Flashpoint (TV series): Difference between revisions

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* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: {{spoiler|Lewis Young was the first person of the team to die}}.

* [[Break the Cutie]]: Attempted on Tasha Redford, in the first-season episode "Attention Shoppers", but Jules gets to Tasha [[Interrupted Suicide|before she can jump.]]

* [[Canada Eh]] / [[City With No Name]] / [[No Communities Were Harmed]]: As [[The Other Wiki]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashpoint_

* [[Canada, Eh?]] / [[City With No Name]] / [[No Communities Were Harmed]]: As [[The Other Wiki]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashpoint_

* [[Catch Phrase]]: Parker's reminder to "keep the peace" whenever the SRU starts a mission.

** Also "I have the solution," meaning a clear shot at the aggressor, not a way to solve a problem.

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* [[Driven to Suicide]]: After being foiled by the SRU, a number of antagonists are driven to shoot themselves.

* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: Spike doesn't mention his real first name until the fourth season. It's Michelangelo.

* [[Five Man Band]]:

* [[Five-Man Band]]:

** [[The Hero]]: Greg Parker, or Ed Lane.

** [[The Lancer]]: Ed to Greg, Wordy to Ed. Eventually, Sam as well.

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* [[Genre Savvy]]: Sometimes used by the hostage-takers. In a recent episode, two men were trapped in a room, with the SRU right outside the door and the house surrounded by police. Knowing they would back down if there was a hostage, one of them took the other hostage and was able to escape.

** This happened again in another episode. The cops know that both men are criminals so one of them shoots his partner in the leg to show that they are not faking and he really is willing to kill his accomplice if the cops don't let him get away.

* [[Good Adultery Bad Adultery]]: In "Backwards Day", the husband did cheat on his wife, after frustrations of not able to have a baby got to both of them. However, he realized his mistake and did genuinely loved his wife more afterwards. However, the woman he cheated with thought differently.

* [[Good Adultery, Bad Adultery]]: In "Backwards Day", the husband did cheat on his wife, after frustrations of not able to have a baby got to both of them. However, he realized his mistake and did genuinely loved his wife more afterwards. However, the woman he cheated with thought differently.

* [[Gun Accessories]]: SRU units use a lot of modified guns, attaching flashlights, red dot sights and more to their weapons. Interestingly, though they attach foregrips to their submachine guns, they tend not to use them, instead using the mag well as a grip.

* [[Guy in Real Life]]: The "Laughing Man" robber is so desperate for an emotional connection that he's fooled by a teenage boy with an altered voice using his sister's name into almost killing the kid's stepfather. The stepfather is likewise confused about why this guy is in love with his five-year old.

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** In "Collateral Damage", a flash bomb is used to {{spoiler|make Frank flinch, giving Ed time to tackle him and knock the gun away}}.

* [[In the Blood]]: Jules' father was a cop.

* [[~~Its~~ Personal]]: The investigator in "Acceptable Risk" made the interrogation on the team so much more harder and demanding because she had a personal grudge on Parker. Her partner was killed in action while in Parker's team and she wanted to get Parker arrested for poor judgement.

* [[It's Personal]]: The investigator in "Acceptable Risk" made the interrogation on the team so much more harder and demanding because she had a personal grudge on Parker. Her partner was killed in action while in Parker's team and she wanted to get Parker arrested for poor judgement.

** It didn't start out that way for a security guard who set up a robbery in order to be let back into the police force, but then the team responds and it's revealed he was rejected from the SRU by Ed, causing his whole life to spiral out of control and he's been blaming Ed for every minute of it. [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|And he's just as skilled and plenty trigger happy]]...

* [[Jerk Jock]]: "Perfect Storm" deals with a group of these bullying a classmate and said classmate snapping and bringing a gun to school.

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** In "Perfect Storm", one of the targets of the bullied kid is the son of a cop. When the cop thinks that {{spoiler|the shooter killed his son}}, he hunts the kid and guns him down as the situation is winding down. Parker then delivers an ''epic'' verbal beatdown, describing ''exactly'' how the cop failed in his duty.

* [[Pregnant Hostage]]

* [[Precision F Strike]] / [[This Is for Emphasis Bitch]]: Parker, after a tense moment where it looked like the hostage-taker might shoot Ed. Fortunately, the team came in just in time and Ed got to safety. His exact words were "son of a bitch", with emphasis via smacking the table.

* [[Precision F-Strike]] / [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: Parker, after a tense moment where it looked like the hostage-taker might shoot Ed. Fortunately, the team came in just in time and Ed got to safety. His exact words were "son of a bitch", with emphasis via smacking the table.

* [[Put On a Bus]]: Leah at the beginning of Season 3, Wordy a couple of episodes into Season 4.

** Subverted in Wordy's case, because although the character was written out of the squad {{spoiler|due to early-stage Parkinson's Disease}}, he still shows up whenever the SRU team deals with his new department, or when they all get together for a social event in the fourth season finale.

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* [[Sacrificial Lion]] / [[Land Mine Goes Click]]: {{spoiler|Lewis Young at the start of the back half of the second season}}. After [[Oh Crap|stepping on a landmine]] and [[Badass|keeping his foot held down firmly]] as [[The Stoic|the rest of the team evacuates a college campus around him and tries every angle possible to save him]], he [[Tear Jerker|calls his family to say goodbye]] and [[Heroic Sacrifice|sacrifices himself]] by deliberately lifting his foot off of the trigger. Cue team-wide [[Heroic BSOD]].

* [[Screwed By the Network]]: CBS broadcasted the show in the US but never kept seasons together, instead airing parts at a time and without pause between season. Basically, it was treated as summer filler. [[ION]] now has American rights to air the episodes after "Shockwaves," so perhaps they'll air it more evenly.

* [[Screw the Rules I Have Connections]]: Councilman Malone's father is revealed to have done this in "Coming To You Live", though for reasons that are not unsympathetic.

* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections]]: Councilman Malone's father is revealed to have done this in "Coming To You Live", though for reasons that are not unsympathetic.

* [[Shout Out]]: One of the robber's signs of perpetrating a robbery in the 4th season [[Ghost in The Shell Stand Alone Complex|resembles the one used by the Laughing Man.]]

* [[So Proud of You]]: Parker says to his team in "Acceptable Targets", after a particularly grueling and difficult mission.

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** As of the beginning of the fourth season they back are together. However, since the team is on probation, if they are caught, Sgt. Parker will lose his job along with them.

* [[Vigilante Man]]: "The Good Citizen" deals with a man gunning down drug dealers because his brother had died because of a drug overdose from those people.

* [[Well Intentioned Extremist]]: This happens often.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: This happens often.

** In "First in Line", the father of a girl in need of a heart transplant who had been pushed further down the list when she should have been first grabbed an security guard's gun so his daughter could get the heart transplant.

** A father who had just won custody rights for his children found out his children were missing from school. Hence him coming to his ex-wife's lawyer and threatening him with a gun.

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** If you haven't figured it out yet, except in ''very'' rare cases, the people who SRU have to deal with are rarely clear-cut villains. Which is why the job is so hard on the members of the team.

** A drug rehabilitation "expert" who honestly wanted to keep his patients safe from the outside world by killing them because he was dying of cancer and he was certain they couldn't survive without him. Ironically if he'd just told them what was up they'd probably have gone along with it.

* [[What Happened to The Mouse]]: Rarely do we see the effects of the incident on the people involved, unless those people are the SRU.

* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: Rarely do we see the effects of the incident on the people involved, unless those people are the SRU.

** The Russian nanny in "The Fortress" is taken off the scene by paramedics, but we never hear if she lives or dies.

** The cop that shoots a suspect in "Perfect Storm" is verbally berated by Parker, and then we never hear anything else.

* [[What the Hell Hero]]: On his first mission with the SRU, Sam lets a paramedic with a live heart go ''alone'' into a live and dangerous hostage situation.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: On his first mission with the SRU, Sam lets a paramedic with a live heart go ''alone'' into a live and dangerous hostage situation.

** Of course, one also wonders why some regular cops didn't go with the medic.

** Parker also gets one from Lane after exposing himself to an unnecessary level of risk while negotiating with an armed hostage-taker.

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