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Line 3: === Lilly Rush (Kathryn Morris) === ~~{{quote box\|~~[[File:lilly-rush_2910.jpg\|frame]]}} * [[Alone ~~With~~with the Psycho]]: In "Mind Hunters", "The Woods", and "Stalker" * [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents\|Amazingly Embarrassing]] <s> Parents</s> [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents\|Mother]]: Her father seems to be a rather nice guy instead * [[Berserk Button]]: Parental neglect, violence against women and children Line 16: * [[Idiot Ball]]: She grabs it during most of the episode “Joseph”. Hard. * [[Kindhearted Cat Lover]]: One of them is even missing a leg. * [[Married to ~~The~~the Job]]: Count the times her job has caused her to break a relationship. And that's only in the last seven to eight years. Ouch * [[Mommy Issues]] * [[My Sister Is Off -Limits]] * [[Noodle Incident]]: The reason that relation with her sister is so strained is that she stole her boyfriend? fiancee? in the 90s but the whole incident has never been fully explained * [[The Smurfette Principle]]: Until Kat became a regular * [[The Unfavorite]] * [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: The whole stalking Moe Kitchener arc in Season 7 * [[Wide -Eyed Idealist]]: She really has a thing for pursuing old cases and bringing justice where everyone else considers it impossible, to the point of accepting to investigate cases that are 80 or 90 years old just because some distant descendant of the victim asks her to. === Scotty Valens (Danny Pino) === ~~{{quote box\|~~[[File:Scotty-Valens_8729.jpg\|frame]]}} * [[Berserk Button]]: Several, since he is the resident hothead latino ** Elisa's schizophrenia and later suicide Line 34: * [[Fair Cop]] * [[Gratuitous Spanish]]: Sort of subverted. He only "lapses" into this when talking to a character that knows Spanish and since the actor is bilingual he is perfectly capable to maintain a fluent conversation in the language * [[Hot -Blooded]] * [[The Lancer]] * [[Latin Lover]]: But '''not''' to Lilly, no matter what the [[Fan Dumb]] wants to believe Line 40: * [[Idiot Ball]]: In "Breaking News", when he learns that Frankie has lied him about being divorced and that she's still married. He is disgusted but when he meets her later in a bar he goes to play bed bondage with her... ''in the middle of a crime investigation''. * [[Rabid Cop]]: He's sometimes as bad as [[Law and Order SVU\|UnStabler]]. * [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]] * [[Writer Onon Board]]: Danny Pino wrote the episode "Stealing Home", which shows both the actor's love for baseball and his hatred of the Castro dictatorship. It is of course a Scotty-centered episode. === Nick Vera (Jeremy Ratchford) === ~~{{quote box\|~~[[File:jeremy_ratchford_3153.jpg\|frame]]}} * [[The Alcoholic]] * [[Berserk Button]]: His failed marriage and the Chimayo case <s> that everybody thinks he screwed up</s>. Line 53: * [[Heroic BSOD]]: "Flashover". * [[Hollywood Tone Deaf]]: Implied at the end of "Wilkommen", when his singing causes everybody around to cover their ears. And he claims to have played Danny Zuko in a ''[[Grease]]'' play in High School... * [[Jerk ~~With~~with a Heart of Gold]] * [[Kavorka Man]]: Has four (way better looking) love interests through the series despite being a short, fat, lazy alcoholic with a hard hearing voice and <s> possibly</s> most definitely infertile. He even uses his 'charms' to get a testimony from a woman in "Two Weddings" (the [[Incredibly Lame Pun\|lady was a tramp]], though) * [[Magical Database]]: He knows everything about hockey Line 59: * [[Rabid Cop]]: The resident one through much of the series, yet arguably caught up by (and even surpassed) by Scotty in the 7th season. * [[Turn in Your Badge]]: {{spoiler\|"Flashover". He gets better.}} * [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Any time he uses violence to force a suspect to confess. This has led some viewers to consider him the [[Token Evil Teammate]]. === Will Jeffries (Thom Barry) === ~~{{quote box\|~~[[File:thom_barry_8421.jpg\|frame]]}} * [[Badass Grandpa]]: He is sixty... [[Writers Cannot Do Math\|something]], but when he loses his temper ([[Gentle Giant\|and that's hard]]), he loses it, as that ADA learned in "Death Penalty: Final Appeal" * [[Bald Black Leader Guy]]: When Stillman was on forced leave Line 75: * [[The Smart Guy]] * [[Writers Cannot Do Math]]: In "Strange Fruit" he is shown to be 12 in 1963 but in “Best Friends” (aired in 2005) it's his 60 birthday. [[Lampshade Hanging\|Lampshaded]] in "November 22nd": {{quote\| '''Will''': [talking about the day Kennedy was assassinated] I was playing touch football at recess.~~<br />~~ '''Scotty''': Recess? I thought you were, like, forty-five when that happened.~~<br />~~ '''Lilly''': No, you're thinking of when Lincoln was shot.~~<br />~~ '''Will''': Keep it up. See what happens. }} === John Stillman (John Finn) === ~~{{quote box\|~~[[File:john_finn_8848.jpg\|frame]]}} * [[A Father to His Men]] * [[Benevolent Boss]] Line 90: * [[The Danza]] * [[Magical Database]]: He claimed to know everything related to sports in one episode of the first season, but unlike in Valens and Vera's case this ability was [[Characterization Marches On\|never revisited in later episodes]]. * [[Married to ~~The~~the Job]]: Official explanation of his divorce {{spoiler\|before [[Retcon\|Agent Yates]] showed up}} * [[Team Dad]] * [[Ten -Minute Retirement]]: Took a forced leave in place of Scotty in season 5 but helped the squad extra-officially anyway * [[The Mentor]]: To Lilly * [[Shell -Shocked Veteran]]: Implied more than really shown and seems to have gotten over it years ago (mostly) === Kat Miller (Tracie Thoms) === ~~{{quote box\|~~[[File:Tracie_Thoms_4607.jpg\|frame]]}} * [[Affirmative Action Girl]] * [[Embarrassing Old Photo]]: She shows one to Vera at the end of "Stand up and holler" Line 113: * [[Addiction Displacement]]: Tried coffee the short period she actually stopped drinking alcohol * [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents\|Amazingly Embarrassing Mother]]: To Lilly * {{spoiler\|[[Bus Crash]]: A disputed case. While she wasn't exactly [[Put Onon a Bus]], her death was off-screen and her funeral never showed up on the series}} * [[Dying Alone]]: Her main fear. She's so obsessed with it that she marries four times in her lifetime. {{spoiler\|Ultimately happens, as her last husband leaves her, her younger daughter is nowhere to be found and her older daughter is always working}} * [[I Was Quite a Looker]] Line 125: * [[Black Sheep]] * {{spoiler\|[[Hot Mom]]}} * [[Long Bus Trip]]: With [[The Bus Came Back\|the bus coming]] [[Back for ~~The~~the Finale]]. * [[Really Gets Around]]: Until she winds up with an [[Domestic Abuser\|abusive boyfriend]]. Line 136: * [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]] * [[Where Da White Women At?]]: Inverted. === Diane Yates (Susanna Thompson) === Line 142: * [[Angst]] * [[Best Served Cold]]: The entire point of her career is {{spoiler\|to find who killed her boyfriend when she was 18 and kill the murderer herself}} * {{spoiler\|[[Blood -Splattered Innocents]]}} * [[Cowboy Cop]]: She uses her position as an FBI agent and her former relationship with Stillman to make the PPD re-open her [[That One Case\|One Case]] and help her investigate it. As it turns out, she's doing so completely on her own, but her supervisor has to suck it up and let her continue the investigation because his position would be the most threatened if the whole thing was uncovered. * [[Dead Little Sister]] Line 150: * [[Mrs. Robinson]] * [[New Old Flame]]: To Stillman * [[No ~~Womans~~Woman's Land]]: She claims the PPD was this when she left for the FBI * [[Really Gets Around]] * [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler\|She is the young woman seen in the Drive In at the beginning of her first episode}} Line 157: === George Marks (John Billingsley) === ~~{{quote box\|~~[[File:george-col-case_2244.jpg\|frame]]}} * [[A God Am I]]: Third kind. * [[Actor Allusion]]: The army surplus store owner he got most of his stuff from was wearing a [[Star Trek: Enterprise\|USS Enterprise]] cap. * [[Crazy Prepared]] * [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] Line 179: * [[Ominous Walk]]: Arguably, what he likes more than killing. * [[The Perfect Crime]] * {{spoiler\|[[Self -Made Orphan]]}} * [[Serial Killer]] * [[Start of Darkness]]: "The Woods" * {{spoiler\|[[Suicide Byby Cop]]}} * [[Very Loosely Based Onon a True Story]]: His MO is nearly identical to Alaskan serial killer [~~http://en.~~[wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Robert_Hansen~~:Robert Hansen\|Robert Hansen's]]; one of the main differences is that Hansen targeted prostitutes, most of whom he raped. * [[Villainous Breakdown]]: When Lilly realizes George was raped as a kid and uses it against him * [[Worthy Opponent]]: He thinks Lilly is the only one cop that deserves to confront him Line 214: * [[Serial Killer]] * [[Serious Business]]: ''[[East of Eden]]''. * [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]] * [[Villainous Breakdown]]: When the police began closing in, he devolved into a [~~http://en.~~[wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Spree_killer~~:Spree killer\|spree killer]] === "John Smith" (Damon Herriman) === Line 225: * [[For the Evulz]]: His background is never elaborated on, no [[Freudian Excuse]] or anything is ever offered. He just really gets off on breaking people. * [[Hannibal Lecture]] * [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]: He imprisons his latest victim within hearing distance of a church that rings its bells every Sunday, enabling the woman to retain her sanity by keeping track of the days. Therefore, she won't snap like his previous victims, rattling him so much that he makes the error that gets him caught. Then, his attempts at getting Lily to give up like his other victims backfires when he [[Idiot Ball\|TELLS]] Lily the name of the hymn the woman was humming even as he entombed her and left her to die. Sure enough, Lily not only realizes the woman's still alive, she realizes where the woman's being held because she grew up in that neighborhood and remembers the church. * [[Just One Little Mistake]]: The only reason he was caught was because a local sheriff spotted him driving somewhat erratically. * [[One -Scene Wonder]]: He appeared in only one episode, but proved to be quite memorable. For [[Complete Monster\|good reason]]. * [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname]] * [[Mind Rape]]: Half his MO. * [[Sealed Room in ~~The~~the Middle of Nowhere]]: The other half of his MO. * [[Serial Killer]] * [[Smug Snake]] * [[Suicide Byby Cop]]: {{spoiler\|It fails.}} * [[They Look Just Like Everyone Else]]: A former neighbor only remembered him because he was the only white guy in the neighborhood. He himself states, "I'm not the guy you look at and think "rapist". I'm more like the guy you see at the dentist's office.", indicating that his average Joe appearance is what made it so easy for women to fall into his traps. * [[Villainous Breakdown]]: His latest abductee's refusal to break disturbs him so much that it leads to the one little mistake listed above.