Tricks", a high-ranking police officer tries to take control of a hostage situation from Doyle (a former Detective Constable) until Doyle gets him to read the small print on his warrant card. In "The Female Factor", Doyle insists on investigating the death of a prostitute he once knew, using CI5's blanket authority to investigate any incident. "It's in the small print on our cards". Cowley starts tearing strips off him ("Don't you quote small print at me. For every sentence of small print you produce, I can produce smaller!") until he happens to look at the phone number written on a notepad in the hooker's apartment...the Prime Minister's private line. Suddenly Cowley rounds on the CID detectives and announces that CI5 are taking over the case. "Can't you read the small print on our cards?" In "Involvement" Cowley says Doyle can't get married without clearing it with him first, which is apparently also in the small print.
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The Professionals / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
The Professionals / int_19d06ef7	comment	In "Need to Know", Cowley is briefing a couple of colleagues on his plan to snatch a double agent from police custody so he can be interrogated at leisure. It's pointed out that Bodie and Doyle could go to jail if things go wrong, which Cowley callously dismisses as their hard luck. Given that he's A Father to His Men, this tips off the audience that he's up to something.
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The Professionals / int_1a4ece83	type	He Had a Name
The Professionals / int_1a4ece83	comment	He Had a Name: "Killer With a Long Arm" has a variation. A forensics expert dismisses a murder victim as "nobody," meaning he was unconnected to their main case. Doyle immediately snaps "Nobody's nobody," haranguing him about the fact that the victim had a wife and children. Of course, since Doyle was the one who asked who the dead man was, we never do learn his name.
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The Professionals / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
The Professionals / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: In its initial run, young women generally fancied one of Bodie and Doyle.
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The Professionals / int_1bbb76bc	type	Abandoned Area
The Professionals / int_1bbb76bc	comment	Abandoned Area: CI5 used the former Wembley Palace of Engineering for training, and of course scenes take place in the usual Abandoned Warehouses, derelict dockyards, and decommissioned WW2 airfields. Parodied in "Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown" when our heroes find the Docklands are being redeveloped.
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The Professionals / int_1df37537	type	Mutual Kill
The Professionals / int_1df37537	comment	Mutual Kill: In "Heroes", impulsive CI5 man Tommy comes to aid Bodie and Doyle during the climactic shoot-out. He's fatally shot with an uzi, but he manages to take the bad guy with him.
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The Professionals / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
The Professionals / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: A major appeal of the series is the bantering friendship between Bodie and Doyle, two men who would kill and die for each other, which of course is fertile ground for...
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The Professionals / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
The Professionals / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Cowley's instinct tells him that Chief Constable Green is using illegal methods to maintain law and order. The Minister retorts that you can't put 'instincts' down on paper. Later one of Green's men says that his instinct tells him that Bodie and Doyle are trouble. Green replies that he likes instincts because "they can't be put on paper."
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The Professionals / int_24400cfe	type	Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon
The Professionals / int_24400cfe	comment	Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon: One episode centred around a gun used in a crime being dumped in the prop bin of a theatre company.
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The Professionals / int_255913ca	type	Make It Look Like a Struggle
The Professionals / int_255913ca	comment	Make It Look Like a Struggle: In "Private Madness Public Danger", Doyle enters a Bad Guy Bar and hauls a customer into the storeroom, but not before he throws the manager a coin and tells him to play something loud on the jukebox. Turns out the man is an undercover cop and the two of them start knocking things off the shelves to make it sound like Doyle is beating him up. When it's time to leave, he reminds Doyle to give him the requisite facial bruise. In "Rogue", a corrupt CI5 agent knocks out a suspect, throws him out the window, then stabs himself in the shoulder with a knife moments before Bodie and Doyle kick down the door in response to his faked cries of alarm. Cowley's suspicions are raised when the autopsy reveals that the suspect was given a fatal karate chop when Cowley wanted him taken alive. In "The Untouchables", Bodie and Doyle have to fake a punch-up. Doyle says he has a loose filling so Bodie agrees to hit the other side, only to get it wrong in the excitement.
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The Professionals / int_27be0280	type	Porn Stache
The Professionals / int_27be0280	comment	Porn Stache: Fortunately not worn by any of the main characters, but regularly seen on guest characters. And not always villains, either.
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The Professionals / int_27dae4f0	type	Rogue Agent
The Professionals / int_27dae4f0	comment	In "Rogue", a member of CI5 turns out to be a Rogue Agent. Cowley doesn't take it well, as he was an old war buddy and his first choice for recruitment into the organisation.
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The Professionals / int_28ea0e57	type	Cock Fight
The Professionals / int_28ea0e57	comment	Cock Fight: The lads do like to jokingly scrap over women, but it's never serious. (There may be a reason for this.)
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The Professionals / int_2b49eaf	type	Damsel out of Distress
The Professionals / int_2b49eaf	comment	Damsel out of Distress: In "The Purging of CI5", a terrorist bomber is killing off CI5 agents. One of the few female CI5 agents gets a lead and rushes off by herself to confront the man, and there's a shot of him reaching for a gun in a drawer. Then Bodie and Doyle arrive on the scene to find the office looking like a bomb exploded and the female agent lying with her feet up...on the desk, with the bomber beaten up and subdued in the corner.
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The Professionals / int_2c7f645b	type	Gas Leak Cover-Up
The Professionals / int_2c7f645b	comment	Gas Leak Cover Up: In "Old Dog With New Tricks", the gas leak excuse is lampshaded by Cowley as to why the street outside a hostage situation is deserted. However the goal is not to cover up what happened, but to remove witnesses to the ruthless (and illegal) tactics CI5 will use to end the situation.
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The Professionals / int_2da1421	type	Booby Trap
The Professionals / int_2da1421	comment	Averted in "Blood Sports" where terrorists leave a bomb hidden in a cigarette packet under their abandoned car. The car is simply lifted on jacks and rolled away from the bomb, so the Bomb Squad can deal with it at their leisure.
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The Professionals / int_2e032e41	type	Latin Lover
The Professionals / int_2e032e41	comment	Another male version in "A Hiding to Nothing", where the Latin Lover of an older government secretary, posing as a struggling journalist, convinces her to feed him information for a big scoop. CI5 have to inform her that no such journalist exists. They assume at the time that he's a Palestinian terrorist; ironically he turns out to be an Israeli agent.
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The Professionals / int_2e196e9	type	My Favorite Shirt
The Professionals / int_2e196e9	comment	In "Mixed Doubles", an unarmed Bodie is facing off with a combat instructor armed with a huge Bowie knife, with Doyle egging on his friend from the sidelines. Doyle then gets angry when Bodie gets his shirt sliced because that's his shirt that he's wearing!
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The Professionals / int_2f2e3cfe	type	Interrogation by Vandalism
The Professionals / int_2f2e3cfe	comment	Interrogation by Vandalism: In "Killer With A Long Arm", Doyle is interrogating a Greek restaurant owner, and decides to carry out the Greek tradition of plate-smashing.
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The Professionals / int_301476a3	type	Car Meets House
The Professionals / int_301476a3	comment	Car Meets House: In "Close Quarters", Bodie, his girlfriend and a terrorist he's captured are holding out in a country house with the terrorist's comrades in pursuit. The bad guys crash their car through the front of the house. In "First Night", CI5 weld a pointed steel Battering Ram on the front of a truck-mounted lift platform—on which an Uzi-armed Bodie is riding—to smash through the upstairs window to a room where an Israeli minister is being held hostage. In the pilot episode of The '90s remake they one-up this by having the heroes drive a train engine into the building (it's a warehouse for servicing trains, so it has rail lines running through it) to stop a gang of kidnappers from shooting their hostages.
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The Professionals / int_3255968b	type	Implied Death Threat
The Professionals / int_3255968b	comment	In "Fugitive", Bodie gets rumbled while trying to infiltrate a German terrorist group, so they decide to exchange him for a terrorist that CI5 have captured. The ransom note is delivered in a floral wreath, and Bodie is Strapped to a Bomb for the Prisoner Exchange.
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The Professionals / int_32976084	type	Destination Defenestration
The Professionals / int_32976084	comment	Destination Defenestration: The fake suicide version opens "Everest Was Also Conquered" when a whistleblower to an impending corruption inquiry gets thrown out the window by her police protection detail, who've been bribed or blackmailed into the act. In "A Stirring of Dust", Doyle is Bound and Gagged so takes care of an assassin by kicking him through the window. He gets a bollocking for that from Cowley however, as the assassin got his throat sliced up so can't be made to talk. Used as a plot-point in "Blackout" when a woman is found with cuts and bruises indicating she jumped out of a window. Later a CI5 agent sees a window covered by a sheet of cardboard (instead of being properly boarded up) and realises the window was broken recently. In the Action Prologue of "Fugitive", a female terrorist posing as a hotel waitress brings a breakfast tray for a senior member of the CIA staying in a London hotel. Two other terrorists who've been waiting in a nearby room then force their way in while the door is open and bundle him out the window.
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The Professionals / int_33287e20	type	One Bullet Clips
The Professionals / int_33287e20	comment	Averted because those Browning Hi-Powers kept jamming when firing blanks! So you often see the slides on Bodie and Doyle's pistols lock back after they've only fired a few rounds; nowhere near the 13 plus one "up the spout" ammunition capacity of that pistol. Later on they changed to firearms that worked more reliably with blanks.
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The Professionals / int_33affa42	type	Government Agency of Fiction
The Professionals / int_33affa42	comment	Government Agency of Fiction: CI5, an organised crime, terrorism, and spy fighting agency.
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The Professionals / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
The Professionals / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: Martin Shaw (who'd done research into tactics used by the SAS) complained about scenes where they'd be silhouetted in doorways. The producer replied that few people would know it was a stupid idea anyway.
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The Professionals / int_3892655c	type	Magical Security Cam
The Professionals / int_3892655c	comment	Magical Security Cam: In "Heroes" an armoured car robbery is witnessed by a member of the public with a handheld 8mm camera. When we see CI5 watching the footage, it includes shots taken in an amateurish fashion (people in the way, jerky film, etc) but also scenes from the robbery it would have been impossible for the cameraman to have filmed (such as the shooting of a security guard who is inside the armoured car) but which we saw in the previous action sequence.
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The Professionals / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Professionals / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: When a friend of Cowley's from MI5 is arrested for spying for the Chinese, Cowley falls under suspicion. The KGB decide to snatch the man and interrogate him for what he knows about the British and Chinese, while putting the blame for the snatch on the Chinese and Cowley. Turns out the whole thing has been arranged by Cowley to draw out The Mole, who will be called in to interrogate Cowley's friend. As the scheme involves Bodie and Doyle (who are not in on Cowley's plan) being stunned by Knockout Gas, they're not happy.
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The Professionals / int_39b727e9	type	Action Genre Hero Guy
The Professionals / int_39b727e9	comment	Action Genre Hero Guy: Bodie. Doyle is basically the same except very slightly less jaded and with '80s Hair.
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The Professionals / int_3bcef6d9	type	Camera Sniper
The Professionals / int_3bcef6d9	comment	Camera Sniper: In "Hunter/Hunted", Bodie and Doyle think they're being followed by a black Porsche on the highway. After some vehicular maneuvering the Porsche drives past with the unseen driver waving at them, so they assume it's the usual road rage Cock Fight. Then the Porsche turns up unnoticed at their destination, a telephoto lens extends out the car window and takes several photographs of Bodie and Doyle.
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The Professionals / int_3bd0924c	type	Jury and Witness Tampering
The Professionals / int_3bd0924c	comment	Jury and Witness Tampering: In "Not A Very Civil Civil Servant", the Villain of the Week uses a combination of threats and bribery to arrange for several jurors to sway the others.
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The Professionals / int_3da6b7c8	type	Comm Links
The Professionals / int_3da6b7c8	comment	Comm Links: The distinctive and compact Pye PF8 portable RT, plus there was a car radio in each CI5 vehicle. Cowley has his radio-phone with scrambler.
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The Professionals / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
The Professionals / int_3dd3951e	comment	Cowboy Cop: Invoked as their tactics are fully authorised by Cowley, though they do disobey his orders on occasion.
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The Professionals / int_4023b8c8	type	First-Name Basis
The Professionals / int_4023b8c8	comment	Chief Constable Green insists on a First-Name Basis with Cowley even though he's never met him before. Cowley lets it slide because he wants Green to let his guard down, but drops the façade once he has proof of Green's abuse of power.
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The Professionals / int_405b0c46	type	Armed Blag
The Professionals / int_405b0c46	comment	A white supremacist group steals enough plutonium to make an atomic bomb in "Stakeout." And in "Where The Jungle Ends", a mercenary unit does an Armed Blag of a nuclear waste recycling plant.
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The Professionals / int_431dca9b	type	Compressed Vice
The Professionals / int_431dca9b	comment	("Klansmen") Bodie's life is saved by a black doctor despite his racist abuse, while members of white supremacy organisations are portrayed as ignorant thugs being manipulated by right-wing politicians and crooked businessmen for their own ends. That didn't stop it from becoming a Banned Episode for its racist content!
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The Professionals / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
The Professionals / int_443b78cd	comment	Subverted whenever Bodie caresses a woman's hair with that menacing smile on his face (see "Hunter/Hunted" and "Dead Reckoning").
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The Professionals / int_44bed14c	type	Hostage Situation
The Professionals / int_44bed14c	comment	Hostage Situation: In "Old Dog with New Tricks", a crime boss tries to free his brother from prison by holding the Home Secretary hostage. Unfortunately he captures Cowley instead. While Doyle holds a Sawn-Off Shotgun at his brother's head out on the street, Cowley informs the crime boss that if there's one shot from inside the building, they're going to blow off his brother's head, storm the building and kill all the criminals, then blame it on them.
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The Professionals / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
The Professionals / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: In "The Female Factor", the location of a dead prostitute's mink coat is a clue.
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The Professionals / int_4508b16b	type	The Guards Must Be Crazy
The Professionals / int_4508b16b	comment	Averted in "Slush Fund" when a hitman they're holding in custody murders a CI5 agent and escapes, putting the life of Doyle (who's taken the hitman's place) in jeopardy. Bodie starts venting about how stupid the dead man was while right next to his corpse. Cowley is not impressed.
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The Professionals / int_453a1f74	type	Witty Banter
The Professionals / int_453a1f74	comment	Witty Banter
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The Professionals / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
The Professionals / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Subverted in "The Female Factor" when Cowley says of a KGB opposite number, "Terkoff. He was a good man." As his partner has just been shot by Terkoff, Bodie angrily points at where Doyle is lying and snaps, "Yeah? Well, there's a better man back there!"
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The Professionals / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
The Professionals / int_4a3e547f	comment	In "Blackout", a country policeman has to pedal off on his bicycle to get hold of a witness for CI5, and gripes that: "They probably expect me to jump in my high-powered motor and go screaming around corners, tires screeching like on television!"
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The Professionals / int_4bc2095b	type	One Head Taller
The Professionals / int_4bc2095b	comment	One Head Taller: In "Blood Sports" there's a female CI5 agent played by Lizzie Spender who was supposed to be a Recurring Extra, but all her scenes (except where she's sitting in her car) were cut because she was taller than the leads.
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The Professionals / int_4c23b50f	type	Land Mine Goes "Click!"
The Professionals / int_4c23b50f	comment	In "The Purging of CI5", Bodie dials the first number of his phone and suddenly realises it's booby-trapped. Fortunately, he's got his radio to call Doyle for help, who disarms it with their usual exchange of banter (though somewhat terser).
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The Professionals / int_4c70bdae	type	Terrorists Without a Cause
The Professionals / int_4c70bdae	comment	Terrorists Without a Cause: "Kickback" has a fictional Italian terrorist group carrying out an assassination for hire, with the contemporary connection between The Mafia and terrorism lampshaded. In "First Night" the situation is reversed with London Gangsters kidnapping an Israeli minister and offering to sell him to the highest bidder. Even though stories were Ripped from the Headlines, terrorists featured on the show were the No Celebrities Were Harmed version. The Organisation in "Runner" appears to be a Scottish version of the IRA, there's a German terrorist group in "Close Quarters" that's inspired by the Baader-Meinhof Group, and Ramos in "Long Shot" is likely an expy of Carlos the Jackal.
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The Professionals / int_4cacfcc3	type	Honey Trap
The Professionals / int_4cacfcc3	comment	Honey Trap: In "The Female Factor," a young prostitute is used to seduce a politician so he can be blackmailed into passing secrets to the KGB. As part of The Con in "The Untouchables", CI5 hire a High-Class Call Girl to seduce a 'cultural attaché' who's using his Diplomatic Impunity to commit assassinations. A male version happens in "Blood Sports" when a terrorist has seduced the sister of the man he's seen assassinating in the Action Prologue, to enable him to get close to his target. Another male version in "A Hiding to Nothing", where the Latin Lover of an older government secretary, posing as a struggling journalist, convinces her to feed him information for a big scoop. CI5 have to inform her that no such journalist exists. They assume at the time that he's a Palestinian terrorist; ironically he turns out to be an Israeli agent.
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The Professionals / int_4d28eee2	type	Roofhopping
The Professionals / int_4d28eee2	comment	Roofhopping: Whenever there's a foot chase near a tenement building.
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The Professionals / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Professionals / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Doyle's scruffy suit jacket/jeans combo and Bodie's leather jackets took about awhile to become their standard looks. They both wore all kinds of weird seventies fashions in early episodes. They also initially drive a Triumph TR7, before settling into the iconic Ford Capri. A few early episodes have a strange title sequence that has Cowley timing several CI5 agents (including Bodie and Doyle) through a kind of assault course. A few other episodes have Cowley doing a voiceover ("anarchy, terror...") over the more familar and far cooler title sequence with the car bursting through a window. Their call signs are inconsistent at first, before settling into the famous 3.7 for Bodie and 4.5 for Doyle.
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The Professionals / int_502b147b	type	Playing Drunk
The Professionals / int_502b147b	comment	Playing Drunk: In "The Female Factor," Doyle pretends to be drunk when visiting a high-class call girl, whom CI5 want to interrogate.
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The Professionals / int_52e52099	type	Deathbed Confession
The Professionals / int_52e52099	comment	In "Everest Was Also Conquered", a former intelligence officer makes a Deathbed Confession that he murdered a witness to a corruption inquiry in the 1950's. As Bodie and Doyle investigate, they find they're in a race against a hitman who's killing off the other conspirators in the murder.
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The Professionals / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
The Professionals / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: "When The Heat Cools Off" has multiple flashbacks to 1971 when Doyle was still a uniform policeman. "Discovered in a Graveyard" has flashbacks (albeit in a surreal coma dream) to when he was recruited by Cowley and first met Bodie. "Kickback" has flashbacks to when Bodie was in the SAS and a colleague (whom he meets again moments later) ends up Taking the Bullet for him. Unfortunately the set used for the flashback set in Northern Ireland is the same English farmhouse both characters later hold up in, which is a bit confusing for viewers.
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The Professionals / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
The Professionals / int_53f5119f	comment	In "The Ojuka Situation", The Dragon played by a young Charles Dance stops one of his minions from giving Doyle the Coup de Grâce after he's been knocked unconscious, because he wants payback for some men CI5 killed earlier and wants Doyle to see it coming. Even after Doyle regains consciousness, he delays killing him until Doyle has a chance to free himself from his ropes using a lighter conveniently left in his back pocket.
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The Professionals / int_554063c6	type	If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!
The Professionals / int_554063c6	comment	If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: Downplayed in "Where the Jungle Ends" where the Villain of the Week is Krivas, a former mercenary colleague of Bodie who killed a woman he loved. After Bodie captures Krivas, he starts gloating about how he's going to shoot pieces off him.
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The Professionals / int_571833a	type	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?
The Professionals / int_571833a	comment	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: The trope quote appears verbatim in "Where the Jungle Ends". To force information out of a corrupt government man, Bodie informs him that his schoolgirl daughter has been kidnapped and is currently being held hostage outside in the team's car. The little dear proves to be horribly precocious, and demands to know whether Doyle, sitting with her in the vehicle, is "going to ravish me", as she believes this to be what happens in such situations from the bodice-rippers that she's read. Doyle, however, is thankfully far too nice a chap to do so, and the two finally end up sharing a bar of chocolate instead.
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The Professionals / int_5c8e6330	type	Thrifty Scot
The Professionals / int_5c8e6330	comment	In "Blackout", Bodie brags about his accurate and expensive Heuer Manhattan watch, only to end up breaking it while smashing down a door to rescue a hostage. He broke his arm too, but was more angry about the watch. At the end of the episode however, he's happy to hear the lads at CI5 (even Cowley!) have all chipped in to buy him a new watch. It turns out to be a cheap Superman watch.
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The Professionals / int_5cb87beb	type	Sheet of Glass
The Professionals / int_5cb87beb	comment	Sheet of Glass: The iconic opening shot of the Title Sequence is a car smashing through a window.
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The Professionals / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
The Professionals / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: There are female agents in CI5, but we only see them if required for a particular episode. And there is Susan who captures a professional killer in "The Purging of CI5", but in later episodes is only seen working as Cowley's chauffeur. Given the era a likely explanation is that these women are chauffeurs, technicians or secretaries, but Cowley has them trained so they can work as agents too when a female operative is needed.
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The Professionals / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
The Professionals / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Bodie and Doyle. Doyle even says of Bodie in "Fall Girl", 'If he was going to the electric chair, he'd have Miss Universe pulling the switch.' Which is a bit of a cheek coming from him.
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The Professionals / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
The Professionals / int_5e3c35bd	comment	Badass Bureaucrat: Cowley may run a squad of Cowboy Cops, but he's always done the paperwork to cover his backside. And as various powerbrokers who think they can use CI5 for their own ends discover, Cowley knows the corridors of Whitehall better than any of them.
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The Professionals / int_5f207a1a	type	Courtroom Episode
The Professionals / int_5f207a1a	comment	Courtroom Episode: In "The Rack" a court of enquiry is held when a suspect dies in CI5 custody after being punched by Doyle. A firebrand civil rights lawyer uses the opportunity to hold a trial-by-media over the very existence of CI5.
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The Professionals / int_5f3c9391	type	Impersonation Gambit
The Professionals / int_5f3c9391	comment	Impersonation Gambit: In "Slush Fund", Bodie and Doyle detain a South African hitman entering the country so Doyle can take his place and find out who the target is. Inevitably the hitman escapes to put everyone in danger for the final act.
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The Professionals / int_6056f853	type	Homoerotic Subtext
The Professionals / int_6056f853	comment	Homoerotic Subtext: Two 'hard men' in tight pants who have no issue camping up their relationship for a laugh. Famously parodied in The Comic Strip Presents skit "The Bullshitters" when Bonehead and Foyle resolve their burning sexual tension before the final shootout by getting shirtless and snogging each other while rolling around in a pile of gravel.
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The Professionals / int_61801647	type	Game of Chicken
The Professionals / int_61801647	comment	Game of Chicken: In "Spy Probe," Bodie and Doyle drive their Ford Capris at each other, braking with the cars only four inches apart.
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The Professionals / int_61b576af	type	I Take Offense to That Last One
The Professionals / int_61b576af	comment	I Take Offense to That Last One: From "Old Dog with New Tricks". And at the end of "Need to Know".
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The Professionals / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
The Professionals / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: In "Long Shot", Professional Killer Ramos wants a comfortable place to hide out while waiting to make the kill, and a private jet for a quick exit from the country, so he kidnaps the daughter of an oil millionaire and hides her Bound and Gagged in a house scheduled for demolition. When CI5 capture Ramos, he trades her location for his release (though Cowley makes sure he gets what's coming to him). In "Blackout", the amnesiac German woman turns out to be the nanny for a kidnapped family who managed to escape her captors. The father is a financial manager whose office they need because it gives a good firing position for a missile launcher. In "The Acorn Syndrome", enemy agents kidnap the daughter of an employee of a defense company to force him to steal the plans for a top secret tank. In "Fugitive", Bodie gets rumbled while trying to infiltrate a German terrorist group, so they decide to exchange him for a terrorist that CI5 have captured. The ransom note is delivered in a floral wreath, and Bodie is Strapped to a Bomb for the Prisoner Exchange.
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The Professionals / int_629de9ad	type	'70s Hair
The Professionals / int_629de9ad	comment	'70s Hair: Doyle's perm, which kind of looks like it's supposed to be a white guy version of an afro. (Luckily for Lewis Collins, Bodie just has a sensible short back and sides, presumably because Bodie is an ex-soldier.)
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The Professionals / int_63499260	type	VillainOfTheWeek
The Professionals / int_63499260	comment	Lampshaded in "Hunter/Hunted" when the Villain of the Week uses a thirty-second delay fuse so Doyle has time to get clear.
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The Professionals / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
The Professionals / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: When Bodie is knifed in "Klansmen", Ray weeps openly as he walks beside Bodie's hospital gurney.
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The Professionals / int_654f1e92	type	Don't Come A-Knockin'
The Professionals / int_654f1e92	comment	Don't Come A-Knockin': In "Servant with Two Masters", Bodie knocks out a mook and throws him Bound and Gagged into the back of his van. Later Doyle comes along and sees the van rocking in a suspicious manner as the mook struggles to free himself. Thinking his partner is getting some on-the-job nookie, he waggles his finger through the tinted window saying, "Naughty, naughty!" only to be attacked by two more mooks who've come to rescue their colleague.
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The Professionals / int_672f15c6	type	Mad Lib Thriller Title
The Professionals / int_672f15c6	comment	Mad Lib Thriller Title: "The Ojuka Situation" involves the attempted assassination of a foreign head-of-state by the agents of an unnamed power. Generally averted though, despite the frequent appearance of government conspiracies or foreign spies.
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The Professionals / int_674c71e9	type	Live-Action Escort Mission
The Professionals / int_674c71e9	comment	At the start of "Blind Run", Cowley briefs our heroes for their Live-Action Escort Mission, tells them that they will be treated as freelancers with no connection to the British government if anything goes wrong, and then shakes their hands. It's the last bit that worries them the most.
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The Professionals / int_67e53056	type	Gun Porn
The Professionals / int_67e53056	comment	Gun Porn: Where to start...the Browning Hi-Power for Bodie and Doyle in the early seasons, then a Smith & Wesson Model 19 for Bodie and the Walther P38 for Doyle. Not to mention both being issued with AR-18's, AR-10's, Uzis, Ingrams, or Smith & Wesson Model 29's revolvers, while the villains had everything from MAT-49 submachine guns to MILAN anti-tank launchers. There's also the A-180 in Hunter/Hunted, a drum-fed automatic rifle with Laser Sight, though it has little resemblance to the American 180 submachine gun it's based on. The Action Prologue of "Wild Justice" has Bodie and Doyle using prototype Enfield XL64E5's (now known as the SA80) that were being evaluated by the British military and loaned to the production.
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The Professionals / int_67e9df66	type	Empty Quiver
The Professionals / int_67e9df66	comment	Empty Quiver: A white supremacist group steals enough plutonium to make an atomic bomb in "Stakeout." And in "Where The Jungle Ends", a mercenary unit does an Armed Blag of a nuclear waste recycling plant. In "Lawson's Last Stand", a mad colonel steals cannisters of nerve gas and threatens to disperse it if his demands aren't met.
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The Professionals / int_68424916	type	Eating the Eye Candy
The Professionals / int_68424916	comment	Eating the Eye Candy: Used as a Chekhov's Gun in "A Hiding to Nothing". After a female terrorist is shot, Bodie is sent to investigate her roommate at the flat she was staying in, and enjoys the sight when she bends over in tight patterned jeans to pick something up. Bodie decides she's innocent of any involvement, but later while guarding a Vulnerable Convoy recognises those same patterned jeans on a woman standing with her back to them by the side of the road, and realises they're about to be ambushed.
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The Professionals / int_69391768	type	Expecting Someone Taller
The Professionals / int_69391768	comment	Expecting Someone Taller: In "The Untouchables":
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The Professionals / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
The Professionals / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: Bodie appears to have this towards Doyle, shown through his jokes about Doyle's love life and offering him advice, to threatening anyone who tries to hurt him. Interestingly Bodie is the younger of the two in the partnership, but seems older perhaps due to his time as a mercenary in Africa.
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The Professionals / int_6ac5926f	type	Insane Admiral
The Professionals / int_6ac5926f	comment	In "Lawson's Last Stand", the eponymous Colonel Lawson is holding up a cannister of nerve gas, strapped to a hand grenade with the pin wired to an overhead pole. He's standing out in the middle of Battersea Park wearing rear view mirrors so he can see if someone sneaks up on him, and has trained himself to hold up the weight of the cannister for one hour, by which time he wants his demands met or he'll drop it and kill millions.
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The Professionals / int_6c553873	type	Private Military Contractors
The Professionals / int_6c553873	comment	Bodie is an ex-mercenary who was also in the SAS. He has a smart remark for every occasion, and is perpetually cool under fire.
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The Professionals / int_6cb4cb70	type	Improperly Placed Firearms
The Professionals / int_6cb4cb70	comment	Improperly Placed Firearms: The Bulgarian secret service agents at a prisoner exchange are holding StG-44s. This weapon was used in a few Warsaw Pact countries, but only as an interim substitute for the AK-47 and they were long gone by the 1970s. "Fall Girl" had the odd incidence of British Special Branch agents armed with Soviet TT-33 pistols. The MacGuffin of "Hunter/Hunted" is an American 180. Because a blank-firing version of this highly restricted automatic weapon would not have been available in Britain at the time, an AR-10 rifle is given a top-mounted Thompson drum magazine and a mock laser sight. For plot-related reasons it's also stated to be a long-range rifle instead of a submachine gun. In "Blackout", an anti-tank missile launcher is smuggled into a firing position by being carried into a financial office by three men with accountant's briefcases. The weapon shown on screen is a MILAN launcher and tripod, which would never have fitted into three briefcases. The scriptwriter was likely thinking of the AT-3 Sagger, which had gained fame in the recent Yom Kipper War and was conveyed in large fibreglass suitcases that also served as a launching platform.
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The Professionals / int_6dbd3711	type	Affectionate Gesture to the Head
The Professionals / int_6dbd3711	comment	Affectionate Gesture to the Head Cowley strokes the hair of a half-conscious Bodie while reviving him with oxygen in "Need to Know". Subverted whenever Bodie caresses a woman's hair with that menacing smile on his face (see "Hunter/Hunted" and "Dead Reckoning").
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The Professionals / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
The Professionals / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: "Klansmen" features a National Front-esque hate group who are dedicated to harassing and assaulting black people (but not killing due to Pragmatic Villainy). As the title suggests, they do so while wearing white hoods.
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The Professionals / int_73309776	type	Psycho Sidekick
The Professionals / int_73309776	comment	In "Heroes", Tommy gives his life to save Bodie and Doyle when they're pinned down by hitmen armed with automatic weapons. As Tommy is about to be loaded onto a hearse with the (now dead) hitmen, Bodie snaps, "No, don't put him in with them!"
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The Professionals / int_751bd286	type	Is This Thing Still On?
The Professionals / int_751bd286	comment	Is This Thing Still On?: In "Heroes", Bodie isn't happy about being told by Cowley to work with a Psycho Sidekick, and starts venting accordingly until...
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The Professionals / int_7570a10c	type	Bond Villain Stupidity
The Professionals / int_7570a10c	comment	Bond Villain Stupidity: In "A Stirring of Dust", Doyle goes to investigate a house and is captured by two professional hitmen waiting to kidnap the woman who lives there. They don't want to fire a gunshot in a suburban area, but could easily have smothered Doyle, as we next see him lying Bound and Gagged on the floor. Doyle then proceeds to kick one of them out of the window to alert Bodie. In "The Ojuka Situation", The Dragon played by a young Charles Dance stops one of his minions from giving Doyle the Coup de Grâce after he's been knocked unconscious, because he wants payback for some men CI5 killed earlier and wants Doyle to see it coming. Even after Doyle regains consciousness, he delays killing him until Doyle has a chance to free himself from his ropes using a lighter conveniently left in his back pocket.
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The Professionals / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
The Professionals / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Discussed in "The Female Factor":
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The Professionals / int_77414bc2	type	Action Prologue
The Professionals / int_77414bc2	comment	A male version happens in "Blood Sports" when a terrorist has seduced the sister of the man he's seen assassinating in the Action Prologue, to enable him to get close to his target.
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The Professionals / int_777baed3	type	Out-of-Character Alert
The Professionals / int_777baed3	comment	Out-of-Character Alert: At the start of "Blind Run", Cowley briefs our heroes for their Live-Action Escort Mission, tells them that they will be treated as freelancers with no connection to the British government if anything goes wrong, and then shakes their hands. It's the last bit that worries them the most. In "Need to Know", Cowley is briefing a couple of colleagues on his plan to snatch a double agent from police custody so he can be interrogated at leisure. It's pointed out that Bodie and Doyle could go to jail if things go wrong, which Cowley callously dismisses as their hard luck. Given that he's A Father to His Men, this tips off the audience that he's up to something.
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The Professionals / int_7a08e8d1	type	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!
The Professionals / int_7a08e8d1	comment	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: In "Where the Jungle Ends", Cowley gets stabbed, falls down a small cliff, and has a fuel tank explode in his face. When Doyle expresses concern as to Da Chief's well-being... Chief Constable Green insists on a First-Name Basis with Cowley even though he's never met him before. Cowley lets it slide because he wants Green to let his guard down, but drops the façade once he has proof of Green's abuse of power.
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The Professionals / int_7d7a5f3	type	Carpet of Virility
The Professionals / int_7d7a5f3	comment	Carpet of Virility: Both Bodie and Doyle display man cleavage on various occasion, as was mandatory for Mr. Fanservice characters in The '70s.
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The Professionals / int_7d7a7d0f	type	Opening Narration
The Professionals / int_7d7a7d0f	comment	Opening Narration: One given by Cowley on the first few episodes
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The Professionals / int_803e411	type	Betrayal Insurance
The Professionals / int_803e411	comment	Betrayal Insurance: In "Not A Very Civil Civil Servant," a Corrupt Corporate Executive arranges for The Dragon to kill off an accountant who knows too much. Later the executive goes through the accountant's files and finds evidence that he has been making copies of every document as insurance. When The Dragon asks how he knew to look in the first place, the executive reveals that he's been taking exactly the same precautions against his smarter underling betraying him.
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The Professionals / int_80491c2f	type	"Open!" Says Me
The Professionals / int_80491c2f	comment	"Open!" Says Me: It goes with the car chases and gunplay. Subverted in "Blackout", when Bodie shoulder-charges a door only to break his right arm in the process (and his expensive watch, which he's even more upset about). He then has to shoot two terrorists using his left hand. A spoof by The Two Ronnies had a gun-waving Doyle kicking open a door and searching the apartment for the villain only to find no-one. As he leaves and closes the door behind him, the Squashed Flat villain falls out from behind it.
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The Professionals / int_82384b1	type	Never Hurt an Innocent
The Professionals / int_82384b1	comment	Never Hurt an Innocent: Cowley makes it clear that this is the line that CI5 does not cross. In "Stopover" however Cowley threatens to frame the family of a Polish agent for treason, and gets called out on this. We're left to wonder if he would have carried out the threat.
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The Professionals / int_86bb7d97	type	Cultured Badass
The Professionals / int_86bb7d97	comment	Cultured Badass: Bodie, Doyle and Cowley can all rattle off poetry as easily as they can win bar brawls.
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The Professionals / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
The Professionals / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: A Secret Police in all-but-name whose only restraint is the democratic values of their commander and the personal morality of its agents, serving at the behest of political masters engaged in dubious Realpolitik, to defend Britain against terrorists, drug dealers, spies, and professional killers.
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The Professionals / int_8816272b	type	Blinded by the Light
The Professionals / int_8816272b	comment	Blinded by the Light: In "Servant with Two Masters", a man is sitting at a desk pointing a gun at Bodie and Doyle. Doyle shoves the desklamp so it shines into the man's face causing him to flinch, whereupon Bodie snatches the gun off him. In "Hunter/Hunted", Cowley is testing a Laser Sight during a training exercise. He shines it into the eyes of a trainee causing him to become disoriented causing him to fall from the roof into a conveniently placed pool of water. Hopefully he didn't suffer any eye damage either!
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The Professionals / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
The Professionals / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: Bodie and Doyle's Ford Capris (used in the later episodes) qualify, and are part of the reason for the Capri's real-life cult status. In early episodes they drove a Triumph TR7, which was either cool or naff depending on your tolerance for mid-70s wedgy styling.
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The Professionals / int_8b7e2c1a	type	BBC Quarry
The Professionals / int_8b7e2c1a	comment	In "Lawson's Last Stand", Bodie and Doyle are sent to track down Colonel Lawson who has walked out of a psychiatric hospital. They're amused to find him prancing about with a couple of other soldiers in a BBC Quarry, brandishing imaginary firearms. Cut to the next scene of Lawson and his men robbing a bank with real submachine guns, using the same tactics they'd been rehearsing earlier.
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The Professionals / int_8ce55ec6	type	Ransom Drop
The Professionals / int_8ce55ec6	comment	Ransom Drop: In "The Acorn Syndrome", Bodie hides in the boot of a car to follow the man driving it to a ransom drop. Unfortunately, the kidnappers have the driver change cars, and Bodie barely gets out of the boot in time to attach a Tracking Device to the second car before it drives off.
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The Professionals / int_8e5348ff	type	Unguided Lab Tour
The Professionals / int_8e5348ff	comment	Unguided Lab Tour: The episode "Involvement" features Doyle's girlfriend wandering into the top secret CI5 headquarters and eavesdropping on an interrogation.
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The Professionals / int_90ff49cb	type	Robbing the Mob Bank
The Professionals / int_90ff49cb	comment	In "Where The Jungle Ends", a squad of mercenaries rob a bank, using submachine guns to drive off the police, stealing an aircraft and parachuting to safety before RAF interceptors can reach them. Their leader then turns up at the home of Britain's top organised crime boss, returning his safety deposit box which they stole as a demonstration of what they can do.
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The Professionals / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The Professionals / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: It's not unusual for the Villain of the Week to hire a junkie or small time criminal to help out with the initial job, who's then killed off because You Know Too Much.
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The Professionals / int_94332264	type	Busman's Holiday
The Professionals / int_94332264	comment	Busman's Holiday: In "Close Quarters", CI5 is on a manhunt for a German terrorist group, but Bodie has been ordered to take a week off until his gun hand heals. While boating with his Girl of the Week, he happens to recognise the terrorist leader hiding out a river island and takes him into custody. Unfortunately his fellow terrorists see him being taken away and pursue before Bodie has a chance to call in backup. Lampshaded in "Weekend in the Country". Criminals on the run after a failed Armed Blag deciding to hide in the country house where Bodie and Doyle, plus their girlfriends, are staying. Our heroes are unarmed (despite Bodie carrying handgun, radio and handcuffs in "Close Quarters") but it still turns out to be Mugging the Monster.
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The Professionals / int_968971cf	type	Naughty Birdwatching
The Professionals / int_968971cf	comment	At the end of "Killer with a Long Arm," Cowley catches Bodie and Doyle sniggering over a long-range sniper rifle they've captured. He takes a peek through the telescopic sight and sure enough finds it pointed at a scantily dressed girl in an apartment a couple of miles away. Cowley chews out the shamefaced pair...then corrects their estimation of the girl's dimensions.
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The Professionals / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
The Professionals / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: In "Wild Justice", Bodie and Doyle are undergoing a full evaluation—both physical and psychological—to determine their fitness for duty. Cowley mentions that a CI5 agent costs more time and money to train than an airline pilot; they are regarded as highly-trained specialists who must be at the peak of their condition. A dispute arises with the psychiatrist on the evaluation team who thinks that Bodie is suffering from a death wish. He's not; he's planning to murder someone to avenge a former colleague.
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The Professionals / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
The Professionals / int_984ef9ef	comment	In "Stopover" however Cowley threatens to frame the family of a Polish agent for treason, and gets called out on this. We're left to wonder if he would have carried out the threat.
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The Professionals / int_985e118a	type	Odd Couple
The Professionals / int_985e118a	comment	Odd Couple: Hot-headed idealist Doyle versus cold-blooded Bodie.
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The Professionals / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
The Professionals / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: In "Need to Know" in order to uncover The Mole in British Intelligence, Cowley's friend is arrested for being a spy for the Chinese. The Plan relies on the KGB deciding to take the risk of snatching this Double Agent, then using their 'Number One' mole to interrogate him. It also relies on the KGB deciding to use Knockout Gas instead of more lethal means to take out Bodie and Doyle, but at least Cowley is shown to have prepared for that.
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The Professionals / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
The Professionals / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart In "Mixed Doubles" Bodie and Doyle undergo special training with a brutal instructor in order to protect a foreign diplomat. At the same time we follow two men undergoing a similar program, who are planning his assassination. Cowley has these too, who make it clear they envy his power, but who would clearly abuse it. These include Chief Constable Green from "In the Public Interest", and a blackshirt leader (an old war buddy of Cowley) in "Look After Annie". "A Stirring of Dust" shows that Cowley has regular meetings with his counterpart in the KGB to exchange information of mutual benefit. Bodie and Doyle act as bodyguards while the KGB official has two heavies who are implied to be their opposite numbers (right down to the clothes and hair!). In "Discovered in a Graveyard", the female terrorist who shoots Doyle is implied to not that different from him—an idealist who lacks the stomach to be a proper killer, being used as an disposable pawn by her government.
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The Professionals / int_9cde2df1	type	Hand Cannon
The Professionals / int_9cde2df1	comment	Hand Cannon: In "Mixed Doubles", Bodie and Doyle worry that a berserker fanatic might attempt to kill a foreign head of state, so arm themselves with .44 Magnum revolvers loaded with dum-dum rounds to be sure of dropping their target instantly. At the same time two hitmen are planning his assassination, and to be sure of killing their target arm themselves with the same weapon and ammunition.
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The Professionals / int_9d184483	type	Changing Clothes Is a Free Action
The Professionals / int_9d184483	comment	Changing Clothes Is a Free Action: Averted in "Blood Sports" when Bodie and Doyle have to interrupt their cricket game to rush off on their latest assignment. As Doyle Drives Like Crazy we see Bodie in the backseat getting thrown back-and-forth as he tries to change out of his cricket whites.
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The Professionals / int_9ebca7d9	type	Mr. Smith
The Professionals / int_9ebca7d9	comment	Mr. Smith: In "Servant with Two Masters", Cowley orders Bodie and Doyle to keep surveillance on an Arab businessman called Mahlik, but won't say why. Bodie notes that Mahlik is the Arabic equivalent of Smith.
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The Professionals / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
The Professionals / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal In "The Female Factor", Doyle uses this trope to explain why he's taken over an investigation into the suspicious death of an escort girl, whom he knew from his time in the Drug Squad. Cowley is not impressed. Then Cowley he finds the Prime Minister's personal phone number in the dead girl's apartment, so CI5 takes over the case anyway. Given that Cowley believes in channeling your anger into something constructive, he has no problem if an agent has personal issues driving them. Although Cowley refuses to let Bodie investigate after his girlfriend is caught in a bombing (not least because Bodie could have been the target) he changes his mind once Bodie involves himself against orders and it's obvious someone else was meant to be the victim. In "Wild Justice", a CI5 psychiatrist worries that Bodie has a death wish due to recent erratic behaviour. Turns out he's seeking revenge on a biker gang who killed a friend from his Special Forces days. Cowley ends up putting a gun to Bodie's head to stop him committing murder and destroying CI5 in the process.
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The Professionals / int_a0e51cd2	type	Judge, Jury, and Executioner
The Professionals / int_a0e51cd2	comment	Judge, Jury, and Executioner: CI5 use exactly the kind of tactics condemned by Royal Commissions into police misconduct, but it's OK because they only use them against bad people. Their limits are best lampshaded in the episode "In the Public Interest" where Bodie and Doyle investigate a town where the police are cracking down on crime and "immoral behaviour" by extralegal means, such as planting evidence and roughing up members of a gay support group. Bodie and Doyle eventually gain evidence of the latter, and when the main culprit decides to murder them to avoid prison, another officer steps in and arrests him, as murder is going too far.
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The Professionals / int_a3597c29	type	Magic Countdown
The Professionals / int_a3597c29	comment	Magic Countdown: When a lunatic holds a nurse hostage via a grenade with the pin removed shoved down her blouse, Bodie says it has a ten second fuse. It takes the grenade 25 seconds to explode. You could handwave this as the grenade's safety lever being caught inside her blouse and not springing free until Bodie cut it loose.
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The Professionals / int_a3a6fdb2	type	Room 101
The Professionals / int_a3a6fdb2	comment	Room 101: Bodie and Doyle lampshade this trope after capturing a hitman who refuses to say who employed him. So they take the hitman to the business of an East End gangster whose brother he killed and handcuff him to a lamppost outside. "Oh he won't kill him. But he'll wish he had." The hitman wisely decides to talk.
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The Professionals / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
The Professionals / int_a4be7043	comment	In "Where the Jungle Ends", Cowley gets stabbed, falls down a small cliff, and has a fuel tank explode in his face. When Doyle expresses concern as to Da Chief's well-being...
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The Professionals / int_a56e3cba	type	Language Barrier
The Professionals / int_a56e3cba	comment	Language Barrier: In "Blind Run" it takes half the episode before someone fluent in English turns up. This is to convey Bodie and Doyle's sense of frustration over being kept in the dark about what's really going on.
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The Professionals / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
The Professionals / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: In "Heroes", Tommy gives his life to save Bodie and Doyle when they're pinned down by hitmen armed with automatic weapons. As Tommy is about to be loaded onto a hearse with the (now dead) hitmen, Bodie snaps, "No, don't put him in with them!" At the end of "Everest Was Also Conquered", Bodie is on the phone making a date with a girl, but when Doyle says he's going to pay his respects to the mother of a CI5 agent who was killed during the episode, Bodie goes with him instead. Averted in "Slush Fund" when a hitman they're holding in custody murders a CI5 agent and escapes, putting the life of Doyle (who's taken the hitman's place) in jeopardy. Bodie starts venting about how stupid the dead man was while right next to his corpse. Cowley is not impressed.
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The Professionals / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
The Professionals / int_a6c69bd	comment	The MacGuffin of "Hunter/Hunted" is an American 180. Because a blank-firing version of this highly restricted automatic weapon would not have been available in Britain at the time, an AR-10 rifle is given a top-mounted Thompson drum magazine and a mock laser sight. For plot-related reasons it's also stated to be a long-range rifle instead of a submachine gun.
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The Professionals / int_a6c99b08	type	Shoot Out the Lock
The Professionals / int_a6c99b08	comment	Shoot Out the Lock: In "The Ojuka Situation", Bodie has just been buzzed through the door of a safehouse when he's jumped by assassins. As he fights one man, the other assassins push through the door which then locks behind them. Bodie overpowers his attacker, then shoots out the lock because he needs to both warn the people inside and get through the door quickly.
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The Professionals / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
The Professionals / int_a6e8221e	comment	Status Quo Is God: Nothing ever changes from episode to episode. The relationships between the characters remain exactly the same, there is no story arc, and no-one is ever upset about the events from a previous episode. Therefore, everyone is remarkably unangsty, and there is no complicated backstory you have to know about. Which makes The Professionals pleasantly uncomplicated viewing.
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The Professionals / int_a884bd12	type	ExcuseMeWhileIMultiTask
The Professionals / int_a884bd12	comment	Excuse Me While I Multi Task: In "The Female Factor", Bodie fights a drunk in a pub while holding a pint in his hand.
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The Professionals / int_a8896b94	type	Leave No Witnesses
The Professionals / int_a8896b94	comment	Leave No Witnesses: In "Heroes", several citizens foil the robbery of an armored car (actually a disguised political assassination). Because one of the criminals was partially unmasked during the raid, Cowley decides to tell the press that the man can now be identified, in the hope of flushing out the criminals who have gone to ground. Unfortunately a newspaper has published the names and addresses of these heroic citizens, so CI5 has to scramble to protect them when the criminals start murdering them. In "Everest Was Also Conquered", a former intelligence officer makes a Deathbed Confession that he murdered a witness to a corruption inquiry in the 1950's. As Bodie and Doyle investigate, they find they're in a race against a hitman who's killing off the other conspirators in the murder.
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The Professionals / int_ab292220	type	The Stakeout
The Professionals / int_ab292220	comment	The Stakeout: The episode "Stakeout" has Bodie and Doyle staking out a bowling alley after a CI5 agent investigating a drug ring there is murdered after stumbling across a far more serious crime. They run through the expected distractions and red herring suspects before nailing down the real culprits.
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The Professionals / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
The Professionals / int_ac2094ca	comment	Red Shirt: The three main characters have Contractual Immortality but pity any other CI5 agent who turns up, because there's a fairly high chance he'll snuff it before the end of the episode. (This doesn't apply to the staggeringly rare occasions we see a woman agent.)
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The Professionals / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
The Professionals / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: Averted because those Browning Hi-Powers kept jamming when firing blanks! So you often see the slides on Bodie and Doyle's pistols lock back after they've only fired a few rounds; nowhere near the 13 plus one "up the spout" ammunition capacity of that pistol. Later on they changed to firearms that worked more reliably with blanks. It's not unusual to see submachine guns with magazines taped together for a quick reload. Averted in "Close Quarters" where Bodie is besieged in a house without backup and has to ration every round because he's running short of ammunition.
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The Professionals / int_b8198b96	type	Dead Man's Switch
The Professionals / int_b8198b96	comment	Dead Man's Switch: In "Old Dog with New Tricks," a nurse is taken hostage by a lunatic armed with a hand grenade with the pin removed. Bodie and Doyle make a reckless bid to free her because the longer he holds down the safety lever, the more cramped his hand will get. In "Lawson's Last Stand", the eponymous Colonel Lawson is holding up a cannister of nerve gas, strapped to a hand grenade with the pin wired to an overhead pole. He's standing out in the middle of Battersea Park wearing rear view mirrors so he can see if someone sneaks up on him, and has trained himself to hold up the weight of the cannister for one hour, by which time he wants his demands met or he'll drop it and kill millions.
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The Professionals / int_b892dd2d	type	Girl of the Week
The Professionals / int_b892dd2d	comment	Girl of the Week: Bodie and Doyle never have the same girl for more than one episode. Generally, if the girl is blonde she'll be dumb and annoying. If she's brunette, she will be mildly intelligent, but still in need of looking after. Most notable Girls of the Week are Ann in "Involvement" (Doyle's girlfriend) and Marikka in "Fall Girl" (Bodie's girlfriend).
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The Professionals / int_bc3b029b	type	Impairment Shot
The Professionals / int_bc3b029b	comment	Impairment Shot: In "Private Madness, Public Danger", an executive has been drugged with a hallucinogen placed in the company coffee dispenser. He sees his fellow board members distorted via a fisheye lens effect.
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The Professionals / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Professionals / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Do not—repeat do not—attempt to harm Doyle in any way when Bodie is around. Just to clarify; in "The Female Factor", one man shoots Doyle in the leg. Bodie empties an entire clip into him. In another episode Doyle is abducted by a gangster. When Bodie catches up to him, he looks genuinely terrified of Bodie's expression.
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The Professionals / int_bd79d896	type	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
The Professionals / int_bd79d896	comment	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: In "The Acorn Syndrome", Doyle goes to ask a couple of youths to move their car which is blocking them in. They see his holstered pistol, draw guns of their own and a car chase ensues, leading to a hostage-taking and both youths being gunned down by an unknown shooter. CI5 then have to investigate to find out what the youths were involved in that made them panic like that.
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The Professionals / int_bf051ba3	type	Don't Ask
The Professionals / int_bf051ba3	comment	Don't Ask: Bodie trolls Doyle with this trope in "Hunter/Hunted."
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The Professionals / int_bfd7cfc	type	Black Shirt
The Professionals / int_bfd7cfc	comment	Cowley has these too, who make it clear they envy his power, but who would clearly abuse it. These include Chief Constable Green from "In the Public Interest", and a blackshirt leader (an old war buddy of Cowley) in "Look After Annie".
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The Professionals / int_c2ab0eaf	type	Double Agent
The Professionals / int_c2ab0eaf	comment	In "Need to Know", Cowley shoots a Double Agent In the Back as he's 'trying to escape' (he was fleeing, but Cowley stopped Bodie and Doyle from chasing after him). In "Wild Justice" however when Bodie is about kill a criminal to avenge an old war buddy, Cowley puts a gun to Bodie's head to stop him, because one of his agents committing murder could destroy CI5.
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The Professionals / int_c325f125	type	Ho Yay
The Professionals / int_c325f125	comment	In "The Purging of CI5", two CI5 agents return to their car after wasting time searching a derelict building over a fake tip-off. One of them turns the ignition, but nothing happens until he closes the car door as well. Later Bodie and Doyle worry there might be a bomb in their own car. They search it and find nothing, but Doyle suggests Bodie wait across the street while he starts the ignition—Bodie just replies, "Stick it in!" There's no bomb, but as they drive off Bodie suggests the bomb might have been set to go off once they reach 30. Doyle's response is to floor the accelerator!
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The Professionals / int_c3cdd2b8	type	Water Source Tampering
The Professionals / int_c3cdd2b8	comment	In "Private Madness, Public Danger," Bodie and Doyle have to defuse a bomb connected to a gallon drum of hallucinogenic drugs which is floating in a reservoir, so they have to do this while treading freezing water with a device they can't even see. Fortunately (as the bomb has an anti-handling device) they've brought the bomb designer along, and he decides he doesn't want to die for the cause.
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The Professionals / int_c435ec5d	type	Aesop Amnesia
The Professionals / int_c435ec5d	comment	Bodie does use the word "spade" in a later episode ("Involvement") before a Death Glare from Cowley causes him to Verbal Backspace.
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The Professionals / int_c4976d7c	type	Vehicular Sabotage
The Professionals / int_c4976d7c	comment	Vehicular Sabotage: In "Hunter/Hunted", Doyle is being stalked by someone from his past who takes pleasure in making Doyle sweat before he kills him. In one scene his car is rigged to fail in stages—first the brakes, then the steering, then after the car crashes a delayed-action bomb gives Doyle enough time to exit the vehicle before it blows up.
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The Professionals / int_c601fc37	type	Professional Killer
The Professionals / int_c601fc37	comment	CI5 arrest a Professional Killer who planted a bomb in Cowley's office, and whom they assume is responsible for the deaths of several other CI5 agents in bombings. The killer brags that he'll never give up the man who hired him. Bodie and Doyle aren't interested however; they just take him to an Abandoned Area and put their guns to the back of his head, whereupon he cracks and gives up the name after realising they're going to kill him on the spot. It's left to the audience to figure out whether they were bluffing or not.
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The Professionals / int_c87660d5	type	Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!
The Professionals / int_c87660d5	comment	Get A Hold Of Yourself Woman: In "Close Quarters" Bodie slaps his hysterical Girl of the Week Julie. He also slaps a hysterical hostage in "Old Dog with New Tricks", but at least he has a good excuse that time—he had to knock her out out fast to get the live hand grenade that had just fallen into her blouse.
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The Professionals / int_cc6311f9	type	Sliding Scale of Antagonist Vileness
The Professionals / int_cc6311f9	comment	Sliding Scale of Antagonist Vileness: Pimps, drug dealers, corrupt officials, and professional killers are treated with contempt. Terrorists are evil but their idealism is acknowledged as long as it's left wing; white supremacist terror groups are not given the same respect. Communist bloc agents are ruthless but respected as fellow professionals.
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The Professionals / int_cd7a8af8	type	Amnesia Episode
The Professionals / int_cd7a8af8	comment	Amnesia Episode: In "Blackout", a German woman dressed only in her underwear staggers into a Sunday church service and collapses. The only thing she remembers is the words "Harrowdene" and "Monday"—the place and day a deposed African head-of-state is due to arrive in the country. CI5 are in a Race Against the Clock to get more details from her, fearing (correctly) that an assassination is planned.
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The Professionals / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
The Professionals / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: In "The Madness of Mickey Hamilton", a grieving widower blames medical staff for his wife's death and his daughter being permanently crippled/dying due to an accident during childbirth, and goes on a killing spree.
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The Professionals / int_cf479cd8	type	Bomb Disposal
The Professionals / int_cf479cd8	comment	Bomb Disposal: In "Private Madness, Public Danger," Bodie and Doyle have to defuse a bomb connected to a gallon drum of hallucinogenic drugs which is floating in a reservoir, so they have to do this while treading freezing water with a device they can't even see. Fortunately (as the bomb has an anti-handling device) they've brought the bomb designer along, and he decides he doesn't want to die for the cause. They use the same tactic in "Stakeout", this time with an atomic bomb. Problem is the bomb is so crude that attempting to defuse it could just as easily detonate it. In "The Purging of CI5", Bodie dials the first number of his phone and suddenly realises it's booby-trapped. Fortunately, he's got his radio to call Doyle for help, who disarms it with their usual exchange of banter (though somewhat terser). In "Hunter/Hunted", Doyle receives a package in a plain brown wrapper. Knowing he hasn't mail-ordered anything from an adult bookstore, Bodie and Doyle carefully cut open the package to find a stick of gelignite harmlessly wired to Moriarty's Police Law, a taunt against Doyle by a Dirty Cop he put away. Averted in "Blood Sports" where terrorists leave a bomb hidden in a cigarette packet under their abandoned car. The car is simply lifted on jacks and rolled away from the bomb, so the Bomb Squad can deal with it at their leisure.
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The Professionals / int_cf666827	type	If I Had a Nickel...
The Professionals / int_cf666827	comment	If I Had a Nickel...: From "Servant of Two Masters":
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The Professionals / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
The Professionals / int_d33456e7	comment	Improbable Age: Bodie seems a bit young to have been in the merchant navy, a mercenary, a paratrooper, an SAS soldier AND been in CI5 for several years. Doyle's background as a police constable is rather more believable.
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The Professionals / int_d46230c3	type	Over-the-Shoulder Carry
The Professionals / int_d46230c3	comment	Over-the-Shoulder Carry: Doyle is carried like this after he's knocked out and captured by a villain he's impersonating.
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The Professionals / int_d5b06fbb	type	It Has Only Just Begun
The Professionals / int_d5b06fbb	comment	It Has Only Just Begun: In "Private Madness, Public Danger", when CI5 captures the Villain of the Week, Cowley tells him it's all over. The man shouts back, "All over? IT HASN'T EVEN BEGUN YET!" as he's just activated a Time Bomb.
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The Professionals / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
The Professionals / int_d5c7b415	comment	Elites Are More Glamorous: During World War 2, Cowley was a major in the 16th Special Commando. Bodie used to be in the Parachute Regiment and Special Air Service—Truth in Television as Lewis Collins was a Territorial Army Paratrooper and had even passed selection to 21 SAS. The only reason he couldn't serve was because he was too famous to be in a covert special forces unit. Averted with Doyle who was a police officer.
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The Professionals / int_d5f35258	type	Adventures in Comaland
The Professionals / int_d5f35258	comment	Adventures in Comaland: In "Discovered in a Graveyard", Doyle is ambushed in his apartment, ending up in a coma in hospital. While Bodie and Cowley try to find out who shot him, Doyle experiences surrealistic dreams and flashbacks where he debates whether it's worth continuing on with a life of endless violence.
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The Professionals / int_d92781d9	type	Backseat Changing Room
The Professionals / int_d92781d9	comment	Backseat Changing Room: Parodied in "Blood Sports" when Bodie attempts to change in the backseat but can't because Doyle Drives Like Crazy and Bodie keeps getting thrown back-and-forth.
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The Professionals / int_da297ad2	type	One of Our Own
The Professionals / int_da297ad2	comment	One of Our Own: Doyle is shot in "Discovered in a Graveyard", Bodie is stabbed in "Klansman", and Cowley comes under suspicion in "Servant with Two Masters" and "Need to Know".
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The Professionals / int_dc93d08b	type	Blind Shoulder Toss
The Professionals / int_dc93d08b	comment	Blind Shoulder Toss: A KGB agent blackmails a politician into providing a top secret document. Later he reveals that he already delivered that document months ago to Moscow Centre, but by handing it over to a foreign agent the politician will be committing treason and thereafter be under the KGB's thumb.
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The Professionals / int_ddf56e0a	type	Amoral Afrikaner
The Professionals / int_ddf56e0a	comment	Amoral Afrikaner: Given the era South Africans are either mercenaries, paid assassins, or agents of BOSS.
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The Professionals / int_de369435	type	Interrogation Montage
The Professionals / int_de369435	comment	Interrogation Montage: In "Private Madness Public Danger" between Cowley and Doyle interrogating a drug pusher at CI5 headquarters, and Bodie interrogating a junkie at a hospital.
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The Professionals / int_df41acb	type	Casual Danger Dialogue
The Professionals / int_df41acb	comment	Casual Danger Dialogue: Bodie and Doyle raise this to the level of art!
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The Professionals / int_e069fae8	type	Bad Guy Bar
The Professionals / int_e069fae8	comment	In "Private Madness Public Danger", Doyle enters a Bad Guy Bar and hauls a customer into the storeroom, but not before he throws the manager a coin and tells him to play something loud on the jukebox. Turns out the man is an undercover cop and the two of them start knocking things off the shelves to make it sound like Doyle is beating him up. When it's time to leave, he reminds Doyle to give him the requisite facial bruise.
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The Professionals / int_e154ff08	type	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
The Professionals / int_e154ff08	comment	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: In "Private Madness, Public Danger", someone is threatening to contaminate the water supply with a concentrated hallucinogenic. CI5 get hold of a drug pusher who does business with him, but he contemptuously rejects their Perp Sweating as he's been worked over by 'hard men' from his side of the fence. Cowley then demonstrates just how hard he can get when the stakes are high enough.
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The Professionals / int_e6132e31	type	Old Flame
The Professionals / int_e6132e31	comment	Old Flame: Cowley's old love Annie in "Look After Annie". (Yes, Cowley had a Girl of the Week, don't Faint in Shock.
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The Professionals / int_e7b93a46	type	Interrupted Declaration of Love
The Professionals / int_e7b93a46	comment	Interrupted Declaration of Love: In "Look After Annie", Bodie and Doyle are driving an Old Flame of Cowley's to the airport after she's survived an assassination attempt. She begins to say that they can "tell George one thing..." then the rest of what she said is drowned out by an ambulance siren, but sounds like "...that I love him." They decide not to mention to Cowley what she might, or might not, have said.
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The Professionals / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
The Professionals / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: In "First Night", an Israeli government official offers the help of their own 'specialists' after one of their ministers is kidnapped for ransom.
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The Professionals / int_ea7e3be8	type	Dramatic Gun Cock
The Professionals / int_ea7e3be8	comment	Dramatic Gun Cock: Despite pistols being carried with "one up the spout", that doesn't stop our heroes racking back the slide in a suitably dramatic manner after drawing them.
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The Professionals / int_eac601	type	Clothing Switch
The Professionals / int_eac601	comment	Clothing Switch: In "No Stone", Bodie and Doyle have clearly swapped shirts in one brief scene. None of the other characters comment on the switch, and it is never explained. In "Mixed Doubles", an unarmed Bodie is facing off with a combat instructor armed with a huge Bowie knife, with Doyle egging on his friend from the sidelines. Doyle then gets angry when Bodie gets his shirt sliced because that's his shirt that he's wearing!
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The Professionals / int_eb06cc52	type	Elite Agents Above the Law
The Professionals / int_eb06cc52	comment	Elite Agents Above the Law: In "Old Dog With New Tricks, Cowley tells some new recruits the charter under which CI5 operates. "To detect, deter and prevent, and or take suitable action and or actions against those transgressors against the law outside the norm of criminal activity. To contain and render ineffective such by whatever means necessary.—That's our official brief. By any means necessary—that's our loophole." However Cowley has to take account of political realities; when a suspect dies in CI5 custody in "The Rack", CI5 has to submit to a court of inquiry due to the adverse publicity. Cowley also makes sure to cover himself with the bureaucracy, indicating he prefers to work with the system rather than buck it. In the short-lived CI5: The New Professionals, his successor Harry Malone is shown to have a tougher time of it, because in The '90s CI5 operate internationally and have to get the cooperation of foreign governments.
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The Professionals / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
The Professionals / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: "Everest Was Also Conquered" has a witness forced out the window by her police protection detail, who have all been bribed or blackmailed into the act. In "Servant with Two Masters" Cowley himself falls under suspicion, and Bodie and Doyle are ordered to investigate their boss. In another episode the Villain of the Week turns out to be a police officer that Doyle testified against, out for revenge. In "Rogue", a member of CI5 turns out to be a Rogue Agent. Cowley doesn't take it well, as he was an old war buddy and his first choice for recruitment into the organisation. In "The Untouchables", Bodie piles up gambling debts in a CI5 sting operation to make it look like he's vulnerable to bribery.
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The Professionals / int_eb28ab57	type	Bound and Gagged
The Professionals / int_eb28ab57	comment	In "A Stirring of Dust", Doyle is Bound and Gagged so takes care of an assassin by kicking him through the window. He gets a bollocking for that from Cowley however, as the assassin got his throat sliced up so can't be made to talk.
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The Professionals / int_ebab0a5b	type	Best Her to Bed Her
The Professionals / int_ebab0a5b	comment	Best Her to Bed Her: Subverted in "Long Shot". Bodie and Doyle see an attractive female member of CI5 practising her martial arts. Bodie claims that she is a Womens Libber who will only date a man she feels superior to, and convinces Doyle to spar her and take a dive. Bodie then challenges her and, after winning, asks her out which she accepts, having already rejected Doyle because "she couldn't date a man she felt superior to." Doyle isn't happy at having been had, but at the end of the episode he's shown walking off with the girl instead, to Bodie's confusion.
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The Professionals / int_ee0c2c3c	type	Fictional Country
The Professionals / int_ee0c2c3c	comment	Fictional Country: Averted with Communist bloc countries (presumably because no-one cared if the Dirty Communists took offense during the Cold War) but South American or Arabic countries have names like Mata Alpa or Murani. Zigzagged in "The Ojuka Situation", involving the former ruler of the fictional African country of Betan, who's being chased by agents of an unnamed country that's implied to be South Africa.
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The Professionals / int_f0f03464	type	TheSeventies
The Professionals / int_f0f03464	comment	The '70s: Polyester suits! Wide ties! Brown coloured everything! Perms and afros! Sideburns! Disco!
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The Professionals / int_f4158af7	type	Everybody Owns a Ford
The Professionals / int_f4158af7	comment	Everybody Owns a Ford: The Ford Granada. A rare unintentional example, as the producers had trouble using their other preferred vehicle because the supplier had an unfortunate habit of sending them a replacement vehicle of the wrong colour or year of manufacture if the first got damaged or had a breakdown. This made continuity too big a headache and an unspoken retcon stated that CI-5 had bought a large batch of Granadas for the motor pool.
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The Professionals / int_f4379d92	type	Double Reverse Quadruple Agent
The Professionals / int_f4379d92	comment	Double Reverse Quadruple Agent: In "Dead Reckoning", CI5 are given the job of debriefing a spy who's swopped sides so often, MI6 don't want to risk compromising their own agents in case he does it again.
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The Professionals / int_f485d62d	type	Battering Ram
The Professionals / int_f485d62d	comment	In "First Night", CI5 weld a pointed steel Battering Ram on the front of a truck-mounted lift platform—on which an Uzi-armed Bodie is riding—to smash through the upstairs window to a room where an Israeli minister is being held hostage.
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The Professionals / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
The Professionals / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: The Cars — British Leyland for half the first season, Ford for the rest of the show. It worked for Ford, less so for BL.
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The Professionals / int_f6698528	type	Vigilante Execution
The Professionals / int_f6698528	comment	Vigilante Execution: CI5 arrest a Professional Killer who planted a bomb in Cowley's office, and whom they assume is responsible for the deaths of several other CI5 agents in bombings. The killer brags that he'll never give up the man who hired him. Bodie and Doyle aren't interested however; they just take him to an Abandoned Area and put their guns to the back of his head, whereupon he cracks and gives up the name after realising they're going to kill him on the spot. It's left to the audience to figure out whether they were bluffing or not. In "Need to Know", Cowley shoots a Double Agent In the Back as he's 'trying to escape' (he was fleeing, but Cowley stopped Bodie and Doyle from chasing after him). In "Wild Justice" however when Bodie is about kill a criminal to avenge an old war buddy, Cowley puts a gun to Bodie's head to stop him, because one of his agents committing murder could destroy CI5.
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The Professionals / int_f688816f	type	Priceless Ming Vase
The Professionals / int_f688816f	comment	Priceless Ming Vase In "Blackout", Bodie brags about his accurate and expensive Heuer Manhattan watch, only to end up breaking it while smashing down a door to rescue a hostage. He broke his arm too, but was more angry about the watch. At the end of the episode however, he's happy to hear the lads at CI5 (even Cowley!) have all chipped in to buy him a new watch. It turns out to be a cheap Superman watch. At the end of "Rogue" Cowley is recovering in hospital, so Bodie and Doyle bring him a bag of grapes, as per tradition. He's not amused and throws the bag at them...breaking the bottle of single malt Scotch they've hidden inside. They flee his wrath! At the start of "The Acorn Syndrome", Cowley sends Bodie and Doyle to pick up an antique desk worth 800 pounds. After strapping it to the roof of their car, they get into a car chase and the desk eventually comes loose and smashes all over the road. They assure The Cow that he can claim it on tax as it was in the line of duty.
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The Professionals / int_f70bcdc3	type	External Combustion
The Professionals / int_f70bcdc3	comment	External Combustion: In "The Purging of CI5", two CI5 agents return to their car after wasting time searching a derelict building over a fake tip-off. One of them turns the ignition, but nothing happens until he closes the car door as well. Later Bodie and Doyle worry there might be a bomb in their own car. They search it and find nothing, but Doyle suggests Bodie wait across the street while he starts the ignition—Bodie just replies, "Stick it in!" There's no bomb, but as they drive off Bodie suggests the bomb might have been set to go off once they reach 30. Doyle's response is to floor the accelerator! Lampshaded in "Hunter/Hunted" when the Villain of the Week uses a thirty-second delay fuse so Doyle has time to get clear.
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The Professionals / int_f777d4b9	type	You Got Murder
The Professionals / int_f777d4b9	comment	In "Hunter/Hunted", Doyle receives a package in a plain brown wrapper. Knowing he hasn't mail-ordered anything from an adult bookstore, Bodie and Doyle carefully cut open the package to find a stick of gelignite harmlessly wired to Moriarty's Police Law, a taunt against Doyle by a Dirty Cop he put away.
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The Professionals / int_f96f188c	type	Drives Like Crazy
The Professionals / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: And not just during car chases either. Our heroes can't drive a car without squealing tires or do a U-turn without using the handbrake. Eventually even the series started poking fun at it. In "Blackout", a country policeman has to pedal off on his bicycle to get hold of a witness for CI5, and gripes that: "They probably expect me to jump in my high-powered motor and go screaming around corners, tires screeching like on television!"
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The Professionals / int_f9977015	type	My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours
The Professionals / int_f9977015	comment	In "The Female Factor", Doyle insists on investigating the death of a prostitute he once knew, using CI5's blanket authority to investigate any incident. "It's in the small print on our cards". Cowley starts tearing strips off him ("Don't you quote small print at me. For every sentence of small print you produce, I can produce smaller!") until he happens to look at the phone number written on a notepad in the hooker's apartment...the Prime Minister's private line. Suddenly Cowley rounds on the CID detectives and announces that CI5 are taking over the case. "Can't you read the small print on our cards?"
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The Professionals / int_f9bc2937	type	Laser Sight
The Professionals / int_f9bc2937	comment	Laser Sight: The intimidation factor of a "Laser-Lok" sight (at the time a cutting-edge technology) is a major theme in "Hunter/Hunted".
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The Professionals	hasFeature	My Favorite Shirt / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Naked in Mink / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Nap-Inducing Speak / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Naughty Birdwatching / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	No Hero Discount / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Not Distracted by the Sexy / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Not in the Face! / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Not so Dire / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Nothing Up My Sleeve / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Novelization / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Odd Couple / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Old-Fashioned Copper / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	One Phone Call / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	"Open!" Says Me / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Over-the-Shoulder Carry / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Percussive Pickpocket / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Percussive Therapy / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Perp Walk / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Pillow Silencer / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Playing Drunk / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Playing Possum / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Pop the Tires / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Priceless Ming Vase / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Pseudo-Crisis / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Public Secret Message / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Pulled from Your Day Off / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Punctuated Pounding / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Punk in the Trunk / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Quick Draw / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Racial Face Blindness / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Radio Silence / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Ransom Drop / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Read the Fine Print / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Relocating the Explosion / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Rewind, Replay, Repeat / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Right-Handed Left-Handed Guns / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Right Through His Pants / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Robbing the Mob Bank / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Rogue Agent / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Room 101 / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Room Disservice / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Sarcastic Clapping / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Series of the 1970s / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Sexy Secretary / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Sexy Shirt Switch / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Sexy Sweater Girl / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Shoot Out the Lock / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Shoot the Hostage Taker / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Shoot the Television / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Shooting Gallery / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Sickbed Slaying / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Side Bet / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Sinister Switchblade / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Skeleton Key Card / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Sleeping Dummy / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Slo-Mo Big Air / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Smoke Out / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Smoky Gentlemen's Club / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Sniper Scope Glint / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Soda Can Shakeup / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Some of My Best Friends Are X / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Sound-Only Death / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Spies In a Van / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Staged Pedestrian Accident / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Staged Shooting / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Strapped to a Bomb / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Suddenly Speaking / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Superdickery / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Super Window Jump / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Survival Mantra / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Swiss Bank Account / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Tae Kwon Door / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Tall, Dark, and Handsome / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Tap on the Head / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Terrorists Without a Cause / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	That's What I Would Do / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	The Bad Guys Are Cops / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	The Klan / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	The Stakeout / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	The Triple / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	The Villain Knows Where You Live / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	There Are No Therapists / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	There Is Only One Bed / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	There Was a Door / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	These Hands Have Killed / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	They Fight Crime! / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Thrifty Scot / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Throwing Off the Disability / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Time Bomb / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Time-Delayed Death / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Tracking Device / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Traumatic Haircut / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Trespassing to Talk / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Trial Run Crime / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Trick-and-Follow Ploy / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Tricked into Escaping / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Two Scenes, One Dialogue / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Unguided Lab Tour / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Unnecessary Combat Roll / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Van in Black / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Vehicular Sabotage / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Was It Really Worth It? / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Water Source Tampering / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Water Wake-up / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	We Need a Distraction / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Weakness Turns Her On / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Weapon for Intimidation / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Weather Report Opening / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	What the Fu Are You Doing? / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	What Would X Do? / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	White Shirt of Death / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Who Are You? / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Wire Dilemma / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	With My Hands Tied / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Wolf Whistle / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Worthy Opponent / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Wrong-Name Outburst / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Wrote the Book / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	You, Get Me Coffee / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	You Got Murder / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With / int_97a70962
The Professionals	hasFeature	Your Door Was Open / int_97a70962

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