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''Blood Ties'' (2007-2008) is a Canadian [[Vampire Detective Series]] set in [[Toronto]], the old haunting grounds of ''[[
The series is based on the ''[[Blood Books]]'' by Tanya Huff. [[Vampire Detective Series|The leads are a private investigator, a vampire, and a cop]]. This show plays with and [[Subverted Trope|subverts]] several tropes of the [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]] genre: we are supposed to be sympathetic to him, but he isn't "friendly" in the usual sense.
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* [[Groundhog Day Loop]]: In "5:55". Done at night on this show, of course.
* [[Hollywood Darkness]]: Appears when Vicki and Henry enter a barn at night and Vicki starts going on about how she can't see in the (well illuminated) set. There are two possible justifications: 1) Henry the vampire was facing off against a were-panther, both of whom had no problem seeing in the dark, so the audience was seeing it from their point of view, and 2) Vicki has retinitis pigmentosa, so it appeared darker to her than it actually was.
* [[Hollywood Exorcism]]: Coreen is possessed in the final episode by [[Big Bad|Astaroth]], forcing Henry to seek the help of a priest who has done this before. An obvious [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[
* [[Hollywood Voodoo]]: "Bad Juju."
* [[Horny Devils]]: Emmanuel the gardener.
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* [[Muggle and Magical Love Triangle]]: Vicki's love triangle with her police officer ex, Mike, and a 500-year-old sexy vampire, Henry.
* [[My Beloved Smother]]: Mrs. O'Connor.
* [[Nerd]]: Norman, combined with [[Loners Are Freaks]] and [[Stalker
* [[No Man of Woman Born]]: "5:55" features Pandora's Box, which no living person can resist opening. Since Henry, as a vampire, isn't a living person, the box doesn't affect him.
* [[Not So Different]]: A great example of the "That's why I can beat you" outcome is a scene where the cornered freaked-out vampire (abandoned by its sire) tells Henry that he too is a monster and Henry answers "But I am the monster who is coming out of this alive."
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* [[Torture Always Works]]: Javier likes to do it with vampires to get them to confess to their crimes, after which he kills them (and drains them of blood to make himself immortal).
* [[Trophy Room]]: Of shapeshifters.
* [[Truncated Theme Tune]]: ''[[
* [[Turn in Your Badge]]: Det. Mike Cellucci is asked for his badge in the finale. Considering he's been threatened with it for two seasons and finally {{spoiler|left a hostage crisis to battle Astaroth with Vicki and Henry}}, it's completely unsurprising.
* [[Undercover As Lovers]]: Vicki infiltrates a fertility clinic by posing as a patient and gets Mike to pose as her husband.
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