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* [[Actor Allusion]]: Frank's mention of being a Marine with service in Vietnam; during [[Magnum PI]]'s run, Tom Selleck often wore a cap with the legend "VMO-2", which was a Marine Forward Air Control squadron out of Da Nang.
* [[The Aggressive Drug Dealer]]: Noble Sanfino trying to push some new party drug on Jamie, only to OD himself. He gets revenge by giving his dealer a near-fatal dose of his own product.
* [[
{{quote| '''Gates:''' I got two kids, man.<br />
'''Shooter:''' Too bad for 'em. }}
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** An off-duty Danny prevents the shooting of an unarmed man in "The Job"... only to realize the victim's a [[Pedo Hunt|pedophile]], recently paroled.
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Mobster Johnny Tesla.
* [[Bad News, Irrelevant News]]: Danny and Jackie explain to a perp that they found his gun; he's headed for death row. The good news? "We decided to drop the credit fraud charges."
* [[Badass Family]]: Very much so. The best example of this is when Danny's wife is kidnapped by a drug lord: the family bands together and figures out where she is, allowing Danny and ESU to be [[Big Damn Heroes]], and Erin finds the mole in the DA's office.
** Lampshaded when Danny's son asks fearfully if a burglar could target them.
{{quote| '''Grandpa Henry:''' Are you kiddin'? He'll get one look at this table and run the other way.}}
* [[Badass Mustache]]: Probably goes without saying since Frank is played by [[Magnum PI|Tom Selleck]].
* [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]: Danny's reaction to his son asking if he's "[[Perp Sweating|sweating]]" a perp "in the box."
{{quote| '''Jackie''': You've been [[You Watch Too Much X|playing those video games again]], haven't you?}}
* [[Best Served Cold]]: The Phantom arriving in town to exact revenge on [[Operation Blank|Task Force Apache]], the cadre of cops and informants who sent him to jail.
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* [[Blood Spattered Innocents]]: In "Whistle Blower", the titular informant in shot in front of his wife.
* [[Book Dumb]]: Renzulli. "'Rhetoric?' I'm [[Expospeak Gag|not familiar with the vernacular]]."
* [[By
** Jamie is even more so.
* [[Call Back]]: Frank and Jaime's conversation while fishing in Episode 1 of Season 2, a callback to the pilot.
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* [[Cowboy Cop]]: Danny Reagan.
** Great-Grandpa Henry seems to indicate that he was a [[Cowboy Cop]] in his time. Of course back then there was more "flexibility" in what was allowed anyway.
** Surprisingly, [[By
* [[Crazy Jealous Guy]]: When Bianca hits on Jamie, he suddenly finds himself afoul of her jealous ex ''and'' her mobster brother.
* [[Crime Time Soap]]
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{{quote| '''Father:''' Cop, huh? [[Deadpan Snarker|I bet your dad likes donuts]].<br />
'''Sean''': He LOVES donuts! }}
* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: When Jamies rescues a baby from a burning building, Renzulli is hailed as the hero to protect the undercover sting.
* [[Engineered Public Confession]]: The killer in "Hall of Mirrors." One wiretap later, and he's toast.
* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]: The theme of the episode ''Brothers'',
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** {{spoiler|Though from the way they acted, the son seemed have talked his mother into it, and he seemed to be in it [[For the Evulz]].}}
* [[Gentleman Thief]]: Jacob Krystal, though [[Just Like Robin Hood|he claims to be liberating stolen art]].
* [[Get Out!]]: Guilt-stricken Erin tries to pays a call to her informant's widow, and is sent packing. Rather than feel even guiltier, Erin zeroes in on {{spoiler|the wife's total lack of interest in the case}}.
* [[Going Commando]]: Linda in "Night on the Town".
* [[The Good Chancellor]]: Frank Reagan is this in spades, behaving like an [[Cincinnatus|idealized Roman magistrate]]. He is completely incorruptible, loyal to his position, and never plays favorites even when it comes to his own family.
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* [[Guile Hero]]: If Frank can't shoot them himself or put other cops in a position to shoot them, he's perfectly willing to outwit the bad guys instead. He even ran a [[Xanatos Gambit]] on a foreign ambassador whose son was a rapist in "Privilege".
** Both Danny and Erin have a little bit of this in them too.
* [[He
* [[Hello Attorney]]: Erin Reagan-Boyle. And Charles Rossellini, to be honest (Hey, it's Bobby Cannavale).
* [[Hollywood Heart Attack]]: Poor Henry is hit with one on Thanksgiving. You think that's going to stop Henry Reagan from [[Determinator|having dinner with his family?]] Ha!
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* [[Informed Attribute]]: In "Black and White", Frank blackmails the Mayor, insults an activist preacher to his face, and leaks a taped confession to the press. At the end, Frank's lawyer praises him for his political savvy (!) and urges to run for Mayor.
* [[It Runs in The Family]]: Nicky browbeating Erin into letting her stay out until 11:00 (Grandpa Henry: "[[When I Was Your Age|I was out on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific]] at her age!"). Frank wryly observes that she "made a very convincing argument."
* [[
** "Hall of Mirrors": an undercover cop is shot.
** And of course, "Dedication", in which Frank is shot.
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* [[Knight in Shining Armor]]: Jamie.
* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: Danny.
* [[Law Enforcement, Inc.]]: A shady private security outfit has approached Henry with a job offer. So far, he's turned them down.
* [[Let Me Tell You a Story]]: [insert Grandpa Henry moment of badassery here]
* [[Loan Shark]]: Sgt. Renzulli gets in deep from betting on horses. Frank bails him out, with the explicit proviso that it's one-time only.
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* [[New Meat]]: Jamie. He's slowly leveling his badass and becoming street smart under Renzulli's mentoring.
* [[New York City Cops]]: The obvious focus of the series.
* [[Nice to The Waiter]]: Frank to an apologetic cleaning lady who broke a cup. Of course, it was [[
* [[Not So Different]]: Between Danny and the victim of the week in "Silver Star", as he sees it.
* [[Once an Episode]]: The Reagan family holds a conference over dinner.
** A variation in "Thanksgiving": When Henry is in the hospital, the family brings the dinner to ''him''. And the seating arrangement is the same.
* [[Order Versus Chaos]]: A subtle theme throughout the series, with [[By
* [[Our Founder]]: Frank is a fan of President (and former NYC Police Commissioner) [[Teddy Roosevelt]]. A big picture of TR hangs in his office.
* [[Our Presidents Are Different|Our Mayors Are Different]]: Season two's Carter Poole is a Mayor Personable/Mayor Minority twofer.
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** And then there was the time Henry pulled a gun on an EMT to save his son from meningitis.
** It's also discussed earlier, as when Jamie is under an Internal Affairs investigation, Frank resists the temptation to tell IA to let him slide. Henry helps out by letting him know that the same thing happened to Frank when he was Commissioner, but he let IA go through because he knew Frank would be cleared. He was, and so was Jamie.
* [[Passive
{{quote| '''Linda:''' I was saying grace.<br />
'''Danny:''' Yeah, and [[And I'm the Queen of Sheba|Erin's spinach]] [[Feminine Women Can Cook|isn't soggy]].<br />
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* [[The Patriarch]]: Frank.
* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: Renzulli.
* [[Police Brutality]]: Danny has a [[What the Hell, Hero?|somewhat shocking]] tendency toward this and sometimes the audience can't tell how far he will go. Given that it's usually towards quite despicable criminals, it comes off as [[Pay Evil Unto Evil]].
** In "Whistle Blower", an incriminating video of a cop assaulting an old man goes viral.
{{quote| '''Garrett''': There's even a music video version now. Set to "[[Queen|Another One Bites the Dust]]." Wanna see it?}}
* [[Politically
{{quote| '''Danny:''' [[I'm Standing Right Here|We're in a union]].<br />
'''Parker:''' [[Sarcasm Mode|And I'm happy for you]]. }}
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* [[Promoted to Opening Titles]]: Jackie in mid-Season 1; Linda and Nicky in Season 2.
* [[A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil]]: Billy Flood, one of the finest officers in Frank's unit.
* [[Put Down Your Gun and Step Away]]: [[Complete Monster|Reed]] tries on Frank, holding Erin's hostage. Frank's response is to [[No
** A perp in Season 2 gets the drop on Jackie and tries to invoke this on Danny, who acts as if he's going to play this straight... and then Jackie slips out of the perp's grasp, grabs her gun back, and Danny's gun is back on target.
* [[Reality Ensues]]: In the pilot, Danny [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique|beats the shit out of a]] [[Pay Evil Unto Evil|child molester]] to find a kidnapped girl. The child molester slides because his lawyer successfully argues that his confession admitted under torture be thrown out, forcing Danny to find other evidence to put him away.
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{{quote| ''(to the mayor)'' "I serve at your pleasure... but I ''work'' for the people of New York."}}
* [[Reformed Criminal]]: The barber from "The Life We Chose."
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Danny Reagan is [[Red Oni]] to his partner Jackie's (fairly subtle) [[Blue Oni]].
** [[Good Cop Bad Cop]] also applies, in reverse order.
** Danny is also [[Red Oni]] to his sister Erin's [[Blue Oni]]. And to Jamie's [[Blue Oni]], for that matter.
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* [[Sassy Black Woman]]: Danny locks horns with a power-mad [[Doctor Jerk|nurse]] in "Leap of Faith."
* [[The Scapegoat]]: After Danny's wife Linda chews him out over not mowing the lawn, the ''world'' becomes this trope. Culminates in a still-agitated Danny gunning down a fellow cop. ("Friendly Fire")
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections]]: Inverted in "Parenthood," when the Mayor's daughter Ariel joins a protest and his caught up in the ensuring dragnet. Ariel doesn't demand special treatment, but her parents politely suggest, separately, that Frank had better let the matter drop.
** Averted with Jamie, of course. With his family connections, he could have made Detective by now.
* [[Semper Fi]]: Henry, Frank and Danny are all Marine veterans who've seen combat (Korea, Vietnam and Iraq, respectively).
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* [[Shame If Something Happened]]: As Jamie picks up his brother's old case, Sonny Malevski keeps reappearing to turn up the heat.
* [[Shoot Him He Has a Wallet]]: Danny shoots a man who seems to be holding a gun. It turns out the guy was an off-duty police officer and was about to show them their badge. Danny is in serious trouble while Internal Affairs investigates whether it was an honest mistake or negligence.
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Erin delivers one to an [[Amoral Attorney]] in ''Innocence'.
{{quote| "How does it feel to be defending a rapist?"}}
* [[Sickbed Slaying]]: Narrowly averted with a counter-terror agent who survived his shooting.
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{{quote| '''Jackie:''' What happened to you?<br />
'''Anna:''' [icily] I grew up. }}
* [[What Do You Mean
* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]: Nicky pushes this trope hard.
* [[You Are Not Alone]]: Frank reminds Danny of this at the end of "Silver Star", when Danny muses on how he could have ended up just like the victim, a homeless vet.
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