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Between the Lines

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Between the Lines	comment	Between the Lines was a Police Procedural shown by The BBC in 1992-1994. It was created by writer J C Wilsher and Executive Producer Tony Garnett. Almost uniquely among TV police series, it was a sympathetic depiction of the Complaints Investigation Bureau, the Metropolitan Police's Internal Affairs section, accepting the necessity for investigation into police corruption and brutality while retaining some cynicism about the motivation and effectiveness of it.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The first of the three seasons began with the central character Chief Inspector Tony Clark being press-ganged into CIB as part of an investigation into corruption at the police station where he was based, and meeting his subordinates Mo Connell and Harry Naylor and boss John Deakin. A series of Mystery of the Week episodes also have elements dealing with a Story Arc involving a gangland murder that exposes large-scale corruption. A number of high-ranking officers are suspected but it turns out that the main Big Bad is in fact Deakin himself.The second series shows Clark's and Naylor's careers both running into trouble as they investigate a series of loosely-linked cases that share the theme of the dubious overlap between the police and more secretive and sinister state security services. It ends with Clark and Naylor both sacked by the police and unwillingly joining up again with Deakin, who is now working as a private detective.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })The final series, subsequently lamented by executive producer Tony Garnett as an example of Franchise Zombie-ism, made a Genre Shift into political thriller territory, and ended with Clark and Naylor apparently being killed in an explosion while trying to stop an arms deal between Ulster Loyalist paramilitaries and European neo-Nazi extremists.The show won the 1994 BAFTA award for Best Drama Series.See also the show's 2010s Spiritual Successor, Line of Duty.(For the webcomic about transgender teens, see Between the Lines. For the Black Comedy newspaper strip, see Between the Lines.)
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Between the Lines / int_10a6623b	type	Fair Cop
Between the Lines / int_10a6623b	comment	Fair Cop: Jenny Dean in the first season, and Clark himself became famously popular with the female viewers.
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Between the Lines / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: Many of the cases-of-the-week. Also the subplot about Mo dating a woman senior police officer was heavily influenced by the much-reported real life case of a woman senior police officer who sued her force for sex discrimination and was falsely rumoured (probably a deliberate smear by her enemies) to be gay.
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Between the Lines / int_3fac55ce	type	Old-Fashioned Copper
Between the Lines / int_3fac55ce	comment	Old-Fashioned Copper: Harry. Many episodes suggest that if he wasn't in CIB he'd be on the other end of an investigation.
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Between the Lines / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Between the Lines / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Many of the individual episodes in the second and third seasons, and the show as a whole.
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Between the Lines / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Clarke's rival Inspector Graves.
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Between the Lines / int_588d766f	type	BlackAndGreyMorality
Between the Lines / int_588d766f	comment	Black and Grey Morality: Pretty heavily.
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Between the Lines / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
Between the Lines / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Clark
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Between the Lines / int_5f52cfcf	comment	Intrepid Reporter: Deconstructed. In the first season Clark meets and has an affair with one of these, only for her to stab him in the back to get a story.
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Between the Lines / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
Between the Lines / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: Jenny Dean
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Between the Lines / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide
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Between the Lines / int_71598ac8	type	Internal Affairs
Between the Lines / int_71598ac8	comment	Internal Affairs: The whole point of the show is to present Internal Affairs' side of the story, in contrast to the loathing and contempt with which even relatively morally ambiguous cop shows usually portray them.
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Between the Lines / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
Between the Lines / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: A common subject of the episodes, with an attempt to understand why it sometimes happens without condoning it.
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Between the Lines / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal
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Between the Lines / int_94e7d8f	type	Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet!
Between the Lines / int_94e7d8f	comment	Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet!: One of the first season episodes involves an investigation into a bad shooting where an electric drill was mistaken for a pistol.
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Between the Lines / int_9d869e7b	type	Lesbian Cop
Between the Lines / int_9d869e7b	comment	Lesbian Cop: Mo
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Between the Lines / int_c8c7fb4f	comment	Domestic Abuser: A memorable episode in the second season has a cop who murders his wife and uses his knowledge of the law and police procedure to get away with a manslaughter charge.
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Between the Lines / int_e77f74ca	type	Bi the Way
Between the Lines / int_e77f74ca	comment	Bi the Way: Mo, rather oddly. She's heavily implied in the first season as an exclusive lesbian, then at the beginning of the second season she's dating a man with no acknowledgement of her first season sexuality and her shift to another woman as a partner is played almost like a coming-out story.
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Between the Lines / int_e99cc683	comment	Innocent Swearing: In a possibly-unintentional moment of humour, at one point a bad guy collides with a group of schoolchildren, one of whom is clearly heard to shout "You dirty bastard".
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