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Copper

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Copper	label	Copper
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Copper	comment	Copper is a historical detective series produced by BBC America.Kevin Corcoran is an Irish immigrant living in the Five Points neighborhood of New York City during the 1860s. He returns from fighting in the The American Civil War to find that his daughter is dead and his wife has disappeared. Robert Morehouse, Corcoran's former commanding officer, uses his family's connections to arrange for Corcoran to be appointed a detective in the New York Police Department.The show ran for two seasons from 2012 to 2013.
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Copper / int_10cdfe4b	type	Fall Guy
Copper / int_10cdfe4b	comment	If you are rich, you can pay of the police to look the other way; if the crime is serious enough, you can find someone dying of disease to confess to the crime in exchange for a large sum of money.
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Copper / int_1237828f	type	AnyoneCanDie
Copper / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Molly, Winnie Heverford, Mary Lockwood, and Sgt Byrnes as of the end of the first season. Halfway through season two, Helen Corcoran hangs herself.
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Copper / int_13283911	type	Greek Fire
Copper / int_13283911	comment	Adam, the telegraph operator, is present during most of the business meetings Morehouse Sr. has in his office. The Morehouse family must trust him explicitly when it comes to their financial activities. Significantly, Robert asks him to leave the room when Corcoran comes to discuss the Greek Fire.
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Copper / int_13945ede	type	IAmAHumanitarian
Copper / int_13945ede	comment	I Am A Humanitarian: Pigs will eat anything.
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Copper / int_143350c6	type	Officer O'Hara
Copper / int_143350c6	comment	Officer O'Hara: The main character and his fellow rank-and-file coppers are all Irish immigrants. Truth in Television for the time period.
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Copper / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Copper / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: New York City is about to be the target of a terrorist attack.
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Copper / int_14fbe67f	type	GodivaHair
Copper / int_14fbe67f	comment	Season two opens with an opium fueled sex scene between Elizabeth and Morehouse (arguably two of the more attractive members of the cast) with just enough Godiva Hair / Scenery Censor to keep it this side of legal. However, this was right after Eva had her back carved open and graphically stitched closed, so no one was really in the mood.
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Copper / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Copper / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Robert Morehouse sponsors a boxing match between 'Irish' Jake McGinnis and Jasper Longfield. Corcoran is appalled by the idea. If 'Irish' Jake loses to a black man, at best only Jasper will be lynched and at worst there will be another riot that causes hundreds of deaths. In Robert's defense he was assured that Jasper would take a dive and he had a contingency plan in place just in case. Said contingency plan is having the ref knock Jasper out with a vicious elbow that breaks his jaw, when it looks like 'Irish' Jake might not be able to recover from a terrible beating. No one in attendance even blinks at the extremely obvious cheating: they all had money riding on Jake.
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Copper / int_166e33f3	type	Little Miss Badass
Copper / int_166e33f3	comment	Little Miss Badass: Annie
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Copper / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Copper / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son!" Guy: Robert Morehouse seems to really want to earn his father's respect but his goals appear to be more ambitious.
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Copper / int_1b8ff67c	type	Above the Influence
Copper / int_1b8ff67c	comment	Above the Influence: After Corcoran kills her sister's murderers and sends away her pedophile husband, Annie goes to his home with every intent on "thanking him." He proceeds to tell her to get dressed and go back to Elizabeth's place.
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Copper / int_1d9a2764	type	Reality Ensues
Copper / int_1d9a2764	comment	Reality Ensues: One episode involves Corcoran and O'Brien trying to match a handwriting sample, so they try to obtain signatures from all the people they interviewed. Surprise! This is 1864, and they're interviewing dirt-poor Irish immigrants; virtually everyone they interview is illiterate.
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Copper / int_1dd14f5a	type	I Surrender, Suckers
Copper / int_1dd14f5a	comment	I Surrender, Suckers: A bank robber tries to pull this on the coppers, and they riddle him with bullets in return.
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Copper / int_1df37537	type	Mutual Kill
Copper / int_1df37537	comment	Mutual Kill: The official version of events is that Winfred Haverford and the Contessa killed each other.
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Copper / int_1dfd19f9	type	PapaWolf
Copper / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Corcoran will go to extraordinary lengths to protect Annie. Matthew Freeman beats down a snake-oil sales men when he sells his wife a poisonous tonic which could have killed her and their unborn child. Then tells him to never come back again.
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Copper / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Copper / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: Corcoran uses his brass knuckles to smash the hand of Adam, the telegraph operator, when he tries to lie about what Morehouse Sr. was up to. Corcoran would have continued to break more of the hand but Robert stopped him.
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Copper / int_21f19cfa	type	FakeAmerican
Copper / int_21f19cfa	comment	Fake American: Invoked by Corcoran when he reminds Captain Sullivan that Sullivan was born in Ireland just as Corcoran and the captain can't pretend otherwise just because Sullivan's father dropped the "O'" from O'Sullivan when they arrived in America. This is a particularly complex issue because the concept of who is "American" is in flux not only because of the presence of a great deal of immigrants but also because it is set against the backdrop of the Civil War. The South didn't believe in the idea of a unified American nation, and many white characters debate blacks' existence as legitimate citizens. It's the reason Corcoran joined the Union Army. The scorn he and his family experienced for being Irish—and therefore not legitimately American in some eyes—made him want to ensure his daughter a more secure place in the world. He wanted to make the country his country, and in order to do that he had to make its war his war. Several of the actors also don't come from the same places their characters do.
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Copper / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
Copper / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good Is Not Nice: Corcoran is a very decent person, but he is definitely not 'nice'. This also applies to Robert and even Matthew who will go after those who harm them or their loved ones.
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Copper / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Copper / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Andrew's brother-in-law 'found' a Confederate revolver in a Union general's hotel room and he later bets it in a card game. Francis wins the gun and decides to keep it for himself. It's a rather unique gun and Corcoran uses the fact to connect Francis to Mary Lockwood's murder.
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Copper / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Copper / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: If you are rich, you can pay of the police to look the other way; if the crime is serious enough, you can find someone dying of disease to confess to the crime in exchange for a large sum of money.
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Copper / int_2317bc85	type	Tampering with Food and Drink
Copper / int_2317bc85	comment	Tampering with Food and Drink: Two people are killed when they eat a fruitcake that has been laced with rat poison.
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Copper / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
Copper / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Robert Morehouse considers Kevin Corcoran, Matthew Freeman, and himself to be this due to their shared experiences during the war and despite their widely different social status. For this reason, he is willing to lie and help out either man if it's in his power.
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Copper / int_2a195285	type	Revolvers Are Just Better
Copper / int_2a195285	comment	Revolvers Are Just Better: Justified since the ball and cap revolver was state-of-the art for the time.
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Copper / int_2bdb6280	type	The Big Rotten Apple
Copper / int_2bdb6280	comment	The Big Rotten Apple: Unavoidable given the time period.
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Copper / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Copper / int_2d4fa515	comment	Buris "Buzzie" Burke used to be under the protection of the political establishment and thus could run his criminal enterprises without interference from the police. When Corcoran became a police officer, Burke was the first criminal he arrested. The desk sergeant at the police station promptly released Burke and explained the system to Corcoran. However, by the time the second season starts Burke has become too Ax-Crazy and unreliable and has lost the protection of his patrons. Corcoran is now free to hunt him down and arrest or kill as he desires.
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Copper / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Copper / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Elizabeth Haverford was helping Kennedy and the Confederates, provided they attack non-populated areas, like the docks when no one is around. Kennedy breaking this word makes her refuse to offer him help escaping New York.
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Copper / int_329a19a0	type	Hollywood Healing
Copper / int_329a19a0	comment	Hollywood Healing: Averted. In the episodes following Corcoran's leg being broken, he walks with a cane and and limps.
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Copper / int_32d0784e	type	Stop, or I Will Shoot!
Copper / int_32d0784e	comment	Stop, or I Will Shoot!: Corcoran prefers to shoot the bank robbers first and then identify himself as a police officer.
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Copper / int_37a6a66a	type	Instrumental Theme Tune
Copper / int_37a6a66a	comment	Instrumental Theme Tune: A particularly cool Celtic rock one.
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Copper / int_399b3dbe	type	Money to Throw Away
Copper / int_399b3dbe	comment	Money to Throw Away: In "A Morning Song", the Druids start their assault on the precinct by having a naked man run into the station house, throwing handfuls of cash at the police.
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Copper / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Copper / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: As election day approaches rumors start to circulate that New York is going to be the target of an attack by Confederate agents. The more panicky and paranoid citizens, including Andrew's wife, want the coppers to investigate and apprehend the spies. The rumors are correct and there really is a plot to set large portions of New York on fire if Lincoln is reelected.
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Copper / int_40126d90	type	Infant Immortality
Copper / int_40126d90	comment	Infant Immortality: Averted. Corcoran's daughter was only six when she died. In the first episode, Corcoran investigates a child's murder and rape.
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Copper / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Copper / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: All the main characters are very good liars. The official police reports tend not to match what actually happened or even what the police officers suspect happened. The police brass feel that a simple cover story is better than digging too much into events that might come back to bite them. When Corcoran says that Rev. Garland needs an alibi, Morehouse does not even blink before responding that he was with the gentleman at the time of the crime. Elizabeth lies to Corcoran about what she did to Annie, claiming she sent her to the west coast to live on a farm, away from the city's temptations. In truth, she sent her to be with her "father" who is really her pedophile husband. The Jewish pawnbroker tells Corcoran that his wife had to sell the locket because the money Corcoran send them had not arrived yet and she needed money to buy food. The pawnbroker has no idea what really happened and Francis paid him to tell Corcoran the story.
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Copper / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Copper / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: A Pinkerton Detective starts his interrogation by breaking Corcoran's leg and plans to break other bones if he does not get what he is looking for. When the coppers feel that a standard beating will not get them the information they want, they can use the Suite. It is a cell located under the precinct privy and the prisoner is chained up in a way that he cannot avoid being urinated and defecated on all day. A beat cop had two of his toes cut off, both to make him talk and to send a message.
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Copper / int_45cd286c	type	Corrupt Politician
Copper / int_45cd286c	comment	Brendan Donovan is initially presented as a Corrupt Politician ally of Corcoran and maybe even a mentor figure for the detective. Subsequent episodes reveal more and more of how he really conducts his business and we realize that he is a Villain with Good Publicity who does not care who gets hurt due to his schemes.
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Copper / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Copper / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: In the first episode a young girl is murdered and then raped.
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Copper / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Copper / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Corcoran uses brass knuckles and kicks to the groin to bring down a trio of bouncers. When the coppers ambush some bank robbers, they open fire first without announcing themselves as police officers or asking the criminals to surrender.
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Copper / int_4ab9c868	type	Pretty Little Headshots
Copper / int_4ab9c868	comment	Pretty Little Headshots: Averted due to the caliber and type of bullets used. When a bank robber gets shot in the head, a large chunk of his face gets blown off.
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Copper / int_4ad1816a	type	Everyone Knows Morse
Copper / int_4ad1816a	comment	Everyone Knows Morse: Averted. Generally only those who man the telegraph stations know. Cue Oh, Crap! from Adam, who works for the Morehouses, when Corcoran tells him he knows Morse from his time in the Union Army. And he knows Adam just lied about what the message he just received said.
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Copper / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
Copper / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: During a bar brawl Robert Morehouse takes his wooden leg off and beats his attackers with it.
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Copper / int_4e6e4dc7	type	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much
Copper / int_4e6e4dc7	comment	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much: The police are quite experienced in making sure that the official record of an murder investigation shows that justice was done and that nobody important is implicated. If they can't convict the actual culprit, they will find a Fall Guy or record the death as an accident or suicide. Anybody who might protest is either paid off or threatened into keeping silent. Notably both the bad guys and the good guys engage in this.
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Copper / int_4f84cdef	type	SmugSnake
Copper / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: "Winnie" Haverford
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Copper / int_4fdd0d29	type	Place Worse Than Death
Copper / int_4fdd0d29	comment	Place Worse Than Death: For his role in helping the Confederate spies, Norbert Morehouse was not hung but sent to Atlanta, after Sherman's burning of it, to work as a small business entrepreneur for the rest of his life. It was his son's idea to get him to avoid being hung.
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Copper / int_547196be	type	Broad Strokes
Copper / int_547196be	comment	Broad Strokes: At least one interview has stated that their unofficial motto is "History is our guide, not our master." They're following history closely, but don't treat it as the Serious Business a lot of Period Pieces do (One example is Eva wearing a man's hat, apparently something of a Throw It In! by Franka Potente.)
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Copper / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Copper / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: Mostly avoided but although there was a Confederate arson plot against New York it did not involve Greek Fire for the simple reason that we still don't know how it was made. Freeman and Corcoran could not have been in the same unit. The US Army did not integrate until after WWII. Although Benjamin Onderdonk was indeed plague by both moral and theological scandal, he was removed as diocesan Bishop in 1861, and suspended long before. Broad Strokes: At least one interview has stated that their unofficial motto is "History is our guide, not our master." They're following history closely, but don't treat it as the Serious Business a lot of Period Pieces do (One example is Eva wearing a man's hat, apparently something of a Throw It In! by Franka Potente.)
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Copper / int_57980ca0	type	Smoking Hot Sex
Copper / int_57980ca0	comment	Smoking Hot Sex: In "In the Hands of an Angry God", Kevin has a cigarette after having sex with Molly, with Molly lighting the cigarette from a candle.
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Copper / int_585db628	type	Vote Early, Vote Often
Copper / int_585db628	comment	Vote Early, Vote Often: At election time Andrew is in charge of giving out alcohol, wigs and fake names to all the 'frequent voters' to help 'Irish' Jake McGinnis win.
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Copper / int_588d766f	type	BlackAndGreyMorality
Copper / int_588d766f	comment	Black and Grey Morality: Oh frack yes. Crooked cops and prostitutes (some of them anyway) are the good guys.
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Copper / int_5b3e927f	type	All-Natural Snake Oil
Copper / int_5b3e927f	comment	All-Natural Snake Oil: A traveling 'doctor' sells a bottle of his 'medicine' to Mathew Freeman's pregnant wife. Fortunately it is only water with a bit of alcohol in it.
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Copper / int_60fb097	type	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat
Copper / int_60fb097	comment	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: Haverford got away with killing and raping Kathy and there is nothing a copper like Corcoran can do about it. However, instead of just lying low and finding a new victim he decides that he needs to get his hands on Annie. He is quite unsubtle about it and even hires a Pinkerton and a bunch of street toughs to do his dirty work. If he just let the matter go, Corcoran would not have to kill him and the Contessa.
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Copper / int_6159beb1	type	It Tastes Like Feet
Copper / int_6159beb1	comment	It Tastes Like Feet: According to Annie, London's finest Earl Grey "tastes like an iron fence."
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Copper / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
Copper / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: Kevin seems to see Annie as this for his dead daughter. She's more intent on being one for his wife.
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Copper / int_6480c255	type	Robbing the Dead
Copper / int_6480c255	comment	Robbing the Dead: Routine for the police.
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Copper / int_65b696be	type	Fille Fatale
Copper / int_65b696be	comment	Fille Fatale: Annie, but with a major league Freudian Excuse: first being forced to marry at the age of ten a man who abused her so badly that life in a brothel seemed preferable, then being similarly abused by Haverford, plus life on the streets in general.
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Copper	hasFeature	Copper / int_65b696be
Copper / int_6be8b3a8	type	Mummies at the Dinner Table
Copper / int_6be8b3a8	comment	Mummies At The Dinnertable: In "Home Sweet Home", Buzzy Burke eats a meal at the table of the couple he has just killed, with them still tied to their chairs. He even tries to get them to engage in a singalong.
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Copper / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Copper / int_6d332aea	comment	Halfway through season two, Helen Corcoran hangs herself.
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Copper / int_6ded96fd	type	Go Back to the Source
Copper / int_6ded96fd	comment	Go Back to the Source: The finale is a long journey down south to where Corcoran, Freeman, and Morehouse first met on the battlefield. As they approach the spot where Morehouse was wounded and his leg amputated, the wound even opens back up and begins to bleed, forcing him to seek medical attention.
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Copper / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Copper / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Annie, midway through season two. Presumably the writers needed her out of the way for the Lincoln assassination plot, but there was also some hinting that being away from Five Points would help her recover and have a normal childhood.
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Copper / int_769ad308	type	Hidden Weapons
Copper / int_769ad308	comment	Hidden Weapons: Corcoran keeps his brass knuckles in his hat.
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Copper / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
Copper / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Molly, who works at Eva's brothel, is very motherly towards Annie and legitimately cares about Kevin's well-being.
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Copper / int_77ed6b7d	type	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior
Copper / int_77ed6b7d	comment	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Annie had horrible things happen to her and she rarely behaves like a ten-year-old should. By the third episode, it's pretty obvious she's is desperate need of some serious therapy. Unfortunately, this is 1864.
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Copper / int_7bd8307f	type	TheInfiltration
Copper / int_7bd8307f	comment	The Infiltration: Robert uses his dandy-persona to help him get close to a group of Confederate terrorists operating in the city.
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Copper / int_7ccd2f10	type	Press-Ganged
Copper / int_7ccd2f10	comment	Press-Ganged: The Union army employs civilian recruiters to help fill its ranks. The more unscrupulous of these approach young men in taverns, drugging their drinks, and holding the men prisoner until they can be delivered to the army as 'volunteers'.
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Copper / int_7e95adeb	type	High-Class Call Girl
Copper / int_7e95adeb	comment	High-Class Call Girl: The Contessa runs an entire house of these.
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Copper / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
Copper / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: Annie's guardian decided to marry her when she was ten. He told her that it was the law in America that girls have to marry that young.
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Copper / int_80eb641c	type	Straw Nihilist
Copper / int_80eb641c	comment	Straw Nihilist: The Schopenhauer-spouting Keating.
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Copper / int_815db542	type	Phony Veteran
Copper / int_815db542	comment	Phony Veteran: In "Home, Sweet Home", Corky feels sympathy towards a man whose son has gone missing when he earns he is a fellow veteran of the Union army. However, in "Aileen Aroon" he learns that the man was lying and beats the crap out of him.
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Copper / int_86ad852f	type	BadassBeard
Copper / int_86ad852f	comment	Badass Beard: Pretty much every male character except Corcoran. It became a competition between the guys when they grew them out between Seasons 1 and 2.
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Copper / int_86ad852f	featureConfidence	1.0
Copper	hasFeature	Copper / int_86ad852f
Copper / int_86f2d483	type	Frying Pan of Doom
Copper / int_86f2d483	comment	Frying Pan of Doom: Annie uses one to take down Buzzy when he's holding Ellen hostage and Corcoran at gunpoint.
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Copper / int_878d235d	type	Couldn't Find a Lighter
Copper / int_878d235d	comment	Couldn't Find a Lighter: In "In the Hands of an Angry God", Molly lights Kevin's cigarette from a candle (although this would not have been uncommon in 1864).
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Copper / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
Copper / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: "Winnie" Haverford is publicly known to be a philanthropist and is even honored for saving an orphanage. In his free time he likes to rape little girls. This was later used under the Mutual Kill by saying he died protecting Annie from the Contessa.
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Copper / int_8c80a69f	type	YourCheatingHeart
Copper / int_8c80a69f	comment	Your Cheating Heart: Winfred Haverford cheats on his wife by going to a brothel and raping little girls. Ellen Corcoran was sleeping with Francis Maguire while Corcoran was away. Corcoran is technically still married but with his wife disappeared and presumed dead he has hooked up with Eve Heissen. He has no problem stepping out on Eve with Molly and later Elisabeth Harrford An abortionist's ledger is filled with the names of married men who paid for their mistresses' abortions A married dentist regularly accepted sexual favours from poor women as payment for dental work. In turn his wife had a long running affair with the butcher who lived on the floor below them.
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Copper / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Copper / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Corcoran's wife has had some kind of mental breakdown and is in an asylum ... and it appears Maguire is the one responsible.
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Copper / int_918b260a	type	Pinkerton Detective
Copper / int_918b260a	comment	Pinkerton Detective: Haverford hires one to convince Corcoran to give up Annie's location.
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Copper / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Copper / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Keating speech to the members of The Druids seems to present him as a anarchistic revolutionary who organized the counterfeiting ring as a way to 'stick it to the Man' and address some of the injustice of life in Five Points. Then he has a man start singing just so he can see what happens when he cuts the man's throat mid-song. Brendan Donovan is initially presented as a Corrupt Politician ally of Corcoran and maybe even a mentor figure for the detective. Subsequent episodes reveal more and more of how he really conducts his business and we realize that he is a Villain with Good Publicity who does not care who gets hurt due to his schemes.
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Copper / int_969b13a6	type	Hot Gypsy Woman
Copper / int_969b13a6	comment	Hot Gypsy Woman: Lola, one of Eva's girls, who claims her passion in bed in the result of her gypsy blood.
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Copper / int_969b13a6	featureConfidence	1.0
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Copper / int_9858c391	type	Chick Magnet
Copper / int_9858c391	comment	Chick Magnet: By the third episode Corcoran already had Eva, Molly, Elizabeth and Annie all either in his bed or trying to get there.
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Copper / int_99e4958e	type	Wall Bang Her
Copper / int_99e4958e	comment	Wall Bang Her: Kevin and Elizabeth when their UST finally explodes in "Arsenic and Old Cake".
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Copper / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Copper / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: A group of Confederate agents plan use a form of Greek Fire to burn down New York City.
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Copper / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Copper / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Corcoran travels across town, climbs up the outside of a two-story building, puts a beatdown on Haverford and jumps into a cart from a two story window — with a broken leg! Admittedly he was on morphine and the cart had bags of something or other to cushion his fall, but still.
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Copper / int_9f970427	type	Secret-Keeper
Copper / int_9f970427	comment	Secret Keeper: Corcoran and Matthew Freeman were rewarded by the Morehouse family for keeping silent about the fact that it was the black Matthew who cut off Robert Morehouse's leg. Adam, the telegraph operator, is present during most of the business meetings Morehouse Sr. has in his office. The Morehouse family must trust him explicitly when it comes to their financial activities. Significantly, Robert asks him to leave the room when Corcoran comes to discuss the Greek Fire.
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Copper / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Copper / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Elizabeth could be the page image for this trope after she allows Annie's husband (posing as her father) to take her away kicking and screaming. Even the butler gets in on the action.
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Copper / int_a1e5faab	type	Doomed by Canon
Copper / int_a1e5faab	comment	Doomed by Canon: Given when it's set, and the fact that John Wilkes Booth himself makes an appearance, it's clear that there's a ticking clock until Lincoln is shot. It happens at the end of the climactic episode, and the finale is about the three leads hunting Booth, which is itself an example as they fail in that task.
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Copper / int_a3eea2ea	type	Cop Killer
Copper / int_a3eea2ea	comment	Cop Killer: On one episode a rookie police officer is stabbed to death and the other cops tear though the Five Points neighborhood looking for the iller. When they have no success, the local ward boss, an ex-copper himself, orders the closing of all the local pubs until the killer is found. In a neighborhood populated by Irish immigrants this is extremely Serious Business. The killing was actually a gang initiation intended to make sure that the new member would never dare inform on the gang to the police.
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Copper / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
Copper / int_a4be7043	comment	Da Chief: Captain Sullivan tries to be this. However, it soon becomes apparent that Corcoran and Sgt. Byrnes are really running the precinct and Sullivan is only relevant because Corcoran and Byrnes despise each other. By the end of season 1 Corcoran stops pretending and informs Sullivan of the fact that all the coppers only obey Corcoran now and there is nothing Sullivan can do about it. Afterwards Corcoran does not even bother keeping Sullivan in the loop. But when he is in the theatre and word of fire reaches him, he does leave to investigate.
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Copper / int_a66b0789	type	Fingertip Drug Analysis
Copper / int_a66b0789	comment	Fingertip Drug Analysis: Kevin does this to a fruitcake in "Arsenic and Old Cake": touching the dusting on the cake and then bringing his finger to his mouth as he attempts to determine the source of the poison.
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Copper / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Copper / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Robert Morehouse might come off as a dandy and a drunkard, but he has a sharp mind and big plans for the future. By contrast, Corcoran is often described as too smart for his own good.
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Copper / int_a8a5e4ed	type	Christianity Is Catholic
Copper / int_a8a5e4ed	comment	Christianity Is Catholic: Strongly averted. Corcoran and his Irish friends are all Catholic but the Morehouses are Episcopalian and everyone is keenly aware of the differences.
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Copper / int_aa07ca54	type	Obfuscating Disability
Copper / int_aa07ca54	comment	Obfuscating Disability: Corcoran uses his badly broken leg as a great alibi. No matter what his superiors might suspect, people are not going to believe that someone in his condition could travel across town, climb up to a second story window, kill two people and then get back to Five Points without anyone noticing him.
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Copper / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Copper / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: The show rarely misses an opportunity to remind the viewer that it takes place in an era where our modern values and morals simply did not apply. In the very first scene of the series premiere, a homeless girl offers to 'pleasure' Corcoran in return for a hard boiled egg. Corcoran then spends a large part of the episode walking around while carrying a dead girl wrapped in a blanket, and no one even blinks an eye. (See Acceptable Targets, above, for more.) Even disregarding the more blatant corruption of the police force, they just don't deal with investigations the way a modern audience expects. For example, beating people up seems to be a legitimate means of gathering evidence, and the first thing to do after finding a dead body is to look through his pockets for money. In fact, the reason Corcoran is The Hero is because he doesn't believe in the same values as everyone else: he doesn't like the corruption and bribery that skew justice, while everyone else just sees it as the cost of doing business.
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Copper / int_ab83cedf	type	Nitro Express
Copper / int_ab83cedf	comment	Nitro Express: Robert Morehouse helps Kennedy transport a wagon full of Greek Fire that will explode if one of the barrels has a leak and any of the liquid is exposed to air. Of course, his actual plan is to sabotage the wagon before it reaches New York so the Greek Fire is destroyed in the explosion.
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Copper / int_ab8e26e2	type	Slipping a Mickey
Copper / int_ab8e26e2	comment	Slipping a Mickey: The Union army is contracting civilians to act as recruiters. A particularly unscrupulous group of them like to approach young men in taverns, drug their drinks, kidnap them and then hold them prisoner until they can be delivered as 'volunteers' to the army.
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Copper / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Copper / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Robert Morehouse, in a big way.
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Copper / int_affd30b0	type	Stupid Evil
Copper / int_affd30b0	comment	Stupid Evil: Haverford who, through bribery of the corrupt police force plus manipulation of his social status had gotten away with murdering Kate, Annie's twin sister. But he couldn't let go of going after Annie as well which let Corcoran and Annie lure him to his death
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Copper / int_b0c4bf9b	type	Luxury Prison Suite
Copper / int_b0c4bf9b	comment	Luxury Prison Suite: In "Surviving Death", Bill is placed in one after he takes the fall for Kate's murder. He gets to live in luxury for a month and his wife gets $5,000.
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Copper / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
Copper / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Lampshaded by Andrew when he warns a rookie copper not to use his truncheon to hit people on the head. The asylum is full of people who suffered brain damage due to a skull fracture.
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Copper / int_b35e77ee	type	Fake Defector
Copper / int_b35e77ee	comment	Fake Defector: At first it looks like Molly betrayed Corcoran and sold Annie to the Contessa but it was actually all part of Corcoran's plan. Robert Morehouse plays this by getting close to some Confederate spies.
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Copper / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Copper / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: If Sgt. Byrnes paid more attention to actual police work he probably would have realized that a murder victim was likely poisoned and eating the dead man's food is a very bad idea.
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Copper / int_b5dded87	type	Gossipy Hens
Copper / int_b5dded87	comment	Gossipy Hens: A pair of them enjoyed tea with Elizabeth before they delved into Malicious Slander about the black reverend suspected of murder and how Elizabeth's mere acquaintance with him, as Elizabeth is supporting his orphanage, is dirtying her. Elizabeth smiles, hopes they enjoyed themselves and when they were done with tea never come calling again.
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Copper / int_b99bed67	type	No-Nonsense Nemesis
Copper / int_b99bed67	comment	No-Nonsense Nemesis: If you make an enemy out of Corcoran, he will not play games. If legal means are not enough, he will simply kill you.
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Copper / int_b99bed67	featureConfidence	1.0
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Copper / int_ba112560	type	Throwing the Fight
Copper / int_ba112560	comment	Throwing the Fight: Jasper Longfield is supposed to throw his boxing match against 'Irish' Jake McGinnis but Jasper is in no mood to lose and does not fully comprehend the dire consequences of him winning the fight. Fortunately, Robert Morehouse has a backup plan ready if it looks like Jasper is about to win. The ref knocks Jasper out and simply declares Jake the winner.
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Copper / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Copper / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Corcoran really hates child killers. Or child traffickers. Seriously, don't pick on the kids in Corcoran's district.
Copper / int_bc74ef27	featureApplicability	1.0
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Copper	hasFeature	Copper / int_bc74ef27
Copper / int_bce16d24	type	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
Copper / int_bce16d24	comment	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Corcoran lampshades this when he points out to the Pinkerton Detective that they both know that a Pinkerton will not shoot a copper because of the enormous trouble that would cause. The Pinkerton agrees and instead starts breaking Corcoran's bones.
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Copper / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Copper / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Matthew and Sarah have a very sweet, supportive relationship. Time will tell if it stays this way.
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Copper / int_bec0417c	featureConfidence	1.0
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Copper / int_bf609406	type	New Meat
Copper / int_bf609406	comment	New Meat: Corcoran and Andrew mentor a rookie copper who just joined the police force and happened to be the nephew of Sgt. Byrnes, who really doesn't like Corcoran. Andrew uses the guy to do grunt work like catching a sheep for dinner. It takes the poor guy many weeks before he has the courage to ask that they call him by his real name of Phinbar rather than just 'Little Byrnes'.
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Copper / int_c76f81b8	type	Non-Idle Rich
Copper / int_c76f81b8	comment	Non-Idle Rich: Robert Morehouse and his father have plans with their money and generally are seen using it for their own advantages and plots.
Copper / int_c76f81b8	featureApplicability	1.0
Copper / int_c76f81b8	featureConfidence	1.0
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Copper / int_c83cd6b8	type	The Nicknamer
Copper / int_c83cd6b8	comment	The Nicknamer: Robert Morehouse likes to give people nicknames. He calls Corcoran "Corky" as a sign of endearment and calls Winfred Haverford "Winnie" as a sign of his contempt for the man.
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Copper / int_ca7f68c4	type	Power Fist
Copper / int_ca7f68c4	comment	Power Fist: Brass knuckles are Corcoran's weapon of choice, along with his revolver.
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Copper / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Copper / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Norbert Morehouse, Robert's father, is selling arms to the Confederates. His reason? Profit is profit, no matter how it was made.
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Copper / int_cfbd1467	type	Never Suicide
Copper / int_cfbd1467	comment	Never Suicide: The police find a man hanging in a stable and none of them even suggests suicide. They have seen enough lynchings to know right away that the victim did not hang himself. Subverted later on when they officially declare the death to be a suicide since they do not want to pursue the actual killer.
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Copper / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Copper / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: Robert Morehouse lost his leg in the war.
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Copper / int_d259fea2	type	Speak Ill of the Dead
Copper / int_d259fea2	comment	Speak Ill of the Dead: After Sgt. Byrnes's death, the detectives use the story of his death as a warning for new coppers. The stupid way he died makes for a perfect object lesson as to what happens when a copper does his job sloppily.
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Copper / int_d6519b1b	type	Rabid Cop
Copper / int_d6519b1b	comment	Rabid Cop: If you trigger Corcoran's Berserk Button, he will not hesitate to unleash a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on a chained prisoner.
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Copper / int_d6901d5a	type	Dress Hits Floor
Copper / int_d6901d5a	comment	Dress Hits Floor: Happens when Sarah reconciles with Matthew and meets up with him at his practice in "Aileen Aroon".
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Copper / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Copper / int_d8573ef9	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: This is how New York in the 1860s operates. If you know the right people and can grease the right palms you can get anything done. Corcoran got his job as a police detective because the Morehouse family owed him for saving Robert during the war. Matthew Freeman gets his house and medical practice for being the one to actually save Robert and not making a fuss about not getting credit for it. Eve Heissen is able to travel from New York to New Orleans in the middle of the Civil War because she has the right connections to get travel documents signed by Abraham Lincoln and another set signed by Jefferson Davis. Corcoran is able to disobey his superiors and pursue his own investigations because he is a friend of the Morehouses. Averted with Norbert Morehouse, Robert's father, who committed treason against the United States by helping with the plot to burn New York City. He suffers for his treason by being sent to Atlanta to work as a small business man. Buris "Buzzie" Burke used to be under the protection of the political establishment and thus could run his criminal enterprises without interference from the police. When Corcoran became a police officer, Burke was the first criminal he arrested. The desk sergeant at the police station promptly released Burke and explained the system to Corcoran. However, by the time the second season starts Burke has become too Ax-Crazy and unreliable and has lost the protection of his patrons. Corcoran is now free to hunt him down and arrest or kill as he desires.
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Copper / int_db015585	type	False Confession
Copper / int_db015585	comment	False Confession: A dying man confesses to a murder committed by a wealthy industrialist. In exchange for being the Fall Guy, he gets to live out the last days of his life in opulent comfort and his family will receive a large sum of money when he is hanged.
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Copper / int_dc292b90	type	Ear Ache
Copper / int_dc292b90	comment	Ear Ache: In "Home Sweet Home", Eva jumps on to Buzzy Burke's back and bites a chunk out of his ear.
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Copper / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Copper / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: An Episcopalian bishop threatens to derail Morehouses' plans for Five Points. As it happens Corcoran starts interdependently investigating the same clergyman in connection with an abortionist's murder. When Morehouse Sr. finds out about this coincidence he can't believe his luck and promptly backs up Corcoran against any possible backlash. It just happens that Andrew and Phinbar Byrnes are in Central Park looking for sheep when Byrnes literally stumbles over Mary Lockwood's body.
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Copper / int_dca97045	type	Just Following Orders
Copper / int_dca97045	comment	Just Following Orders: Adam, the Morehouse telegraph operator, claims anything he does is because he is following the orders of Morehouse Sr.
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Copper / int_e061d153	type	Sergeant Rock
Copper / int_e061d153	comment	Sergeant Rock: Corcoran was a sergeant in the Union Army. Morehouse credits him with making their unit an effective fighting force.
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Copper / int_e0a077fa	type	Miss Kitty
Copper / int_e0a077fa	comment	Miss Kitty: Eva. The Contessa is her High-Class Call Girl equivalent uptown.
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Copper / int_e128d4fb	type	Acceptable Targets
Copper / int_e128d4fb	comment	Acceptable Targets: In universe, pretty much anyone and everyone. It's another form of Deliberate Values Dissonance.
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Copper / int_e154ff08	type	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
Copper / int_e154ff08	comment	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Ubiquitous, thanks in no small part to the abundance of Dirty Cops.
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Copper / int_e19e68	type	Cruel Mercy
Copper / int_e19e68	comment	Cruel Mercy: Robert Morehouse requests to Lincoln his father not be hung as a traitor, but rather sent to help Altanta as a small business man looking to restart Atlanta's economy after Sherman's burning of Atlanta. Corcoran finds Francis trapped in a fire and saves him. He considers Francis suffering as he recovered in the poor medical care of the doctors to be this. When Corcoran finds out that a man is kidnapping young men (children by today's standards) and selling them as 'volunteers' to Union army recruiters, he is inclined to just shoot the man. He is persuaded to spare the man's life and instead he 'volunteers' the man for the army and the meat grinder of the Civil War.
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Copper / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
Copper / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: Robert Morehouse
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Copper / int_e38b0f45	type	Snake Oil Salesman
Copper / int_e38b0f45	comment	Snake Oil Salesman: In "A Vast and Feindish Plot", Sarah buys two bottles of an elixir from a snake oil salesman that almost posion her. Matthew beats the salesman up and drives him out of town.
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Copper / int_e407c172	type	Silk Hiding Steel
Copper / int_e407c172	comment	Silk Hiding Steel: Elizabeth Haverford proves to be both smarter and tougher than her husband. To the point when she learns her husband is a child raping murderer, she asks Corcoran to ensure justice is done for that girl, knowing it would likely mean his death. She was also supplying funds to the people planning on burning New York.
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Copper / int_e49686	type	The Hero
Copper / int_e49686	comment	In fact, the reason Corcoran is The Hero is because he doesn't believe in the same values as everyone else: he doesn't like the corruption and bribery that skew justice, while everyone else just sees it as the cost of doing business.
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Copper / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
Copper / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Robert Morehouse is extremely angry when he finds out the extent of his father's illegal business dealings and that his father was willing to commit treason and help kill hundreds of people so the truth would not come out.
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Copper / int_e5c64f3f	type	Shame If Something Happened
Copper / int_e5c64f3f	comment	Shame If Something Happened: This is a tactic Maguire employs after he joins the Druids counterfeiting ring to persuade the local merchants to pay more for the counterfeit cash. For example, he points out to a tobacconist how the important thing to remember about tobacco is that it burns...
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Copper / int_e6c8cd60	type	Fed to Pigs
Copper / int_e6c8cd60	comment	Fed to Pigs: How John Riley's corpse was hidden.
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Copper / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
Copper / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: The police department is extremely corrupt and for the most part acts as just another street gang. The main characters collect protection money from neighborhood businesses, and when they kill some bank robbers, they don't hesitate to stuff their own pockets with some of the bank's money. If you have money you can buy your way out of even the most heinous crime. Corcoran differs from his fellow coppers because he believes that there are some crimes that need to be fully investigated and prosecuted.
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Copper / int_f0af9e34	type	WorldOfCardboardSpeech
Copper / int_f0af9e34	comment	"World of Cardboard" Speech: Freeman gets a fantastic one when he confronts the man who to beat the hell out of him for breaking his shop windownote The man in question was an Anglo-Saxon who'd been belittling and insulting Sarah and her mother.
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Copper / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
Copper / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: While Corcoran will go to any lengths to protect a child, he has no problem with killing a woman if she deserves it.
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Copper / int_f8f71b5f	type	Buried Alive
Copper / int_f8f71b5f	comment	Buried Alive: The ultimate fate of Lansing.
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Copper / int_fd16495f	type	Answer Cut
Copper / int_fd16495f	comment	Answer Cut: Corcoran asked Robert where Kennedy was when they nabbed the second shipment of Greek Fire. Cut to Kennedy in a lab in New York filled with Greek Fire they produced there doing a monologue about how the second shipment was a decoy.
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Copper / int_fd497706	type	Accidental Murder
Copper / int_fd497706	comment	Accidental Murder: Maggie's Death by Falling Over was caused by her mother attempting to quiet her after witnessing her affair.
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